2025 AMC 8 Exam Problems

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1.

The eight-pointed star, shown in the figure below, is a popular quilting pattern. What percent of the entire 44-by-44 grid is covered by the star?

4040

5050

6060

7575

8080

Answer: B
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2.

The table below shows the ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs that were used to represent different numbers.

For example, the number 3232 was represented by:

What number was represented by the following combination of heiroglyphs?

1,4231,423

10,42310,423

14,02314,023

14,20314,203

14,23014,230

Answer: B
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3.

Buffalo Shuffle-o is a card game in which all the cards are distributed evenly among all players at the start of the game. When Annika and 33 of her friends play Buffalo Shuffle-o, each player is dealt 1515 cards. Suppose 22 more friends join the next game. How many cards will be dealt to each player?

88

99

1010

1111

1212

Answer: C
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4.

Lucius is counting backward by 77s. His first three numbers are 100,100, 93,93, and 86.86. What is his 1010th number?

3030

3737

4242

4444

4747

Answer: B
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5.

Betty drives a truck to deliver packages in a neighborhood whose street map is shown below. Betty starts at the factory (labeled FF) and drives to location A,A, then B,B, then C,C, before returning to F.F. What is the shortest distance, in blocks, she can drive to complete the route?

2020

2222

2424

2626

2828

Answer: C
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6.

Sekou writes the numbers 15,15, 16,16, 17,17, 18,18, 19.19. After he erases one of the numbers, the sum of the remaining four numbers is a multiple of 4.4. Which number did he erase?

1515

1616

1717

1818

1919

Answer: C
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7.

On the most recent exam in Prof. Xochi's class,

55 students earned a score of at least 95%,95\%,

1313 students earned a score of at least 90%,90\%,

2727 students earned a score of at least 85%,85\%, and

5050 students earned a score of at least 80%.80\%.

How many students earned a score of at least 80%80\% and less than 90%?90\%?

88

1414

2222

3737

4545

Answer: D
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8.

Isaiah cuts open a cardboard cube along some of its edges to form the flat shape shown, which has an area of 1818 square centimeters. What was the volume of the cube in cubic centimeters?

333\sqrt{3}

66

99

636\sqrt{3}

939\sqrt{3}

Answer: A
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9.

Ningli looks at the 66 pairs of numbers directly across from each other on a clock. She takes the average of each pair of numbers. What is the average of the resulting 66 numbers?

55

6.56.5

88

9.59.5

1212

Answer: B
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10.

In the figure below, ABCDABCD is a rectangle with sides of length AB=5AB = 5 inches and AD=3AD = 3 inches. Rectangle ABCDABCD is rotated 9090^\circ clockwise around the midpoint of side DCDC to give a second rectangle. What is the total area, in square inches, covered by the two overlapping rectangles?

2121

22.2522.25

2323

23.7523.75

2525

Answer: D
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11.

A tetromino consists of four squares connected along their edges. There are five possible tetromino shapes, I, O, L, T, and S, shown below, which can be rotated or flipped over. Three tetrominoes are used to completely cover a 3×43 \times 4 rectangle. At least one of the tiles is an S tile. What are the other two tiles?

I and L

I and T

L and L

L and S

O and T

Answer: C
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12.

The region shown below consists of 2424 squares, each with side length 11 centimeter. What is the area, in square centimeters, of the largest circle that can fit inside the region, possibly touching the boundaries?

3π3\pi

4π4\pi

5π5\pi

6π6\pi

8π8\pi

Answer: C
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13.

Each of the even numbers 2,2, 4,4, 6,6, ,\dots, 5050 is divided by 7.7. The remainders are recorded. Which histogram displays the number of times each remainder occurs?

Answer: A
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14.

A number NN is inserted into the list 2,2, 6,6, 7,7, 7,7, 28.28. The mean is now twice as great as the median. What is N?N?

77

1414

2020

2828

3434

Answer: E
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15.

Kei draws a 66-by-66 grid. He colors 1313 of the unit squares silver and the remaining squares gold. Kei then folds the grid in half vertically, forming pairs of overlapping unit squares. Let mm and MM equal the least and greatest possible number of gold-on-gold pairs, respectively. What is the value of m+M?m+M?

