2013 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 25
- The following problem is from both the 2013 AMC 12B #23 and 2013 AMC 10B #25, so both problems redirect to this page.
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Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer and writes both its base-5 and base-6 representations on a blackboard. Later LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treating the two numbers as base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer . For example, if , Bernardo writes the numbers and , and LeRoy obtains the sum . For how many choices of are the two rightmost digits of , in order, the same as those of ?
Solution 1
First, we can examine the units digits of the number base 5 and base 6 and eliminate some possibilities.
Say that
also that
Substituting these equations into the question and setting the units digits of and equal to each other, it can be seen that (because otherwise and will have different parities), and thus . , , ,
Therefore, can be written as and can be written as
Just keep in mind that can be one of five choices: or , ; Also, we have already found which digits of will add up into the units digits of .
Now, examine the tens digit, by using and to find the tens digit (units digits can be disregarded because will always work) Then we take and to find the last two digits in the base and representation. Both of those must add up to
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Now, since will always work if works, then we can treat as a units digit instead of a tens digit in the respective bases and decrease the mods so that is now the units digit.
Say that (m is between 0-6, n is 0-4 because of constraints on x) Then
and this simplifies to
From careful inspection, this is true when
This gives you choices for , and choices for , so the answer is
Solution 2
Notice that there are exactly possible values of . This means, in , every possible combination of digits will happen exactly once. We know that work because .
We know for sure that the units digit will add perfectly every added or subtracted, because . So we only have to care about cases of every subtracted. In each case, subtracts /adds , subtracts and adds for the 's digit.
As we can see, there are cases, including the original, that work. These are highlighted in . So, thus, there are possibilities for each case, and .
Solution 3
Notice that ranges from to digits and ranges from to digits.
Then let , denotes the digits of , , respectively such that Thus we have Now we are given Canceling out left with
Since , determine the unit digits of the two sides of the congruence equation, we have . Thus,
canceling out , we have
Thus is a multiple of .
Now going back to our original equation Since ,
Since the left side is a multiple of , then so does the right side. Thus .
Since we already know that , then , from where we also know that .
For , there is a total of 7 ordered pairs that satisfy the condition. Namely,
Since has at least digits, doesn't work. Furthermore, when , exceeds which is not possible as is a three digit number, thus won't work as well.
Since we know that , for each of the ordered pairs , there is respectively one and only one solution that satisfies the equation
Thus there are five solutions to the equation. Also since we have 5 possibilities for , we have a total of values for .
~ Nafer
Solution 4
Observe that the maximum possible value of the sum of the last two digits of the base number and the base number is . Let and .
If , and if , .
Using the same logic for , if , , and in the other case .
We can do four cases:
Case 1: .
For this case, there is trivially only one possible solution, , which is equivalent to .
Case 2: .
Note that in this case, must hold, and must hold. We find the possible ordered pairs to be: for a total of ordered pairs.
Case 3: .
Note that in this case, must hold, and must hold. We find the possible ordered pairs to be: for a total of ordered pairs.
Case 4: .
Trivially no solutions except , which matches the solution in Case 1, which makes this an overcount.
By CRT, each solution corresponds exactly one positive integer in a set of exactly consecutive positive integers, and since there are positive integers between and , our induction is complete, and our answer is .
~ fidgetboss_4000
Video Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCK-H5jsOE&t=497s
See Also
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