American Mathematics Competitions

19th Annual

AMC 10B
American Mathematics Competition 10B
Thursday, February 15, 2018
INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR COMPETITION MANAGER
TELLS YOU.
2. This is a 25-question multiple-choice exam. Each question is followed by answers
marked A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the AMC 10 Answer Sheet with a #2 pencil.
Check the blackened circles for accuracy and erase errors and stray marks completely.
Only answers properly marked on the answer sheet will be graded. You must use
and submit the original answer sheets provided by the MAA AMC. Photocopies
will not be scored.
4. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 1.5 points for each
problem left unanswered, and 0 points for each incorrect answer.
5. Only scratch paper, graph paper, rulers, compasses, protractors, and erasers are
allowed as aids. No calculators, smartwatches, phones, or computing devices are
allowed. No problems on the exam will require the use of a calculator.
6. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
7. Before beginning the exam, your competition manager will ask you to record certain
information on the answer form.
8. When your competition manager gives the signal, begin working on the problems.
You will have 75 minutes to complete the exam.
9. When you finish the exam, sign your name in the space provided at the top of the Answer
Sheet.

The Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions reserves the right to disqualify
scores from a school if it determines that the required security procedures were not followed.
Students who score well on this AMC 10 will be invited to take the 36th annual American Invitational
Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 or Wednesday, March 21, 2018.
More details about the AIME are on the back page of this exam booklet.

© 2018 Mathematical Association of America

2018 AMC 10B Problems 2

1. Kate bakes a 20-inch by 18-inch pan of cornbread. The cornbread is

cut into pieces that measure 2 inches by 2 inches. How many pieces
of cornbread does the pan contain?

(A) 90 (B) 100 (C) 180 (D) 200 (E) 360

2. Sam drove 96 miles in 90 minutes. His average speed during the first
30 minutes was 60 mph (miles per hour), and his average speed during
the second 30 minutes was 65 mph. What was his average speed, in
mph, during the last 30 minutes?

(A) 64 (B) 65 (C) 66 (D) 67 (E) 68

3. In the expression ( × )+( × ) each blank is to be

filled in with one of the digits 1, 2, 3, or 4, with each digit being used
once. How many different values can be obtained?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 24

4. A three-dimensional rectangular box with dimensions X, Y , and Z

has faces whose surface areas are 24, 24, 48, 48, 72, and 72 square
units. What is X + Y + Z ?

(A) 18 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 36

5. How many subsets of {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} contain at least one prime

number?

(A) 128 (B) 192 (C) 224 (D) 240 (E) 256

6. A box contains 5 chips, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Chips are drawn

randomly one at a time without replacement until the sum of the
values drawn exceeds 4. What is the probability that 3 draws are
required?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
15 10 6 5 4
2018 AMC 10B Problems 3

7. In the figure below, N congruent semicircles are drawn along a diam-

eter of a large semicircle, with their diameters covering the diameter
of the large semicircle with no overlap. Let A be the combined area
of the small semicircles and B be the area of the region inside the
large semicircle but outside the small semicircles. The ratio A : B is
1 : 18. What is N ?

(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 36

8. Sara makes a staircase out of toothpicks as shown:

This is a 3-step staircase and uses 18 toothpicks. How many steps

would be in a staircase that used 180 toothpicks?

(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 24 (E) 30

9. The faces of each of 7 standard dice are labeled with the integers from
1 to 6. Let p be the probability that when all 7 dice are rolled, the
sum of the numbers on the top faces is 10. What other sum occurs
with the same probability p ?

(A) 13 (B) 26 (C) 32 (D) 39 (E) 42

2018 AMC 10B Problems 4

10. In the rectangular parallelepiped shown, AB = 3, BC = 1, and

CG = 2. Point M is the midpoint of F G. What is the volume of the
rectangular pyramid with base BCHE and apex M ?

H G
M

E
F 2

D C

A 3 B

4 3 5
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) (E) 2
3 2 3

11. Which of the following expressions is never a prime number when p

is a prime number?

(A) p2 + 16 (B) p2 + 24 (C) p2 + 26 (D) p2 + 46

(E) p2 + 96

12. Line segment AB is a diameter of a circle with AB = 24. Point C,

not equal to A or B, lies on the circle. As point C moves around
the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of 4ABC traces out a closed
curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the
area of the region bounded by this curve?

(A) 25 (B) 38 (C) 50 (D) 63 (E) 75

13. How many of the first 2018 numbers in the sequence 101, 1001, 10001,
100001, . . . are divisible by 101 ?

(A) 253 (B) 504 (C) 505 (D) 506 (E) 1009

14. A list of 2018 positive integers has a unique mode, which occurs ex-
actly 10 times. What is the least number of distinct values that can
occur in the list?

