2009 AMC 10B 考试答案
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1.
Each morning of her five-day workweek, Jane bought either a -cent muffin or a -cent bagel. Her total cost for the week was a whole number of dollars. How many bagels did she buy?
Difficulty rating: 720
Solution:
If Jane buys bagels, she buys muffins, for a total of cents. This is a whole number of dollars when is a multiple of that is, when or
The only value with is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
2.
Which of the following is equal to
Difficulty rating: 720
Solution:
The least common denominator of the small fractions is so multiply top and bottom by
Thus, the correct answer is C.
3.
Paula the painter had just enough paint for identically sized rooms. Unfortunately, on the way to work, three cans of paint fell off her truck, so she had only enough paint for rooms. How many cans of paint did she use for the rooms?
Difficulty rating: 870
Solution:
The lost cans would have painted rooms, so each room takes of a can.
For rooms she used cans.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
4.
A rectangular yard contains two flower beds in the shape of congruent isosceles right triangles. The remainder of the yard has a trapezoidal shape, as shown. The parallel sides of the trapezoid have lengths and meters. What fraction of the yard is occupied by the flower beds?
Difficulty rating: 960
Solution:
The two parallel sides differ by split evenly between the two triangles, so each isosceles right triangle has legs of length and area
Together the beds cover square meters. The rectangle has length and width so area The fraction is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
5.
Twenty percent less than is one-third more than what number?
Difficulty rating: 870
Solution:
Twenty percent less than is
If is the unknown number, one-third more than is so
Thus, the correct answer is D.
6.
Kiana has two older twin brothers. The product of their three ages is What is the sum of their three ages?
Difficulty rating: 960
Solution:
Since every age is a power of Writing the twins' common age as and Kiana's as we need with
Taking gives which works. The sum is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
7.
By inserting parentheses, it is possible to give the expression several values. How many different values can be obtained?
Difficulty rating: 1050
Solution:
The three operations can be ordered in ways, but performing the addition first or last leaves the two multiplications interchangeable, so at most four values arise.
Indeed are four distinct values.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
8.
In a certain year the price of gasoline rose by during January, fell by during February, rose by during March, and fell by during April. The price of gasoline at the end of April was the same as it had been at the beginning of January. To the nearest integer, what is
Difficulty rating: 1170
Solution:
Let be the starting price. After March the price is The April drop must return it to so it removes a fraction
To the nearest integer,
Thus, the correct answer is B.
9.
Segment and intersect at as shown, and What is the degree measure of
Difficulty rating: 1240
Solution:
Since is isosceles with we have With the angle sum gives so and
By vertical angles Since triangle is isosceles, so giving
Thus, the correct answer is A.
10.
A flagpole is originally meters tall. A hurricane snaps the flagpole at a point meters above the ground so that the upper part, still attached to the stump, touches the ground meter away from the base. What is
Difficulty rating: 1140
Solution:
The standing stump has height and the snapped piece of length is the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs and By the Pythagorean Theorem, so and
Thus, the correct answer is E.
11.
How many -digit palindromes (numbers that read the same backward as forward) can be formed using the digits
Difficulty rating: 1170
Solution:
A -digit palindrome has the form with the middle digit used once and the outer three digits each used twice. Only appears an odd number of times, so must be the middle digit.
The remaining digits fill the first three positions in some order and mirror to the last three. There are such orderings.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
12.
Distinct points and lie on a line, with Points and lie on a second line, parallel to the first, with A triangle with positive area has three of the six points as its vertices. How many possible values are there for the area of the triangle?
Difficulty rating: 1310
Solution:
A positive-area triangle uses two points on one line as its base and one point on the other line as its apex. The height is always the fixed distance between the lines, so the area depends only on the base length.
Bases on the first line can be or a base on the second line is So the distinct base lengths are giving three possible areas.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
13.
As shown below, convex pentagon has sides and The pentagon is originally positioned in the plane with vertex at the origin and vertex on the positive -axis. The pentagon is then rolled clockwise to the right along the -axis. Which side will touch the point on the -axis?
Difficulty rating: 1480
Solution:
The pentagon has perimeter One full roll advances the contact point by and
After rolls, vertex sits at and at Rolling further, touches at and at
Since lies between and side touches that point.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
14.
On Monday, Millie puts a quart of seeds, of which are millet, into a bird feeder. On each successive day she adds another quart of the same mix of seeds without removing any seeds that are left. Each day the birds eat only of the millet in the feeder, but they eat all of the other seeds. On which day, just after Millie has placed the seeds, will the birds find that more than half the seeds in the feeder are millet?
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Difficulty rating: 1660
Solution:
Each quart adds quart of millet, and the birds leave of the standing millet. On day the millet present is
The other seeds always total quart. Millet exceeds half when i.e.
