document.write( "Question 277460: If a non-zero integer n is chosen such that (2-16/n) is an integer less than 6
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If a non-zero integer n is chosen such that $\"2-16%2Fn\"$ is an integer less than 6
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document.write( "The other tutor's answer is incorrect.  He did not observe the\r\n" );
document.write( "fact that  must be an integer!\r\n" );
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document.write( "Plug those 5 values into  \r\n" );
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document.write( "That's possible.  Let's see if any of the others are:\r\n" );
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document.write( "No, that's not an integer!\r\n" );
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document.write( "No, 6 is not less than 6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "No, that's not an integer!\r\n" );
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document.write( "No, that's not less than 6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So a) -8 is the only one of those that works.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Comment: The question is worded very badly, because there are \r\n" );
document.write( "other values n could be which are not listed besides just -8. \r\n" );
document.write( "For instance n could be any of these:\r\n" );
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document.write( "-16, -8, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16\r\n" );
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document.write( "and  would be an integer less than 6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It's just that -8 was the only one listed as a choice.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the question should have read:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"Which of the following could n be?\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "not \"must be true of n\"!!!\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin

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