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Algebra Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Find the answer United Kingdom

Alice and Bob take it in turns to write numbers on a blackboard. Alice starts by writing an integer aa between 100-100 and 100100 inclusive on the board. On each of Bob's turns he writes twice the number Alice wrote last. On each of Alice's subsequent turns she writes the number 4545 less than the number Bob wrote last. At some point, the number aa is written on the board for a second time. Find the possible values of aa.

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