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39fb0975b13cbe4ced5436758447f72b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_12 | How many three-digit positive integers $N$ satisfy the following properties?
$\textbf{(A) } 13 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 14 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 15 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 16 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 17$ | Multiples of $5$ will always end in $0$ or $5$ , and since the numbers have to be a three-digit numbers (otherwise it would be a two-digit number), it cannot start with 0, narrowing our choices to 3-digit numbers starting with $5$ . Since the numbers must be divisible by 7, all possibilities have to be in the range fro... | B | 14 |
39fb0975b13cbe4ced5436758447f72b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_12 | How many three-digit positive integers $N$ satisfy the following properties?
$\textbf{(A) } 13 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 14 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 15 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 16 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 17$ | Let $N=\overline{cab}=100c+10a+b.$ We know that $\overline{bac}$ is divisible by $5$ , so $c$ is either $0$ or $5$ . However, since $c$ is the first digit of the three-digit number $N$ , it can not be $0$ , so therefore, $c=5$ . Thus, $N=\overline{5ab}=500+10a+b.$ There are no further restrictions on digits $a$ and $b$... | B | 14. |
39fb0975b13cbe4ced5436758447f72b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_12 | How many three-digit positive integers $N$ satisfy the following properties?
$\textbf{(A) } 13 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 14 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 15 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 16 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 17$ | We first proceed as in the above solution, up to $N=500+10a+b$ .
We then use modular arithmetic:
\begin{align*} 0&\equiv N \:(\text{mod }7)\\ &\equiv500+10a+b\:(\text{mod }7)\\ &\equiv3+3a+b\:(\text{mod }7)\\ 3a+b&\equiv-3\:(\text{mod }7)\\ &\equiv4\:(\text{mod }7)\\ \end{align*}
We know that $0\le a,b<10$ . We then l... | B | 14. |
39fb0975b13cbe4ced5436758447f72b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_12 | How many three-digit positive integers $N$ satisfy the following properties?
$\textbf{(A) } 13 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 14 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 15 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 16 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 17$ | The key point is that when reversed, the number must start with a $0$ or a $5$ based on the second restriction. But numbers can't start with a $0$
So the problem is simply counting the number of multiples of $7$ in the $500$ s.
$7 \times 72 = 504$ , so the first multiple is $7 \times 72$
$7 \times 85 = 595$ , so the la... | B | 14 |
803b868552472b7179abd74ea35e24fa | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_15 | An even number of circles are nested, starting with a radius of $1$ and increasing by $1$ each time, all sharing a common point. The region between every other circle is shaded, starting with the region inside the circle of radius $2$ but outside the circle of radius $1.$ An example showing $8$ circles is displayed bel... | Notice that the area of the shaded region is $(2^2\pi-1^2\pi)+(4^2\pi-3^2\pi)+(6^2\pi-5^2\pi)+ \cdots + (n^2\pi-(n-1)^2 \pi)$ for any even number $n$
Using the difference of squares, this simplifies to $(1+2+3+4+\cdots+n) \pi$ . So, we are basically finding the smallest $n$ such that $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}>2023 \Rightarrow ... | E | 64 |
803b868552472b7179abd74ea35e24fa | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_15 | An even number of circles are nested, starting with a radius of $1$ and increasing by $1$ each time, all sharing a common point. The region between every other circle is shaded, starting with the region inside the circle of radius $2$ but outside the circle of radius $1.$ An example showing $8$ circles is displayed bel... | After first observing the problem, we can work out a few of the areas.
1st area = $4\pi-\pi = 3\pi$
2nd area = $16\pi-9\pi = 7\pi$
3rd area = $36\pi-25\pi = 11\pi$
4th area = $64\pi-49\pi = 15\pi$
We can see that the pattern is an arithmetic sequence with first term $3$ and common difference $4$ . From here, we can sta... | E | 64 |
803b868552472b7179abd74ea35e24fa | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_15 | An even number of circles are nested, starting with a radius of $1$ and increasing by $1$ each time, all sharing a common point. The region between every other circle is shaded, starting with the region inside the circle of radius $2$ but outside the circle of radius $1.$ An example showing $8$ circles is displayed bel... | We can easily see that all of the answer choices are even, which helps us solve this problem a little.
Lets just not consider the $\pi$ , since it is not that important, so let's just cancel that out.
When we plug in 64, we get $64^2-63^2+62^2-61^2+\cdots +4^2-3^2+2^2-1^2$ . By difference of squares, we get $1+2+3+\cdo... | E | 64 |
803b868552472b7179abd74ea35e24fa | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_15 | An even number of circles are nested, starting with a radius of $1$ and increasing by $1$ each time, all sharing a common point. The region between every other circle is shaded, starting with the region inside the circle of radius $2$ but outside the circle of radius $1.$ An example showing $8$ circles is displayed bel... | We can consider making a table.
If there is 1 circle, the area of the shaded region is 0π. (We can write this as 0π.)
If there are 2 circles, the area of the shaded region is 3π. (We can write this as (1+2)π).
If there are 3 circles, the area of the shaded region is 3π. (We can write this as (1+2)π).
If there are 4 c... | E | 64 |
803b868552472b7179abd74ea35e24fa | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_15 | An even number of circles are nested, starting with a radius of $1$ and increasing by $1$ each time, all sharing a common point. The region between every other circle is shaded, starting with the region inside the circle of radius $2$ but outside the circle of radius $1.$ An example showing $8$ circles is displayed bel... | Denote $S$ the area of shaded region and $W$ the area of white region.
$S > W$ and $S \approx W$ if $R$ is big.
Therefore \[\pi R^2 = S + W \approx 2S \ge 4046 \pi \implies R \approx 64.\] So we conclude the answer is $\boxed{64}$ | E | 64 |
f910c9569dde2582e80d6096ad567ac7 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_16 | In a table tennis tournament every participant played every other participant exactly once. Although there were twice as many right-handed players as left-handed players, the number of games won by left-handed players was $40\%$ more than the number of games won by right-handed players. (There were no ties and no ambid... | We know that the total amount of games must be the sum of games won by left and right handed players. Then, we can write $g = l + r$ , and since $l = 1.4r$ $g = 2.4r$ . Given that $r$ and $g$ are both integers, $g/2.4$ also must be an integer. From here we can see that $g$ must be divisible by 12, leaving only answers ... | B | 36 |
f910c9569dde2582e80d6096ad567ac7 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_16 | In a table tennis tournament every participant played every other participant exactly once. Although there were twice as many right-handed players as left-handed players, the number of games won by left-handed players was $40\%$ more than the number of games won by right-handed players. (There were no ties and no ambid... | First, we know that every player played every other player, so there's a total of $\dbinom{n}{2}$ games since each pair of players forms a bijection to a game. Therefore, that rules out D. Also, if we assume the right-handed players won a total of $x$ games, the left-handed players must have won a total of $\dfrac{7}{5... | B | 36 |
f910c9569dde2582e80d6096ad567ac7 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_16 | In a table tennis tournament every participant played every other participant exactly once. Although there were twice as many right-handed players as left-handed players, the number of games won by left-handed players was $40\%$ more than the number of games won by right-handed players. (There were no ties and no ambid... | Let $r$ be the amount of games the right-handed won. Since the left-handed won $1.4r$ games, the total number of games played can be expressed as $(2.4)r$ , or $12/5r$ , meaning that the answer is divisible by 12. This brings us down to two answer choices, $B$ and $D$ .
