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Sextalternado numbers

Source: Lusophon Matematical Olympiad 2021 Problem 1

December 19, 2021
number theory

Problem Statement

Juca has decided to call all positive integers with 8 digits as sextalternadossextalternados if it is a multiple of 30 and its consecutive digits have different parity. At the same time, Carlos decided to classify all sextalternadossextalternados that are multiples of 12 as supersextalternadossuper sextalternados.
a) Show that supersextalternadossuper sextalternados numbers don't exist.
b) Find the smallest sextalternadosextalternado number.