AMC 10A 2024

Problems, Step-by-Step Hints, and Solutions

1.
What is the value of 9901⋅101−99⋅101019901\cdot101-99\cdot10101?
(A)  2\text{(A)}\;2(B)  20\text{(B)}\;20(C)  200\text{(C)}\;200(D)  202\text{(D)}\;202(E)  2020\text{(E)}\;2020
2.
A model used to estimate the time it will take to hike to the top of the mountain on a trail is of the form T=aL+bGT=aL+bG, where aa and bb are constants, TT is the time in minutes, LL is the length of the trail in miles, and GG is the altitude gain in feet. The model estimates that it will take 6969 minutes to hike to the top if a trail is 1.51.5 miles long and ascends 800800 feet, as well as if a trail is 1.21.2 miles long and ascends 11001100 feet. How many minutes does the model estimate it will take to hike to the top if the trail is 4.24.2 miles long and ascends 40004000 feet?
(A)  240\text{(A)}\;240(B)  246\text{(B)}\;246(C)  252\text{(C)}\;252(D)  258\text{(D)}\;258(E)  264\text{(E)}\;264
3.
What is the sum of the digits of the smallest prime that can be written as a sum of 55 distinct primes?
(A)  5\text{(A)}\;5(B)  7\text{(B)}\;7(C)  8\text{(C)}\;8(D)  10\text{(D)}\;10(E)  13\text{(E)}\;13
4.
The number 20242024 is written as the sum of not necessarily distinct two-digit numbers. What is the least number of two-digit numbers needed to write this sum?
(A)  20\text{(A)}\;20(B)  21\text{(B)}\;21(C)  22\text{(C)}\;22(D)  23\text{(D)}\;23(E)  24\text{(E)}\;24
5.
What is the least value of nn such that n!n! is a multiple of 20242024?
(A)  11\text{(A)}\;11(B)  21\text{(B)}\;21(C)  22\text{(C)}\;22(D)  23\text{(D)}\;23(E)  253\text{(E)}\;253
6.
What is the minimum number of successive swaps of adjacent letters in the string ABCDEFABCDEF that are needed to change the string to FEDCBAFEDCBA? (For example, 33 swaps are required to change ABCABC to CBACBA; one such sequence of swaps is ABC→BAC→BCA→CBAABC\to BAC\to BCA\to CBA.)
(A)  6\text{(A)}\;6(B)  10\text{(B)}\;10(C)  12\text{(C)}\;12(D)  15\text{(D)}\;15(E)  24\text{(E)}\;24
7.
The product of three integers is 6060. What is the least possible positive sum of the three integers?
(A)  2\text{(A)}\;2(B)  3\text{(B)}\;3(C)  5\text{(C)}\;5(D)  6\text{(D)}\;6(E)  13\text{(E)}\;13
8.
Amy, Bomani, Charlie, and Daria work in a chocolate factory. On Monday Amy, Bomani, and Charlie started working at 1:00 PM1{:}00\text{ PM} and were able to pack 44, 33, and 33 packages, respectively, every 33 minutes. At some later time, Daria joined the group, and Daria was able to pack 55 packages every 44 minutes. Together, they finished packing 450450 packages at exactly 2:45 PM2{:}45\text{ PM}. At what time did Daria join the group?
(A)  1:25 PM\text{(A)}\;\text{1:25 PM}(B)  1:35 PM\text{(B)}\;\text{1:35 PM}(C)  1:45 PM\text{(C)}\;\text{1:45 PM}(D)  1:55 PM\text{(D)}\;\text{1:55 PM}(E)  2:05 PM\text{(E)}\;\text{2:05 PM}
9.
In how many ways can 66 juniors and 66 seniors form 33 disjoint teams of 44 people so that each team has 22 juniors and 22 seniors?
(A)  720\text{(A)}\;720(B)  1350\text{(B)}\;1350(C)  2700\text{(C)}\;2700(D)  3280\text{(D)}\;3280(E)  8100\text{(E)}\;8100
10.
Consider the following operation. Given a positive integer nn, if nn is a multiple of 33, then you replace nn by n3\frac{n}{3}. If nn is not a multiple of 33, then you replace nn by n+10n+10. For example, beginning with n=4n=4, this procedure gives 4→14→24→8→18→6→2→12→⋯4\to14\to24\to8\to18\to6\to2\to12\to\cdots. Suppose you start with n=100n=100. What value results if you perform this operation exactly 100100 times?
(A)  10\text{(A)}\;10(B)  20\text{(B)}\;20(C)  30\text{(C)}\;30(D)  40\text{(D)}\;40(E)  50\text{(E)}\;50
11.
How many ordered pairs of integers (m,n)(m,n) satisfy n2−49=m\sqrt{n^2-49}=m?
(A)  1\text{(A)}\;1(B)  2\text{(B)}\;2(C)  3\text{(C)}\;3(D)  4\text{(D)}\;4(E)  infinitely many\text{(E)}\;\text{infinitely many}
12.
Zelda played the Adventures of Math game on August 11 and scored 17001700 points. She continued to play daily over the next 55 days. The bar chart below shows the daily change in her score compared to the day before. (For example, Zelda's score on August 22 was 1700+80=17801700+80=1780 points.) What was Zelda's average score in points over the 66 days?
Bar chart showing Zelda's daily change in score from August 2 to 6: +80, -90, -10, +60, and -40
(A)  1700\text{(A)}\;1700(B)  1702\text{(B)}\;1702(C)  1703\text{(C)}\;1703(D)  1713\text{(D)}\;1713(E)  1715\text{(E)}\;1715
13.
Two transformations are said to commute if applying the first followed by the second gives the same result as applying the second followed by the first. Consider these four transformations of the coordinate plane:

