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2016 AMC 10A

All 25 problems from the 2016 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 value of 11!−10!9!?\dfrac{11!-10!}{9!}?
  2. For what value of xx does 10x⋅1002x=10005?10^{x} \cdot 100^{2x}=1000^{5}?
  3. For every dollar Ben spent on bagels, David spent 2525 cents less. Ben paid $12.50\$12.50 more than David. How much did they spend in the bagel store together?
  4. The remainder function can be defined for all real numbers xx and yy with y≠0y \neq 0 by rem⁡(x,y)=x−y⌊xy⌋,\operatorname{rem}(x,y)=x-y\left\lfloor\frac{x}{y}\right\rfloor, where ⌊xy⌋\left \lfloor \frac{x}{y} \right \rfloor denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to xy.\frac{x}{y}. What is the value of rem(38,−25)?\text{rem} \left(\frac{3}{8}, -\frac{2}{5} \right)?
  5. A rectangular box has integer side lengths in the ratio 1:3:4.1:3:4. Which of the following could be the volume of the box?
  6. Ximena lists the whole numbers 11 through 3030 once. Emilio copies Ximena’s numbers, replacing each occurrence of the digit 22 by the digit 1.1. Ximena adds her numbers and Emilio adds his numbers. How much larger is Ximena’s sum than Emilio’s?
  7. The mean, median, and mode of the 77 data values 60,100,x,40,50,200,9060, 100, x, 40, 50, 200, 90 are all equal to x.x. What is the value of x?x?
  8. Trickster Rabbit agrees with Foolish Fox to double Fox’s money every time Fox crosses the bridge by Rabbit’s house, as long as Fox pays 4040 coins in toll to Rabbit after each crossing. The payment is made after the doubling. Fox is excited about his good fortune until he discovers that all his money is gone after crossing the bridge three times. How many coins did Fox have at the beginning?
  9. A triangular array of 20162016 coins has 11 coin in the first row, 22 coins in the second row, 33 coins in the third row, and so on up to NN coins in the NNth row. What is the sum of the digits of N?N?
  10. A rug is made with three different colors as shown. The areas of the three differently colored regions form an arithmetic progression. The inner rectangle is one foot wide, and each of the two shaded regions is 11 foot wide on all four sides. What is the length in feet of the inner rectangle?
  11. What is the area of the shaded region of the given 8×58\times5 rectangle?
  12. Three distinct integers are selected at random between 11 and 2016,2016, inclusive. Which of the following is a correct statement about the probability pp that the product of the three integers is odd?
  13. Five friends sat in a movie theater in a row containing 55 seats, numbered 11 to 55 from left to right. (The directions “left” and “right” are from the point of view of the people as they sit in the seats.) During the movie Ada went to the lobby to get some popcorn. When she returned, she found that Bea had moved two seats to the right, Ceci had moved one seat to the left, and Dee and Edie had switched seats, leaving an end seat for Ada. In which seat had Ada been sitting before she got up?
  14. How many ways are there to write 20162016 as the sum of twos and threes, ignoring order? (For example, 1008⋅2+0⋅31008\cdot 2 + 0\cdot 3 and 402⋅2+404⋅3402\cdot 2 + 404\cdot 3 are two such ways.)
  15. Seven cookies of radius 11 inch are cut from a circle of cookie dough, as shown. Neighboring cookies are tangent, and all except the center cookie are tangent to the edge of the dough. The leftover scrap is reshaped to form another cookie of the same thickness. What is the radius in inches of the scrap cookie?
  16. A triangle with vertices A(0,2),A(0, 2), B(−3,2),B(-3, 2), and C(−3,0)C(-3, 0) is reflected about the xx-axis, then the image △A′B′C′\triangle A'B'C' is rotated counterclockwise about the origin by 90∘90^{\circ} to produce △A′′B′′C′′.\triangle A''B''C''. Which of the following transformations will return △A′′B′′C′′\triangle A''B''C'' to △ABC?\triangle ABC?
  17. Let NN be a positive multiple of 5.5. One red ball and NN green balls are arranged in a line in random order. Let P(N)P(N) be the probability that at least 35\frac{3}{5} of the green balls are on the same side of the red ball. Observe that P(5)=1P(5)=1 and that P(N)P(N) approaches 45\frac{4}{5} as NN grows large. What is the sum of the digits of the least value of NN such that P(N)<321400?P(N) < \dfrac{321}{400}?
  18. Each vertex of a cube is to be labeled with an integer 11 through 8,8, with each integer being used once, in such a way that the sum of the four numbers on the vertices of a face is the same for each face. Arrangements that can be obtained from each other through rotations of the cube are considered to be the same. How many different arrangements are possible?
  19. In rectangle ABCD,ABCD, AB=6AB=6 and BC=3.BC=3. Point EE between BB and C,C, and point FF between EE and CC are such that BE=EF=FC.BE=EF=FC. Segments AE‾\overline{AE} and AF‾\overline{AF} intersect BD‾\overline{BD} at PP and Q,Q, respectively. The ratio BP:PQ:QDBP:PQ:QD can be written as r:s:tr:s:t where the greatest common factor of r,r, s,s, and tt is 1.1. What is r+s+t?r+s+t?
  20. For some particular value of N,N, when (a+b+c+d+1)N(a+b+c+d+1)^N is expanded and like terms are combined, the resulting expression contains exactly 10011001 terms that include all four variables a,a, b,b, c,c, and d,d, each to some positive power. What is N?N?
  21. Circles with centers P,P, QQ and R,R, having radii 1,1, 22 and 3,3, respectively, lie on the same side of line ll and are tangent to ll at P′,P', Q′Q' and R′,R', respectively, with Q′Q' between P′P' and R′.R'. The circle with center QQ is externally tangent to each of the other two circles. What is the area of △PQR?\triangle PQR?
  22. For some positive integer n,n, the number 110n3110n^3 has 110110 positive integer divisors, including 11 and the number 110n3.110n^3. How many positive integer divisors does the number 81n481n^4 have?
  23. A binary operation ♢\diamondsuit has the properties that a ♢ (b ♢ c)=(a ♢ b)⋅ca\,\diamondsuit\, (b\,\diamondsuit \,c) = (a\,\diamondsuit \,b)\cdot c and that a ♢ a=1a\,\diamondsuit \,a=1 for all nonzero real numbers a,a, b,b, and c.c. (Here the dot ⋅\cdot represents the usual multiplication operation.) The solution to the equation 2016 ♢ (6 ♢ x)=1002016 \,\diamondsuit\, (6\,\diamondsuit\, x)=100 can be written as pq,\frac{p}{q}, where pp and qq are relatively prime positive integers. What is p+q?p+q?
  24. A quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle of radius 2002.200\sqrt{2}. Three of the sides of this quadrilateral have length 200.200. What is the length of the fourth side?
  25. How many ordered triples (x,y,z)(x,y,z) of positive integers satisfy lcm(x,y)=72,\text{lcm}(x,y) = 72,lcm(x,z)=600, \text{lcm}(x,z) = 600, and lcm(y,z)=900?\text{lcm}(y,z)=900?

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

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