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2024 AMC 10B

All 25 problems from the 2024 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. In a long line of people arranged left to right, the 10131013th person from the left is also the 10101010th person from the right. How many people are in the line?
  2. What is 10!−7!⋅6!?10! - 7! \cdot 6!?
  3. For how many integer values of xx is ∣2x∣≤7π?|2x| \le 7\pi?
  4. Balls numbered 1,1, 2,2, 3,3, …\ldots are deposited in 55 bins, labeled A,A, B,B, C,C, D,D, and E,E, using the following procedure. Ball 11 is deposited in bin A,A, and balls 22 and 33 are deposited in bin B.B. The next 33 balls are deposited in bin C,C, the next 44 in bin D,D, and so on, cycling back to bin AA after balls are deposited in bin E.E. (For example, balls numbered 22,22, 23,23, …,\ldots, 2828 are deposited in bin BB at step 77 of this process.) In which bin is ball 20242024 deposited?
  5. In the following expression, Melanie changed some of the plus signs to minus signs: 1+3+5+7+⋯+97+991 + 3 + 5 + 7 + \cdots + 97 + 99 When the new expression was evaluated, it was negative. What is the least number of plus signs that Melanie could have changed to minus signs?
  6. A rectangle has integer side lengths and an area of 2024.2024. What is the least possible perimeter of the rectangle?
  7. What is the remainder when 72024+72025+720267^{2024} + 7^{2025} + 7^{2026} is divided by 19?19?
  8. Let NN be the product of all the positive integer divisors of 42.42. What is the units digit of N?N?
  9. Real numbers a,a, b,b, and cc have arithmetic mean 0.0. The arithmetic mean of a2,a^2, b2,b^2, and c2c^2 is 10.10. What is the arithmetic mean of ab,ab, ac,ac, and bc?bc?
  10. Quadrilateral ABCDABCD is a parallelogram, and EE is the midpoint of the side AD‾.\overline{AD}. Let FF be the intersection of lines EBEB and AC.AC. What is the ratio of the area of quadrilateral CDEFCDEF to the area of triangle CFB?CFB?
  11. In the figure below WXYZWXYZ is a rectangle with WX=4WX = 4 and WZ=8.WZ = 8. Point MM lies on XY‾,\overline{XY}, point AA lies on YZ‾,\overline{YZ}, and ∠WMA\angle WMA is a right angle. The areas of △WXM\triangle WXM and △WAZ\triangle WAZ are equal. What is the area of △WMA?\triangle WMA?
  12. A group of 100100 students from different countries meet at a mathematics competition. Each student speaks the same number of languages, and, for every pair of students AA and B,B, student AA speaks some language that student BB does not speak, and student BB speaks some language that student AA does not speak. What is the least possible total number of languages spoken by all the students?
  13. Positive integers xx and yy satisfy the equation x+y=1183.\sqrt{x} + \sqrt{y} = \sqrt{1183}. What is the minimum possible value of x+y?x + y?
  14. A dartboard is the region BB in the coordinate plane consisting of points (x,y)(x, y) such that ∣x∣+∣y∣≤8.|x| + |y| \le 8. A target TT is the region where (x2+y2−25)2≤49.(x^2 + y^2 - 25)^2 \le 49. A dart is thrown and lands at a random point in B.B. The probability that the dart lands in TT can be expressed as mn⋅π,\dfrac{m}{n} \cdot \pi, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. What is m+n?m + n?
  15. A list of 99 real numbers consists of 1,1, 2.2,2.2, 3.2,3.2, 5.2,5.2, 6.2,6.2, 7,7, as well as x,x, y,y, zz with x≤y≤z.x \le y \le z. The range of the list is 7,7, and the mean and median are both positive integers. How many ordered triples (x,y,z)(x, y, z) are possible?
  16. Jerry likes to play with numbers. One day, he wrote all the integers from 11 to 20242024 on the whiteboard. Then he repeatedly chose four numbers on the whiteboard, erased them, and replaced them by either their sum or their product. (For example, Jerry’s first step might have been to erase 1,1, 2,2, 3,3, and 5,5, and then write either 11,11, their sum, or 30,30, their product, on the whiteboard.) After repeatedly performing this operation, Jerry noticed that all the remaining numbers on the whiteboard were odd. What is the maximum possible number of integers on the whiteboard at that time?
  17. In a race among 55 snails, there is at most one tie, but that tie can involve any number of snails. For example, the result of the race might be that Dazzler is first; Abby, Cyrus, and Elroy are tied for second; and Bruna is fifth. How many different results of the race are possible?
  18. How many different remainders can result when the 100100th power of an integer is divided by 125?125?
  19. In the following table, each question mark is to be replaced by “Possible” or “Not Possible” to indicate whether a nonvertical line with the given slope can contain the given number of lattice points (points both of whose coordinates are integers). How many of the 1212 entries will be “Possible”?
  20. Three different pairs of shoes are placed in a row so that no left shoe is next to a right shoe from a different pair. In how many ways can these six shoes be lined up?
  21. Two straight pipes (circular cylinders), with radii 11 and 14,\tfrac14, lie parallel and in contact on a flat floor. The figure below shows a head-on view. What is the sum of the possible radii of a third parallel pipe lying on the same floor and in contact with both?
  22. A group of 1616 people will be partitioned into 44 indistinguishable 44-person committees. Each committee will have one chairperson and one secretary. The number of different ways to make these assignments can be written as 3rM,3^r M, where rr and MM are positive integers and MM is not divisible by 3.3. What is r?r?
  23. The Fibonacci numbers are defined by F1=1,F_1 = 1, F2=1,F_2 = 1, and Fn=Fn−1+Fn−2F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2} for n≥3.n \ge 3. What is F2F1+F4F2+F6F3+⋯+F20F10?\frac{F_2}{F_1} + \frac{F_4}{F_2} + \frac{F_6}{F_3} + \cdots + \frac{F_{20}}{F_{10}}?
  24. Let P(m)=m2+m24+m48+m88. \begin{aligned} P(m) &= \frac{m}{2} + \frac{m^2}{4} \\ &\quad {}+ \frac{m^4}{8} + \frac{m^8}{8}. \end{aligned} How many of the values of P(2022),P(2022), P(2023),P(2023), P(2024),P(2024), and P(2025)P(2025) are integers?
  25. Each of 2727 bricks (right rectangular prisms) has dimensions a×b×c,a \times b \times c, where a,a, b,b, and cc are pairwise relatively prime positive integers. These bricks are arranged to form a 3×3×33 \times 3 \times 3 block, as shown on the left below. A 2828th brick with the same dimensions is introduced, and these bricks are reconfigured into a 2×2×72 \times 2 \times 7 block, shown on the right. The new block is 11 unit taller, 11 unit wider, and 11 unit deeper than the old one. What is a+b+c?a + b + c?

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

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