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Instructions This is a 25-question, multiple choice test. Each question is followed by answers marked A, B, C, D and E. Only one of these is correct. You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 2.5 points for each problem left unanswered if the year is before 2006, 1.5 points for each problem left unanswered if the year is after 2006, and 0 points for each incorrect answer. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, protractor and erasers (and calculators that are accepted for use on the SAT if before 2006. No problems on the test will require the use of a calculator). Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. You will have 75 minutes working time to complete the test.
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Problem 1

Andy and Betsy both live in Mathville. Andy leaves Mathville on his bicycle at 1:30 traveling due north at a steady 8 miles per hour. Betsy leaves on her bicycle from the same point at 2:30, traveling due east at a steady 12 miles per hour. At what time will they be exactly the same distance from their common starting point?

$\textbf{(A) } 3{:}30 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 3{:}45 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 4{:}00 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 4{:}15 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 4{:}30$

Problem 2

A box contains 10 pounds of a nut mix that is 50 percent peanuts, 20 percent cashews, and 30 percent almonds. A second nut mix containing 20 percent peanuts, 40 percent cashews, and 40 percent almonds is added to the box resulting in a new nut mix that is 40 percent peanuts. How many pounds of cashews are now in the box?

$\textbf{(A) } 3.5 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 4.5 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 5 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 6$

Problem 3

How many isosceles triangles are there with positive area whose side lengths are all positive integers and whose longest side has length 2025?

$\textbf{(A) } 2025 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 2026 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 3012 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 3037 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 4050$

Problem 4

A team of students is going to compete against a team of teachers in a trivia contest. The total number of students and teachers is 15. Ash, a cousin of one of the students, wants to join the contest. If Ash plays with the students, the average age on that team will increase from 12 to 14. If Ash plays with the teachers, the average age on that team will decrease from 55 to 52. How old is Ash?

$\textbf{(A) } 28 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 29 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 30 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 32 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 33$

Problem 5

Consider the sequence of positive integers

$1,2,1,2,3,2,1,2,3,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,\dots$

What is the 2025th term in this sequence?

$\textbf{(A) } 5 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 15 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 16 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 44 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 45$

Problem 6

In an equilateral triangle each interior angle is trisected by a pair of rays. The intersection of the interiors of the middle 20°-angle at each vertex is the interior of a convex hexagon. What is the degree measure of the smallest angle of this hexagon?

$\textbf{(A) } 80 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 90 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 100 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 110 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 120$

Problem 7

Suppose $a$ and $b$ are real numbers. When the polynomial $x^3+x^2+ax+b$ is divided by $x-1$ , the remainder is $4$ . When the polynomial is divided by $x-2$ , the remainder is $6$ . What is $b-a$ ?

$\textbf{(A) } 14 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 15 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 16 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 17 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 18$

Solution

Problem 8

Agnes writes the following four statements on a blank piece of paper.

$\bullet$ At least one of these statements is true.

$\bullet$ At least two of these statements are true.

$\bullet$ At least two of these statements are false.

$\bullet$ At least one of these statements is false.

Each statement is either true or false. How many false statements did Agnes write on the paper?

$\textbf{(A) } 0 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 1 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 4$

Solution

If statement 2 is true, then statement 1 is true, so there's one additional truth. That truth is that at least 1 is false. So, there's only 1 false, and it's statement 3. So, the answer is (B)1. -Mathismyfriend24

Problem 9

Let $f(x)=100x^3-300x^2+200x$ . For how many real numbers $a$ does the graph of $y=f(x-a)$ pass through the point $(1,25)$ ?

$\textbf{(A) } 1 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 2 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 3 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 4 \qquad\textbf{(E) } \text{more than } 4$

Problem 10

A semicircle has diameter $AB$ and chord $CD$ of length 16 parallel to $AB$ . A smaller circle with diameter on $AB$ and tangent to $CD$ is cut from the larger semicircle, as shown below. https://wiki.randommath.com/amc/amc10_10q.png

What is the area of the resulting figure, shown shaded? $\textbf{(A) } 16\pi \qquad\textbf{(B) } 24\pi \qquad\textbf{(C) } 32\pi \qquad\textbf{(D) } 48\pi \qquad\textbf{(E) } 64\pi$

Problem 11

The sequence $1,x,y,z$ is arithmetic. The sequence $1,p,q,z$ is geometric. Both sequences are strictly increasing and contain only integers, and $z$ is as small as possible. What is the value of $x+y+z+p+q$ ?

$\textbf{(A) } 66 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 91 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 103 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 132 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 149$

Problem 12

Carlos uses a $4$ -digit passcode to unlock his computer. In his passcode, exactly one digit is even, exactly one(possibly different) digit is prime, and no digit is $0$ . How many $4$ -digit passcodes satisfy these conditions?

$\textbf{(A) } 176 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 192 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 432 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 464 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 608$

Solution

Problem 13

In the figure below, the outside square contains infinitely many squares, each of them with the same center and sides parallel to the outside square. The ratio of the side length of a square to the side length of the next inner square is k, where $0 < k < 1.$ The spaces between squares are alternately shaded as shown in the figure (which is not necessarily drawn to scale).

