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
We have 
directions going 
right or 
left. We can assign a variable to each of these directions. We can call going right 1 direction X and we can call going 1 left Y. 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 → direction then subtract off in the ← 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, lpieleanu
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
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