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Boxes and cards

Source: 2015 BAMO-8 #1

February 22, 2016
B8patternalgebraOlympiad

Problem Statement

There are 7 7 boxes arranged in a row and numbered 11 through 77. You have a stack of 20152015 cards, which you place one by one in the boxes. The first card is placed in box #11, the second in box #22, and so forth up to the seventh card which is placed in box #77. You then start working back in the other direction, placing the eighth card in box #66, the ninth in box #55, up to the thirteenth card being placed in box #11. The fourteenth card is then placed in box #22, and this continues until every card is distributed. What box will the last card be placed in?