Amc 10 A 2017
Amc 10 A 2017
Amc 10 A 2017
AMC 10 2017
2 Pablo buys popsicles for his friends. The store sells single popsicles for $1
each, 3-popsicle boxes for $2, and 5-popsicle boxes for $3. What is the greatest
number of popsicles that Pablo can buy with $8?
(A) 8 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 15
3 Tamara has three rows of two 6-feet by 2-feet flower beds in her garden. The
beds are separated and also surrounded by 1-foot-wide walkways, as shown on
the diagram. What is the total area of the walkways, in square feet?
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4 Mia is helping her mom pick up 30 toys that are strewn on the floor. Mias
mom manages to put 3 toys into the toy box every 30 seconds, but each time
immediately after those 30 seconds have elapsed, Mia takes 2 toys out of the
box. How much time, in minutes, will it take Mia and her mom to put all 30
toys into the box for the first time?
(A) 13.5 (B) 14 (C) 14.5 (D) 15 (E) 15.5
5 The sum of two nonzero real numbers is 4 times their product. What is the
sum of the reciprocals of the two numbers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 12
6 Ms. Carroll promised that anyone who got all the multiple choice questions
right on the upcoming exam would receive an A on the exam. Which of these
statements necessarily follows logically?
(A) If Lewis did not receive an A, then he got all of the multiple choice
(B) If Lewis did not receive an A, then he got at least one of the multiple choice
questions wrong.
(C) If Lewis got at least one of the multiple choice questions wrong, then he
did not receive an A.
(D) If Lewis received an A, then he got all of the multiple choice questions
right.
(E) If Lewis received an A, then he got at least one of the multiple choice
questions right.
7 Jerry and Silvia wanted to go from the southwest corner of a square field to
the northeast corner. Jerry walked due east and then due north to reach the
goal, but Silvia headed northeast and reached the goal walking in a straight
line. Which of the following is closest to how much shorter Silvias trip was,
compared to Jerrys trip?
(A) 30% (B) 40% (C) 50% (D) 60% (E) 70%
8 At a gathering of 30 people, there are 20 people who all know each other and
10 people who know no one. People who know each other hug, and people who
do not know each other shake hands. How many handshakes occur?
(A) 240 (B) 245 (C) 290 (D) 480 (E) 490
9 Minnie rides on a flat road at 20 kilometers per hour (kph), downhill at 30 kph,
and uphill at 5 kph. Penny rides on a flat road at 30 kph, downhill at 40 kph,
and uphill at 10 kph. Minnie goes from town A to town B, a distance of 10 km
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all uphill, then from town B, a distance of 15 km all downhill, and then back
to town A, a distance of 20 km on the flat. Penny goes the other way around
using the same route. How many more minutes does it take Minnie to complete
the 45-km ride than it takes Penny?
(A) 45 (B) 60 (C) 65 (D) 90 (E) 95
10 Joy has 30 thin rods, one each of every integer length from 1 cm through 30
cm. She places the rods with lengths 3 cm, 7 cm, and 15 cm on a table. She
then wants to choose a fourth rod that she can put with these three to form
a quadrilateral with positive area. How many of the remaining rods can she
choose as the fourth rod?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20
12 Let S be the set of points (x, y) in the coordinate plane such that two of
the three quantities 3, x + 2, and y 4 are equal and the third of the three
quantities is no greater than this common value. Which of the following is a
correct description of S?
(A) a single point (B) two intersecting lines
(C) three lines whose pairwise intersections are three distinct points
14 Every week Roger pays for a movie ticket and a soda out of his allowance. Last
week, Rogers allowance was A dollars. The cost of his movie ticket was 20% of
the difference between A and the cost of his soda, while the cost of his soda was
5% of the difference between A and the cost of his movie ticket. To the nearest
whole percent, what fraction of A did Roger pay for his movie ticket and soda?
(A) 9% (B) 19% (C) 22% (D) 23% (E) 25%
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15 Chlo chooses a real number uniformly at random from the interval [0, 2017].
Independently, Laurent chooses a real number uniformly at random from the
interval [0, 4034]. What is the probability that Laurents number is greater than
Chlos number?
1 2 3 5 7
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8
16 There are 10 horses, named Horse 1, Horse 2, . . ., Horse 10. They get their
names from ow many minutes it takes them to run one lap around a circular
race track: Horse k runs one lap in exactly k minutes. At time 0 all the horses
are together at the starting point on the track. The horses start running in
the same direction, and they keep running around the circular track at their
constant speeds. The least time S > 0, in minutes, at which all 10 horses will
again simultaneously be at the starting point is S = 2520. Let T > 0 be the
least time, in minutes, such that at least 5 of the horses are again at the starting
point. What is the sum of the digits of T ?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
18 Amelia has a coin that lands heads with probability 13 , and Blaine has a coin
that lands on heads with probability 25 . Amelia and Blaine alternately toss
their coins until someone gets a head; the first one to get a head wins. All coin
tosses are independent. Amelia goes first. The probability that Amelia wins is
p
q , where p and q are relatively prime positive integers. What is q p?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
19 Alice refuses to sit next to either Bob or Carla. Derek refuses to sit next to
Eric. How many ways are there for the five of them to sit in a row of 5 chairs
under these conditions?
