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AMC 12 2017b Problem 25

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A set of nn people participate in an online video basketball tournament. Each person may be a member of any number of 55-player teams, but no teams may have exactly the same 55 members. The site statistics show a curious fact: The average, over all subsets of size 99 of the set of nn participants, of the number of complete teams whose members are among those 9 people is equal to the reciprocal of the average, over all subsets of size 88 of the set of nn participants, of the number of complete teams whose members are among those 88 people. How many values nn, 9≤n≤20179 \leq n \leq 2017, can be the number of participants?

\textbf{(A)}\ 477 \textbf{(B)}\ 482 \textbf{(C)}\ 487 \textbf{(D)}\ 557 \textbf{(E)}\ 562

Dataset text AMC 12 2000 to 2025. Quoted with source.

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