2011 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 20

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Let $f(x)=ax^2+bx+c$ , where $a$ , $b$ , and $c$ are integers. Suppose that $f(1)=0$ , $50<f(7)<60$ , $70<f(8)<80$ , $5000k<f(100)<5000(k+1)$ for some integer $k$ . What is $k$ ?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 5$

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