Problems: 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.
(Please ignore all periods. They are NOT multiplication symbols. I had to use them for
formatting.)
..BIRDS ..........RAIN .............COOL
..BIRDS ..........RAIN ..........- SOME
+BIRDS ............+GO..........-----------
--------- ..........-------- .................ALE
..CHIRP .......AWAY..................- IN
...............................................---------
....................................................ICE
..BEARS
.....CUBS
....+ SOX
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LOSERS
(f) FOOT + FOOT + FOOT = YARD, where FOOT is prime.
(g) 4 (ABCDE) = EDCBA
(h) 
Solution 1: FOUR = 3481 and TEN = 295.
Solution 2: FOUR = 6241 and TEN = 395.
I will come back to these problems now and then because they make one think about the actual operations being performed in the problem. These type of problems really makes one understand the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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