2024 AMC 10A Problem 9

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Concepts:combinationsmultiplication principle

Difficulty rating: 1350

9.

In how many ways can 66 juniors and 66 seniors form 33 disjoint teams of 44 people so that each team has 22 juniors and 22 seniors?

720720

13501350

27002700

32803280

81008100

Solution:

Split the 66 juniors into three unordered pairs. There are 6!2!33!=15\frac{6!}{2!^3 3!} = 15 ways, and the same 1515 for the seniors. Each team is one junior-pair paired with one senior-pair, so we match the three junior-pairs to the three senior-pairs in 3!=63! = 6 ways. That's 15156=135015 \cdot 15 \cdot 6 = 1350 sets of teams. Thus, B is the correct answer.

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