2017 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 25
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Last year Isabella took math tests and received different scores, each an integer between and , inclusive. After each test she noticed that the average of her test scores was an integer. Her score on the seventh test was . What was her score on the sixth test?
Solution 1
Let the sum of the scores of Isabella's first tests be . Since the mean of her first scores is an integer, then , or . Also, , so by CRT, . We also know that , so by inspection, . However, we also have that the mean of the first integers must be an integer, so the sum of the first test scores must be an multiple of , which implies that the th test score is .
Cheap Solution
By inspection, the sequences and work, so the answer is .
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