document.write( "Question 1000859: The pattern of the first 7 letters of contestcontestcontest...continues to the right. The 1st occurrence of a \"t\" is the 4th letter of this pattern. The 1993rd occurrence of a \"t\" is the ___ letter of this pattern
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document.write( "t occurs twice in every occurrence of \"contest\", and half of\r\n" );
document.write( "1993 is 996.5. So when t occurs at the end of \"contest\" for the \r\n" );
document.write( "996th time, we can conclude the following\r\n" );
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document.write( "a.  there will be 996 complete occurrences of \"contest\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "b.  there will be 2*996 or 1992 occurrences of t.\r\n" );
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document.write( "c.  there will be 7*996 or 6972 letters.\r\n" );
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document.write( "d.  the 1993rd t will occur in the middle of the next \"contest\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "e.  the 6972nd letter will be the 996th occurrence of t at the end \r\n" );
document.write( "of \"contest\" and the 1992nd occurrence of t altogether.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let's start there and go up from there to the 1993rd occurrence \r\n" );
document.write( "of t:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The 6972nd letter is the 1992nd occurrence of t.\r\n" );
document.write( "The 6973rd letter is c.\r\n" );
document.write( "The 6974th letter is o.\r\n" );
document.write( "The 6975th letter is n.\r\n" );
document.write( "The 6976th letter is t, the 1993rd occurrence of t.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: 6976th, choice D.\r\n" );
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