2007 AMC 10B 考试答案
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1.
Isabella's house has bedrooms. Each bedroom is feet long, feet wide, and feet high. Isabella must paint the walls of all the bedrooms. Doorways and windows, which will not be painted, occupy square feet in each bedroom. How many square feet of walls must be painted?
Difficulty rating: 720
Solution:
The walls of one bedroom have area square feet. Subtracting the square feet of doorways and windows leaves square feet per bedroom.
With bedrooms, the total is square feet.
Thus, the correct answer is E.
2.
Define the operation by What is
Difficulty rating: 870
Solution:
Since and the difference is
Thus, the correct answer is E.
3.
A college student drove his compact car miles home for the weekend and averaged miles per gallon. On the return trip the student drove his parents' SUV and averaged only miles per gallon. What was the average gas mileage, in miles per gallon, for the round trip?
Difficulty rating: 980
Solution:
The student used gallons driving home and gallons returning, for gallons over miles.
The average is miles per gallon.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
4.
The point is the center of the circle circumscribed about with and as shown. What is the degree measure of
Difficulty rating: 1030
Solution:
Since triangles and are isosceles. The base angles give and
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is D.
5.
In a certain land, all Arogs are Brafs, all Crups are Brafs, all Dramps are Arogs, and all Crups are Dramps. Which of the following statements is implied by these facts?
All Dramps are Brafs and are Crups.
All Brafs are Crups and are Dramps.
All Arogs are Crups and are Dramps.
All Crups are Arogs and are Brafs.
All Arogs are Dramps and some Arogs may not be Crups.
Difficulty rating: 1020
Solution:
Writing the statements as implications, being a Crup implies being a Dramp, a Dramp implies being an Arog, and an Arog implies being a Braf:
So every Crup is a Dramp, an Arog, and a Braf. The only listed statement guaranteed true is that all Crups are Arogs and Brafs.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
6.
The 2007 AMC 10 will be scored by awarding points for each correct response, points for each incorrect response, and points for each problem left unanswered. After looking over the problems, Sarah has decided to attempt the first and leave only the last unanswered. How many of the first problems must she solve correctly in order to score at least points?
Difficulty rating: 1120
Solution:
The three blank problems give points, so Sarah needs points from the first
Since lies between and she must answer at least correctly, which would give a score of
Thus, the correct answer is D.
7.
All sides of the convex pentagon are of equal length, and What is the degree measure of
Difficulty rating: 1190
Solution:
Because and quadrilateral is a square, so
The remaining sides satisfy so is equilateral and
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is E.
8.
On the trip home from the meeting where this AMC 10 was constructed, the Contest Chair noted that his airport parking receipt had digits of the form where and was the average of and How many different five-digit numbers satisfy all these properties?
Difficulty rating: 1290
Solution:
Once and are chosen, is determined, and holds automatically. For to be an integer, and must share parity.
Choosing two even digits from gives pairs, and choosing two odd digits from gives another
This yields valid numbers.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
9.
A cryptographic code is designed as follows. The first time a letter appears in a given message it is replaced by the letter that is place to its right in the alphabet (assuming that the letter A is one place to the right of the letter Z). The second time this same letter appears in the given message, it is replaced by the letter that is places to the right, the third time it is replaced by the letter that is places to the right, and so on. For example, with this code the word "banana" becomes "cbodqg". What letter will replace the last letter s in the message
"Lee's sis is a Mississippi miss, Chriss!"?
Difficulty rating: 1370
Solution:
The final s is the th appearance of the letter s in the message, so it is shifted places to the right.
Since is a multiple of the alphabet length the shift returns to the same letter, s.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
10.
Two points and are in a plane. Let be the set of all points in the plane for which has area Which of the following describes
two parallel lines
a parabola
a circle
a line segment
two points
Difficulty rating: 1270
Solution:
Taking as the base, the area is where is the distance from to line The area equals exactly when
The points at this fixed distance from line form two lines parallel to one on each side.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
11.
A circle passes through the three vertices of an isosceles triangle that has two sides of length and a base of length What is the area of this circle?
Difficulty rating: 1460
Solution:
The triangle has sides Its area is
The circumradius is
The area of the circle is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
12.
Tom's age is years, which is also the sum of the ages of his three children. His age years ago was twice the sum of their ages then. What is
Difficulty rating: 1290
Solution:
years ago Tom's age was and the sum of his three children's ages was
The condition gives so which simplifies to
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is D.
13.
Two circles of radius are centered at and at What is the area of the intersection of the interiors of the two circles?
Difficulty rating: 1580
Solution:
The two circles intersect at and
By symmetry, half the intersection is formed by removing an isosceles right triangle of leg length from a quarter of one circle. The quarter-circle has area and the triangle has area
Therefore the whole region has area
Thus, the correct answer is D.
