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Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

Anish has a number of small congruent square tiles to use in a mosaic. When he forms the tiles into a square of side nn, he has 6464 tiles left over. When he tries to form the tiles into a square of side n+1n+1, he has 2525 too few. How many tiles does Anish have?

(A) 8989 (B) 19351935 (C) 19801980 (D) 20002000 (E) 20192019

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