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    2015 AMC 8 Problems

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    These problems cover a wide range of math topics including geometry, probability, algebra, and word problems. They involve calculating areas of shapes, finding probabilities of outcomes, solving equations, and reasoning about word problems about speed, sequences, and other concepts. The solutions are not shown.

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    These problems cover a wide range of math topics including geometry, probability, algebra, and word problems. They involve calculating areas of shapes, finding probabilities of outcomes, solving equations, and reasoning about word problems about speed, sequences, and other concepts. The solutions are not shown.

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    2015 AMC 8 Problems

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    of 8

    Problem 1

    How many square yards of carpet are required to cover a rectangular floor that is feet long and
    feet wide? (There are feet in a yard.)

    Solution

    Problem 2
    Point is the center of the regular octagon , and is the midpoint of the side
    What fraction of the area of the octagon is shaded?

    Solution

    Problem 3
    Jack and Jill are going swimming at a pool that is one mile from their house. They leave home
    simultaneously. Jill rides her bicycle to the pool at a constant speed of miles per hour. Jack
    walks to the pool at a constant speed of miles per hour. How many minutes before Jack does
    Jill arrive?

    Solution

    Problem 4
    The Dragonvale Middle School chess team consists of two boys and three girls. A photographer
    wants to take a picture of the team to appear in the local newspaper. She decides to have them sit
    in a row with a boy at each end and the three girls in the middle. How many such arrangements
    are possible?

    Solution

    Problem 5
    Billy's basketball team scored the following points over the course of the first games of the
    season: If his team scores 40 in the 12th game, which
    of the following statistics will show an increase?

    Solution

    Problem 6
    In , , and . What is the area of ?

    Solution

    Problem 7
    Each of two boxes contains three chips numbered , , . A chip is drawn randomly from each
    box and the numbers on the two chips are multiplied. What is the probability that their product is
    even?

    Solution

    Problem 8
    What is the smallest whole number larger than the perimeter of any triangle with a side of length
    5 and a side of length 19?
    Solution

    Problem 9
    On her first day of work, Janabel sold one widget. On day two, she sold three widgets. On day
    three, she sold five widgets, and on each succeeding day, she sold two more widgets than she had
    sold on the previous day. How many widgets in total had Janabel sold after working days?

    Solution

    Problem 10
    How many integers between and have four distinct digits?

    Solution

    Problem 11
    In the small country of Icosahedrontopia, all automobile license plates have four symbols. The
    first must be a vowel ( or ), the second and third must be two different letters
    among the non-vowels, and the fourth must be a digit ( through ). If the symbols are chosen
    at random subject to these conditions, what is the probability that the plate will read " "?

    Solution

    Problem 12
    How many pairs of parallel edges, such as and or and , does a cube have?
    Solution

    Problem 13
    How many subsets of two elements can be removed from the set
    so that the mean (average) of the remaining numbers is ?

    Solution

    Problem 14
    Which of the following integers cannot be written as the sum of four consecutive odd integers?

    Solution

    Problem 15
    At Euler Middle School, students voted on two issues in a school referendum with the
    following results: voted in favor of the first issue and voted in favor of the second issue.
    If there were exactly students who voted against both issues, how many students voted in
    favor of both issues?

    Solution
    Problem 16
    In a middle-school mentoring program, a number of the sixth graders are paired with a ninth-
    grade student as a buddy. No ninth grader is assigned more than one sixth-grade buddy. If of all
    the ninth graders are paired with of all the sixth graders, what fraction of the total number of
    sixth and ninth graders have a buddy?

    Solution

    Problem 17
    Jeremy's father drives him to school in rush hour traffic in minutes. One day there is no traffic,
    so his father can drive him miles per hour faster and gets him to school in minutes. How far
    in miles is it to school?

    Solution

    Problem 18
    An arithmetic sequence is a sequence in which each term after the first is obtained by adding a
    constant to the previous term. For example, is an arithmetic sequence with five
    terms, in which the first term is and the constant added is . Each row and each column in this
    array is an arithmetic sequence with five terms. What is the value of ?

    Solution

    Problem 19
    A triangle with vertices as , , and is plotted on a grid.
    What fraction of the grid is covered by the triangle?

    Solution

    Problem 20
    Ralph went to the store and bought pairs of socks for a total of . Some of the socks he
    bought cost a pair, some of the socks he bought cost a pair, and some of the socks he
    bought cost a pair. If he bought at least one pair of each type, how many pairs of socks did
    Ralph buy?

    Solution

    Problem 21
    In the given figure hexagon is equiangular, and are squares with
    areas and respectively, is equilateral and . What is the area of
    ?
    Solution

    Problem 22
    On June , a group of students are standing in rows, with students in each row. On June , the
    same group is standing with all of the students in one long row. On June , the same group is
    standing with just one student in each row. On June , the same group is standing with students
    in each row. This process continues through June with a different number of students per row
    each day. However, on June , they cannot find a new way of organizing the students. What is
    the smallest possible number of students in the group?

    Solution

    Problem 23
    Tom has twelve slips of paper which he wants to put into five cups labeled , , , , . He
    wants the sum of the numbers on the slips in each cup to be an integer. Furthermore, he wants
    the five integers to be consecutive and increasing from to . The numbers on the papers are
    and . If a slip with goes into cup and a slip with goes
    into cup , then the slip with must go into what cup?

    Solution

    Problem 24
    A baseball league consists of two four-team divisions. Each team plays every other team in its
    division games. Each team plays every team in the other division games with
    and . Each team plays a -game schedule. How many games does a team play within its
    own division?

    Solution

    Problem 25
    One-inch squares are cut from the corners of this inch square. What is the area in square inches
    of the largest square that can fit into the remaining space?

    Solution

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