2020 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 22
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For how many positive integers is
not divisible by
? (Recall that
is the greatest integer less than or equal to
.)
Solution (Casework)
Expression:
Solution:
Let
Notice that for every integer ,
if
is an integer, then the three terms in the expression above must be
,
if
is an integer, then the three terms in the expression above must be
, and
if
is an integer, then the three terms in the expression above must be
.
This is due to the fact that ,
, and
share no common factors collectively (other than 1).
Note that doesn't work; to prove this, we just have to substitute
for
in the expression.
This gives us
$$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)\left\lfloor \dfrac{998}{1} \right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \dfrac{999}{1} \right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \dfrac{1000}{1}\right \rfloor
which is divisible by 3.
Therefore, the case
does not work.
Now, we test the three cases mentioned above.
Case 1: divides
The first case does not work, as the three terms in the expression must be , as mentioned above, so the sum becomes
, which is divisible by
.
Case 2: divides
Because divides
, the number of possibilities for
is the same as the number of factors of
, excluding
.
=
So, the total number of factors of
is
.
However, we have to subtract , because the case
doesn't work, as mentioned previously.
We now do the same for the third and last case.
Case 3: divides
Because divides
, the number of possibilities for
is the same as the number of factors of
, excluding
.
=
So, the total number of factors of
is
.
Again, we have to subtract , for the reason stated in Case 2.
Now that we have counted all of the cases, we add them.
, so the answer is
.
~dragonchomper
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