1212

1414

1616

1818

2020

Answer: C
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16.

Five distinct integers from 11 to 1010 are chosen, and five distinct integers from 1111 to 2020 are chosen. No two numbers differ by exactly 10.10. What is the sum of the ten chosen numbers?

9595

100100

105105

110110

115115

Answer: C
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17.

In the land of Markovia, there are three cities: A,A, B,B, and C.C. There are 100100 people who live in A,A, 120120 who live in B,B, and 160160 who live in C.C. Everyone works in one of the three cities, and a person may work in the same city where they live. In the figure below, an arrow pointing from one city to another is labeled with the fraction of people living in the first city who work in the second city. (For example, 14\frac{1}{4} of the people who live in AA work in B.B.) How many people work in A?A?

5555

6060

8585

115115

160160

Answer: D
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18.

The circle shown below on the left has a radius of 11 unit. The region between the circle and the inscribed square is shaded. In the circle shown on the right, one quarter of the region between the circle and the inscribed square is shaded. The shaded regions in the two circles have the same area. What is the radius R,R, in units, of the circle on the right?

2\sqrt{2}

22

222\sqrt{2}

44

424\sqrt{2}

Answer: B
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19.

Two towns, AA and B,B, are connected by a straight road, 1515 miles long. Traveling from town AA to town B,B, the speed limit changes every 55 miles: from 2525 to 4040 to 2020 miles per hour (mph). Two cars, one at town AA and one at town B,B, start moving toward each other at the same time. They drive at exactly the speed limit in each portion of the road. How far from town A,A, in miles, will the two cars meet?

7.757.75

88

8.258.25

8.58.5

8.758.75

Answer: D
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20.

Sarika, Dev, and Rajiv are sharing a large block of cheese. They take turns cutting off half of what remains and eating it: first Sarika eats half of the cheese, then Dev eats half of the remaining half, then Rajiv eats half of what remains, then back to Sarika, and so on. They stop when the cheese is too small to see. About what fraction of the original block of cheese does Sarika eat in total?

47\dfrac{4}{7}

35\dfrac{3}{5}

23\dfrac{2}{3}

34\dfrac{3}{4}

78\dfrac{7}{8}

Answer: A
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21.

The Konigsberg School has assigned grades 11 through 77 to pods AA through G,G, one grade per pod. Some of the pods are connected by walkways, as shown in the figure below. The school noticed that each pair of connected pods has been assigned grades differing by 22 or more grade levels. (For example, grades 11 and 22 will not be in pods directly connected by a walkway.) What is the sum of the grade levels assigned to pods C,C, E,E, and F?F?

1212

1313

1414

1515

1616

Answer: A
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22.

A classroom has a row of 3535 coat hooks. Paulina likes coats to be equally spaced, so that there is the same number of empty hooks before the first coat, after the last coat, and between every coat and the next one. Suppose there is at least 11 coat and at least 11 empty hook. How many different numbers of coats can satisfy Paulina's pattern?

22

44

55

77

99

Answer: D
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23.

How many four-digit numbers have all three of the following properties?

(I) The tens digit and ones digit are both 9.9.

(II) The number is 11 less than a perfect square.

(III) The number is the product of exactly two prime numbers.

00

11

22

33

44

Answer: B
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24.

In trapezoid ABCD,ABCD, angles BB and CC measure 6060^\circ and AB=DC.AB = DC. The side lengths are all positive integers and the perimeter of ABCDABCD is 3030 units. How many non-congruent trapezoids satisfy all of these conditions?

00

11

22

33

44

Answer: E
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25.

Makayla finds all the possible ways to draw a path in a 5×55 \times 5 diamond-shaped grid. Each path starts at the bottom of the grid and ends at the top, always moving one unit northeast or northwest. She computes the area of the region between each path and the right side of the grid. Two examples are shown in the figures below. What is the sum of the areas determined by all possible paths?

25202520

31503150

38403840

47304730

50505050

Answer: B
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