2015 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 15

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The town of Hamlet has $3$ people for each horse, $4$ sheep for each cow, and $3$ ducks for each person. Which of the following could not possibly be the total number of people, horses, sheep, cows, and ducks in Hamlet?

$\textbf{(A) }41\qquad\textbf{(B) }47\qquad\textbf{(C) }59\qquad\textbf{(D) }61\qquad\textbf{(E) }66$

Solution

Let the amount of people be $p$ , horses be $h$ , sheep be $s$ , cows be $c$ , and ducks be $d$ . We know $3h=p$ $4c=s$ $3p=d$ Then the total amount of people, horses, sheep, cows, and ducks may be written as $3h+h+4c+c+9h=13h+5c$ . Looking through the options, we see $47$ is impossible to make for integer values of $h$ and $c$ . So the answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(B)} 47}$ .

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