ΒΆ 2016 AMC 10B Problems and Solutions
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Individual Problems and Solutions
For problems and detailed solutions to each of the 2016 AMC 10B problems, please refer below:
Problem 1: What is the value of
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Problem 2: If , what is ?
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Problem 3: Let . What is the value of ?
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Problem 4: Zoey read books, one at a time. The first book took her day to read, the second book took her days to read, the third book took her days to read, and so on, with each book taking her more day to read than the previous book. Zoey finished the first book on a Monday and the second on a Wednesday. On what day of the week did she finish her th book?
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Problem 5: The mean age of Amanda's cousins is , and their median age is . What is the sum of the ages of Amanda's youngest and oldest cousins?
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Problem 6: Laura added two three-digit positive integers. All six digits in these numbers are different. Laura's sum is a three-digit number . What is the smallest possible value for the sum of the digits of ?
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Problem 7: The ratio of the measures of two acute angles is , and the complement of one of these two angles is twice as large as the complement of the other. What is the sum of the degree measures of the two angles?
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Problem 8: What is the tens digit of ?
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Problem 9: All three vertices of lie on the parabola defined by , with at the origin and parallel to the -axis. The area of the triangle is . What is the length ?
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Problem 10: A thin piece of wood of uniform density in the shape of an equilateral triangle with side length inches weighs ounces. A second piece of the same type of wood, with the same thickness, also in the shape of an equilateral triangle, has side length inches. Which of the following is closest to the weight, in ounces, of the second piece?
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Problem 11: Carl decided to fence in his rectangular garden. He bought fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly yards between neighboring posts. The longer side of his garden, including the corners, has twice as many posts as the shorter side, including the corners. What is the area, in square yards, of Carl's garden?
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Problem 12: Two different numbers are selected at random from and multiplied together. What is the probability that the product is even?
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Problem 13: At Megapolis Hospital one year, multiple-birth statistics were as follows: Sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets accounted for of the babies born. There were four times as many sets of triplets as sets of quadruplets, and three times as many sets of twins as sets of triplets. How many of these babies were in sets of quadruplets?
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Problem 14: How many squares whose sides are parallel to the axes and whose vertices have coordinates that are integers lie entirely within the region bounded by the line , the line , and the line ?
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Problem 15: All the numbers are written in a array of squares, one number in each square, in such a way that if two numbers are consecutive then they occupy squares that share an edge. The numbers in the four corners add up to . What number is in the center?
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Problem 16: The sum of an infinite geometric series is a positive number , and the second term in the series is . What is the smallest possible value of ?
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Problem 17: All the numbers are assigned to the six faces of a cube, one number to each face. For each of the eight vertices of the cube, a product of three numbers is computed, where the three numbers are the numbers assigned to the three faces that include that vertex. What is the greatest possible value of the sum of these eight products?
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Problem 18: In how many ways can be written as the sum of an increasing sequence of two or more consecutive positive integers?
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Problem 19: Rectangle has and . Point lies on so that , point lies on so that , and point lies on so that . Segments and intersect at and , respectively. What is the value of ?
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Problem 20: A dilation of the plane-that is, a size transformation with a positive scale factor-sends the circle of radius centered at to the circle of radius centered at . What distance does the origin move under this transformation?
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Problem 21: What is the area of the region enclosed by the graph of the equation
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Problem 22: A set of teams held a round-robin tournament in which every team played every other team exactly once. Every team won games and lost games; there were no ties. How many sets of three teams were there in which beat beat , and beat ?
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Problem 23: In regular hexagon , points , and are chosen on sides , , and , respectively, so that lines , and are parallel and equally spaced. What is the ratio of the area of hexagon to the area of hexagon ?
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Problem 24: How many four-digit positive integers , with , have the property that the three two-digit integers form an increasing arithmetic sequence? One such number is , where , and .
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Problem 25: Let , where denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to . How many distinct values does assume for ?
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The problems on this page are the property of the MAA's American Mathematics Competitions