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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 <math>2003</math>?
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<math>\textbf{(A) } 4 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 5 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 6 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 7 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 8</math>
 
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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 $2003$?

$\textbf{(A) } 4 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 5 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 6 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 7 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 8$

Solution

Let $m$ be the number main courses the restaurant serves, so $2m$ is the number of appetizers. Then the number of dinner combinations is $2m\times m\times3=6m^2$. Since the customer wants to eat a different dinner in all $365$ days of $2003$, we must have

\begin{align*} 6m^2 &\geq 365\\ m^2 &\geq 60.83\ldots.\end{align*}

The smallest integer value that satisfies this is $\boxed{\textbf{(E)}\ 8}$.

See Also

2003 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources)
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Problem 15 		Followed by
Problem 17
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