2014 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 1
Contents
Problem
Harry and Terry are each told to calculate . Harry gets the correct answer. Terry ignores the parentheses and calculates
. If Harry's answer is
and Terry's answer is
, what is
?
Solution
We have and
. Clearly
, so our answer is
.
Video Solution
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