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# Arrangement of digits | AIME I, 2012 | Question 5

Try this beautiful problem from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, AIME, 2012 based on Arrangement of Digits. You may use sequential hints.

Try this beautiful problem from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, AIME, 2012 based on Arrangement of digits.

## Arrangement of digits – AIME 2012

Let B be the set of all binary integers that can be written using exactly 5 zeros and 8 ones where leading zeros are allowed. If all possible subtractions are performed in which one element of B is subtracted from another, find the number of times the answer 1 is obtained.

• is 107
• is 330
• is 840
• cannot be determined from the given information

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## Check the Answer

Answer: is 330.

AIME, 2012, Question 5

Combinatorics by Brualdi

## Try with Hints

When 1 subtracts from a number, the number of digits remain constant when the initial number has units and tens place in 10

Then for subtraction from B requires one number with unit and tens place 10.

10 there, remaining 1 distribute any of other 11 then answer ${11 \choose 7} = {330}$.