De Mathematics Competitions

3rd Annual

DMC 10 B
Friday, October 28, 2022

INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO BEGIN.
2. This is a twenty-five question multiple choice test. For each question, only one answer
choice is correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the DMC 10 Answer Form with a keyboard.
Check the keys for accuracy and erase errors and stray marks completely.
4. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 1.5 points for each problem
left unanswered, and 0 points for each incorrect answer.
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and graph paper. No problems on the competition will require the use of a calculator.
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2 2022 DMC 10 B Problems
2022! · 2019!
1. What is the value of ?
2020! · 2021!
1009 2020 2021 1011 2023
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
1010 2021 2022 1010 2022

2. When Amanda multiplies her favorite number by 3, subtracts the result

from 14, and divides the result by 4, the resulting number will be Amanda’s
favorite number. What is Amanda’s favorite number?

(A) −14 (B) −7 (C) 2 (D) 7 (E) 14

3. Jeb has 𝑛 toys. If he removes 3 toys, 𝑥% of the toys remain. If, instead, he
removes 6 toys, 𝑦% of the toys remain. If 𝑥 − 𝑦 = 10, what is 𝑛?

(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 30

4. Ken writes 10 positive integers onto a sheet of paper. Joe then asks the
following questions:

• How many of the numbers on your paper are less than 2?

• How many of the numbers on your paper are greater than 2?
• How many of the numbers on your paper are equal to 4?

Ken truthfully answers 3 to every question. What is the sum of the numbers
on Ken’s paper?

(A) 21 (B) 22 (C) 23 (D) 24 (E) 25

5. Two congruent rectangles each with height 2 are stacked on top of each
other. The top sheet is then rotated 90◦ about its center, resulting in the
12-sided polygon as shown.

If the area of this polygon is 30, what is the area of one of the rectangles?
√ √
(A) 12 (B) 6 6 (C) 15 (D) 5 10 (E) 17
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6. Using only the digits 2, 3 and 9, how many six-digit positive integers can be
formed that are divisible by 6?

(A) 27 (B) 35 (C) 36 (D) 80 (E) 81

7. Let 𝑎, 𝑏, and 𝑐 be consecutive positive integers, and let 𝑝, 𝑞, and 𝑟 also

be consecutive positive integers, both not necessarily in order. Given that
𝑎 · 𝑝 = 161 and 𝑏 · 𝑞 = 189, what is 𝑐 · 𝑟?

(A) 128 (B) 144 (C) 160 (D) 176 (E) 192

8. How many ways can the six variables in the equation

𝑎+𝑏+𝑐 = 𝑑+𝑒+ 𝑓 +2

be set equal to one of the numbers 1, 2, and 3 such that each of the three
numbers is used by exactly two variables?

(A) 9 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 36

9. Daniel is walking on a field, starting at his house. After walking 3 miles due
north and 4 miles due west, Daniel arrives at the market. From the market,
if Daniel walks 𝑛 miles due east, Daniel will arrive at his school, which is
the same distance from his house as it is from the market. What is 𝑛?
9 21 25 25
(A) (B) (C) 3 (D) (E)
4 8 8 6

10. Suppose that 𝑓 (𝑥) = 2𝑥 2 + 𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏 and 𝑔(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 + 𝑐𝑥 + 𝑑 intersect at 𝑥 = 3

and 𝑥 = 4. If 𝑓 (5) = 40, what is 𝑔(5)?

(A) 38 (B) 39 (C) 40 (D) 41 (E) 42

11. How many parallelograms are in the diagram below?

(A) 18 (B) 31 (C) 36 (D) 39 (E) 40

4 2022 DMC 10 B Problems

12. In a survey, each respondent is either a truth-teller or a liar and has a favorite
number of either 2 or 5, but not both. Truth-tellers always tell the truth, and
liars always lie. Each respondent answered two questions:
• Is your favorite number 2?
• Is your favorite number either 2 or 5?
If 38 liars have a favorite number of 2, 87 respondents answered “Yes” to the
first question, and 106 respondents answered “No” to the second question,
how many truth-tellers have a favorite number of 2?

(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20

13. The number of positive divisors of the number (12!) 26 can be written as

1 3 2 𝐴 0 3 7 6 6 𝐵,

where 𝐴 and 𝐵 are digits. What is the ordered pair ( 𝐴, 𝐵)?

(A) (1, 7) (B) (2, 6) (C) (6, 3) (D) (7, 6) (E) (9, 8)

14. In a game, Bill has the numbers −1, 5, and 10, while Ben has the numbers
0, 2, 4, 6, and 8. Each round, Bill and Ben randomly pick one of their own
numbers, and the player with the higher number earns a point. The winner
is the player with the most points after 3 rounds. Given that each player
picks a different number each round, what is the probability that Bill wins?
1 11 3 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 20 5 3 4

15. Ayaka and Judo are each given a whole number greater than 23 and less than
35. Ayaka is also told the units digit of Judo’s number, while Judo forgets
the units digit of his own number. They are told that both of their numbers
are greater than 23 and less than 35. Both of them know where each digit
they remember is located in their two numbers, that Ayaka knows the units
digit of Judo’s number, and that they could have the same number.

