2022 AMC 10A Problems

Problem 1

What is the value of

Problem 2
Mike cycled laps in minutes. Assume he cycled at a constant speed throughout. Approximately
how many laps did he complete in the first minutes?

Problem 3
The sum of three numbers is The first number is times the third number, and the third number
is less than the second number. What is the absolute value of the difference between the first and
second numbers?

Problem 4
In some countries, automobile fuel efficiency is measured in liters per kilometers while other
countries use miles per gallon. Suppose that 1 kilometer equals miles, and gallon equals liters.
Which of the following gives the fuel efficiency in liters per kilometers for a car that gets miles
per gallon?
Problem 5
Square has side length . Points , , , and each lie on a side of such
that is an equilateral convex hexagon with side length . What is ?

Problem 6

Which expression is equal to for

Problem 7
The least common multiple of a positive integer and is , and the greatest common divisor
of and is . What is the sum of the digits of ?

Problem 8
A data set consists of (not distinct) positive integers: , , , , , and . The average (arithmetic
mean) of the numbers equals a value in the data set. What is the sum of all possible values of ?
Problem 9
A rectangle is partitioned into regions as shown. Each region is to be painted a solid color - red,
orange, yellow, blue, or green - so that regions that touch are painted different colors, and colors can
be used more than once. How many different colorings are possible?

Problem 10
Daniel finds a rectangular index card and measures its diagonal to be centimeters. Daniel then cuts
out equal squares of side cm at two opposite corners of the index card and measures the distance
between the two closest vertices of these squares to be centimeters, as shown below. What is
the area of the original index card?

Problem 11

Ted mistakenly wrote as What is the sum of all real numbers for which

these two expressions have the same value?

Problem 12
On Halloween children walked into the principal's office asking for candy. They can be classified
into three types: Some always lie; some always tell the truth; and some alternately lie and tell the truth.
The alternaters arbitrarily choose their first response, either a lie or the truth, but each subsequent
statement has the opposite truth value from its predecessor. The principal asked everyone the same
three questions in this order.

"Are you a truth-teller?" The principal gave a piece of candy to each of the children who answered
yes.

"Are you an alternater?" The principal gave a piece of candy to each of the children who answered
yes.

"Are you a liar?" The principal gave a piece of candy to each of the children who answered yes.

How many pieces of candy in all did the principal give to the children who always tell the truth?

Problem 13
Let be a scalene triangle. Point lies on so that bisects The line
through perpendicular to intersects the line through parallel to at
point Suppose and What is

Problem 14
How many ways are there to split the integers through into pairs such that in each pair, the
greater number is at least times the lesser number?
Problem 15
Quadrilateral with side lengths is inscribed in a
circle. The area interior to the circle but exterior to the quadrilateral can be written in the

form where and are positive integers such that and have no common prime factor.

What is

Problem 16
The roots of the polynomial are the height, length, and width of a
rectangular box (right rectangular prism). A new rectangular box is formed by lengthening each edge
of the original box by units. What is the volume of the new box?

Problem 17
How many three-digit positive integers are there whose nonzero digits and satisfy

(The bar indicates repetition, thus is the infinite repeating

decimal )

Problem 18
Let be the transformation of the coordinate plane that first rotates the plane degrees
counterclockwise around the origin and then reflects the plane across the -axis. What is the least
positive integer such that performing the sequence of transformations returns the
point back to itself?
Problem 19
Define as the least common multiple of all the integers from to inclusive. There is a unique

integer such that What is the remainder when is divided by ?

Problem 20
A four-term sequence is formed by adding each term of a four-term arithmetic sequence of positive
integers to the corresponding term of a four-term geometric sequence of positive integers. The first
three terms of the resulting four-term sequence are , , and . What is the fourth term of this
sequence?

Problem 21
A bowl is formed by attaching four regular hexagons of side to a square of side . The edges of the
adjacent hexagons coincide, as shown in the figure. What is the area of the octagon obtained by
joining the top eight vertices of the four hexagons, situated on the rim of the bowl?
Problem 22
Suppose that cards numbered are arranged in a row. The task is to pick them up in
numerically increasing order, working repeatedly from left to right. In the example below,
cards are picked up on the first pass, and on the second pass, on the third
pass, on the fourth pass, and on the fifth pass. For how many of the possible
orderings of the cards will the cards be picked up in exactly two passes?

Problem 23
Isosceles trapezoid has parallel
sides and with and There is a point in the plane such

that and What is

Problem 24
How many strings of length formed from the digits , , , , are there such that for
each , at least of the digits are less than ? (For example, satisfies this
condition because it contains at least digit less than , at least digits less than , at least digits
less than , and at least digits less than . The string does not satisfy the condition because
it does not contain at least digits less than .)
Problem 25
Let , , and be squares that have vertices at lattice points (i.e., points whose coordinates are both
integers) in the coordinate plane, together with their interiors. The bottom edge of each square is on

the -axis. The left edge of and the right edge of are on the -axis, and contains as many

lattice points as does . The top two vertices of are in , and contains of the lattice points

contained in See the figure (not drawn to scale).

The fraction of lattice points in that are in is times the fraction of lattice points in that
are in . What is the minimum possible value of the edge length of plus the edge length
of plus the edge length of ?
 2022 AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
Define to be for all real numbers and What is the value of

Problem 2
In rhombus , point lies on segment so that , , and . What
is the area of ? (Note: The figure is not drawn to scale.)

Problem 3
How many three-digit positive integers have an odd number of even digits?

Problem 4
A donkey suffers an attack of hiccups and the first hiccup happens at one afternoon. Suppose
that the donkey hiccups regularly every seconds. At what time does the donkey’s th hiccup
occur?
Problem 5

What is the value of

Problem 6
How many of the first ten numbers of the sequence are prime numbers?

Problem 7
For how many values of the constant will the polynomial have two distinct integer
roots?

Problem 8
Consider the following sets of elements each:

How many of these sets contain exactly two multiples of ?

Problem 9

The sum can be expressed as , where and are positive

integers. What is ?

Problem 10
Camila writes down five positive integers. The unique mode of these integers is greater than their
median, and the median is greater than their arithmetic mean. What is the least possible value for the
mode?

Problem 11
All the high schools in a large school district are involved in a fundraiser selling T-shirts. Which of the
choices below is logically equivalent to the statement "No school bigger than Euclid HS sold more T-
shirts than Euclid HS"?

All schools smaller than Euclid HS sold fewer T-shirts than Euclid HS.

No school that sold more T-shirts than Euclid HS is bigger than Euclid HS.

All schools bigger than Euclid HS sold fewer T-shirts than Euclid HS.

All schools that sold fewer T-shirts than Euclid HS are smaller than Euclid HS.

All schools smaller than Euclid HS sold more T-shirts than Euclid HS.

Problem 12
A pair of fair -sided dice is rolled times. What is the least value of such that the probability that

the sum of the numbers face up on a roll equals at least once is greater than ?
Problem 13
The positive difference between a pair of primes is equal to , and the positive difference between the
cubes of the two primes is . What is the sum of the digits of the least prime that is greater than
those two primes?

