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2020 AMC 10B

All 25 problems from the 2020 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. What is the value of 1−(−2)−3−(−4)−5−(−6)? \begin{aligned} &1 - (-2) - 3 - (-4) \\ &\quad {}- 5 - (-6)? \end{aligned}
  2. Carl has 55 cubes each having side length 1,1, and Kate has 55 cubes each having side length 2.2. What is the total volume of these 1010 cubes?
  3. The ratio of ww to xx is 4:3,4:3, the ratio of yy to zz is 3:2,3:2, and the ratio of zz to xx is 1:6.1:6. What is the ratio of ww to y?y?
  4. The acute angles of a right triangle are a∘a^{\circ} and b∘,b^{\circ}, where a>ba>b and both aa and bb are prime numbers. What is the least possible value of b?b?
  5. How many distinguishable arrangements are there of 11 brown tile, 11 purple tile, 22 green tiles, and 33 yellow tiles in a row from left to right? (Tiles of the same color are indistinguishable.)
  6. Driving along a highway, Megan noticed that her odometer showed 1595115951 (miles). This number is a palindrome—it reads the same forward and backward. Then 22 hours later, the odometer displayed the next higher palindrome. What was her average speed, in miles per hour, during this 22-hour period?
  7. How many positive even multiples of 33 less than 20202020 are perfect squares?
  8. Points PP and QQ lie in a plane with PQ=8.PQ=8. How many locations for point RR in this plane are there such that the triangle with vertices P,P, Q,Q, and RR is a right triangle with area 1212 square units?
  9. How many ordered pairs of integers (x,y)(x, y) satisfy the equation x2020+y2=2y?x^{2020}+y^2=2y?
  10. A three-quarter sector of a circle of radius 44 inches together with its interior can be rolled up to form the lateral surface of a right circular cone by taping together along the two radii shown. What is the volume of the cone in cubic inches?
  11. Ms. Carr asks her students to read any 55 of the 1010 books on a reading list. Harold randomly selects 55 books from this list, and Betty does the same. What is the probability that there are exactly 22 books that they both select?
  12. The decimal representation of 12020\frac{1}{20^{20}} consists of a string of zeros after the decimal point, followed by a 99 and then several more digits. How many zeros are in that initial string of zeros after the decimal point?
  13. Andy the Ant lives on a coordinate plane and is currently at (−20,20)(-20, 20) facing east (that is, in the positive xx-direction). Andy moves 11 unit and then turns 90∘90^{\circ} left. From there, Andy moves 22 units (north) and then turns 90∘90^{\circ} left. He then moves 33 units (west) and again turns 90∘90^{\circ} left. Andy continues this process, increasing his distance each time by 11 unit and always turning left. What is the location of the point at which Andy makes the 2020th2020\text{th} left turn?
  14. As shown in the figure below, six semicircles lie in the interior of a regular hexagon with side length 22 so that the diameters of the semicircles coincide with the sides of the hexagon. What is the area of the shaded region—inside the hexagon but outside all of the semicircles?
  15. Steve wrote the digits 1,1, 2,2, 3,3, 4,4, and 55 in order repeatedly from left to right, forming a list of 10,00010{,}000 digits, beginning 123451234512…123451234512\ldots He then erased every third digit from his list (that is, the 33rd, 66th, 99th, …\ldots digits from the left), then erased every fourth digit from the resulting list (that is, the 44th, 88th, 1212th, …\ldots digits from the left in what remained), and then erased every fifth digit from what remained at that point. What is the sum of the three digits that were then in positions 2019,2019, 2020,2020, and 2021?2021?
