2017 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 17
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Problem
Starting with some gold coins and some empty treasure chests, I tried to put 9 gold coins in each treasure chest, but that left 2 treasure chests empty. So instead I put 6 gold coins in each treasure chest, but then I had 3 gold coins left over. How many gold coins did I have?
Solution
We can represent the amount of gold with 
and the amount of chests with 
. We can use the problem to make the following equations:
![\[9c-18 = g\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/2/2/5/225c8355639347fb2649ec641ef2715c6d7064c7.png)
![\[6c+3 = g\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/e/e/4/ee449126e0ac01646778ea0d6f12fbdce6e711d7.png)
We do this because for 9 chests there are 2 empty and if 9 were in each 9 multiplied by 2 is 18 left.
Therefore, 
This implies that 
We therefore have 
So, our answer is 
.
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| 2017 AMC 8 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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