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2023 AMC 10B

All 25 problems from the 2023 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. Mrs. Jones is pouring orange juice into four identical glasses for her four sons. She fills the first three glasses completely but runs out of juice when the fourth glass is only 13\frac{1}{3} full. What fraction of a glass must Mrs. Jones pour from each of the first three glasses into the fourth glass so that all four glasses will have the same amount of juice?
  2. Carlos went to a sports store to buy running shoes. Running shoes were on sale, with prices reduced by 20%20\% on every pair of shoes. Carlos also knew that he had to pay a 7.5%7.5\% sales tax on the discounted price. He had 4343 dollars. What is the original (before discount) price of the most expensive shoes he could afford to buy?
  3. A 33-44-55 right triangle is inscribed in circle A,A, and a 55-1212-1313 right triangle is inscribed in circle B.B. What is the ratio of the area of circle AA to the area of circle B?B?
  4. Jackson’s paintbrush makes a narrow strip with a width of 6.56.5 millimeters. Jackson has enough paint to make a strip 2525 meters long. How many square centimeters of paper could Jackson cover with paint?
  5. Maddy and Lara see a list of numbers written on a blackboard. Maddy adds 33 to each number in the list and finds that the sum of her new numbers is 45.45. Lara multiplies each number in the list by 33 and finds that the sum of her new numbers is also 45.45. How many numbers are written on the blackboard?
  6. Let L1=1,L_1 = 1, L2=3,L_2 = 3, and Ln+2=Ln+1+LnL_{n+2} = L_{n+1} + L_n for n≥1.n \ge 1. How many terms in the sequence L1,L_1, L2,L_2, L3,L_3, …,\ldots, L2023L_{2023} are even?
  7. Square ABCDABCD is rotated 20∘20^\circ clockwise about its center to obtain square EFGH,EFGH, as shown below. What is the degree measure of ∠EAB?\angle EAB?
  8. What is the units digit of 20222023+20232022?2022^{2023} + 2023^{2022}?
  9. The numbers 1616 and 2525 are a pair of consecutive positive perfect squares whose difference is 9.9. How many pairs of consecutive positive perfect squares have a difference of less than or equal to 2023?2023?
  10. You are playing a game. A 2×12 \times 1 rectangle covers two adjacent squares (oriented either horizontally or vertically) of a 3×33 \times 3 grid of squares, but you are not told which two squares are covered. Your goal is to find at least one square that is covered by the rectangle. A “turn” consists of you guessing a square, after which you are told whether that square is covered by the hidden rectangle. What is the minimum number of turns you need to ensure that at least one of your guessed squares is covered by the rectangle?
  11. Suzanne went to the bank and withdrew $800.\$800. The teller gave her this amount using $20\$20 bills, $50\$50 bills, and $100\$100 bills, with at least one of each denomination. How many different collections of bills could Suzanne have received?
  12. When the roots of the polynomial P(x)=(x−1)1(x−2)2(x−3)3⋯(x−10)10P(x) = (x-1)^1(x-2)^2(x-3)^3 \cdots (x-10)^{10} are removed from the real number line, what remains is the union of 1111 disjoint open intervals. On how many of those intervals is P(x)P(x) positive?
  13. What is the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by the inequality ∣∣x∣−1∣+∣∣y∣−1∣≤1?\bigl||x| - 1\bigr| + \bigl||y| - 1\bigr| \le 1?
  14. How many ordered pairs of integers (m,n)(m, n) satisfy the equation m2+mn+n2=m2n2?m^2 + mn + n^2 = m^2 n^2?
  15. What is the least positive integer mm such that m⋅2!⋅3!⋅4!⋅5!⋯16!m \cdot 2! \cdot 3! \cdot 4! \cdot 5! \cdots 16! is a perfect square?
  16. Define an upno to be a positive integer of 22 or more digits where the digits are strictly increasing moving left to right. Similarly, define a downno to be a positive integer of 22 or more digits where the digits are strictly decreasing moving left to right. For instance, the number 258258 is an upno and 86208620 is a downno. Let UU equal the total number of upnos and let DD equal the total number of downnos. What is ∣U−D∣?|U - D|?
  17. A rectangular box P\mathcal{P} has distinct edge lengths a,a, b,b, and c.c. The sum of the lengths of all 1212 edges of P\mathcal{P} is 13,13, the sum of the areas of all 66 faces of P\mathcal{P} is 112,\frac{11}{2}, and the volume of P\mathcal{P} is 12.\frac{1}{2}. What is the length of the longest interior diagonal connecting two vertices of P?\mathcal{P}?
  18. Suppose a,a, b,b, and cc are positive integers such that a14+b15=c210.\frac{a}{14} + \frac{b}{15} = \frac{c}{210}. Which of the following statements are necessarily true? I. If gcd⁡(a,14)=1\gcd(a, 14) = 1 or gcd⁡(b,15)=1\gcd(b, 15) = 1 or both, then gcd⁡(c,210)=1.\gcd(c, 210) = 1. II. If gcd⁡(c,210)=1,\gcd(c, 210) = 1, then gcd⁡(a,14)=1\gcd(a, 14) = 1 or gcd⁡(b,15)=1\gcd(b, 15) = 1 or both. III. gcd⁡(c,210)=1\gcd(c, 210) = 1 if and only if gcd⁡(a,14)=gcd⁡(b,15)=1.\gcd(a, 14) = \gcd(b, 15) = 1.
  19. Sonya the frog chooses a point uniformly at random lying within the square [0,6]×[0,6][0, 6] \times [0, 6] in the coordinate plane and hops to that point. She then chooses a distance uniformly at random from [0,1][0, 1] and a direction uniformly at random from {north,south,east,west}.\{\text{north}, \text{south}, \text{east}, \text{west}\}. All her choices are independent. She now hops the distance in the chosen direction. What is the probability that she lands outside the square?
  20. Four congruent semicircles are drawn on the surface of a sphere with radius 2,2, as shown, creating a closed curve that divides the surface into two congruent regions. The length of the curve is πn.\pi\sqrt{n}. What is n?n?
  21. Each of 20232023 balls is randomly placed into one of 33 bins. Which of the following is closest to the probability that each of the bins will contain an odd number of balls?
  22. How many distinct values of xx satisfy ⌊x⌋2−3x+2=0,\lfloor x \rfloor^2 - 3x + 2 = 0, where ⌊x⌋\lfloor x \rfloor denotes the largest integer less than or equal to x?x?
  23. An arithmetic sequence of positive integers has n≥3n \ge 3 terms, initial term a,a, and common difference d>1.d \gt 1. Carl wrote down all the terms in this sequence correctly except for one term, which was off by 1.1. The sum of the terms he wrote down was 222.222. What is a+d+n?a + d + n?
  24. What is the perimeter of the boundary of the region consisting of all points which can be expressed as (2u−3w, v+4w)(2u - 3w,\ v + 4w) with 0≤u≤1,0 \le u \le 1, 0≤v≤1,0 \le v \le 1, and 0≤w≤1?0 \le w \le 1?
  25. A regular pentagon with area 1+51 + \sqrt{5} is printed on paper and cut out. All five vertices are folded to the center of the pentagon, creating a smaller pentagon. What is the area of the new pentagon?

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

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