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Modular Arithmetic · Challenge problem

For how many ordered pairs (a,b)(a, b) with a,b∈{0,1,…,11}a, b \in \{0, 1, \ldots, 11\} does ax≡b(mod12)ax \equiv b \pmod{12} have at least one solution xx?