We note that the answer is some number $x$ choos... | B | 36 |
f910c9569dde2582e80d6096ad567ac7 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_16 | In a table tennis tournament every participant played every other participant exactly once. Although there were twice as many right-handed players as left-handed players, the number of games won by left-handed players was $40\%$ more than the number of games won by right-handed players. (There were no ties and no ambid... | If there are $n$ players, the total number of games played must be $\binom{n}{2}$ , so it has to be a triangular number. The ratio of games won by left-handed to right-handed players is $7:5$ , so the number of games played must also be divisible by $12$ . Finally, we notice that only $\boxed{36}$ satisfies both of the... | B | 36 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Note Euler's formula where $\text{Vertices}+\text{Faces}-\text{Edges}=2$ . There are $12$ faces and the number of edges is $24$ because there are 12 faces each with four edges and each edge is shared by two faces. Now we know that there are $14$ vertices on the figure. Now note that the sum of the degrees of all the po... | D | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Let $x$ be the number of vertices with three edges, and $y$ be the number of vertices with four edges. Since there are $\frac{4*12}{2}=24$ edges on the polyhedron, we can see that $\frac{3x+4y}{2}=24$ . Then, $3x+4y=48$ . Notice that by testing the answer choices, (D) is the only one that yields an integer solution for... | D | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | With $12$ rhombi, there are $4\cdot12=48$ total boundaries. Each edge is used as a boundary twice, once for each face on either side. Thus we have $\dfrac{48}2=24$ total edges.
Let $A$ be the number of vertices with $3$ edges (this is what the problem asks for) and $B$ be the number of vertices with $4$ edges. We have ... | D | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Note that Euler's formula is $V+F-E=2$ . We know $F=12$ from the question. We also know $E = \frac{12 \cdot 4}{2} = 24$ because every face has $4$ edges and every edge is shared by $2$ faces. We can solve for the vertices based on this information.
Using the formula we can find: \[V + 12 - 24 = 2\] \[V = 14\] Let $t$ ... | D | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Each of the twelve rhombi has two pairs of angles across from each other that must be congruent. If both pairs of angles occur at $4$ -point intersections, we have a grid of squares. If both occur at $3$ -point intersections, we would have a cube with six square faces. Therefore, two of the points must occur at a $3$ -... | D | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Note that a rhombic dodecahedron is formed when a cube is turned inside out (as seen here ), thus there are 6 4-vertices (corresponding to each face of the cube) and 8 3-vertices (corresponding to each corner of the cube). Thus the answer is $\boxed{8}$ | D | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Let $m$ be the number of $4$ -edge vertices, and $n$ be the number of $3$ -edge vertices. The total number of vertices is $m+n$ . Now, we know that there are $4 \cdot 12 = 48$ vertices, but we have overcounted. We have overcounted $m$ vertices $3$ times and overcounted $n$ vertices $2$ times. Therefore, we subtract $3m... | null | 8 |
3215306050b76c45adc3931d10d3479c | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_18 | A rhombic dodecahedron is a solid with $12$ congruent rhombus faces. At every vertex, $3$ or $4$ edges meet, depending on the vertex. How many vertices have exactly $3$ edges meet?
$\textbf{(A) }5\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$ | Note that a rhombic dodecahedron is the dual of a cuboctahedron. A cuboctahedron has $8$ triangular faces, which correspond to $\boxed{8}$ vertices on a rhombic dodecahedron that have $3$ edges. | D | 8 |
a168231bd092c9a98ebea8eb6329bfa0 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_19 | The line segment formed by $A(1, 2)$ and $B(3, 3)$ is rotated to the line segment formed by $A'(3, 1)$ and $B'(4, 3)$ about the point $P(r, s)$ . What is $|r-s|$
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{4} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{3}{4} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad \textbf{(E) } 1$ | Due to rotations preserving an equal distance, we can bash the answer with the distance formula. $D(A, P) = D(A', P)$ , and $D(B, P) = D(B',P)$ .
Thus we will square our equations to yield: $(1-r)^2+(2-s)^2=(3-r)^2+(1-s)^2$ , and $(3-r)^2+(3-s)^2=(4-r)^2+(3-s)^2$ .
Canceling $(3-s)^2$ from the second equation makes it ... | E | 1 |
a168231bd092c9a98ebea8eb6329bfa0 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_19 | The line segment formed by $A(1, 2)$ and $B(3, 3)$ is rotated to the line segment formed by $A'(3, 1)$ and $B'(4, 3)$ about the point $P(r, s)$ . What is $|r-s|$
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{4} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{3}{4} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad \textbf{(E) } 1$ | Due to rotations preserving distance, we have that $BP = B^\prime P$ , as well as $AP = A^\prime P$ . From here, we can see that P must be on the perpendicular bisector of $\overline{BB^\prime}$ due to the property of perpendicular bisectors keeping the distance to two points constant.
From here, we proceed to find the... | E | 1 |
a168231bd092c9a98ebea8eb6329bfa0 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_19 | The line segment formed by $A(1, 2)$ and $B(3, 3)$ is rotated to the line segment formed by $A'(3, 1)$ and $B'(4, 3)$ about the point $P(r, s)$ . What is $|r-s|$
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{4} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{3}{4} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad \textbf{(E) } 1$ | To find the center of rotation, we find the intersection point of the perpendicular bisectors of $\overline{AA^\prime}$ and $\overline{BB^\prime}$
We can find that the equation of the line $\overline{AA^\prime}$ is $y = -\frac{1}{2}x + \frac{5}{2}$ , and that the equation of the line $\overline{BB^\prime}$ is $y = 3$
W... | E | 1 |
a168231bd092c9a98ebea8eb6329bfa0 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_19 | The line segment formed by $A(1, 2)$ and $B(3, 3)$ is rotated to the line segment formed by $A'(3, 1)$ and $B'(4, 3)$ about the point $P(r, s)$ . What is $|r-s|$
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{4} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{3}{4} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad \textbf{(E) } 1$ | We use the complex numbers approach to solve this problem.
Denote by $\theta$ the angle that $AB$ rotates about $P$ in the counterclockwise direction.
Thus, $A' - P = e^{i \theta} \left( A - P \right)$ and $B' - P = e^{i \theta} \left( B - P \right)$
Taking ratio of these two equations, we get \[ \frac{A' - P}{A - P} =... | E | 1 |
db8d7663229877699a3459bcdf7b7bd8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_20 | Each square in a $3\times3$ grid of squares is colored red, white, blue, or green so that every $2\times2$ square contains one square of each color. One such coloring is shown on the right below. How many different colorings are possible?
[asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)... | Let a "tile" denote a $1\times1$ square and "square" refer to $2\times2$
We first have $4!=24$ possible ways to fill out the top left square. We then fill out the bottom right tile. In the bottom right square, we already have one corner filled out (from our initial coloring), and we now have $3$ options left to pick fr... | D | 72 |
db8d7663229877699a3459bcdf7b7bd8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_20 | Each square in a $3\times3$ grid of squares is colored red, white, blue, or green so that every $2\times2$ square contains one square of each color. One such coloring is shown on the right below. How many different colorings are possible?
[asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)... | [asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)--(9,3)); draw((0,6)--(9,6)); draw((3,0)--(3,9)); draw((6,0)--(6,9)); label("R", (1.5,1.5)); label("B", (4.5,1.5)); label("R", (7.5,1.5)); label("G", (1.5,4.5)); label("W", (4.5,4.5)); label("G", (7.5,4.5)); label("B", (1.5,7.5)); label... | D | 72 |
db8d7663229877699a3459bcdf7b7bd8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_20 | Each square in a $3\times3$ grid of squares is colored red, white, blue, or green so that every $2\times2$ square contains one square of each color. One such coloring is shown on the right below. How many different colorings are possible?
[asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)... | Let’s call the top-right corner color A, the top-middle color B, the top-right color C, and so on, with color D being the middle row, and right corner square, and color G being the bottom-left square’s color. WLOG A=Red, B=White, D=Blue, and E=Green. We will now consider squares C and F’s colors.
Case 1 : C=Red and F=B... | D | 72 |
db8d7663229877699a3459bcdf7b7bd8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_20 | Each square in a $3\times3$ grid of squares is colored red, white, blue, or green so that every $2\times2$ square contains one square of each color. One such coloring is shown on the right below. How many different colorings are possible?
[asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)... | We will choose colors step-by-step:
1. There are $4$ ways to choose a color in the center.
2. Then we select any corner and there would be $3$ ways to choose a color as we can't use the same color as the one in the center.
3. Consider the $2\times 2$ square that contains the center and the corner we have selected. For ... | D | 72 |
db8d7663229877699a3459bcdf7b7bd8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_20 | Each square in a $3\times3$ grid of squares is colored red, white, blue, or green so that every $2\times2$ square contains one square of each color. One such coloring is shown on the right below. How many different colorings are possible?
[asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)... | Note that there can be no overlap between colors in each square.
Then, we can choose $1$ color to be in the center. ${4 \choose 1}$ = 4
Now, we have some casework:
Case 1: 1 color is placed in 4 corners and then others are placed on opposite edges. $232$ $414$ $232$ There's $3!=6$ ways to do this.
Case 2: 2 colors are ... | D | 72 |
db8d7663229877699a3459bcdf7b7bd8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_20 | Each square in a $3\times3$ grid of squares is colored red, white, blue, or green so that every $2\times2$ square contains one square of each color. One such coloring is shown on the right below. How many different colorings are possible?
[asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)... | [asy] unitsize(0.5cm, 0.5cm); draw((0,0)--(9,0)--(9,9)--(0,9)--cycle); draw((0,3)--(9,3)); draw((0,6)--(9,6)); draw((3,0)--(3,9)); draw((6,0)--(6,9)); label("2", (1.5,1.5)); label("1", (4.5,1.5)); label("1", (7.5,1.5)); label("2", (1.5,4.5)); label("3", (4.5,4.5)); label("1", (7.5,4.5)); label("3", (1.5,7.5)); label... | D | 72 |
9adc7bd7514a005d92b2dd14a4cfc668 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_21 | Let $P(x)$ be the unique polynomial of minimal degree with the following properties:
The roots of $P(x)$ are integers, with one exception. The root that is not an integer can be written as $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime integers. What is $m+n$
$\textbf{(A) }41\qquad\textbf{(B) }43\qquad\textbf{(... | From the problem statement, we know $P(2-2)=0$ $P(9)=0$ and $4P(4)=0$ . Therefore, we know that $0$ $9$ , and $4$ are roots. So, we can factor $P(x)$ as $x(x - 9)(x - 4)(x - a)$ , where $a$ is the unknown root. Since $P(x) - 1 = 0$ , we plug in $x = 1$ which gives $1(-8)(-3)(1 - a) = 1$ , therefore $24(1 - a) = 1 \impl... | D | 47 |
9adc7bd7514a005d92b2dd14a4cfc668 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_21 | Let $P(x)$ be the unique polynomial of minimal degree with the following properties:
The roots of $P(x)$ are integers, with one exception. The root that is not an integer can be written as $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime integers. What is $m+n$
$\textbf{(A) }41\qquad\textbf{(B) }43\qquad\textbf{(... | We proceed similarly to solution one. We get that $x(x-9)(x-4)(x-a)=1$ . Expanding, we get that $x(x-9)(x-4)(x-a)=x^4-(a+13)x^3+(13a+36)x^2-36ax$ . We know that $P(1)=1$ , so the sum of the coefficients of the cubic expression is equal to one. Thus $1+(a+13)+(13a+36)-36a=1$ . Solving for a, we get that a=23/24. Therefo... | D | 47 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | Consider positive integers $a, b$ with a difference of $20$ . Suppose $b = a-20$ . Then, we have $(a)(a-20) = n$ . If there is another pair of two integers that multiply to $n$ but have a difference of 23, one integer must be greater than $a$ , and one must be smaller than $a-20$ . We can create two cases and set both ... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | We have 4 integers in our problem. Let's call the smallest of them $a$ $a(a+23) =$ either $(a+1)(a+21)$ or $(a+2)(a+22)$ . So, we have the following:
$a^2 + 23a = a^2 + 22a +21$ or
$a^2+23a = a^2 + 24a +44$
The second equation has negative solutions, so we discard it. The first equation has $a = 21$ , and so $a + 23 = ... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | From the problems, it follows that
\begin{align*} x(x+20)&=y(y+23) = N\\ x^2+20x&=y^2+23y\\ 4x^2+4\cdot20x &= 4y^2+4\cdot23y\\ 4x^2+4\cdot20x+20^2-20^2 &= 4y^2+4\cdot23y+23^2-23^2\\ (2x+20)^2-20^2 &= (2y+23)^2-23^2\\ 23^2-20^2 &= (2y+23)^2-(2x+20)^2\\ (23+20)(23-20) &= (2y+23+2x+20)(2y+23-2x-20)\\ 43\cdot 3 &= (2y+2x+4... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | Say one factorization is $n(n+23).$ The two cases for the other factorization are $(n+1)(n+21)$ and $(n+2)(n+22).$ We know it must be the first because of AM-GM intuition: lesser factors of a number are closer together than larger factors of a number. (We can also try both and see which works.) Thus, $n(n+23)=(n+1)(n+2... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | Since we are given that some pairs of divisors differ by 20 and 23 and we can let the pair be $(x-10)$ and $(x+10)$ as well as $(y-\frac{23}{2})$ and $(y+\frac{23}{2})$ . We also know the product of both the complementary divisors give the same number so $(x-10)(x+10)=(y-\frac{23}{2})(y+\frac{23}{2})$ .
Now we let $y=... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | $N$ can be written $N = \left( a - 10 \right) \left( a + 10 \right)$ with a positive integer $a > 10$ and $N = \left( \frac{2b + 1}{2} - \frac{23}{2} \right) \left( \frac{2b + 1}{2} + \frac{23}{2} \right)$ with a positive integer $b > 11$
The above equations can be reorganized as \[ \left( 2b + 1 + 2 a \right) \left( 2... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | We can write $N$ as $a(a+20)$ or $b(b+23)$ where $a$ and $b$ are divisors of $N.$ Since $a(a+20) = b(b+23),$ we know that $a^2 + 20a - b^2 - 23b = 0$ , and we can view this as a quadratic in $a.$
Since the solution for $a$ must be an integer, the discriminant for this quadratic must be a perfect square and therefore $2... | C | 15 |
96c349d611e0e144dd31b0f45e531e0d | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_23 | If the positive integer $n$ has positive integer divisors $a$ and $b$ with $n = ab$ , then $a$ and $b$ are said to be $\textit{complementary}$ divisors of $n$ . Suppose that $N$ is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by $20$ and another pair of complementary divisors that differ b... | Consider the numbers of the form $a(a+20)$ . Since $b(b+23)$ is always even, $a$ is even. Thus, for $a \ge 2$ , we calculate $a(a+20)$ for even values of $a$ . Then, we check if it can also be represented as a product of numbers that differ by $23$ . Checking, we see that $22 \cdot 42 = 21 \cdot 44 = 924$ works. Thus, ... | C | 15 |
e0d66a0ecd80e8279e62894d5bd817b2 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_25 | If $A$ and $B$ are vertices of a polyhedron, define the distance $d(A,B)$ to be the minimum number of edges of the polyhedron one must traverse in order to connect $A$ and $B$ . For example, if $\overline{AB}$ is an edge of the polyhedron, then $d(A, B) = 1$ , but if $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{CB}$ are edges and $\... | Since the icosahedron is symmetric polyhedron, we can rotate it so that R is on the topmost vertex. Since Q and
S basically the same, we can first count the probability that $d(Q,R) = d(R,S)$
$\mathfrak{Case} \ \mathfrak{1}: d(Q,R) = d(R,S) = 1$
There are 5 points $P$ such that $d(Q,P) = 1$ . There is $5 \times 4 = \b... | null | 20 |
1b7e9694d7e0081fbda560f8e8e478b9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_1 | Mrs. Jones is pouring orange juice into four identical glasses for her four sons. She fills the first three glasses completely but runs out of juice when the fourth glass is only $\frac{1}{3}$ full. What fraction of a glass must Mrs. Jones pour from each of the first three glasses into the fourth glass so that all four... | Given that the first three glasses are full and the fourth is only $\frac{1}{3}$ full, let's represent their contents with a common denominator, which we'll set as 6. This makes the first three glasses $\dfrac{6}{6}$ full, and the fourth glass $\frac{2}{6}$ full.
