2009 UNCO Math Contest II Problems/Problem 3

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Problem

An army of ants is organizing a march to the Obama inauguration. If they form columns of $10$ ants there are $8$ left over. If they form columns of $7, 11$ or $13$ ants there are $2$ left over. What is the smallest number of ants that could be in the army?


Solution

See also

2009 UNCO Math Contest II (ProblemsAnswer KeyResources)
Preceded by
Problem 2
Followed by
Problem 4
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