Mathematics Education Department

Jamila K. Eagles

Problem Solving EMT 725

Problem: Cryptorithms

In these problems each letter represents a digit, and different letters represent different digits. You are to find which digit each letter represents. Some problems have more than one solution.


I used logical reasoning and basic arithmetic to attempt to solve these types of problems. A solution to the first problem is

 

 

 

 

Another problem that I solved is

 

 

Using trial and error I found the repeating decimal for the following:

 

In the problem below, FOOT is prime, A solution to this is the trick was to find a prime 4 digit number that when added together three times would result in a four digit number. Using trial and error once again, I knew that the number had to be a small four digit prime number. The following is my solution.

 

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