2018 AMC

Senior Questions

Questions – Senior Division

1. In the diagram, P QRS is a square. What is the size of ∠XP Y ? P Q

25◦
(A) 25◦ (B) 30◦ (C) 35◦
X
(D) 40◦ (E) 45◦ 25◦

S R
Y

2. The Great North Walk is a 250 km long trail from Sydney to Newcastle. If you want to
complete it in 8 days, approximately how far do you need to walk each day?
(A) 15 km (B) 20 km (C) 30 km (D) 40 km (E) 80 km

3. Half of a number is 32. What is twice the number?

(A) 16 (B) 32 (C) 64 (D) 128 (E) 256

4. What fraction of this regular hexagon is shaded?

1 2 3 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 4 5 5

5. The value of 9 × 1.2345 − 9 × 0.1234 is

(A) 9.9999 (B) 9 (C) 9.0909 (D) 10.909 (E) 11.1111

6. What is 20 − 18 ?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 10

7. 1000% of a number is 100. What is the number?

(A) 0.1 (B) 1 (C) 10 (D) 100 (E) 1000

8. The cost of feeding four dogs for three days is $60. Using the same food costs per dog per
day, what would be the cost of feeding seven dogs for seven days?
(A) $140 (B) $200 (C) $245 (D) $350 (E) $420

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9. In the triangle ABC, M is the midpoint of AB. C

Which one of the following statements must be true?
(A) ∠CAM = ∠ACM (B) ∠CM B = 2 ∠CAM
(C) AC = 2 BC (D) CM = BC A B
M
(E) Area 4AM C = Area 4M BC

10. The sum of the numbers from 1 to 100 is 5050. What is the sum of the numbers from 101
to 200?
(A) 15 050 (B) 50 500 (C) 51 500 (D) 150 500 (E) 505 000

11. Leila has a number of identical equilateral triangle shaped tiles. How many of these must
she put together in a row (edge to edge) to create a shape which has a perimeter ten times
that of a single tile?
(A) 14 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 28 (E) 30

12. In the circle shown, C is the centre and A, B, D and E B

all lie on the circumference.
Reflex ∠BCD = 200◦ , ∠DCA = x◦ and ∠BCA = 3x◦
as shown.
The ratio of ∠DAC : ∠BAC is A 3x◦
(A) 3 : 1 (B) 5 : 2 (C) 8 : 3 C
x◦
(D) 7 : 4 (E) 7 : 3 200◦
E
D

13. Instead of multiplying a number by 4 and then subtracting 330, I accidentally divided that
number by 4 and then added 330. Luckily, my final answer was correct. What was the
original number?
(A) 220 (B) 990 (C) 144 (D) 374 (E) 176

14. The diagram shows a regular octagon of side length 1 metre.

In square metres, what is the area of the shaded region?
√
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 2
√
√ 1+ 2
(D) 3 − 2 (E)
2

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15. A netball coach is planning a train trip for players from her two netball clubs, Panthers
and Warriors.
The two clubs are in different towns, so the train fares per player are different. For the
same cost she can either take 6 Panthers and 7 Warriors or she can take 8 Panthers and 4
Warriors.
If she takes only members of the Warriors on the train journey, the number she could take
for the same cost is
(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 25

16. The triangle P QR shown has a right angle at P . P

Points T and S are the midpoints of the sides
P R and P Q, respectively. Also ∠QT P = α and |

k
∠SRP = β.
S α T
The ratio tan α : tan β equals

k
(A) 3 : 1 (B) 4 : 1 (C) 5 : 1 |
β
(D) 7 : 2 (E) 9 : 2 Q R

17. Three fair 6-sided dice are thrown. What is the probability that the three numbers rolled
are three consecutive numbers, in some order?
1 1 1 7 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 9 27 36 54

18. How many digits does the number 2018 have?

(A) 24 (B) 38 (C) 18 (D) 36 (E) 25

19. In this subtraction, the first number has 100 digits and the second number has 50 digits.

111 . . . . 111} − 222

| . . {z | .{z
. . 222}
100 digits 50 digits

What is the sum of the digits in the result?

(A) 375 (B) 420 (C) 429 (D) 450 (E) 475

20. I have two regular polygons where the larger polygon has 5 sides more than the smaller
polygon. The interior angles of the two polygons differ by 1◦ . How many sides does the
larger polygon have?
(A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 60

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21. How many solutions (m, n) exist for the equation n = 100 − m2 where both m and n are
integers?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 10

22. A tetrahedron is inscribed in a cube of side length 2 as shown. What

is the volume of the tetrahedron?
8 16
(A) (B) 4 (C)
3 3
√ √
(D) 6 (E) 8 − 2 2

23. A rectangle has sides of length 5 and 12

units.
A diagonal is drawn and then the largest
possible circle is drawn in each of the two
triangles.
What is the distance between the cen-
tres of these two circles?
√ √ √
(A) 60 (B) 8 (C) 65 (D) 68 (E) 9

rq
√ (8x )
24. In the equation . . . 256 = 2 the value of x is
| {z }
60

(A) −17 (B) −19 (C) −21 (D) −23 (E) 16

25. A right-angled triangle with sides of length

3, 4 and 5 is tiled by infinitely many right-
angled triangles, as shown.
What is the shaded area?
5
18 54 8
(A) (B) (C) 3
7 25 3
27 96
(D) (E)
17 41

26. Let A be a 2018-digit number which is divisible by 9. Let B be the sum of all digits of A
and C be the sum of all digits of B. Find the sum of all possible values of C.

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27. The trapezium ABCD has AB = 100, BC = 130, A B

CD = 150 and DA = 120, with right angles at A and
D.
An interior point Q is joined to the midpoints of all 4
sides. The four quadrilaterals formed have equal areas.
What is the length AQ? Q

D C

28. Donald has a pair of blue shoes, a pair of red shoes, and a pair of white shoes. He wants to
put these six shoes side by side in a row. However, Donald wants the left shoe of each pair
to be somewhere to the left of the corresponding right shoe. How many ways are there to
do this?

29. For n ≥ 3, a pattern can be made by overlapping n circles, each

of circumference 1 unit, so that each circle passes through a
central point and the resulting pattern has order-n rotational
symmetry.
For instance, the diagram shows the pattern where n = 7.
If the total length of visible arcs is 60 units, what is n?

30. Consider an n × n grid filled with the numbers 1, . . . , n2 in ascending order from left to
right, top to bottom. A shuffle consists of the following two steps:

• Shift every entry one position to the right. An entry at the end of a row moves to the
beginning of the next row and the bottom-right entry moves to the top-left position.
• Then shift every entry down one position. An entry at the bottom of a column moves
to the top of the next column and again the bottom-right entry moves to the top-left
position.

An example for the 3 × 3 grid is shown. Note that the two steps shown constitute one
shuffle.

1 2 3 9 1 2 8 6 7
shift shift
4 5 6 3 4 5 9 1 2
right down
7 8 9 6 7 8 3 4 5

What is the smallest value of n for which the n × n grid requires more than 20 000 shuffles
for the numbers to be returned to their original order?

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