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UKMT Cayley Olympiad, 2022

Algebra Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it United Kingdom

Consider equations of the form $ax + b = c$ , where $a$ , $b$ and $c$ are integers such that one is the sum of the other two and $a$ is non-zero. What are the possible integer values of $x$ ?

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