Given a "starting" number, you double it and add 1, then divide the answer by 1 less than the starting number to get the "final" number. If you start with 2, your final number is 5. If you start with 4, your final number is 3. What starting number gives the final number 4?
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Junior Mathematical Olympiad 2003 (2003)
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