SOLUTION: The officers of a math club will pay equal contributions to buy a cake worth $480 for their moderator. If there were two more officers, their contribution will be reduced by $12 ea

Question 1103857: The officers of a math club will pay equal contributions to buy a cake worth $480 for their moderator. If there were two more officers, their contribution will be reduced by $12 each. How many officers are there?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let there be officers.
So for each officer it would cost,

Increasing the number by two, the cost would be,

So the difference is,

Only positive solutions for N make sense here.

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