2007 AMC 10A Exam Solutions

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1.

One ticket to a show costs $20\$20 at full price. Susan buys 44 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 25%25\% discount. Pam buys 55 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 30%30\% discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?

22

55

1010

1515

2020

Concepts:percentagemoney

Difficulty rating: 720

Solution:

Susan pays 40.7520=604 \cdot 0.75 \cdot 20 = 60 dollars.

Pam pays 50.7020=705 \cdot 0.70 \cdot 20 = 70 dollars.

The difference is 7060=1070 - 60 = 10 dollars.

Thus, the correct answer is C.

2.

Define a@b=abb2a@b = ab - b^2 and a#b=a+bab2.a\#b = a + b - ab^2. What is 6@26#2?\dfrac{6@2}{6\#2}?

12-\dfrac{1}{2}

14-\dfrac{1}{4}

18\dfrac{1}{8}

14\dfrac{1}{4}

12\dfrac{1}{2}

Difficulty rating: 870

Solution:

The numerator is 6@2=6222=124=8.6@2 = 6 \cdot 2 - 2^2 = 12 - 4 = 8.

The denominator is 6#2=6+2622=824=16.6\#2 = 6 + 2 - 6 \cdot 2^2 = 8 - 24 = -16.

The quotient is 816=12. \dfrac{8}{-16} = -\dfrac{1}{2}.

Thus, the correct answer is A.

3.

An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures 100100 cm by 4040 cm and has a height of 5050 cm. It is filled with water to a height of 4040 cm. A brick with a rectangular base that measures 4040 cm by 2020 cm and a height of 1010 cm is placed in the aquarium. By how many centimeters does the water rise?

0.50.5

11

1.51.5

22

2.52.5

Difficulty rating: 960

Solution:

The brick has volume 402010=800040 \cdot 20 \cdot 10 = 8000 cubic centimeters.

If the water rises by hh centimeters, the added volume is 10040h=4000h100 \cdot 40 \cdot h = 4000h cubic centimeters.

Setting these equal gives 4000h=8000,4000h = 8000, so h=2.h = 2.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

4.

The larger of two consecutive odd integers is three times the smaller. What is their sum?

44

88

1212

1616

2020

Difficulty rating: 870

Solution:

Let the smaller integer be x.x. Then the larger is x+2,x + 2, and x+2=3x, x + 2 = 3x, so x=1.x = 1.

The two integers are 11 and 3,3, and their sum is 4.4.

Thus, the correct answer is A.

5.

A school store sells 77 pencils and 88 notebooks for $4.15.\$4.15. It also sells 55 pencils and 33 notebooks for $1.77.\$1.77. How much do 1616 pencils and 1010 notebooks cost?

$4.76\$4.76

$5.84\$5.84

$6.00\$6.00

$6.16\$6.16

$6.32\$6.32

Difficulty rating: 1020

Solution:

Let pp and nn be the prices in cents of a pencil and a notebook. Then 7p+8n=415 7p + 8n = 415 5p+3n=177. 5p + 3n = 177.

Solving this system gives p=9p = 9 and n=44.n = 44.

So 1616 pencils and 1010 notebooks cost 16(9)+10(44)=58416(9) + 10(44) = 584 cents, or $5.84.\$5.84.

Thus, the correct answer is B.

6.

At Euclid High School, the number of students taking the AMC 10 was 6060 in 2002,2002, 6666 in 2003,2003, 7070 in 2004,2004, 7676 in 2005,2005, 7878 in 2006,2006, and is 8585 in 2007.2007. Between what two consecutive years was there the largest percentage increase?

20022002 and 20032003

20032003 and 20042004

20042004 and 20052005

20052005 and 20062006

20062006 and 20072007

Difficulty rating: 960

Solution:

From 20022002 to 2003,2003, the increase is 660=110=10%. \dfrac{6}{60} = \dfrac{1}{10} = 10\%.