(A) 202 (B) 223 (C) 224 (D) 225 (E) 234
2018 AMC 10B Problems 5

15. A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet
of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with
the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet
of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of
the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought
together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point A in the
figure on the right. The box has base length w and height h. What
is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper?

w w

(w + h)2
(A) 2(w + h)2 (B) (C) 2w2 + 4wh (D) 2w2
2
(E) w2 h

16. Let a1 , a2 , . . . , a2018 be a strictly increasing sequence of positive inte-

gers such that

a1 + a2 + · · · + a2018 = 20182018 .

What is the remainder when a31 + a32 + · · · + a32018 is divided by 6 ?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

17. In rectangle P QRS, P Q = 8 and QR = 6. Points A and B lie on

P Q, points C and D lie on QR, points E and F lie on RS, and points
G and H lie on SP so that AP = BQ < 4 and the convex octagon
ABCDEF GH is equilateral. The √ length of a side of this octagon can
be expressed in the form k + m n, where k, m, and n are integers
and n is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is k + m + n ?

(A) 1 (B) 7 (C) 21 (D) 92 (E) 106

2018 AMC 10B Problems 6

18. Three young brother-sister pairs from different families need to take
a trip in a van. These six children will occupy the second and third
rows in the van, each of which has three seats. To avoid disruptions,
siblings may not sit right next to each other in the same row, and no
child may sit directly in front of his or her sibling. How many seating
arrangements are possible for this trip?

(A) 60 (B) 72 (C) 92 (D) 96 (E) 120

19. Joey and Chloe and their daughter Zoe all have the same birthday.
Joey is 1 year older than Chloe, and Zoe is exactly 1 year old today.
Today is the first of the 9 birthdays on which Chloe’s age will be an
integral multiple of Zoe’s age. What will be the sum of the two digits
of Joey’s age the next time his age is a multiple of Zoe’s age?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

20. A function f is defined recursively by f (1) = f (2) = 1 and

f (n) = f (n − 1) − f (n − 2) + n
for all integers n ≥ 3. What is f (2018) ?

(A) 2016 (B) 2017 (C) 2018 (D) 2019 (E) 2020

21. Mary chose an even 4-digit number n. She wrote down all the divisors
of n in increasing order from left to right: 1, 2, . . . , n2 , n. At some
moment Mary wrote 323 as a divisor of n. What is the smallest
possible value of the next divisor written to the right of 323 ?

(A) 324 (B) 330 (C) 340 (D) 361 (E) 646

22. Real numbers x and y are chosen independently and uniformly at

random from the interval [0, 1]. Which of the following numbers is
closest to the probability that x, y, and 1 are the side lengths of an
obtuse triangle?

(A) 0.21 (B) 0.25 (C) 0.29 (D) 0.50 (E) 0.79

23. How many ordered pairs (a, b) of positive integers satisfy the equation
a · b + 63 = 20 · lcm(a, b) + 12 · gcd(a, b),
where gcd(a, b) denotes the greatest common divisor of a and b, and
lcm(a, b) denotes their least common multiple?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

2018 AMC 10B Problems 7

24. Let ABCDEF be a regular hexagon with side length 1. Denote by X,

Y , and Z the midpoints of sides AB, CD, and EF , respectively. What
is the area of the convex hexagon whose interior is the intersection of
the interiors of 4ACE and 4XY Z ?
3√ 7√ 15 √ 1√ 9√
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 3 (D) 3 (E) 3
8 16 32 2 16

25. Let bxc denote the greatest integer less than or equal to x. How many
real numbers x satisfy the equation x2 + 10,000bxc = 10,000x ?

(A) 197 (B) 198 (C) 199 (D) 200 (E) 201
 American Mathematics Competitions

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The problems and solutions for this AMC 10 were prepared by MAA’s
Subcommittee on the AMC10/AMC12 Exams, under the direction of the co-chairs
Jerrold W. Grossman and Carl Yerger.

2018 AIME
The 36th annual AIME will be held on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 with the alternate on Wednesday,
March 21, 2018. It is a 15-question, 3-hour, integer-answer exam. You will be invited to partici-
pate if you achieve a high score on this competition. Top-scoring students on the AMC 10/12/
AIME will be selected to take the 47th Annual USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) on
April 18–19, 2018.
 2018

AMC 10B
DO NOT OPEN UNTIL Thursday, February 15, 2018

**Administration On An Earlier Date Will Disqualify Your School’s Results**

1. All the information needed to administer this exam is contained in the
AMC 10/12 Teacher’s Manual. PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE
February 15, 2018.
2. Your PRINCIPAL or VICE PRINCIPAL must verify on the AMC 10/12
COMPETITION CERTIFICATION FORM (found on maa.org/amc under
‘AMC 10/12’) that you followed all rules associated with the administration
of the exam.
3. Answer sheets must be returned to the MAA AMC office the day after the
competition. Ship with appropriate postage using a trackable method. FedEx
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exam during the period when students are eligible to participate seriously jeopardizes
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type during this period is a violation of the competition rules.

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