number leaving different remainders with different divisors

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number when divided by 17 leaves remainder 3 and when divided by 16 leaves remainder 10 and is divisible by 15

find the smallest number in the series

i tried the conventional method but it gave me wrong answer so please help

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By the Chinese Remainder Theorem, the number is $x=3930$, which is unique modulo $4080$.