SOLUTION: In a high school year book, there is a picture of each pair of students in the graduating class, and a picture of each student in the graduating class. There are a total of 1275 pi
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Question 397320: In a high school year book, there is a picture of each pair of students in the graduating class, and a picture of each student in the graduating class. There are a total of 1275 pictures. What is the sum of the digits of the number of students in the graduating class?
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5 Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the number of students. Then the number of pairs of students is the number of combinations of things taken 2 at a time, or . And there are 1275 pictures so:
Multiply by 2, distribute, collect terms, and move the constant into the LHS:
Solve for the positive root and then add the digits of the number of students.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