To equalize the amounts, Mrs. Jones needs to pour juice ... | C | 16 |
1b7e9694d7e0081fbda560f8e8e478b9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_1 | Mrs. Jones is pouring orange juice into four identical glasses for her four sons. She fills the first three glasses completely but runs out of juice when the fourth glass is only $\frac{1}{3}$ full. What fraction of a glass must Mrs. Jones pour from each of the first three glasses into the fourth glass so that all four... | We let $x$ denote how much juice we take from each of the first $3$ children and give to the $4$ th child.
We can write the following equation: $1-x=\dfrac13+3x$ , since each value represents how much juice each child (equally) has in the end. (Each of the first three children now have $1-x$ juice, and the fourth child... | C | 16 |
a4bcf1c0c57df2d791fba9b1c385b729 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_2 | Carlos went to a sports store to buy running shoes. Running shoes were on sale, with prices reduced by $20\%$ on every pair of shoes. Carlos also knew that he had to pay a $7.5\%$ sales tax on the discounted price. He had $$43$ dollars. What is the original (before discount) price of the most expensive shoes he could a... | We can create the equation: \[0.8x \cdot 1.075 = 43\] using the information given. This is because x, the original price, got reduced by 20%, or multiplied by 0.8, and it also got multiplied by 1.075 on the discounted price. Solving that equation, we get \[\frac{4}{5} \cdot x \cdot \frac{43}{40} = 43\] \[\frac{4}{5} \c... | null | 50 |
a4bcf1c0c57df2d791fba9b1c385b729 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_2 | Carlos went to a sports store to buy running shoes. Running shoes were on sale, with prices reduced by $20\%$ on every pair of shoes. Carlos also knew that he had to pay a $7.5\%$ sales tax on the discounted price. He had $$43$ dollars. What is the original (before discount) price of the most expensive shoes he could a... | The discounted shoe is $20\%$ off the original price. So that means $1 - 0.2 = 0.8$ . There is also a $7.5\%$ sales tax charge, so $0.8 * 1.075 = 0.86$ . Now we can set up the equation $0.86x = 43$ , and solving that we get $x=\boxed{50}$ ~ kabbybear | B | 50 |
a4bcf1c0c57df2d791fba9b1c385b729 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_2 | Carlos went to a sports store to buy running shoes. Running shoes were on sale, with prices reduced by $20\%$ on every pair of shoes. Carlos also knew that he had to pay a $7.5\%$ sales tax on the discounted price. He had $$43$ dollars. What is the original (before discount) price of the most expensive shoes he could a... | Let the original price be $x$ dollars.
After the discount, the price becomes $80\%x$ dollars.
After tax, the price becomes $80\% \times (1+7.5\%) = 86\% x$ dollars.
So, $43=86\%x$ $x=\boxed{50}.$ | B | 50 |
a4bcf1c0c57df2d791fba9b1c385b729 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_2 | Carlos went to a sports store to buy running shoes. Running shoes were on sale, with prices reduced by $20\%$ on every pair of shoes. Carlos also knew that he had to pay a $7.5\%$ sales tax on the discounted price. He had $$43$ dollars. What is the original (before discount) price of the most expensive shoes he could a... | We can assign a variable $c$ to represent the original cost of the shoes. Next, we set up the equation $80\%\cdot107.5\%\cdot c=43$ . We can solve this equation for $c$ and get $\boxed{50}$ | B | 50 |
a4bcf1c0c57df2d791fba9b1c385b729 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_2 | Carlos went to a sports store to buy running shoes. Running shoes were on sale, with prices reduced by $20\%$ on every pair of shoes. Carlos also knew that he had to pay a $7.5\%$ sales tax on the discounted price. He had $$43$ dollars. What is the original (before discount) price of the most expensive shoes he could a... | We know the discount price will be 5/4, and 0.075 is equal to 3/40. So we look at answer choice $\textbf{(B) }$ , see that the discount price will be 40, and with sales tax applied it will be 43, so the answer choice is $\boxed{50}$ | B | 50 |
92e154cbb1c1af76ccc83fb6966d1ff8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_4 | Jackson's paintbrush makes a narrow strip with a width of $6.5$ millimeters. Jackson has enough paint to make a strip $25$ meters long. How many square centimeters of paper could Jackson cover with paint?
$\textbf{(A) } 162,500 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 162.5 \qquad\textbf{(C) }1,625 \qquad\textbf{(D) }1,625,000 \qquad\textb... | $6.5$ millimeters is equal to $0.65$ centimeters. $25$ meters is $2500$ centimeters. The answer is $0.65 \times 2500$ , so the answer is $\boxed{1,625}$ | C | 1,625 |
92e154cbb1c1af76ccc83fb6966d1ff8 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_4 | Jackson's paintbrush makes a narrow strip with a width of $6.5$ millimeters. Jackson has enough paint to make a strip $25$ meters long. How many square centimeters of paper could Jackson cover with paint?
$\textbf{(A) } 162,500 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 162.5 \qquad\textbf{(C) }1,625 \qquad\textbf{(D) }1,625,000 \qquad\textb... | $6.5$ millimeters can be represented as $65 \times 10^{-2}$ centimeters. $25$ meters is $25 \times 10^{2}$ centimeters. Multiplying out these results in $(65 \times 10^{-2}) \times (25 \times 10^{2})$ , which is $65 \times 25$ making the answer $\boxed{1,625}$ | C | 1,625 |
e0e6cfcd76521ed9bbabafbf64f80cf6 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_5 | Maddy and Lara see a list of numbers written on a blackboard. Maddy adds $3$ to each number in the list and finds that the sum of her new numbers is $45$ . Lara multiplies each number in the list by $3$ and finds that the sum of her new numbers is also $45$ . How many numbers are written on the blackboard?
$\textbf{(A)... | Let there be $n$ numbers in the list of numbers, and let their sum be $S$ . Then we have the following
\[S+3n=45\]
\[3S=45\]
From the second equation, $S=15$ . So, $15+3n=45$ $\Rightarrow$ $n=\boxed{10}.$ | A | 10 |
e0e6cfcd76521ed9bbabafbf64f80cf6 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_5 | Maddy and Lara see a list of numbers written on a blackboard. Maddy adds $3$ to each number in the list and finds that the sum of her new numbers is $45$ . Lara multiplies each number in the list by $3$ and finds that the sum of her new numbers is also $45$ . How many numbers are written on the blackboard?
$\textbf{(A)... | Let $x_1,x_2,x_3,...,x_n$ where $x_n$ represents the $n$ th number written on the board. Lara's multiplied each number by $3$ , so her sum will be $3x_1+3x_2+3x_3+...+3x_n$ . This is the same as $3\cdot (x_1+x_2+x_3+...+x_n)$ . We are given this quantity is equal to $45$ , so the original numbers add to $\frac{45}{3}=1... | A | 10 |
7e3e889b3c82c637f31835d37d31de58 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_6 | Let $L_{1}=1, L_{2}=3$ , and $L_{n+2}=L_{n+1}+L_{n}$ for $n\geq 1$ . How many terms in the sequence $L_{1}, L_{2}, L_{3},...,L_{2023}$ are even?
