2013 AMC10A Problems 2

1. A taxi ride costs $1.50 plus $0.25 per mile traveled. How much does a 5-mile
taxi ride cost?

(A) $2.25 (B) $2.50 (C) $2.75 (D) $3.00 (E) $3.25

2. Alice is making a batch of cookies and needs 2 12 cups of sugar. Unfortunately,

her measuring cup holds only 14 cup of sugar. How many times must she fill
that cup to get the correct amount of sugar?

(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 20

3. Square ABCD has side length 10. Point E is on BC, and the area of 4ABE
is 40. What is BE ?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

B E C

A D

4. A softball team played ten games, scoring 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 runs.

They lost by one run in exactly five games. In each of their other games, they
scored twice as many runs as their opponent. How many total runs did their
opponents score?

(A) 35 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 55

5. Tom, Dorothy, and Sammy went on a vacation and agreed to split the costs
evenly. During their trip Tom paid $105, Dorothy paid $125, and Sammy paid
$175. In order to share the costs equally, Tom gave Sammy t dollars, and
Dorothy gave Sammy d dollars. What is t − d ?

(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 35

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6. Joey and his five brothers are ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. One afternoon two
of his brothers whose ages sum to 16 went to the movies, two brothers younger
than 10 went to play baseball, and Joey and the 5-year-old stayed home. How
old is Joey?

(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 13

7. A student must choose a program of four courses from a menu of courses con-
sisting of English, Algebra, Geometry, History, Art, and Latin. This program
must contain English and at least one mathematics course. In how many ways
can this program be chosen?

(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 16

8. What is the value of

22014 + 22012
?
22014 − 22012

5
(A) −1 (B) 1 (C) (D) 2013 (E) 24024
3

9. In a recent basketball game, Shenille attempted only three-point shots and two-
point shots. She was successful on 20% of her three-point shots and 30% of her
two-point shots. Shenille attempted 30 shots. How many points did she score?

(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 36

10. A flower bouquet contains pink roses, red roses, pink carnations, and red carna-
tions. One third of the pink flowers are roses, three fourths of the red flowers are
carnations, and six tenths of the flowers are pink. What percent of the flowers
are carnations?

(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 60 (E) 70

11. A student council must select a two-person welcoming committee and a three-
person planning committee from among its members. There are exactly 10
ways to select a two-person team for the welcoming committee. It is possible
for students to serve on both committees. In how many different ways can a
three-person planning committee be selected?

(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 25

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12. In 4ABC, AB = AC = 28 and BC = 20. Points D, E, and F are on sides AB,

BC, and AC, respectively, such that DE and EF are parallel to AC and AB,
respectively. What is the perimeter of parallelogram ADEF ?

B E C

(A) 48 (B) 52 (C) 56 (D) 60 (E) 72

13. How many three-digit numbers are not divisible by 5, have digits that sum to
less than 20, and have the first digit equal to the third digit?

(A) 52 (B) 60 (C) 66 (D) 68 (E) 70

14. A solid cube of side length 1 is removed from each corner of a solid cube of side
length 3. How many edges does the remaining solid have?

(A) 36 (B) 60 (C) 72 (D) 84 (E) 108

15. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 10 and 15. The length of the altitude to the
third side is the average of the lengths of the altitudes to the two given sides.
How long is the third side?

(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 18

16. A triangle with vertices (6, 5), (8, −3), and (9, 1) is reflected about the line x = 8
to create a second triangle. What is the area of the union of the two triangles?
28 31 32
(A) 9 (B) (C) 10 (D) (E)
3 3 3
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17. Daphne is visited periodically by her three best friends: Alice, Beatrix, and
Claire. Alice visits every third day, Beatrix visits every fourth day, and Claire
visits every fifth day. All three friends visited Daphne yesterday. How many
days of the next 365-day period will exactly two friends visit her?

(A) 48 (B) 54 (C) 60 (D) 66 (E) 72

18. Let points A = (0, 0), B = (1, 2), C = (3, 3), and D = (4, 0). Quadrilateral
ABCD is cut into equal area pieces by a line passing through A. This line
intersects CD at point ( pq , rs ), where these fractions are in lowest terms. What
is p + q + r + s ?

(A) 54 (B) 58 (C) 62 (D) 70 (E) 75

19. In base 10, the number 2013 ends in the digit 3. In base 9, on the other hand,
the same number is written as (2676)9 and ends in the digit 6. For how many
positive integers b does the base-b representation of 2013 end in the digit 3 ?

(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 13 (D) 16 (E) 18

20. A unit square is rotated 45◦ about its center. What is the area of the region
swept out by the interior of the square?
√
2 π 1 π √ π
(A) 1 − + (B) + (C) 2 − 2 +
2 4 2 4 4
√ √
2 π 2 π
(D) + (E) 1 + +
2 4 4 8

21. A group of 12 pirates agree to divide a treasure chest of gold coins among
k
themselves as follows. The k th pirate to take a share takes 12 of the coins that
remain in the chest. The number of coins initially in the chest is the smallest
number for which this arrangement will allow each pirate to receive a positive
whole number of coins. How many coins does the 12th pirate receive?

(A) 720 (B) 1296 (C) 1728 (D) 1925 (E) 3850

22. Six spheres of radius 1 are positioned so that their centers are at the vertices
of a regular hexagon of side length 2. The six spheres are internally tangent to
a larger sphere whose center is the center of the hexagon. An eighth sphere is
externally tangent to the six smaller spheres and internally tangent to the larger
sphere. What is the radius of this eighth sphere?
√ 3 5 √
(A) 2 (B) (C) (D) 3 (E) 2
2 3
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23. In 4ABC, AB = 86, and AC = 97. A circle with center A and radius AB
intersects BC at points B and X. Moreover BX and CX have integer lengths.
What is BC ?

(A) 11 (B) 28 (C) 33 (D) 61 (E) 72

24. Central High School is competing against Northern High School in a backgam-
mon match. Each school has three players, and the contest rules require that
each player play two games against each of the other school’s players. The match
takes place in six rounds, with three games played simultaneously in each round.
In how many different ways can the match be scheduled?

(A) 540 (B) 600 (C) 720 (D) 810 (E) 900

25. All 20 diagonals are drawn in a regular octagon. At how many distinct points
in the interior of the octagon (not on the boundary) do two or more diagonals
intersect?

(A) 49 (B) 65 (C) 70 (D) 96 (E) 128