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Algebra Difficulty 3.8 AMC 10/12 Find the answer

A charity sells 140140 benefit tickets for a total of 2001$. Some tickets sell for full price (a whole dollar amount), and the rest sells for half price. How much money is raised by the full-price tickets?
(A) \textdollar782\textbf{(A) } \textdollar 782(B) \textdollar986\textbf{(B) } \textdollar 986(C) \textdollar1158\textbf{(C) } \textdollar 1158(D) \textdollar1219\textbf{(D) } \textdollar 1219(E)  \textdollar1449\textbf{(E) }\ \textdollar 1449

Multiple choice: answer with the letter of the option you want.

Solution

Solution 1
Let's multiply ticket costs by 22, then the half price becomes an integer, and the charity sold 140140 tickets worth a total of 40024002 dollars.
Let hh be the number of half price tickets, we then have 140h140-h full price tickets. The cost of 140h140-h full price tickets is equal to the cost of 2802h280-2h half price tickets.
Hence we know that h+(2802h)=280hh+(280-2h) = 280-h half price tickets cost 40024002 dollars. Then a single full price ticket costs 4002280h\frac{4002}{280-h} dollars, and this must be an integer. Thus 280h280-h must be a divisor of 40024002. Keeping in mind that 0h1400\leq h\leq 140, we are looking for a divisor between 140140 and 280280, inclusive.
The prime factorization of 40024002 is 4002=2323294002=2\cdot 3\cdot 23\cdot 29. We can easily find out that the only divisor of 40024002 within the given range is 2329=1742\cdot 3\cdot 29 = 174.
This gives us 280h=174280-h=174, hence there were h=106h=106 half price tickets and 140h=34140-h = 34 full price tickets.
In our modified setting (with prices multiplied by 22) the price of a half price ticket is 4002174=23\frac{4002}{174} = 23. In the original setting this is the price of a full price ticket. Hence 2334=(A) 78223\cdot 34 = \boxed{\textbf{(A) }782} dollars are raised by the full price tickets.

Solution 2
Let the cost of the full price ticket be xx, the number of full-price tickets be AA, and the number of half-price tickets be BB
Let's multiply both sides of the equation that naturally follows by 2. We have
2Ax+Bx=40022Ax+Bx=4002
And we have A+B=140    B=140AA+B=140\implies B=140-A
Plugging in, we get     2Ax+(140A)(x)=4002\implies 2Ax+(140-A)(x)=4002
Simplifying, we get Ax+140x=4002Ax+140x=4002
Factoring out the xx, we get x(A+140)=4002    x=4002A+140x(A+140)=4002\implies x=\frac{4002}{A+140}
We see that the fraction has to simplify to an integer (the full price is a whole dollar amount)
Thus, A+140A+140 must be a factor of 4002.
Consider the prime factorization of 40024002: 2×3×23×292\times3\times23\times29
AA must be a positive integer. So, we seek a factor of 40024002 to set equal to A+140A+140 so that we get an integer solution for AA that is less than 140140. By guess-and-check OR inspection, the appropriate factor is 174174 (2×3×292\times3\times29), meaning that AA has a value of 3434. Plug this into the above equation for xx to get x=23x = 23.
Therefore, the price of full tickets out of 20012001 is 23×34=(A) 78223\times34=\boxed{\textbf{(A) }782}.
--Edits by Joseph2718 (Reason: Ease of understanding)

Solution 3
Let ff equal the number of full-price tickets, and let hh equal the number of half-price tickets. Additionally, suppose that the price of ff is pp. We are trying to solve for fpf \cdot p.
Since the total number of tickets sold is 140140, we know that f+h=140.f+h=140. The sales from full-price tickets (fpf \cdot p) plus the sales from half-price tickets (hp2\Big(\frac{h \cdot p}{2}, because each hall-price ticket costs p2\frac{p}{2} dollars)\Big) equals 2001.2001. Then we can write fx+hx2=2001.fx + \frac{hx}{2}=2001.
Substituting h=140fh=140-f into the second equation, we get fp+(140f)p2=fp+140pfp2=fp+140p2=2001.f \cdot p +\frac{(140-f)p}{2}=f \cdot p+\frac{140p-f\cdot p}{2}=\frac{f\cdot p+140p}{2}=2001.
Multiplying by 22 and subtracting 140p140p gives us fp=4002140p.f\cdot p=4002-140p.
Since the problem states that xx is a whole number, 140p140p will be some integer multiple of 140140 that ends in a 00. Thus, 4002140p4002-140p will end in a 22. Looking at the answer choices, only (A) 782\boxed{\textbf{(A) }782} satisfies that condition.

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