The other increases are 466,\dfrac{4}{66}, 670,\dfrac{6}{70}, 276,\dfrac{2}{76}, and 778,\dfrac{7}{78}, each less than 110.\dfrac{1}{10}.

So the largest percentage increase was between 20022002 and 2003.2003.

Thus, the correct answer is A.

7.

Last year Mr. John Q. Public received an inheritance. He paid 20%20\% in federal taxes on the inheritance, and paid 10%10\% of what he had left in state taxes. He paid a total of $10,500\$10{,}500 for both taxes. How many dollars was the inheritance?

30,00030{,}000

32,50032{,}500

35,00035{,}000

37,50037{,}500

40,00040{,}000

Difficulty rating: 1070

Solution:

After federal taxes, Mr. Public keeps 80%80\% of his inheritance.

State taxes take 10%10\% of that, which is 8%8\% of the inheritance.

The total tax is 20%+8%=28%20\% + 8\% = 28\% of the inheritance, so the inheritance is 10,5000.28=37,500. \dfrac{10{,}500}{0.28} = 37{,}500.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

8.

Triangles ABCABC and ADCADC are isosceles with AB=BCAB = BC and AD=DC.AD = DC. Point DD is inside ABC,\triangle ABC, ABC=40,\angle ABC = 40^\circ, and ADC=140.\angle ADC = 140^\circ. What is the degree measure of BAD?\angle BAD?

2020

3030

4040

5050

6060

Difficulty rating: 1170

Solution:

Since ABC\triangle ABC is isosceles, BAC=12(18040)=70.\angle BAC = \tfrac12(180^\circ - 40^\circ) = 70^\circ.

Since ADC\triangle ADC is isosceles, DAC=12(180140)=20.\angle DAC = \tfrac12(180^\circ - 140^\circ) = 20^\circ.

Therefore BAD=BACDAC=7020=50.\angle BAD = \angle BAC - \angle DAC = 70^\circ - 20^\circ = 50^\circ.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

9.

Real numbers aa and bb satisfy the equations 3a=81b+23^a = 81^{b+2} and 125b=5a3.125^b = 5^{a-3}. What is ab?ab?

60-60

17-17

99

1212

6060

Difficulty rating: 1240

Solution:

The equations become 3a=34(b+2)3^a = 3^{4(b+2)} and 53b=5a3.5^{3b} = 5^{a-3}.

So a=4(b+2)a = 4(b + 2) and 3b=a3.3b = a - 3.

Solving gives a=12a = -12 and b=5,b = -5, so ab=60.ab = 60.

Thus, the correct answer is E.

10.

The Dunbar family consists of a mother, a father, and some children. The average age of the members of the family is 20,20, the father is 4848 years old, and the average age of the mother and children is 16.16. How many children are in the family?

22

33

44

55

66

Difficulty rating: 1240

Solution:

Let NN be the number of children and TT the total age of the family.

Then 20=TN+220 = \dfrac{T}{N + 2} and 16=T48N+1.16 = \dfrac{T - 48}{N + 1}.

These give 20N+40=T20N + 40 = T and 16N+64=T,16N + 64 = T, so 20N+40=16N+64.20N + 40 = 16N + 64.

Hence 4N=244N = 24 and N=6.N = 6.

Thus, the correct answer is E.

11.

The numbers from 11 to 88 are placed at the vertices of a cube in such a manner that the sum of the four numbers on each face is the same. What is this common sum?

1414

1616

1818

2020

2424

Difficulty rating: 1280

Solution:

Each vertex belongs to exactly three faces, so summing the numbers over all six faces gives 3(1+2++8)=336=108. 3(1 + 2 + \cdots + 8) = 3 \cdot 36 = 108.

There are six faces, so the common sum is 108÷6=18.108 \div 6 = 18.

Thus, the correct answer is C.

12.

