2016 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 14
Problem
How many ways are there to write as the sum of twos and threes, ignoring order? (For example,
and
are two such ways.)
Solution 1
The amount of twos in our sum ranges from to
, with differences of
because
.
The possible amount of twos is .
Solution 2
You can also see that you can rewrite the word problem into an equation +
=
. Therefore the question is just how many multiples of
subtracted from 2016 will be an even number. We can see that
,
all the way to
, and
works, with
being incremented by
's.Therefore, between
and
, the number of multiples of
is
.
Solution 3
We can utilize the stars-and-bars distribution technique to solve this problem.
We have 2 "buckets" in which we will distribute parts of our total sum, 2016. By doing this, we know we will have <math\binom{2016-1}{2-1}</math> "total" answers. We want every third x and second y, so we divide our previous total by 6, which will result in . We have to round down to the nearest integer, and we have to add 2 because we did not consider the 2 solutions involving x or y being 0.
So,
.
Video Solution
https://youtu.be/dHY8gjoYFXU?t=1058
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