2013 AMC 10B Exam Solutions
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1.
What is
Solution:
Thus, the correct answer is C.
2.
Mr. Green measures his rectangular garden by walking two of the sides and finds that it is steps by steps. Each of Mr. Green's steps is feet long. Mr. Green expects a half a pound of potatoes per square foot from his garden. How many pounds of potatoes does Mr. Green expect from his garden?
Solution:
The dimensions of the garden are feet by feet. Thus, the square footage is
Therefore, there are pounds of potatoes.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
3.
On a particular January day, the high temperature in Lincoln, Nebraska, was degrees higher than the low temperature, and the average of the high and low temperatures was degrees. What was the low temperature in Lincoln that day (in degrees)?
Solution:
Let the low temperature be represented by Then, the high temperature is
This makes the average Therefore,
Thus, the correct answer is C.
4.
When counting from to is the number counted. When counting backwards from to is the number counted. What is
Solution:
When counting from to in any direction, we count numbers. When counting in the reverse direction, after counting there are more count, meaning were counted by that point.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
5.
Positive integers and are each less than What is the smallest possible value for
Solution:
This expressionS is equal to Thus, we can minimize the value of the expression by making it as negative as possible. This happens when and are are large as possible, which is when This makes the expression evaluate to
Thus, the correct answer is B.
6.
The average age of fifth-graders is The average age of of their parents is What is the average age of all of these parents and fifth-graders?
Solution:
The sum of the ages of all the fifth-graders and their parents is:
Then, as the average is the sum divided by the number of people, the average age must be:
Thus, the correct answer is C.
7.
Six points are equally spaced around a circle of radius 1. Three of these points are the vertices of a triangle that is neither equilateral nor isosceles. What is the area of this triangle?
Solution:
Consider the following diagram:
Working with the above diagram, observe that is a right triangle.
Furthermore, as each point is equally interspaced across the unit circle,
Therefore, by similarity, As such, is a triangle. This means that it is not an equilateral triangle nor an isosceles triangle.
Now, as the radius of the circle is
Thus, by our special right triangle formulas (or just plain triginometry), we have:
As such, the area is equal to
Thus, the correct answer is B.
8.
Ray's car averages miles per gallon of gasoline, and Tom's car averages miles per gallon of gasoline. Ray and Tom each drive the same number of miles. What is the cars' combined rate of miles per gallon of gasoline?
Solution:
When they drive miles each, they in total drive miles. Then, Ray uses gallons and Tom uses gallons, so they used gallons combinded. This makes the milage
Thus, the correct answer is B.
9.
Three positive integers are each greater than have a product of and are pairwise relatively prime. What is their sum?
Solution:
Only one of them is a multiple of only one of them is a multiple of and only one of them is a multiple of
Since each of the positive integers is greater than each of them must be a multiple of one of the given primes.
Therefore, since the numbers must be making their sum
Thus, the correct answer is D.
10.
A basketball team's players were successful on of their two-point shots and of their three-point shots, which resulted in points. They attempted more two-point shots than three-point shots. How many three-point shots did they attempt?
Solution:
Let the number of three-point attempts be
Then, the number of made three-point shots is implying that the number of points made off of three-point shots is
Similarly, the number of two-point shots is so the number of made two-point shots is suggesting that the number of points made off of 2 point shots is
This makes the total number of points scored equal to: and so,
Thus, the correct answer is C.
11.
Real numbers and satisfy the equation What is
Solution:
This can be rewritten as
From this, completing the square yields Since both of these squared terms must be greater than or equal to and their sum equals both values must both be yielding
As such, This makes the sum
Thus, the correct answer is B.
12.
Let be the set of sides and diagonals of a regular pentagon. A pair of elements of are selected at random without replacement. What is the probability that the two chosen segments have the same length?
