2024 AIME II Problems/Problem 6
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Alice chooses a set of positive integers. Then Bob lists all finite nonempty sets of positive integers with the property that the maximum element of belongs to . Bob's list has 2024 sets. Find the sum of the elements of A.
Solution 1
Let be one of the elements in Alices set of positive integers. The number of sets that Bob lists with the property that their maximum element is k is , since every positive integer less than k can be in the set or out. Thus, for the number of sets bob have listed to be 2024, we want to find a sum of unique powers of two that can achieve this. 2024 is equal to . We must increase each power by 1 to find the elements in set , which are . Add these up to get . -westwoodmonster
Solution 2
Let with .
If the maximum element of is for some , then each element in can be either in or not in . Therefore, the number of such sets is .
Therefore, the total number of sets is
Thus
Now, the problem becomes writing 4048 in base 2, say, . We have .
We have . Therefore, . Therefore, the sum of all elements in is .
~Steven Chen (Professor Chen Education Palace, www.professorchenedu.com)
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~Steven Chen (Professor Chen Education Palace, www.professorchenedu.com)
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