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Key aspects of the question

- There are 7 people including larry who have the same number of awards
- The other two can have any number of awards subject to the statements
- Since we are dealing with awards and people the numbers have to be integer

Let x be the number of awards for the 7 people, a and b for the other two

From the question stem we gather that 7x + a + b = 64

Now statement 1 simply means that the max number of awards any person can have is 2x

Hence lets try maximizing a and b

So we ll get 7x + 2x + 2x = 64

11x = 64 i.e x = 64/11 ---> from here you ll get a hint that the start point of testing values can be 5

So lets say that Larry has 5 awards

5 x 7 = 35 + 10 + 10 (10 is the max number of awards for the other people) this equals 55 which is < 64 hence this doesnt work

Lets say Larry has 6 awards

7 x 6 = 42 , a + b can be 11 + 11 ---> since these values are within constraints they can work

Lets say that larry has 7 awards

7 x 7 = 49, a + b can be 6 and 9 ---> since within constraints ---> this can work

Since we have two answers i.e 6 and 7 ---> not sufficient

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Larry = 6 can work if say a + b is 5 + 17
Larry = 7 can work as shown above

When you combine notice that larry = 6 will not work cause there is a constraint in statement 1 which say that the max number of awards any one can have is 2x

Hence answer is C and larry has 7 awards
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