2013 AMC 10B 考试题目
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1.
What is
Answer: C
Solution:
Thus, the correct answer is C .
2.
Mr. Green measures his rectangular garden by walking two of the sides and finds that it is steps by steps. Each of Mr. Green's steps is feet long. Mr. Green expects a half a pound of potatoes per square foot from his garden. How many pounds of potatoes does Mr. Green expect from his garden?
Answer: A
Solution:
The dimensions of the garden are feet by feet. Thus, the square footage is
Therefore, there are pounds of potatoes.
Thus, the correct answer is A .
3.
On a particular January day, the high temperature in Lincoln, Nebraska, was degrees higher than the low temperature, and the average of the high and low temperatures was degrees. What was the low temperature in Lincoln that day (in degrees)?
Answer: C
Solution:
Let the low temperature be represented by Then, the high temperature is
This makes the average Therefore,
Thus, the correct answer is C .
4.
When counting from to is the number counted. When counting backwards from to is the number counted. What is
Answer: D
Solution:
When counting backward, is the first number, is the second, and in general is the th number.
Thus is the th number counted.
Thus, the correct answer is D .
5.
Positive integers and are each less than What is the smallest possible value for
Answer: B
Solution:
The expression is .
To make it as small as possible, choose as large as possible so that is most negative, and choose as large as possible. Since , take .
The minimum value is .
Thus, the correct answer is B .
6.
The average age of fifth-graders is The average age of of their parents is What is the average age of all of these parents and fifth-graders?
Answer: C
Solution:
The sum of the ages of all the fifth-graders and their parents is:
Then, as the average is the sum divided by the number of people, the average age must be:
Thus, the correct answer is C .
7.
Six points are equally spaced around a circle of radius 1. Three of these points are the vertices of a triangle that is neither equilateral nor isosceles. What is the area of this triangle?
Answer: B
Solution:
Six equally spaced points on the circle form a regular hexagon. A triangle using three of them is not equilateral or isosceles only when its angles are .
The hypotenuse is a diameter of the unit circle, so it has length . The legs of the -- triangle are and .
The area is .
Thus, the correct answer is B .
8.
Ray's car averages miles per gallon of gasoline, and Tom's car averages miles per gallon of gasoline. Ray and Tom each drive the same number of miles. What is the cars' combined rate of miles per gallon of gasoline?
Answer: B
Solution:
Let each car drive miles. Together they drive miles.
Ray uses gallon, while Tom uses gallons, so together they use gallons.
The combined rate is miles per gallon.
Thus, the correct answer is B .
9.
Three positive integers are each greater than have a product of and are pairwise relatively prime. What is their sum?
Answer: D
Solution:
Only one of them is a multiple of only one of them is a multiple of and only one of them is a multiple of
Since each of the positive integers is greater than each of them must be a multiple of one of the given primes.
Therefore, since the numbers must be making their sum
Thus, the correct answer is D .
10.
A basketball team's players were successful on of their two-point shots and of their three-point shots, which resulted in points. They attempted more two-point shots than three-point shots. How many three-point shots did they attempt?
Answer: C
Solution:
Let the number of three-point attempts be
Then, the number of made three-point shots is implying that the number of points made off of three-point shots is
Similarly, the number of two-point shots is so the number of made two-point shots is suggesting that the number of points made off of 2 point shots is
This makes the total number of points scored equal to: and so,
Thus, the correct answer is C .
11.
Real numbers and satisfy the equation What is
Answer: B
Solution:
This can be rewritten as
From this, completing the square yields Since both of these squared terms must be greater than or equal to and their sum equals both values must both be yielding
As such, This makes the sum
Thus, the correct answer is B .
12.
Let be the set of sides and diagonals of a regular pentagon. A pair of elements of are selected at random without replacement. What is the probability that the two chosen segments have the same length?
Answer: B
Solution:
A regular pentagon has sides of one length and diagonals of another length.
After the first segment is chosen, there are segments left, and exactly of them have the same length as the first chosen segment.
Therefore the probability is .
Thus, the correct answer is B .
13.
Jo and Blair take turns counting from to one more than the last number said by the other person.
Jo starts by saying"1", so Blair follows by saying "1, 2". Jo then says "1, 2, 3", and so on.
What is the number said?
Answer: E
Solution:
The sequence is said first after the triangular number which is:
(The triangular number is defined as being the sum of the numbers to As for why it has this formula, there's a bunch of ways you can prove it using induction or arithmetic sequences. We'll leave that to you, though!)
Moving on, writing out some triangular numbers, we notice that is the closest triangular number less than This means that the sequence is first said after numbers.
Therefore, the number starts this new sequence at and counting forwards, we can see that the number is more than this, with a value of
Thus, the correct answer is E .
14.
Define Which of the following describes the set of points for which
A finite set of points
One line
Two parallel lines
Two intersecting lines
Three lines
Answer: E
Solution:
The condition is , so .
Combining like terms gives .
Thus , , or . These are three lines.
Thus, the correct answer is E .
15.
A wire is cut into two pieces, one of length and the other of length The piece of length is bent to form an equilateral triangle, and the piece of length is bent to form a regular hexagon. The triangle and the hexagon have equal area. What is
Answer: B
Solution:
Let the side length of the equilateral triangle be Then, let its area be This would make
As such, a hexagon with side would have equilateral triangles, with side length making its area
Therefore, the side length of the hexagon with area is equal to As such,
This makes
Thus, the correct answer is B .