Problem 14
Suppose that is a subset of such that the sum of any two (not necessarily
distinct) elements of is never an element of What is the maximum number of elements may
contain?

Problem 15
Let be the sum of the first terms of an arithmetic sequence that has a common difference of .

The quotient does not depend on . What is ?

Problem 16
The diagram below shows a rectangle with side lengths and and a square with side length . Three
vertices of the square lie on three different sides of the rectangle, as shown. What is the area of the
region inside both the square and the rectangle?
Problem 17
One of the following numbers is not divisible by any prime number less than Which is it?

Problem 18

Consider systems of three linear equations with unknowns , , and , where

each of the coefficients is either or and the system has a solution other than . For
example, one such system is with a
nonzero solution of . How many such systems of equations are there? (The
equations in a system need not be distinct, and two systems containing the same equations in a
different order are considered different.)

Problem 19
Each square in a grid is either filled or empty, and has up to eight adjacent neighboring squares,
where neighboring squares share either a side or a corner. The grid is transformed by the following
rules:

⚫ Any filled square with two or three filled neighbors remains filled.

⚫ Any empty square with exactly three filled neighbors becomes a filled square.

⚫ All other squares remain empty or become empty.

A sample transformation is shown in the figure below.

Suppose the grid has a border of empty squares surrounding a subgrid. How many initial
configurations will lead to a transformed grid consisting of a single filled square in the center after a
single transformation? (Rotations and reflections of the same configuration are considered different.)

Problem 20
Let be a rhombus with . Let be the midpoint of , and let be the point
on such that is perpendicular to . What is the degree measure of ?

Problem 21
Let be a polynomial with rational coefficients such that when is divided by the
polynomial , the remainder is , and when is divided by the polynomial ,
the remainder is . There is a unique polynomial of least degree with these two properties. What
is the sum of the squares of the coefficients of that polynomial?

Problem 22
Let be the set of circles in the coordinate plane that are tangent to each of the three circles with
equations , , and . What is the sum of the areas of all
circles in ?
Problem 23
Ant Amelia starts on the number line at and crawls in the following manner. For Amelia
chooses a time duration and an increment independently and uniformly at random from the
interval During the th step of the process, Amelia moves units in the positive direction,
using up minutes. If the total elapsed time has exceeded minute during the th step, she stops at
the end of that step; otherwise, she continues with the next step, taking at most steps in all. What is
the probability that Amelia’s position when she stops will be greater than ?

Problem 24

Consider functions that satisfy for all real numbers and . Of all such

functions that also satisfy the equation , what is the greatest possible value of

Problem 25
Let be a sequence of numbers, where each is either or . For each positive

integer , define Suppose for all . What is the value of the

sum
 2021 Fall AMC 10A Problems
Problem 1

What is the value of ?

Problem 2
Menkara has a index card. If she shortens the length of one side of this card by inch, the card
would have area square inches. What would the area of the card be in square inches if instead she
shortens the length of the other side by inch?

Problem 3
What is the maximum number of balls of clay of radius that can completely fit inside a cube of side
length assuming the balls can be reshaped but not compressed before they are packed in the cube?

Problem 4
Mr. Lopez has a choice of two routes to get to work. Route A is miles long, and his average speed
along this route is miles per hour. Route B is miles long, and his average speed along this route

is miles per hour, except for a -mile stretch in a school zone where his average speed is miles

per hour. By how many minutes is Route B quicker than Route A?

Problem 5
The six-digit number is prime for only one digit What is

Problem 6
Elmer the emu takes equal strides to walk between consecutive telephone poles on a rural road.
Oscar the ostrich can cover the same distance in equal leaps. The telephone poles are evenly
spaced, and the st pole along this road is exactly one mile ( feet) from the first pole. How much
longer, in feet, is Oscar's leap than Elmer's stride?

Problem 7
As shown in the figure below, point lies on the opposite half-plane determined by line from
point so that . Point lies on so that , and is a square.
What is the degree measure of ?
Problem 8
A two-digit positive integer is said to be if it is equal to the sum of its nonzero tens digit and
the square of its units digit. How many two-digit positive integers are cuddly?

Problem 9
When a certain unfair die is rolled, an even number is times as likely to appear as an odd number.
The die is rolled twice. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is even?

Problem 10
A school has students and teachers. In the first period, each student is taking one class, and
each teacher is teaching one class. The enrollments in the classes are and . Let be
the average value obtained if a teacher is picked at random and the number of students in their class
is noted. Let be the average value obtained if a student was picked at random and the number of
students in their class, including the student, is noted. What is ?

Problem 11
Emily sees a ship traveling at a constant speed along a straight section of a river. She walks parallel to
the riverbank at a uniform rate faster than the ship. She counts equal steps walking from the back
of the ship to the front. Walking in the opposite direction, she counts steps of the same size from
the front of the ship to the back. In terms of Emily's equal steps, what is the length of the ship?
Problem 12
The base-nine representation of the number is What is the remainder
when is divided by

Problem 13
Each of balls is randomly and independently painted either black or white with equal probability.
What is the probability that every ball is different in color from more than half of the other balls?

Problem 14
How many ordered pairs of real numbers satisfy the following system of equations?

Problem 15
Isosceles triangle has , and a circle with radius is tangent to
line at and to line at . What is the area of the circle that passes through vertices , ,
and

Problem 16
The graph of is symmetric about which of the following? (Here is the
greatest integer not exceeding .)
Problem 17
An architect is building a structure that will place vertical pillars at the vertices of regular
hexagon , which is lying horizontally on the ground. The six pillars will hold up a flat solar
panel that will not be parallel to the ground. The heights of pillars at , , and are , ,
and meters, respectively. What is the height, in meters, of the pillar at ?

Problem 18
A farmer's rectangular field is partitioned into by grid of rectangular sections as shown in the
figure. In each section the farmer will plant one crop: corn, wheat, soybeans, or potatoes. The farmer
does not want to grow corn and wheat in any two sections that share a border, and the farmer does
not want to grow soybeans and potatoes in any two sections that share a border. Given these
restrictions, in how many ways can the farmer choose crops to plant in each of the four sections of the
field?

Problem 19
A disk of radius rolls all the way around the inside of a square of side length and sweeps out a
region of area . A second disk of radius rolls all the way around the outside of the same square and

sweeps out a region of area . The value of can be written as , where , and are

positive integers and and are relatively prime. What is ?

Problem 20
How many ordered pairs of positive integers exist where
both and do not have distinct, real solutions?

Problem 21
Each of the balls is tossed independently and at random into one of the bins. Let be the
probability that some bin ends up with balls, another with balls, and the other three with balls

each. Let be the probability that every bin ends up with balls. What is ?

Problem 22
Inside a right circular cone with base radius and height are three congruent spheres with radius .
Each sphere is tangent to the other two spheres and also tangent to the base and side of the cone.
What is ?

