Problem

2024 AMC 12A Problem 16

A set of 12 tokens ---- 3 red, 2 white, 1 blue, and 6 black ---- is to be distributed at random to 3 game players, 4 tokens per player. The probability that some player gets all the red tokens, another gets all the white tokens, and the remaining player gets the blue token can be written as \frac{m}{n}, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m+n?

\textbf{(A) }387 \qquad \textbf{(B) }388 \qquad \textbf{(C) }389 \qquad \textbf{(D) }390 \qquad \textbf{(E) }391 \qquad


Full credit goes to MAA for authoring these problems. These problems were taken on the AOPS website.


Show/Hide Problem Tags

Problem Tags: No tags

Want to contribute problems and receive full credit? Click here to add your problem!
Please report any issues to us in our Discord server
Go to previous contest problem (SHIFT + Left Arrow) Go to next contest problem (SHIFT + Right Arrow)