MAA American Mathematics Competitions

21st Annual

AMC 10 B
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR COMPETITION MANAGER TELLS YOU TO
BEGIN.
2. This is a 25-question multiple-choice competition. For each question, only one answer choice is
correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the answer sheet with a #2 pencil. Check blackened answers
for accuracy and erase errors completely. Only answers that are properly marked on the answer
sheet will be scored.
4. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 1.5 points for each problem left
unanswered, and 0 points for each incorrect answer.
5. Only blank scratch paper, blank graph paper, rulers, compasses, protractors, and erasers are allowed
as aids. No calculators, smartwatches, phones, or computing devices are allowed. No problems
on the competition will require the use of a calculator.
6. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
7. Before beginning the competition, your competition manager will ask you to record your name
on the answer sheet.
8. You will have 75 minutes to complete the competition once your competition manager tells you
to begin.
9. When you finish the competition, sign your name in the space provided on the answer sheet and
complete the demographic information question on the back of the answer sheet.

The MAA AMC Office reserves the right to disqualify scores from a school if it determines that the rules
or the required security procedures were not followed.
The publication, reproduction, or communication of the problems or solutions of this competition
during the period when students are eligible to participate seriously jeopardizes the integrity of the
results. Dissemination via phone, email, or digital media of any type during this period is a violation
of the competition rules.
Students who score well on this AMC 10 will be invited to take the 38th annual American Invitational
Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, or Thursday, March 19, 2020. More
details about the AIME are on the back page of this test booklet.
© 2020 Mathematical Association of America
2 2020 AMC 10 B Problems

1. What is the value of

1 − (−2) − 3 − (−4) − 5 − (−6) ?

(A) −20 (B) −3 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 21

2. Carl has 5 cubes each having side length 1, and Kate has 5 cubes each
having side length 2. What is the total volume of these 10 cubes?

(A) 24 (B) 25 (C) 28 (D) 40 (E) 45

3. The ratio of w to x is 4 : 3, the ratio of y to z is 3 : 2, and the ratio

of z to x is 1 : 6. What is the ratio of w to y ?

(A) 4 : 3 (B) 3 : 2 (C) 8 : 3 (D) 4 : 1 (E) 16 : 3

4. The acute angles of a right triangle are a◦ and b◦ , where a > b and
both a and b are prime numbers. What is the least possible value
of b ?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 11

5. How many distinguishable arrangements are there of 1 brown tile,

1 purple tile, 2 green tiles, and 3 yellow tiles in a row from left to
right? (Tiles of the same color are indistinguishable.)

(A) 210 (B) 420 (C) 630 (D) 840 (E) 1050

6. Driving along a highway, Megan noticed that her odometer showed

15951 (miles). This number is a palindrome—it reads the same for-
ward and backward. Then 2 hours later, the odometer displayed the
next higher palindrome. What was her average speed, in miles per
hour, during this 2-hour period?

(A) 50 (B) 55 (C) 60 (D) 65 (E) 70

7. How many positive even multiples of 3 less than 2020 are perfect
squares?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 12

8. Points P and Q lie in a plane with P Q = 8. How many locations for

point R in this plane are there such that the triangle with vertices P ,
Q, and R is a right triangle with area 12 square units?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 12

2020 AMC 10 B Problems 3

9. How many ordered pairs of integers (x, y) satisfy the equation

x2020 + y 2 = 2y ?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) infinitely many

10. A three-quarter sector of a circle of radius 4 inches together with

its interior can be rolled up to form the lateral surface of a right
circular cone by taping together along the two radii shown. What is
the volume of the cone in cubic inches?

√ √ √ √ √
(A) 3π 5 (B) 4π 3 (C) 3π 7 (D) 6π 3 (E) 6π 7

11. Ms. Carr asks her students to read any 5 of the 10 books on a reading
list. Harold randomly selects 5 books from this list, and Betty does
the same. What is the probability that there are exactly 2 books that
they both select?
1 5 14 25 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 36 45 63 2

12. The decimal representation of

1
2020
consists of a string of zeros after the decimal point, followed by a
9 and then several more digits. How many zeros are in that initial
string of zeros after the decimal point?

