Mock AMC 10

Thanksgiving 2017

Reun

Rules:

1. DO NOT START THIS TEST UNTIL YOUR TIMER HAS

BEEN SET TO 75 MINUTES.

2. This is a twenty-five question multiple choice test. Each

question is followed by an answer marked A, B, C, D, or E. Only
one of these is correct.

3. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer,

1.5 points for each problem left unanswered, and 0 points for each
incorrect answer.

4. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper,

rulers, compass, protractors, and erasers. No calculators are
allowed. No problems on the test will require the use of a
calculator.

5. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.

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Reun Thanksgiving Mock AMC 10 2017

1. Bob eats 3 nuggets in the time it takes Joe to eat 4 nuggets. Joe eats 4
nuggets in the time it takes Bill to eat 5 nuggets. In the time it takes Bob
and Joe to eat 56 nuggets total, how many nuggets will Bill have eaten?

(A) 24 (B) 32 (C) 40 (D) 48 (E) 56

2. Suppose that, at constant rates, a leopard runs twice as fast as a lynx, a

cheetah runs five times as fast as a leopard, and a lion runs twice as slow
as a lynx. If a lion runs a mile in an hour, how many minutes will it take
a cheetah to run 1000 miles?

(A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 1200 (D) 2400 (E) 3000

3. Kevin attends a racing tournament where there are, indeed, participation

awards. Given n people, the first place finisher in a race gets n awards,
the second place finisher in a race gets n − 1 awards, and so on until the
nth place finisher gets 1 award. If Kevin finishes 12th place and receives
12 awards, how many awards does the 18th place finisher receive?

(A) 1 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

4. Pierce has a bag of marbles. In the bag, he has 5 more blue marbles than
he does red, and he has double the amount of red marbles than he does
green. If he has 60 yellow marbles, and yellow marbles constitute 75% of
the bag, how many green marbles does he have?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

 1 1  1 1 
+ 2 − 3
5. Compute 21 31 1 1 .
4 − 5 4 + 5

500 56 169 13
(A) 6 (B) (C) (D) (E)
81 9 27 2
6. An equilateral triangular prism has triangular faces with edges of length
4, and rectangular faces with dimensions 4 × 8. Call the bottom right
vertex of one of the triangular faces A, and the top vertex of the opposite
triangular face B. Find the straight line distance from A to B.
√ √ √
(A) 5 (B) 2 5 (C) 3 5
√ √
(D) 4 5 (E) 5 5

Cont.
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7. Given that for real numbers A and B,

A, B 6= 1, −1,

A > B,

and
A2017 > B 2017

is true, how many of the following must be true?

(I.) A3 > B 3

A B
(II.) >
B A
(III.) AB > A + B

(IV.) A + B > −A − B

(V.) |A| < |B|

(VI.) A>B+1

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

8. Danny goes to the movie theater once every month. Every time he goes,
he pays for a movie ticket. On odd months, he buys a popcorn and a
drink, while on even months, he just buys popcorn. On even months, his
movie theater visit costs $18. He realizes that, at the end of the year, he
has spent $240 on movie theater visits. Given that popcorn costs $4 more
than a drink, how much does a movie ticket cost?

(A) $5 (B) $8 (C) $9 (D) $10 (E) $13

9. A two-dimensional staircase is built such that the bottom step is composed

of 100 unit squares, and each step above consists of 4 less unit squares than
the step below it. Each step is an n × 1 block. Let a be the area and p be
the perimeter of the staircase. What is a + p?

(A) 1350 (B) 1450 (C) 1550

(D) 1600 (E) 1700

Cont.
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10. Two standard die are rolled. What is the probability that the second value
is greater than the first value?

1 3 5 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 8 12 2 3
11. Mary is training for a marathon. Every day, she runs one mile more than
the previous; however, on Saturdays, she runs 13 miles regardless. On
Sundays, she runs two more miles than she did on the previous Friday.
Mary starts her training on a Sunday by running one mile. After which
day will she first run over 100 miles total?

(A) Sat. (B) Sun. (C) Tues. (D) Thurs. (E) Fri.

