A group of stock analysts had a contest. Each analyst picked 5 stocks out of a list of 30 stocks to purchase. If each of the stocks was picked exactly 6 times, how many analysts were in the contest?
A
25
B
32
C
36
D
40
E
60
Correct answer: C
Explanation
There were a total of 6*30 = 180 picks made by the analysts. Each analyst picked 5 stocks, so there were 180/5 = 36 analysts in the contest.
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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