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2011 AMC 12B Problem 11

A frog located at (x,y), with both x and y integers, makes successive jumps of length 5 and always lands on points with integer coordinates. Suppose that the frog starts at (0,0) and ends at (1,0). What is the smallest possible number of jumps the frog makes?

\textbf{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 6


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