2024 AMC 8 Exam Problems

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1.

What is the ones digit of 222,22222,2222,222222222?\begin{align*} & 222,222 - 22,222 - 2,222 \\ &- 222 - 22 - 2? \end{align*}

00

22

44

66

88

Answer: B
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2.

What is the value of this expression in decimal form? 4411+11044+441100 \frac{44}{11} + \frac{110}{44} + \frac{44}{1100}

6.46.4

6.5046.504

6.546.54

6.96.9

6.946.94

Answer: C
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3.

Four squares of side length 4,4, 7,7, 9,9, and 1010 units are arranged in increasing size order so that their left edges and bottom edges align. The squares alternate in color, as shown in the figure. What is the area of the visible colored region in square units?

4242

4545

4949

5050

5252

Answer: E
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4.

When Yunji added all the integers from 11 to 9,9, she mistakenly left out a number. Her incorrect sum turned out to be a square number. Which number did Yunji leave out?

55

66

77

88

99

Answer: E
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5.

Aaliyah rolls two standard 6-sided dice. She notices that the product of the two numbers rolled is a multiple of 6. Which of the following integers cannot be the sum of the two numbers?

55

66

77

88

99

Answer: B
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6.

Sergei skated around an ice rink, gliding along different paths. The gray lines in the figures below show four of the paths labeled P, Q, R, and S. What is the sorted order of the four paths from shortest to longest?

P, Q, R, S

P, R, S, Q

Q, S, P, R

R, P, S, Q

R, S, P, Q

Answer: D
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7.

A 3×73 \times 7 rectangle is covered without overlap by 33 shapes of tiles: 2×2,2 \times 2, 1×4,1 \times 4, and 1×1,1 \times 1, shown below. What is the minimum possible number of 1×11 \times 1 tiles used?

11

22

33

44

55

Answer: E
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8.

On Monday Taye has 2.Everyday,heeithergains2. Every day, he either gains 3 or doubles the amount of money he had on the previous day. How many different dollar amounts could Taye have on Thursday, 3 days later?

33

44

55

66

77

Answer: D
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9.

All of the marbles in Maria's collection are red, green, or blue. Maria has half as many red marbles as green marbles and twice as many blue marbles as green marbles. Which of the following could be the total number of marbles in Maria's collection?

2424

2525

2626

2727

2828

Answer: E
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10.

In January 1980 the Mauna Loa Observatory recorded carbon dioxide CO2 levels of 338 ppm (parts per million). Over the years the average CO2 reading has increased by about 1.515 ppm each year. What is the expected CO2 level in ppm in January 2030? Round your answer to the nearest integer.

399399

414414

420420

444444

459459

Answer: B
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11.

The coordinates of ABC\bigtriangleup ABC are A(5,7),A(5, 7), B(11,7),B(11, 7), and C(3,y),C(3, y), with y>7.y > 7. The area of ABC\bigtriangleup ABC is 12.12. What is the value of y?y?

88

99

1010

1111

1212

Answer: D
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12.

Rohan keeps a total of 90 guppies in 4 fish tanks.

• There is 1 more guppy in the 2nd tank than in the 1st tank.

• There are 2 more guppies in the 3rd tank than in the 2nd tank.

• There are 3 more guppies in the 4th tank than in the 3rd tank.

How many guppies are in the 4th tank?

2020

2121

2323

2424

2626

Answer: E
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13.

Buzz Bunny is hopping up and down a set of stairs, one step at a time. In how many ways can Buzz start on the ground, make a sequence of 6 hops, and end up back on the ground? (For example, one sequence of hops is up-up-down-down-up-down.)

44

55

66

88

1212

Answer: B
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14.

The one-way routes connecting towns A,A, M,M, C,C, X,X, Y,Y, and ZZ are shown in the figure below (not drawn to scale). The distances in kilometers along each route are marked. Traveling along these routes, what is the shortest distance from AA to ZZ in kilometers?

2828

2929

3030

3131

3232

Answer: A
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15.

Let the letters F, L, Y, B, U, G represent distinct digits. Suppose FLYFLY is the greatest number that satisfies the equation 8FLYFLY=BUGBUG. 8 \cdot \text{FLYFLY} = \text{BUGBUG}. What is the value of FLY+BUG?\text{FLY} + \text{BUG}?

