AMC 10B 2010 Question Paper

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Question 1

What is \(100(100-3)-(100 \cdot 100-3)\) ?

(a) \(-20,000\)
(b) \(-10,000\)
(c) -297
(d) -6
(e) 0

Question 2

Makayla attended two meetings during her 9 -hour work day. The first meeting took 45 minutes and the second meeting took twice as long. What percent of her work day was spent attending meetings?

(a) 15
(b) 20
(c) 25
(d) 30
(e) 35

Question 3

A drawer contains red, green, blue, and white socks with at least 2 of each color. What is the minimum number of socks that must be pulled from the drawer to guarantee a matching pair?

(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 8
(e) 9

Question 4

For a real number \(x\), define \(\varnothing(x)\) to be the average of \(x\) and \(x^{2}\). What is \(\varnothing(1)+\varnothing(2)+\varnothing(3)\) ?

(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 10
(d) 12
(e) 20

Question 5

A month with 31 days has the same number of Mondays and Wednesdays. How many of the seven days of the week could be the first day of this month?

(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
(e) 6

Question 6

A circle is centered at \(O, \overline{A B}\) is a diameter and \(C\) is a point on the circle with \(\angle C O B=50^{\circ}\). What is the degree measure of \(\angle C A B\) ?

(a) 20
(b) 25
(c) 45
(d) 50
(e) 65

Question 7

A triangle has side lengths 10,10 , and 12 . A rectangle has width 4 and area equal to the area of the triangle. What is the perimeter of this rectangle?

(a) 16
(b) 24
(c) 28
(d) 32
(e) 36

Question 8

A ticket to a school play costs \(x\) dollars, where \(x\) is a whole number. A group of 9th graders buys tickets costing a total of \($ 48\), and a group of 10th graders buys tickets costing a total of \($ 64\). How many values of \(x\) are possible?

(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

Question 9

Lucky Larry's teacher asked him to substitute numbers for \(a, b, c, d\), and \(e\) in the expression \(a-(b-(c-(d+e)))\) and evaluate the result. Larry ignored the parentheses but added and subtracted correctly and obtained the correct result by coincedence. The numbers Larry AMC 10 2010 substituted for \(a, b, c\), and \(d\) were \(1,2,3\), and 4 , respectively. What number did Larry substitute for \(e\) ?

(a) -5
(b) -3
(c) 0
(d) 3
(e) 5

Question 10

Shelby drives her scooter at a speed of 30 miles per hour if it is not raining, and 20 miles per hour if it is raining. Today she drove in the sun in the morning and in the rain in the evening, for a total of 16 miles in 40 minutes. How many minutes did she drive in the rain?

(a) 18
(b) 21
(c) 24
(d) 27
(e) 30

Question 11

A shopper plans to purchase an item that has a listed price greater than \($ 100\) and can use any one of the three coupons. Coupon A gives \(15 %\) off the listed price, Coupon B gives \($ 30\) the listed price, and Coupon C gives \(25 %\) off the amount by which the listed price exceeds \($ 100\). Let \(x\) and \(y\) be the smallest and largest prices, respectively, for which Coupon A saves at least as many dollars as Coupon B or C. What is \(y-x\) ?

(a) 50
(b) 60
(c) 75
(d) 80
(e) 100

Question 12

At the beginning of the school year, \(50 %\) of all students in Mr. Well's math class answered "Yes" to the question "Do you love math", and \(50 %\) answered "No." At the end of the school year, \(70 %\) answered "Yes" and \(30 %\) answered "No." Altogether, \(x %\) of the students gave a different answer at the beginning and end of the school year. What is the difference between the maximum and the minimum possible values of \(x\) ?

(a) 0
(b) 20
(c) 40
(d) 60
(e) 80

Question 13

What is the sum of all the solutions of \(x=|2 x-|60-2 x||\) ?

(a) 32
(b) 60
(c) 92
(d) 120
(e) 124

Question 14

The average of the numbers \(1,2,3, \ldots, 98,99\), and \(x\) is \(100 x\). What is \(x\) ?

