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2020 AMC 10AProblem 21P21-25~7 minPrint

There exists a unique strictly increasing sequence of nonnegative integers a1<a2<<aka_1 < a_2 < … < a_k such that 2289+1217+1=2a1+2a2++2ak.\frac{2^{289}+1}{2^{17}+1} = 2^{a_1} + 2^{a_2} + … + 2^{a_k}. What is k?k?

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