A positive integer B C}, where are digits, satisfies . Find .
Solution
The equation is equivalent to . Suppose , so that we get . Reducing , we find that must be divisible by . , since otherwise , contradiction, so . Thus for digits . For , we have , a contradiction, so . We can easily test that these do not yield solutions, so there are no solutions when . Thus , and so , and thus , so we have . We can test that the only pairs that satisfy this condition are . Of these pairs, only yields a solution to the original equation, namely . Thus .
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