• a translation 22 units to the right,

• a 90∘90^\circ-rotation counterclockwise about the origin,

• a reflection across the xx-axis, and

• a dilation centered at the origin with scale factor 22.

Of the 66 pairs of distinct transformations from this list, how many commute?
(A)  1\text{(A)}\;1(B)  2\text{(B)}\;2(C)  3\text{(C)}\;3(D)  4\text{(D)}\;4(E)  5\text{(E)}\;5
14.
One side of an equilateral triangle of height 2424 lies on line ℓ\ell. A circle of radius 1212 is tangent to line ℓ\ell and is externally tangent to the triangle. The area of the region exterior to the triangle and the circle and bounded by the triangle, the circle, and line ℓ\ell can be written as ab−cπa\sqrt{b}-c\pi, where aa, bb, and cc are positive integers and bb is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is a+b+ca+b+c?
(A)  72\text{(A)}\;72(B)  73\text{(B)}\;73(C)  74\text{(C)}\;74(D)  75\text{(D)}\;75(E)  76\text{(E)}\;76
15.
Let MM be the greatest integer such that both M+1213M+1213 and M+3773M+3773 are perfect squares. What is the units digit of MM?
(A)  1\text{(A)}\;1(B)  2\text{(B)}\;2(C)  3\text{(C)}\;3(D)  6\text{(D)}\;6(E)  8\text{(E)}\;8
16.
All of the rectangles in the figure below, which is drawn to scale, are similar to the enclosing rectangle. Each number represents the area of the rectangle. What is length ABAB?
Rectangle subdivided into similar rectangles with areas 36, 32, 16, 4, 2, 25, 8, 9, 1, 18, and 49
(A)  4+45\text{(A)}\;4+4\sqrt{5}(B)  102\text{(B)}\;10\sqrt{2}(C)  5+55\text{(C)}\;5+5\sqrt{5}(D)  1084\text{(D)}\;10\sqrt[4]{8}(E)  20\text{(E)}\;20
17.
Two teams are in a best-two-out-of-three playoff: the teams will play at most 33 games, and the winner of the playoff is the first team to win 22 games. The first game is played on Team A's home field, and the remaining games are played on Team B's home field. Team A has a 23\frac{2}{3} chance of winning at home, and its probability of winning when playing away from home is pp. Outcomes of the games are independent. The probability that Team A wins the playoff is 12\frac{1}{2}. Then pp can be written in the form 12(m−n)\frac{1}{2}(m-\sqrt{n}), where mm and nn are positive integers. What is m+nm+n?
(A)  10\text{(A)}\;10(B)  11\text{(B)}\;11(C)  12\text{(C)}\;12(D)  13\text{(D)}\;13(E)  14\text{(E)}\;14
18.
There are exactly KK positive integers 5≤b≤20245\le b\le2024 such that the base-bb integer 2024b2024_b is divisible by 1616 (where 1616 is in base ten). What is the sum of the digits of KK?
(A)  16\text{(A)}\;16(B)  17\text{(B)}\;17(C)  18\text{(C)}\;18(D)  20\text{(D)}\;20(E)  21\text{(E)}\;21
19.
The first three terms of a geometric sequence are the integers aa, 720720, and bb, where a<720<ba<720<b. What is the sum of the digits of the least possible value of bb?
(A)  9\text{(A)}\;9(B)  12\text{(B)}\;12(C)  16\text{(C)}\;16(D)  18\text{(D)}\;18(E)  21\text{(E)}\;21
20.
Let SS be a subset of {1,2,3,…,2024}\{1,2,3,\ldots,2024\} such that the following two conditions hold:

