2012 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 14
Problem
Bernardo and Silvia play the following game. An integer between and inclusive is selected and given to Bernardo. Whenever Bernardo receives a number, he doubles it and passes the result to Silvia. Whenever Silvia receives a number, she addes to it and passes the result to Bernardo. The winner is the last person who produces a number less than . Let be the smallest initial number that results in a win for Bernardo. What is the sum of the digits of ?
Solution
Solution 1
The last number that Bernado says has to be between 950 and 999. Note that contains 4 doubling actions. Thus, we have .
Thus, . Then, . If , we have . Working backwards from 956,
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So the starting number is 16, and our answer is , which is A.
Solution 2
Work backwards. The last number Bernardo produces must be in the range . That means that before this, Silvia must produce a number in the range . Before this, Bernardo must produce a number in the range . Before this, Silvia must produce a number in the range . Before this, Bernardo must produce a number in the range . Before this, Silvia must produce a number in the range . Before this, Bernardo must produce a number in the range . Before this, Silvia must produce a number in the range . Silvia could not have added 50 to any number before this to obtain a number in the range , hence the minimum is 16 with the sum of digits being .
See Also
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