2001 AMC 12 Problems/Problem 7
- The following problem is from both the 2001 AMC 12 #7 and 2001 AMC 10A #14, so both problems redirect to this page.
Problem
A charity sells 
benefit tickets for a total of $$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)2001
\text{(A) }
782\qquad \text{(B) }986\qquad \text{(C) }1158\qquad \text{(D) }1219\qquad \text{(E) }1449$
Solution
Let's multiply ticket costs by 
, then the half price becomes an integer, and the charity sold tickets worth a total of 
dollars.
Let 
be the number of half price tickets, we then have 
full price tickets. The cost of full price tickets is equal to the cost of 
half price tickets.
Hence we know that 
half price tickets cost dollars. Then a single half price ticket costs 
dollars, and this must be an integer. Thus 
must be a divisor of . Keeping in mind that 
, we are looking for a divisor between and 
, inclusive.
The prime factorization of is 
. We can easily find out that the only divisor of within the given range is 
.
This gives us 
, hence there were 
half price tickets and 
full price tickets.
In our modified setting (with prices multiplied by ) the price of a half price ticket is 
. In the original setting this is the price of a full price ticket. Hence 
dollars are raised by the full price tickets.
See Also
| 2001 AMC 12 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
| Preceded by Problem 6 |
Followed by Problem 8 |
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| All AMC 12 Problems and Solutions | |
| 2001 AMC 10 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 13 |
Followed by Problem 15 | |
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| All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions | ||
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