Solution

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With the specified ratios, the two factors in the modal amplitude become and . Hence a normal mode is unexcited precisely when one of these factors is zero:
That includes all multiples of five or fourteen, with multiples of seventy counted once. The mode is not a fixed-end string mode.

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