2013 AMC 10A Exam Problems
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1.
A taxi ride costs plus per mile traveled. How much does a -mile taxi ride cost?
$2.25
$2.50
$2.75
$3.00
$3.75
Answer: C
Solution:
The total cost is \begin{align*} $1.5 + 5 \cdot $.25 &= $1.5 + $1.25\\ &= $2.75. \end{align*}
Thus, C is the correct answer.
2.
Alice is making a batch of cookies and needs cups of sugar. Unfortunately, her measuring cup holds only cup of sugar. How many times must she fill that cup to get the correct amount of sugar?
Answer: B
Solution:
We just need to divide the total amount of sugar needed by the amount of sugar that the cup holds.
Therefore, She will need to refill the cup times.
Thus, B is the correct answer.
3.
Square has side length Point is on and the area of is What is
Answer: E
Solution:
We have by the formula for the area of a triangle that This gives us Thus, E is the correct answer.
4.
A softball team played ten games, scoring and runs. They lost by one run in exactly five games. In each of their other games, they scored twice as many runs as their opponent. How many total runs did their opponents score?
Answer: C
Solution:
Note that if they scored twice as many runs as their opponents, then they scored an even number of runs.
This means in the games where they scored and runs, their opponents scored and runs respectively.
This sums to
In the other games, their opponents scored and runs.
This sums to
The total number of runs is then Thus, C is the correct answer.
5.
Tom, Dorothy, and Sammy went on a vacation and agreed to split the costs evenly. During their trip Tom paid $105, Dorothy paid $125, and Sammy paid $175. In order to share costs equally, Tom gave Sammy dollars, and Dorothy gave Sammy dollars. What is
Answer: B
Solution:
The total amount they paid was $105 + $125 + $175 = $405. This means that each should pay $405 \div 3 = $135. This means that Tom has to pay $30 more, and Dorothy has to pay $10 more.
Then and therefore,
Thus, B is the correct answer.
6.
Joey and his five brothers are ages and One afternoon two of his brothers whose ages sum to went to the movies, two brothers younger than went to play baseball, and Joey and the -year-old stayed home. How old is Joey?
Answer: D
Solution:
The two pairs of ages that add to are and
Note, however, that we need two brothers younger than but not the -year old, to play baseball.
If the brothers that go to the moves are and there are no choices for the brothers that play baseball.
This means that the and year olds go to the movies, and the and year olds play baseball.
Therefore, Joey is the -year old.
Thus, D is the correct answer.
7.
A student must choose a program of four courses from a menu of courses consisting of English, Algebra, Geometry, History, Art, and Latin. This program must contain English and at least one mathematics course. In how many ways can this program be chosen?
Answer: C
Solution:
There are cases. The first case is the student choose both math classes, the and the second case is they only take one.
Case 1: the student takes both math classes
There are classes left, which means that the student has choices for their final class.
Case 2: the student takes one math class
There are choices for which math class the student takes. Then, there are courses left, from which the students must choose
This is the same as choosing which course the student does not take, which can be done in ways.
Therefore, this case contributes schedules that the student can take.
The total number of configurations in both cases is
Thus, C is the correct answer.
8.
What is the value of
Answer: C
Solution:
Factoring out a we get:
Thus, C is the correct answer.
9.
In a recent basketball game, Shenille attempted only three-point shots and two-point shots. She was successful on of her three-point shots and of her two-point shots. Shenille attempted shots. How many points did she score?
Answer: B
Solution:
Let be the number of two-point shots and be the number of three-point shots.
Then, Shenille scores two-points shots and three-point shots, for a total score of
We know that
Thus, B is the correct answer.
10.
A flower bouquet contains pink roses, red roses, pink carnations, and red carnations. One third of the pink flowers are roses, three fourths of the red flowers are carnations, and six tenths of the flowers are pink. What percent of the flowers are carnations?
Answer: E
Solution:
Let the total number of flowers be There are pink flowers and red flowers.
Then there are pink roses, which means there are pink carnations.
There are also red carnations. This means there are carnations. This is of the total flowers.
Thus, E is the correct answer.
11.
A student council must select a two-person welcoming committee and a three-person planning committee from among its members. There are exactly ways to select a two-person team for the welcoming committee. It is possible for students to serve on both committees. In how many different ways can a three-person planning committee be selected?
