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Revision as of 18:20, 29 January 2007
Problem
What is that largest positive integer for which
is divisible by
?
Solution
If ,
. Using the Euclidean algorithm, we have
, so
must divide 900. The greatest integer
for which
divides 900 is 890; we can double-check manually and we find that indeed
.
See also
1986 AIME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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