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IL-GILLIS 2016 Problem 1

    Nina and Meir are walking on a 33 km path towards grandma's house. They start walking at the same time from the same point. Meir's speed is 44 km/h and Nina's speed is 33 km/h.

    Along the path there are several benches. Whenever Nina or Meir reaches a bench, they sit on it for some time and eat a cookie. Nina always takes tt minutes to eat a cookie, and Meir always takes 2t2t minutes to eat a cookie, where tt is a positive integer.

    It turns out that Nina and Meir reached grandma's house at the same time. How many benches were there? Find all of the options.

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