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Differences

Can you guarantee that, for any three numbers you choose, the product of their differences will always be an even number?

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Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level

Explain why the arithmetic sequence

1, 14, 27, 40, ...

contains many terms of the form 222...2 where only the digit 2 appears. How many twos appear in these terms?

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