by stupidityismygam » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:25 pm
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Problem #9:
Consider the non-decreasing sequence of positive integers
1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,...
in which the nth positive integer appear n times. The remainder when the 1993rd term is divided by 5 is
a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3 e) 4
Source: 1993 AHSME
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