1990 AJHSME Problems/Problem 10

Problem

On this monthly calendar, the date behind one of the letters is added to the date behind $\text{C}$ . If this sum equals the sum of the dates behind $\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$ , then the letter is

$[asy] unitsize(12); draw((1,1)--(23,1)); draw((0,5)--(23,5)); draw((0,9)--(23,9)); draw((0,13)--(23,13)); for(int a=0; a<6; ++a) { draw((4a+2,0)--(4a+2,14)); } label("Tues.",(4,14),N); label("Wed.",(8,14),N); label("Thurs.",(12,14),N); label("Fri.",(16,14),N); label("Sat.",(20,14),N); label("C",(12,10.3),N); label("$\textbf{A}$",(16,10.3),N); label("Q",(12,6.3),N); label("S",(4,2.3),N); label("$\textbf{B}$",(8,2.3),N); label("P",(12,2.3),N); label("T",(16,2.3),N); label("R",(20,2.3),N); [/asy]$

$\text{(A)}\ \text{P} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \text{Q} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \text{R} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \text{S} \qquad \text{(E)}\ \text{T}$

Solution

Looking at the positions of the letters, we see that if the date behind $\text{Q}$ is $q$ , then the date behind $\textbf{A}$ is $q-6$ and the date behind $\textbf{B}$ is $q+6$ . Thus, their sum is $2q$ .

The date behind $\text{C}$ is $q-7$ , so the desired letter is the one for which the date behind it is $2q-(q-7)=q+7$ . This is letter $\text{P}\rightarrow \boxed{\text{A}}$ .

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