2016 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 14

Problem

How many ways are there to write $2016$ as the sum of twos and threes, ignoring order? (For example, $1008\cdot 2 + 0\cdot 3$ and $402\cdot 2 + 404\cdot 3$ are two such ways.)

$\textbf{(A)}\ 236\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 336\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 337\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 403\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 672$

Solution 1

The amount of twos in our sum ranges from $0$ to $1008$ , with differences of $3$ because $2 \cdot 3 = lcm(2, 3)$ .

The possible amount of twos is $\frac{1008 - 0}{3} + 1 \Rightarrow \boxed{\textbf{(C)} 337}$ .

Solution 2

You can also see that you can rewrite the word problem into a equation $2x$ + $3y$ = $2016$ . Therefore the question is just how many multiples of 3 subtracted from 16 will be an even number. We can see if $y = 0$ , $x = 1008$ . All the way to $x = 0$ , and $y = 672$ .Therefore, between $0$ and $672$ , the number of multiples of 2 is $\boxed{\textbf{(C)}337}$ .

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2016 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 14

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Solution 1

Solution 2