(A) 23 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 27

4 2020 AMC 10 B Problems

13. Andy the Ant lives on a coordinate plane and is currently at (−20, 20)
facing east (that is, in the positive x-direction). Andy moves 1 unit
and then turns 90◦ left. From there, Andy moves 2 units (north) and
then turns 90◦ left. He then moves 3 units (west) and again turns 90◦
left. Andy continues this process, increasing his distance each time
by 1 unit and always turning left. What is the location of the point
at which Andy makes the 2020th left turn?

(A) (−1030, −994) (B) (−1030, −990) (C) (−1026, −994)

(D) (−1026, −990) (E) (−1022, −994)

14. As shown in the figure below, six semicircles lie in the interior of a
regular hexagon with side length 2 so that the diameters of the semi-
circles coincide with the sides of the hexagon. What is the area of the
shaded region—inside the hexagon but outside all of the semicircles?

√ √
√ 9 3 3 3 π √
(A) 6 3 − 3π (B) − 2π (C) − (D) 3 3 − π
√ 2 2 3
9 3
(E) −π
2

15. Steve wrote the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in order repeatedly from left
to right, forming a list of 10,000 digits, beginning 123451234512 . . . .
He then erased every third digit from his list (that is, the 3rd, 6th,
9th, . . . digits from the left), then erased every fourth digit from the
resulting list (that is, the 4th, 8th, 12th, . . . digits from the left in
what remained), and then erased every fifth digit from what remained
at that point. What is the sum of the three digits that were then in
positions 2019, 2020, and 2021 ?

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

2020 AMC 10 B Problems 5

16. Bela and Jenn play the following game on the closed interval [0, n]
of the real number line, where n is a fixed integer greater than 4.
They take turns playing, with Bela going first. At his first turn, Bela
chooses any real number in the interval [0, n]. Thereafter, the player
whose turn it is chooses a real number that is more than one unit
away from all numbers previously chosen by either player. A player
unable to choose such a number loses. Using optimal strategy, which
player will win the game?

(A) Bela will always win. (B) Jenn will always win.
(C) Bela will win if and only if n is odd.
(D) Jenn will win if and only if n is odd.
(E) Jenn will win if and only if n > 8.

17. There are 10 people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each
person knows exactly 3 of the other 9 people: the 2 people standing
next to her or him, as well as the person directly across the circle.
How many ways are there for the 10 people to split up into 5 pairs so
that the members of each pair know each other?

(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15

18. An urn contains one red ball and one blue ball. A box of extra red and
blue balls lies nearby. George performs the following operation four
times: he draws a ball from the urn at random and then takes a ball
of the same color from the box and returns those two matching balls
to the urn. After the four iterations the urn contains six balls. What
is the probability that the urn contains three balls of each color?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 5 4 3 2

19. In a certain card game, a player is dealt a hand of 10 cards from a deck
of 52 distinct cards. The number of distinct (unordered) hands that
can be dealt to the player can be written as 158A00A4AA0. What is
the digit A ?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 7

6 2020 AMC 10 B Problems

20. Let B be a right rectangular prism (box) with edge lengths 1, 3, and 4,
together with its interior. For real r ≥ 0, let S(r) be the set of points
in 3-dimensional space that lie within a distance r of some point in B.
The volume of S(r) can be expressed as ar3 + br2 + cr + d, where a,
bc
b, c, and d are positive real numbers. What is ad ?

(A) 6 (B) 19 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 38

21. In square ABCD, points E and H lie on AB and DA, respectively,

so that AE = AH. Points F and G lie on BC and CD, respectively,
and points I and J lie on EH so that F I ⊥ EH and GJ ⊥ EH. See
the figure below. Triangle AEH, quadrilateral BF IE, quadrilateral
DHJG, and pentagon F CGJI each has area 1. What is F I 2 ?

