2018 AMC 10A Problems
Contents
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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
Liliane has more soda than Jacqueline, and Alice has more soda than Jacqueline. What is the relationship between the amounts of soda that Liliane and Alica have?
Liliane has more soda than Alice. Liliane has more soda than Alice. Liliane has more soda than Alice. Liliane has more soda than Alice. Liliane has more soda than Alice.
Problem 3
A unit of blood expires after seconds. Yasin donates a unit of blood at noon of January 1. On what day does his unit of blood expire?
Problem 4
How many ways can a student schedule 3 mathematics courses -- algebra, geometry, and number theory -- in a 6-period day if no two mathematics courses can be taken in consecutive periods? (What courses the student takes during the other 3 periods is of no concern here.)
Problem 5
Alice, Bob, and Charlie were on a hike and were wondering how far away the nearest town was. When Alice said, "We are at least 6 miles away," Bob replied, "We are at most 5 miles away." Charlie then remarked, "Actually the nearest town is at most 4 miles away." It turned out that none of the three statements were true. Let be the distance in miles to the nearest town. Which of the following intervals is the set of all possible values of ?
Problem 6
Sangho uploaded a video to a website where viewers can vote that they like or dislike a video. Each video begins with a score of 0, and the score increases by 1 for each like vote and decreases by 1 for each dislike vote. At one point Sangho saw that his video had a score of 90, and that of the votes cast on his video were like votes. How many votes had been cast on Sangho's video at that point?
Problem 7
For how many (not necessarily positive) integer values of is the value of an integer?
Problem 8
Joe has a collection of 23 coins, consisting of 5-cent coins, 10-cent coins, and 25-cent coins. He has 3 more 10-cent coins than 5-cent coins, and the total value of his collection is 320 cents. How many more 25-cent coins does Joe have than 5-cent coins?
Problem 9
All of the triangles in the diagram below are similar to iscoceles triangle , in which . Each of the 7 smallest triangles has area 1, and has area 40. What is the area of trapezoid ?
Problem 10
Suppose that real number satisfies . What is the value of ?
Problem 11
When fair standard -sided die are thrown, the probability that the sum of the numbers on the top faces is can be written as , where is a positive integer. What is ?
Problem 12
How many ordered pairs of real numbers satisfy the following system of equations?
Problem 13
A paper triangle with sides of lengths 3, 4, and 5 inches, as shown, is folded so that point falls on point . What is the length in inches of the crease?
Problem 14
What is the greatest integer less than or equal to
Problem 15
Two circles of radius 5 are externally tangent to each other and are internally tangent to a circle of radius 13 at points and , as shown in the diagram. The distance can be written in the form , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is ?
Problem 16
Right triangle has leg lengths and . Including and , how many line segments with integer length can be drawn from vertex to a point on hypotenuse ?
Problem 17
Let be a set of 6 integers taken from with the property that if and are elements of with , then is not a multiple of . What is the least possible values of an element in
Problem 18
How many nonnegative integers can be written in the form where for ?
Problem 19
A number is randomly selected from the set , and a number is randomly selected from . What is the probability that has a units digit of ?
Problem 20
A scanning code consists of a grid of squares, with some of its squares colored black and the rest colored white. There must be at least one square of each color in this grid of squares. A scanning code is called if its look does not change when the entire square is rotated by a multiple of counterclockwise around its center, nor when it is reflected across a line joining opposite corners or a line joining midpoints of opposite sides. What is the total number of possible symmetric scanning codes?
Problem 21
Which of the following describes the set of values of for which the curves and in the real -plane intersect at exactly points?
Problem 22
Let and be positive integers such that , , , and . Which of the following must be a divisor of ?
Problem 23
Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle's legs have lengths 3 and 4 units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he leaves a small unplanted square so that from the air it looks like the right angle symbol. The rest of the field is planted. The shortest distance from to the hypotenuse is 2 units. What fraction of the field is planted?
Problem 24
Triangle with and has area . Let be the midpoint of , and let be the midpoint of . The angle bisector of intersects and at and , respectively. What is the area of quadrilateral ?
Problem 25
For a positive integer and nonzero digits , , and , let be the -digit integer each of whose digits is equal to ; let be the -digit integer each of whose digits is equal to , and let be the -digit (not -digit) integer each of whose digits is equal to . What is the greatest possible value of for which there are at least two values of such that ?
See also
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