document.write( "Question 982202: Arithmetic Sequence Problem:
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document.write( "At 12:00 Midnight (\"Saturday night\", actually beginning Sunday morning),\r\n" );
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document.write( "At 1 AM Sunday morning it strikes 1 time.\r\n" );
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document.write( "At 11 AM Sunday morning it strikes 11 times.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the sum of the integers 1 through 12.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It strikes 78 times twice a day for 7 days. \r\n" );
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document.write( "That's 14x78 = 1092 times a week that it strikes.\r\n" );
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