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Problem

Greta Grasshopper sits on a long line of lily pads in a pond. From any lily pad, Greta can jump 5 pads to the right or 3 pads to the left. What is the fewest number of jumps Greta must make to reach the lilly pad located 2023 pads to the right of her starting position?

$\textbf{(A) } 405 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 407 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 409 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 411 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 413$

Solution

We have $2$ directions going $5$ right or $3$ left. We can assign a variable to each of these directions. We can call going right 1 direction X and we can call going 1 left Y. We can build a equation of $5X-3Y=2023$ . Where we have to limit the number of moves we do. We can do this by making more of our moves the $5$ move turn then the $3$ move turn. The first obvious step is to go some amount of moves in the → direction then subtract off in the ← direction to land on $2023$ . The least amount of $3$ ’s added to $2023$ to make a multiple of $5$ is $4$ as $2023 + 4(3) = 2035$ . So now we have solved the problem as we just go $\frac{2035}{5} = 407$ hops right, and just do 4 more hops left. Yielding $407 + 4 = \boxed{\text{(D)}411}$ as our answer.

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 ==Problem==
-An equilateral triangle is placed inside a larger equilateral triangle so that the region between them can be divided into three congruent trapezoids, as shown below. The side length of the inner triangle is <math>\frac23</math> the side length of the larger triangle. What is the ratio of one trapezoid to the area of the inner triangle?
+Greta Grasshopper sits on a long line of lily pads in a pond. From any lily pad, Greta can jump 5 pads to the right or 3 pads to the left. What is the fewest number of jumps Greta must make to reach the lilly pad located 2023 pads to the right of her starting position?
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+<math>\textbf{(A) } 405 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 407 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 409 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 411 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 413</math>
-<math>\textbf{(A) } 1 : 3 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 3 : 8 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 5 : 12 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 7 : 16 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 4 : 9</math>
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