Problem 1

The Math Team designed a logo shaped like a multiplication symbol, shown below on a grid of 1-inch
squares. What is the area of the logo in square inches?

Solution

Problem 2

Consider these two operations: What is the value of

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Problem 3

When three positive integers , , and are multiplied together, their product is .
Suppose . In how many ways can the numbers be chosen?

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Problem 4

The letter M in the figure below is first reflected over the line and then reflected over the line .
What is the resulting image?
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Problem 5

Anna and Bella are celebrating their birthdays together. Five years ago, when Bella turned years
old, she received a newborn kitten as a birthday present. Today the sum of the ages of the two
children and the kitten is years. How many years older than Bella is Anna?

Solution

Problem 6

Three positive integers are equally spaced on a number line. The middle number is and the
largest number is times the smallest number. What is the smallest of these three numbers?

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Problem 7

When the World Wide Web first became popular in the s, download speeds reached a
maximum of about kilobits per second. Approximately how many minutes would the download of
a -megabyte song have taken at that speed? (Note that there are kilobits in a megabyte.)

Solution

Problem 8

What is the value of

Problem 9

A cup of boiling water ( ) is placed to cool in a room whose temperature remains constant
at . Suppose the difference between the water temperature and the room temperature is
halved every minutes. What is the water temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, after minutes?

Solution

Problem 10

One sunny day, Ling decided to take a hike in the mountains. She left her house at , drove at a
constant speed of miles per hour, and arrived at the hiking trail at . After hiking for
hours, Ling drove home at a constant speed of miles per hour. Which of the following graphs best
illustrates the distance between Ling’s car and her house over the course of her trip?
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Problem 11

Henry the donkey has a very long piece of pasta. He takes a number of bites of pasta, each time
eating inches of pasta from the middle of one piece. In the end, he has pieces of pasta whose
total length is inches. How long, in inches, was the piece of pasta he started with?

Solution

Problem 12

The arrows on the two spinners shown below are spun. Let the number equal times the
number on Spinner , added to the number on Spinner . What is the probability that is a
perfect square number?

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Problem 13

How many positive integers can fill the blank in the sentence below?

“One positive integer is _____ more than twice another, and the sum of the two numbers is .”

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Problem 14

In how many ways can the letters in be rearranged so that two or more s do
not appear together?

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Problem 15

Laszlo went online to shop for black pepper and found thirty different black pepper options varying
in weight and price, shown in the scatter plot below. In ounces, what is the weight of the pepper that
offers the lowest price per ounce?
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Problem 16

Four numbers are written in a row. The average of the first two is the average of the middle two
is and the average of the last two is What is the average of the first and last of the numbers?

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Problem 17

If is an even positive integer, the notation represents the product of all the
even integers from to . For example, . What is the units digit of the following
sum?

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Problem 18

The midpoints of the four sides of a rectangle are and What is the
area of the rectangle?

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Problem 19

Mr. Ramos gave a test to his class of students. The dot plot below shows the distribution of test

scores.

Later Mr. Ramos discovered that there was a scoring error on one of the questions. He regraded the
tests, awarding some of the students extra points, which increased the median test score to .
What is the minimum number of students who received extra points?

(Note that the median test score equals the average of the scores in the middle if the test
scores are arranged in increasing order.)

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Problem 20

The grid below is to be filled with integers in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row
and the sum of the numbers in each column are the same. Four numbers are missing. The number
in the lower left corner is larger than the other three missing numbers. What is the smallest possible

value of ?

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Problem 21

Steph scored baskets out of attempts in the first half of a game, and baskets out of
attempts in the second half. Candace took attempts in the first half and attempts in the
second. In each half, Steph scored a higher percentage of baskets than Candace. Surprisingly they
ended with the same overall percentage of baskets scored. How many more baskets did Candace

score in the second half than in the first?

Solution

Problem 22

A bus takes minutes to drive from one stop to the next, and waits minute at each stop to let
passengers board. Zia takes minutes to walk from one bus stop to the next. As Zia reaches a bus
stop, if the bus is at the previous stop or has already left the previous stop, then she will wait for the
bus. Otherwise she will start walking toward the next stop. Suppose the bus and Zia start at the same
time toward the library, with the bus stops behind. After how many minutes will Zia board the bus?

Solution

Problem 23
A or is placed in each of the nine squares in a -by- grid. Shown below is a sample

configuration with three s in a line. How many configurations will have

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Problem 24

The figure below shows a polygon , consisting of rectangles and right triangles.
When cut out and folded on the dotted lines, the polygon forms a triangular prism. Suppose
that and . What is the volume of the prism?

Solution

Problem 25

A cricket randomly hops between leaves, on each turn hopping to one of the other leaves with
equal probability. After hops, what is the probability that the cricket has returned to the leaf where
it started?
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2022 AMC 8 Answer Key

1. A

2. D

3. E

4. E

5. C

6. C

7. B

8. B

9. B

10. E

11. D

12. B

13. D

14. D

15. C

16. B

17. B

18. C

19. C

20. D

21. C

22. A

23. D

24. C

25. E