Question

Can anyone help with this question?

Your backpack contains 2010 chocolate bars, which you are going to divide between your best friend and yourself. You think you are a nice person, so you will give your best friend more than zero chocolate bars. However, you have been craving chocolate recently, and so you must have at least twice as many chocolate bars as your friend after you finish dividing them. What is the difference between the maximum and minimum number of chocolate bars you can have?

Answer 1

let's say you have exactly twice as many bars as he. So you have 1340 and he has 670

So, as long as you have at least 1340, but fewer than 2009 bars, he has some, and you have at least twice as many.

Answer 2

Sorry, but it's wrong...

Answer 3

669

Answer 4

it is 670

Answer 5

it is actually 669

Answer 6

The answer is my name

Answer 7

I bet you got it from AoPS

Answer 8

i did

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Since your friend receives at least $1$ chocolate bar, the maximum number of chocolate bars you can get is $2010 - 1 = 2009$. If you receive $n$ chocolate bars, then your friend gets $2010-n$ chocolate bars. Since you must have at least twice as many chocolate bars as your friend, we have the inequality\begin{align*}
n &\ge 2(2010-n) \\
\Rightarrow\qquad n &\ge 4020-2n \\
\Rightarrow\qquad 3n &\ge 4020 \\
\Rightarrow\qquad n &\ge 1340.
\end{align*}Therefore, you must keep a minimum of $1340$ chocolate bars. Therefore, the difference between the maximum and minimum number of chocolate bars you can have is $2009 - 1340 = \boxed{669}$.

Answer 11

I got this from AoPs and thats why i searched it up