2025 AMC 8 Problem 16

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Concepts:bijectionpairing and grouping

Difficulty rating: 1650

16.

Five distinct integers from 11 to 1010 are chosen, and five distinct integers from 1111 to 2020 are chosen. No two numbers differ by exactly 10.10. What is the sum of the ten chosen numbers?

9595

100100

105105

110110

115115

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Call the integers from 11 to 1010 inclusive the lower range, and call the integers from 1111 to 2020 inclusive the higher range.

Each of the 55 distinct numbers chosen from the lower range blocks out the number in the higher range that is exactly 1010 more than itself. There are only 1010 numbers in the higher range, so there are only 105=510 - 5 = 5 numbers not yet blocked.

We need to choose 55 distinct numbers from the higher range, so the numbers chosen from the higher range are precisely those which are not yet blocked. They are each exactly 1010 more than a not-chosen number in the lower range.

So, the sum of the 55 distinct numbers chosen from the higher range is exactly 5×10=505 \times 10 = 50 more than the sum of the 55 not-chosen numbers in the lower range.

The sum of all 1010 chosen numbers is therefore equal to 5050 plus the sum of all chosen and not-chosen numbers in the lower range 1+2++10.1 + 2 + \dots + 10.

The sum of the numbers from 11 to 1010 is 10(10+1)2=55,\frac{10 (10+1)}{2} = 55, so the answer is 50+55=105,50 + 55 = 105, or choice C.

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