2021 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 2
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Problem
Portia's high school has times as many students as Lara's high school. The two high schools have a total of
students. How many students does Portia's high school have?
Solution 1 (Two Variables)
The following system of equations can be formed with representing the number of students in Portia's high school and
representing the number of students in Lara's high school:
Substituting
gives
Solving for
gives
Since we need to find
we multiply
by
to get
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Solution 2 (One Variable)
Suppose Lara's high school has students, so Portia's high school has
students. We have
or
The answer is
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Solution 3 (Arithmetic)
Clearly, is
times the number of students in Lara's high school. Therefore, Lara's high school has
students, and Portia's high school has
students.
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Solution 4 (Observations)
The number of students in Portia's high school must be a multiple of This eliminates
and
Since
is too small (as it is clear that
), we are left with
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Video Solutions
Video Solution 1 (Very Fast & Simple)
~ Education, the Study of Everything
Video Solution 2 (Setting Variables)
https://youtu.be/qNf6SiIpIsk?t=119
~ThePuzzlr
Video Solution 3 (Solving by Equation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOpgeMfvUpE&list=PLexHyfQ8DMuKqltG3cHT7Di4jhVl6L4YJ&index=1
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Video Solution 4 by OmegaLearn
- pi_is_3.14
Video Solution 5
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Video Solution 6
https://youtu.be/50CThrk3RcM?t=66
~IceMatrix
Video Solution 7 (Problems 1-3)
~MathWithPi
Video Solution 8
~The Learning Royal
See Also
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