Solution:
We can solve for the number of sides and diagonals as each edge in question is made up of points, and there are points total. Therefore, the number of edges is equal to the number of ways to choose any points from the set of that we have:
Also, as the polygon in question is a rectangle, each of the of the sides are the same length. Similarly, all the sides of the diagonals are the same length, as there is only one possible angle between any set of non-adjecent points.
Therefore, if we choose any pair of elements in we have possibilities. We know that the two chosen segments have the same length if and only if they are both sides, or both diagonals.
There are ways of choosing two sides.
There are ways of choosing two diagonals.
Therefore, the total number of ways to choose two segments that have the same length is:
Thus, the correct answer is B.
13.
Jo and Blair take turns counting from to one more than the last number said by the other person.
Jo starts by saying"1", so Blair follows by saying "1, 2". Jo then says "1, 2, 3", and so on.
What is the number said?
Solution:
The sequence is said first after the triangular number which is:
(The triangular number is defined as being the sum of the numbers to As for why it has this formula, there's a bunch of ways you can prove it using induction or arithmetic sequences. We'll leave that to you, though!)
Moving on, writing out some triangular numbers, we notice that is the closest triangular number less than This means that the sequence is first said after numbers.
Therefore, the number starts this new sequence at and counting forwards, we can see that the number is more than this, with a value of
Thus, the correct answer is E.
14.
Define Which of the following describes the set of points for which
A finite set of points
One line
Two parallel lines
Two intersecting lines
Three lines
Solution:
If we know that Thus, we know that if or we have a solution. These three solutions each take the form of a line, and so, the set of points where is a set of three points.
Thus, the correct answer is E.
15.
A wire is cut into two pieces, one of length and the other of length The piece of length is bent to form an equilateral triangle, and the piece of length is bent to form a regular hexagon. The triangle and the hexagon have equal area. What is
Solution:
Let the side length of the equilateral triangle be Then, let its area be This would make
As such, a hexagon with side would have equilateral triangles, with side length making its area
Therefore, the side length of the hexagon with area is equal to As such,
This makes
Thus, the correct answer is B.
16.
In triangle medians and intersect at and What is the area of
Solution:
Since we have an intersection of medians, we know that the segments are split at a ratio. Thus, and
Then, since the triangle satisfies the Pythagorean Theorem, making and all of the angles at that point are therefore
Then, since the area of is the area of all of the 4 right triangles put togeter, its area is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
17.
Alex has red tokens and blue tokens. There is a booth where Alex can give two red tokens and receive in return a silver token and a blue token, and another booth where Alex can give three blue tokens and receive in return a silver token and a red token. Alex continues to exchange tokens until no more exchanges are possible. How many silver tokens will Alex have at the end?
Solution:
Alex can do the following move: Take red coins and going the the first booth, getting blue coins and silver coins, and getting red coin and silver coins total after this exchange from the second booth. He can do this as long as he has red coins. Doing this times yields red coins, blue coins, and silver coins. Then, Alex can convert the red coins to blue, yielding red coin, blue coins, and silver coins.
Then, Alex can do the following move: Take blue coins and going the the second booth, getting red coins and silver coins, and getting blue coin and silver coins. Doing this times yields red coins, blue coins, and silver coins as we gain coins.
Thus, the correct answer is E.
18.
The number has the property that its units digit is the sum of its other digits, that is How many integers less than but greater than have this property?
Solution:
Given the first three numbers, if their sum is less than or equal to it creates one number with the property.
Now, we can case on the st digit.
If it is 1, then the sum of the nd and rd digit must be less than or equal to For each possible sum there are ways to choose the other numbers as the 2nd number can be anywhere from to
Thus, the total is the triangular number:
If it is 2, then the only way we can get a number that works less than is making a total of cases.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
19.
The real numbers form an arithmetic sequence with The quadratic has exactly one root. What is this root?
Solution:
If there is exactly one root, let's call it we know that we can represent the quadratic as:
As such, we set and Notice that this form of the quadratic is normalized, however, as we are finding roots (i.e. where the quadratic equals zero), we can scale the coefficients of the quadratic by any constant without changing the fundamental properties of the equation.
