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| Question 896478:  How many integers from 0 to 100, inclusive, have a remainder of 2 when divided by 7?
 Answer by Edwin McCravy(20064)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! How many integers from 0 to 100, inclusive, have a remainder of 2 when divided by 7? 
 
Let n be such a number and k be the quotient when we divide
n by 7
Let's see how it would be if we divided n by 7 and got a quotient of k:
We'd have this:
    k
 7) n
Then to finish the division we'd multiply k by 7 getting 7k
and we'd write it under the n:
    k
 7) n
   7k
Then we'd draw a line:
    k
 7) n
   7k
Then we'd subtract
    k
 7) n
   7k
   n-7k
And so our remainder would be n-7k
So we set the remainder = 2
  n-7k = 2
     n = 2+7k     <-- we add 7k to both sides
Since we only want the values of n from 0 to 100,
we write the inequality
   0 ≦ n ≦ 100
   0 ≦ 2+7k ≦ 100    <-- we substitute 2+7k for n
  -2  -2       -2       <-- we subtract 2 from all three parts.   
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  -2 ≦   7k ≦ 98
-2/7 ≦    k ≦ 14   <-- we divide all three parts by 7
So the integers that are 0 through 14, inclusive,
are all the values of k and the only ones we can substitute in 
n = 2+7k and have a remainder of 2.
Since we must count 0, the number of values is 15.
Edwin
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