Two tour guides are leading six tourists. The guides decide to split up. Each tourist must choose one of the guides, but with the stipulation that each guide must take at least one tourist. How many different groupings of guides and tourists are possible?

5656

5858

6060

6262

6464

Difficulty rating: 1330

Solution:

Each tourist independently chooses one of the two guides, giving 26=642^6 = 64 arrangements.

Exactly two of these leave a guide with no tourists, so the answer is 642=62.64 - 2 = 62.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

13.

Yan is somewhere between his home and the stadium. To get to the stadium he can walk directly to the stadium, or else he can walk home and then ride his bicycle to the stadium. He rides 77 times as fast as he walks, and both choices require the same amount of time. What is the ratio of Yan's distance from his home to his distance from the stadium?

23\dfrac{2}{3}

34\dfrac{3}{4}

45\dfrac{4}{5}

56\dfrac{5}{6}

67\dfrac{6}{7}

Difficulty rating: 1420

Solution:

Let xx and yy be Yan's distances from home and from the stadium, and let ww be his walking speed.

Walking to the stadium takes yw.\dfrac{y}{w}. Walking home and biking takes xw+x+y7w.\dfrac{x}{w} + \dfrac{x + y}{7w}.

Setting these equal gives 7y=8x+y,7y = 8x + y, so 8x=6y8x = 6y and xy=34.\dfrac{x}{y} = \dfrac{3}{4}.

Thus, the correct answer is B.

14.

A triangle with side lengths in the ratio 3:4:53 : 4 : 5 is inscribed in a circle of radius 3.3. What is the area of the triangle?

8.648.64

1212

5π5\pi

17.2817.28

1818

Difficulty rating: 1420

Solution:

Let the sides be 3x,4x,5x.3x, 4x, 5x. The triangle is right-angled, so its hypotenuse is a diameter.

Thus 5x=23=6,5x = 2 \cdot 3 = 6, giving x=65.x = \tfrac65.

The area is 12(3x)(4x)=6x2=63625=8.64. \tfrac12 (3x)(4x) = 6x^2 = 6 \cdot \tfrac{36}{25} = 8.64.

Thus, the correct answer is A.

15.

Four circles of radius 11 are each tangent to two sides of a square and externally tangent to a circle of radius 2,2, as shown. What is the area of the square?

3232

22+12222 + 12\sqrt{2}

16+16316 + 16\sqrt{3}

4848

36+16236 + 16\sqrt{2}

Solution:

Consider the isosceles right triangle joining the center of the radius-22 circle to the centers of two adjacent small circles. Its legs have length 2+1=3,2 + 1 = 3, so its hypotenuse is 32.3\sqrt2.

The side of the square exceeds this hypotenuse by 22 (one radius on each end), so s=2+32.s = 2 + 3\sqrt2.

The area is (2+32)2=4+122+18=22+122. (2 + 3\sqrt2)^2 = 4 + 12\sqrt2 + 18 = 22 + 12\sqrt2.

Thus, the correct answer is B.

16.

Integers a,b,c,a, b, c, and d,d, not necessarily distinct, are chosen independently and at random from 00 to 2007,2007, inclusive. What is the probability that adbcad - bc is even?

38\dfrac{3}{8}

716\dfrac{7}{16}

12\dfrac{1}{2}

916\dfrac{9}{16}

58\dfrac{5}{8}

Difficulty rating: 1540

Solution:

Half the integers from 00 to 20072007 are odd, so each of adad and bcbc is odd with probability 1212=14\tfrac12 \cdot \tfrac12 = \tfrac14 and even with probability 34.\tfrac34.

The difference adbcad - bc is even when both products have the same parity: 1414+3434=116+916=58. \tfrac14 \cdot \tfrac14 + \tfrac34 \cdot \tfrac34 = \tfrac{1}{16} + \tfrac{9}{16} = \tfrac58.

Thus, the correct answer is E.

17.

