Amc 10-2014
Amc 10-2014
Amc 10-2014
AMC 10 2014
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by AlcumusGuy, El Ectric, djmathman, bestwillcui1, alex31415, niraekjs, brandbest1, Royalreter1, bobthes-
martypants, sunny2000, flamefoxx99, professordad, Quadratic64, mathman523, rrusczyk
– A
– February 4th
1 −1
What is 10 · 1 1
1 2 + 5 + 10 ?
25 170
(A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 170
2 Roy’s cat eats 13 of a can of cat food every morning and 14 of a can of cat food every evening.
Before feeding his cat on Monday morning, Roy opened a box containing 6 cans of cat food. On
what day of the week did the cat finish eating all the cat food in the box?
(A) Tuesday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday (E) Saturday
3 Bridget bakes 48 loaves of bread for her bakery. She sells half of them in the morning for $2.50
each. In the afternoon she sells two thirds of what she has left, and because they are not fresh,
she charges only half price. In the late afternoon she sells the remaining loaves at a dollar each.
Each loaf costs $0.75 for her to make. In dollars, what is her profit for the day?
(A) 24 (B) 36 (C) 44 (D) 48 (E) 52
4 Walking down Jane Street, Ralph passed four houses in a row, each painted a different color. He
passed the orange house before the red house, and he passed the blue house before the yellow
house. The blue house was not next to the yellow house. How many orderings of the colored
houses are possible?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
5 On an algebra quiz, 10% of the students scored 70 points, 35% scored 80 points, 30% scored 90
points, and the rest scored 100 points. What is the difference between the mean and median
score of the students’ scores on this quiz?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
6 Suppose that a cows give b gallons of milk in c days. At this rate, how many gallons of milk will
d cows give in e days?
bde ac abde bcde abc
(A) ac (B) bde (C) c (D) a (E) de
7 Nonzero real numbers x, y, a, and b satisfy x < a and y < b. How many of the following inequal-
ities must be true?
(I) x + y < a + b
(II) x − y < a − b
(III) xy < ab
(IV) xy < ab
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
10 Five positive consecutive integers starting with a have average b. What is the average of 5 con-
secutive integers that start with b?
(A) a + 3 (B) a + 4 (C) a + 5 (D) a + 6 (E) a + 7
11 A customer who intends to purchase an appliance has three coupons, only one of which may
be used:
Coupon 1: 10% off the listed price if the listed price is at least $50
Coupon 2: $20 off the listed price if the listed price is at least $100
Coupon 3: 18% off the amount by which the listed price exceeds $100
For which of the following listed prices will coupon 1 offer a greater price reduction than either
coupon 2 or coupon 3?
(A) $179.95 (B) $199.95 (C) $219.95 (D) $239.95 (E) $259.95
12 A regular hexagon has side length 6. Congruent arcs with radius 3 are drawn with the center
at each of the vertices, creating circular sectors as shown. The region inside the hexagon but
outside the sectors is shaded as shown What is the area of the shaded region?
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 27 3 − 9π (B) 27 3 − 6π (C) 54 3 − 18π (D) 54 3 − 12π (E) 108 3 − 9π
13 Equilateral △ABC has side length 1, and squares ABDE, BCHI, CAF G lie outside the triangle.
What is the area of hexagon DEF GHI?
F
E
G
D
B C
I H
√ √
12 + 3 3 9 √ 6+3 3
(A) (B) (C) 3 + 3 (D) (E) 6
4 2 2
14 The y-intercepts, P and Q, of two perpendicular lines intersecting at the point A(6, 8) have a
sum of zero. What is the area of △AP Q?
(A) 45 (B) 48 (C) 54 (D) 60 (E) 72
15 David drives from his home to the airport to catch a flight. He drives 35 miles in the first hour,
but realizes that he will be 1 hour late if he continues at this speed. He increases his speed by
15 miles per hour for the rest of the way to the airport and arrives 30 minutes early. How many
miles is the airport from his home?