(a) \(\frac{49}{101}\)
(b) \(\frac{50}{101}\)
(c) \(\frac{1}{2}\)
(d) \(\frac{51}{101}\)
(e) \(\frac{50}{99}\)

Question 15

On a 50 -question multiple choice math contest, students receive 4 points for a correct answer, 0 points for an answer left blank, and -1 point for an incorrect answer. Jesse's total score on the contest was 99. What is the maximum number of questions that Jesse could have answered correctly?

(a) 25
(b) 27
(c) 29
(d) 31
(e) 33

Question 16

A square of side length 1 and a circle of radius \(\sqrt{3} / 3\) share the same center. What is the area inside the circle, but outside the square?

(a) \(\frac{\pi}{3}-1\)
(b) \(\frac{2 \pi}{9}-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}\)
(c) \(\frac{\pi}{18}\)
(d) \(\frac{1}{4}\)
(e) \(2 \pi / 9\) AMC 10 2010

Question 17

Every high school in the city of Euclid sent a team of 3 students to a math contest. Each participant in the contest received a different score. Andrea's score was the median among all students, and hers was the highest score on her team. Andrea's teammates Beth and Carla placed 37th and 64th, respectively. How many schools are in the city?

(a) 22
(b) 23
(c) 24
(d) 25
(e) 26

Question 18

Positive integers \(a, b\), and \(c\) are randomly and independently selected with replacement from the set \(\{1,2,3, \ldots, 2010\}\). What is the probability that \(a b c+a b+a\) is divisible by 3 ?

(a) \(\frac{1}{3}\)
(b) \(\frac{29}{81}\)
(c) \(\frac{31}{81}\)
(d) \(\frac{11}{27}\)
(e) \(\frac{13}{27}\)

Question 19

A circle with center \(O\) has area \(156 \pi\). Triangle \(A B C\) is equilateral, \(\overline{B C}\) is a chord on the circle, \(O A=4 \sqrt{3}\), and point \(O\) is outside \(\triangle A B C\). What is the side length of \(\triangle A B C\) ?

(a) \(2 \sqrt{3}\)
(b) 6
(c) \(4 \sqrt{3}\)
(d) 12
(e) 18

Question 20

Two circles lie outside regular hexagon \(A B C D E F\). The first is tangent to \(\overline{A B}\), and the second is tangent to \(\overline{D E}\). Both are tangent to lines \(B C\) and \(F A\). What is the ratio of the area of the second circle to that of the first circle?

(a) 18
(b) 27
(c) 36
(d) 81
(e) 108

Question 21

A palindrome between 1000 and 10,000 is chosen at random. What is the probability that it is divisible by 7 ?

(a) \(\frac{1}{10}\)
(b) \(\frac{1}{9}\)
(c) \(\frac{1}{7}\)
(d) \(\frac{1}{6}\)
(e) \(\frac{1}{5}\)

Question 22

Seven distinct pieces of candy are to be distributed among three bags. The red bag and the blue bag must each receive at least one piece of candy; the white bag may remain empty. How many arrangements are possible?

(a) 1930
(b) 1931
(c) 1932
(d) 1933
(e) 1934

Question 23

The entries in a \(3 \times 3\) array include all the digits from 1 through 9 , arranged so that the entries in every row and column are in increasing order. How many such arrays are there?

(a) 18
(b) 24
(c) 36
(d) 42
(e) 60

Question 24

A high school basketball game between the Raiders and Wildcats was tied at the end of the first quarter. The number of points scored by the Raiders in each of the four quarters formed an increasing geometric sequence, and the number of points scored by the Wildcats in each of the four quarters formed an increasing arithmetic sequence. At the end of the fourth quarter, the Raiders had won by one point. Neither team scored more than 100 points. What was the total number of points scored by the two teams in the first half?

(a) 30
(b) 31
(c) 32
(d) 33
(e) 34

Question 25

Let \(a>0\), and let \(P(x)\) be a polynomial with integer coefficients such that \[ \begin{gathered} P(1)=P(3)=P(5)=P(7)=a, \text { and } P(2)=P(4)=P(6)=P(8)=-a \end{gathered} \] What is the smallest possible value of \(a\) ?

(a) 105
(b) 315
(c) 945
(d) 7 !
(e) 8 !
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