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2025 AMC 10BProblem 17P16-20~6 minPrint

Consider a decreasing sequence of nn positive integers x1>x2>>xnx_1 > x_2 > \dotsb > x_n that satisfies the following two conditions:

\qquad\bullet The average (arithmetic mean) of the first 33 terms in the sequence is 2025.2025.

\qquad\bullet For all 4kn,4 \leq k \leq n, the average of the first kk terms in the sequence is 11 less than the average of the first k1k - 1 terms in the sequence.

What is the greatest possible value of n?{n?}

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