Now, as we know that is a nonnegative arithmetic sequence, we know that there exists some constant such that: This suggests that which we can plug in values to see that:
Therefore, as we know that we know that as and so
Thus, the correct answer is D.
20.
The number is expressed in the form where and are positive integers and is as small as possible. What is
Solution:
Let's start by looking at the prime factorization of which is In order to have a factor of in the numerator and to minimize we must set
Now, let's consider the denominator. For the numerator to have a factor of we must have a factor of in the denominator as well, because otherwise it would not be canceled out. Since we want to minimize we want the largest possible prime less than in the denominator, which is Therefore,
Finally, we can compute
Thus, the correct answer is B.
21.
Two non-decreasing sequences of nonnegative integers have different first terms. Each sequence has the property that each term beginning with the third is the sum of the previous two terms, and the seventh term of each sequence is What is the smallest possible value of ?
Solution:
For the first sequence, let the first number be and let the second number be
Then, the sequence would be with
If we had the second sequence start with we would get that: Thus, If we let then we know As such, If we just let we can take and get as a minimum possible answer.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
22.
The regular octagon has its center at Each of the vertices and the center are to be associated with one of the digits through with each digit used once, in such a way that the sums of the numbers on the lines and are all equal. In how many ways can this be done?
Solution:
Let be defined as:
This means that From here, let's assume We will see that the other cases are similar enough to omit.
If then we know that the pairs of numbers that satisfy the equality above are: There are ways to distribute the pairs over the four groups, and then ways for these groups to swap elements (i.e. ).
Now, if we look at the and cases, we see a similar pattern in the number of groupings and swaps. As such, we have: possibilities.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
23.
In triangle and Distinct points and lie on segments and respectively, such that and The length of segment can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is
Solution:
First, we can deduce that by inspecting Pythagorean triples.
This yields the following diagram:
Then, we get by the similarity of and Since and are both right triangles, they both have circumcircles with diameter making cyclic. Thus, making As such,
By Ptolemy's Theorem, we get Therefore,
This makes so As such, making
Thus, the correct answer is B.
24.
A positive integer is "nice" if there is a positive integer with exactly four positive divisors (including and ) such that the sum of the four divisors is equal to How many numbers in the set are nice?
Solution:
A positive integer has divisors if it can be written as or The sum of the divisors would be or The second option can't happen since the value for is less than and the value for is greater.
Thus, we have as our factored form.
Now, if either or are then looking at we know that one of them must be equal to and other is still even. The elements of the set that satisfy this are even multiples of three, or and
However, observe that:
These aren't prime, so we conclude that and must be odd primes. This implies that and are both even, and as such, the number in question must be divisible by giving only and as valid options.
Looking at each of these options: Which implies which isn't a prime. Which implies that which are both odd primes.
Therefore, the only "nice" number in the set is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
25.
Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer and writes both its base-5 and base-6 representations on a blackboard. Later LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treating the two numbers as base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer
For example, if Bernardo writes the numbers and and LeRoy obtains the sum For how many choices of are the two rightmost digits of in order, the same as those of
Solution:
First, we inspect on the units digit. If we let we can set the units digit of and equal to get that Since we conclude that
This makes for
Then, suppose we have If we have working, then works and vice versa, so we need only to check and for all that works, we can just multiply by
Thus, we need only to look at multiples of
Then, let
We then know Suggesting that:
As such, is a multiple of and must be even.
Therefore, given any we have a unique possible solution as there are two possible solutions for given any since must be or and only one of them yields is even.
So, for each of the possible we have a unique that works, and for each we have values for
Thus, for each remainder of when divided by there is a unique remainder when divided by making out of the possible remainders when divided by a solution.
From to each of the remainders appear exactly once, so there are solutions.
Thus, the correct answer is E.