Repost of MathyGoo13's repost and comment: [ https://web2.0calc.com/questions/weather-problem ]
The temperature changed throughout a certain day at a steady rate of
- 3 ° C every hour. If it was -8° C sometime between 2 pm and 2:20
pm, then the temperature was 9° C in the time interval
(Electric Pavlov tried to answer this, but he made the mistake of thinking it said "-9 degrees" meaning his solution was wrong.)
Please answer on the original thread: https://web2.0calc.com/questions/question-on-average-rate-of-change
Guest, you made a small mistake. I like seeing your answers though. :)
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I'm going to try and solve in pairs
m=-1 mod 6 and 1 mod 10
11 works
m=4 mod 7 and 1 mod 10
11 works
now I look, 11 works for all of them
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Mod number | Prime factors | ||||
6 | 2 | 3 | |||
7 | 7 | ||||
8 | 2*2*2 | ||||
9 | 3*3 | ||||
10 | 2 | 5 | |||
prime factors needed | 2*2*2=8 | 3*3=9 | 5 | 7 | 5*7*8*9 |
So the solutions will be of the form m=(5*7*8*9)k + 11
the first 2 are 11 and (5*7*8*9) + 11
the 3rd one is 2(5*7*8*9) + 11 and this is bigger than 6*7*8*9
so
There are just 2 they are 11 and 2531