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2013 AMC 10A

All 25 problems from the 2013 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. A taxi ride costs $1.50\$1.50 plus $0.25\$0.25 per mile traveled. How much does a 55-mile taxi ride cost?
  2. Alice is making a batch of cookies and needs 2122\frac{1}{2} cups of sugar. Unfortunately, her measuring cup holds only 14\frac{1}{4} cup of sugar. How many times must she fill that cup to get the correct amount of sugar?
  3. Square ABCDABCD has side length 10.10. Point EE is on BC‾,\overline{BC}, and the area of △ABE\triangle ABE is 40.40. What is BE?BE?
  4. A softball team played ten games, scoring 1,1, 2,2, 3,3, 4,4, 5,5, 6,6, 7,7, 8,8, 9,9, and 1010 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?
  5. Tom, Dorothy, and Sammy went on a vacation and agreed to split the costs evenly. During their trip Tom paid $105,\$105, Dorothy paid $125,\$125, and Sammy paid $175.\$175. In order to share costs equally, Tom gave Sammy tt dollars, and Dorothy gave Sammy dd dollars. What is t−d?t-d?
  6. Joey and his five brothers are ages 3,3, 5,5, 7,7, 9,9, 11,11, and 13.13. One afternoon two of his brothers whose ages sum to 1616 went to the movies, two brothers younger than 1010 went to play baseball, and Joey and the 55-year-old stayed home. How old is Joey?
  7. A student must choose a program of four courses from a menu of courses consisting 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?
  8. What is the value of 22014+2201222014−22012?\dfrac{2^{2014}+2^{2012}}{2^{2014}-2^{2012}} ?
  9. In a recent basketball game, Shenille attempted only three-point shots and two-point shots. She was successful on 20%20\% of her three-point shots and 30%30\% of her two-point shots. Shenille attempted 3030 shots. How many points did she score?
  10. A flower bouquet contains pink roses, red roses, pink carnations, and red carnations. 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?
  11. A student council must select a two-person welcoming committee and a three-person planning committee from among its members. There are exactly 1010 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?
  12. In △ABC,\triangle ABC, AB=AC=28AB=AC=28 and BC=20.BC=20. Points D,D, E,E, and FF are on sides AB‾,\overline{AB}, BC‾,\overline{BC}, and AC‾,\overline{AC}, respectively, such that DE‾\overline{DE} and EF‾\overline{EF} are parallel to AC‾\overline{AC} and AB‾,\overline{AB}, respectively. What is the perimeter of parallelogram ADEF?ADEF?
  13. How many three-digit numbers are not divisible by 5,5, have digits that sum to less than 20,20, and have the first digit equal to the third digit?
  14. A solid cube of side length 11 is removed from each corner of a solid cube of side length 3.3. How many edges does the remaining solid have?
  15. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 1010 and 15.15. 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?
  16. A triangle with vertices (6,5),(6, 5), (8,−3),(8, -3), and (9,1)(9, 1) is reflected about the line x=8x = 8 to create a second triangle. What is the area of the union of the two triangles?
  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 365365-day period will exactly two friends visit her?
  18. Let points A=(0,0),A=(0,0), B=(1,2),B=(1,2), C=(3,3),C=(3,3), and D=(4,0).D=(4,0). Quadrilateral ABCDABCD is cut into equal area pieces by a line passing through A.A. This line intersects CD‾\overline{CD} at point (pq,rs),\left(\dfrac{p}{q}, \dfrac{r}{s}\right), where these fractions are in lowest terms. What is p+q+r+s?p+q+r+s?
  19. In base 10,10, the number 20132013 ends in the digit 3.3. In base 9,9, on the other hand, the same number is written as (2676)9(2676)_9 and ends in the digit 6.6. For how many positive integers bb does the base-bb-representation of 20132013 end in the digit 3?3?
  20. A unit square is rotated 45∘45^\circ about its center. What is the area of the region swept out by the interior of the square?
  21. A group of 1212 pirates agree to divide a treasure chest of gold coins among themselves as follows. The kthk^{\text{th}} pirate to take a share takes k12\dfrac{k}{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 12th12^{\text{th}} pirate receive?
  22. Six spheres of radius 11 are positioned so that their centers are at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side length 2.2. 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?
  23. In △ABC,\triangle ABC, AB=86,AB = 86, and AC=97.AC=97. A circle with center AA and radius ABAB intersects BC‾\overline{BC} at points BB and X.X. Moreover BX‾\overline{BX} and CX‾\overline{CX} have integer lengths. What is BC?BC?
  24. Central High School is competing against Northern High School in a backgammon 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?
  25. All 2020 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?

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

Practise one problem at a time, with hints and solutions, on the practice page. Or work through the same ideas across every year by topic, or browse the full AMC 10 archive.