Since 64=26, its positive
divisors are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64.
The sum of these divisors is $1 + 2 + 4 + 8 +
16 + 32 + 64 = 127$.
Suppose that the four consecutive integers that Fionn originally
wrote on the blackboard were x,
x+1, x+2, and x+3.
When Lexi erases one of these integers, the sum of the remaining three
integers is equal to one of the following: (x+1)+(x+2)+(x+3)x+(x+2)+(x+3)x+(x+1)+(x+3)x+(x+1)+(x+2)=3x+6=3x+5=3x+4=3x+3 We are told that
the sum of these integers is 847.
We note that 847=3⋅282+1,
which is one more than a multiple of 3. Since 3x+3 and 3x+6 are always multiples of 3 and 3x+5 is 2 more than a multiple of 3, then
we must have 3x+4=847 and so
3x=843 or x=281. (Alternatively, we could have
set each of the four sums above equal to 847 to determine in which case
or cases we obtained an integer solution for x.)
Therefore, the original integers were 281, 282, 283, 284 and Lexi erased
x+2=283.
From the given information, the 7 terms in the
arithmetic sequence are d2, d2+d, d2+2d, d2+3d, d2+4d, d2+5d, d2+6d Since the sum
of these 7 terms is 756, we obtain the following equivalent equations:
d2+(d2+d)+(d2+2d)+(d2+3d)+(d2+4d)+(d2+5d)+(d2+6d)7d2+21dd2+3dd2+3d−108(d+12)(d−9)=756=756=108=0=0 and so d=−12 or $d
= 9$.
The corresponding arithmetic sequences are 144,132,120,108,96,84,72 and 81,90,99,108,117,126,135