(A) 140 (B) 175 (C) 210 (D) 245 (E) 280
16 In rectangle ABCD, AB = 1, BC = 2, and points E, F , and G are midpoints of BC, CD, and
AD, respectively. Point H is the midpoint of GE. What is the area of the shaded region?
A B
H E
G
D 1 F 1 C
2 2
√ √ √
1 3 2 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 18 12 12 6
17 Three fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that the values shown on two of the
dice sum to the value shown on the remaining die?
1 13 7 5 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 72 36 24 9
18 A square in the coordinate plane has vertices whose y-coordinates are 0, 1, 4, and 5. What is the
area of the square?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 27
19 Four cubes with edge lengths 1, 2, 3, and 4 are stacked as shown. What is the length of the
portion of XY contained in the cube with edge length 3?
√ √
3 33 √ 2 33 √
(A) (B) 2 3 (C) (D) 4 (E) 3 2
5 3
X
1
4 Y
20 The product (8)(888 . . . 8), where the second factor has k digits, is an integer whose digits have
a sum of 1000. What is k?
(A) 901 (B) 911 (C) 919 (D) 991 (E) 999
21 Positive integers a and b are such that the graphs of y = ax+5 and y = 3x+b intersect the x-axis
at the same point. What is the sum of all possible x-coordinates of these points of intersection?
(A) −20 (B) −18 (C) −15 (D) −12 (E) −8
22 In rectangle ABCD, AB = 20 and BC = 10. Let E be a point on CD such that ∠CBE = 15◦ .
What is AE?
√
20 3 √ √
(A) (B) 10 3 (C) 18 (D) 11 3 (E) 20
3
√
23 A rectangular piece of paper whose length is 3 times the width has area A. The paper is divided
into equal sections along the opposite lengths, and then a dotted line is drawn from the first
divider to the second divider on the opposite side as shown. The paper is then folded flat along
this dotted line to create a new shape with area B. What is the ratio B : A?
24 A sequence of natural numbers is constructed by listing the first 4, then skipping one, listing the
next 5, skipping 2, listing 6, skipping 3, and, on the nth iteration, listing n + 3 and skipping n. The
sequence begins 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13. What is the 500, 000th number in the sequence?
(A) 996, 506 (B) 996507 (C) 996508 (D) 996509 (E) 996510
25 The number 5867 is between 22013 and 22014 . How many pairs of integers (m, n) are there such
that 1 ≤ m ≤ 2012 and
5n < 2m < 2m+2 < 5n+1 ?
(A) 278 (B) 279 (C) 280 (D) 281 (E) 282
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1 1. Leah has 13 coins, all of which are pennies and nickels. If she had one more nickel than she
has now, then she would have the same number of pennies and nickels. In cents, how much are
Leah’s coins worth?
(A) 33 (B) 35 (C) 37 (D) 39 (E) 41
23 +23
2 What is 2−3 +2−3
?
(A) 16 (B) 24 (C) 32 (D) 48 (E) 64
3 Randy drove the first third of his trip on a gravel road, the next 20 miles on pavement, and the
remaining one-fifth on a dirt road. In miles, how long was Randy’s trip?
400 75 300
(A) 30 (B) 11 (C) 2 (D) 40 (E) 7
4 Susie pays for 4 muffins and 3 bananas. Calvin spends twice as much paying for 2 muffins and 16
bananas. A muffin is how many times as expensive as a banana? (A) 32 (B) 53 (C) 74 (D) 2 (E) 1
5 Doug constructs a square window using 8 equal-size panes of glass, as shown. The ratio of
the height to width for each pane is 5 : 2, and the borders around and between the panes are 2
inches wide. In inches, what is the side length o the square window?
6 Orvin went to the store with just enough money to buy 30 balloons. When he arrived, he discov-
ered that the store had a special sale on balloons: buy 1 balloon at the regular price and get a
second at 13 off the regular price. What is the greatest number of balloons Orvin could buy?
(A) 33 (B) 34 (C) 36 (D) 38 (E) 39
8 A truck travels 6b feet every t seconds. There are 3 feet in a yard. How many yards does the truck
travel in 3 minutes?
b 30t 30b 10t 10b
(A) 1080t (B) b (C) t (D) b (E) t
What is w+z
w−z ?