Problem 23
For each positive integer , let be twice the number of positive integer divisors of , and
for , let . For how many values of is

Problem 24
Each of the edges of a cube is labeled or . Two labelings are considered different even if one can
be obtained from the other by a sequence of one or more rotations and/or reflections. For how many
such labelings is the sum of the labels on the edges of each of the faces of the cube equal to ?
Problem 25
A quadratic polynomial with real coefficients and leading coefficient is called if the
equation is satisfied by exactly three real numbers. Among all the disrespectful quadratic
polynomials, there is a unique such polynomial for which the sum of the roots is maximized.
What is ?
 2021 Fall AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
What is the value of

Problem 2
What is the area of the shaded figure shown below?

Problem 3

The expression is equal to the fraction in which and are positive integers whose

greatest common divisor is . What is

Problem 4
At noon on a certain day, Minneapolis is degrees warmer than St. Louis. At the temperature in
Minneapolis has fallen by degrees while the temperature in St. Louis has risen by degrees, at which
time the temperatures in the two cities differ by degrees. What is the product of all possible values
of
Problem 5

Let . Which of the following is equal to

Problem 6
The least positive integer with exactly distinct positive divisors can be written in the form ,
where and are integers and is not a divisor of . What is

Problem 7

Call a fraction , not necessarily in the simplest form special if and are positive integers whose

sum is . How many distinct integers can be written as the sum of two, not necessarily different,
special fractions?

Problem 8
The largest prime factor of is because . What is the sum of the digits of the
greatest prime number that is a divisor of ?

Problem 9

The knights in a certain kingdom come in two colors. of them are red, and the rest are blue.

Furthermore, of the knights are magical, and the fraction of red knights who are magical is times

the fraction of blue knights who are magical. What fraction of red knights are magical?
Problem 10
Forty slips of paper numbered to are placed in a hat. Alice and Bob each draw one number from
the hat without replacement, keeping their numbers hidden from each other. Alice says, "I can't tell who
has the larger number." Then Bob says, "I know who has the larger number." Alice says, "You do? Is
your number prime?" Bob replies, "Yes." Alice says, "In that case, if I multiply your number by and
add my number, the result is a perfect square. " What is the sum of the two numbers drawn from the
hat?

Problem 11
A regular hexagon of side length is inscribed in a circle. Each minor arc of the circle determined by a
side of the hexagon is reflected over that side. What is the area of the region bounded by
these reflected arcs?

Problem 12
Which of the following conditions is sufficient to guarantee that integers , , and satisfy the
equation

and

and

and

and
Problem 13
A square with side length is inscribed in an isosceles triangle with one side of the square along the
base of the triangle. A square with side length has two vertices on the other square and the other two
on sides of the triangle, as shown. What is the area of the triangle?

Problem 14
Una rolls standard -sided dice simultaneously and calculates the product of the numbers
obtained. What is the probability that the product is divisible by

Problem 15
In square , points and lie on and , respectively.
Segments and intersect at right angles at , with and . What is the area
of the square?
Problem 16
Five balls are arranged around a circle. Chris chooses two adjacent balls at random and interchanges
them. Then Silva does the same, with her choice of adjacent balls to interchange being independent of
Chris's. What is the expected number of balls that occupy their original positions after these two
successive transpositions?

Problem 17
Distinct lines and lie in the -plane. They intersect at the origin. Point is reflected
about line to point , and then is reflected about line to point . The equation of
line is , and the coordinates of are . What is the equation of line

Problem 18
Three identical square sheets of paper each with side length are stacked on top of each other. The
middle sheet is rotated clockwise about its center and the top sheet is rotated
clockwise about its center, resulting in the -sided polygon shown in the figure below. The area of
this polygon can be expressed in the form , where , , and are positive integers, and is
not divisible by the square of any prime. What is
Problem 19
Let be the positive integer ,a -digit number where each digit is a . Let be the
leading digit of the th root of . What is

Problem 20
In a particular game, each of players rolls a standard -sided die. The winner is the player who rolls
the highest number. If there is a tie for the highest roll, those involved in the tie will roll again and this
process will continue until one player wins. Hugo is one of the players in this game. What is the
probability that Hugo's first roll was a given that he won the game?

Problem 21
Regular polygons with , , , and sides are inscribed in the same circle. No two of the polygons
share a vertex, and no three of their sides intersect at a common point. At how many points inside the
circle do two of their sides intersect?

Problem 22
For each integer , let be the sum of all products , where and are integers
and . What is the sum of the 10 least values of such that is divisible by ?
Problem 23
Each of the sides and the diagonals of a regular pentagon are randomly and independently
colored red or blue with equal probability. What is the probability that there will be a triangle whose
vertices are among the vertices of the pentagon such that all of its sides have the same color?

Problem 24
A cube is constructed from white unit cubes and blue unit cubes. How many different ways are
there to construct the cube using these smaller cubes? (Two constructions are considered
the same if one can be rotated to match the other.)

Problem 25
A rectangle with side lengths and a square with side length and a rectangle are inscribed
inside a larger square as shown. The sum of all possible values for the area of can be written in the
form , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is
 2021 AMC 10A Problems
Problem 1
What is the value of

Problem 2
Portia's high school has times as many students as Lara's high school. The two high schools have a
total of students. How many students does Portia's high school have?

Problem 3
The sum of two natural numbers is . One of the two numbers is divisible by . If the units digit
of that number is erased, the other number is obtained. What is the difference of these two numbers?

Problem 4
A cart rolls down a hill, travelling inches the first second and accelerating so that during each
successive -second time interval, it travels inches more than during the previous -second interval.
The cart takes seconds to reach the bottom of the hill. How far, in inches, does it travel?

Problem 5
The quiz scores of a class with students have a mean of . The mean of a collection of of
these quiz scores is . What is the mean of the remaining quiz scores in terms of ?
Problem 6
Chantal and Jean start hiking from a trailhead toward a fire tower. Jean is wearing a heavy backpack
and walks slower. Chantal starts walking at miles per hour. Halfway to the tower, the trail becomes
really steep, and Chantal slows down to miles per hour. After reaching the tower, she immediately
turns around and descends the steep part of the trail at miles per hour. She meets Jean at the
halfway point. What was Jean's average speed, in miles per hour, until they meet?

Problem 7
Tom has a collection of snakes, of which are purple and of which are happy. He observes that

⚫ all of his happy snakes can add,

⚫ none of his purple snakes can subtract, and

⚫ all of his snakes that can't subtract also can't add.

Which of these conclusions can be drawn about Tom's snakes?

Purple snakes can add.

Purple snakes are happy.

Snakes that can add are purple.

Happy snakes are not purple.

Happy snakes can't subtract.

Problem 8
When a student multiplied the number by the repeating
decimal, where and are digits, he did not notice the notation and just
multiplied times Later he found that his answer is less than the correct answer. What is
the -digit number
Problem 9
What is the least possible value of for real numbers and ?

Problem 10
Which of the following is equivalent to

Problem 11
For which of the following integers is the base- number not divisible by ?