The area of the shaded portion of the figure is $64\%$ of the area of the original square. What is k? $\textbf{(A) } \frac{3}{5} \qquad\textbf{(B) } \frac{16}{25} \qquad\textbf{(C) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad\textbf{(D) } \frac{3}{4} \qquad\textbf{(E) } \frac{4}{5}$

Solution: Let the side length of the first square be $a$ and the second square be $b$ . The area of the original square is $a^2.$ The area of the outermost shaded region is $a^2 - b^2.$ The problem tells us that $\frac{a}{b} = k,$ so we have $b = \frac{a}{k}.$ So the outermost shaded region area becomes:

$a^2 - b^2 =$ $a^2 - \frac{a^2}{k^2}$

Now let the next square's side lengths be $c$ and $d.$ Similarly, $c = \frac{b}{k} = \frac{a}{k^2}$ and $d = \frac{c}{k} = \frac{a}{k^3}$ and the area of the next shaded region becomes: $c^2 - d^2 = \frac{a^2}{k^4} - \frac{a^2}{k^6}$

Notice the pattern of adding $4$ to the exponent. If this sequence continues infinitely, we ultimately get:

$(a^2 + \frac{a^2}{k^4} + \frac{a^2}{k^8} + ...) - (\frac{a^2}{k^2} + \frac{a^2}{k^6} + ...)$

Which can be simplified using the infinite geometric sequence formula: $\frac{a^2}{1 - \frac{1}{k^4}} - \frac{\frac{a^2}{k^2}}{1 - \frac{1}{k^4}}$

This equals $\frac{16}{25}a^2$ from the problem. With some algebra after canceling out the $a^2,$ we find $k = \frac{3}{4}.$

~grogg007

Problem 15

Problem 16

There are three jars. Each of three coins is placed in one of the three jars, chosen at random and independently of the placements of the other coins. What is the expected number of coins in a jar with the most coins?

$\textbf{(A) } \frac{4}{3} \qquad\textbf{(B) } \frac{13}{9} \qquad\textbf{(C) } \frac{5}{3} \qquad\textbf{(D) } \frac{17}{9} \qquad\textbf{(E) } 2$

Problem 17

Let N be the unique positive integer such that dividing 273436 by N leaves a remainder of 16 and dividing 272760 by N leaves a remainder of 15. What is the tens digit of N?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

E. 4

Problem 18

The $\textit{harmonic\ mean}$ of a collection of numbers is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers in the collection. For example, the harmonic mean of 4, 4, and 5 is

$\frac{1}{\frac{1}{3}(\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{5})}=\frac{30}{7}$

What is the harmonic mean of all the real roots of the 4050th degree polynomial

$\prod_{k=1}^{2025} (kx^2-4x-3) = (x^2-4x-3)(2x^2-4x-3)(3x^2-4x-3)\dots (2025x^2-4x-3) ?$ $\textbf{(A) } -\frac{5}{3} \qquad\textbf{(B) } -\frac{3}{2} \qquad\textbf{(C) } -\frac{6}{5} \qquad\textbf{(D) } -\frac{5}{6} \qquad\textbf{(E) } -\frac{2}{3}$

Problem 20

A silo (right circular cylinder) with diameter 20 meters stands in a field. MacDonald is located 20 meters west and 15 meters south of the center of the silo. McGregor is located 20 meters east and $g > 0$ meters south of the center of the silo. The light of sight between MacDonald and McGregor is tangent to the silo. The value of g can be written as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}-c}{d}$ , where $a,b,c,$ and $d$ are positive integers, $b$ is not divisible by the square of any prime, and $d$ is relatively prime to the greatest common divisor of $a$ and $c$ . What is $a+b+c+d$ ?

$\textbf{(A) } 8 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 9 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 10 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 11 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 12$

Problem 20

Problem 21

Problem 22

This is a problem that's easier than problem 1 but being put to problem 22 to mess up our points

Problem 23

Triangle $\triangle ABC$ has side lengths $AB = 80$ , $BC = 45$ , and $AC = 75$ . The bisector $\angle B$ and the altitude to side $\overline{AB}$ intersect at point $P$ . What is $BP$ ?

$\textbf{(A)}~18\qquad\textbf{(B)}~19\qquad\textbf{(C)}~20\qquad\textbf{(D)}~21\qquad\textbf{(E)}~22$

Problem 24

Call a positive integer $\textit{fair}$ if no digit is used more than once, it has no 0s, and no digit is adjacent to two greater digits. For example, 196, 23, and 12463 are fair, but 1546, 320, and 34321 are not fair. How many fair positive integers are there? $\textbf{(A) } 511 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 2584 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 9841 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 17711 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 19682$

Problem 25

A point $P$ is chosen at random inside square $ABCD$ . The probability that $\overline{AP}$ is neither the shortest nor the longest side of $\triangle APB$ can be written as $\frac{a + b \pi - c \sqrt{d}}{e}$ , where $a, b, c, d,$ and $e$ are positive integers, $\text{gcd}(a, b, c, e) = 1$ , and $d$ is not divisible by the square of a prime. What is $a+b+c+d+e$ ?

$\textbf{(A) }25 \qquad \textbf{(B) }26 \qquad \textbf{(C) }27 \qquad \textbf{(D) }28 \qquad \textbf{(E)} 29 \qquad$

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 ==Problem 8==
 Agnes writes the following four statements on a blank piece of paper.
-<imath>\begin{itemize}
-\item At least one of these statements is true.
-\item At least two of these statements are true.
+<imath>\bullet</imath> At least one of these statements is true.
-\item At least two of these statements are false.
+<imath>\bullet</imath> At least two of these statements are true.
+<imath>\bullet</imath> At least two of these statements are false.
+<imath>\bullet</imath> At least one of these statements is false.
-\item At least one of these statements is false.
-\end{itemize}</imath>
 Each statement is either true or false. How many false statements did Agnes write on the paper?

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