2006 AMC 10A Problems
Problem 1
Sandwiches at Joe's Fast Food cost each and sodas cost each. How many dollars will it cost to
purchase 5 sandwiches and 8 sodas?
Problem 2
Define . What is ?
Problem 3
The ratio of Mary's age to Alice's age is . Alice is years old. How many years old is Mary?
Problem 4
A digital watch displays hours and minutes with AM and PM. What is the largest possible sum of the digits
in the display?
Problem 5
Doug and Dave shared a pizza with 8 equally-sized slices. Doug wanted a plain pizza, but Dave wanted
anchovies on half of the pizza. The cost of a plain pizza was 8 dollars, and there was an additional cost of
2 dollars for putting anchovies on one half. Dave ate all of the slices of anchovy pizza and one plain slice.
Doug ate the remainder. Each then paid for what he had eaten. How many more dollars did Dave pay than
Doug?
Problem 6
What non-zero real value for satisfies ?
Problem 7
The rectangle is cut into two congruent hexagons, as shown, in such a way that the two
hexagons can be repositioned without overlap to form a square. What is ?
Problem 8
A parabola with equation passes through the points and . What is ?
Problem 9
How many sets of two or more consecutive positive integers have a sum of 15?
Problem 10
For how many real values of is an integer?
Problem 11
Which of the following describes the graph of the equation ?
Problem 12
Rolly wishes to secure his dog with an 8-foot rope to a square shed that is 16 feet on each side. His
preliminary drawings are shown.
Which of these arrangements give the dog the greater area to roam, and by how many square feet?
Problem 13
A player pays to play a game. A die is rolled. If the number on the die is odd, the game is lost. If the
number on the die is even, the die is rolled again. In this case the player wins if the second number
matches the first and loses otherwise. How much should the player win if the game is fair? (In a fair game
the probability of winning times the amount won is what the player should pay.)
Problem 14
A number of linked rings, each 1 cm thick, are hanging on a peg. The top ring has an outside diameter of
20 cm. The outside diameter of each of the outer rings is 1 cm less than that of the ring above it. The
bottom ring has an outside diameter of 3 cm. What is the distance, in cm, from the top of the top ring to
the bottom of the bottom ring?
Problem 15
Odell and Kershaw run for 30 minutes on a circular track. Odell runs clockwise at 250 m/min and uses the
inner lane with a radius of 50 meters. Kershaw runs counterclockwise at 300 m/min and uses the outer
lane with a radius of 60 meters, starting on the same radial line as Odell. How many times after the start
do they pass each other?
Problem 16
A circle of radius 1 is tangent to a circle of radius 2. The sides of are tangent to the circles as
shown, and the sides and are congruent. What is the area of ?
Problem 17
In rectangle , points and trisect , and points and trisect . In addition,
. What is the area of quadrilateral shown in the figure?
Problem 18
A license plate in a certain state consists of 4 digits, not necessarily distinct, and 2 letters, also not
necessarily distinct. These six characters may appear in any order, except that the two letters must
appear next to each other. How many distinct license plates are possible?
Problem 19
How many non-similar triangles have angles whose degree measures are distinct positive integers in
arithmetic progression?
Problem 20
Six distinct positive integers are randomly chosen between 1 and 2006, inclusive. What is the probability
that some pair of these integers has a difference that is a multiple of 5?
Problem 21
How many four-digit positive integers have at least one digit that is a 2 or a 3?
Problem 22
Two farmers agree that pigs are worth $300 and that goats are worth $210. When one farmer owes the
other money, he pays the debt in pigs or goats, with "change" received in the form of goats or pigs as
necessary. (For example, a $390 debt could be paid with two pigs, with one goat received in change.)
What is the amount of the smallest positive debt that can be resolved in this way?
Problem 23
Circles with centers and have radii and , respectively. A common internal tangent intersects the
circles at and , respectively. Lines and intersect at , and . What is ?
Problem 24
Centers of adjacent faces of a unit cube are joined to form a regular octahedron. What is the volume of
this octahedron?
Problem 25
A bug starts at one vertex of a cube and moves along the edges of the cube according to the following
rule. At each vertex the bug will choose to travel along one of the three edges emanating from that
vertex. Each edge has equal probability of being chosen, and all choices are independent. What is the
probability that after seven moves the bug will have visited every vertex exactly once?