• If xx and yy are distinct elements of SS, then ∣x−y∣>2|x-y|>2.

• If xx and yy are distinct odd elements of SS, then ∣x−y∣>6|x-y|>6.

What is the maximum possible number of elements in SS?
(A)  436\text{(A)}\;436(B)  506\text{(B)}\;506(C)  608\text{(C)}\;608(D)  654\text{(D)}\;654(E)  675\text{(E)}\;675
21.
The numbers, in order, of each row and the numbers, in order, of each column of a 5×55\times5 array of integers form an arithmetic progression of length 55. The numbers in positions (5,5)(5,5), (2,4)(2,4), (4,3)(4,3) and (3,1)(3,1) are 00, 4848, 1616, and 1212, respectively. What number is in position (1,2)(1,2)?
A 5 by 5 array with entries 0, 48, 16, and 12 in the given positions and a question mark in position (1,2)
(A)  19\text{(A)}\;19(B)  24\text{(B)}\;24(C)  29\text{(C)}\;29(D)  34\text{(D)}\;34(E)  39\text{(E)}\;39
22.
Let KK be the kite formed by joining two right triangles with legs 11 and 3\sqrt{3} along a common hypotenuse. Eight copies of KK are used to form the polygon shown below. What is the area of triangle △ABC\triangle ABC?
Eight copies of kite K forming a polygon containing triangle ABC
(A)  2+33\text{(A)}\;2+3\sqrt{3}(B)  932\text{(B)}\;\frac{9\sqrt{3}}{2}(C)  10+833\text{(C)}\;\frac{10+8\sqrt{3}}{3}(D)  8\text{(D)}\;8(E)  53\text{(E)}\;5\sqrt{3}
23.
Integers aa, bb, and cc satisfy ab+c=100ab+c=100, bc+a=87bc+a=87, and ca+b=60ca+b=60. What is ab+bc+caab+bc+ca?
(A)  212\text{(A)}\;212(B)  247\text{(B)}\;247(C)  258\text{(C)}\;258(D)  276\text{(D)}\;276(E)  284\text{(E)}\;284
24.
A bee is moving in three-dimensional space. A fair six-sided die with faces labeled A+A^+, A−A^-, B+B^+, B−B^-, C+C^+, and C−C^- is rolled. Suppose the bee occupies the point (a,b,c)(a,b,c). If the die shows A+A^+, then the bee moves to the point (a+1,b,c)(a+1,b,c) and if the die shows A−A^-, then the bee moves to the point (a−1,b,c)(a-1,b,c). Analogous moves are made with the other four outcomes. Suppose the bee starts at the point (0,0,0)(0,0,0) and the die is rolled four times. What is the probability that the bee traverses four distinct edges of some unit cube?
(A)  154\text{(A)}\;\frac{1}{54}(B)  754\text{(B)}\;\frac{7}{54}(C)  16\text{(C)}\;\frac{1}{6}(D)  518\text{(D)}\;\frac{5}{18}(E)  25\text{(E)}\;\frac{2}{5}
25.
The figure below shows a dotted grid 8 cells wide and 3 cells tall consisting of 1′′×1′′1''\times1'' squares. Carl places 1-inch toothpicks along some of the sides of the squares to create a closed loop that does not intersect itself. The numbers in the cells indicate the number of sides of that square that are to be covered by toothpicks, and any number of toothpicks are allowed if no number is written. In how many ways can Carl place the toothpicks?
Dotted grid 8 cells wide and 3 cells tall with eight 1s in the middle row
(A)  130\text{(A)}\;130(B)  144\text{(B)}\;144(C)  146\text{(C)}\;146(D)  162\text{(D)}\;162(E)  196\text{(E)}\;196