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Number theory Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it Canada

Explain why there is no number which occurs in each of the following arithmetic sequences: 17,22,27,32,17, 22, 27, 32, \ldots and 13,28,43,58,13, 28, 43, 58, \ldots

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