2013 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 6

The following problem is from both the 2013 AMC 12B #6 and 2013 AMC 10B #11, so both problems redirect to this page.

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Real numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfy the equation $x^2 + y^2 = 10x - 6y - 34$ . What is $x + y$ ?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 6 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 8$

If we move every term dependent on $x$ or $y$ to the LHS, we get $x^2 - 10x + y^2 + 6y = -34$ . Adding $34$ to both sides, we have $x^2 - 10x + y^2 + 6y + 34 = 0$ . Notice this is a circle with radius $0$ , which only contains one point. We can split the $34$ into $25$ and $9$ to get $(x - 5)^2 + (y + 3)^2 = 0$ . So, the only point is $(5, -3)$ , so the sum is $5 + (-3) = 2 \implies \boxed{\textbf{(B)}}$

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2013 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 6

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