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How many positive integers less than 1000 (a) are divisible by 7? justify your answer?

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142.

You can get this by seeing what number you have to multiply 7 by to get as close to 1000 as you can. 7*142 = 994. Thus each one of the multiplications up to that point will give you a positive integer than can be divided by 7.
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