2001 AMC 12 Problem 7
Problem 7 of 25EasierAlgebraNumber Theory
A charity sells benefit tickets for a total of Some tickets sell for full price (a whole dollar amount), and the rest sell for half price. How much money is raised by the full-price tickets?
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Solution
Let tickets sell at full price dollars. Then so
Since we need a factor of with The only such factor is giving and
The full-price tickets raise dollars.
Thus, the correct answer is A.