2014 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 24

Problem

Let $f_0(x)=x+|x-100|-|x+100|$ , and for $n\geq 1$ , let $f_n(x)=|f_{n-1}(x)|-1$ . For how many values of $x$ is $f_{100}(x)=0$ ?

$\textbf{(A) }299\qquad \textbf{(B) }300\qquad \textbf{(C) }301\qquad \textbf{(D) }302\qquad \textbf{(E) }303\qquad$

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