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Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 5 + (n - 1) * 3, where n runs from 1 to 85. How many of these numbers are divisible by 7?

A. 5
B. 7
C. 8
D. 11
E. 12
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Marcab wrote:
Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 5 + (n - 1) * 3, where n runs from 1 to 85. How many of these numbers are divisible by 7?

A. 5
B. 7
C. 8
D. 11
E. 12

We want $$5 + (n - 1) * 3=3n+2$$ to be divisible by 7, which happens when n is 4, 11, 18, ..., 81. Total of 12 numbers.

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Okay tricky question. My approximation that i made within the 2 mins was:

since n is multiplied by 3 and the result has to be devisable by 7 we can only count multiples of 21. the observed set starts with 5 and ends with 257. since 5 and 257 are not devisable by 7 all numbers are ((257-5)/21)-1=11

but i don't know whether i am correct or not
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06 Dec 2012, 07:06
hii Bunuel.
This is rather the same approach used by me.
Is there any alternative approach to the solution?
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07 Dec 2012, 21:26
Bunuel wrote:
Marcab wrote:
Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 5 + (n - 1) * 3, where n runs from 1 to 85. How many of these numbers are divisible by 7?

A. 5
B. 7
C. 8
D. 11
E. 12

We want $$5 + (n - 1) * 3=3n+2$$ to be divisible by 7, which happens when n is 4, 11, 18, ..., 81. Total of 12 numbers.

P.S. Please provide OA's for the questions.

hey Bunuel, is there a way to cut down the time for counting those 12 numbers?
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hii Bunuel.
This is rather the same approach used by me.
Is there any alternative approach to the solution?

Hi Marcab,

How do you get this n value as brunuel stated
when n is 4, 11, 18, ..., 81 ?
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08 Dec 2012, 10:45
Put these values of n in the relation.
The numbers which you will be getting on doing so, will be divisible by 7.
Do notice one key point here; these values of n are at a difference of 7.

Moreover I will let you do one experiment in this question. Change the entire relation i.e. let the initial number be anything and let the other part be something like (n-3)*5. Let the range of n be from 1 to 85. IMO the number of multiples in this relation will also come out to be 12.

Do let me know if that helps you.
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Put these values of n in the relation.
The numbers which you will be getting on doing so, will be divisible by 7.
Do notice one key point here; these values of n are at a difference of 7.

Moreover I will let you do one experiment in this question. Change the entire relation i.e. let the initial number be anything and let the other part be something like (n-3)*5. Let the range of n be from 1 to 85. IMO the number of multiples in this relation will also come out to be 12.

Do let me know if that helps you.
Good luck

Thanks marcab..
Ya it was silly mistake...
i didnt recognize difference 4-11-18...
hmm this is where i loss score...

But sorry marcab i didnt get ur experiment in this question?
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Put these values of n in the relation.
The numbers which you will be getting on doing so, will be divisible by 7.
Do notice one key point here; these values of n are at a difference of 7.

Moreover I will let you do one experiment in this question. Change the entire relation i.e. let the initial number be anything and let the other part be something like (n-3)*5. Let the range of n be from 1 to 85. IMO the number of multiples in this relation will also come out to be 12.

Do let me know if that helps you.
Good luck

Thanks marcab..
Ya it was silly mistake...
i didnt recognize difference 4-11-18...
hmm this is where i loss score...

But sorry marcab i didnt get ur experiment in this question?

Let the starting term be 3. Let the range of n be :3<=n<=85.
The relation is 3+(n-3)*5.
Therefore on substituting these values, you will be getting the numbers as 3 8 13 18 23 28 33 38 43 48 53 58 63 68 and bla bla till n=85.

Notice that multiples of 7 appear at regular intervals of 7 i.e. 1st multiple at 6th position,m 2 nd mutiple at 13th position etc.
So in general words, the question is asking the numbr of multiples of till 85, no matter what the relation is.

I implemented this result in another relation as well to get the confirmation. 5 +(n-2)*5--->5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70

Hope that helps.
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the first term of the sequence is 5
the last term = 5+(85-1)*3=257
the number of multiples of 7 in the range between 5 and 257 = (last multiple of 7 - first multiple of 7)/7+1 = (252-7)/2+1=36
That means that between 5 and 257 there are 36 inregers that are divisible by 7
In the given sequence, the difference between the terms is 3. That means that the sequence contains not every integer but every third integer between 5 and 257. Hence the number of multiples of 7 in the given sequence = 36/3=12
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Amateur wrote:

We want $$5 + (n - 1) * 3=3n+2$$ to be divisible by 7, which happens when n is 4, 11, 18, ..., 81. Total of 12 numbers.

hey Bunuel, is there a way to cut down the time for counting those 12 numbers?

