2023 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 18
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Problem
Greta Grasshopper sits on a long line of lily pads in a pond. From any lily pad, Greta can jump 5 pads to the right or 3 pads to the left. What is the fewest number of jumps Greta must make to reach the lilly pad located 2023 pads to the right of her starting position?
Solution 1
We have directions going
right or
left. We can assign a variable to each of these directions. We can call going right
direction
and we can call going
left
. We can build a equation of
. Where we have to limit the number of moves we do. We can do this by making more of our moves the
move turn then the
move turn. The first obvious step is to go some amount of moves in the right direction then subtract off in the left direction to land on
. The least amount of
’s added to
to make a multiple of
is
as
. So now, we have solved the problem as we just go
hops right, and just do 4 more hops left. Yielding
as our answer.
~apex304, SohumUttamchandani, wuwang2002, TaeKim, Cxrupptedpat
Solution 2
Notice that , and jumping to the left increases the value of Greta's position
by
. Therefore, the number of jumps to the left must be
. As the number of jumps to the left increases, so does the number of jumps to the right, so therefore, we must minimize both, which occurs when we jump
to the left and
to the right. The answer is
.
~mathboy100
Animated Video Solution
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Video Solution by OmegaLearn (Restrictive Counting)
Video Solution by Magic Square
https://youtu.be/-N46BeEKaCQ?t=3673
Video Solution by Interstigation
https://youtu.be/1bA7fD7Lg54?t=1723
See Also
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