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CEMC Gauss (Grade 8), 2025

Combinatorics Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer Canada

In the diagram, how many of the $24$ circles are shaded?

Pick one

Solution

In each row, exactly $3$ of
the $6$ or one-half of the circles
are shaded. Thus, one-half of the $24$ , that is, $12$ circles are shaded. Alternately, we
could just count the $12$ shaded
circles.

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