2019 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 7
- The following problem is from both the 2019 AMC 10B #7 and 2019 AMC 12B #5, so both problems redirect to this page.
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Each piece of candy in a store costs a whole number of cents. Casper has exactly enough money to buy either pieces of red candy, pieces of green candy, pieces of blue candy, or pieces of purple candy. A piece of purple candy costs cents. What is the smallest possible value of ?
Solution 1
If he has enough money to buy pieces of red candy, pieces of green candy, and pieces of blue candy, then the smallest amount of money he could have is cents. Since a piece of purple candy costs cents, the smallest possible value of is .
~IronicNinja
Solution 2
We simply need to find a value of that is divisible by , , and . Observe that is divisible by and , but not . is divisible by , , and , meaning that we have exact change (in this case, cents) to buy each type of candy, so the minimum value of is .
Solution 3
We can notice that the number of purple candy times 20 has to be divisible by 7, because of the 14 green candies, and three, because of the 12 red candies. 7*3=21.
See Also
2019 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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Preceded by Problem 4 |
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