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EVELYN wrote her name 200 times in a row without a space between them. What letter is written in the 100th space? in the 196th space?
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document.write( "If she wrote it only three times\r\n" );
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document.write( "E  V  E  L  Y  N  E  V  E  L  Y  N  E  V  E  L  Y  N\r\n" );
document.write( "1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 \r\n" );
document.write( "to find out what was in the 17th space we divide the\r\n" );
document.write( "number of letters in EVELYN, which is 6, into 17\r\n" );
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document.write( "   2\r\n" );
document.write( "6)17\r\n" );
document.write( "  12\r\n" );
document.write( "   5\r\n" );
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document.write( "The quotient 2 tells us how many times the name has been\r\n" );
document.write( "completed before the 17th letter, and the remainder tells\r\n" );
document.write( "us that how far into the name the 17th letter is into the\r\n" );
document.write( "next or 3rd writing of the name.  So the 17th letter is \r\n" );
document.write( "the same as the 5th letter or Y.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It's the same principle no matter how large the number is,\r\n" );
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document.write( "   16\r\n" );
document.write( "6)100\r\n" );
document.write( "   6\r\n" );
document.write( "   40\r\n" );
document.write( "   36\r\n" );
document.write( "    4\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the 100th letter is the same as the 4th, or L\r\n" );
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document.write( "   32\r\n" );
document.write( "6)196\r\n" );
document.write( "  18\r\n" );
document.write( "   16\r\n" );
document.write( "   12\r\n" );
document.write( "    4\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the 196th letter is the same as the 4th, or L.\r\n" );
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