2002 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 9

The following problem is from both the 2002 AMC 12A #9 and 2002 AMC 10A #11, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

Jamal wants to save 30 files onto disks, each with 1.44 MB space. 3 of the files take up 0.8 MB, 12 of the files take up 0.7 MB, and the rest take up 0.4 MB. It is not possible to split a file onto 2 different disks. What is the smallest number of disks needed to store all 30 files?

$\text{(A)}\ 12 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 13 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 14 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 15 \qquad \text{(E)} 16$

Solution

A 0.8 MB file can either be on its own disk, or share it with a 0.4 MB. Clearly it is not worse to pick the second possibility. Thus we will have 3 disks, each with one 0.8 MB file and one 0.4 MB file.

We are left with 12 files of 0.7 MB each, and 12 files of 0.4 MB each. Their total size is $12\cdot (0.7 + 0.4) = 13.2$ MB. The total capacity of 9 disks is $9\cdot 1.44 = 12.96$ MB, hence we need at least 10 more disks. And we can easily verify that 10 disks are indeed enough: six of them will carry two 0.7 MB files each, and four will carry three 0.4 MB files each.

Thus our answer is $3+10 = \boxed{ \text{(B)}\ 13 }$ .

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