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The answer to ABCDE*4=EDCBA is 21978*4=87912.
To get to this solution I started with A. Possible candidates to A are {1;2}. 0 (zero) can be ruled out because if a five digit number starts with a zero it's actually only a four digit number. If A=1 we get 1BCDE*4=EDCB1, which dosn't mathematically work out, as any number times 4 will be an equal number. Therefore A must equal 2.
We now have 2BCDE*4=EDCB2. Now we can work out the solution for E... The range of "solutions" of 2BCDE*4 goes from 21345*4(=85380) to 24987*4(=99948), remember that we have to stay within the 5-digit range.
We now have that E can be {8;9}. If E=9, the last digit on the right side of the equation will be 6, as 4*9=36, when we want it to be 2. If E=8, the last digit on the right side will be 2 (4*8=32).
2BCD8*4=8DCB2... Hurrah!! We now got solutions for both A and E. The solutions for the last three letters can now be worked out in, more or less, the same manner. I used partly calculations and partly guessing for B, C and D.
B can only be {0;1;3}, because the righthand number can not exceed eighty-something-thousand.
The rest is easy...
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