Suppose that mm and nn are positive integers such that 75m=n3.75m = n^3. What is the minimum possible value of m+n?m + n?

1515

3030

5050

6060

57005700

Difficulty rating: 1480

Solution:

Since n3=75m=352m,n^3 = 75m = 3 \cdot 5^2 \cdot m, every prime factor must occur a multiple of three times.

The smallest such mm is 325=45,3^2 \cdot 5 = 45, giving n3=3353n^3 = 3^3 \cdot 5^3 and n=15.n = 15.

Then m+n=45+15=60.m + n = 45 + 15 = 60.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

18.

Consider the 1212-sided polygon ABCDEFGHIJKL,ABCDEFGHIJKL, as shown. Each of its sides has length 4,4, and each two consecutive sides form a right angle. Suppose that AG\overline{AG} and CH\overline{CH} meet at M.M. What is the area of quadrilateral ABCM?ABCM?

443\dfrac{44}{3}

1616

885\dfrac{88}{5}

2020

623\dfrac{62}{3}

Difficulty rating: 1790

Solution:

Put the figure on coordinates with A=(2,6),A = (-2, 6), B=(2,6),B = (2, 6), C=(2,2),C = (2, 2), G=(2,6),G = (2, -6), and H=(2,6).H = (-2, -6).

Line AGAG is y=3x,y = -3x, and line CHCH is y=2x2.y = 2x - 2.

Their intersection is M=(25,65).M = \left(\tfrac25, -\tfrac65\right).

Applying the shoelace formula to A,B,C,MA, B, C, M gives area 35.22=885. \dfrac{|{-35.2}|}{2} = \dfrac{88}{5}.

Thus, the correct answer is C.

19.

A paint brush is swept along both diagonals of a square to produce the symmetric painted area, as shown. Half the area of the square is painted. What is the ratio of the side length of the square to the brush width?

22+12\sqrt{2} + 1

323\sqrt{2}

22+22\sqrt{2} + 2

32+13\sqrt{2} + 1

32+23\sqrt{2} + 2

Solution:

Let ss be the side, ww the brush width, and xx the leg of one unpainted isosceles right triangle. Each triangle has area 18s2,\tfrac18 s^2, so 12x2=18s2\tfrac12 x^2 = \tfrac18 s^2 and x=s2.x = \tfrac{s}{2}.

The leg plus the brush width is half the diagonal: x+w=22s.x + w = \tfrac{\sqrt2}{2} s. Thus w=22ss2.w = \tfrac{\sqrt2}{2} s - \tfrac{s}{2}.

Therefore sw=221=22+2. \dfrac{s}{w} = \dfrac{2}{\sqrt2 - 1} = 2\sqrt2 + 2.

Thus, the correct answer is C.

20.

Suppose that the number aa satisfies the equation 4=a+a1.4 = a + a^{-1}. What is the value of a4+a4?a^4 + a^{-4}?

164164

172172

192192

194194

212212

Difficulty rating: 1460

Solution:

Squaring a+a1=4a + a^{-1} = 4 gives a2+2+a2=16,a^2 + 2 + a^{-2} = 16, so a2+a2=14.a^2 + a^{-2} = 14.

Squaring again gives a4+2+a4=196,a^4 + 2 + a^{-4} = 196, so a4+a4=194.a^4 + a^{-4} = 194.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

21.

A sphere is inscribed in a cube that has a surface area of 2424 square meters. A second cube is then inscribed within the sphere. What is the surface area in square meters of the inner cube?

33

66

88

99

1212

Difficulty rating: 1580

Solution:

Each face of the outer cube has area 24÷6=4,24 \div 6 = 4, so its side is 2,2, and the sphere has diameter 2.2.

This diameter is the space diagonal of the inner cube, so l3=2,l\sqrt3 = 2, giving l2=43.l^2 = \tfrac43.

The inner cube's surface area is 6l2=643=8.6 l^2 = 6 \cdot \tfrac43 = 8.