$\textbf{(A) }673\qquad\textbf{(B) }1011\qquad\textbf{(C) }675\qquad\textbf{(D) }1010\qquad\textbf{(E) }674$ | We calculate more terms: \[1,3,4,7,11,18,\ldots.\] We find a pattern: if $n$ is a multiple of $3$ , then the term is even, or else it is odd. There are $\left\lfloor \frac{2023}{3} \right\rfloor =\boxed{674}$ multiples of $3$ from $1$ to $2023$ | E | 674 |
7e3e889b3c82c637f31835d37d31de58 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_6 | Let $L_{1}=1, L_{2}=3$ , and $L_{n+2}=L_{n+1}+L_{n}$ for $n\geq 1$ . How many terms in the sequence $L_{1}, L_{2}, L_{3},...,L_{2023}$ are even?
$\textbf{(A) }673\qquad\textbf{(B) }1011\qquad\textbf{(C) }675\qquad\textbf{(D) }1010\qquad\textbf{(E) }674$ | Like in the other solution, we find a pattern, except in a more rigorous way.
Since we start with $1$ and $3$ , the next term is $4$
We start with odd, then odd, then (the sum of odd and odd) even, (the sum of odd and even) odd, and so on. Basically the pattern goes: odd, odd, even, odd odd, even, odd, odd even…
When w... | E | 674 |
68becc4da20d63d0e807b8ca81985425 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_7 | Square $ABCD$ is rotated $20^{\circ}$ clockwise about its center to obtain square $EFGH$ , as shown below. IMG 1031.jpeg
What is the degree measure of $\angle EAB$
$\text{(A)}\ 24^{\circ} \qquad \text{(B)}\ 35^{\circ} \qquad \text{(C)}\ 30^{\circ} \qquad \text{(D)}\ 32^{\circ} \qquad \text{(E)}\ 20^{\circ}$ | First, let's call the center of both squares $I$ . Then, $\angle{AIE} = 20$ , and since $\overline{EI} = \overline{AI}$ $\angle{AEI} = \angle{EAI} = 80$ . Then, we know that $AI$ bisects angle $\angle{DAB}$ , so $\angle{BAI} = \angle{DAI} = 45$ . Subtracting $45$ from $80$ , we get $\boxed{35}$ | B | 35 |
68becc4da20d63d0e807b8ca81985425 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_7 | Square $ABCD$ is rotated $20^{\circ}$ clockwise about its center to obtain square $EFGH$ , as shown below. IMG 1031.jpeg
What is the degree measure of $\angle EAB$
$\text{(A)}\ 24^{\circ} \qquad \text{(B)}\ 35^{\circ} \qquad \text{(C)}\ 30^{\circ} \qquad \text{(D)}\ 32^{\circ} \qquad \text{(E)}\ 20^{\circ}$ | First, label the point between $A$ and $H$ point $O$ and the point between $A$ and $H$ point $P$ . We know that $\angle{AOP} = 20$ and that $\angle{A} = 90$ . Subtracting $20$ and $90$ from $180$ , we get that $\angle{APO}$ is $70$ . Subtracting $70$ from $180$ , we get that $\angle{OPB} = 110$ . From this, we derive t... | B | 35 |
68becc4da20d63d0e807b8ca81985425 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_7 | Square $ABCD$ is rotated $20^{\circ}$ clockwise about its center to obtain square $EFGH$ , as shown below. IMG 1031.jpeg
What is the degree measure of $\angle EAB$
$\text{(A)}\ 24^{\circ} \qquad \text{(B)}\ 35^{\circ} \qquad \text{(C)}\ 30^{\circ} \qquad \text{(D)}\ 32^{\circ} \qquad \text{(E)}\ 20^{\circ}$ | Call the center of both squares point $O$ , and draw circle $O$ such that it circumscribes the squares. $\angle{EOF} = 90$ and $\angle{BOF} = 20$ , so $\angle{EOB} = 70$ . Since $\angle{EAB}$ is inscribed in arc $\overset \frown {EB}$ $\angle{EAB} = 70/2 = \boxed{35}$ | B | 35 |
68becc4da20d63d0e807b8ca81985425 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_7 | Square $ABCD$ is rotated $20^{\circ}$ clockwise about its center to obtain square $EFGH$ , as shown below. IMG 1031.jpeg
What is the degree measure of $\angle EAB$
$\text{(A)}\ 24^{\circ} \qquad \text{(B)}\ 35^{\circ} \qquad \text{(C)}\ 30^{\circ} \qquad \text{(D)}\ 32^{\circ} \qquad \text{(E)}\ 20^{\circ}$ | Draw $EA$ : we want to find $\angle EAB$ . Call $P$ the point at which $AB$ and $EH$ intersect. Reflecting $\triangle APE$ over $EA$ , we have a parallelogram. Since $\angle EPB = 70^{\circ}$ , angle subtraction tells us that two of the angles of the parallelogram are $110^{\circ}$ . The other two are equal to $2\angle... | B | 35 |
68becc4da20d63d0e807b8ca81985425 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_7 | Square $ABCD$ is rotated $20^{\circ}$ clockwise about its center to obtain square $EFGH$ , as shown below. IMG 1031.jpeg
What is the degree measure of $\angle EAB$
$\text{(A)}\ 24^{\circ} \qquad \text{(B)}\ 35^{\circ} \qquad \text{(C)}\ 30^{\circ} \qquad \text{(D)}\ 32^{\circ} \qquad \text{(E)}\ 20^{\circ}$ | We call the point where $AB$ and $EH$ intersect I. We can make an educated guess that triangle AEI is isosceles so $AI=EI$ $\angle AIE = 110^{\circ}$ $\angle AIH = 20^{\circ}$ , and $\angle EIB = 70^{\circ}$ . So, we get $\angle EAI$ is $(180^{\circ} - 110^{\circ})/2 = \boxed{35}$ | B | 35 |
68433d76e26d2760cef5e4bbffd45057 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_8 | What is the units digit of $2022^{2023} + 2023^{2022}$
$\text{(A)}\ 7 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 1 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 9 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 3$ | $2022^{2023} + 2023^{2022} \equiv 2^3 + 3^2 \equiv 17 \equiv 7$ (mod 10). $\boxed{7}$ ~andliu766 | A | 7 |
68433d76e26d2760cef5e4bbffd45057 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_8 | What is the units digit of $2022^{2023} + 2023^{2022}$
$\text{(A)}\ 7 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 1 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 9 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 3$ | When looking at the units digit patterns of the powers of $2$ , we see that
$2^1=$ , units digit $2$
$2^2=$ , units digit $4$
$2^3=$ , units digit $8$
$2^4=$ , units digit $6$
$2^5=$ , units digit $2$
And the pattern repeats. This pattern will apply for the powers of $2022$ as well, since the units digit of $2022$... | A | 7 |
68433d76e26d2760cef5e4bbffd45057 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_8 | What is the units digit of $2022^{2023} + 2023^{2022}$
$\text{(A)}\ 7 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 1 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 9 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 3$ | Note that the units digit will be the same regardless of the tens, hundreds, and thousands digits, so we can simplify this problem to finding the last digit of $2^{2023} + 3^{2022}$ . We can find the units digit of $2^{2023}$ , by listing the units digits of the first few powers of two, and trying to find a pattern.
