2017 AIME II Problems/Problem 8
Problem
Find the number of positive integers
less than
such that
is an integer.
Solution
The denominator contains
. Therefore,
. This yields the numbers,
. There are a total of
numbers in the sequence.
EDIT: 0 mod 30 and 24 mod 30 both work; therefore, the answer should be
.
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