World Cup
Source: 2002 China Second Round Olympiad
August 30, 2014
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Problem Statement
Before The World Cup tournament, the football coach of country will let seven players, , join three training matches (90 minutes each) in order to assess them. Suppose, at any moment during a match, one and only one of them enters the field, and the total time (which is measured in minutes) on the field for each one of , and is divisible by and the total time for each of , and is divisible by . If there is no restriction about the number of substitutions of players during each match, then how many possible cases are there within the total time for every player on the field?