Fermat 2024 Part A - Question 4, CEMC UWaterloo
Best Submissions
Difficulty: 3
This problem is tagged with fermat, fermat24, highschool.
(Fermat 2024, Part A, Question 4, CEMC - UWaterloo)
Shuxin begins with $10$ red candies, $7$ yellow candies, and $3$ blue candies. After eating some of the candies, there are equal numbers of red, yellow, and blue candies remaining. What is the smallest possible number of candies that Shuxin ate?
$(A)$ $11$
$(B)$ $7$
$(C)$ $17$
$(D)$ $20$
$(E)$ $14$
Answer Submission Note(s)
Your answer should be a single capital letter, e.g. 'A'.
You should report content if:
- It may be offensive.
- There is something wrong with it (statement or difficulty value)
- It isn't original.