2011 AMC 8 Problems: Problem 1

2011 AMC 8 Problems
Problem 1
Margie bought apples at a cost of cents per apple. She paid with a 5-dollar bill. How
much change did Margie recieve?
Problem 2
Karl's rectangular vegetable garden is feet by feet, and Makenna's is feet
by feet. Whose garden is larger in area?
Problem 3
Extend the square pattern of 8 black and 17 white square tiles by attaching a border of
black tiles around the square. What is the ratio of black tiles to white tiles in the extended
pattern?
Problem 4
Here is a list of the numbers of fish that Tyler caught in nine outings last summer:
Which statement about the mean, median, and mode is true?
Solution
Problem 5
What time was it minutes after midnight on January 1, 2011?
Solution
Problem 6
In a town of 351 adults, every adult owns a car, motorcycle, or both. If 331 adults own cars
and 45 adults own motorcycles, how many of the car owners do not own a motorcycle?
Solution
Problem 7
Each of the following four large congruent squares is subdivided into combinations of
congruent triangles or rectangles and is partially bolded. What percent of the total area is
partially bolded?
Solution
Problem 8
Bag A has three chips labeled 1, 3, and 5. Bag B has three chips labeled 2, 4, and 6. If one
chip is drawn from each bag, how many different values are possible for the sum of the two
numbers on the chips?
Solution
Problem 9
Carmen takes a long bike ride on a hilly highway. The graph indicates the miles traveled
during the time of her ride. What is Carmen's average speed for her entire ride in miles per
hour?
Solution
Problem 10
The taxi fare in Gotham City is $2.40 for the first mile and additional mileage charged at
the rate $0.20 for each additional 0.1 mile. You plan to give the driver a $2 tip. How many
miles can you ride for $10?
Solution
Problem 11
The graph shows the number of minutes studied by both Asha (black bar) and Sasha (grey
bar) in one week. On the average, how many more minutes per day did Sasha study than
Asha?
Solution
Problem 12
Angie, Bridget, Carlos, and Diego are seated at random around a square table, one person
to a side. What is the probability that Angie and Carlos are seated opposite each other?
Solution
Problem 13
Two congruent squares, and , have side length . They overlap to form
the by rectangle shown. What percent of the area of rectangle is
shaded?
Solution
Problem 14
There are students at Colfax Middle School, where the ratio of boys to girls is .
There are students at Winthrop Middle School, where the ratio of boys to girls is .
The two schools hold a dance and all students from both schools attend. What fraction of
the students at the dance are girls?
Solution
Problem 15
How many digits are in the product ?
Solution
Problem 16
Let be the area of the triangle with sides of length , and . Let be the area of
the triangle with sides of length and . What is the relationship between and ?
Problem 17
Let be whole numbers. If , then what
does equal?
Problem 18
A fair 6-sided die is rolled twice. What is the probability that the first number that comes up
is greater than or equal to the second number?
Problem 19
How many rectangles are in this figure?
Problem 20
Quadrilateral is a trapezoid, , , , and the altitude
is . What is the area of the trapezoid?
Solution
Problem 21
Students guess that Norb's age is , and . Norb says, "At
least half of you guessed too low, two of you are off by one, and my age is a prime
number." How old is Norb?
Solution
Problem 22
What is the tens digit of ?
Solution
Problem 23
How many 4-digit positive integers have four different digits, where the leading digit is not
zero, the integer is a multiple of 5, and 5 is the largest digit?
Solution
Problem 24
In how many ways can 10001 be written as the sum of two primes?
Solution
Problem 25
A circle with radius is inscribed in a square and circumscribed about another square as
shown. Which fraction is closest to the ratio of the circle's shaded area to the area between
the two squares?

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