2005 AMC 10

AMC 10 2005

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1 While eating out, Mike and Joe each tipped their server 2 dollars. Mike tipped
10% of his bill and Joe tipped 20% of his bill. What was the difference, in
dollars between their bills?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 10 (E) 20

2 For each pair of real numbers a 6= b, define the operation ⋆ as

a+b
(a ⋆ b) = .
a−b
What is the value of ((1 ⋆ 2) ⋆ 3)?
2 1 1
(A) − 3 (B) − 5 (C) 0 (D) 2 (E) This value is not defined.

3 The equations 2x + 7 = 3 and bx − 10 = −2 have the same solution for x. What

is the value of b?
(A) −8 (B) −4 (C) −2 (D) 4 (E) 8

4 A rectangle with a diagonal of length x is twice as long as it is wide. What is

the area of the rectangle?
(A) 14 x2 (B) 52 x2 (C) 12 x2 (D) x2 (E) 32 x2

5 A store normally sells windows at $100 each. This week the store is offering one
free window for each purchase of four. Dave needs seven windows and Doug
needs eight windows. How many dollars will they save if they purchase the
windows together rather than separately?
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 500

6 The average (mean) of 20 numbers is 30, and the average of 30 other numbers
is 20. What is the average of all 50 numbers?
(A) 23 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 27

7 Josh and Mike live 13 miles apart. Yesterday, Josh started to ride his bicycle
toward Mike’s house. A little later Mike started to ride his bicycle toward Josh’s
house. When they met, Josh had ridden for twice the length of time as Mike
and at four-fifths of Mike’s rate. How many miles had Mike ridden when they
met?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

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8 Square EF GH is inside the square ABCD so that each side of EF GH can be

extended
√ to pass through a vertex of ABCD. Square ABCD has side length
50 and BE = 1. What is the area of the inner square EF GH?

A B

H
F

D C

(A) 25 (B) 32 (C) 36 (D) 40 (E) 42

9 Thee tiles are marked X and two other tiles are marked O. The five tiles are
randomly arranged in a row. What is the probability that the arrangement
reads XOXOX?
1 1
(A) 12 (B) 10 (C) 16 (D) 14 (E) 13

10 There are two values of a for which the equation 4x2 + ax + 8x + 9 = 0 has only
one solution for x. What is the sum of these values of a?
(A) − 16 (B) − 8 (C) 0 (D) 8 (E) 20

11 A wooden cube n units on a side is painted red on all six faces and then cut
into n3 unit cubes. Exactly one-fourth of the total number of faces of the unit
cubes are red. What is n?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

12 The gure shown is called a trefoil and is constructed by drawing circular sectors
about sides of the congruent equilateral triangles. What is the area of a trefoil
whose horizontal base has length 2?

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√ √ √ √
3 3 3 3
(A) 31 π + 2 (B) 23 π (C) 32 π + 4 (D) 32 π + 3 (E) 23 π + 2

13 How many positive integers n satisfy the following condition:

(130n)50 > n100 > 2200 ?

(A) 0 (B) 7 (C) 12 (D) 65 (E) 125

14 How many three-digit numbers satisfy the property that the middle digit is the
average of the first and the last digits?
(A) 41 (B) 42 (C) 43 (D) 44 (E) 45

15 How many positive integer cubes divide 3! · 5! · 7!?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

16 The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is subtracted from the number. The
units digit of the result is 6. How many two-digit numbers have this property?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 19

17 In the five-sided star shown, the letters A, B, C, D, and E are replaced by the
numbers 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9, although not necessarily in this order. The sums of
the numbers at the ends of the line segments AB,BC,CD,DE, and EA form an
arithmetic sequence, although not necessarily in this order. What is the middle
term of the arithmetic sequence?

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C D

E B

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

18 Team A and team B play a series. The first team to win three games wins the
series. Each team is equally likely to win each game, there are no ties, and the
outcomes of the individual games are independent. If team B wins the second
game and team A wins the series, what is the probability that team B wins the
first game?
(A) 51 (B) 14 (C) 13 (D) 21 (E) 23

19 Three one-inch squares are palced with their bases on a line. The center square
is lifted out and rotated 45◦ , as shown. Then it is centered and lowered into
its original location until it touches both of the adjoining squares. How many
inches is the point B from the line on which the bases of the original squares
were placed?

√ 3
√ 1
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) 2+ 2 (E) 2

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√
20 An equiangular octagon has four sides of length 1 and four sides of length 22 ,
arranged so that no two consecutive sides have the same length. What is the
area of the octagon?
√ √ √
(A) 72 (B) 7 2 2 (C) 5+42 2 (D) 4+52 2 (E) 7

21 For how many positive integers n does 1 + 2 + · · · + n evenly divide from 6n?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 11

22 Let S be the set of the 2005 smallest multiples of 4, and let T be the set of
the 2005 smallest positive multiples of 6. How many elements are common to
S and T ?
(A) 166 (B) 333 (C) 500 (D) 668 (E) 1001

23 Let AB be a diameter of a circle and C be a point on AB with 2 · AC = BC.

Let D and E be points on the circle such that DC ⊥ AB and DE is a second
diameter. What is the ratio of the area of △DCE to the area of △ABD?