2006 AMC 10B Problems
Problem 1
What is ?
Problem 2
For real numbers and , define . What is ?
Problem 3
A football game was played between two teams, the Cougars and the Panthers. The two teams scored a
total of 34 points, and the Cougars won by a margin of 14 points. How many points did the Panthers
score?
Problem 4
Circles of diameter 1 inch and 3 inches have the same center. The smaller circle is painted red, and the
portion outside the smaller circle and inside the larger circle is painted blue. What is the ratio of the blue-
painted area to the red-painted area?
Problem 5
A rectangle and a rectangle are contained within a square without overlapping at any point,
and the sides of the square are parallel to the sides of the two given rectangles. What is the smallest
possible area of the square?
Problem 6
A region is bounded by semicircular arcs constructed on the side of a square whose sides measure , as
shown. What is the perimeter of this region?
Problem 7
Which of the folowing is equivalent to when ?
Problem 8
A square of area 40 is inscribed in a semicircle as shown. What is the area of the semicircle?
Problem 9
Francesca uses 100 grams of lemon juice, 100 grams of sugar, and 400 grams of water to make
lemonade. There are 25 calories in 100 grams of lemon juice and 386 calories in 100 grams of sugar.
Water contains no calories. How many calories are in 200 grams of her lemonade?
Problem 10
In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a second side, and the length of
the third side is 15. What is the greatest possible perimeter of the triangle?
Problem 11
What is the tens digit in the sum
Problem 12
The lines and intersect at the point . What is ?
Problem 13
Joe and JoAnn each bought 12 ounces of coffee in a 16 ounce cup. Joe drank 2 ounces of his coffee and
then added 2 ounces of cream. JoAnn added 2 ounces of cream, stirred the coffee well, and then drank 2
ounces. What is the resulting ratio of the amount of cream in Joe's coffee to that in JoAnn's coffee?
Problem 14
Let and be the roots of the equation . Suppose that and are the
roots of the equation . What is ?
Problem 15
Rhombus is similar to rhombus . The area of rhombus is and .
What is the area of rhombus ?
Problem 16
Leap Day, February 29, 2004, occured on a Sunday. On what day of the week will Leap Day, February 29,
2020, occur?
Problem 17
Bob and Alice each have a bag that contains one ball of each of the colors blue, green, orange, red, and
violet. Alice randomly selects one ball from her bag and puts it into Bob's bag. Bob then randomly selects
one ball from his bag and puts it into Alice's bag. What is the probability that after this process the
contents of the two bags are the same?
Problem 18
Let be a sequence for which
, , and for each positive integer .
What is ?
Problem 19
A circle of radius is centered at . Square has side length . Sides and are extended past
to meet the circle at and , respectively. What is the area of the shaded region in the figure, which is
bounded by , , and the minor arc connecting and ?
Solution
Problem 20
In rectangle , we have , , , for some integer . What is
the area of rectangle ?
Problem 21
For a particular peculiar pair of dice, the probabilities of rolling , , , , , and , on each die are in the
ratio . What is the probability of rolling a total of on the two dice?
Problem 22
Elmo makes sandwiches for a fundraiser. For each sandwich he uses globs of peanut butter at per
glob and blobs of jam at per blob. The cost of the peanut butter and jam to make all the sandwiches
is $ . Assume that , , and are positive integers with . What is the cost of the jam Elmo
uses to make the sandwiches?
Problem 23
A triangle is partitioned into three triangles and a quadrilateral by drawing two lines from vertices to their
opposite sides. The areas of the three triangles are 3, 7, and 7 as shown. What is the area of the shaded
quadrilateral?
Problem 24
Circles with centers and have radii and , respectively, and are externally tangent. Points and on
the circle with center and points and on the circle with center are such that and are
common external tangents to the circles. What is the area of the concave hexagon ?
Problem 25
Mr. Jones has eight children of different ages. On a family trip his oldest child, who is 9, spots a license
plate with a 4-digit number in which each of two digits appears two times. "Look, daddy!" she exclaims.
"That number is evenly divisible by the age of each of us kids!" "That's right," replies Mr. Jones, "and the
last two digits just happen to be my age." Which of the following is not the age of one of Mr. Jones's
children?
