SOLUTION: When the digits of a two-digit number are reversed, the new number is 54 less than the original number. The units digit is twice the tens digit. What is the original number?

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Question 391896: When the digits of a two-digit number are reversed, the new number is 54 less than the original number. The units digit is twice the tens digit. What is the original number?
Answer by robertb(5830) About Me  (Show Source):
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Listing all 2-digit numbers where the units digit is TWICE the tens digit: 12, 24, 36, 48. Now when the digits are reversed in each of those numbers, each new number is GREATER THAN the old number. Therefore this problem has no solution.