2024 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 16
- The following problem is from both the 2024 AMC 10B #22 and 2024 AMC 12B #16, so both problems redirect to this page.
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[hide]Problem 16
A group of people will be partitioned into indistinguishable -person committees. Each committee will have one chairperson and one secretary. The number of different ways to make these assignments can be written as , where and are positive integers and is not divisible by . What is ?
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Solution
There are ways to choose the first committee, ways to choose the second, for the third, and for the fourth. Since the committees are indistinguishable, we need to divide the product by . Thus the people can be grouped in ways.
In each committee, there are ways to choose the chairperson and secretary, so ways for all committees. Therefore, there are total possibilities.
Since contains factors of , contains , and contains , .
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See also
2024 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by Problem 21 |
Followed by Problem 23 | |
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2024 AMC 12B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
Preceded by Problem 15 |
Followed by Problem 17 |
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All AMC 12 Problems and Solutions |
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