2014 AMC 10A Problems
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
Problem 1
What is
$\textbf{(A)}\ 3\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 8\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{25}{2}\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \frac{170}{3}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 170$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 2
Roy's cat eats of a can of cat food every morning and
of a can of cat food every evening. Before feeding his cat on Monday morning, Roy opened a box containing
cans of cat food. On what day of the week did the cat finish eating all the cat food in the box?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \text{Tuesday}\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \text{Wednesday}\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \text{Thursday}\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \text{Friday}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{Saturday}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 3
Bridget bakes 48 loaves of bread for her bakery. She sells half of them in the morning for each. In the afternoon she sells two thirds of what she has left, and because they are not fresh, she charges only half price. In the late afternoon she sells the remaining loaves at a dollar each. Each loaf costs
for her to make. In dollars, what is her profit for the day?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 24\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 36\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 44\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 48\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 52$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 4
Walking down Jane Street, Ralph passed four houses in a row, each painted a different color. He passed the orange house before the red house, and he passed the blue house before the yellow house. The blue house was not next to the yellow house. How many orderings of the colored houses are possible?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 2\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 3\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 4\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 5\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 6$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 5
On an algebra quiz, of the students scored
points,
scored
points,
scored
points, and the rest scored
points. What is the difference between the mean and median score of the students' scores on this quiz?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 1\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 2\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 3\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 4\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 5$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) Solution
Problem 6
Suppose that cows give
gallons of milk in
days. At this rate, how many gallons of milk will
cows give in
days?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \frac{bde}{ac}\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{ac}{bde}\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{abde}{c}\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \frac{bcde}{a}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{abc}{de}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) Solution
Problem 7
Nonzero real numbers ,
,
, and
satisfy
and
. How many of the following inequalities must be true?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 0\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 1\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 2\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 3\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 4$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) Solution
Problem 8
Which of the following number is a perfect square?
Problem 9
The two legs of a right triangle, which are altitudes, have lengths and
. How long is the third altitude of the triangle?
Problem 10
Five positive consecutive integers starting with have average
. What is the average of
consecutive integers that start with
?
$\textbf{(A)}\ a+3\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ a+4\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ a+5\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ a+6\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ a+7$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) Solution
Problem 11
A customer who intends to purchase an appliance has three coupons, only one of which may be used:
Coupon 1: off the listed price if the listed price is at least
Coupon 2: off the listed price if the listed price is at least
Coupon 3: off the amount by which the listed price exceeds
For which of the following listed prices will coupon offer a greater price reduction than either coupon
or coupon
?
Problem 12
A regular hexagon has side length 6. Congruent arcs with radius 3 are drawn with the center at each of the vertices, creating circular sectors as shown. The region inside the hexagon but outside the sectors is shaded as shown What is the area of the shaded region?
Problem 13
Equilateral has side length
, and squares
,
,
lie outside the triangle. What is the area of hexagon
?
Problem 14
The -intercepts,
and
, of two perpendicular lines intersecting at the point
have a sum of zero. What is the area of
?
Problem 15
David drives from his home to the airport to catch a flight. He drives miles in the first hour, but realizes that he will be
hour late if he continues at this speed. He increases his speed by
miles per hour for the rest of the way to the airport and arrives
minutes early. How many miles is the airport from his home?
Problem 16
In rectangle ,
,
, and points
,
, and
are midpoints of
,
, and
, respectively. Point
is the midpoint of
. What is the area of the shaded region?
Problem 17
Three fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that the values shown on two of the dice sum to the value shown on the remaining die?
Problem 18
A square in the coordinate plane has vertices whose -coordinates are
,
,
, and
. What is the area of the square?
Problem 19
Four cubes with edge lengths ,
,
, and
are stacked as shown. What is the length of the portion of
contained in the cube with edge length
?
Problem 20
The product , where the second factor has
digits, is an integer whose digits have a sum of
. What is
?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 901\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 911\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 919\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 991\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 999$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 21
Positive integers and
are such that the graphs of
and
intersect the
-axis at the same point. What is the sum of all possible
-coordinates of these points of intersection?
Problem 22
In rectangle ,
and
. Let
be a point on
such that
. What is
?
Problem 23
A rectangular piece of paper whose length is times the width has area
. The paper is divided into three sections along the opposite lengths, and then a dotted line is drawn from the first divider to the second divider on the opposite side as shown. The paper is then folded flat along this dotted line to create a new shape with area
. What is the ratio
?
Problem 24
A sequence of natural numbers is constructed by listing the first , then skipping one, listing the next
, skipping
, listing
, skipping
, and, on the
th iteration, listing
and skipping
. The sequence begins
. What is the
th number in the sequence?
Problem 25
The number is between
and
. How many pairs of integers
are there such that
and