SOLUTION: How many five-digit numbers are as follows? They contain no duplicate digits. The smallest digit is zero. The largest digit is nine. The sum of the digits is 20.

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Question 1037600: How many five-digit numbers are as follows? They contain
no duplicate digits. The smallest digit is zero. The largest
digit is nine. The sum of the digits is 20.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the smallest digit is 0 and the largest 
digit is 9, and one of them is 0, we just have 
to come up with three digits between 1 and 8,
inclusive, that total the remaining 11, since 
0+9=9.  1+2+8=11, 1+3+7=11, 1+4+6=11, 2+3+6=11, 
and 2+4+5=11.    

We can't put the 0 first, so it's any arrangements
of the digits of these five 5-digit numbers that
don't have 0 first:

10289, 10379, 10469, 20369, 20459

For each of these 5 numbers,
There are 4 choices of positions to place the 0.
For each of those ways, there are 4 choices of positions to 
place the smallest digit greater than 0.
For each of those ways, there are 3 choices of positions to 
place the next digit in size.
For each of those ways, there are 2 choices of positions to 
place the next to largest digit in size.
For each of those ways, there is only 1 choice of position to 
place the largest digit in size, which is the 9.

So there are 5*4*4*3*2*1 = 480 possibilities.

Edwin


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