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2021 AMC 10AProblem 22P21-25~8 minPrint

Hiram's algebra notes are 5050 pages long and are printed on 2525 sheets of paper; the first sheet contains pages 11 and 22 , the second sheet contains pages 33 and 44 , and so on. One day he leaves his notes on the table before leaving for lunch, and his roommate decides to borrow some pages from the middle of the notes. When Hiram comes back, he discovers that his roommate has taken a consecutive set of sheets from the notes and that the average (mean) of the page numbers on all remaining sheets is exactly 1919 . How many sheets were borrowed?

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