(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 28 (D) 32 (E) 40
20 Let S(n) equal the sum of the digits of positive integer n. For example,
S(1507) = 13. For a particular positive integer n, S(n) = 1274. Which of
the following could be the value of S(n + 1)?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 12 (D) 1239 (E) 1265
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21 A square with side length x is inscribed in a right triangle with sides of length
3, 4, and 5 so that one vertex of the square coincides with the right-angle vertex
of the triangle. A square with side length y is inscribed so that one side of the
square lies on the hypotenuse of the triangle. What is xy ?
12 35 37 13
(A) 13 (B) 37 (C) 1 (D) 35 (E) 12
23 How many triangles with positive area have all their vertices at points (i, j) in
the coordinate plane, where i and j are integers between 1 and 5, inclusive?
(A) 2128 (B) 2148 (C) 2160 (D) 2200 (E) 2300
g(x) = x3 + ax2 + x + 10
has three distinct roots, and each root of g(x) is also a root of the polynomial
What is f (1)?
(A) 9009 (B) 8008 (C) 7007 (D) 6006 (E) 5005
25 How many integers between 100 and 999, inclusive, have the property that some
permutation of its digits is a multiple of 11 between 100 and 999? For example,
both 121 and 211 have this property.
(A) 226 (B) 243 (C) 270 (D) 469 (E) 486
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2 Sofia ran 5 laps around the 400-meter track at her school. For each lap, she
ran the first 100 meters at an average speed of 4 meters per second and the
remaining 300 meters at an average speed of 5 meters per second. How much
time did Sofia take running the 5 laps?
(A) 5 minutes and 35 seconds (B) 6 minutes and 40 seconds (C) 7 minutes
and 5 seconds (D) 7 minutes and 25 seconds (E) 8 minutes and 10 seconds
5 Camilla had twice as many blueberry jelly beans as cherry jelly beans. After
eating 10 pieces of each kind, she now has three times as many blueberry jelly
beans as cherry jelly beans. How many blueberry jelly beans did she originally
have?
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 50
6 What is the largest number of solid 2-in 2-in 1-in blocks that can fit in a
3-in 2-in 3-in box?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
7 Samia set off on her bicycle to visit her friend, traveling at an average speed
of 17 kilometers per hour. When she had gone half the distance to her friends
house, a tire went flat, and she walked the rest of the way at 5 kilometers per
hour. In all it took her 44 minutes to reach her friends house. In kilometers
rounded to the nearest tenth, how far did Samia walk?
(A) 2.0 (B) 2.2 (C) 2.8 (D) 3.4 (E) 4.4
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8 Points A(11, 9) and B(2, 3) are vertices of ABC with AB = AC. The
altitude from A meets the opposite side at D(1, 3). What are the coordinates
of point C?
(A) (8, 9) (B) (4, 8) (C) (4, 9) (D) (2, 3) (E) (1, 0)
11 At Typico High School, 60% of the students like dancing, and the rest dislike
it. Of those who like dancing, 80% say that they like it, and the rest say that
they dislike it. Of those who dislike dancing, 90% say that they dislike it, and
the rest say that they like it. What fraction of students who say they dislike
dancing actually like it?
(A) 10% (B) 12% (C) 20% (D) 25% (E) 33 13 %
12 Elmers new car gives 50% percent better fuel efficiency, measured in kilometers
per liter, than his old car. However, his new car uses diesel fuel, which is 20%
more expensive per liter than the gasoline his old car used. By what percent
will Elmer save money if he uses his new car instead of his old car for a long
trip?
(A) 20% (B) 26 23 % (C) 27 79 % (D) 33 31 % (E) 66 23 %
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1 2 3 4
(A) 5 (B) 5 (C) 5 (D) 5 (E) 1
16 How many of the base-ten numerals for the positive integers less than or equal
to 2017 contain the digit 0?
(A) 469 (B) 471 (C) 475 (D) 478 (E) 481
18 In the figure below, 3 of the 6 disks are to be painted blue, 2 are to be painted
red, and 1 is to be painted green. Two paintings that can be obtained from
one another by a rotation or a reflection of the entire figure are considered the
same. How many different paintings are possible?
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20 The number 21! = 51, 090, 942, 171, 709, 440, 000 has over 60, 000 positive inte-
ger divisors. One of them is chosen at random. What is the probability that it
is odd?
1 1 1
(A) 21 (B) 19 (C) 18 (D) 21 (E) 11
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25 Last year Isabella took 7 math tests and received 7 different scores, each an
integer between 91 and 100, inclusive. After each test she noticed that the
average of her test scores was an integer. Her score on the seventh test was 95.
What was her score on the sixth test?
(A) 92 (B) 94 (C) 96 (D) 98 (E) 100
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