2007 AMC 10A 考试答案
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1.
One ticket to a show costs at full price. Susan buys tickets using a coupon that gives her a discount. Pam buys tickets using a coupon that gives her a discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?
Difficulty rating: 720
Solution:
Susan pays dollars.
Pam pays dollars.
The difference is dollars.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
2.
Define and What is
Difficulty rating: 870
Solution:
The numerator is
The denominator is
The quotient is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
3.
An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures cm by cm and has a height of cm. It is filled with water to a height of cm. A brick with a rectangular base that measures cm by cm and a height of cm is placed in the aquarium. By how many centimeters does the water rise?
Difficulty rating: 960
Solution:
The brick has volume cubic centimeters.
If the water rises by centimeters, the added volume is cubic centimeters.
Setting these equal gives so
Thus, the correct answer is D.
4.
The larger of two consecutive odd integers is three times the smaller. What is their sum?
Difficulty rating: 870
Solution:
Let the smaller integer be Then the larger is and so
The two integers are and and their sum is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
5.
A school store sells pencils and notebooks for It also sells pencils and notebooks for How much do pencils and notebooks cost?
Difficulty rating: 1020
Solution:
Let and be the prices in cents of a pencil and a notebook. Then
Solving this system gives and
So pencils and notebooks cost cents, or
Thus, the correct answer is B.
6.
At Euclid High School, the number of students taking the AMC 10 was in in in in in and is in Between what two consecutive years was there the largest percentage increase?
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Difficulty rating: 960
Solution:
From to the increase is
The other increases are and each less than
So the largest percentage increase was between and
Thus, the correct answer is A.
7.
Last year Mr. John Q. Public received an inheritance. He paid in federal taxes on the inheritance, and paid of what he had left in state taxes. He paid a total of for both taxes. How many dollars was the inheritance?
Difficulty rating: 1070
Solution:
After federal taxes, Mr. Public keeps of his inheritance.
State taxes take of that, which is of the inheritance.
The total tax is of the inheritance, so the inheritance is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
8.
Triangles and are isosceles with and Point is inside and What is the degree measure of
Difficulty rating: 1170
Solution:
Since is isosceles,
Since is isosceles,
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is D.
9.
Real numbers and satisfy the equations and What is
Difficulty rating: 1240
Solution:
The equations become and
So and
Solving gives and so
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 the father is years old, and the average age of the mother and children is How many children are in the family?
Difficulty rating: 1240
Solution:
Let be the number of children and the total age of the family.
Then and
These give and so
Hence and
Thus, the correct answer is E.
11.
The numbers from to 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?
Difficulty rating: 1280
Solution:
Each vertex belongs to exactly three faces, so summing the numbers over all six faces gives
There are six faces, so the common sum is
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?
Difficulty rating: 1330
Solution:
Each tourist independently chooses one of the two guides, giving arrangements.
Exactly two of these leave a guide with no tourists, so the answer is
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 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?
Difficulty rating: 1420
Solution:
Let and be Yan's distances from home and from the stadium, and let be his walking speed.
Walking to the stadium takes Walking home and biking takes
Setting these equal gives so and
Thus, the correct answer is B.
14.
A triangle with side lengths in the ratio is inscribed in a circle of radius What is the area of the triangle?
Difficulty rating: 1420
Solution:
Let the sides be The triangle is right-angled, so its hypotenuse is a diameter.
Thus giving
The area is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
15.
Four circles of radius are each tangent to two sides of a square and externally tangent to a circle of radius as shown. What is the area of the square?
Difficulty rating: 1540
Solution:
Consider the isosceles right triangle joining the center of the radius- circle to the centers of two adjacent small circles. Its legs have length so its hypotenuse is
The side of the square exceeds this hypotenuse by (one radius on each end), so
The area is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
16.
Integers and not necessarily distinct, are chosen independently and at random from to inclusive. What is the probability that is even?
Difficulty rating: 1540
Solution:
Half the integers from to are odd, so each of and is odd with probability and even with probability
The difference is even when both products have the same parity:
Thus, the correct answer is E.
17.
Suppose that and are positive integers such that What is the minimum possible value of
Difficulty rating: 1480
Solution:
Since every prime factor must occur a multiple of three times.
The smallest such is giving and
Then
Thus, the correct answer is D.
18.
Consider the -sided polygon as shown. Each of its sides has length and each two consecutive sides form a right angle. Suppose that and meet at What is the area of quadrilateral
Difficulty rating: 1790
Solution:
Put the figure on coordinates with and
Line is and line is
Their intersection is
Applying the shoelace formula to gives area
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?
Difficulty rating: 1820
Solution:
Let be the side, the brush width, and the leg of one unpainted isosceles right triangle. Each triangle has area so and
The leg plus the brush width is half the diagonal: Thus
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is C.
20.
Suppose that the number satisfies the equation What is the value of
Difficulty rating: 1460
Solution:
Squaring gives so
Squaring again gives so
Thus, the correct answer is D.
21.
A sphere is inscribed in a cube that has a surface area of square meters. A second cube is then inscribed within the sphere. What is the surface area in square meters of the inner cube?
Difficulty rating: 1580
Solution:
Each face of the outer cube has area so its side is and the sphere has diameter
This diameter is the space diagonal of the inner cube, so giving
The inner cube's surface area is
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 and and end with the term Let be the sum of all the terms in the sequence. What is the largest prime number that always divides
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 is the sum of the units digits of all terms, then so is always divisible by
The sequence gives which has no larger prime factor forced, so is the answer.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
23.
How many ordered pairs of positive integers, with have the property that their squares differ by
Difficulty rating: 1400
Solution:
Since and is even, both factors must be even.
The even factor pairs are and giving and
So there are ordered pairs.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
24.
Circles centered at and each have radius as shown. Point is the midpoint of and Segments and are tangent to the circles centered at and respectively, and is a common tangent. What is the area of the shaded region
Difficulty rating: 1960
Solution:
Rectangle has area
Right triangles and each have hypotenuse and a leg of so each is isosceles right with area
Angles and are each so sectors and each have area
The shaded area is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
25.
For each positive integer let denote the sum of the digits of For how many values of is
Difficulty rating: 2200
Solution:
If then and so
Since and all leave the same remainder modulo and is a multiple of each must be a multiple of
Checking the multiples of between and the condition holds for and
So there are values of
Thus, the correct answer is D.