12. A silo is a three-dimensional structure, made up of a cylinder and a cone

with equal radii of 3, that stores fodder. The height of the conic part of
the silo is 3 units. When the entire silo is half full of fodder, the cylindrical
2
part of the silo is full of fodder. What is the volume of the silo?
3

(A) 36π (B) 45π (C) 54π (D) 72π (E) 90π

13. A sequence consisting of 30 consecutive odd positive integers has the prop-
erty that the sum of its elements equals a perfect cube. What is the least
possible value of the last term in the sequence?

(A) 871 (B) 929 (C) 961

(D) 1089 (E) 1121

14. A square with side length 1 is rotated 45◦ about its center. What is the
least possible distance from the midpoint of a side of the original square
to a vertex of the rotated square?
√
2−1 √ 1
(A) (B) 2−1 (C)
2 2
√
2 √
(D) (E) 2 2−2
2

15. 4ABC has its vertices at (2, 2), (6, 2) and (4, a). The lines x = 3 and
a+2
y= split 4ABC into a trapezoid and two smaller triangles with
2
different areas. The area of the trapezoid is 10. What is a?

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

Cont.
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16. Define the operation a ◦ b for positive integers as aba . For some constant x,
the pair (m, n) satisfies m ◦ n = nm+2 and m + n = x. Similarly, the pair
(p, q) satisfies p ◦ q = q p+2 and p + q = 3x. If m, n, p, and q are distinct,
what is the smallest possible value of mq + np?

(A) 6 (B) 144 (C) 252 (D) 484 (E) 630

17. The equation 2x + 3y = N, for some positive integer N, has 2017 pairs of
solutions (x, y) for nonnegative integers x and y. What is the sum of the
digits of N ?

(A) 3 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 27

18. Take the first 22017 positive integers, choose any 22016 of them, arrange
them in increasing order, and label them A1 , A2 , A3 , . . . , A22016 .
Then, take the remaining positive integers, arrange them in decreasing
order, and label them B1 , B2 , B3 , . . . , B22016 .
Which of the following could be a possible value of |A1 − B1 | + |A2 − B2 | +
|A3 − B3 | + . . . + |A22016 − B22016 |?

(A) 21008 (B) 22016 (C) 22017

(D) 24032 (E) 24034

19. Let N = 3 + 66 + 333 + 6666 + 33333 + . . . + 666 · · 666} + |333 ·{z

| ·{z · · 333} .
2016 6s 2017 3s
Find the sum of the digits of N.

(A) 4034 (B) 4035 (C) 4053

(D) 4077 (E) 4096

20. 64 concentric circles have radii 1, 2, 3, . . . 62, 63, 64, respectively. The circle
of radius 64 is colored red. Then, the circle of radius 63 is colored blue,
the circle of radius 62 is colored green, the circle of radius 61 is colored
yellow, and the process repeats as the circle of radius 60 is colored red
again. What is the ratio of the areas of the red and yellow regions to the
areas of the blue and green regions?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16

Cont.
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21. The value of

1 1 1 1
√ √ +√ √ +√ √ + ... + √ √
1+ 5 3+ 7 5+ 9 2013 + 2017
is closest to the value of what integer?

(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 22 (D) 23 (E) 24

22. For integers a and b, the three roots X1 , X2 , and X3 of the cubic function

f (x) = ax3 − bx2 + 286x − 120

m+i−1
exist such that Xi = for some positive integer constant m.
m+i−2
What is the sum of the digits of b?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 11 (E) 14

23. Denote by S(n) the sum of the digits of n. Find the sum of all positive
integers n < 100 such that S(n2 ) = (S(n))2 .

(A) 6 (B) 116 (C) 176 (D) 216 (E) 376

24. Two functions f and g exist such that

x − 15
f (x) = −
x+1

and

x + 17
g(x) = −
x+1
intersect the circle x2 + y 2 = c, for some constant c, at exactly 8 points.
What is the least possible integer value of c?

(A) 36 (B) 48 (C) 49 (D) 50 (E) 51

Cont.
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25. An operation a b is defined for positive integers as the number a written

b times. For example, 13 5 would be written as 1313131313. Find the
sum of the digits of the third smallest possible value of x for which

x
X
(n n)
n=1

has a digit 9 · 109 digits to the left of the ones digit equal to three.

(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9

The End.