Amc 8 A

Practice AMC 8
1. If 20% of a number is 12, what is 30% of the same number?

(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E) 30
2. The digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 are each used once to form the smallest even
five-digit number. The digit in the tens place is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 9
3. Each principal of Lincoln High School serves exactly one 3-year term.
What is the maximum number of principals this school could have during
an 8-year period? (A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
4. A group of children riding on bicycles and tricycles rode past Billy Bobs
house. Billy Bob counted 7 children and 19 wheels. How many tricycles
were there?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
5. Given the areas of the three squares in the figure, what is the area of the
interior triangle?
(A) 13 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 300 (E) 1800

6. What is the smallest possible average of four distinct positive even inte-
gers?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
7. Three dice with faces numbered 1 through 6 are stacked as shown. Seven
of the eighteen faces are visible, leaving eleven faces hidden (back, bottom,
between). The total number of dots NOT visible in this view is
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(A) 21 (B) 22 (C) 31 (D) 41 (E) 53
8. The year 2002 is a palindrome (a number that reads the same from left to
right and right to left). What is the product of the digits of the next year
after 2002 that is a palindrome?
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 9 (D) 16 (E) 25
9. 30% of the seventh-graders and 40% of the eighth-graders went to the
school dance. At the dance, the ratio of seventh to eighth graders was
21:32. What is the ratio of seventh to eighth graders that did not go to
the dance?
(A) 2:3 (B) 5:8 (C) 21:32 (D) 7:8 (E) 49:48
2 + 4 + . . . + 34
10. =
3 + 6 + . . . + 51
1 2 3 17 34
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 3
11. Which of the following numbers is largest?

(A) 9.12344 (B) 9.1234 (C) 9.1234 (D) 9.1234 (E) 9.1234
12. For a sale, a store owner reduces a price of a $10 scarf by 20%. Later, the
price is lowered again, this time by one-half the reduced price. The price
is now
(A) $2.00 (B) $3.75 (C) $4.00 (D) $4.90 (E) $6.40
13. Ara and Shea were once the same height. Since then Shea has grown 20%
while Ara has grown half as many inches as Shea. Shea is now 60 inches
tall. How tall, in inches is Ara now?
(A) 48 (B) 51 (C) 52 (D) 54 (E) 55
14. When a fair six-sided die is tossed on a table top, the bottom face cannot
be seen. What is the probability that the product of the numbers on the
five faces that can be seen is divisible by 6?
(A) 31 (B) 21 (C) 23 (D) 56 (E) 1
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15. In 4CAT , we have 6 ACT = 6 AT C and 6 CAT = 36 . If T R bisects
6 AT C, then 6 CRT =
(A) 36 (B) 54 (C) 72 (D) 90 (E) 108

16. At the Relay for Life event, Rob and Kat decided to run a total of 52 laps
combined. Rob began running at a constant rate of 3 minutes per lap.
After 36 minutes, Kat began running at a rate of 2 minutes per lap. How
many minutes more will the two have to run in order to reach their goal?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 36 (D) 42 (E) 48
17. A group of pirates captures Kevin, Lisa, Matt, and Neal and forces them
to play a game. They each roll a fair, six-sided die once. If the product
of their rolls is a multiple of 3, then all of them have to walk the plank,
but otherwise they are all allowed to survive. What is the probability that
they survive?
(A) 23 (B) 8116 145
(C) 1296 (D) 65
81
625
(E) 1296
18. How many integers between 1000 and 2000 have all three of the numbers
15, 20, and 25 as factors?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
19. When the number 80! is written out completely, there are z zeroes at the
end of it. What is z?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 19 (D) 25 (E) 80
20. If 6 A = 20 and 6 AF G = 6 AGF , then 6 B + 6 D =
(A) 48 (B) 60 (C) 72 (D) 80 (E) 90
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21. How many whole numbers between 99 and 999 contain exactly one 0?
(A) 72 (B) 90 (C) 144 (D) 162 (E) 180
22. Six cubes, each with an inch on an edge, are fastened together, as shown.
Find the total surface area in square inches. Include the top, bottom, and
sides.
(A) 18 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 30 (E) 36

23. Loki, Moe, Nick, and Ott are good friends. Ott had no money, but the
others did. Moe gave Ott one-fifth of his money, Loki gave Ott one-fourth
of his money, and Nick gave Ott one-third of his money. Each gave Ott
the same amount of money. What fractional part of the groups money
does Ott now have?
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(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 31 (D) 25 (E) 21
24. On a twenty-question test, each correct answer is worth 5 points, each
unanswered question is worth 1 point, and each incorrect answer is worth
0 points. Which of the following scores is NOT possible?
(A) 90 (B) 91 (C) 92 (D) 95 (E) 97
25. 125 unit (1 x 1 x 1) cubes are arranged to form a 5 x 5 x 5, the outside of
which is then painted. Let a be the number of unit cubes left unpainted
and b be the number of cubes painted on one side. Determine b a.
(A) 0 (B) 5 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 27

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Practice AMC 8

1. If 20% of a number is 12, what is 30% of the same number?

(A) 13 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 300 (E) 1800

11. Which of the following numbers is largest?

(A) 36 (B) 54 (C) 72 (D) 90 (E) 108

20. If 6 A = 20 and 6 AF G = 6 AGF , then 6 B + 6 D =

(A) 48 (B) 60 (C) 72 (D) 80 (E) 90

(A) 18 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 30 (E) 36

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