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2007 AMC 10A Solutions 183

10. A NSWER (E) Let N represent the number of children in the family and T
represent the sum of the ages of all the family members. The average age
of the members of the family is 20, and the average age of the members
when the 48-year-old father is not included is 16, so

T T
48
20 D and 16 D :
N C2 N C1
This implies that

20N C 40 D T and 16N C 16 D T
48;

so

20N C 40 D 16N C 64:

Hence 4N D 24 and N D 6.

11. A NSWER (C) Each vertex appears on exactly three faces, so the sum of
the numbers on all the faces is
89
3.1 C 2 C    C 8/ D 3  D 108:
2
There are six faces for the cube, so the common sum must be 108=6 D 18:
A possible numbering is shown in the figure.

7 2

1 8
4
5

6 3

12. A NSWER (D) The first guide can take any combination of tourists ex-
cept all the tourists or none of the tourists. Therefore the number of possi-
bilities is
! ! ! ! !
6 6 6 6 6
C C C C D 6 C 15 C 20 C 15 C 6 D 62:
1 2 3 4 5

OR

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