$2... | A | 7 |
c8efed845ddaa7db91a7f7494e4b90cc | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_9 | The numbers $16$ and $25$ are a pair of consecutive positive squares whose difference is $9$ . How many pairs of consecutive positive perfect squares have a difference of less than or equal to $2023$
$\text{(A)}\ 674 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 1011 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 1010 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 2019 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 2017$ | Let x be the square root of the smaller of the two perfect squares. Then, $(x+1)^2 - x^2 =x^2+2x+1-x^2 = 2x+1 \le 2023$ . Thus, $x \le 1011$ . So there are $\boxed{1011}$ numbers that satisfy the equation. | B | 1011 |
c8efed845ddaa7db91a7f7494e4b90cc | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_9 | The numbers $16$ and $25$ are a pair of consecutive positive squares whose difference is $9$ . How many pairs of consecutive positive perfect squares have a difference of less than or equal to $2023$
$\text{(A)}\ 674 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 1011 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 1010 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 2019 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 2017$ | The smallest number that can be expressed as the difference of a pair of consecutive positive squares is $3$ , which is $2^2-1^2$ . The largest number that can be expressed as the difference of a pair of consecutive positive squares that is less than or equal to $2023$ is $2023$ , which is $1012^2-1011^2$ . These numbe... | B | 1011 |
fde90ea18f009fc7c1e0f09287f9a054 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_10 | You are playing a game. A $2 \times 1$ rectangle covers two adjacent squares (oriented either horizontally or vertically) of a $3 \times 3$ grid of squares, but you are not told which two squares are covered. Your goal is to find at least one square that is covered by the rectangle. A "turn" consists of you guessing a ... | First, note that since the rectangle covers 2 squares, we only need to guess squares that are not adjacent to any of our other guesses. To minimize the amount of guesses, each of our guessed squares should try to touch another guess on one vertex and one vertex only. There are only two ways to do this: one with $5$ gue... | C | 4 |
fde90ea18f009fc7c1e0f09287f9a054 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_10 | You are playing a game. A $2 \times 1$ rectangle covers two adjacent squares (oriented either horizontally or vertically) of a $3 \times 3$ grid of squares, but you are not told which two squares are covered. Your goal is to find at least one square that is covered by the rectangle. A "turn" consists of you guessing a ... | Since the hidden rectangle can only hide two adjacent squares, we may think that we eliminate 8 squares and we're done, but think again. This is the AMC 10, so there must be a better solution (also note that every other solution choice is below 8 so we're probably not done) So, we think again, we notice that we haven't... | C | 4 |
fde90ea18f009fc7c1e0f09287f9a054 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_10 | You are playing a game. A $2 \times 1$ rectangle covers two adjacent squares (oriented either horizontally or vertically) of a $3 \times 3$ grid of squares, but you are not told which two squares are covered. Your goal is to find at least one square that is covered by the rectangle. A "turn" consists of you guessing a ... | The $3 \times 3$ grid can be colored like a checkerboard with alternating black and white squares.
Let the top left square be white, and the rest of the squares alternate colors.
Each $2 \times 1$ rectangle always covers $1$ white square and $1$ black square.
You can ensure that at least one of your guessed squares is ... | null | 4 |
fde90ea18f009fc7c1e0f09287f9a054 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_10 | You are playing a game. A $2 \times 1$ rectangle covers two adjacent squares (oriented either horizontally or vertically) of a $3 \times 3$ grid of squares, but you are not told which two squares are covered. Your goal is to find at least one square that is covered by the rectangle. A "turn" consists of you guessing a ... | We realize that every $2 \times 1$ rectangle must contain an edge and no more than one edge. There are a total of four edges so the answer is $\boxed{4.}$ .
~darrenn.cp | C | 4. |
8d08cc885a4be33e2d2bfd46478ca2ce | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_11 | Suzanne went to the bank and withdrew $$800$ . The teller gave her this amount using $$20$ bills, $$50$ bills, and $$100$ bills, with at least one of each denomination. How many different collections of bills could Suzanne have received?
$\textbf{(A) } 45 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 21 \qquad \text{(C) } 36 \qquad \text{(D) }... | Denote by $x$ $y$ $z$ the amount of $20 bills, $50 bills and $100 bills, respectively.
Thus, we need to find the number of tuples $\left( x , y, z \right)$ with $x, y, z \in \Bbb N$ that satisfy \[ 20 x + 50 y + 100 z = 800. \]
First, this equation can be simplified as \[ 2 x + 5 y + 10 z = 80. \]
Second, we must have... | B | 21 |
8d08cc885a4be33e2d2bfd46478ca2ce | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_11 | Suzanne went to the bank and withdrew $$800$ . The teller gave her this amount using $$20$ bills, $$50$ bills, and $$100$ bills, with at least one of each denomination. How many different collections of bills could Suzanne have received?
$\textbf{(A) } 45 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 21 \qquad \text{(C) } 36 \qquad \text{(D) }... | We notice that each $100 can be split 3 ways: 5 $20 dollar bills, 2 $50 dollar bills, or 1 $100 dollar bill.
There are 8 of these $100 chunks in total--take away 3 as each split must be used at least once.
Now there are five left--so we use stars and bars.
5 chunks, 3 categories or 2 bars. This gives us $\binom{5+2}{2}... | B | 21 |
1a673bc4502d9757d0f7da2139cd1735 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_12 | When the roots of the polynomial
\[P(x) = (x-1)^1 (x-2)^2 (x-3)^3 \cdot \cdot \cdot (x-10)^{10}\]
are removed from the number line, what remains is the union of $11$ disjoint open intervals. On how many of these intervals is $P(x)$ positive?
$\textbf{(A)}~3\qquad\textbf{(B)}~7\qquad\textbf{(C)}~6\qquad\textbf{(D)}~4\q... | The expressions to the power of even powers are always positive, so we don't need to care about those. We only need to care about $(x-1)^1(x-3)^3(x-5)^5(x-7)^7(x-9)^9$ . We need 0, 2, or 4 of the expressions to be negative. The 9 through 10 interval and 10 plus interval make all of the expressions positive. The 5 throu... | C | 6 |
1a673bc4502d9757d0f7da2139cd1735 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_12 | When the roots of the polynomial
\[P(x) = (x-1)^1 (x-2)^2 (x-3)^3 \cdot \cdot \cdot (x-10)^{10}\]
are removed from the number line, what remains is the union of $11$ disjoint open intervals. On how many of these intervals is $P(x)$ positive?
$\textbf{(A)}~3\qquad\textbf{(B)}~7\qquad\textbf{(C)}~6\qquad\textbf{(D)}~4\q... | The roots of the factorized polynomial are intervals from numbers 1 to 10. We take each interval as being defined as the number behind it. To make the function positive, we need to have an even number of negative expressions. Real numbers raised to even powers are always positive, so we only focus on $x-1$ $x-3$ $x-5$ ... | C | 6 |
1a673bc4502d9757d0f7da2139cd1735 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_12 | When the roots of the polynomial
\[P(x) = (x-1)^1 (x-2)^2 (x-3)^3 \cdot \cdot \cdot (x-10)^{10}\]
are removed from the number line, what remains is the union of $11$ disjoint open intervals. On how many of these intervals is $P(x)$ positive?
$\textbf{(A)}~3\qquad\textbf{(B)}~7\qquad\textbf{(C)}~6\qquad\textbf{(D)}~4\q... | We can use the turning point behavior at the roots of a polynomial graph to find out the amount of intervals that are positive.
First, we evaluate any value on the interval $(-\infty, 1)$ . Since the degree of $P(x)$ is $1+2+...+9+10$ $\frac{10\times11}{2}$ $55$ , and every term in $P(x)$ is negative, multiplying $55$ ... | C | 6 |
1a673bc4502d9757d0f7da2139cd1735 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_12 | When the roots of the polynomial
\[P(x) = (x-1)^1 (x-2)^2 (x-3)^3 \cdot \cdot \cdot (x-10)^{10}\]
are removed from the number line, what remains is the union of $11$ disjoint open intervals. On how many of these intervals is $P(x)$ positive?
$\textbf{(A)}~3\qquad\textbf{(B)}~7\qquad\textbf{(C)}~6\qquad\textbf{(D)}~4\q... | Denote by $I_k$ the interval $\left( k - 1 , k \right)$ for $k \in \left\{ 2, 3, \cdots , 10 \right\}$ and $I_1$ the interval $\left( - \infty, 1 \right)$
Therefore, the number of intervals that $P(x)$ is positive is \begin{align*} 1 + \sum_{i=1}^{10} \Bbb I \left\{ \sum_{j=i}^{10} j \mbox{ is even} \right\} & = 1... | C | 6 |
0a76a3623b55af072cd12401ed9e7721 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_13 | What is the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by
$| | x | - 1 | + | | y | - 1 | \le 1$
$\text{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 8 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 15 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 12$ | First consider, $|x-1|+|y-1| \le 1.$ We can see that it is a square with a radius of $1$ (diagonal $\sqrt{2}$ ). The area of the square is $\sqrt{2}^2 = 2.$
Next, we insert an absolute value sign into the equation and get $|x-1|+||y|-1| \le 1.$ This will double the square reflecting over x-axis.
