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2015 Gauss 8 Problem 23

The list of integers 4, 4, x, y, 13 has been arranged from least to greatest. How many different possible ordered pairs (x, y) are there so that the average (mean) of these 5 integers is itself an integer?

\textbf{(A)}\ 7\quad \textbf{(B)}\ 8\quad \textbf{(C)}\ 9\quad \textbf{(D)}\ 10\quad \textbf{(E)}\ 11

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