Math Extra-Credit Help
"Find the smallest possible positive integer that is divisible by 13, and that, when divided by any of the integers from 2-12, leaves a remainder of 1"
I tried actually writing out which #'s would fit into what the word problem stated, but I realized it was going to take forever.
is there an easier method to solving this ?
March 29, 2012
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you could try working backwards starting with the 1.