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Originally Posted by essedra  A candy factory has an endless supply of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet jelly beans. The factory packages the jelly beans into jars of 84 jelly beans each. As a marketing gimmick, the factory guarantees that no two jars have exactly the same number of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet jelly beans. What is the maximum number of jars the factory can produce? | How many non-negative integral solutions are there to this equation are there:  |