2020 AMC 10A Problems

2020 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 value of satisfies

Solution

Problem 2
The numbers and have an average (arithmetic mean) of . What is the average of
and ?

Solution

Problem 3
Assuming , , and , what is the value in simplest form of the following
expression?
Solution

Problem 4
A driver travels for hours at miles per hour, during which her car gets miles per gallon of
gasoline. She is paid per mile, and her only expense is gasoline at per gallon. What is
her net rate of pay, in dollars per hour, after this expense?

Solution

Problem 5
What is the sum of all real numbers for which

Solution

Problem 6
How many -digit positive integers (that is, integers between and , inclusive) having only
even digits are divisible by

Solution

Problem 7
The integers from to inclusive, can be arranged to form a -by- square in which the
sum of the numbers in each row, the sum of the numbers in each column, and the sum of the numbers
along each of the main diagonals are all the same. What is the value of this common sum?

Solution

Problem 8
What is the value of

Solution

Problem 9
A single bench section at a school event can hold either adults or children. When bench
sections are connected end to end, an equal number of adults and children seated together will occupy
all the bench space. What is the least possible positive integer value of

Solution

Problem 10
Seven cubes, whose volumes are , , , , , , and cubic units, are stacked vertically
to form a tower in which the volumes of the cubes decrease from bottom to top. Except for the bottom
cube, the bottom face of each cube lies completely on top of the cube below it. What is the total
surface area of the tower (including the bottom) in square units?

Solution

Problem 11
What is the median of the following list of numbers

Solution

Problem 12
Triangle is isosceles with . Medians and are perpendicular to
each other, and . What is the area of
Solution

Problem 13
A frog sitting at the point begins a sequence of jumps, where each jump is parallel to one of the
coordinate axes and has length , and the direction of each jump (up, down, right, or left) is chosen
independently at random. The sequence ends when the frog reaches a side of the square with vertices
and . What is the probability that the sequence of jumps ends on a
vertical side of the square

Solution

Problem 14
Real numbers and satisfy and . What is the value of

Solution

Problem 15
A positive integer divisor of is chosen at random. The probability that the divisor chosen is a

perfect square can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is
?

Solution

Problem 16
A point is chosen at random within the square in the coordinate plane whose vertices are
and . The probability that the point is within
units of a lattice point is . (A point is a lattice point if and are both integers.) What is to
the nearest tenth

Solution

Problem 17
Define

How many integers are there such that ?

Solution

Problem 18
Let be an ordered quadruple of not necessarily distinct integers, each one of them in the
set For how many such quadruples is it true that is odd? (For example,
is one such quadruple, because is odd.)

Solution

Problem 19
As shown in the figure below, a regular dodecahedron (the polyhedron consisting of congruent
regular pentagonal faces) floats in space with two horizontal faces. Note that there is a ring of five
slanted faces adjacent to the top face, and a ring of five slanted faces adjacent to the bottom face.
How many ways are there to move from the top face to the bottom face via a sequence of adjacent
faces so that each face is visited at most once and moves are not permitted from the bottom ring to
the top ring?

Solution

Problem 20
Quadrilateral satisfies and
Diagonals and intersect at point and What is the area of
quadrilateral
Solution

Problem 21
There exists a unique strictly increasing sequence of nonnegative integers
such that

What is

Solution

Problem 22
For how many positive integers is

not divisible by ? (Recall that is the greatest integer less than or equal to .)

Solution

Problem 23
Let be the triangle in the coordinate plane with vertices and Consider the
following five isometries (rigid transformations) of the plane: rotations of and
counterclockwise around the origin, reflection across the -axis, and reflection across the -axis. How
many of the sequences of three of these transformations (not necessarily distinct) will return
to its original position? (For example, a rotation, followed by a reflection across the -axis,
followed by a reflection across the -axis will return to its original position, but a rotation,
followed by a reflection across the -axis, followed by another reflection across the -axis will not
return to its original position.)

Solution

Problem 24
Let be the least positive integer greater than for which

What is the sum of the digits of ?

Solution

Problem 25
Jason rolls three fair standard six-sided dice. Then he looks at the rolls and chooses a subset of the
dice (possibly empty, possibly all three dice) to reroll. After rerolling, he wins if and only if the sum of
the numbers face up on the three dice is exactly . Jason always plays to optimize his chances of
winning. What is the probability that he chooses to reroll exactly two of the dice?

Solution

See also
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