2021 Fall AMC 10A Problems

2021 Fall AMC 10A (Answer Key)

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Instructions

1. This is a 25-question, multiple choice test. Each question is followed by answers marked A, B, C, D and E.
Only one of these is correct.
2. You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 2.5 points for each problem left unanswered if the year
is before 2006, 1.5 points for each problem left unanswered if the year is after 2006, and 0 points for each
incorrect answer.
3. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, protractor and erasers (and
calculators that are accepted for use on the SAT if before 2006. No problems on the test will require the
use of a calculator).
4. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
5. You will have 75 minutes working time to complete the test.

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Contents
1 Problem 1
2 Problem 2
3 Problem 3
4 Problem 4
5 Problem 5
6 Problem 6
7 Problem 7
8 Problem 8
9 Problem 9
10 Problem 10
11 Problem 11
12 Problem 12
13 Problem 13
14 Problem 14
15 Problem 15
16 Problem 16
17 Problem 17
18 Problem 18
19 Problem 19
20 Problem 20
21 Problem 21
22 Problem 22
23 Problem 23
24 Problem 24
25 Problem 25
26 See Also

Problem 1

What is the value of ?

Solution

Problem 2
Menkara has a index card. If she shortens the length of one side of this card by inch, the card would have area square inches. What would the area of the card be in
square inches if instead she shortens the length of the other side by inch?

Solution

Problem 3
What is the maximum number of balls of clay of radius that can completely fit inside a cube of side length assuming the balls can be reshaped but not compressed before they
are packed in the cube?

Solution

Problem 4
Mr. Lopez has a choice of two routes to get to work. Route A is miles long, and his average speed along this route is miles per hour. Route B is miles long, and his average

speed along this route is miles per hour, except for a -mile stretch in a school zone where his average speed is miles per hour. By how many minutes is Route B quicker than
Route A?

Solution

Problem 5
The six-digit number is prime for only one digit What is

Solution

Problem 6
Elmer the emu takes equal strides to walk between consecutive telephone poles on a rural road. Oscar the ostrich can cover the same distance in equal leaps. The telephone
poles are evenly spaced, and the st pole along this road is exactly one mile ( feet) from the first pole. How much longer, in feet, is Oscar's leap than Elmer's stride?

Solution

Problem 7
As shown in the figure below, point lies on the opposite half-plane determined by line from point so that . Point lies on so that
, and is a square. What is the degree measure of ?

Solution

Problem 8
A two-digit positive integer is said to be if it is equal to the sum of its nonzero tens digit and the square of its units digit. How many two-digit positive integers are cuddly?

Solution

Problem 9
When a certain unfair die is rolled, an even number is times as likely to appear as an odd number. The die is rolled twice. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled
is even?

Solution

Problem 10
A school has students and teachers. In the first period, each student is taking one class, and each teacher is teaching one class. The enrollments in the classes are
and . Let be the average value obtained if a teacher is picked at random and the number of students in their class is noted. Let be the average value obtained
if a student was picked at random and the number of students in their class, including the student, is noted. What is ?

Solution

Problem 11
Emily sees a ship traveling at a constant speed along a straight section of a river. She walks parallel to the riverbank at a uniform rate faster than the ship. She counts equal
steps walking from the back of the ship to the front. Walking in the opposite direction, she counts steps of the same size from the front of the ship to the back. In terms of Emily's
equal steps, what is the length of the ship?
Solution

Problem 12
The base-nine representation of the number is What is the remainder when is divided by

Solution

Problem 13
Each of balls is randomly and independently painted either black or white with equal probability. What is the probability that every ball is different in color from more than half of the
other balls?

Solution

Problem 14
How many ordered pairs of real numbers satisfy the following system of equations?

Solution

Problem 15

Isosceles triangle has , and a circle with radius is tangent to line at and to line at . What is the area of the circle that passes
through vertices , , and

Solution

Problem 16
The graph of

is symmetric about which of the following? (Here is the greatest integer not exceeding .)

Solution

Problem 17
An architect is building a structure that will place vertical pillars at the vertices of regular hexagon , which is lying horizontally on the ground. The six pillars will hold
up a flat solar panel that will not be parallel to the ground. The heights of pillars at , , and are , , and meters, respectively. What is the height, in meters, of the pillar at
?

Solution

Problem 18
A farmer's rectangular field is partitioned into by grid of rectangular sections as shown in the figure. In each section the farmer will plant one crop: corn, wheat, soybeans, or
potatoes. The farmer does not want to grow corn and wheat in any two sections that share a border, and the farmer does not want to grow soybeans and potatoes in any two
sections that share a border. Given these restrictions, in how many ways can the farmer choose crops to plant in each of the four sections of the field?

Solution

Problem 19
A disk of radius rolls all the way around the inside of a square of side length and sweeps out a region of area . A second disk of radius rolls all the way around the

outside of the same square and sweeps out a region of area . The value of can be written as , where , and are positive integers and and are relatively

prime. What is ?
Solution

Problem 20
How many ordered pairs of positive integers exist where both and do not have distinct, real solutions?

Solution

Problem 21
Each of the balls is tossed independently and at random into one of the bins. Let be the probability that some bin ends up with balls, another with balls, and the other

three with balls each. Let be the probability that every bin ends up with balls. What is ?

Solution

Problem 22
Inside a right circular cone with base radius and height are three congruent spheres with radius . Each sphere is tangent to the other two spheres and also tangent to the base
and side of the cone. What is ?

Solution

Problem 23
For each positive integer , let be twice the number of positive integer divisors of , and for , let . For how many values of is

Solution

Problem 24
Each of the edges of a cube is labeled or . Two labelings are considered different even if one can be obtained from the other by a sequence of one or more rotations and/or
reflections. For how many such labelings is the sum of the labels on the edges of each of the faces of the cube equal to ?

Solution

Problem 25
A quadratic polynomial with real coefficients and leading coefficient is called if the equation is satisfied by exactly three real numbers. Among all
the disrespectful quadratic polynomials, there is a unique such polynomial for which the sum of the roots is maximized. What is ?

Solution

See Also
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