• Ayaka: I don’t know whether my number is less than your number.

• Judo: Oh, then I know whose number is larger.
• Ayaka: The positive difference between our numbers is 5.
What is the sum of Ayaka and Judo’s numbers?

(A) 53 (B) 55 (C) 59 (D) 61 (E) 63

2022 DMC 10 B Problems 5

16. The number 2022 · 1021 is written on a piece of paper. One day, Katherine
repeatedly erases the number on the paper, divides it by 512, and writes the
result. This process continues until the number on the paper is less than 1.
How many times did Katherine divide the number on the paper by 512?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

17. A line passes through the point 𝐴(5, 4) and has slope −8. A second line
passes through the point 𝐵(1, 6) and intersects the first line at a point 𝐶,
equidistant from 𝐴 and 𝐵. What is the slope of the second line?
1 2 1 6 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 5 2 11 7

18. A rectangle has perimeter 36. The rectangle is split into three smaller
rectangles with dimensions 9-by-4, 6-by-5, and 𝑚-by-𝑛. What is 𝑚 + 𝑛?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

19. There are 2022 members in a math tournament, where 999 members are
girls, and the rest are boys. The members are split into 674 groups of 3. For
every two members in a group, if at least one of them is a girl, they shake
hands. Otherwise, they do not. A member is handy if they shake hands
with both members in their group. Let 𝑁 be the maximum number of handy
members in the math tournament. What is the sum of the digits of 𝑁?

(A) 6 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 22 (E) 23

20. Four people are in a tournament where every person duels each other person
exactly once. Every duel ends in one person winning and the other losing
(i.e., no ties). After the tournament, each person counts the number of wins
they have and adds one, and then their numbers are multiplied. What is the
smallest possible resulting product?

(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 32

6 2022 DMC 10 B Problems

21. In the figure below, six congruent rectangles are glued to each of the sides of
a regular hexagon with side length 2, and six of the vertices of the rectangles
are connected to form a regular hexagon with side length 4. The√length√of
a side of one of the rectangles not equal to 2 can be written as 𝑚 − 𝑛,
where 𝑚 and 𝑛 are positive integers. What is 𝑚 + 𝑛?

(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 19

22. Let 𝑃(𝑥) be a polynomial with degree 3 and roots 𝑟, 𝑠, and 𝑡 with sum 25
such that the coefficient of the 𝑥 3 term is 1, and

1 1 1 1 1 1
   
(𝑟 + 𝑠) (𝑠 + 𝑡) (𝑡 + 𝑟) = 2500 and + + + = 100
𝑟 𝑠 𝑠 𝑡 𝑡 𝑟

are satisfied. If the constant term of 𝑃(𝑥) is positive, the value of 𝑃(1) is
equal to 𝑚𝑛 for relatively prime positive integers 𝑚 and 𝑛. What is 𝑚 + 𝑛?

(A) 406 (B) 407 (C) 408 (D) 409 (E) 410

23. Let parallelogram 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 have 𝐵𝐶 = 5, ∠ 𝐴𝐵𝐶 < 90◦ , and ∠ 𝐴𝐶 𝐵 > 90◦ .
Let line 𝐴𝐷 and side 𝐶𝐷 intersect the circle passing though 𝐴, 𝐵, and 𝐶 at
𝑃 ≠ 𝐴 and 𝑄 ≠ 𝐶, respectively. If 𝐶𝑃 = 10 and 𝐶𝑄 = 4, what is 𝐴𝑃?
48 36 15
(A) (B) 7 (C) (D) (E) 8
7 5 2

24. For each positive integer 𝑛, let 𝑓1 (𝑛) = 𝑛!, and for 𝑘 ≥ 2, let

𝑓 𝑘 (𝑛) = 𝑓 𝑘−1 (1) · 𝑓 𝑘−1 (2) · . . . · 𝑓 𝑘−1 (𝑛).

Let 𝑁 be the largest integer such that 𝑓4 (10) is divisible by 2 𝑁 . What is the
sum of the digits of 𝑁?

(A) 4 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 21

2022 DMC 10 B Problems 7

25. In acute △𝐴𝐵𝐶 with 𝐴𝐶 < 𝐵𝐶, the perpendicular bisector of 𝐴𝐵 meets
lines 𝐴𝐵, 𝐵𝐶, and 𝐴𝐶 at 𝐷, 𝐸, and 𝐹, respectively. If 𝐴𝐷 = 5, 𝐵𝐸 = 13,
and the area of △𝐴𝐵𝐶 is 14 units greater than that of △𝐴𝐷𝐹, what is 𝐴𝐹 2 ?

(A) 650 (B) 701 (C) 754 (D) 809 (E) 866
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