Problem 12
Two right circular cones with vertices facing down as shown in the figure below contain the same
amount of liquid. The radii of the tops of the liquid surfaces are and . Into each cone is
dropped a spherical marble of radius , which sinks to the bottom and is completely submerged
without spilling any liquid. What is the ratio of the rise of the liquid level in the narrow cone to the rise
of the liquid level in the wide cone?
Problem 13
What is the volume of tetrahedron with edge
lengths , , , , , and ?

Problem 14
All the roots of the polynomial are positive integers,
possibly repeated. What is the value of ?

Problem 15
Values for and are to be selected from without replacement (i.e. no two
letters have the same value). How many ways are there to make such choices so that the two
curves and intersect? (The order in which the curves are listed does not
matter; for example, the choices is considered the same as the
choices )

Problem 16
In the following list of numbers, the integer appears times in the list for .
What is the median of the numbers in this list?
Problem 17
Trapezoid has , , and . Let be the intersection of
the diagonals and , and let be the midpoint of . Given that , the
length can be written in the form , where and are positive integers and is not divisible
by the square of any prime. What is ?

Problem 18
Let be a function defined on the set of positive rational numbers with the property
that for all positive rational numbers and . Furthermore, suppose
that also has the property that for every prime number . For which of the following
numbers is ?

Problem 19
The area of the region bounded by the graph of is ,
where and are integers. What is ?

Problem 20
In how many ways can the sequence be rearranged so that no three consecutive terms are
increasing and no three consecutive terms are decreasing?
Problem 21
Let be an equiangular hexagon. The lines and determine a triangle with
area , and the lines and determine a triangle with area . The perimeter of
hexagon can be expressed as , where and are positive integers
and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is ?

Problem 22
Hiram's algebra notes are pages long and are printed on sheets of paper; the first sheet contains
pages and , the second sheet contains pages and , and so on. One day he leaves his notes on the
table before leaving for lunch, and his roommate decides to borrow some pages from the middle of the
notes. When Hiram comes back, he discovers that his roommate has taken a consecutive set of
sheets from the notes and that the average (mean) of the page numbers on all remaining sheets is
exactly . How many sheets were borrowed?

Problem 23
Frieda the frog begins a sequence of hops on a grid of squares, moving one square on each hop
and choosing at random the direction of each hop-up, down, left, or right. She does not hop diagonally.
When the direction of a hop would take Frieda off the grid, she "wraps around" and jumps to the
opposite edge. For example if Frieda begins in the center square and makes two hops "up", the first
hop would place her in the top row middle square, and the second hop would cause Frieda to jump to
the opposite edge, landing in the bottom row middle square. Suppose Frieda starts from the center
square, makes at most four hops at random, and stops hopping if she lands on a corner square. What
is the probability that she reaches a corner square on one of the four hops?
Problem 24
The interior of a quadrilateral is bounded by the graphs of and ,
where is a positive real number. What is the area of this region in terms of , valid for all ?

Problem 25
How many ways are there to place indistinguishable red chips, indistinguishable blue chips,
and indistinguishable green chips in the squares of a grid so that no two chips of the same
color are directly adjacent to each other, either vertically or horizontally?
 2021 AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
How many integer values of satisfy ?

Problem 2

What is the value of ?

Problem 3
In an after-school program for juniors and seniors, there is a debate team with an equal number of
students from each class on the team. Among the students in the program, of the juniors
and of the seniors are on the debate team. How many juniors are in the program?

Problem 4
At a math contest, students are wearing blue shirts, and another students are wearing yellow
shirts. The students are assigned into pairs. In exactly of these pairs, both students are
wearing blue shirts. In how many pairs are both students wearing yellow shirts?

Problem 5
The ages of Jonie's four cousins are distinct single-digit positive integers. Two of the cousins' ages
multiplied together give , while the other two multiply to . What is the sum of the ages of Jonie's
four cousins?
Problem 6
Ms. Blackwell gives an exam to two classes. The mean of the scores of the students in the morning
class is , and the afternoon class's mean score is . The ratio of the number of students in the

morning class to the number of students in the afternoon class is . What is the mean of the scores of

all the students?

Problem 7
In a plane, four circles with radii and are tangent to line at the same point but they may
be on either side of . Region consists of all the points that lie inside exactly one of the four circles.
What is the maximum possible area of region ?

Problem 8
Mr. Zhou places all the integers from to into a by grid. He places in the middle square
(eighth row and eighth column) and places other numbers one by one clockwise, as shown in part in
the diagram below. What is the sum of the greatest number and the least number that appear in the
second row from the top?
Problem 9
The point in the -plane is first rotated counterclockwise by around the point and
then reflected about the line . The image of after these two transformations is at .
What is

Problem 10
An inverted cone with base radius and height is full of water. The water is poured into a
tall cylinder whose horizontal base has a radius of . What is the height in centimeters of the
water in the cylinder?

Problem 11
Grandma has just finished baking a large rectangular pan of brownies. She is planning to make
rectangular pieces of equal size and shape, with straight cuts parallel to the sides of the pan. Each cut
must be made entirely across the pan. Grandma wants to make the same number of interior pieces as
pieces along the perimeter of the pan. What is the greatest possible number of brownies she can
produce?

Problem 12
Let . What is the ratio of the sum of the odd divisors of to the sum of the
even divisors of ?
Problem 13
Let be a positive integer and be a digit such that the value of the numeral in
base equals , and the value of the numeral in base equals the value of the
numeral in base six. What is

Problem 14
Three equally spaced parallel lines intersect a circle, creating three chords of lengths and .
What is the distance between two adjacent parallel lines?

Problem 15

The real number satisfies the equation . What is the value of

Problem 16
Call a positive integer an uphill integer if every digit is strictly greater than the previous digit. For
example, , , and are all uphill integers, but , , and are not. How many uphill
integers are divisible by ?
Problem 17
Ravon, Oscar, Aditi, Tyrone, and Kim play a card game. Each person is given cards out of a set
of cards numbered The score of a player is the sum of the numbers of their cards.
The scores of the players are as follows: Ravon-- Oscar-- Aditi-- Tyrone-- Kim-- Which of
the following statements is true?

Problem 18
A fair -sided die is repeatedly rolled until an odd number appears. What is the probability that every
even number appears at least once before the first occurrence of an odd number?

Problem 19
Suppose that is a finite set of positive integers. If the greatest integer in is removed from , then
the average value (arithmetic mean) of the integers remaining is . If the least integer in is also
removed, then the average value of the integers remaining is . If the greatest integer is then returned
to the set, the average value of the integers rises to . The greatest integer in the original
set is greater than the least integer in . What is the average value of all the integers in the
set ?
Problem 20
The figure is constructed from line segments, each of which has length . The area of
pentagon can be written is , where and are positive integers. What
is

Problem 21
A square piece of paper has side length and vertices and in that order. As shown in the
figure, the paper is folded so that vertex meets edge at point , and edge at point .