Answer: A
Solution:
Let be the number of students. Then the number of ways to pick a two-person committee is We know that this equals so Factoring yields since there cannot be a negative number of students.
Then, the number of ways to pick a -person committee is
Thus, A is the correct answer.
12.
In and Points and are on sides and respectively, such that and are parallel to and respectively. What is the perimeter of parallelogram
Answer: C
Solution:
Note that and due to the parallel lines.
This tells us that and We have that the perimeter of is
Thus, C is the correct answer.
13.
How many three-digit numbers are not divisible by have digits that sum to less than and have the first digit equal to the third digit?
Answer: B
Solution:
Note that for the number to not be divisible by the units digits cannot be either or
Let be the hundreds and units digit and be the tens digit. Then we want Casing on the options of we get:
If is or then can be anything since
If then which gives us solutions.
If then which gives us solutions.
If then which gives us solutions.
If then which gives us solutions.
This gives us a total of solutions.
Thus, B is the correct solution.
14.
A solid cube of side length is removed from each corner of a solid cube of side length How many edges does the remaining solid have?
Answer: D
Solution:
Removing the cubes does not remove any edges from the original cube. It only adds edges.
After removing each cube, we can see that extra edges are added to the solid.
cubes are removed, which means edges are added to the original edges, for a total of edges.
Thus, D is the correct answer.
15.
Two sides of a triangle have lengths and The length of the altitude to the third side is the average of the lengths of the altitudes to the two given sides. How long is the third side?
Answer: D
Solution:
Let be the length of the altitude to the side of length and similarly define for the other given side.
We have that
The third altitude is the average of the other two, which makes its length
Let the third side have length Then
Thus, D is the correct answer.
16.
A triangle with vertices and is reflected about the line to create a second triangle. What is the area of the union of the two triangles?
Answer: E
Solution:
Let and After reflecting, we get the points and
Note that the area of the union is the area of minus the area of region
Sketching this diagram, we get:
The intersection of and occurs at due to symmetry. We also get that can be represented as the line
Plugging in we get the -coordinate to be: \[\begin{align*} y&=-\dfrac{4}{3} \cdot 8 + 13 \\ &= -\dfrac{32}{3} + 13 \\ &=\dfrac{7}{3}. \end{align*}
The area of region is then
Finally, the area of is
Thus, E is the correct answer.
17.
Daphne is visited periodically by her three best friends: Alice, Beatrix, and Claire. Alice visits every third day, Beatrix visits every fourth day, and Claire visits every fifth day.
All three friends visited Daphne yesterday. How many days of the next -day period will exactly two friends visit her?
Answer: B
Solution:
Note that the least common multiple of and is
We can split up the year into -day periods, and count the number of times exactly two friends visit.
We have that Alice and Beatrix visit together times. We subtract since on the th day, all friends visit, which we don't want to count.
Similarly, Alice and Claire visit times and Beatrix and Claire visit times. This means that in any -day period, exactly friends visit times. There are periods, which means that on days, exactly friends visit.
Thus, B is the correct answer.
18.
Let points Quadrilateral is cut into equal area pieces by a line passing through This line intersects at point where these fractions are in lowest terms. What is
Answer: B
Solution:
We begin by finding the are of To do this, label the point and drop altitudes from and to the -axis as follows:
Looking at the triangle observe that the area is equal to: Similarly, looking at the trapezoid observe that the area is equal to: And lastly, looking at the triangle observe that the area is equal to:
Therefore the area of is equal to:
The area of is then This means that the height of this triangle is
We have that the slope of is which means that this line can be expressed with Plugging in the value we get
We now have both the and -coordinates of the intersection point. The desired sum is then
Thus, B is the correct answer.
19.
In base the number ends in the digit In base on the other hand, the same number is written as and ends in the digit For how many positive integers does the base--representation of end in the digit
Answer: C
Solution:
Note that the units digit of represents the remainder when the number is divided by the base.
The question then boils down to finding all numbers, such that leaves a remainder of when divided by
This means that must divide Also note that since otherwise the remainder cannot be
The prime factorization of is Then, has factors. It has factors less than namely and This means there are valid values for
Thus, C is the correct answer.
