SOLUTION: QUiZ TiME I am thinking of a five digit number, where the fifth digit is one-half the fourth digit and one-forth the third digit. The third digit is one-half the first digit and

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Question 771316: QUiZ TiME
I am thinking of a five digit number, where the fifth digit is one-half the fourth digit and one-forth the third digit. The third digit is one-half the first digit and twice the fourth digit. The second digit is three times the fourth digit and five more than the fifth digit. What is the five digit number?

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QUiZ TiME
I am thinking of a five digit number, where the fifth digit is one-half the fourth digit and one-forth the third digit. The third digit is one-half the first digit and twice the fourth digit. The second digit is three times the fourth digit and five more than the fifth digit. What is the five digit number?
Let the number be ABCDE 

>>The second digit is three times the fourth digit<<
So D is 1,2, or 3 and B is 3,6 or 9.
The number is A3C1E, A6C2E, or A9C3E

>>The second digit is ... five more than the fifth digit.<<
That rules out 3 for B, so B is 6 or 9, and D is 2 or 3.
It also tells us that E is 1 or 4, so that B can be 5 more than it. 

So the number is A6C21 or A9C34 

>>The third digit is ... twice the fourth digit<<
So C is twice D, which is 2 or 3.  So C is 4 or 6

So the number is A6421 or A9634

>>The third digit is one-half the first digit
So C is 4 because 6 is too large to be half a digit. And so
A has to be 8 so that C=4 can be half of it.

So the number is 86421.

Edwin