Suppose that . What is the perimeter of triangle

Problem 22
Ang, Ben, and Jasmin each have blocks, colored red, blue, yellow, white, and green; and there
are empty boxes. Each of the people randomly and independently of the other two people places one
of their blocks into each box. The probability that at least one box receives blocks all of the same

color is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is

Problem 23
A square with side length is colored white except for black isosceles right triangular regions with
legs of length in each corner of the square and a black diamond with side length in the center
of the square, as shown in the diagram. A circular coin with diameter is dropped onto the square and
lands in a random location where the coin is completely contained within the square. The probability

that the coin will cover part of the black region of the square can be written as ,

where and are positive integers. What is ?

Problem 24
Arjun and Beth play a game in which they take turns removing one brick or two adjacent bricks from
one "wall" among a set of several walls of bricks, with gaps possibly creating new walls. The walls are
one brick tall. For example, a set of walls of sizes and can be changed into any of the following by
one move: or

Arjun plays first, and the player who removes the last brick wins. For which starting configuration is
there a strategy that guarantees a win for Beth?

Problem 25
Let be the set of lattice points in the coordinate plane, both of whose coordinates are integers
between and , inclusive. Exactly points in lie on or below a line with equation . The

possible values of lie in an interval of length , where and are relatively prime positive integers.

What is
 2020 AMC 10A Problems
Problem 1
What value of satisfies

Problem 2
The numbers and have an average (arithmetic mean) of . What is the average
of and ?

Problem 3
Assuming , , and , what is the value in simplest form of the following expression?

Problem 4
A driver travels for hours at miles per hour, during which her car gets miles per gallon of
gasoline. She is paid per mile, and her only expense is gasoline at per gallon. What is her
net rate of pay, in dollars per hour, after this expense?

Problem 5
What is the sum of all real numbers for which
Problem 6
How many -digit positive integers (that is, integers between and , inclusive) having only
even digits are divisible by

Problem 7
The integers from to inclusive, can be arranged to form a -by- square in which the sum
of the numbers in each row, the sum of the numbers in each column, and the sum of the numbers
along each of the main diagonals are all the same. What is the value of this common sum?

Problem 8
What is the value of

Problem 9
A single bench section at a school event can hold either adults or children. When bench
sections are connected end to end, an equal number of adults and children seated together will occupy
all the bench space. What is the least possible positive integer value of

Problem 10
Seven cubes, whose volumes are , , , , , , and cubic units, are stacked vertically to
form a tower in which the volumes of the cubes decrease from bottom to top. Except for the bottom
cube, the bottom face of each cube lies completely on top of the cube below it. What is the total
surface area of the tower (including the bottom) in square units?
Problem 11
What is the median of the following list of numbers

Problem 12
Triangle is isosceles with . Medians and are perpendicular to each
other, and . What is the area of

Problem 13
A frog sitting at the point begins a sequence of jumps, where each jump is parallel to one of the
coordinate axes and has length , and the direction of each jump (up, down, right, or left) is chosen
independently at random. The sequence ends when the frog reaches a side of the square with
vertices and . What is the probability that the sequence of jumps ends on a
vertical side of the square?

Problem 14

Real numbers and satisfy and . What is the value of

Problem 15
A positive integer divisor of is chosen at random. The probability that the divisor chosen is a

perfect square can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What

is ?

Problem 16
A point is chosen at random within the square in the coordinate plane whose vertices
are and . The probability that the point is within units of a
lattice point is . (A point is a lattice point if and are both integers.) What is to the nearest
tenth?

Problem 17
Define How many integers are there such
that ?

Problem 18
Let be an ordered quadruple of not necessarily distinct integers, each one of them in the
set For how many such quadruples is it true that is odd? (For
example, is one such quadruple, because is odd.)
Problem 19
As shown in the figure below, a regular dodecahedron (the polyhedron consisting of congruent
regular pentagonal faces) floats in empty space with two horizontal faces. Note that there is a ring of
five slanted faces adjacent to the top face, and a ring of five slanted faces adjacent to the bottom face.
How many ways are there to move from the top face to the bottom face via a sequence of adjacent
faces so that each face is visited at most once and moves are not permitted from the bottom ring to
the top ring?

Problem 20
Quadrilateral satisfies and Diagonals
and intersect at point and What is the area of quadrilateral

Problem 21
There exists a unique strictly increasing sequence of nonnegative integers such

that What is
Problem 22

For how many positive integers is not divisible by ? (Recall

that is the greatest integer less than or equal to .)

Problem 23
Let be the triangle in the coordinate plane with vertices and Consider the
following five isometries (rigid transformations) of the plane: rotations
of and counterclockwise around the origin, reflection across the -axis, and reflection
across the -axis. How many of the sequences of three of these transformations (not necessarily
distinct) will return to its original position? (For example, a rotation, followed by a reflection
across the -axis, followed by a reflection across the -axis will return to its original position, but
a rotation, followed by a reflection across the -axis, followed by another reflection across the -
axis will not return to its original position.)

Problem 24
Let be the least positive integer greater than for which
What is the sum of the digits of ?

Problem 25
Jason rolls three fair standard six-sided dice. Then he looks at the rolls and chooses a subset of the
dice (possibly empty, possibly all three dice) to reroll. After rerolling, he wins if and only if the sum of
the numbers face up on the three dice is exactly Jason always plays to optimize his chances of
winning. What is the probability that he chooses to reroll exactly two of the dice?
 2020 AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
What is the value of

Problem 2
Carl has cubes each having side length , and Kate has cubes each having side length . What is
the total volume of these cubes?

Problem 3
The ratio of to is , the ratio of to is , and the ratio of to is . What is the ratio
of to

Problem 4
The acute angles of a right triangle are and , where and both and are prime numbers.
What is the least possible value of ?

Problem 5
How many distinguishable arrangements are there of 1 brown tile, 1 purple tile, 2 green tiles, and 3
yellow tiles in a row from left to right? (Tiles of the same color are indistinguishable.)
Problem 6
Driving along a highway, Megan noticed that her odometer showed (miles). This number is a
palindrome-it reads the same forward and backward. Then hours later, the odometer displayed the
next higher palindrome. What was her average speed, in miles per hour, during this -hour period?

Problem 7
How many positive even multiples of less than are perfect squares?

Problem 8
Points and lie in a plane with . How many locations for point in this plane are there
such that the triangle with vertices , , and is a right triangle with area square units?

Problem 9
For how many ordered pairs of integers satisfy the equation
Problem 10
A three-quarter sector of a circle of radius inches along with its interior is the 2-D net that forms the
lateral surface area of a right circular cone by taping together along the two radii shown. What is the
volume of the cone in cubic inches?

Problem 11
Ms. Carr asks her students to select 5 of the 10 books to read on her classroom reading list. Harold
randomly selects 5 books from this list, and Betty does the same. What is the probability that there are
exactly 2 books that they both select?

