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Sum After Linear Transformation of List

1050BeginnerAlgebra

Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

You have a list of real numbers, whose sum is $40$. If you replace every number $x$ on the list by $1-x$, the sum of the new numbers will be $20$. If instead you had replaced every number $x$ by $1+x$, what would the sum then be?
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