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111 blue + 88 white chips, game May Olympiad (Olimpiada de Mayo) 2012 L2 P4

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September 30, 2021
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Problem Statement

Pedro has 111111 blue chips and 8888 white chips. There is a machine that for every 1414 blue chips , it gives 1111 white pieces and for every 77 white chips, it gives 1313 blue pieces. Decide if Pedro can achieve, through successive operations with the machine, increase the total number of chips by 3333, so that the number of blue chips equals 53\frac53 of the amount of white chips. If possible, indicate how to do it. If not, indicate why.