Problem 12

The decimal representation of consists of a string of zeros after the decimal point, followed by

a and then several more digits. How many zeros are in that initial string of zeros after the decimal
point?
Problem 13
Andy the Ant lives on a coordinate plane and is currently at facing east (that is, in the
positive -direction). Andy moves unit and then turns left. From there, Andy moves units (north)
and then turns left. He then moves units (west) and again turns left. Andy continues his
progress, increasing his distance each time by unit and always turning left. What is the location of
the point at which Andy makes the th left turn?

Problem 14
As shown in the figure below, six semicircles lie in the interior of a regular hexagon with side length 2
so that the diameters of the semicircles coincide with the sides of the hexagon. What is the area of the
shaded region — inside the hexagon but outside all of the semicircles?

Problem 15
Steve wrote the digits , , , , and in order repeatedly from left to right, forming a list
of digits, beginning He then erased every third digit from his list (that is,
the rd, th, th, digits from the left), then erased every fourth digit from the resulting list (that is,
the th, th, th, digits from the left in what remained), and then erased every fifth digit from what
remained at that point. What is the sum of the three digits that were then in the
positions ?
Problem 16
Bela and Jenn play the following game on the closed interval of the real number line, where is a
fixed integer greater than . They take turns playing, with Bela going first. At his first turn, Bela
chooses any real number in the interval . Thereafter, the player whose turn it is chooses a real
number that is more than one unit away from all numbers previously chosen by either player. A player
unable to choose such a number loses. Using optimal strategy, which player will win the game?

Problem 17
There are people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each person knows exactly of the
other people: the people standing next to her or him, as well as the person directly across the circle.
How many ways are there for the people to split up into pairs so that the members of each pair
know each other?

Problem 18
An urn contains one red ball and one blue ball. A box of extra red and blue balls lie nearby. George
performs the following operation four times: he draws a ball from the urn at random and then takes a
ball of the same color from the box and returns those two matching balls to the urn. After the four
iterations the urn contains six balls. What is the probability that the urn contains three balls of each
color?

Problem 19
In a certain card game, a player is dealt a hand of cards from a deck of distinct cards. The
number of distinct (unordered) hands that can be dealt to the player can be written
as . What is the digit ?
Problem 20
Let be a right rectangular prism (box) with edges lengths and , together with its interior. For
real , let be the set of points in -dimensional space that lie within a distance of some
point in . The volume of can be expressed as , where and are

positive real numbers. What is

Problem 21
In square , points and lie on and , respectively, so
that Points and lie on and , respectively, and points and lie on so
that and . See the figure below. Triangle , quadrilateral ,
quadrilateral , and pentagon each has area What is ?

Problem 22
What is the remainder when is divided by ?
Problem 23
Square in the coordinate plane has vertices at the
points and Consider the following four transformations:

a rotation of counterclockwise around the origin;

a rotation of clockwise around the origin;

a reflection across the -axis; and

a reflection across the -axis.

Each of these transformations maps the squares onto itself, but the positions of the labeled vertices
will change. For example, applying and then would send the vertex at to and
would send the vertex at to itself. How many sequences of transformations chosen
from will send all of the labeled vertices back to their original positions? (For
example, is one sequence of transformations that will send the vertices back to their
original positions.)

Problem 24

How many positive integers satisfy (Recall that is the greatest integer not

exceeding .)

Problem 25
Let denote the number of ways of writing the positive integer as a product

where , the are integers strictly greater than , and the order in which the factors are listed
matters (that is, two representations that differ only in the order of the factors are counted as distinct).
For example, the number can be written as , , and , so . What is ?
 2019 AMC 10A Problems
Problem 1

What is the value of

Problem 2
What is the hundreds digit of

Problem 3
Ana and Bonita are born on the same date in different years, years apart. Last year Ana was times
as old as Bonita. This year Ana's age is the square of Bonita's age. What is

Problem 4
A box contains red balls, green balls, yellow balls, blue balls, white balls, and black
balls. What is the minimum number of balls that must be drawn from the box without replacement to
guarantee that at least balls of a single color will be drawn

Problem 5
What is the greatest number of consecutive integers whose sum is
Problem 6
For how many of the following types of quadrilaterals does there exist a point in the plane of the
quadrilateral that is equidistant from all four vertices of the quadrilateral?

⚫ a square

⚫ a rectangle that is not a square

⚫ a rhombus that is not a square

⚫ a parallelogram that is not a rectangle or a rhombus

⚫ an isosceles trapezoid that is not a parallelogram

Problem 7

Two lines with slopes and intersect at . What is the area of the triangle enclosed by these two

lines and the line

Problem 8
The figure below shows line with a regular, infinite, recurring pattern of squares and line segments.

How many of the following four kinds of rigid motion transformations of the plane in which this figure
is drawn, other than the identity transformation, will transform this figure into itself?

⚫ some rotation around a point of line

⚫ some translation in the direction parallel to line

⚫ the reflection across line

⚫ some reflection across a line perpendicular to line

Problem 9
What is the greatest three-digit positive integer for which the sum of the first positive integers
is a divisor of the product of the first positive integers?

Problem 10
A rectangular floor that is feet wide and feet long is tiled with one-foot square tiles. A bug
walks from one corner to the opposite corner in a straight line. Including the first and the last tile, how
many tiles does the bug visit?

Problem 11
How many positive integer divisors of are perfect squares or perfect cubes (or both)?

Problem 12
Melanie computes the mean , the median , and the modes of the values that are the dates in
the months of . Thus her data consists of , ,..., , , , and .
Let be the median of the modes. Which of the following statements is true?

Problem 13
Let be an isosceles triangle with and . Construct the circle with
diameter , and let and be the other intersection points of the circle with the
sides and , respectively. Let be the intersection of the diagonals of the
quadrilateral . What is the degree measure of
Problem 14
For a set of four distinct lines in a plane, there are exactly distinct points that lie on two or more of
the lines. What is the sum of all possible values of ?

Problem 15

A sequence of numbers is defined recursively by , , and for

all . Then can be written as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What

is

Problem 16
The figure below shows circles of radius within a larger circle. All the intersections occur at points
of tangency. What is the area of the region, shaded in the figure, inside the larger circle but outside all
the circles of radius
Problem 17
A child builds towers using identically shaped cubes of different colors. How many different towers
with a height cubes can the child build with red cubes, blue cubes, and green cubes? (One cube
will be left out.)

Problem 18
For some positive integer , the repeating base- representation of the (base-ten)

fraction is . What is ?

Problem 19
What is the least possible value of where is a real number?

Problem 20
The numbers are randomly placed into the squares of a grid. Each square gets one
number, and each of the numbers is used once. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers in
each row and each column is odd?

Problem 21
A sphere with center has radius 6. A triangle with sides of length , , and is situated in space
so that each of its sides are tangent to the sphere. What is the distance between and the plane
determined by the triangle?
Problem 22
Real numbers between 0 and 1, inclusive, are chosen in the following manner. A fair coin is flipped. If it
lands heads, then it is flipped again and the chosen number is 0 if the second flip is heads and 1 if the
second flip is tails. On the other hand, if the first coin flip is tails, then the number is chosen uniformly
at random from the closed interval . Two random numbers and are chosen independently in
this manner. What is the probability that ?

