2009 AMC 10A 考试答案
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1.
One can holds ounces of soda. What is the minimum number of cans needed to provide a gallon ounces of soda?
Difficulty rating: 560
Solution:
Since ten cans hold only ounces, which is not enough.
Therefore cans are needed.
Thus, the correct answer is E.
2.
Four coins are picked out of a piggy bank that contains a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Which of the following could not be the total value of the four coins, in cents?
Difficulty rating: 940
Solution:
To get a multiple of cents, the number of pennies must be a multiple of With only four coins, that means using no pennies, but then the four coins are each worth at least cents, for a total of at least cents.
So cents cannot be made. The others can: and
Thus, the correct answer is A.
3.
Which of the following is equal to
Difficulty rating: 870
Solution:
Working outward,
Thus, the correct answer is C.
4.
Eric plans to compete in a triathlon. He can average miles per hour in the -mile swim and miles per hour in the -mile run. His goal is to finish the triathlon in hours. To accomplish his goal what must his average speed, in miles per hour, be for the -mile bicycle ride?
Difficulty rating: 1030
Solution:
The swim takes hour and the run takes hour. This leaves hours for the bicycle ride.
His average speed must be miles per hour.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
5.
What is the sum of the digits of the square of
Difficulty rating: 1070
Solution:
The square of the nine-digit repunit is the palindrome
Its digits are so the sum is
Thus, the correct answer is E.
6.
A circle of radius is inscribed in a semicircle, as shown. The area inside the semicircle but outside the circle is shaded. What fraction of the semicircle's area is shaded?
Difficulty rating: 1020
Solution:
The inscribed circle rests on the diameter and is tangent to the arc, so the semicircle has radius Its area is
The circle's area is so the shaded area is
The shaded fraction is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
7.
A carton contains milk that is fat, an amount that is less fat than the amount contained in a carton of whole milk. What is the percentage of fat in whole milk?
Difficulty rating: 960
Solution:
Let whole milk be fat. Since is less than we have so
Thus, the correct answer is C.
8.
Three generations of the Wen family are going to the movies, two from each generation. The two members of the youngest generation receive a discount as children. The two members of the oldest generation receive a discount as senior citizens. The two members of the middle generation receive no discount. Grandfather Wen, whose senior ticket costs is paying for everyone. How many dollars must he pay?
Difficulty rating: 1060
Solution:
The senior ticket costs which is of the full price, so a full ticket costs and a child ticket costs
The total is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
9.
Positive integers and with form a geometric sequence with an integer ratio. What is
Difficulty rating: 1240
Solution:
Let the common ratio be Then
Since must be an integer greater than the only possibility is giving and the sequence
Thus, the correct answer is B.
10.
Triangle has a right angle at Point is the foot of the altitude from and What is the area of
Difficulty rating: 1240
Solution:
For the altitude from the right angle to the hypotenuse, so
The hypotenuse is so the area is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
11.
One dimension of a cube is increased by another is decreased by and the third is left unchanged. The volume of the new rectangular solid is less than that of the cube. What was the volume of the cube?
Difficulty rating: 1100
Solution:
Let the cube have side length The new solid has volume
Setting this equal to gives so
The cube's volume is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
12.
In quadrilateral and is an integer. What is
Difficulty rating: 1220
Solution:
In the triangle inequality gives so
In it gives so
The only integer with is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
13.
Suppose that and Which of the following is equal to for every pair of integers
Difficulty rating: 1280
Solution:
Since
Thus, the correct answer is E.
14.
Four congruent rectangles are placed as shown. The area of the outer square is times that of the inner square. What is the ratio of the length of the longer side of each rectangle to the length of its shorter side?
Difficulty rating: 1340
Solution:
Let each rectangle have shorter side and longer side The outer square has side length and the inner square has side length
Since the area ratio is the side ratio is so which gives
The ratio of longer to shorter side is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
15.
The figures and shown are the first in a sequence of figures. For is constructed from by surrounding it with a square and placing one more diamond on each side of the new square than had on each side of its outside square. For example, figure has diamonds. How many diamonds are there in figure
Difficulty rating: 1400
Solution:
Going from to the new outside square carries diamonds. Starting from the single diamond of
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is E.
16.
Let and be real numbers with and What is the sum of all possible values of
Difficulty rating: 1400
Solution:
Since the possible absolute values are
Their sum is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
17.
Rectangle has and Segment is constructed through so that and and lie on and respectively. What is
Difficulty rating: 1580
Solution:
The diagonal is
Right triangles and are all similar to From
From
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is C.
18.
At Jefferson Summer Camp, of the children play soccer, of the children swim, and of the soccer players swim. To the nearest whole percent, what percent of the non-swimmers play soccer?
Difficulty rating: 1460
Solution:
Take children: play soccer, and of them, or also swim. So soccer players do not swim.
There are swimmers and non-swimmers, so the fraction of non-swimmers who play soccer is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
19.
Circle has radius Circle has an integer radius and remains internally tangent to circle as it rolls once around the circumference of circle The two circles have the same points of tangency at the beginning and end of circle 's trip. How many possible values can have?
Difficulty rating: 1630
Solution:
The circumferences are and so the initial point of tangency returns after rolls.
For this to be an integer greater than must be a divisor of less than namely and That is values.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
20.
Andrea and Lauren are kilometers apart. They bike toward one another with Andrea traveling three times as fast as Lauren, and the distance between them decreasing at a rate of kilometer per minute. After minutes, Andrea stops biking because of a flat tire and waits for Lauren. After how many minutes from the time they started to bike does Lauren reach Andrea?
Difficulty rating: 1510
Solution:
Let Lauren's rate be km/min. Then so
In the first minutes the gap shrinks by km, leaving km. Lauren covers this alone at km/min, taking minutes.
The total time is minutes.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
21.
Many Gothic cathedrals have windows with portions containing a ring of congruent circles that are circumscribed by a larger circle. In the figure shown, the number of smaller circles is four. What is the ratio of the sum of the areas of the four smaller circles to the area of the larger circle?
Difficulty rating: 1690
Solution:
Let each small circle have radius Their centers form a square of side whose diagonal is
The large circle's diameter is so its radius is
The desired ratio is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
22.
Two cubical dice each have removable numbers through The twelve numbers on the two dice are removed, put into a bag, then drawn one at a time and randomly reattached to the faces of the cubes, one number to each face. The dice are then rolled and the numbers on the two top faces are added. What is the probability that the sum is
Difficulty rating: 1820
Solution:
Randomly attaching the tiles and then rolling is equivalent to choosing two of the twelve numbers at random and adding them.
Suppose the first top face shows For a sum of the second must be and there are exactly tiles equal to among the remaining
So the probability is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
23.
Convex quadrilateral has and Diagonals and intersect at and and have equal areas. What is
Difficulty rating: 1690
Solution:
Since adding to both gives These share base so and are equidistant from line meaning
Then with ratio so
With we get
Thus, the correct answer is E.
24.
Three distinct vertices of a cube are chosen at random. What is the probability that the plane determined by these three vertices contains points inside the cube?
Difficulty rating: 1860
Solution:
Three vertices determine a plane that cuts through the interior unless all three lie on a single face.
Each of the faces gives triples, so triples lie on a face out of total.
The probability of hitting the interior is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
25.
For let where there are zeros between the and the Let be the number of factors of in the prime factorization of What is the maximum value of
Difficulty rating: 2160
Solution:
Write
If the first term has fewer than factors of so
If the first term has at least factors of while the second has exactly so their sum has exactly
If then Since it contributes exactly one more factor of Thus
The maximum value is
Thus, the correct answer is B.