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| Question 1178800:  In the following addition problem, each  letter represents one of the digits
 0, 1, 2, 3,  4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. The leading digits  represented by A and B
 are nonzero digits.
 What digit is represented by each letter?
 
 
    A 
+ B B
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A D D
 Found 2 solutions by  ikleyn, Edwin McCravy:
 Answer by ikleyn(52879)
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       A
+
    B  B
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 A  D  D
ANSWER.  A = 1;  B = 9;  D = 0.
CHECK
       1
+
    9  9
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 1  0  0
            S O L U T I O N
Since  "A"  is the leading digit of the sum,  it is clear that  A = 1.
Next, since a two-digit number  BB  after adding the  "1"  becomes a three-digit number  ADD, 
it is clear that  BB  is  99.   Than for the sum  ADD  there is only one possibility to be  100.
Solved.
 
 
 
 
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20064)
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   A
 +BB
----
 ADD
You are adding a 1-digit number to a 2 digit number to get a 3 digit
number, so the answer ADD can only be in the hundreds. So the first digit,
A, of ADD, can only be 1. That means you could only have been adding 1. The
only 2-digit number you can add 1 to and get a 3-digit number is 99. So:
   1
 +99
----
 100
Edwin 
 
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