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Official 2022 Paper 2 · Q8

Paper 2Logic & proofSequences & series

A selection, SS, of nn terms is taken from the arithmetic sequence 1,4,7,10,…,701,4,7,10,\ldots,70.

Consider the following statement:

(∗)(*) There are two distinct terms in SS whose sum is 74.

What is the smallest value of nn for which (∗)(*) is necessarily true?

A1212
B1313
C1414
D2121
E2222
F2323

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