document.write( "Question 923948: Pick as many numbers as you like from the first 1989 counting numbers (1, 2, 3, 1989), but don’t pick any more than once. If no two numbers can be exactly 4 apart and no two numbers can be exactly 7 apart, what is the maximum amount of numbers that you can have? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "1989 is a multiple of 3.  If you pick all the multiples of 3\r\n" );
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document.write( "3,6,9,12,...,1989 \r\n" );
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document.write( "any two of them are a multiple of 3 apart and if two integers are\r\n" );
document.write( "a multiple of 3 apart, they can neither be 4 apart nor 7 apart. \r\n" );
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document.write( "How many of them are there?\r\n" );
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document.write( "To find out, divide them all by 3 and you have the counting\r\n" );
document.write( "numbers from 1 through 663\r\n" );
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document.write( "1,2,3,4,...,663\r\n" );
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document.write( "so there are 663 of them.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You can also choose\r\n" );
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document.write( "1,4,7,10,...,1987 or\r\n" );
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document.write( "2,5,8,11,...,1988\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are also 663 of each of them as well.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: 663\r\n" );
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