−1 1
(A) − 2014 (B) 2014 (C) 2014 (D) 1 (E) 2014
10 In the addition shown below A, B, C, and D are distinct digits. How many different values are
possible for D?
ABBCB
+ BCADA
DBDDD
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
11 For the consumer, a single discount of n% is more advantageous than any of the following
discounts:
(1) two successive 15% discounts (2) three successive 10% discounts (3) a 25% discount fol-
lowed by a 5% discount
What is the smallest possible positive integer value of n?
(A) 27 (B) 28 (C) 29 (D) 31 (E) 33
12 The largest divisor of 2, 014, 000, 000 is itself. What is its fifth largest divisor?
(A) 125, 875, 000 (B) 201, 400, 000 (C) 251, 750, 000 (D) 402, 800, 000 (E) 503, 500, 000
13 Six regular hexagons surround a regular hexagon of side length 1 as shown. What is the area of
△ABC?
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 2 3 (B) 3 3 (C) 1 + 3 2 (D) 2 + 2 3 (E) 3 + 2 3
14 Danica drove her new car on a trip for a whole number of hours, averaging 55 miles per hour.
At the beginning of the trip, abc miles were displayed on the odometer, where abc is a 3-digit
number with a ≥ 1 and a + b + c ≤ 7. At the end of the trip, where the odometer showed cba
miles. What is a2 + b2 + c2 ?
15 In rectangle ABCD, DC = 2CB and points E and F lie on AB so that ED and F D trisect
∠ADC as shown. What is the ratio of the area of △DEF to the area of rectangle ABCD?
A E F B
D C
√ √ √ √
3 6 3 3 1 2
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 3 (E) 4
16 Four fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that at least three of the four dice show
the same value?
1 7 1 5 1
(A) 36 (B) 72 (C) 9 (D) 36 (E) 6
18 A list of 11 positive integers has a mean of 10, a median of 9, and a unique mode of 8. What is
the largest possible value of an integer in the list?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 31 (D) 33 (E) 35
19 Two concentric circles have radii 1 and 2. Two points on the outer circle are chosen indepen-
dently and uniformly at random. What is the probability that the chord joining the two points
intersects the inner circle?
√
1 1 2− 2 1 1
(A) 6 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 2
21 Trapezoid ABCD has parallel sides AB or length 33 and CD of length 21. The other two sides
are of lengths 10 and 14. The angles at A and B are acute. What is the length of the shorter
diagonal of ABCD?
22 Eight semicircles line the inside of a square with side length 2 as shown. What is the radius of
the circle tangent to all of these semicircles?
√ √ √ √ √
1+ 2 5−1 3+1 2 3 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 2 4 5 3
23 A sphere is inscribed in a truncated right circular cone as shown. The volume of the truncated
cone is twice that of the sphere. What is the ratio of the radius of the bottom base of the trun-
cated cone to the radius of the top base of the truncated cone?
√ √
3 1+ 5 √ 3+ 5
(A) (B) (C) 3 (D) 2 (E)
2 2 2
24 The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are to be arranged in a circle. An arrangement is bad if it is not true that
for every n from 1 to 15 one can find a subset of the numbers that appear consecutively on the
circle that sum to n. Arrangements that differ only by a rotation or a reflection are considered
the same. How many different bad arrangements are there?
25 In a small pond there are eleven lily pads in a row labeled 0 through 10. A frog is sitting on pad
1. When the frog is on pad N , 0 < N < 10, it will jump to pad N − 1 with probability 10 N
and to
pad N + 1 with probability 1 − 10 . Each jump is independent of the previous jumps. If the frog
N
reaches pad 0 it will be eaten by a patiently waiting snake. If the frog reaches pad 10 it will exit
the pond, never to return. What is the probability that the frog will escape being eaten by the
snake?
32 161 63 7 1
(A) 79 (B) 384 (C) 146 (D) 16 (E) 2