SOLUTION: 30 chocolates are to be distributed among 7persons and no two persons gets equal number of chocolates?

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Question 756896: 30 chocolates are to be distributed among 7persons and no two persons gets equal number of chocolates?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39628)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You would be looking for an arithmetic series equal to 30, built on a sequence of consecutive natural numbers and 7 terms.

and we do not know yet or . You also expect .

With that, you now have two equations and two unknowns, as a set of linear equations.

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