2009 AMC 12B Problem 22
Problem 22 of 25HarderGeometryNumber TheoryCounting & Probability
Parallelogram has area Vertex is at and all other vertices are in the first quadrant. Vertices and are lattice points on the lines and for some integer respectively. How many such parallelograms are there?
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Solution
Let and with positive integers and The area is
Each parallelogram corresponds to an ordered triple of positive integers with product The six ’s distribute among the three factors in ways, and likewise the six ’s in ways, giving
Thus, the correct answer is C.