Question

ABE+ACE+ADE=2012

What number represents which letter?

Answer 1

E = 4

Answer 2

it has infinitely many solution....

Answer 3

But every cryptogram has a unique solution right?

Answer 4

no it's certainly don't have infinitely solutions

Answer 5

the set of numbers are not given ....

Answer 6

and letters can represent only 1 digit

Answer 7

so sorry..i got it...i thought we considered each as a single variable....

Answer 8

A=6 E=4
B+C+D=20 so you can choose any numbers e.g.
B=2 C=9 D=9

Answer 9

or b=7, c=5, d=8

Answer 10

Thank you everyone :)

Answer 11

i am willing to bet you are making the assumption (though not stated) that different letters represent different numbers, so i would go with radar's answer

Answer 12

Unfortunately not, I'll take the A + B + C + D + E and then the answer is the number I need. :)

Answer 13

assuming each letter represents a distinct digit,
there are two triplets that satisfy the condition
634,684,694
and
654,674,684

Answer 14

so you should have stated at the beginning that you need to find A+B+C+D+E

Answer 15

No, why should I? Once I got help with the letters, it was not so hard to plus them together.

Answer 16

because it would be easier to solve it

Answer 17

No, it would not make any difference.

Answer 18

well i have solved it, so i can say that it would be easier :P

Answer 19

also there might be such problems that you can't get answers to all parts only sum of them so better post full question

Answer 20

@97 I agree with Tomas, it is much easier to find the sum of A,B,C,D,E than to find all permutations. Why don't you try for yourself and see.

Answer 21

But I needed two responses, and the last one I could actually figure out myself.