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Fill increasing bags without exceeding the supply

Alice has 48004800 sweets to divide into bags. She puts 2525 sweets in the first bag and 55 more in each subsequent bag than in the preceding bag. She stops when there are not enough sweets to fill the next bag in the same manner. Find the number of sweets left behind.

[2008/AJC/Promo/5(a)]

CJC · Sequences and Series · Example 21 (Self-Reading)

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