4, 11, 18 ... 81 forms an Arithmetic Progression.

No of terms = (Last term - First term)/Common Diff + 1 = (81 - 4)/7 + 1 = 12

For more on number of terms in an AP, check: http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/03 ... gressions/

or look at the patterm
4 = 4 + 0*7
11 = 4 + 1*7
18 = 4 + 2*7
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81 = 4 + 11*7

So the terms start from 0 and go on till 11 i.e. 12 terms
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Re: Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 5 + ( [#permalink]

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Tn = 5+3(n-1) = 3n+2.

Let 3n+2 = 7k (k has to be an integer)

or k = (3n+2)/7. Now we find the first value of n, where n = [1,85] which gives k an integral value.

We see that n=4 gives k as 2. Thus, value of n will be 4 and values where you keep adding 7 i.e 4,11,18 etc till 85. The last value we get is n=81 and a total of 12 values for n.

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Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 5 + (n - 1) * 3, where n runs from 1 to 85. How many of these numbers are divisible by 7?

A. 5
B. 7
C. 8
D. 11
E. 12

We want $$5 + (n - 1) * 3=3n+2$$ to be divisible by 7, which happens when n is 4, 11, 18, ..., 81. Total of 12 numbers.

P.S. Please provide OA's for the questions.

Hi Bunuel,

Do we need to calculate all 12 numbers multiple of 7 for 3n+2? How can we generalise and find the multiples? I could not figure it out.
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Bunuel wrote:
Marcab wrote:
Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 5 + (n - 1) * 3, where n runs from 1 to 85. How many of these numbers are divisible by 7?

A. 5
B. 7
C. 8
D. 11
E. 12

We want $$5 + (n - 1) * 3=3n+2$$ to be divisible by 7, which happens when n is 4, 11, 18, ..., 81. Total of 12 numbers.

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Hi Bunuel,

Do we need to calculate all 12 numbers multiple of 7 for 3n+2? How can we generalise and find the multiples? I could not figure it out.

I am guessing your question is how do we find these values: 4, 11, 18 etc

3n + 2 needs to be divisible by 7. Find out the first value of n for which 3n+2 is divisible by 7. Try n = 1/2/3/4. You get that when n = 4, 3n+2 = 14 and hence divisible by 7. Now you need to find the next value of n for which 3n+2 will be divisible by 7. Should you check for n = 5/6/7/8... etc. No! It will take you forever to figure out the required values of n since n can take any value up till 85. The use of logic will help you here:
3*4 + 2 is divisible by 7. The value of n is 4 here. What will be the next value of n? It will be 4+7. The one after that will be 4+14. Next will be 4+21 and so on...
Why?
Say after 4, the next value of n that satisfies this condition is m more than 4. So we are saying that 3*(4+m) + 2 is divisible by 7.
i.e. (3*4+ 2) + 3m is divisible by 7.
i.e. 14 + 3m is divisible by 7.
Now 14 is already divisible by 7. For 3m to be divisible by 7, m must be a multiple of 7. So m could be 7, 14, 21 ... etc.

Hence n could be 4, 4+7, 4+14, 4+21, .... till 4 + 77.
These are 12 terms.
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Or instead of counting one can just set up an inequality such as

1<=4+7k<=85
0<=k<=11

Total of 12 terms

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The expression is Tn=5+3(n-1), the first term is 8 and last term is 257

if Tn needs to be divisible by 7 then it has to be a multiple of 7
therefore Tn=7x=5+3(n-1) [for some integer x]
alternatively, 3(n-1)=7x-5 (means we need to find out there are how many multiples of 3 for 7x-5)
if x=1, 7x-5=2, not divisible by 3
x=2, 7x-5=9, divisible by 3
x=3, 7x-5=16, not divisible by 3
x=4, 7x-5=23, not divisible by 3
x=5, 7x-5=30, divisible by 3
..........
x=8, 7x-5=51
...........
the last term before 257 for 7x-5 is 245 which satisfies 3(n-1)=7x-5

now, 9,30,51...240 forms an AP series

by applying the AP formula for Xn=X1+d(n-1)
where Xn=240, X1=9, d=21, n can be calculated as 12

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Did in this way:

The range given is 1 to 85, so nos divisible by 7 are

7........... 14.......... 21....... 28 ................. upto 84

Total numbers which are divisible by 7 is 12

$$\frac{84}{7} = 12$$

The equation given is

5 + (n - 1) * 3

= 5 + 3n - 3

= 3n + 2

Placing value of n = 1 to n = 85, is just changing the scale limits

from 4 (7-3) to 81 (84-3)

The numbers divisible by 7 remains the same = 12

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