16.
In triangle \triangleriangle ABC, medians and intersect at and What is the area of
Answer: B
Solution:
Since , triangle is right at . Thus medians and are perpendicular.
The centroid divides each median in a ratio, so and .
Quadrilateral has perpendicular diagonals and , so its area is .
Thus, the correct answer is B .
17.
Alex has red tokens and blue tokens. There is a booth where Alex can give two red tokens and receive in return a silver token and a blue token, and another booth where Alex can give three blue tokens and receive in return a silver token and a red token. Alex continues to exchange tokens until no more exchanges are possible. How many silver tokens will Alex have at the end?
Answer: E
Solution:
Suppose Alex makes exchanges at the red-token booth and exchanges at the blue-token booth.
He then has red tokens and blue tokens. At the end he must have fewer than red tokens and fewer than blue tokens.
Solving these terminal possibilities gives only two candidate final token counts: , which comes from , or , which comes from .
The final count is impossible, because the last exchange would always create either one blue token or one red token. The final count is attainable, for example by the exchange sequence described in the official construction.
Therefore Alex ends with silver tokens, and the correct answer is E .
18.
The number has the property that its units digit is the sum of its other digits, that is How many integers less than but greater than have this property?
Answer: D
Solution:
Given the first three numbers, if their sum is less than or equal to it creates one number with the property.
Now, we can case on the st digit.
If it is 1, then the sum of the nd and rd digit must be less than or equal to For each possible sum there are ways to choose the other numbers as the 2nd number can be anywhere from to
Thus, the total is the triangular number:
If it is 2, then the only way we can get a number that works less than is making a total of cases.
Thus, the correct answer is D .
19.
The real numbers form an arithmetic sequence with The quadratic has exactly one root. What is this root?
Answer: D
Solution:
Let the common difference be , so and .
A quadratic with exactly one real root has discriminant , so . Substituting gives , hence .
Since , . The double root is .
Thus, the correct answer is D .
20.
The number is expressed in the form where and are positive integers and is as small as possible. What is
Answer: B
Solution:
The prime factorization is , so the numerator must contain a factor of . Hence .
But also contains the prime factor , which is not in , so the denominator must contain a factor of . Hence .
The lower bound is attainable because .
Thus , and the correct answer is B .
21.
Two non-decreasing sequences of nonnegative integers have different first terms. Each sequence has the property that each term beginning with the third is the sum of the previous two terms, and the seventh term of each sequence is What is the smallest possible value of ?
Answer: C
Solution:
A sequence starting with has seventh term .
For two sequences and with different first terms, assume . Then , so .
Since and are relatively prime, is at least , and then nondecreasing order gives .
The smallest construction is , , and . This gives .
Thus, the correct answer is C .
22.
The regular octagon has its center at Each of the vertices and the center are to be associated with one of the digits through with each digit used once, in such a way that the sums of the numbers on the lines and are all equal. In how many ways can this be done?
Answer: C
Solution:
Let be defined as:
This means that From here, let's assume We will see that the other cases are similar enough to omit.
If then we know that the pairs of numbers that satisfy the equality above are: There are ways to distribute the pairs over the four groups, and then ways for these groups to swap elements (i.e. ).
Now, if we look at the and cases, we see a similar pattern in the number of groupings and swaps. As such, we have: possibilities.
Thus, the correct answer is C .
23.
In triangle \triangleriangle ABC, and Distinct points and lie on segments and respectively, such that and The length of segment can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is
Answer: B
Solution:
First, we can deduce that by inspecting Pythagorean triples.
This yields the following diagram:
Then, we get by the similarity of \triangleriangle ADC and \triangleriangle AED . Since \triangleriangle ABF and \triangleriangle ADF are both right triangles, they both have circumcircles with diameter making cyclic. Thus, making As such,
By Ptolemy's Theorem, we get Therefore,
This makes so As such, making
Thus, the correct answer is B .
24.
A positive integer is "nice" if there is a positive integer with exactly four positive divisors (including and ) such that the sum of the four divisors is equal to How many numbers in the set are nice?
Answer: A
Solution:
An integer with exactly four positive divisors is either or , where and are distinct primes.
If , the divisor sum is . The values for and fall below and above the interval to , so this case gives none.
In the case, the divisor sum is . If one prime is , the sum is divisible by ; only and qualify, but and are not prime.
If both primes are odd, then the sum is divisible by , leaving and . The factorization would give primes and , impossible, while works.
Thus exactly one number is nice, and the correct answer is A .
25.
Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer and writes both its base-5 and base-6 representations on a blackboard. Later LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treating the two numbers as base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer
For example, if Bernardo writes the numbers and and LeRoy obtains the sum For how many choices of are the two rightmost digits of in order, the same as those of
Answer: E
Solution:
It is enough to work modulo , because the last two base-, base-, and decimal digits repeat with that period.
Let the last two base- digits be and the last two base- digits be . The units digit condition gives , so .
Writing , the base- tens digit condition gives , so .
The tens digit condition for and reduces to . With and , the valid pairs are .
There are choices for , so there are choices of .
Thus, the correct answer is E .