D G C

F
H

A E B

7 √ √ 7√ √
(A) (B) 8 − 4 2 (C) 1 + 2 (D) 2 (E) 2 2
3 4

22. What is the remainder when 2202 + 202 is divided by 2101 + 251 + 1 ?

(A) 100 (B) 101 (C) 200 (D) 201 (E) 202
2020 AMC 10 B Problems 7

23. Square ABCD in the coordinate plane has vertices at the points
A(1, 1), B(−1, 1), C(−1, −1), and D(1, −1). Consider the following
four transformations:

ˆ L, a rotation of 90◦ counterclockwise around the origin;

ˆ R, a rotation of 90◦ clockwise around the origin;
ˆ H, a reflection across the x-axis; and
ˆ V, a reflection across the y-axis.

Each of these transformations maps the square onto itself, but the
positions of the labeled vertices will change. For example, applying R
and then V would send the vertex A at (1, 1) to (−1, −1) and would
send the vertex B at (−1, 1) to itself. How many sequences of 20
transformations chosen from {L, R, H, V } will send all of the labeled
vertices back to their original positions? (For example, R, R, V, H is
one sequence of 4 transformations that will send the vertices back to
their original positions.)

(A) 237 (B) 3 · 236 (C) 238 (D) 3 · 237 (E) 239

24. How many positive integers n satisfy

n + 1000 √ 
= n ?
70
(Recall that bxc is the greatest integer not exceeding x.)

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 30 (E) 32

25. Let D(n) denote the number of ways of writing the positive integer
n as a product
n = f1 · f2 · · · fk ,
where k ≥ 1, the fi are integers strictly greater than 1, and the order
in which the factors are listed matters (that is, two representations
that differ only in the order of the factors are counted as distinct).
For example, the number 6 can be written as 6, 2 · 3, and 3 · 2, so
D(6) = 3. What is D(96) ?

(A) 112 (B) 128 (C) 144 (D) 172 (E) 184
 Scores and official competition solutions will be sent to your
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program and our other competitions, please visit maa.org/amc.
Questions and comments about this competition should be sent to:
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or
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The problems and solutions for this AMC 10 B were prepared
by the MAA AMC 10/12 Editorial Board under the direction of:
Azar Khosravani and Carl Yerger, co-Editors-in-Chief

MAA Partner Organizations

We acknowledge the generosity of the following organizations
in supporting the MAA AMC and Invitational Competitions:

Patron’s Circle
Akamai Foundation
TBL Foundation

Innovator’s Circle
The D. E. Shaw Group
Two Sigma

Winner’s Circle
MathWorks
Tudor Investment Corporation

Achiever’s Circle
Art of Problem Solving
Jane Street Capital

Sustainer’s Circle
Ansatz Capital
Army Educational Outreach Program

Collaborator’s Circle
American Mathematical Society
American Statistical Association
Casualty Actuarial Society
Mu Alpha Theta
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
 AMC 10 B
DO NOT OPEN UNTIL Wednesday, February 5, 2020

**Administration on an earlier date will disqualify your school’s results.**

• All the information needed to administer this competition is contained in
the AMC 10/12 Teacher’s Manual. PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE
Wednesday, February 5, 2020.
• Answer sheets must be returned to the MAA AMC office within 24 hours of
the competition administration. Use an overnight or 2-day shipping service,
with a tracking number, to guarantee timely arrival of these answer sheets.
FedEx, UPS, or USPS overnight are strongly recommended.
• The 38th annual American Invitational Mathematics Exam will be held on
Wednesday, March 11, 2020, with an alternate date on Thursday, March
19, 2020. It is a 15-question, 3-hour, integer-answer competition. Students
who achieve a high score on the AMC 10 will be invited to participate. Top-
scoring students on the AMC 10/12 and AIME will be selected to take the
USA (Junior) Mathematical Olympiad. The USA(J)MO will be given on
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14 and 15, 2020.
• The publication, reproduction, or communication of the problems or solu-
tions of this competition during the period when students are eligible to
participate seriously jeopardizes the integrity of the results. Dissemination
via phone, email, or digital media of any type during this period is a viola-
tion of the competition rules.