I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is 5 greater than my units digit. My hundreds digit is 8 less than my tens digit. What number am I?
194
Tens digit T must be 9 so Hundreds (T-8 = 1) is non-zero. Units = T - 5 = 4. Number = 194.
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