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考题15-16 2015 AMC 10A

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Problem 15

Consider the set of all fractions $\frac{x}{y}$ , where $x$ and $y$ are relatively prime positive integers. How many of these fractions have the property that if both numerator and denominator are increased by $1$ , the value of the fraction is increased by $10\%$ ?

$考题15-26 2015 AMC 10A$

Solution 1

You can create the equation $\frac{x+1}{y+1}=\frac{11x}{10y}$

Cross multiplying and combining like terms gives $xy + 11x - 10y = 0$ .

This can be factored into $(x - 10)(y + 11) = -110$ .

$x$ and $y$ must be positive, so $x > 0$ and $y > 0$ , so $x - 10> -10$ and $y + 11 > 11$ .

This leaves the factor pairs: $(-1, 110),$ $(-2, 55),$ and $(-5, 22).$

But we can't stop here because $x$ and $y$ must be relatively prime.

$(-1, 110)$ gives $x = 9$ and $y = 99$ . $9$ and $99$ are not relatively prime, so this doesn't work.

$(-2, 55)$ gives $x = 8$ and $y = 44$ . This doesn't work.

$(-5, 22)$ gives $x = 5$ and $y = 11$ . This does work.

We found one valid solution so the answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(B) }1}$ .

Solution 2

The condition required is $考题15-26 2015 AMC 10A$ .

Observe that $x+1 > \frac{11}{10}\cdot x$ so $x$ is at most $9.$

By multiplying by $\frac{y+1}{x}$ and simplifying we can rewrite the condition as $y=\frac{11x}{10-x}$ . Since $x$ and $y$ are integer, this only has solutions for $x\in\{5,8,9\}$ . However, only the first yields a $y$ that is relative prime to $x$ .

There is only one valid solution so the answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(B) }1}$

Problem 16

If $y+4 = (x-2)^2, x+4 = (y-2)^2$ , and $x \neq y$ , what is the value of $x^2+y^2$ ?

$考题15-26 2015 AMC 10A$

Solution 1

Note that we can add the two equations to yield the equation

$x^2 + y^2 - 4x - 4y + 8 = x + y + 8.$

Moving terms gives the equation

$x^2+y^2=5 \left( x + y \right).$

We can also subtract the two equations to yield the equation

$x^2 - y^2 - 4x +4y = y - x.$

Moving terms gives the equation

$x^2 - y^2 = 3x - 3y.$

Because $x \neq y,$ we can divide both sides of the equation by $x - y$ to yield the equation

$x + y = 3.$

Substituting this into the equation for $x^2 + y^2$ that we derived earlier gives

$考题15-26 2015 AMC 10A$

Solution 2 (Algebraic)

Subtract $4$ from the left hand side of both equations, and use difference of squares to yield the equations

$x = y(y-4)$ and $y = x(x-4)$ .

It may save some time to find two solutions, $(0, 0)$ and $(5, 5)$ , at this point. However, $x = y$ in these solutions.

Substitute $y = x(x-4)$ into $考题15-26 2015 AMC 10A$ .

This gives the equation

$x = x(x-4)(x^2-4x-4)$

which can be simplified to

$x(x^3 - 8x^2 +12x + 15) = 0$ .

Knowing $x = 0$ and $x = 5$ are solutions is now helpful, as you divide both sides by $x(x-5)$ . This can also be done using polynomial division to find $x = 5$ as a factor. This gives

$x^2 - 3x -3 = 0$ .

Because the two equations $x = y(y-4)$ and $y = x(x-4)$ are symmetric, the $x$ and $y$ values are the roots of the equation, which are $x = \frac{3 + \sqrt{21}}{2}$ and $x = \frac{3 - \sqrt{21}}{2}$ .

Squaring these and adding them together gives

$\frac{3^2 + 21 + 6\sqrt{21}}{4} + \frac{3^2 + 21 - 6\sqrt{21}}{4} = \frac{2(3^2 +21)}{4} = \boxed{\textbf{(B) } 15}$ .

Solution 3

By graphing the two equations on a piece of graph paper, we can see that the point where they intersect that is not on the line $y=x$ is close to the point $(4,-1)$ (or $(-1, 4)$ ). $(-1)^2+4^2=17$ , and the closest answer choice to $17$ is $\boxed{\textbf{(B) } 15}$ .