2018 AIME I Problems/Problem 12

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Rewrite the set after mod3 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 All 0s can be omitted Case 1 No 1 No 2 1 Case 2 222 20 Case 3 222222 1 Case 4 12 6*6=36 Case 5 12222 6*15=90 Case 6 1122 15*15=225 Case 7 1122222 15*6=90 Case 8 111 20 Case 9 111222 20*20=400 Case 10 111222222 20 Case 11 11112 15*6=90 Case 12 11112222 15*15=225 Case 13 1111122 6*15=90 Case 14 1111122222 6*6=36 Case 15 111111 1 Case 16 111111222 20 Case 17 111111222222 1 Total 1+20+1+36+90+225+90+20+400+20+90+225+90+36+1+20+1=484+360+450+72=1366 P=1362/2^12=683/2^11 ANS=683


Solution 2: Consider the numbers {1,4,7,10,13,16}. Each of those are congruent to 1mod3. There is ${6 \choose 0}=1$ way to choose zero numbers ${6 \choose 1}=6$ ways to choose 1 and so on. There ends up being ${6 \choose 0}+{6 \choose 3}+{6 \choose 6}$ possible subsets congruent to 0mod 3. There are $2^6=64$ possible subsets of these numbers.