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Problem
A restaurant offers three deserts, and exactly twice as many appetizers as main courses. A dinner consists of an appetizer, a main course, and a dessert. What is the least number of main courses that a restaurant should offer so that a customer could have a different dinner each night in the year 
?
Solution
Let 
be the number main courses the restaurant serves, and 
be the number of appetizers. Then the number of combinations a diner can have is $2m\timesm\times3=6m^2.$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) Since the customer wants to eat a different dinner in all 
days of 
The smallest integer value that satisfies this is 
.
See Also
| 2003 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 15 |
Followed by Problem 17 | |
| 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 | ||
| All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions | ||
