2003 AMC 8 考试题目
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1.
Jamie counted the number of edges of a cube, Jimmy counted the numbers of corners, and Judy counted the number of faces. They then added the three numbers. What was the resulting sum?
Answer: E
Solution:
A cube has edges, corners, and faces. Adding these together yields
Thus, E is the correct answer.
2.
Which of the following numbers has the smallest prime factor?
Answer: C
Solution:
Note that the smallest prime number is This means that any even number would be our answer.
Thus, C is the correct answer.
3.
A burger at Ricky C's weighs grams, of which grams are filler. What percent of the burger is not filler?
Answer: D
Solution:
We get that grams are not filler. The percentage is therefore
Thus, D is the correct answer.
4.
A group of children riding on bicycles and tricycles rode past Billy Bob's house. Billy Bob counted children and wheels. How many tricycles were there?
Answer: C
Solution:
Let be the number of bicycles and be the number of tricycles. Then we can set up the following system of equations: Multiplying the first equation by and subtracting from the second equation, we get
Thus, C is the correct answer.
5.
If of a number is what is of the same number?
Answer: B
Solution:
Since of the number is , of the number is .
Therefore of the same number is .
Thus, B is the correct answer.
6.
Given the areas of the three squares in the figure, what is the area of the interior triangle?
Answer: B
Solution:
We get that the side lengths of the squares are respectively. Note that these lengths form a Pythagorean triple.
Therefore, the interior triangle is right. Its area is
Thus, B is the correct answer.
7.
Blake and Jenny each took four -point tests. Blake averaged on the four tests. Jenny scored points higher than Blake on the first test, points lower than him on the second test, and points higher on both the third and fourth tests. What is the difference between Jenny's average and Blake's average on these four tests?
Answer: A
Solution:
The total point difference between the two is The average of this difference is
Thus, A is the correct answer.
8.
Problems and use the data found in the accompanying paragraph and figures.
Bake Sale
Four friends, Art, Roger, Paul and Trisha, bake cookies, and all cookies have the same thickness. The shapes of the cookies differ, as shown.
• Art's cookies are trapezoids:
• Roger's cookies are rectangles:
• Paul's cookies are parallelograms:
• Trisha's cookies are triangles:
Each friend uses the same amount of dough, and Art makes exactly cookies.
Who gets the fewest cookies from one batch of cookie dough?
Answer: A
Solution:
Since the cookies all have the same thickness and use the same amount of dough, the largest cookie shape produces the fewest cookies.
Art’s trapezoid has area . Roger’s rectangle has area . Paul’s parallelogram has area , and Trisha’s triangle has area .
Art has the largest cookie area, so Art gets the fewest cookies from one batch.
Thus, A is the correct answer.
9.
Art's cookies sell for ¢ each. To earn the same amount from a single batch, how much should one of Roger's cookies cost?
¢
¢
¢
¢
¢
Answer: C
Solution:
Art makes cookies that sell for cents each, so one batch earns cents.
The batch has square inches of dough area, and each Roger cookie has area . Thus Roger makes cookies.
To earn cents from cookies, each Roger cookie should cost cents.
Thus, C is the correct answer.
10.
How many cookies will be in one batch of Trisha's cookies?
Answer: E
Solution:
Art’s cookie area is square inches, so the whole batch has area square inches.
Trisha’s triangular cookie has area square inches.
Therefore Trisha can make cookies per batch.
Thus, E is the correct answer.
11.
Business is a little slow at Lou's Fine Shoes, so Lou decides to have a sale. On Friday, Lou increases all of Thursday's prices by Over the weekend, Lou advertises the sale: "Ten percent off the listed price. Sale starts Monday." How much does a pair of shoes cost on Monday that cost on Thursday?
Answer: B
Solution:
On Friday, the shoes are marked up by , so the listed price becomes dollars.
On Monday, the discount is taken from , giving dollars.
Thus, B is the correct answer.
12.
When a fair six-sided die is tossed on a table top, the bottom face cannot be seen. What is the probability that the product of the numbers on the five faces that can be seen is divisible by ?
Answer: E
Solution:
If the face numbered is visible, then the visible product is divisible by .
If the face numbered is on the bottom, then the visible faces include both and , so their product is still divisible by .
Every possible toss works, so the probability is .
Thus, E is the correct answer.
13.
Fourteen white cubes are put together to form the figure on the right. The complete surface of the figure, including the bottom, is painted. The figure is then separated into individual cubes. How many of the individual cubes have exactly four painted faces?
Answer: B
Solution:
A cube has exactly four painted faces exactly when it is attached to exactly two other cubes.
The top cubes touch only one other cube, so they have painted faces. The bottom corner cubes touch three other cubes, so they have painted faces.
The remaining cubes each touch exactly two other cubes, so they have exactly four painted faces.
Thus, B is the correct answer.
14.
In this addition problem, each letter stands for a different digit. If and the letter represents an even number, what is the only possible value for
Answer: D
Solution:
Since both 's are we get that is either or Since is even, we get that
Then, we get that We also know that doesn't carry over, since otherwise would be
Therefore, is less than and cannot be or If then which is also not allowed.
