2023 AMC 8 Problems
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- 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 is the value of ?
Problem 2
Problem 3
Wind chill is a measure of how cold people feel when exposed to wind outside. A good estimate for wind chill can be found using this calculation:
where temperature is measured in degrees Fahrenheit and and the wind speed is measured in miles per hour (mph). Suppose the air temperature is and the wind speed is mph. Which of the following is closest to the approximate wind chill?
Problem 4
Problem 5
A lake contains trout, along with a variety of other fish. When a marine biologist catches and releases a sample of 180 fish from the lake, 30 are identified as trout. Assume that the ratio of trout to the total number of fish is the same in both the sample and the lake. How many fish are there in the lake?
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Problem 8
Lola, Lolo, Tiya, and Tiyo participated in a ping pong tournament. Each player competed against each of the other three players exactly twice. Shown below are the win-loss records for the players. The numbers and represent a win or loss, respectively. For example, Lola won five matches and lost the fourth match. What was Tiyo’s win-loss record?
Problem 9
Problem 10
Harold made a plum pie to take on a picnic. He was able to eat only of the pie, and he left the rest for his friends. A moose came by and ate of what Harold left behind. After that, a porcupine ate of what the moose left behind. How much of the original pie still remained after the porcupine left?
Problem 11
NASA’s Perseverance Rover was launched on July After traveling miles, it landed on Mars in Jezero Crater about months later. Which of the following is closest to the Rover’s average interplanetary speed in miles per hour?
Problem 12
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Problem 14
Nicolas is planning to send a package to his friend Anton, who is a stamp collector. To pay for the postage, Nicolas would like to cover the package with a large number of stamps. Suppose he has a collection of 20 of each of 5 cent, 10 cent, and 25 cent stamps. What is the GREATEST number of stamps that Nicolas can use to make exactly 7.10 in postage?
Problem 15
Viswam walks half a mile to get to school each day. His route consists of 10 city blocks of equal length and he takes 1 minute to walk each block. Today, after walking 5 blocks, Viswam discovers he has to make a detour, walking 3 blocks of equal length instead of 1 block to reach the next corner. From the time he starts his detour, at what speed, in mph, must he walk, in order to get to school at his usual time?
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Problem 18
Greta Grasshopper sits on a long line of lily pads in a pond. From any lily pad, Greta can jump pads to the right or pads to the left. What is the fewest number of jumps Greta must make to reach the lily pad located pads to the right of her starting point?
Problem 19
Problem 20
Two integers are inserted into the list to double its range. The mode and median remain unchanged. What is the maximum possible sum of two additional numbers?
Problem 21
Alina writes the numbers on separate cards, one number per card. She wishes to divide the cards into groups of cards so that the sum of the number in each group will be the same. In how many ways can this be done?
Problem 22
In a sequence of positive integers, each term after the second is the product of the previous two terms. The sixth term is . What is the first term?
Problem 23
Each square in a 3x3 grid is randomly filled with one of the 4 gray-and-white tiles as shown below.
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What is the probability that the tiling will contain a large gray diamond in one of the smaller 2x2 grids? Below is such a tiling
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Problem 24
Problem 25
Fifteen integers are arranged in order on a number line. The integers are equally spaced and have the property that What is the sum of digits of ?
See Also
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