2006 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 22
Problem
Elmo makes sandwiches for a fundraiser. For each sandwich he uses
globs of peanut butter at
¢ per glob and
blobs of jam at
¢ per blob. The cost of the peanut butter and jam to make all the sandwiches is $.53$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg). Assume that
,
, and
are positive integers with
. What is the cost of the jam Elmo uses to make the sandwiches?
$\mathrm{(A) \ } .05\qquad \mathrm{(B) \ } .25\qquad \mathrm{(C) \ } .45\qquad \mathrm{(D) \ } .65\qquad \mathrm{(E) \ } .85$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Solution
The peanut butter and jam for each sandwich costs ¢, so the peanut butter and jam for
sandwiches costs
¢.
Setting this equal to ¢:
The only possible positive integer pairs whose product is
are:
The first pair violates and the third and fourth pair have no positive integer solutions for
and
.
So, and
The only integer solutions for and
are
and
Therefore the cost of the jam Elmo uses to make the sandwiches is ¢
See Also
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