20.
A unit square is rotated about its center. What is the area of the region swept out by the interior of the square?
Answer: C
Solution:
The above figure illustrates the region that the square sweeps out. We can find the area of the shaded region by splitting it up.
We have four sectors and eight triangles that we can divide the shaded region into.
Note that two triangle regions can be combined to form a kite, which we can easily find the area of.
The area of the four sectors is half the area of the circle. The radius of the circle can be calculating by realizing that the radius is one half the diameter of the square.
Therefore,
One of the diagonals of the kite is Let the other be
Then we get the equation
This equation comes from splitting up a side of the square into and the legs of two isosceles right triangles whose hypotenuse is
Finally, the area of all kites is
The total area is then
Thus, C is the correct answer.
21.
A group of pirates agree to divide a treasure chest of gold coins among themselves as follows. The pirate to take a share takes of the coins that remain in the chest. The number of coins initially in the chest is the smallest number for which this arrangement will allow each pirate to receive a positive whole number of coins. How many coins does the pirate receive?
Answer: D
Solution:
Let be the number of coins initially in the treasure chest. Note that after the pirate, of the coins are left.
This means that is an integer.
We want to minimize while keeping the above expression an integer. Cancelling out the common factors of the numerator and denominator will tell us what needs to be.
After doing this, we get is left in the numerator. If we set equal to the resulting denominator, we have that the th pirate gets coins.
Thus, D is the correct answer.
22.
Six spheres of radius are positioned so that their centers are at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side length The six spheres are internally tangent to a larger sphere whose center is the center of the hexagon. An eighth sphere is externally tangent to the six smaller spheres and internally tangent to the larger sphere. What is the radius of this eighth sphere?
Answer: B
Solution:
We can consider the cross-section of the largest sphere that contains all the six smaller spheres.
From this we can see that the radius of the largest sphere is
Now to find the radius, of the eight sphere, we can construct a right triangle connecting the centers of a small sphere, the seventh sphere, and the eight sphere.
The distance between the small sphere and the seventh sphere is The other leg is the hypotenuse is
We can apply the Pythagorean Theorem to get Simplifying yields
Thus, B is the correct answer.
23.
In and A circle with center and radius intersects at points and Moreover and have integer lengths. What is
Answer: D
Solution:
Let and be the intersections of and the circle as shown in the diagram.
We have that and
We can then apply Power of a Point to get
Since and are integers, we also have that is an integer. Also, by the Triangle Inequality,
Using these two facts combined with we have that the only pair of values that work is and
Thus, D is the correct answer.
24.
Central High School is competing against Northern High School in a backgammon match. Each school has three players, and the contest rules require that each player play two games against each of the other school's players. The match takes place in six rounds, with three games played simultaneously in each round. In how many different ways can the match be scheduled?
Answer: E
Solution:
Label the players from Central High School and and the players from Northern High School and
There are ways to figure out the order in which plays his matches.
We just need to figure out the order in which plays their matches. Then 's matches are fixed.
WLOG, let the order of matches plays be
To figure out the possible arrangements for we can case on the positions of 's and 's.
If goes in the middle two spots, then has to go in the last two spots, Otherwise, the 's will overlap.
Similarly, if the 's go in the last two spots, then there is only spot to put the 's.
If one goes in the middle and the other goes in the last two, then there are options for the 's go.
The 's have options in the first spots and the other is forced to be in the remaining spot in the last
There are ways to place the 's in the above configuration. There are then a total of ways to determine the schedule for 's matches.
We then have to multiply by for the number of configurations for 's matches.
The total number of ways to order the games is then
Thus, E is the correct answer.
25.
All diagonals are drawn in a regular octagon. At how many distinct points in the interior of the octagon (not on the boundary) do two or more diagonals intersect?
Answer: A
Solution:
We can over count the number of intersections and then subtract out the ones we double counted.
Assuming that every set of points contribute one intersection, we have intersections.
Four diagonals intersect in the center, which means that we need to subtract out because of this. We subtract one since we need to still keep one of them.
As shown in the diagram, multiple lines can also intersect in places such as and
There are of these intersections, which means that we have to subtract out more intersections.
This means that the total number of intersections is
Thus, A is the correct answer.