Problem 23
Travis has to babysit the terrible Thompson triplets. Knowing that they love big numbers, Travis
devises a counting game for them. First Tadd will say the number , then Todd must say the next two
numbers ( and ), then Tucker must say the next three numbers ( , , ), then Tadd must say the next
four numbers ( , , , ), and the process continues to rotate through the three children in order, each
saying one more number than the previous child did, until the number is reached. What is
the th number said by Tadd?

Problem 24
Let , , and be the distinct roots of the polynomial . It is given that there

exist real numbers , , and such that for

all . What is ?

Problem 25

For how many integers between and , inclusive, is an integer? (Recall that .)
 2019 AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
Alicia had two containers. The first was full of water and the second was empty. She poured all the

water from the first container into the second container, at which point the second container was full
of water. What is the ratio of the volume of the first container to the volume of the second container?

Problem 2
Consider the statement, "If is not prime, then is prime." Which of the following values of is a
counterexample to this statement?

Problem 3
In a high school with students, of the seniors play a musical instrument, while of the
non-seniors do not play a musical instrument. In all, of the students do not play a musical
instrument. How many non-seniors play a musical instrument?

Problem 4
All lines with equation such that form an arithmetic progression pass through a
common point. What are the coordinates of that point?
Problem 5
Triangle lies in the first quadrant. Points , , and are reflected across the line to
points , , and , respectively. Assume that none of the vertices of the triangle lie on the
line . Which of the following statements is not always true?

Triangle lies in the first quadrant.

Triangles and have the same area.

The slope of line is .

The slopes of lines and are the same.

Lines and are perpendicular to each other.

Problem 6
There is a real such that . What is the sum of the digits of ?

Problem 7
Each piece of candy in a store costs a whole number of cents. Casper has exactly enough money to
buy either pieces of red candy, pieces of green candy, pieces of blue candy, or pieces of
purple candy. A piece of purple candy costs cents. What is the smallest possible value of ?
Problem 8
The figure below shows a square and four equilateral triangles, with each triangle having a side lying
on a side of the square, such that each triangle has side length and the third vertices of the triangles
meet at the center of the square. The region inside the square but outside the triangles is shaded.
What is the area of the shaded region?

Problem 9
The function is defined by for all real numbers , where denotes the
greatest integer less than or equal to the real number . What is the range of ?

Problem 10
In a given plane, points and are units apart. How many points are there in the plane such
that the perimeter of is units and the area of is square units?
Problem 11
Two jars each contain the same number of marbles, and every marble is either blue or green. In
Jar the ratio of blue to green marbles is , and the ratio of blue to green marbles in Jar is .
There are green marbles in all. How many more blue marbles are in Jar than in Jar ?

Problem 12
What is the greatest possible sum of the digits in the base-seven representation of a positive integer
less than ?

Problem 13
What is the sum of all real numbers for which the median of the numbers and is equal
to the mean of those five numbers?

Problem 14
The base-ten representation for is , where , , and denote
digits that are not given. What is ?

Problem 15
Right triangles and have areas 1 and 2, respectively. A side of is congruent to a side of , and
a different side of is congruent to a different side of . What is the square of the product of the
other (third) sides of and ?
Problem 16
In with a right angle at point lies in the interior of and point lies in the interior
of so that and the ratio What is the
ratio

Problem 17
A red ball and a green ball are randomly and independently tossed into bins numbered with positive
integers so that for each ball, the probability that it is tossed into
bin is for What is the probability that the red ball is tossed into a higher-
numbered bin than the green ball?

Problem 18
Henry decides one morning to do a workout, and he walks of the way from his home to his gym. The

gym is kilometers away from Henry's home. At that point, he changes his mind and walks of the
way from where he is back toward home. When he reaches that point, he changes his mind again and
walks of the distance from there back toward the gym. If Henry keeps changing his mind when he

has walked of the distance toward either the gym or home from the point where he last changed his
mind, he will get very close to walking back and forth between a point kilometers from home and a
point kilometers from home. What is ?

Problem 19
Let be the set of all positive integer divisors of How many numbers are the product of two
distinct elements of
Problem 20
As shown in the figure, line segment is trisected by points and so

that Three semicircles of radius and have their

diameters on and are tangent to line at and respectively. A circle of radius has its
center on The area of the region inside the circle but outside the three semicircles, shaded in the

figure, can be expressed in the form where and are positive integers

and and are relatively prime. What is ?

Problem 21
Debra flips a fair coin repeatedly, keeping track of how many heads and how many tails she has seen
in total, until she gets either two heads in a row or two tails in a row, at which point she stops flipping.
What is the probability that she gets two heads in a row but she sees a second tail before she sees a
second head?
Problem 22
Raashan, Sylvia, and Ted play the following game. Each starts with . A bell rings every seconds,
at which time each of the players who currently have money simultaneously chooses one of the other
two players independently and at random and gives to that player. What is the probability that after
the bell has rung times, each player will have ? (For example, Raashan and Ted may each
decide to give to Sylvia, and Sylvia may decide to give her dollar to Ted, at which point Raashan will
have , Sylvia will have , and Ted will have , and that is the end of the first round of play. In the
second round Rashaan has no money to give, but Sylvia and Ted might choose each other to give
their to, and the holdings will be the same at the end of the second round.)

Problem 23
Points and lie on circle in the plane. Suppose that the tangent lines
to at and intersect at a point on the -axis. What is the area of ?

Problem 24

Define a sequence recursively by and for all nonnegative

integers Let be the least positive integer such that In which of the following

intervals does lie?

Problem 25
How many sequences of s and s of length are there that begin with a , end with a , contain no
two consecutive s, and contain no three consecutive s?
 2018 AMC 10A Problems
Problem 1

What is the value of

Problem 2
Liliane has more soda than Jacqueline, and Alice has more soda than Jacqueline. What is
the relationship between the amounts of soda that Liliane and Alice have?

Liliane has more soda than Alice.

Liliane has more soda than Alice.

Liliane has more soda than Alice.

Liliane has more soda than Alice.

Liliane has more soda than Alice.

Problem 3
A unit of blood expires after seconds. Yasin donates a unit of blood at noon of
January 1. On what day does his unit of blood expire?

Problem 4
How many ways can a student schedule mathematics courses -- algebra, geometry, and number
theory -- in a -period day if no two mathematics courses can be taken in consecutive periods? (What
courses the student takes during the other periods is of no concern here.)
Problem 5
Alice, Bob, and Charlie were on a hike and were wondering how far away the nearest town was. When
Alice said, "We are at least miles away," Bob replied, "We are at most miles away." Charlie then
remarked, "Actually the nearest town is at most miles away." It turned out that none of the three
statements were true. Let be the distance in miles to the nearest town. Which of the following
intervals is the set of all possible values of ?