Since but this first happens on day which is Friday.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
15.
When a bucket is two-thirds full of water, the bucket and water weigh kilograms. When the bucket is one-half full of water the total weight is kilograms. In terms of and what is the total weight in kilograms when the bucket is full of water?
Difficulty rating: 1310
Solution:
Let be the bucket's weight and the weight of a full load of water. Then
Subtracting gives so and The full bucket weighs
Thus, the correct answer is E.
16.
Points and lie on a circle centered at each of and are tangent to the circle, and is equilateral. The circle intersects at What is
Difficulty rating: 1420
Solution:
Let the radius be By symmetry bisects the angle so Since triangle is a -- triangle with hypotenuse
Then so
Thus, the correct answer is B.
17.
Five unit squares are arranged in the coordinate plane as shown, with the lower left corner at the origin. The slanted line, extending from to divides the entire region into two regions of equal area. What is
Difficulty rating: 1540
Solution:
The five unit squares have total area so each region must have area
The region to the lower right of the line is a right triangle with legs and minus the one unit square it does not cover. Setting its area to gives so and
Thus, the correct answer is C.
18.
Rectangle has and Point is the midpoint of diagonal and is on with What is the area of
Difficulty rating: 1370
Solution:
By the Pythagorean Theorem, so Right triangles and share angle so they are similar with giving
Then
Thus, the correct answer is D.
19.
A particular -hour digital clock displays the hour and minute of a day. Unfortunately, whenever it is supposed to display a it mistakenly displays a For example, when it is 1:16 PM the clock incorrectly shows 9:96 PM. What fraction of the day will the clock show the correct time?
Difficulty rating: 1540
Solution:
Among the hours through exactly contain a so the hour is correct of the time.
A minute is displayed wrong when its tens digit is (minutes –) or its units digit is (), which is of the minutes. So the minute is correct of the time.
The clock is correct of the day.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
20.
Triangle has a right angle at and The bisector of meets at What is
Difficulty rating: 1600
Solution:
By the Pythagorean Theorem, The Angle Bisector Theorem gives so
Since we have so
Thus, the correct answer is B.
21.
What is the remainder when is divided by
Difficulty rating: 1420
Solution:
Any four consecutive powers of sum to a multiple of which is divisible by
The terms from to split into such blocks and contribute remainder What remains is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
22.
A cubical cake with edge length inches is iced on the sides and the top. It is cut vertically into three pieces as shown in this top view, where is the midpoint of a top edge. The piece whose top is triangle contains cubic inches of cake and square inches of icing. What is
Difficulty rating: 1750
Solution:
Set the top face as a square. The cut from toward the far corner creates the top triangle with legs and so area and hypotenuse
Triangle is similar to but with hypotenuse so its area is Since the cake has height the volume is
The icing on this piece is its top () plus the full cube side face it borders (), so Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is B.
23.
Rachel and Robert run on a circular track. Rachel runs counterclockwise and completes a lap every seconds, and Robert runs clockwise and completes a lap every seconds. Both start from the start line at the same time. At some random time between minutes and minutes after they begin to run, a photographer standing inside the track takes a picture that shows one-fourth of the track, centered on the starting line. What is the probability that both Rachel and Robert are in the picture?
Difficulty rating: 1920
Solution:
The picture spans lap on each side of the start. After seconds Rachel is seconds short of the line; running lap in seconds, she is in view between and seconds of the th minute.
After seconds Robert is seconds from the line; running lap in seconds, he is in view between and seconds.
Both appear between and seconds, a window of length out of so the probability is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
24.
The keystone arch is an ancient architectural feature. It is composed of congruent isosceles trapezoids fitted together along the non-parallel sides, as shown. The bottom sides of the two end trapezoids are horizontal. In an arch made with trapezoids, let be the angle measure in degrees of the larger interior angle of the trapezoid. What is
Difficulty rating: 1600
Solution:
Adding a mirror image completes the arch into a symmetric closed loop of trapezoids. Their inner edges form a regular -gon, each interior angle of which is
At each inner vertex, two of the trapezoids' larger angles meet the angle around a full turn: so
Thus, the correct answer is A.
25.
Each face of a cube is given a single narrow stripe painted from the center of one edge to the center of its opposite edge. The choice of the edge pairing is made at random and independently for each face. What is the probability that there is a continuous stripe encircling the cube?
Difficulty rating: 2090
Solution:
Each face's stripe has orientations, giving equally likely configurations.
An encircling stripe runs around one of the pairs of opposite faces. For a given band, the faces it crosses must each be oriented to continue it, a probability of
The three bands are mutually exclusive, so the probability is
Thus, the correct answer is B.