14.
Some boys and girls are having a car wash to raise money for a class trip to China. Initially of the group are girls. Shortly thereafter two girls leave and two boys arrive, and then of the group are girls. How many girls were initially in the group?
Difficulty rating: 1330
Solution:
Two girls leave and two boys arrive, so the group size is unchanged. The two girls who left therefore represent of the group.
Thus the group has people, and the original number of girls was of or
Thus, the correct answer is C.
15.
The angles of quadrilateral satisfy What is the degree measure of rounded to the nearest whole number?
Difficulty rating: 1370
Solution:
Let Then and
The angles sum to so
Thus
Thus, the correct answer is D.
16.
A teacher gave a test to a class in which of the students are juniors and are seniors. The average score on the test was The juniors all received the same score, and the average score of the seniors was What score did each of the juniors receive on the test?
Difficulty rating: 1330
Solution:
Suppose the class has students: one junior and nine seniors. The total of all scores is
The nine seniors total so the junior's score is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
17.
Point is inside equilateral Points and are the feet of the perpendiculars from to and respectively. Given that and what is
Difficulty rating: 1640
Solution:
Let the side length be The perpendiculars from are the heights of triangles and so their areas are and
Their sum equals the area of which is also Hence
The positive solution is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
18.
A circle of radius is surrounded by circles of radius as shown. What is
Difficulty rating: 1680
Solution:
Connect the centers of the four outer circles to form a square. Adjacent outer circles are tangent, so each side has length
The diagonal of the square passes through the center circle, giving length Since a square with side has diagonal we get
Expanding gives so The positive root is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
19.
The wheel shown is spun twice, and the randomly determined numbers opposite the pointer are recorded. The first number is divided by and the second number is divided by The first remainder designates a column, and the second remainder designates a row on the checkerboard shown. What is the probability that the pair of numbers designates a shaded square?
Difficulty rating: 1490
Solution:
The shaded squares are those where the two remainders are both odd or both even. The first remainder is even (from the numbers and ) with probability and odd with probability
The second remainder is even with probability and odd with probability
The probability that they share parity is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
20.
A set of square blocks is arranged into a square. How many different combinations of blocks can be selected from that set so that no two are in the same row or column?
Difficulty rating: 1700
Solution:
Choose of the rows in ways and of the columns in ways.
The three chosen blocks must occupy distinct rows and columns, so they form a matching between the three rows and three columns, which can be done in ways.
The total is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
21.
Right has and Square is inscribed in with and on on and on What is the side length of the square?
Difficulty rating: 1720
Solution:
Let be the side of the square and the altitude from to Then
The small triangle above the square is similar to with the square's top side as its base, giving so
Substituting,
Thus, the correct answer is B.
22.
A player chooses one of the numbers through After the choice has been made, two regular four-sided (tetrahedral) dice are rolled, with the sides of the dice numbered through If the number chosen appears on the bottom of exactly one die after it is rolled, then the player wins $1. If the number chosen appears on the bottom of both of the dice, then the player wins $2. If the number chosen does not appear on the bottom of either of the dice, the player loses $1. What is the expected return to the player, in dollars, for one roll of the dice?
Difficulty rating: 1780
Solution:
Each die shows the chosen number on the bottom with probability So the number appears or times with probabilities
The expected return is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
23.
A pyramid with a square base is cut by a plane that is parallel to its base and is units from the base. The surface area of the smaller pyramid that is cut from the top is half the surface area of the original pyramid. What is the altitude of the original pyramid?
Difficulty rating: 1880
Solution:
Let be the altitude of the original pyramid; the smaller pyramid has altitude The two pyramids are similar, so the ratio of their surface areas is the square of the ratio of their altitudes.
The smaller surface area is half the original, so giving
Then so and
Thus, the correct answer is E.
24.
Let denote the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both and and whose base- representation consists of only 's and 's, with at least one of each. What are the last four digits of
Difficulty rating: 1980
Solution:
Since is divisible by its digit sum is a multiple of With fours and nines, the digit sum is so forcing Thus and with at least one the number has at least ten digits.
For divisibility by the last two digits must form a multiple of and among only works, so ends in
The smallest such ten-digit number places the single in the lowest available position, giving Its last four digits are
Thus, the correct answer is C.
25.
How many pairs of positive integers are there such that and have no common factors greater than and
is an integer?
infinitely many
Difficulty rating: 2170
Solution:
Combining, the expression is For this to be an integer, must divide hence Since we get Similarly gives
So and Checking these, only makes the expression an integer for each allowed
The valid pairs are and for a total of
Thus, the correct answer is A.