So now we have $2$ squa... | B | 8 |
0a76a3623b55af072cd12401ed9e7721 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_13 | What is the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by
$| | x | - 1 | + | | y | - 1 | \le 1$
$\text{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 8 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 15 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 12$ | We first consider the lattice points that satisfy $||x|-1| = 0$ and $||y|-1| = 1$ . The lattice points satisfying these equations
are $(1,0), (1,2), (1,-2), (-1,0), (-1,2),$ and $(-1,-2).$ By symmetry, we also have points $(0,1), (2,1), (-2,1), (0,-1), (2,-1),$ and $(-2,-1)$ when $||x|-1| = 1$ and $||y|-1| = 0$ . Grap... | B | 8 |
0a76a3623b55af072cd12401ed9e7721 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_13 | What is the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by
$| | x | - 1 | + | | y | - 1 | \le 1$
$\text{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 8 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 15 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 12$ | The value of $|x|$ and $|y|$ can be a maximum of 1 when the other is 0. Therefore the value of $x$ and $y$ range from -2 to 2. This forms a diamond shape which has area $4 \times \frac{2^2}{2}$ which is $\boxed{8}.$ | B | 8 |
0a76a3623b55af072cd12401ed9e7721 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_13 | What is the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by
$| | x | - 1 | + | | y | - 1 | \le 1$
$\text{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 8 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 15 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 12$ | We start by considering the graph of $|x|+|y|\leq 1$ . To get from this graph to $||x|-1|+||y|-1| \leq 1$ we have to translate it by $\pm 1$ on the $x$ axis and $\pm 1$ on the $y$ axis.
Graphing $|x|+|y|\leq 1$ we get a square with side length of $\sqrt{2}$ , so the area of one of these squares is just $2$
We have to m... | B | 8 |
ebc3130e9ab70dd7adc7e6417fe3e51b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_14 | How many ordered pairs of integers $(m, n)$ satisfy the equation $m^2+mn+n^2 = m^2n^2$
$\textbf{(A) }7\qquad\textbf{(B) }1\qquad\textbf{(C) }3\qquad\textbf{(D) }6\qquad\textbf{(E) }5$ | Clearly, $m=0,n=0$ is one of the solutions. However, we can be quite sure that there are more, so we apply Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick to get the following:
\begin{align*} m^2+mn+n^2 &= m^2n^2\\ m^2+mn+n^2 +mn &= m^2n^2 +mn\\ (m+n)^2 &= m^2n^2 +mn\\ (m+n)^2 &= mn(mn+1).\\ \end{align*}
Essentially, this says that t... | C | 3 |
ebc3130e9ab70dd7adc7e6417fe3e51b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_14 | How many ordered pairs of integers $(m, n)$ satisfy the equation $m^2+mn+n^2 = m^2n^2$
$\textbf{(A) }7\qquad\textbf{(B) }1\qquad\textbf{(C) }3\qquad\textbf{(D) }6\qquad\textbf{(E) }5$ | Case 1: $mn = 0$
In this case, $m = n = 0$
Case 2: $mn \neq 0$
Denote $k = {\rm gcd} \left( m, n \right)$ .
Denote $m = k u$ and $n = k v$ .
Thus, ${\rm gcd} \left( u, v \right) = 1$
Thus, the equation given in this problem can be written as \[ u^2 + uv + v^2 = k^2 u^2 v^2 . \]
Modulo $u$ , we have $v^2 \equiv 0 \pmod{... | C | 3 |
ebc3130e9ab70dd7adc7e6417fe3e51b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_14 | How many ordered pairs of integers $(m, n)$ satisfy the equation $m^2+mn+n^2 = m^2n^2$
$\textbf{(A) }7\qquad\textbf{(B) }1\qquad\textbf{(C) }3\qquad\textbf{(D) }6\qquad\textbf{(E) }5$ | We can move all terms to one side and write the equation as a quadratic in terms of $n$ to get \[(1-m^2)n^2+(m)n+(m^2)=0.\] The discriminant of this quadratic is \[\Delta = m^2-4(1-m^2)(m^2)=m^2(4m^2-3).\] For $n$ to be an integer, we must have $m^2(4m^2-3)$ be a perfect square. Thus, either $4m^2-3$ is a perfect squar... | C | 3 |
ebc3130e9ab70dd7adc7e6417fe3e51b | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_14 | How many ordered pairs of integers $(m, n)$ satisfy the equation $m^2+mn+n^2 = m^2n^2$
$\textbf{(A) }7\qquad\textbf{(B) }1\qquad\textbf{(C) }3\qquad\textbf{(D) }6\qquad\textbf{(E) }5$ | Let $x=m+n, y=mn$ then \[x^2-y=y^2\] Completing the square then gives \[4x^2+1=(2y+1)^2\] Since the RHS is a square, clearly the only solutions are $x=0,y=0$ and $x=0,y=-1$ . The first gives $(0,0)$ while the second gives $(-1,1)$ and $(1,-1)$ by solving it as a quadratic with roots $m$ and $n$ . Thus there are $\boxed... | C | 3 |
18167852ccabbc147d57d50df08cd523 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_20 | Four congruent semicircles are drawn on the surface of a sphere with radius $2$ , as
shown, creating a close curve that divides the surface into two congruent regions.
The length of the curve is $\pi\sqrt{n}$ . What is $n$
$\textbf{(A) } 32 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 12 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 48 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 36 \qquad ... | There are four marked points on the diagram; let us examine the top two points and call them $A$ and $B$ . Similarly, let the bottom two dots be $C$ and $D$ , as shown:
[asy] import graph; import geometry; unitsize(1cm); pair A = (-1.41, 1.41); pair B = (1.41, 1.41); pair C = (1.41, -1.41); pair D = (-1.41, -1.41); p... | A | 32. |
18167852ccabbc147d57d50df08cd523 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_20 | Four congruent semicircles are drawn on the surface of a sphere with radius $2$ , as
shown, creating a close curve that divides the surface into two congruent regions.
The length of the curve is $\pi\sqrt{n}$ . What is $n$
$\textbf{(A) } 32 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 12 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 48 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 36 \qquad ... | We put the sphere to a coordinate space by putting the center at the origin.
The four connecting points of the curve have the following coordinates: $A = \left( 0, 0, 2 \right)$ $B = \left( 2, 0, 0 \right)$ $C = \left( 0, 0, -2 \right)$ $D = \left( -2, 0, 0 \right)$
Now, we compute the radius of each semicircle.
Denote... | A | 32 |
18167852ccabbc147d57d50df08cd523 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_20 | Four congruent semicircles are drawn on the surface of a sphere with radius $2$ , as
shown, creating a close curve that divides the surface into two congruent regions.
The length of the curve is $\pi\sqrt{n}$ . What is $n$
$\textbf{(A) } 32 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 12 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 48 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 36 \qquad ... | Note that each of the diameters are the chord of the sphere of a quarter arc. Thus, the semicircles diameter's length is $2\sqrt{2}$ . Thus, the entire curve is $2\sqrt{2} \cdot \pi \cdot \frac{1}{2} \cdot 4 = 4\sqrt{2} \pi = \sqrt{32} \pi$ . Therefore, the answer is $\boxed{32}$ .
~andliu766 | A | 32 |
18167852ccabbc147d57d50df08cd523 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_20 | Four congruent semicircles are drawn on the surface of a sphere with radius $2$ , as
shown, creating a close curve that divides the surface into two congruent regions.
