Pigeonhole Principle problem regarding a set of numbers and two subsets

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I have a question for one of my CSI classes and I've never been taught the material before so I'm completely stuck. The problem asks to take a set of 12 positive integers (not necessarily distinct) from 1-150 and prove that there are two different subsets of 6 integers such that the sums are equal. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

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Hints.

A. In how many ways can you pick 6 number out of 12?

B. The sum of 6 numbers from the set $\{1,2,\ldots,150\}$, how big can be?