MOCK EXAMINATION

AMC 8
American Mathematics Contest 8

Test Sample
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AMC 8 Mock Test Problems

Problem 1

1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + ⋯ − 2020 + 2021 =

(A) −1011 (B) −1010 (C) 0 (D) 1010 (E) 1011

Problem 2
1 1
What is the number halfway between and ?
16 20
1 1 1 9 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
160 80 18 160 9

Problem 3

A triangular corner with side lengths 𝑫𝑩 = 𝑬𝑩 = 𝟏 is cut from equilateral triangle 𝑨𝑩𝑪 of side
length 3. What is the perimeter of the remaining quadrilateral?

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Problem 4

Estimate the time it takes to send 240 blocks of data over a communications channel if each
block consists of 512 "chunks" and the channel can transmit 120 chunks per second.

(A) 0.27 seconds (B) 2.7 seconds (C) 27 seconds

(D) 27 minutes (E) 27 hours

Problem 5

If

𝑏 𝑐
= 3 and = 4,
𝑎 𝑏

what is the ratio of 𝑎 + 𝑏 to 𝑏 + 𝑐?

1 4 4 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 15 7 4 5

Problem 6

Each day, Alan ate 10% of the jellybeans that were in his bag at the beginning of that day. At the
end of the second day, 81 remained. How many jellybeans were in the bag originally?

(A) 100 (B) 105 (C) 110 (D) 115 (E) 125

Problem 7

A 4 × 4 × 4 cube is painted blue on the top and the 4 side faces, and red on the bottom face.
Then the cube is cut into unit cubes, as shown.

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How many of the unit cubes have exactly two blue faces?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 24

Problem 8

A circular spinner is divided into 12 equal sections, as shown. An arrow is attached to the center
of the spinner. The arrow is spun once. What is the probability that the arrow stops in a section
containing a prime number that is odd?

1 1 1 5 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 6 3 12 2

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Problem 9

Four rectangular paper strips of length 6 and width 1 are put flat on a table and overlap
perpendicularly as shown. How much area of the table is covered?

(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 36

Problem 10

The marked price of a computer was 40% less than the suggested retail price. Joe purchased the
book for half the marked price at a Fiftieth Anniversary sale. What percent of the suggested retail
price did Joe pay?

(A) 25% (B) 30% (C) 35% (D) 50% (E) 60%

Problem 11

What is the sum of the digits of the decimal form of the product

202019 ⋅ 502021 ?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 10

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Problem 12

If 𝒂, 𝒃, and 𝒄 are digits for which

(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

Problem 13

If

𝟑𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 − 𝟑𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 − 𝟑𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 + 𝟑𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 = 𝒎 ⋅ 𝟑𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 ,

what is the value of 𝒎?

(A) 3 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 16 (E) 27

Problem 14

Pegs are put in a board 1 unit apart both horizontally and vertically. A rubber band is stretched
over 4 pegs as shown in the figure, forming a quadrilateral. What is the area of the quadrilateral
in square units?

(A) 4 (B) 4.5 (C) 5 (D) 5.5 (E) 6

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Problem 15

When the decimal point of a certain positive decimal number is moved four places to the right,
the new number is nine times the reciprocal of the original number. What is the original number?

(A) 0.0003 (B) 0.003 (C) 0.03 (D) 0.3 (E) 3

Problem 16

What is the value of the product

1 1 1 1
(1 − 2
) (1 − 2 ) ⋯ (1 − 2
) (1 − )
2 3 2020 20212
1010 1 1011
(A) (B) (C)
2021 2 2021

2 1350
(D) (E)
3 2021

Problem 17

Jim turned his computer off at 5 p.m. Friday, at which point it had been on for exactly 100 hours.
At what time had Jim turned his computer on?

(A) 1 p.m. Monday (B) 9 p.m. Monday (C) 1 p.m. Tuesday

(D) 2 p.m. Tuesday (E) 9 p.m. Wednesday

Problem 18

The positive integers 𝑎, 𝑏, and 𝑐 have the property that

𝑎𝑏𝑐 = 100.

What is the smallest possible value of 𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐?

(A) 14 (B) 17 (C) 21 (D) 26 (E) 30

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Problem 19

A square with sides of length 1 is divided into two congruent trapezoids and a pentagon, which
have equal areas, by joining the center of the square with points on three of the sides, as shown.

Find 𝑥, the length of the longer parallel side of each trapezoid.

Problem 20

The mean of three numbers is 20 more than the least of the numbers and 10 less than the greatest.
The median of the three numbers is 15. What is their sum?

(A) 15 (B) 25 (C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 45

Problem 21

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The figure shown is the union of a circle and two semicircles of diameters 1 and 2, all of whose
centers are collinear. What is the ratio of the area, of the unshaded region to that of the shaded
region?
4 8
(A) (B) √2 (C) (D) 2 (E) 4
3 5

Problem 22

In how many ways can five different toys be distributed among three children so that each one
gets at least one toy?

(A) 120 (B) 150 (C) 180 (D) 210 (E) 240

Problem 23

How many positive integers less than 2021 have an odd number of positive integer divisors?

(A) 40 (B) 42 (C) 44 (D) 46 (E) 48

Problem 24

1 2
In a class, the ratio of boys to girls is 2 ∶ 1. Only of the boys join the math club, whereas of
2 3
the girls join the math club. A student is selected randomly from the math club. What is the
probability that the student selected is a boy?
1 5 4 3 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 9 7 5 3

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Problem 25

In the diagram, 𝐴𝐵𝐶 is a quarter of a circle with radius 8. A semicircle with diameter 𝐴𝐵 is
drawn, as shown. A second semicircle with diameter 𝐵𝐶 is also drawn. What is the area of the
shaded region?

3 1 5 5
(A) 4 𝜋 − 2 (B) 𝜋 − 2 (C) 𝜋 −
4 2

3 7 7
(D) 𝜋 − 3 (E) 𝜋 −
2 4 2

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Answer Key
1. E
2. D
3. E
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. D
9. A
10. B
11. C
12. E
13. D
14. E
15. C
16. C
17. A
18. A
19. D
20. A
21. D
22. B
23. C
24. D
25. B

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