2016 AMC 8 Problems 2

1. The longest professional tennis match ever played lasted a total of 11 hours
and 5 minutes. How many minutes was this?

(A) 605 (B) 655 (C) 665 (D) 1005 (E) 1105

2. In rectangle ABCD, AB = 6 and AD = 8. Point M is the midpoint of AD.

What is the area of AMC?

(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 24

3. Four students take an exam. Three of their scores are 70, 80, and 90. If the
average of their four scores is 70, then what is the remaining score?

(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 55 (D) 60 (E) 70

4. When Cheenu was a boy he could run 15 miles in 3 hours and 30 minutes.
As an old man he can now walk 10 miles in 4 hours. How many minutes
longer does it take for him to walk a mile now compared to when he was a
boy?

(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 30

5. The number N is a two-digit number.

• When N is divided by 9, the remainder is 1.

• When N is divided by 10, the remainder is 3.

What is the remainder when N is divided by 11?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 7

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6. The following bar graph represents the length (in letters) of the names of
19 people. What is the median length of these names?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

frequency
7

0
3 4 5 6 7
name length

7. Which of the following numbers is not a perfect square?

(A) 12016 (B) 22017 (C) 32018 (D) 42019 (E) 52020

8. Find the value of the expression

100 − 98 + 96 − 94 + 92 − 90 + · · · + 8 − 6 + 4 − 2.

(A) 20 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 80 (E) 100

9. What is the sum of the distinct prime integer divisors of 2016?

(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 49 (E) 63

10. Suppose that a ∗ b means 3a − b. What is the value of x if

2 ∗ (5 ∗ x) = 1 ?

1 10
(A) (B) 2 (C) (D) 10 (E) 14
10 3
11. Determine how many two-digit numbers satisfy the following property:
When the number is added to the number obtained by reversing its digits,
the sum is 132.

(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 12

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12. Jefferson Middle School has the same number of boys and girls. Three-
fourths of the girls and two-thirds of the boys went on a field trip. What
fraction of the students on the field trip were girls?
1 9 7 2 14
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 17 13 3 15
13. Two different numbers are randomly selected from the set {−2, −1, 0, 3, 4, 5}
and multiplied together. What is the probability that the product is 0?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 5 4 3 2
14. Karl’s car uses a gallon of gas every 35 miles, and his gas tank holds 14
gallons when it is full. One day Karl started with a full tank of gas, drove
350 miles, bought 8 gallons of gas, and continued driving to his destination.
When he arrived, his gas tank was half full. How many miles did Karl drive
that day?

(A) 525 (B) 560 (C) 595 (D) 665 (E) 735

15. What is the largest power of 2 that is a divisor of 134 − 114 ?

(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 32 (D) 64 (E) 128

16. Annie and Bonnie are running laps around a 400-meter oval track. They
started together, but Annie has pulled ahead, because she runs 25% faster
than Bonnie. How many laps will Annie have run when she first passes
Bonnie?
1 1
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 25
4 3

17. An ATM password at Fred’s Bank is composed of four digits from 0 to 9,

with repeated digits allowable. If no password may begin with the sequence
9, 1, 1, then how many passwords are possible?

(A) 30 (B) 7290 (C) 9000 (D) 9990 (E) 9999

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18. In an All-Area track meet, 216 sprinters enter a 100-meter dash competi-
tion. The track has 6 lanes, so only 6 sprinters can compete at a time. At the
end of each race the five non-winners are eliminated, and the winner will
compete again in a later race. How many races are needed to determine the
champion sprinter?

(A) 36 (B) 42 (C) 43 (D) 60 (E) 72

19. The sum of 25 consecutive even integers is 10, 000. What is the largest of
these 25 consecutive even integers?

(A) 360 (B) 388 (C) 412 (D) 416 (E) 424

20. The least common multiple of a and b is 12, and the least common multiple
of b and c is 15. What is the least possible value of the least common
multiple of a and c?

(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 120 (E) 180

21. A box contains 3 red chips and 2 green chips. Chips are drawn randomly,
one at a time without replacement, until all 3 of the reds are drawn or until
both green chips are drawn. What is the probability that the 3 reds are
drawn?
3 2 1 3 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 5 2 5 3
22. Rectangle DEFA below is a 3 × 4 rectangle with DC = CB = BA = 1. The
area of the “bat wings” (the shaded area) is
1 1
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 3 (E) 4
2 2

D 1 C 1 B 1 A

E F
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23. Two congruent circles centered at points A and B each pass through the
other’s center. The line containing both A and B is extended to intersect the
circles at points C and D. The two circles intersect at two points, one of
which is E. What is the degree measure of ∠CED?

(A) 90 (B) 105 (C) 120 (D) 135 (E) 150

24. The digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are each used once to write a five-digit num-
ber PQRST . The three-digit number PQR is divisible by 4, the three-digit
number QRS is divisible by 5, and the three-digit number RST is divisible
by 3. What is P?

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

25. A semicircle is inscribed in an isosceles triangle with base 16 and height 15

so that the diameter of the semicircle is contained in the base of the triangle
as shown. What is the radius of the semicircle?

√ √
√ 120 17 2 17 3
(A) 4 3 (B) (C) 10 (D) (E)
17 2 2