The length of the curve is $\pi\sqrt{n}$ . What is $n$
$\textbf{(A) } 32 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 12 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 48 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 36 \qquad ... | Cheese: You can immediately say that the answer choice is either ${\text{(A) }32}$ or ${\text{(C) }48}$ because there are four semicircles in that curve; there are $4 = \sqrt{16}$ semicircles in the curve, so n has to be a multiple of 16, and if you don't know how to do this problem, just guess one of ${\text{(A)}}$ or... | A | 32 |
5f7b41b01da9c45356eaa25e0bd915dc | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_21 | Each of $2023$ balls is randomly placed into one of $3$ bins. Which of the following is closest to the probability that each of the bins will contain an odd number of balls?
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad\textbf{(B) } \frac{3}{10} \qquad\textbf{(C) } \frac{1}{2} \qquad\textbf{(D) } \frac{1}{3} \qquad\textbf{(E) } \f... | We first examine the possible arrangements for parity of number of balls in each box for $2022$ balls.
If a $E$ denotes an even number and a $O$ denotes an odd number, then the distribution of balls for $2022$ balls could be $EEE,EOO,OEO,$ or $OOE$ . With the insanely overpowered magic of cheese, we assume that each ca... | E | 14. |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | To further grasp at this equation, we rearrange the equation into \[\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2=3x-2.\] Thus, $3x-2$ is a perfect square and nonnegative. It is now much more apparent that $x \ge 2/3,$ and that $x = 2/3$ is a solution.
Additionally, by observing the RHS, $x<4,$ as \[\lfloor{4}\rfloor^2 > 3\cdot4,\] since square... | B | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | Notice there has to be a solution for $x$ between $(2,-3)$ and $(1,2)$ because of the floors. There is also no way $2$ solutions because of the quadratic, and when we add them together, we get $\boxed{4}.$ ~perion. | B | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | First, let's take care of the integer case--clearly, only $x=1,2$ work.
Then, we know that $3x$ must be an integer. Set $x=\frac{a}3$ . Now, there are two cases for the value of $\lfloor x\rfloor$ .
Case 1: $\lfloor x\rfloor=\frac{a-1}{3}$ \[\frac{a^2-2a+1}{9}=a-2\rightarrow a^2-2a+1=9a-18\rightarrow a^2-11a+19=0.\] Th... | null | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | First, $x=2,1$ are trivial solutions
We assume from the shape of a parabola and the nature of the floor function that any additional roots will be near 2 and 1
We can now test values for $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$
$\lfloor{x}\rfloor=0$
We have $0-3x+2=0$ . Solving, we have $x=\frac{2}{3}$ . We see that $\lfloor{\frac{2}{3}}\r... | B | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | Denote $a = \lfloor x \rfloor$ .
Denote $b = x - \lfloor x \rfloor$ .
Thus, $b \in \left[ 0 , 1 \right)$
The equation given in this problem can be written as \[ a^2 - 3 \left( a + b \right) + 2 = 0 . \]
Thus, \begin{align*} 3 b & = a^2 - 3 a + 2 . \end{align*}
Because $b \in \left[ 0 , 1 \right)$ , we have $3 b \in \le... | B | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | $x=1, 2$ are trivial solutions.
Let $x=n+f$ for some integer $n$ and some number $f$ such that $-1<f<1$ \[\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2= \lfloor{n+f}\rfloor^2-3(n+f)+2=n^2+-3(n+f)+2.\] So now we have \[n^2-3(n+f)+2 = 0,\] which we can rewrite as \[n(n-3)=3f-2.\] Since $n$ is an integer, $n(n-3)$ is an integer, so $3f-2$ is ... | B | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | We rewrite the equation as ${\lfloor x\rfloor}^2-3\lfloor x\rfloor-3\{x\}+2=0$ , where $\{x\}$ is the fractional part of $x$
Denote $\lfloor x\rfloor = x_1$ and $\{x\} = x_2.$ Thus \[{x_1}^2-3{x_1}-3{x_2}+2=0.\]
By definition, $0\leq x_2\leq 1$ . We then have ${x_1}^2-3{x_1}+2=3{x_2}$ and therefore $0\leq {x_1}^2-3{x_1... | B | 4 |
60dc0d3001d02268939084d6b1bfb5d9 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_22 | How many distinct values of $x$ satisfy $\lfloor{x}\rfloor^2-3x+2=0$ , where $\lfloor{x}\rfloor$ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to $x$
$\textbf{(A) } \text{an infinite number} \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0$ | We know that for integer values of x, the graph is just $x^2-3x+2$ . From the interval $[x, x+1]$ , the square stays the same, so the graph has a line segment that goes down by 3 and right by 2. This is very easy to graph, so we see that there are 4 solutions. Or, we notice that only $x = 0, 1, 2, 3$ results in a $x^2-... | B | 4 |
90ab6a7927dd7c34a881add5810f12b3 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_23 | An arithmetic sequence of positive integers has $\text{n} \ge 3$ terms, initial term $a$ , and common difference $d > 1$ . Carl wrote down all the terms in this sequence correctly except for one term, which was off by $1$ . The sum of the terms he wrote was $222$ . What is $a + d + n$
$\textbf{(A) } 24 \qquad \textbf{(... | Since one of the terms was either $1$ more or $1$ less than it should have been, the sum should have been $222-1=221$ or $222+1=223.$
The formula for an arithmetic series is $an+d\left(\dfrac{(n-1)n}2\right)=\dfrac n2\left(2a+d(n-1)\right).$ This can quickly be rederived by noticing that the sequence goes $a,a+d,a+2d,a... | B | 20. |
90ab6a7927dd7c34a881add5810f12b3 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_23 | An arithmetic sequence of positive integers has $\text{n} \ge 3$ terms, initial term $a$ , and common difference $d > 1$ . Carl wrote down all the terms in this sequence correctly except for one term, which was off by $1$ . The sum of the terms he wrote was $222$ . What is $a + d + n$
$\textbf{(A) } 24 \qquad \textbf{(... | There are $n$ terms, the $x$ th term is $a+(x-1)d$ , summation is $an+dn(n-1)/2=n(a+\frac{d(n-1)}{2})$
The summation of the set is $222 \pm 1 = 221,223$ . First, $221$ : its only possible factors are $1,13,17,221$ , and as said by the problem, $n\ge3$ , so $n$ must be $13,17,$ or $221$ . Let's start with $n=13$ . Then,... | B | 20 |
90ab6a7927dd7c34a881add5810f12b3 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_23 | An arithmetic sequence of positive integers has $\text{n} \ge 3$ terms, initial term $a$ , and common difference $d > 1$ . Carl wrote down all the terms in this sequence correctly except for one term, which was off by $1$ . The sum of the terms he wrote was $222$ . What is $a + d + n$
$\textbf{(A) } 24 \qquad \textbf{(... | We must have the sum of terms of the arithmetic sequence is $222\pm 1$ , which is $221$ or $223$
Since we have $223$ is prime, it cannot be the sum of the arithmetic sequence.
We see that $221$ is just $13\times 17$
We can write any arithmetic sequence with an odd amount of terms like this: $b-md,\cdots ,b-2d,b-d,b,b+d... | B | 20. |
90ab6a7927dd7c34a881add5810f12b3 | https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10B_Problems/Problem_23 | An arithmetic sequence of positive integers has $\text{n} \ge 3$ terms, initial term $a$ , and common difference $d > 1$ . Carl wrote down all the terms in this sequence correctly except for one term, which was off by $1$ . The sum of the terms he wrote was $222$ . What is $a + d + n$
$\textbf{(A) } 24 \qquad \textbf{(... | The formula for the sum of an arithmetic sequence is $n(\frac{a_1+a_n}{2})$ , where $a$ is the first term, $a_n$ is the last term, and $n$ is the number of terms. Let $a$ be the first term, $d$ be the common difference, and $n$ be the number of terms of Carl's sequence. Since the sum the sequence is $1$ less or $1$ mor... | B | 20. |
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