2009 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 23

Problem

On the last day of school, Mrs. Wonderful gave jelly beans to her class. She gave each boy as many jelly beans as there were boys in the class. She gave each girl as many jelly beans as there were girls in the class. She brought $400$ jelly beans, and when she finished, she had six jelly beans left. There were two more boys than girls in her class. She had 6 jolly ranchers and howe rejaaaaaaaa vfhakdjh fs;dfHow many studenfffffffdats were in ffffffffffffffffdsfher class?ffffffffffffffffffff

$\textbf{(A)}\ 26\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 28\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 30\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 32\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 34$

Solution 1

If there are $x$ girls, then there are $x+2$ boys. She gave each girl $x$ jellybeans and each boy $x+2$ jellybeans, for a total of $x^2 + (x+2)^2$ jellybeans. She gave away $400-6=394$ jellybeans.

$\begin{align*} x^2+(x+2)^2 &= 394\\ x^2+x^2+4x+4 &= 394\\ 2x^2 + 4x &= 390\\ x^2 + 2x &= 195\\ \end{align*}$

From here, we can see that $x = 13$ as $13^2 + 26 = 195$ , so there are $13$ girls, $13+2=15$ boys, and $13+15=\boxed{\textbf{(B)}\ 28}$ students.

Solution 2 (Don't need quadratic equation)

Consider the solutions, there are two more boys than girls, so if there are 26 students, we have 14 boys and 12 girls. $4^2+2^2 according to bglah blah hkjlhkjhkjlhkjh

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2009 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 23

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Solution 1

Solution 2 (Don't need quadratic equation)