I am a three-digit number. All of my digits are odd and all are different. My hundreds digit is greater than my tens digit, and my tens digit is greater than my units digit. My digits add up to 17. What number am I?
971
The odd digits are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. The only three distinct odd digits that sum to 17 in descending order are 9, 7, and 1.
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