Mr Smith

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Yesterday, the reading on Mr Smith’s electricity meter was 098157. He was shocked to realise that all six of these digits are different. How many more units of electricity will he use before the next time all the digits are different? 

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  1. Rithvik1 March 2022 at 07:36

    You can just increase the reading by one unit until you get one. The next one is 098162. Now we can subtract this from the original to get our answer as 5

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