AMC 10B 2024

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2024 AMC 10B Practice Test

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1.
In a long line of people arranged left to right, the 1013th person from the left is also the 1010th person from the right. How many people are in the line?
(A)  2021\text{(A)}\;2021(B)  2022\text{(B)}\;2022(C)  2023\text{(C)}\;2023(D)  2024\text{(D)}\;2024(E)  2025\text{(E)}\;2025
2.
What is 10!−7!⋅6!10!-7!\cdot6!?
(A)  −120\text{(A)}\;-120(B)  0\text{(B)}\;0(C)  120\text{(C)}\;120(D)  600\text{(D)}\;600(E)  720\text{(E)}\;720
3.
For how many integer values of xx is ∣2x∣≤7π|2x|\le7\pi?
(A)  16\text{(A)}\;16(B)  17\text{(B)}\;17(C)  19\text{(C)}\;19(D)  20\text{(D)}\;20(E)  21\text{(E)}\;21
4.
Balls numbered 1,2,3,…1,2,3,\ldots are deposited in 5 bins, labeled AA, BB, CC, DD, and EE, using the following procedure. Ball 1 is deposited in bin AA, and balls 2 and 3 are deposited in bin BB. The next 3 balls are deposited in bin CC, the next 4 in bin DD, and so on, cycling back to bin AA after balls are deposited in bin EE. (For example, balls numbered 22,23,…,2822,23,\ldots,28 are deposited in bin BB at step 7 of this process.) In which bin is ball 2024 deposited?
(A)  A\text{(A)}\;\text{A}(B)  B\text{(B)}\;\text{B}(C)  C\text{(C)}\;\text{C}(D)  D\text{(D)}\;\text{D}(E)  E\text{(E)}\;\text{E}
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?
(A)  14\text{(A)}\;14(B)  15\text{(B)}\;15(C)  16\text{(C)}\;16(D)  17\text{(D)}\;17(E)  18\text{(E)}\;18
6.
A rectangle has integer side lengths and an area of 20242024. What is the least possible perimeter of the rectangle?
(A)  160\text{(A)}\;160(B)  180\text{(B)}\;180(C)  222\text{(C)}\;222(D)  228\text{(D)}\;228(E)  390\text{(E)}\;390
7.
What is the remainder when 72024+72025+720267^{2024}+7^{2025}+7^{2026} is divided by 1919?
(A)  0\text{(A)}\;0(B)  1\text{(B)}\;1(C)  7\text{(C)}\;7(D)  11\text{(D)}\;11(E)  18\text{(E)}\;18

Solution 1

Solution 2 (Harder but More General)

