Answer to Problem of the Week for 8/19/2002

Answer to August 19, 2002 Problem

From September 2002 Games Magazine

How Many Trains in the Depot?

Let T represent the number of trains in the depot in the division problem below. Each different letter represents a different digit from 0 to 9; identical letters represent identical digits. Although there can only be one value for T (the number of trains in the depot), the puzzle has T different solutions. Can you find them?
Solution to the Problem: There are two trains in the depot.

Let T represent the number of trains in the depot in the division problem below. Each different letter represents a different digit from 0 to 9; identical letters represent identical digits.
Although there can only be one value for T (the number of trains in the depot), the puzzle has T different solutions.

Can you find them?

Solution to the Problem:

There are two trains in the depot.

Correctly solved by:

1. David and Judy Dixon	Bennettsville, South Carolina
2. Richard Johnson	La Jolla, California