This makes
Thus, D is the correct answer.
15.
A figure is constructed from unit cubes. Each cube shares at least one face with another cube. What is the minimum number of cubes needed to build a figure with the front and side views shown?
Answer: B
Solution:
The front view requires an L-shape with three visible positions, so at least three cubes are needed.
With only three cubes, all cubes would have to occupy those three front-view positions. Then the side view would have only one depth column, not the required L-shape.
The shown four-cube construction has both required views, so the minimum is .
Thus, B is the correct answer.
16.
Ali, Bonnie, Carlo and Dianna are going to drive together to a nearby theme park. The car they are using has four seats: one driver’s seat, one front passenger seat and two back seats. Bonnie and Carlo are the only two who can drive the car. How many possible seating arrangements are there?
Answer: D
Solution:
There are options for who sits in the driver's seat. There are options for the other front seat, and options for the first passenger seat.
The last person has to sit in the last seat, for a total of possible seating arrangements.
Thus, D is the correct answer.
17.
The six children listed below are from two families of three siblings each. Each child has blue or brown eyes and black or blond hair. Children from the same family have at least one of these characteristics in common. Which two children are Jim's siblings?
Nadeen and Austin
Benjamin and Sue
Benjamin and Austin
Nadeen and Tevyn
Austin and Sue
Answer: E
Solution:
Note that Nadeen, Austin, and Sue are the only individuals who share a characteristic with Jim. We need to find which of the are completely different from the others.
Austin and Sue both have blue eyes, which makes Nadeen the odd one out. Therefore, Austin and Sue are Jim's siblings.
Thus, E is the correct answer.
18.
Each of the twenty dots on the graph below represents one of Sarah's classmates. Classmates who are friends are connected with a line segment. For her birthday party, Sarah is inviting only the following: all of her friends and all of those classmates who are friends with at least one of her friends. How many classmates will not be invited to Sarah's party?
Answer: D
Solution:
Sarah invites her friends and the classmates who are friends with at least one of her friends. In graph terms, she invites dots that are or line segments away from Sarah.
From the graph, dots are disconnected from Sarah’s component, and more dots in Sarah’s component are segments away.
Those classmates will not be invited.
Thus, D is the correct answer.
19.
How many integers between and have all three of the numbers and as factors?
Answer: C
Solution:
If a number has these three numbers as factors, then their least common multiple must also divide
These numbers have the following prime factorizations:
From these values, we get that the least common multiple is
Therefore, the multiples of between and are and
Thus, C is the correct answer.
20.
What is the measure of the acute angle formed by the hands of a clock at a.m.?
Answer: D
Solution:
At the hour hand will be a of the way between and
Each hour represents This means the hour hand will be past
Note that at minutes, the minute hand will be at This means the degree formed is
Thus, D is the correct answer.
21.
The area of trapezoid is The altitude is cm, is cm, and is cm. What is in centimeters?
Answer: B
Solution:
Drop perpendiculars from and to , meeting it at and .
In the left and right right triangles, and .
The two side triangles have areas and . The middle rectangle has area .
Thus , so and .
Thus, B is the correct answer.
22.
The following figures are composed of squares and circles. Which figure has a shaded region with largest area?
only
only
only
both and
all are equal
Answer: C
Solution:
In figure , the shaded area is the area of a by square minus a circle of radius , so it is .
Figure is made of four half-size copies of figure , so its total shaded area is also .
In figure , the circle has radius , and the inscribed square has diagonal , so its area is . The shaded area is .
Since , we have , so figure has the largest shaded area.
Thus, C is the correct answer.
23.
In the pattern below, the cat moves clockwise through the four squares and the mouse moves counterclockwise through the eight exterior segments of the four squares.
If the pattern is continued, where would the cat and mouse be after the th move?
Answer: A
Solution:
The cat’s position repeats every moves, and the mouse’s position repeats every moves.
Since , the cat is in the same position as after the rd move: the lower right square.
Since , the mouse is in the same position as after the th move: the left side of the lower left square.
Thus, A is the correct answer.
24.
A ship travels from point to point along a semicircular path, centered at Island Then it travels along a straight path from to Which of these graphs best shows the ship’s distance from Island as it moves along its course?
Answer: B
Solution:
Every point on the semicircular path from to is the same distance from the center , so the graph starts horizontally.
On the straight path from to , the ship first gets closer to and then farther away from .
Only graph starts flat and then decreases before increasing.
Thus, B is the correct answer.
25.
In the figure, the area of square is The four smaller squares have sides cm long, either parallel to or coinciding with the sides of the large square. In and when is folded over side point coincides with the center of square What is the area of in square centimeters?
Answer: C
Solution:
We get that the side lengths of are cm, since
We also know that the distance from to is since it is the sum of the side lengths of unit squares.
Finally, the distance from to is the same as the distance from to which is
Now, we can find which is
Therefore, the area of is
Thus, C is the correct answer.