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UKMT Intermediate Mathematical Challenge, 2017

Number theory Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

Four different positive integers are to be chosen so that they have a mean of $2017$ . What is the smallest possible range of the chosen integers?

(A) $2$ (B) $3$ (C) $4$ (D) $5$ (E) $6$

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