Question:
A roll of tape has three types of shapes, heart, cross and arrow, printed in a repeated patter.
Meimei cuts a piece of tape from the roll.
In that piece, there are 84 fewer cross than heart.
Find the least possible total number of shapes on that piece of tape.
Solution:
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