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What is the 4-digit number in which the first digit is one-fifth of the last, and the second and third digits are the last digit multiplied by three?

Verified Answer :

We'll call this number \(A B C D\)

We have \(A=\frac{1}{5}D\)⇒\(D=5A\)

Since \(D\) is divisible by 5, it is either 0 or 5

But it can't be 0, because then \(A\) would be 0

So \(D=5\) and \(A=1\)

Now I'm assuming that the second and third digits are adding to three times the last digit.

So \(B+C=3*5\)⇒\(B+C=15\)

We have a number of options:
\((B, C)=(6, 9)\)
\((B, C)=(7, 8)\)
\((B, C)=(8, 7)\)
\((B, C)=(9, 6)\)

So the possibilities are:
1695
1785
1875
1965

(If there were another detail we could narrow down the choices further, but otherwise we have all these options.)