Thus, the correct answer is C.

22.

A finite sequence of three-digit integers has the property that the tens and units digits of each term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the next term, and the tens and units digits of the last term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the first term. For example, such a sequence might begin with terms 247,475,247, 475, and 756756 and end with the term 824.824. Let SS be the sum of all the terms in the sequence. What is the largest prime number that always divides S?S?

33

77

1313

3737

4343

Difficulty rating: 1920

Solution:

Each digit appears as a hundreds digit, a tens digit, and a units digit the same number of times across the sequence.

If kk is the sum of the units digits of all terms, then S=111k=337k,S = 111k = 3 \cdot 37 \cdot k, so SS is always divisible by 37.37.

The sequence 123,231,312123, 231, 312 gives S=666=23237,S = 666 = 2 \cdot 3^2 \cdot 37, which has no larger prime factor forced, so 3737 is the answer.

Thus, the correct answer is D.

23.

How many ordered pairs (m,n)(m, n) of positive integers, with m>n,m \gt n, have the property that their squares differ by 96?96?

33

44

66

99

1212

Difficulty rating: 1400

Solution:

Since (m+n)(mn)=96(m + n)(m - n) = 96 and 9696 is even, both factors must be even.

The even factor pairs are (48,2),(48, 2), (24,4),(24, 4), (16,6),(16, 6), and (12,8),(12, 8), giving (m,n)=(25,23),(m, n) = (25, 23), (14,10),(14, 10), (11,5),(11, 5), and (10,2).(10, 2).

So there are 44 ordered pairs.

Thus, the correct answer is B.

24.

Circles centered at AA and BB each have radius 2,2, as shown. Point OO is the midpoint of AB,\overline{AB}, and OA=22.OA = 2\sqrt{2}. Segments OCOC and ODOD are tangent to the circles centered at AA and B,B, respectively, and EF\overline{EF} is a common tangent. What is the area of the shaded region ECODF?ECODF?

823\dfrac{8\sqrt{2}}{3}

824π8\sqrt{2} - 4 - \pi

424\sqrt{2}

42+π84\sqrt{2} + \dfrac{\pi}{8}

822π28\sqrt{2} - 2 - \dfrac{\pi}{2}

Difficulty rating: 1960

Solution:

Rectangle ABFEABFE has area AEAB=242=82.AE \cdot AB = 2 \cdot 4\sqrt2 = 8\sqrt2.

Right triangles ACOACO and BDOBDO each have hypotenuse 222\sqrt2 and a leg of 2,2, so each is isosceles right with area 2.2.

Angles CAECAE and DBFDBF are each 45,45^\circ, so sectors CAECAE and DBFDBF each have area 18π22=π2.\tfrac18 \pi \cdot 2^2 = \tfrac{\pi}{2}.

The shaded area is 82222π2=824π. 8\sqrt2 - 2 \cdot 2 - 2 \cdot \tfrac{\pi}{2} = 8\sqrt2 - 4 - \pi.

Thus, the correct answer is B.

25.

For each positive integer n,n, let S(n)S(n) denote the sum of the digits of n.n. For how many values of nn is n+S(n)+S(S(n))=2007?n + S(n) + S(S(n)) = 2007?

11

22

33

44

55

Difficulty rating: 2200

Solution:

If n2007,n \le 2007, then S(n)28S(n) \le 28 and S(S(n))10,S(S(n)) \le 10, so n20072810=1969.n \ge 2007 - 28 - 10 = 1969.

Since n,n, S(n),S(n), and S(S(n))S(S(n)) all leave the same remainder modulo 99 and 20072007 is a multiple of 9,9, each must be a multiple of 3.3.

Checking the multiples of 33 between 19691969 and 2007,2007, the condition holds for 1977,1980,1983,1977, 1980, 1983, and 2001.2001.

So there are 44 values of n.n.

Thus, the correct answer is D.