self Maths Puzzle

I take a four-digit number and subtract from it the sum of its digits. In the result I strike off one of the digits and the remaining three digits of the result are 2, 4 and 6 (not necessarily in that order). Find the digit struck off by me.

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self Other Question

On planet Jupiterthe people use a certain number system to the base 'n' (n > 2), Jerk, a resident of the planet, one day received twice his daily wage because the digits of this wage, which was a 2 digit number, were reversed. If the value of 'n' is the least possible value there the decimal representation of the difference between Jerk's correct wage for the day is A three digit non-zero number 'abc' in base 5, when converted to base 7, becomes 'cba'. Which of the following is necessarily true?
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1. a must be 2
2. c must be 2
3. b must be 0
4. None of these