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American Mathematics Competitions

MOCK EXAMINATION

AMC 10
(American Mathematics Contest 10) July 1, 2008
1. 2. 3. INSTRUCTIONS DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR PROCTOR TELLS YOU. This is a sample twenty-five question MCQ test. Each question has answer choices (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E). Only one of these is correct. There is a penalty for guessing. You will receive 6 points for a correct answer, 1.5 points for a blank answer, and 0 points for an incorrect answer. It is not to your benefit to answer all of the questions. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, rulers, and erasers. NO CALCULATORS ARE PERMITTED. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. When your proctor gives the signal, begin working on the problems. You will have 40 minutes to complete this test. When you finish your exam, please go to http://mersenne.zapto.org/amc/amc to submit your answers. Once your answers have been received, you will be given an electronic participation certificate. The statistics will be computed and you will be notified of your score.

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Once you have read the above directions, you may turn the page. You have 75 minutes to finish this examination. While you are completing this test, a timer is available online. Please refer to this timer. If you are unable to input your answers within 75 minutes, there will be no reprieve and the score that you will receive will be based only on the answers received by the server. Good luck.

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1. The AMC 10 has 25 questions. If there are an equal number of correct answers being (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E), what is the number of questions will I get correct that if I select (C) for each question? (A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

2. A rhombus is given with diagonals of which one is double the length of the other. If the length of the longer diagonal is x, what is the area of the rhombus? (A)
x2 2

(B) x2

(C) x2 4

(D)

x2 4

(E) x

3. Joe uses a ridiculous phone provider which charges an amount x cents per minute for which he talks in a month. The phone company also has a at rate for which it charges all customers regardless of how much they talk. In January, the phone company charges Joe $14.20. The following month, Joe does a lot of business conferences and talks on the phone for four times as long as he did in January. His monthly bill is $37.30. What is the xed rate that the phone company charges to the nearest cent? (A) $3.55 (B) $6.50 (C) $9.33 (D) $5.78 (E) $23.10

4. What is the maximum possible number of intersection points between two circles and two lines? (A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 15

5. In a standard cube, an ant is set at a corner. What is the maximum possible lengths an ant can walk if it cannot visit any point twice or overlap any of the lengths, if the ant must end up in the point it started at? (A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

6. In the diagram below, we have AB = 3 and right triangles ABD and ADE . The point D bisects BC . If AC = 73, what is the value of AE , in simplest radical form? Note: the diagram is not necessarily drawn to scale.

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(A)

31/2

39 (B) 73

25 73 (C) 41

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55

(E)

70

7. We have the letters and numbers A,B,C,0 in the set. What is the probability that if we randomly select three of these with replacement, we will have a string in the format of LLN, where L symbolizes a letter and N a number? 20 5 3 3 1 (B) (C) (D) (E) (A) 64 21 6 4 64 8. There are ve women and ve men at a party. Each person shakes hands with their spouse and with the other people of their gender at a party. How many handshakes are there? (A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30

9. Bob nds a weird calculator which only has two keys - [+1] and [*2]. The number 1 is on the screen. Bob wants to make this number 71. What is the minimal number of clicks required to reach the desired number? (A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

10. If the sides of a triangle are 8, 15, and 17, what is the length of the shortest altitude to the nearest tenth? (A) 6.2 (B) 6.9 (C) 7.1 (D) 7.7 (E) 8.0

11. A monster buys a camera and a case worth 1/2 of the cameras cost, an ice cream worth 1/2 of the cases value, and a cookie for 1/2 of the ice creams value, all for $105. How much did the cookie cost? (A) $7 (B) $14 (C) $56 (D) $57.25 (E) $105

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12. How many distinct solutions exist for the equation 2x3 5x2 + 4x 1 = 0? (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

13. What is the area of a polygon with vertices at: (0,0), (3,4), (6,0), (3,-4), and (0,3)? (A) 4.5 (B) 19.5 (C) 21.5 (D) 24.0 (E) 28.5

14. What is the average of all two-digit integers that satisfy the condition that the number is equal to the sum of the tens digit and the units digit and the product of the tens digit and the units digit? (A) 56 (B) 57 (C) 58 (D) 59 (E) 60

15. What is the units digit of the following sum: (1!)2 + (2!)2 + + (1337!)2 ? (A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 0

16. In the expansion of (a + b)15 , what is the last number of the coecient of the a7 b9 term? (A) 0 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 9

17. If two of the sides of a rectangular prism have measures 3 and 4, and the surface area is 48, then what is the volume? (A) 72/7 (B) 100/7 (C) 144/7 (D) 180/7 (E) 242/7

18. How many ways can 4 people sit at a round table if there are seven chairs? (A) 24 (B) 120 (C) 240 (D) 840 (E) 1200

19. The area of a kite is 24 square units. What is the area of a kite whose diagonals are three times the length of the original kite? (A) 24 (B) 72 (C) 108 (D) 216 (E) 240

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20. A cross-section of a river is a isosceles trapezoid with bases 10 and 16 and slanted sides of length 5. The water ows at mph. In a dam, the water ows through 4 identical circular holes at 16 mph. What is the radius of these holes? 15 13 (B) (C) 5 (D) 36 2 (E) (A) 20 3 4 4 21. How many ways can one cover a 3 x 8 rectangle with 12 dominoes? (A) 220 (B) 153 (C) 300 (D) 452 (E) 479

22. If a beast randomly throws a dart at a square dartboard with side length 2, what is the probability that the dart hits closer to the center of the dartboard than any corner, but within a distance of 1 from a corner? 4 1 1 2 (C) (D) (E) (A) (B) 4 4 8 23. We can dene a cool point to be a point on a coordinate plane which has integral coordinates. For example, (7,8) and (5,9) are cool points. How many cool points exist within or on the graph of the circle (x 5)2 + (y 2)2 = 100? (A) 317 (B) 420 (C) 100 (D) 25 (E) 10, 000

24. Bill has a 2 2 2, a 3 3 3, a 4 4 4, and a 5 5 5 Rubiks cube. Sticky Fingers sue comes along and steals one all with equal probability, then Pick-pocket Pearl comes and takes either the largest one or the smallest one still there, again with equal probability. Bill comes back, but he only wants to play with his 3 3 3. What is the probability that he can? (A) 1/8 (B) 1/4 (C) 3/8 (D) 1/2 (E) 5/8

25. Two friends get home at 2:30 P.M. They both go to bed 10 P.M. If both friends will go to a park twice for 15 minutes, what is the probability that they will be able to see each other at any random time between the two time intervals? Assume that the travel to and from the park takes no time. 8 27 29 3 25 (B) (C) (D) (E) (A) 225 15 225 225 17