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2014 AMC 10B

All 25 problems from the 2014 AMC 10B. 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. Leah has 1313 coins, all of which are pennies and nickels. If she had one more nickel than she has now, then she would have the same number of pennies and nickels. In cents, how much are Leah’s coins worth?
  2. What is 23+232−3+2−3?\dfrac{2^3 + 2^3}{2^{-3} + 2^{-3}}?
  3. Randy drove the first third of his trip on a gravel road, the next 2020 miles on pavement, and the remaining one-fifth on a dirt road. In miles, how long was Randy’s trip?
  4. Susie pays for 44 muffins and 33 bananas. Calvin spends twice as much paying for 22 muffins and 1616 bananas. A muffin is how many times as expensive as a banana?
  5. Doug constructs a square window using 8 8 equal-size panes of glass, as shown. The ratio of the height to width for each pane is 5:2, 5 : 2 , and the borders around and between the panes are 2 2 inches wide. In inches, what is the side length of the square window?
  6. Orvin went to the store with just enough money to buy 3030 balloons. When he arrived, he discovered that the store had a special sale on balloons: buy 11 balloon at the regular price and get a second at 13\frac{1}{3} off the regular price. What is the greatest number of balloons Orvin could buy?
  7. Suppose A>B>0A > B > 0 and AA is x%x\% greater than B.B. What is x?x?
  8. A truck travels b6\dfrac{b}{6} feet every tt seconds. There are 33 feet in a yard. How many yards does the truck travel in 33 minutes?
  9. For real numbers w w and z, z , 1w+1z1w−1z=2014. \cfrac{\frac{1}{w} + \frac{1}{z}}{\frac{1}{w} - \frac{1}{z}} = 2014. What is w+zw−z? \frac{w+z}{w-z} ?
  10. In the addition shown below A,A, B,B, C,C, and DD are distinct digits. How many different values are possible for D?D? ABBCB+ BCADADBDDD\begin{array}{r} ABBCB \\ + \ BCADA \\ \hline DBDDD \end{array}
  11. For the consumer, a single discount of n%n\% is more advantageous than any of the following discounts: (1)(1) Two successive 15%15\% discounts. (2)(2) Three successive 10%10\% discounts. (3)(3) A 25%25\% discount followed by a 5%5\% discount. What is the smallest possible positive integer value of n?n?
  12. The largest divisor of 2,014,000,0002{,}014{,}000{,}000 is itself. What is its fifth-largest divisor?
  13. Six regular hexagons surround a regular hexagon of side length 11 as shown. What is the area of △ABC?\triangle{ABC}?
  14. Danica drove her new car on a trip for a whole number of hours, averaging 5555 miles per hour. At the beginning of the trip, abcabc miles was displayed on the odometer, where abcabc is a 33-digit number with a≥1a\ge1 and a+b+c≤7.a+b+c\le7. At the end of the trip, the odometer showed cbacba miles. What is a2+b2+c2?a^2+b^2+c^2?
  15. In rectangle ABCD,ABCD, DC=2⋅CBDC = 2 \cdot CB and points EE and FF lie on AB‾\overline{AB} so that ED‾\overline{ED} and FD‾\overline{FD} trisect ∠ADC\angle ADC as shown. What is the ratio of the area of △DEF\triangle DEF to the area of rectangle ABCD?ABCD?
  16. Four fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that at least three of the four dice show the same value?
  17. What is the greatest power of 22 that is a factor of 101002−4501?10^{1002} - 4^{501}?
  18. A list of 1111 positive integers has a mean of 10,10, a median of 9,9, and a unique mode of 8.8. What is the largest possible value of an integer in the list?
  19. Two concentric circles have radii 11 and 2.2. Two points on the outer circle are chosen independently and uniformly at random. What is the probability that the chord joining the two points intersects the inner circle?
  20. For how many integers xx is the number x4−51x2+50x^4-51x^2+50 negative?
  21. Trapezoid ABCD ABCD has parallel sides AB‾ \overline{AB} of length 33 33 and CD‾ \overline {CD} of length 21. 21 . The other two sides are of lengths 10 10 and 14. 14 . The angles A A and B B are acute. What is the length of the shorter diagonal of ABCD? ABCD ?
  22. Eight semicircles line the inside of a square with side length 22 as shown. What is the radius of the circle tangent to all of these semicircles?
  23. A sphere is inscribed in a truncated right circular cone as shown. The volume of the truncated cone is twice that of the sphere. What is the ratio of the radius of the bottom base of the truncated cone to the radius of the top base of the truncated cone?
  24. The numbers 1,1, 2,2, 3,3, 4,4, 55 are to be arranged in a circle. An arrangement is bad\textit{bad} if it is not true that for every nn from 11 to 1515 one can find a subset of the numbers that appear consecutively on the circle that sum to n.n. Arrangements that differ only by a rotation or a reflection are considered the same. How many different bad arrangements are there?
  25. In a small pond there are eleven lily pads in a row labeled 00 through 10.10. A frog is sitting on pad 1.1. When the frog is on pad N,N, where 0<N<10,0 < N < 10, it will jump to pad N−1N-1 with probability N10\frac{N}{10} and to pad N+1N+1 with probability 1−N10.1-\frac{N}{10}. Each jump is independent of the previous jumps. If the frog reaches pad 00 it will be eaten by a patiently waiting snake. If the frog reaches pad 1010 it will exit the pond, never to return. What is the probability that the frog will escape without being eaten by the snake?

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

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