10891089

10981098

11071107

11161116

11251125

Answer: C
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16.

Minh enters the numbers 11 through 8181 into the cells of a 9×99 \times 9 grid in some order. She calculates the product of the numbers in each row and column. What is the least number of rows and columns that could have a product divisible by 3?3?

88

99

1010

1111

1212

Answer: D
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17.

A chess king is said to attack all the squares one step away from it, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. For instance, a king on the center square of a 3×33 \times 3 grid attacks all 88 other squares, as shown below. Suppose a white king and a black king are placed on different squares of a 3×33 \times 3 grid so that they do not attack each other. In how many ways can this be done?

2020

2424

2727

2828

3232

Answer: E
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18.

Three concentric circles centered at OO have radii of 1,1, 2,2, and 3.3. Points BB and CC lie on the largest circle. The region between the two smaller circles is shaded, as is the portion of the region between the two larger circles bounded by central angle BOC,BOC, as shown in the figure below. Suppose the shaded and unshaded regions are equal in area. What is the measure of BOC\angle BOC in degrees?

108108

120120

135135

144144

150150

Answer: A
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19.

Jordan owns 15 pairs of sneakers. Three fifths of the pairs are red and the rest are white. Two thirds of the pairs are high-top and the rest are low-top. The red high-top sneakers make up a fraction of the collection. What is the least possible value of this fraction?

00

15\dfrac{1}{5}

415\dfrac{4}{15}

13\dfrac{1}{3}

25\dfrac{2}{5}

Answer: C
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20.

Any three vertices of the cube PQRSTUVW,PQRSTUVW, shown in the figure below, can be connected to form a triangle. (For example, vertices P,P, Q,Q, and RR can be connected to form isosceles PQR.\bigtriangleup PQR. How many of these triangles are equilateral and contain PP as a vertex?

00

11

22

33

66

Answer: D
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21.

A group of frogs (called an army) is living in a tree. A frog turns green when in the shade and turns yellow when in the sun. Initially the ratio of green to yellow frogs was 3:1.3 : 1. Then 33 green frogs moved to the sunny side and 55 yellow frogs moved to the shady side. Now the ratio is 4:1.4 : 1. What is the difference between the number of green frogs and yellow frogs now?

1010

1212

1616

2020

2424

Answer: E
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22.

A roll of tape is 44 inches in diameter and is wrapped around a ring that is 2 inches in diameter. A cross section of the tape is shown in the figure below. The tape is 0.0150.015 inches thick. If the tape is completely unrolled, approximately how long would it be? Round your answer to the nearest 100100 inches.

300300

600600

12001200

15001500

18001800

Answer: B
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23.

Rodrigo has a very large piece of graph paper. First he draws a line segment connecting point (0,4)(0, 4) to point (2,0)(2, 0) and colors the 44 cells whose interiors intersect the segment, as shown below. Next Rodrigo draws a line segment connecting point (2000,3000)(2000, 3000) to point (5000,8000).(5000, 8000). Again he colors the cells whose interiors intersect the segment. How many cells will he color this time?

60006000

65006500

70007000

75007500

80008000

Answer: C
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24.

Jean made a piece of stained glass art in the shape of two mountains, as shown in the figure below. One mountain peak is 88 feet high and the other peak is 1212 feet high. Each peak forms a 9090^\circ angle, and the straight sides of the mountains form 4545^\circ angles with the ground. The artwork has an area of 183183 square feet. The sides of the mountains meet at an intersection point near the center of the artwork, hh feet above the ground. What is the value of h?h?

44

55

424\sqrt{2}

66

525\sqrt{2}

Answer: B
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25.

A small airplane has 4 rows of seats with 3 seats in each row. Eight passengers have boarded the plane and are distributed randomly among the seats. A married couple is next to board. What is the probability there will be 2 adjacent seats in the same row for the couple?

815\dfrac{8}{15}

3255\dfrac{32}{55}

2033\dfrac{20}{33}

3455\dfrac{34}{55}

811\dfrac{8}{11}

Answer: C
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