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A school bought many boxes of 100 candies each. The teachers opened all the boxes and gave 14 candies to each student, with 2 candies leftover at the end. The receipt shows the school bought 10{*} boxes of candies where the units digit, represented by {*}, was covered by a chocolate smudge. How many boxes of candies did the school buy?

 

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 Sep 17, 2020
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school bought   100 * (100 +x )   candies

by brute force   x = 6     106 boxes

 

(10 000 +100x) mod 14 = 2                     10600 mod 14 = 2

 Sep 17, 2020

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