The four digit number has the property that
What is the smallest possible value of ?
Solution
To find the smallest number, we try . The given equation becomes , hence . This means that is a divisor of and so , because is a digit. On the other hand, implies that , and so . Therefore we need to have to find a solution. Because we now see that there is a solution with and . Hence the smallest possible value is .
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