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AIME 2008a Problem 12

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On a long straight stretch of one-way single-lane highway, cars all travel at the same speed and all obey the safety rule: the distance from the back of the car ahead to the front of the car behind is exactly one car length for each 15 kilometers per hour of speed or fraction thereof (Thus the front of a car traveling 52 kilometers per hour will be four car lengths behind the back of the car in front of it.) A photoelectric eye by the side of the road counts the number of cars that pass in one hour. Assuming that each car is 4 meters long and that the cars can travel at any speed, let MM be the maximum whole number of cars that can pass the photoelectric eye in one hour. Find the quotient when MM is divided by 1010.

Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.

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