A
C B

1 1 1 1 2
(A) 6 (B) 4 (C) 3 (D) 2 (E) 3

24 For each positive integer m > 1, let P (m) denote the greatest prime factor
√
of m. For how√ many positive integers n is it true that both P (n) = n and
P (n + 48) = n + 48?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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25 In ABC we have AB = 25, BC = 39, and AC = 42. Points D and E are on

AB and AC respectively, with AD = 19 and AE = 14. What is the ratio of
the area of triangle ADE to the area of quadrilateral BCED?
266 19
(A) 1521 (B) 75 (C) 13 (D) 19
56 (E) 1

– B

1 A scout troop buys 1000 candy bars at a price of five for $2. They sell all the
candy bars at a price of two for $1. What was their prot, in dollars?
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 500

2 A positive number x has the property that x% of x is 4. What is x?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 10 (D) 20 (E) 40

3 A gallon of paint is used to paint a room. One third of the paint is used on the
first day. On the second day, one third of the remaining paint is used. What
fraction of the original amount of paint is available to use on the third day?
1
(A) 10 (B) 19 (C) 13 (D) 49 (E) 59
√
4 For real numbers a and b, define a ⋄ b = a2 + b2 . What is the value of
(5 ⋄ 12) ⋄ ((−12) ⋄ (−5))?
17
√
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 13 (D) 13 2 (E) 26

5 Brianna is using part of the money she earned on her weekend job to buy several
equally-priced CDs. She used one fifth of her money to buy one third of the
CDs. What fraction of her money will she have left after she buys all the CDs?
1 1 2 2 4
(A) 5 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 3 (E) 5

6 At the beginning of the school year, Lisas goal was to earn an A on at least 80%
of her 50 quizzes for the year. She earned an A on 22 of the first 30 quizzes. If
she is to achieve her goal, on at most how many of the remaining quizzes can
she earn a grade lower than an A?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

7 A circle is inscribed in a square, then a square is inscribed in this circle, and

finally, a circle is inscribed in this square. What is the ratio of the area of the
smaller circle to the area of the larger square?
π
(A) 16 (B) π8 (C) 3π
16 (D) π4 (E) π2

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8 An 8-foot by 10-foot floor is tiled with square tiles of size 1 foot by 1 foot.
Each tile has a pattern consisting of four white quarter circles of radius 1/2
foot centered at each corner of the tile. The remaining portion of the tile is
shaded. How many square feet of the floor are shaded?

(A) 80 − 20π (B) 60 − 10π (C) 80 − 10π (D) 60 + 10π (E) 80 +

10π

9 One fair die has faces 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3 and another has faces 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6.

The dice are rolled and the numbers on the top faces are added. What is the
probability that the sum will be odd?
(A) 31 (B) 49 (C) 12 (D) 95 (E) 23

10 In △ABC, we have AC = BC = 7 and AB = 2. Suppose that D is a point on

line AB such that
√ B lies between A and D and CD√ = 8. What is BD?
(A) 3 (B) 2 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 4 2

11 The first term of a sequence is 2005. Each succeeding term is the sum of the
cubes of the digits of the previous terms. What is the 2005th term of the
sequence?
(A) 29 (B) 55 (C) 85 (D) 133 (E) 250

12 Twelve fair dice are rolled. What is the probability that the product of the
numbers
on the top faces
is prime?
1 12 1 12

11
11
10
(A) 12 (B) 6 (C) 2 61 (D) 25 16 (E) 61

13 How many numbers between 1 and 2005 are integer multiples of 3 or 4 but not
12?
(A) 501 (B) 668 (C) 835 (D) 1002 (E) 1169

14 Equilateral △ABC has side length 2, M is the midpoint of AC, and C is the
midpoint of BD. What is the area of △CDM ?

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B C D

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

15 An envelope contains eight bills: 2 ones, 2 fives, 2 tens, and 2 twenties. Two
bills are drawn at random without replacement. What is the probability that
their sum is $20 or more?
(A) 41 (B) 27 (C) 37 (D) 21 (E) 23

16 The quadratic equation x2 + mx + n = 0 has roots that are twice those of

x2 + px + m = 0, and none of m, n, and p is zero. What is the value of np ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16

17 Suppose that 4a = 5, 5b = 6, 6c = 7, and 7d = 8. What is a · b · c · d?

(A) 1 (B) 23 (C) 2 (D) 25 (E) 3

18 All of David’s telephone numbers have the form 555 − abc − def g, where a, b,
c, d, e, f , and g are distinct digits and in increasing order, and none is either 0
or 1. How many different telephone numbers can David have?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

19 On a certain math exam, 10% of the students got 70 points, 25% got 80 points,
20% got 85 points, 15% got 90 points, and the rest got 95 points. What is the
difference between the mean and the median score on this exam?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 5

20 What is the average (mean) of all 5-digit numbers that can be formed by using
each of the digits 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 exactly once?
(A) 48000 (B) 49999.5 (C) 53332.8 (D) 55555 (E) 56432.8

21 Forty slips are placed into a hat, each bearing a number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

or 10, with each number entered on four slips. Four slips are drawn from the

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hat at random and without replacement. Let p be the probability that all four
slips bear the same number. Let q be the probability that two of the slips bear
a number a and the other two bear a number b 6= a. What is the value of q/p?
(A) 162 (B) 180 (C) 324 (D) 360 (E) 720

22 For how many positive integers n less than or equal to 24 is n! evenly divisible
by 1 + 2 + . . . + n?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 21

23 In trapezoid ABCD we have AB parallel to DC, E as the midpoint of BC,

and F as the midpoint of DA. The area of ABEF is twice the area of F ECD.
What is AB/DC?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8

24 Let x and y be two-digit integers such that y is obtained by reversing the digits
of x. The integers x and y satisfy x2 − y 2 = m2 for some positive integer m.
What is x + y + m?
(A) 88 (B) 112 (C) 116 (D) 144 (E) 154

25 A subset B of the set of integers from 1 to 100, inclusive, has the property that
no two elements of B sum to 125. What is the maximum possible number of
elements in B?
(A) 50 (B) 51 (C) 62 (D) 65 (E) 68

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