Problem 6
Sangho uploaded a video to a website where viewers can vote that they like or dislike a video. Each
video begins with a score of , and the score increases by for each like vote and decreases by for
each dislike vote. At one point Sangho saw that his video had a score of , and that of the votes
cast on his video were like votes. How many votes had been cast on Sangho's video at that point?

Problem 7
For how many (not necessarily positive) integer values of is the value of an integer?

Problem 8
Joe has a collection of coins, consisting of -cent coins, -cent coins, and -cent coins. He
has more -cent coins than -cent coins, and the total value of his collection is cents. How
many more -cent coins does Joe have than -cent coins?
Problem 9
All of the triangles in the diagram below are similar to isosceles triangle , in which .
Each of the smallest triangles has area , and has area . What is the area of
trapezoid ?

Problem 10
Suppose that real number satisfies What is the value
of ?

Problem 11
When fair standard -sided dice are thrown, the probability that the sum of the numbers on the top

faces is can be written as where is a positive integer. What is ?

Problem 12
How many ordered pairs of real numbers satisfy the following system of equations?
Problem 13
A paper triangle with sides of lengths and inches, as shown, is folded so that point falls on
point . What is the length in inches of the crease?

Problem 14

What is the greatest integer less than or equal to

Problem 15
Two circles of radius are externally tangent to each other and are internally tangent to a circle of
radius at points and , as shown in the diagram. The distance can be written in the form ,
where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is ?
Problem 16
Right triangle has leg lengths and . Including and , how many line
segments with integer length can be drawn from vertex to a point on hypotenuse ?

Problem 17
Let be a set of integers taken from with the property that if and are elements
of with , then is not a multiple of . What is the least possible value of an element in ?

Problem 18
How many nonnegative integers can be written in the form

where for ?

Problem 19
A number is randomly selected from the set , and a number is randomly
selected from . What is the probability that has a units digit of ?
Problem 20
A scanning code consists of a grid of squares, with some of its squares colored black and the
rest colored white. There must be at least one square of each color in this grid of squares. A
scanning code is called if its look does not change when the entire square is rotated by a
multiple of counterclockwise around its center, nor when it is reflected across a line joining
opposite corners or a line joining midpoints of opposite sides. What is the total number of possible
symmetric scanning codes?

Problem 21
Which of the following describes the set of values of for which the
curves and in the real -plane intersect at exactly points?

Problem 22
Let and be positive integers such that , , ,
and . Which of the following must be a divisor of ?
Problem 23
Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle's legs have
lengths and units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he leaves a small
unplanted square so that from the air it looks like the right angle symbol. The rest of the field is
planted. The shortest distance from to the hypotenuse is units. What fraction of the field is
planted?

Problem 24
Triangle with and has area . Let be the midpoint of , and
let be the midpoint of . The angle bisector of intersects and at and ,
respectively. What is the area of quadrilateral ?

Problem 25
For a positive integer and nonzero digits , , and , let be the -digit integer each of whose digits
is equal to ; let be the -digit integer each of whose digits is equal to , and let be the -digit
(not -digit) integer each of whose digits is equal to . What is the greatest possible value
of for which there are at least two values of such that ?
 2018 AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
Kate bakes a -inch by -inch pan of cornbread. The cornbread is cut into pieces that
measure inches by inches. How many pieces of cornbread does the pan contain?

Problem 2
Sam drove miles in minutes. His average speed during the first minutes was mph (miles
per hour), and his average speed during the second minutes was mph. What was his average
speed, in mph, during the last minutes?

Problem 3
In the expression each blank is to be filled in with one of the
digits or with each digit being used once. How many different values can be obtained?

Problem 4
A three-dimensional rectangular box with dimensions , , and has faces whose surface areas
are and square units. What is ?

Problem 5
How many subsets of contain at least one prime number?
Problem 6
A box contains chips, numbered and . Chips are drawn randomly one at a time without
replacement until the sum of the values drawn exceeds . What is the probability that draws are
required?

Problem 7
In the figure below, congruent semicircles are drawn along a diameter of a large semicircle, with
their diameters covering the diameter of the large semicircle with no overlap. Let be the combined
area of the small semicircles and be the area of the region inside the large semicircle but outside
the small semicircles. The ratio is . What is ?

Problem 8
Sara makes a staircase out of toothpicks as shown:

This is a -step staircase and uses toothpicks. How many steps would be in a staircase that
used toothpicks?
Problem 9
The faces of each of standard dice are labeled with the integers from to . Let be the probability
that when all dice are rolled, the sum of the numbers on the top faces is . What other sum occurs
with the same probability ?

Problem 10
In the rectangular parallelepiped shown, , , and . Point is the midpoint
of . What is the volume of the rectangular pyramid with base and apex ?

Problem 11
Which of the following expressions is never a prime number when is a prime number?
Problem 12
Line segment is a diameter of a circle with . Point , not equal to or , lies on the
circle. As point moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of traces out a
closed curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region
bounded by this curve?

Problem 13
How many of the first numbers in the sequence are divisible
by ?

Problem 14
A list of positive integers has a unique mode, which occurs exactly times. What is the least
number of distinct values that can occur in the list?
Problem 15
A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is
centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet
of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up
over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point in the figure on
the right. The box has base length and height . What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper?

Problem 16
Let be a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers such that
What is the remainder when is divided
by ?

Problem 17
In rectangle , and . Points and lie on , points and lie on ,
points and lie on , and points and lie on so that and the convex
octagon is equilateral. The length of a side of this octagon can be expressed in the
form , where , , and are integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What
is ?
Problem 18
Three young brother-sister pairs from different families need to take a trip in a van. These six children
will occupy the second and third rows in the van, each of which has three seats. To avoid disruptions,
siblings may not sit right next to each other in the same row, and no child may sit directly in front of his
or her sibling. How many seating arrangements are possible for this trip?

Problem 19
Joey and Chloe and their daughter Zoe all have the same birthday. Joey is year older than Chloe, and
Zoe is exactly year old today. Today is the first of the birthdays on which Chloe's age will be an
integral multiple of Zoe's age. What will be the sum of the two digits of Joey's age the next time his
age is a multiple of Zoe's age?

Problem 20
A function is defined recursively by and for all
integers . What is ?

Problem 21
Mary chose an even -digit number . She wrote down all the divisors of in increasing order from left

to right: . At some moment Mary wrote as a divisor of . What is the smallest

possible value of the next divisor written to the right of ?

Problem 22
Real numbers and are chosen independently and uniformly at random from the interval .
Which of the following numbers is closest to the probability that and are the side lengths of an
obtuse triangle?

Problem 23
How many ordered pairs of positive integers satisfy the equation
where denotes the greatest common divisor
of and , and denotes their least common multiple?

Problem 24
Let be a regular hexagon with side length . Denote by , , and the midpoints of
sides , , and , respectively. What is the area of the convex hexagon whose interior is the
intersection of the interiors of and ?

Problem 25
Let denote the greatest integer less than or equal to . How many real numbers satisfy the
equation ?