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2023 Pascal Problem 12

Morgan uses a spreadsheet to create a table of values. In the first column, she lists the positive integers from 1 to 400. She then puts integers in the second column in the following way: if the integer in the first column of a given row is n, the number in the second column of that row is 3n+1. Which of the following integers does not appear in the second column?

\textbf{(A)}\ 31\quad \textbf{(B)}\ 94\quad \textbf{(C)}\ 131\quad \textbf{(D)}\ 331\quad \textbf{(E)}\ 907

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