SOLUTION: The addition problem below has a unique solution. Each of the letters Q, W and Y represents a different non zero digit. What is the product of Q, W and Y? Q W

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Question 263811: The addition problem below has a unique solution. Each of the letters Q, W and Y represents a different non zero digit. What is the product of Q, W and Y?
Q W W
+W W Q
__________
Y Q W Y

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Look at the sum of the 100s digits. The largest Q and W can be is 8 and 9 in some order. Depending on whether or not there was a carry from the previous column, the most Q + W + a possible carry can be is 18, and since the sum is YQ, Y must be 1.

So, now we have:





Q plus W cannot equal 1 because that would mean that one of them had to be zero and the problem says the letters are all non-zero and the other would have to be 1 which is already used by Y and the problem says they are all different.

Therefore Q plus W must be 11.

Q = 9 if and only if W = 2
Q = 8 if and only if W = 3

and so on until we get to

Q = 2 if and only if W = 9

But W + W + 1 must either equal W or 1W so the only possibility is W = 9, so that W + W + 1 = 9 + 9 + 1 = 18. Hence Q = 2.


Therefore:





John


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