2008AMC10美国数学竞赛B卷
2008 AMC10美国数学竞赛B卷
1. A basketball player made 5 baskets during a game. Each basket was worth either 2 or 3 points. How many different numbers could represent the total points scored by the player?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
2. A 4×4 block of calendar dates has the numbers 1 through 4 in the first row, 8 through 11 in the second, 15 through 18 in the third, and 22 through 25 in the fourth. The order of the numbers in the second and the fourth rows are reversed. The numbers on each diagonal are added. What will be the positive difference between the diagonal sums? (A) 2
3. Assume that x is a positive real number. Which is equivalent to (A) x
4. A semipro baseball league has teams with 21 players each. League rules state that a player must be paid at least $15,000 and that the total of all players’ salaries for each team cannot exceed $700,000. What is the maximum possible salary, in dollars, for a single player? (A) 270,000
(B) 385,000
(C) 400,000
(D) 430,000 (E) 700,000
16(B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
xx? (B) xxx
14(C) x
34(D) x (E) x
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5. For real numbers a and b, define aa$b?(a?b)2. What is (x?y)2$(y?x)2? (A) 0
6. Points B and C lie on AD. The length of AB is 4 times the length of BD, and the length of AC is 9 times the length of CD. The length of BC is what fraction of the length of AD? (A)
7. An equilateral triangle of side length 10 is completely filled in by non-overlapping equilateral triangles of side length 1. How many small triangles are required? (A) 10
8. A class collects $50 to buy flowers for a classmate who is in the hospital. Roses cost $3 each, and carnations cost $2 each. No other flowers are to be used. How many different bouquets could be purchased for exactly $50? (A) 1
9. A quadratic equation ax2?2ax?b?0 has two real solutions . What is the average of these two solutions? (A) 1
10. Points A and B are on a circle of radius 5 and AB=6. Point C is the midpoint of the
(B) 2
(C)
b a1 36(B) x2?y2 (C) 2x2 (D) 2y2 (E) xy
(B)
1 13(C)
1 10(D)
51 (E)
536(B) 25 (C) 100 (D) 250 (E) 1000
(B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 16 (E) 17
(D)
2b (E) a2b?a
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minor arc AB. What is the length of the line segment AC? (A) 10
11. Suppose that ?n is a sequence of real numbers satisfying ?n?2?2?n?1??n, and that
?3?9 and ?6?128. What is ?5?
(B)
7 2(C) 14
(D) 15 (E) 4
(A) 40
(B) 53 (C) 68 (D) 88 (E) 104
12. Postman Pete has a pedometer to count his steps. The pedometer records up to 99999 steps, then flips over to 00000 on the next step. Pete plans to determine his mileage for a year. On January 1 Pete sets the pedometer to 00000. During the year, the pedometer flips from 99999 to 00000 forty-four times. On December 31 the pedometer reads 50000. Pete takes 1800 steps per mile. Which of the following is closest to the number of miles Pete walked during the year? (A) 2500
13. For each positive integer n, the mean of the first n terms of a sequence is n. What is the 2008th term of the sequence? (A) 2008
14. Triangle OAB has O=(0,0), B=(5,0), and A in the first quadrant. In addition, ∠ABO=90° and ∠AOB=30°. Suppose that OA is rotated 90°counterclockwise about O. What are the coordinates of the image of A?
(B) 4015
(C) 4016
(D) 4,030,056 (E) 4,032,064
(B) 3000
(C) 3500
(D) 4000 (E) 4500
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(A) (?
10,5) 3(B) (?53,5) 3(C) (3,5)
(D) (5103,5) (E) (3,5) 3315. How many right triangles have integer leg lengths a and b and a hypotenuse of length b+1, Where b<100? (A) 6
16. Two fair coins are to be tossed once. For each head that results, one fair die is to be rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the die rolls is odd? (Note that if no die is rolled, the sum is 0.) (A) 3/8
17. A poll shows that 70% of all voters approve of the mayor’s work. On three separate occasions a pollster selects a voter at random. What is the probability that on exactly one of these three occasions the voter approves of the mayor’s work? (A) 0.063
18. Bricklayer Brenda would take nine hours to build a chimney alone, and bricklayer Brandon would take 10 hours to build it alone. When they work together, they talk a lot, and their combined output decreases by 10 bricks per hour. Working together, they build the chimney in 5 hours. How many bricks are in the chimney? (A) 500
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(B) 900
(C) 950
(D) 1000 (E) 1900
(B) 0.189
(C) 0.233
(D) 0.333 (E) 0.441
(B) 1/2
(C) 43/72
(D) 5/8 (E) 2/3
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9 (E) 10
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19. A cylindrical tank with radius 4 feet and height 9 feet is lying on its side. The tank is filled with water to a depth of 2 feet. What is the volume of water, in cubic feet? (A) 24??362
(B) 24??243 (E) 48??363 (C) 36??363
(D) 36??242
20. The faces of a cubical die are marked with the numbers 1,2,2,3,3,4. The faces of another die are marked with the numbers 1,3,4,5,6, and 8. What is the probability that the sum of the top two numbers will be 5,7, or 9? (A)
21. Ten chairs are evenly spaced around a round table. Five married couples are to sit in the chairs with men and women alternating, and no one is to sit either next to or across from his/her spouse. How many seating arrangements are possible? (A) 240
22. Three red beads, two white beads, and one blue bead are placed in line in random order. What is the probability that no two neighboring beads are the same color? (A)
23. A rectangular floor measures a by b feet, where a and b are positive integers with b>a. An artist paints a rectangle on the floor with the sides of the rectangle parallel to the sides of the floor. The unpainted part of the floor forms a border of width 1 foot
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1 125 18 (B)
7 18(C)
113 (D) 184(E)
8 9 (B) 360 (C) 480 (D) 540 (E) 720
(B)
1 10 (C)
1 6(D)
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around the painted rectangle and occupies half of the area of the entire floor. How many possibilities are there for the ordered pair (a, b)? (A)1
24. Quadrilateral ABCD has AB=BC=CD, angle ABC=70 and angle BCD=170. What is the measure of angle BAD? (A) 75
25. Michael walks at the rate of 5 feet per second on a long straight path. Trash pails are located every 200feet along the path. A garbage truck travels at 10 feet per second in the same direction as Michael and stops for 20 seconds at each pail. As Michael passes a pail, he notices the truck ahead of him just leaving the next pail. How many times will Michael and the truck meet? (A) 4
(B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
(B) 80 (C) 85 (D) 90 (E) 95
(B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
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