2023 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 24

Problem

Let $K$ be the number of sequences $A_1$ , $A_2$ , $\dots$ , $A_n$ such that $n$ is a positive integer less than or equal to $10$ , each $A_i$ is a subset of $\{1, 2, 3, \dots, 10\}$ , and $A_{i-1}$ is a subset of $A_i$ for each $i$ between $2$ and $n$ , inclusive. For example, $\{\}$ , $\{5, 7\}$ , $\{2, 5, 7\}$ , $\{2, 5, 7\}$ , $\{2, 5, 6, 7, 9\}$ is one such sequence, with $n = 5$ .What is the remainder when $K$ is divided by $10$ ?

$\textbf{(A) } 1 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 5 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 7 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 9$

Solution 1

Consider any sequence with $n$ terms. Every 10 number has such choices: never appear, appear the first time in the first spot, appear the first time in the second spot… and appear the first time in the $n$ th spot, which means every number has $(n+1)$ choices to show up in the sequence. Consequently, for each sequence with length $n$ , there are $(n+1)^10$ possible ways.

Thus, the desired value is $\sum_{i=1}^{10}(i+1)^10\equiv 5\pmod{10}$

~bluesoul

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2023 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 24

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Solution 1