2021 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 7
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Problem
These problems will not be posted until the 2021 AMC12A is released on Thursday, February 4, 2021.
Solution
Expanding, we get that the expression is 
or 
. By the trivial inequality the minimum value for this is 
, which can be achieved at 
. ~aop2014
Note
See problem 1.
See also
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