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2003 AMC 10A

All 25 problems from the 2003 AMC 10A. Take it as a timed mock test — 1:15:00 on the clock, scored the way the real contest is — or read through the problems and open any of them for hints and a worked solution.

25 problems · 6 points correct, 1.5 for blank, 0 for wrong

  1. What is the difference between the sum of the first 20032003 even counting numbers and the sum of the first 20032003 odd counting numbers?
  2. Members of the Rockham Soccer League buy socks and T-shirts. Socks cost $4\$4 per pair and each T-shirt costs $5\$5 more than a pair of socks. Each member needs one pair of socks and a shirt for home games and another pair of socks and a shirt for away games. If the total cost is $2366,\$2366, how many members are in the League?
  3. A solid box is 1515 cm by 1010 cm by 88 cm. A new solid is formed by removing a cube 33 cm on a side from each corner of this box. What percent of the original volume is removed?
  4. It takes Mary 3030 minutes to walk uphill 11 km from her home to school, but it takes her only 1010 minutes to walk from school to home along the same route. What is her average speed, in km/hr, for the round trip?
  5. Let dd and ee denote the solutions of 2x2+3x−5=0.2x^2 + 3x - 5 = 0. What is the value of (d−1)(e−1)?(d - 1)(e - 1)?
  6. Define x♡yx \heartsuit y to be ∣x−y∣|x - y| for all real numbers xx and y.y. Which of the following statements is not true?
  7. How many non-congruent triangles with perimeter 77 have integer side lengths?
  8. What is the probability that a randomly drawn positive factor of 6060 is less than 7?7?
  9. Simplify xxxx333.\sqrt[3]{x\sqrt[3]{x\sqrt[3]{x\sqrt{x}}}}.
  10. The polygon enclosed by the solid lines in the figure consists of 44 congruent squares joined edge-to-edge. One more congruent square is attached to an edge at one of the nine positions indicated. How many of the nine resulting polygons can be folded to form a cube with one face missing?
  11. The sum of the two 55-digit numbers AMC10AMC10 and AMC12AMC12 is 123422.123422. What is A+M+C?A + M + C?
  12. A point (x,y)(x, y) is randomly picked from inside the rectangle with vertices (0,0),(0, 0), (4,0),(4, 0), (4,1),(4, 1), and (0,1).(0, 1). What is the probability that x<y?x \lt y?
  13. The sum of three numbers is 20.20. The first is 44 times the sum of the other two. The second is seven times the third. What is the product of all three?
  14. Let nn be the largest integer that is the product of exactly 33 distinct prime numbers, d,d, e,e, and 10d+e,10d + e, where dd and ee are single digits. What is the sum of the digits of n?n?
  15. What is the probability that an integer in the set {1,2,3,…,100}\{1, 2, 3, \ldots, 100\} is divisible by 22 and not divisible by 3?3?
  16. What is the units digit of 132003?13^{2003}?
  17. The number of inches in the perimeter of an equilateral triangle equals the number of square inches in the area of its circumscribed circle. What is the radius, in inches, of the circle?
  18. What is the sum of the reciprocals of the roots of the equation 20032004x+1+1x=0?\dfrac{2003}{2004}x + 1 + \dfrac{1}{x} = 0?
  19. A semicircle of diameter 11 sits at the top of a semicircle of diameter 2,2, as shown. The shaded area inside the smaller semicircle and outside the larger semicircle is called a lune. Determine the area of this lune.
  20. A base-1010 three-digit number nn is selected at random. Which of the following is closest to the probability that the base-99 representation and the base-1111 representation of nn are both three-digit numerals?
  21. Pat is to select six cookies from a tray containing only chocolate chip, oatmeal, and peanut butter cookies. There are at least six of each of these three kinds of cookies on the tray. How many different assortments of six cookies can be selected?
  22. In rectangle ABCD,ABCD, we have AB=8,AB = 8, BC=9,BC = 9, HH is on BC‾\overline{BC} with BH=6,BH = 6, EE is on ADAD with DE=4,DE = 4, line ECEC intersects line AHAH at G,G, and FF is on line ADAD with GF‾⊥AF‾.\overline{GF} \perp \overline{AF}. Find the length GF‾.\overline{GF}.
  23. A large equilateral triangle is constructed by using toothpicks to create rows of small equilateral triangles. For example, in the figure we have 33 rows of small congruent equilateral triangles, with 55 small triangles in the base row. How many toothpicks would be needed to construct a large equilateral triangle if the base row of the triangle consists of 20032003 small equilateral triangles?
  24. Sally has five red cards numbered 11 through 55 and four blue cards numbered 33 through 6.6. She stacks the cards so that the colors alternate and so that the number on each red card divides evenly into the number on each neighboring blue card. What is the sum of the numbers on the middle three cards?
  25. Let nn be a 55-digit number, and let qq and rr be the quotient and remainder, respectively, when nn is divided by 100.100. For how many values of nn is q+rq + r divisible by 11?11?

0 of 25 answered. Each problem left blank still scores 1.5 points.

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