Week 2: AMC8+ Level

2021 Summer Practice, Morning Star Institute

Problem 1 [Mathcounts] Of 1000 people surveyed, each person owned a cat, a

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(A) 370 (B) 440 (C) 580 (D) 610 (E) 650

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Problem 3 [AHSME] The marked price of a book was 30% less than the sug-
gested retail price. Alice purchased the book for half the marked price
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at a Fiftieth Anniversary sale. What percent of the suggested retail
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(A) 25% (B) 30% (C) 35% (D) 60% (E) 65%

Problem 4 A square of integer side length m can be completely covered by a circle

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(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

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Problem 5 [Canadian Math Competition] A soccer team played three games.

Each game ended in a win, loss, or tie. (If a game finishes with both
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teams having scored the same number of goals, the game ends in a tie.)
In total, the team scored more goals than were scored against them.
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Which of the following combinations of outcomes is not possible for

this team?

(A) 2 wins, 0 losses, 1 tie (B) 1 win, 2 losses, 0 tie

(C) 0 wins, 1 loss, 2 ties (D) 1 win, 1 loss, 1 tie
(E) 1 win, 0 losses, 2 ties

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Problem 6 [Hua Luo Geng Gold Cup Math Competition, China] A team
of eight construction workers finish 23 of a project in 30 days. Then 4
more workers join the team to finish the remaining part. What is the
total number of days the team has spent on the project?

(A) 35 (B) 38 (C) 39 (D) 40 (E) 42

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Problem 7 A honeycomb consisting of regular hexagon has 4 layers. The following
figure shows two layers: the center and the next layer. How many
hexagons are in the entire honeycomb?

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(A) 19 (B) 25 (C) 31 (D) 37 (E) 43

Problem 8 [Canadian Math Competition] Each of the following 15 cards has

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a letter on one side and a positive integer on the other side. What is
the minimum number of cards that need to be turned over to check if
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the following statement is true?

“If a card has a lower case letter on one side, then it has an odd integer
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Problem 9 [Hope Cup Math Competition, China] ABCD is a square of
side length 4. M and N are midpoints of AD and BC respectively.
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Two particle P and Q start together from M and move along sides of
ABCD. P moves counterclockwise with the speed 1 meter per second
and Q moves clockwise with the speed 2 meters per second. What is
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the area of ∆N P Q after 2021 seconds?

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Problem 10 [Hope Cup Math Competition, China] A 3-digit number abc is

divisible by 5, but not by 6 or 7. The number cba is divisible by 6,
but not by 5 or 7. The number cab is divisible by 7, but not by 5 or
6. What is the remainder of abc when divided by 11?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 9

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Problem 11 The area of the triangle bounded by lines y = x, y = 2x and x + y = k
on the coordinate plane is 12. What is the number k?

(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

Problem 12 [AHSME] How many positive integers less than 50 have an odd num-

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Problem 13 How many different 5-letter “words” can be formed by using all three
letters A, B, C and the middle letter has to be B? For exam, ABBCC
and ACBCA are two such words.

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(A) 50 (B) 56 (C) 65 (D) 77 (E) 81

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Problem 14 A student has two open-topped rectangular containers. (The walls of
the two containers are thin enough so that their width can be ignored.)
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The larger container is a cube of side length of 10 and is full of water.
The smaller container is 5 × 5 × 9 and is empty. The student slowly
lowers the smaller container into the larger container, as shown in the
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following picture. As the smaller container is lowered, the water first

overflows out of the larger container and then eventually pours into
the smaller container. When the smaller container is resting on the
bottom of the larger container, the depth of the water in the smaller
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Problem 15 [Hua Luo Geng Gold Cup Math Competition, China] Six num-
bers 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 are put in the following circles. The products
of three circles in triangles A, B and C are the same. What is the sum
of digits of the largest possible value of that common product?

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Problem 16 [Australian Math Competition] A strip of paper 1cm wide is folded
4 times to make a regular octagon as shown. If the ends of the strip
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meet exactly when folded, how many centimetres long is the strip?
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Problem 17 For i = 1, 2, ..., 20, ai is −1, 0 or 1. If

a1 + a2 + · · · + a20 = 1

and
(a1 + 1)2 + (a2 + 1)2 + · · · + (a20 + 1)2 = 37,

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 how many ai equal to 1?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

Problem 18 [Australian Math Competition] Two circles, one of radius 1 and

the other of radius 2, touch externally at P. A straight line through P

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ratio does this line cut the area of the smaller circle?

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Problem 19 [Mathcounts] Denis chooses two different unit squares at random

from the array of 13 unit squares shown. What is the probability that
the two squares share an edge? Express your answer as a common
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(A) 39 (B) 26 (C) 39 (D) 13 (E) 39

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Problem 20 In ∆ABC, E, J, G and H are points on sides of ∆ABC. EH k AC,
JG k AB and F I k BC. EH, JG and F I intersect at K. If the areas
of ∆EF K, ∆JKI and ∆KGH are 1, 4 and 9 respectively, what is the
area of ∆ABC?

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1. C, 2. E, 3. C, 4. C, 5. C

6. D, 7. D, 8. A, 9. B, 10. B

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