document.write( "Question 394902: Determine the digits of Y from these clues.\r
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Determine the digits of Y from these clues.\r
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document.write( "By D it has three digits\r\n" );
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document.write( "The third digit can't be more than 2 because by B, any larger digit multiplied\r\n" );
document.write( "by 4 is too big to be a single digit.  It can't be 0 because by B, that would\r\n" );
document.write( "make the first digit 0, which it can't be, and so the third digit is either\r\n" );
document.write( "1 or 2.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If the third digit were 1, then by B the first digit would be 4, and by C, the\r\n" );
document.write( "second digit would be 3, making the number 431, but A rules that out because\r\n" );
document.write( "4+3+1 is not 16.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the third digit must be 2, and by B the first digit must be 8, and by C, the\r\n" );
document.write( "second digit would be 6, making the number 862, and that satisfies A because\r\n" );
document.write( "8+6+2 = 16.    \r\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer is 862.\r\n" );
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