Problem
2017 AMC 12B Problem 25
A set of n people participate in an online video basketball tournament. Each person may be a member of any number of 5-player teams, but no teams may have exactly the same 5 members. The site statistics show a curious fact: The average, over all subsets of size 9 of the set of n participants, of the number of complete teams whose members are among those 9 people is equal to the reciprocal of the average, over all subsets of size 8 of the set of n participants, of the number of complete teams whose members are among those 8 people. How many values n, 9 \leq n \leq 2017, can be the number of participants?
\textbf{(A)}\ 477 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 482 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 487 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 557 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 562
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