8.
Let NN be the product of all the positive integer divisors of 4242. What is the units digit of NN?
(A)  0\text{(A)}\;0(B)  2\text{(B)}\;2(C)  4\text{(C)}\;4(D)  6\text{(D)}\;6(E)  8\text{(E)}\;8
9.
Real numbers aa, bb, and cc have arithmetic mean 00. The arithmetic mean of a2a^2, b2b^2, and c2c^2 is 1010. What is the arithmetic mean of abab, acac, and bcbc?
(A)  −5\text{(A)}\;-5(B)  −103\text{(B)}\;-\frac{10}{3}(C)  −109\text{(C)}\;-\frac{10}{9}(D)  0\text{(D)}\;0(E)  109\text{(E)}\;\frac{10}{9}
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 ACAC. What is the ratio of the area of quadrilateral CDEFCDEF to the area of △CFB\triangle CFB?
(A)  5:4\text{(A)}\;5:4(B)  4:3\text{(B)}\;4:3(C)  3:2\text{(C)}\;3:2(D)  5:3\text{(D)}\;5:3(E)  2:1\text{(E)}\;2:1
11.
In the figure below WXYZWXYZ is a rectangle with WX=4WX=4 and WZ=8WZ=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?
Rectangle WXYZ with WX = 4 and WZ = 8. M lies on XY, A lies on YZ, WM is perpendicular to MA, and WA is drawn.
(A)  13\text{(A)}\;13(B)  14\text{(B)}\;14(C)  15\text{(C)}\;15(D)  16\text{(D)}\;16(E)  17\text{(E)}\;17
12.
A group of 100 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 BB, 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?
(A)  9\text{(A)}\;9(B)  10\text{(B)}\;10(C)  12\text{(C)}\;12(D)  51\text{(D)}\;51(E)  100\text{(E)}\;100
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+yx+y?
(A)  585\text{(A)}\;585(B)  595\text{(B)}\;595(C)  623\text{(C)}\;623(D)  700\text{(D)}\;700(E)  791\text{(E)}\;791
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 BB. The probability that the dart lands in TT can be expressed as mn⋅π\frac{m}{n}\cdot\pi, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. What is m+nm+n?
(A)  39\text{(A)}\;39(B)  71\text{(B)}\;71(C)  73\text{(C)}\;73(D)  75\text{(D)}\;75(E)  135\text{(E)}\;135
15.
A list of 9 real numbers consists of 1,2.2,3.2,5.2,6.2,1, 2.2, 3.2, 5.2, 6.2, and 77, as well as xx, yy, and zz, with x≤y≤zx\le y\le z. The range of the list is 77, and the mean and the median are both positive integers. How many ordered triples (x,y,z)(x,y,z) are possible?
(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}
16.
Jerry likes to play with numbers. One day, he wrote all the integers from 1 to 2024 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, 2, 3, and 5, and then write either 11, their sum, or 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?
(A)  1010\text{(A)}\;1010(B)  1011\text{(B)}\;1011(C)  1012\text{(C)}\;1012(D)  1013\text{(D)}\;1013(E)  1014\text{(E)}\;1014
17.
In a race among 5 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?
(A)  180\text{(A)}\;180(B)  361\text{(B)}\;361(C)  420\text{(C)}\;420(D)  431\text{(D)}\;431(E)  720\text{(E)}\;720
18.
How many different remainders can result when the 100100th power of an integer is divided by 125125?
(A)  1\text{(A)}\;1(B)  2\text{(B)}\;2(C)  5\text{(C)}\;5(D)  25\text{(D)}\;25(E)  125\text{(E)}\;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 12 entries will be "Possible"?
zeroexactly oneexactly twomore than twozero slope????nonzero rational slope????irrational slope????\begin{array}{l|c|c|c|c} & \text{zero} & \text{exactly one} & \text{exactly two} & \text{more than two} \\\hline \text{zero slope} & ? & ? & ? & ? \\\text{nonzero rational slope} & ? & ? & ? & ? \\\text{irrational slope} & ? & ? & ? & ?\end{array}
(A)  4\text{(A)}\;4(B)  5\text{(B)}\;5(C)  6\text{(C)}\;6(D)  7\text{(D)}\;7(E)  9\text{(E)}\;9
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?
(A)  60\text{(A)}\;60(B)  72\text{(B)}\;72(C)  90\text{(C)}\;90(D)  108\text{(D)}\;108(E)  120\text{(E)}\;120
21.
Two straight pipes (circular cylinders), with radii 1 and 14\frac{1}{4}, 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?
Two externally tangent circular pipes of radii 1 and 1/4 resting on a horizontal floor.
(A)  19\text{(A)}\;\frac{1}{9}(B)  1\text{(B)}\;1(C)  109\text{(C)}\;\frac{10}{9}(D)  119\text{(D)}\;\frac{11}{9}(E)  199\text{(E)}\;\frac{19}{9}
22.
A group of 16 people will be partitioned into 4 indistinguishable 4-person committees. Each committee will have one chairperson and one secretary. The number of different ways to make these assignments can be written as 3rM3^rM, where rr and MM are positive integers and MM is not divisible by 3. What is rr?
(A)  5\text{(A)}\;5(B)  6\text{(B)}\;6(C)  7\text{(C)}\;7(D)  8\text{(D)}\;8(E)  9\text{(E)}\;9
23.
The Fibonacci numbers are defined by F1=1F_1=1, F2=1F_2=1, and Fn=Fn−1+Fn−2F_n=F_{n-1}+F_{n-2} for n≥3n\ge3. 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}}?
(A)  318\text{(A)}\;318(B)  319\text{(B)}\;319(C)  320\text{(C)}\;320(D)  321\text{(D)}\;321(E)  322\text{(E)}\;322
24.
Let
P(m)=m2+m24+m48+m88.P(m)=\frac{m}{2}+\frac{m^2}{4}+\frac{m^4}{8}+\frac{m^8}{8}.
How many of the values P(2022)P(2022), P(2023)P(2023), P(2024)P(2024), and P(2025)P(2025) are integers?
(A)  0\text{(A)}\;0(B)  1\text{(B)}\;1(C)  2\text{(C)}\;2(D)  3\text{(D)}\;3(E)  4\text{(E)}\;4
25.
Each of 27 bricks (right rectangular prisms) has dimensions a×b×ca\times b\times c, where aa, bb, and cc are pairwise relatively prime positive integers. These bricks are arranged to form a 3×3×33\times3\times3 block, as shown on the left below. A 28th brick with the same dimensions is introduced, and these bricks are reconfigured into a 2×2×72\times2\times7 block, shown on the right. The new block is 1 unit taller, 1 unit wider, and 1 unit deeper than the old one. What is a+b+ca+b+c?
Twenty-seven rectangular bricks arranged in a 3 by 3 by 3 block, and twenty-eight bricks rearranged into a 2 by 2 by 7 block, with brick dimensions a, b, and c labeled.
(A)  88\text{(A)}\;88(B)  89\text{(B)}\;89(C)  90\text{(C)}\;90(D)  91\text{(D)}\;91(E)  92\text{(E)}\;92