SOLUTION: Some athletes were running and they met another athlete running the opposite direction.The athlete greeted them,"hello a thousand!They said,"we are not a thousand,we need half of u

Question 1041923: Some athletes were running and they met another athlete running the opposite direction.The athlete greeted them,"hello a thousand!They said,"we are not a thousand,we need half of us plus you to make a thousand."
Q:How many athletes were running?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of athletes that
are the ones saying " We are not a thousand
,we need half of us plus you to make a thousand."
Let = the number of athletes who met them.
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given:

Here's the plot:

The largest can be is 998 because the smallest
can be is 2
The largest can be is 1998 because if = 2000,
then
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and can be any point on the line as long as the
's and 's are both even. ( neither can be odd )
Hope I got this: get another opinion, too

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