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[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

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# Your action step 2

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Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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There are  $N{}$  mess-loving clerks in the office. Each of them has some rubbish on the desk. The mess-loving clerks leave the office for lunch one at a time (after return of the preceding one). At that moment all those remaining put half of rubbish from their desks on the desk of the one who left. Can it so happen that after all of them have had lunch the amount of rubbish at the desk of each one will be the same as before lunch if a)  $N = 2{}$  and b)  $N = 10$ ?

*Alexey Zaslavsky*

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