  16. Bela and Jenn play the following game on the closed interval [0,n][0, n] of the real number line, where nn is a fixed integer greater than 4.4. They take turns playing, with Bela going first. At his first turn, Bela chooses any real number in the interval [0,n].[0, n]. Thereafter, the player whose turn it is chooses a real number that is more than one unit away from all numbers previously chosen by either player. A player unable to choose such a number loses. Using optimal strategy, which player will win the game?
  17. There are 1010 people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each person knows exactly 33 of the other 99 people: the 22 people standing next to her or him, as well as the person directly across the circle. How many ways are there for the 1010 people to split up into 55 pairs so that the members of each pair know each other?
  18. An urn contains one red ball and one blue ball. A box of extra red and blue balls lies nearby. George performs the following operation four times: he draws a ball from the urn at random and then takes a ball of the same color from the box and returns those two matching balls to the urn. After the four iterations the urn contains six balls. What is the probability that the urn contains three balls of each color?
  19. In a certain card game, a player is dealt a hand of 1010 cards from a deck of 5252 distinct cards. The number of distinct (unordered) hands that can be dealt to the player can be written as 158A00A4AA0.158A00A4AA0. What is the digit A?A?
  20. Let BB be a right rectangular prism (box) with edge lengths 1,1, 3,3, and 4,4, together with its interior. For real r≥0,r\geq0, let S(r)S(r) be the set of points in 33-dimensional space that lie within a distance rr of some point in B.B. The volume of S(r)S(r) can be expressed as ar3+br2+cr+d,ar^{3} + br^{2} + cr +d, where a,a, b,b, c,c, and dd are positive real numbers. What is bcad?\dfrac{bc}{ad}?
  21. In square ABCD,ABCD, points EE and HH lie on AB‾\overline{AB} and DA‾,\overline{DA}, respectively, so that AE=AH.AE=AH. Points FF and GG lie on BC‾\overline{BC} and CD‾,\overline{CD}, respectively, and points II and JJ lie on EH‾\overline{EH} so that FI‾⊥EH‾\overline{FI} \perp \overline{EH} and GJ‾⊥EH‾.\overline{GJ} \perp \overline{EH}. See the figure below. Triangle AEH,AEH, quadrilateral BFIE,BFIE, quadrilateral DHJG,DHJG, and pentagon FCGJIFCGJI each has area 1.1. What is FI2?FI^2?
  22. What is the remainder when 2202+2022^{202} +202 is divided by 2101+251+1?2^{101}+2^{51}+1?
  23. Square ABCDABCD in the coordinate plane has vertices at the points A(1,1),A(1,1), B(−1,1),B(-1,1), C(−1,−1),C(-1,-1), and D(1,−1).D(1,-1). Consider the following four transformations: • L,L, a rotation of 90∘90^{\circ} counterclockwise around the origin; • R,R, a rotation of 90∘90^{\circ} clockwise around the origin; • H,H, a reflection across the xx-axis; and • V,V, a reflection across the yy-axis. Each of these transformations maps the square onto itself, but the positions of the labeled vertices will change. For example, applying RR and then VV would send the vertex AA at (1,1)(1,1) to (−1,−1)(-1,-1) and would send the vertex BB at (−1,1)(-1,1) to itself. How many sequences of 2020 transformations chosen from {L,R,H,V}\{L, R, H, V\} will send all of the labeled vertices back to their original positions? (For example, R,R, R,R, V,V, HH is one sequence of 44 transformations that will send the vertices back to their original positions.)
  24. How many positive integers nn satisfy n+100070=⌊n⌋?\dfrac{n+1000}{70} = \lfloor \sqrt{n} \rfloor? (Recall that ⌊x⌋\lfloor x\rfloor is the greatest integer not exceeding x.x.)
  25. Let D(n)D(n) denote the number of ways of writing the positive integer nn as a product n=f1⋅f2⋯fk,n = f_1\cdot f_2\cdots f_k, where k≥1,k\ge1, the fif_i are integers strictly greater than 1,1, and the order in which the factors are listed matters (that is, two representations that differ only in the order of the factors are counted as distinct). For example, the number 66 can be written as 6,6, 2⋅3,2\cdot 3, and 3⋅2,3\cdot2, so D(6)=3.D(6) = 3. What is D(96)?D(96)?

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

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