How many of the $1000$ smallest positive integers are congruent to $5$ modulo $171?$
We can write a handy equation to solve this problem.
First, let's note that every number satsifying the conditions given can be written in the form
171x+5 where x is an integer.
We set this to equal 1000 to get the largest possible x can be, so we have
171x+5=1000
We are trying to solve for x right now. We have
171x=995
Dividing both sides, we find that
x=5.81871345029
We must round down, so 5 must be our answer.
So our final answer is 5.
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