2022 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 2
Problem
Consider these two operations:
What is the value of 
Solution
We have
\begin{align*}
(5 \, \blacklozenge \, 3) \, \bigstar \, 6 &= \left(5^2-3^2) \, \bigstar \, 6 \\
&= 16 \, \bigstar \, 6 \\
&= (16-6)^2 \\
&= \boxed{\textbf{(D) } 100}.
\end{align*} (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
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See Also
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