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Seven Multiple Muse II (Posted on 2014-01-17) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Use the ten natural digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 each occurring only twice and fill up the the 20 empty boxes in the figure shown below such that the resulting 13 numbers (7 vertical, 6 horizontal) are each multiple of 7 and their product is the highest of all such arrangements.
            +---+
            |   |   
        +---+---+---+
        |   |   |   |          
    +---+---+---+---+---+
    |   |   |   |   |   |  
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |   |           |   |   |
+---+---+           +---+---+
Note: As the figure suggests, the bottom row should be considered as two 2-digit numbers rather than a single 4-digit number.

  Submitted by K Sengupta    
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The required arrangement is:
        7
      9 3 8  
    5 2 0 1 7
  9 0 4 1 2 5 6
  8 4       6 3
yielding a maximum product of 210583377780370729221760220343879401472.

For an explanation, refer to the solution submitted by Charlie here.

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Solutioncomputer solutionCharlie2014-01-17 12:49:46
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