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AMC 10A 2025

2025-11-06

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Andy and Betsy both live in Mathville. Andy leaves Mathville on his bicycle at 1:301{:}30, traveling due north at a steady 88 miles per hour. Betsy leaves on her bicycle from the same point at 2:302{:}30, traveling due east at a steady 1212 miles per hour. At what time will they be exactly the same distance from their common starting point?

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A box contains 1010 pounds of a nut mix that is 5050 percent peanuts, 2020 percent cashews, and 3030 percent almonds. A second nut mix containing 2020 percent peanuts, 4040 percent cashews, and 4040 percent almonds is added to the box resulting in a new nut mix that is 4040 percent peanuts. How many pounds of cashews are now in the box?

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How many isosceles triangles are there with positive area whose side lengths are all positive integers and whose longest side has length 20252025?

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A team of students is going to compete against a team of teachers in a trivia contest. The total number of students and teachers is 1515. Ash, a cousin of one of the students, wants to join the contest. If Ash plays with the students, the average age on that team will increase from 1212 to 1414. If Ash plays with the teachers, the average age on that team will decrease from 5555 to 5252. How old is Ash?

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Consider the sequence of positive integers

1,2,1,2,3,2,1,2,3,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,3,2,1,2,3,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,\dots

What is the 20252025th term in this sequence?

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In an equilateral triangle each interior angle is trisected by a pair of rays. The intersection of the interiors of the middle 2020^\circ-angle at each vertex is the interior of a convex hexagon. What is the degree measure of the smallest angle of this hexagon?

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Suppose aa and bb are real numbers. When the polynomial x3+x2+ax+bx^3 + x^2 + ax + b is divided by x1x - 1, the remainder is 44. When the polynomial is divided by x2x - 2, the remainder is 66. What is bab - a?

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Agnes writes the following four statements on a blank piece of paper.

  • At least one of these statements is true.
  • At least two of these statements are true.
  • At least two of these statements are false.
  • At least one of these statements is false.

Each statement is either true or false. How many false statements did Agnes write on the paper?

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Let f(x)=100x3300x2+200xf(x) = 100x^3 - 300x^2 + 200x. For how many real numbers aa does the graph of y=f(xa)y = f(x - a) pass through the point (1,25)(1, 25)?

// PROBLEM 10
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A semicircle has diameter AB\overline{AB} and chord CD\overline{CD} of length 1616 parallel to AB\overline{AB}. A smaller semicircle with diameter on AB\overline{AB} and tangent to CD\overline{CD} is cut from the larger semicircle, as shown. What is the area of the resulting figure, shown shaded?

ABCD16
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The sequence 1,x,y,z1, x, y, z is arithmetic. The sequence 1,p,q,z1, p, q, z is geometric. Both sequences are strictly increasing and contain only integers, and zz is as small as possible. What is the value of x+y+z+p+qx + y + z + p + q?

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Carlos uses a 44-digit passcode to unlock his computer. In his passcode, exactly one digit is even, exactly one (possibly different) digit is prime, and no digit is 00. How many 44-digit passcodes satisfy these conditions?

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In the figure below, the outside square contains infinitely many squares, each of them with the same center and sides parallel to the outside square. The ratio of the side length of a square to the side length of the next inner square is kk, where 0<k<10 \lt k \lt 1. The spaces between squares are alternately shaded as shown in the figure. The area of the shaded portion of the figure is 64%64\% of the area of the original square. What is kk?

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Six chairs are arranged around a round table. Two students and two teachers randomly select four of the chairs to sit in. What is the probability that the two students sit in two adjacent chairs and the two teachers also sit in two adjacent chairs?

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In the figure below, ABEFABEF is a rectangle, ADDE\overline{AD} \perp \overline{DE}, AF=7AF = 7, AB=1AB = 1, and AD=5AD = 5. What is the area of ABC\triangle ABC?

Point CC is the intersection of line AD\overline{AD} extended with side BE\overline{BE}. The figure shows rectangle ABEFABEF with diagonal line from FF through DD to create point CC on BE\overline{BE}.

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There are three jars. Each of three coins is placed in one of the three jars, chosen at random and independently of the placements of the other coins. What is the expected number of coins in the jar with the most coins?

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Let NN be the unique positive integer such that dividing 273436273436 by NN leaves a remainder of 1616 and dividing 272760272760 by NN leaves a remainder of 1515. What is the tens digit of NN?

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The harmonic mean of a collection of numbers is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers in the collection. For example, the harmonic mean of 4,4,54, 4, 5 is 113 ⁣(14+14+15)=307.\frac{1}{\dfrac{1}{3}\!\left(\dfrac{1}{4}+\dfrac{1}{4}+\dfrac{1}{5}\right)} = \frac{30}{7}.

What is the harmonic mean of all the real roots of the 4050th4050^{\text{th}} degree polynomial k=12025(kx24x3)=(x24x3)(2x24x3)(3x24x3)(2025x24x3)?\prod_{k=1}^{2025}(kx^2 - 4x - 3) = (x^2-4x-3)(2x^2-4x-3)(3x^2-4x-3)\cdots(2025x^2-4x-3)\,?

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An array of numbers is constructed beginning with the numbers 1, 3, 1-1,\ 3,\ 1 in the top row. Each adjacent pair of numbers is summed to produce a number in the next row. Each row begins and ends with 1-1 and 11, respectively.

131124111651\begin{array}{ccccc} -1 & 3 & 1 \\ -1 & 2 & 4 & 1 \\ -1 & 1 & 6 & 5 & 1 \end{array}

If the process continues, one of the rows will sum to 12,28812{,}288. In that row, what is the third number from the left?

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A silo (right circular cylinder) with diameter 2020 meters stands in a field. MacDonald is located 2020 meters west and 1515 meters south of the center of the silo. McGregor is located 2020 meters east and g>0g > 0 meters south of the center of the silo. The line of sight between MacDonald and McGregor is tangent to the silo. The value of gg can be written as abcd\dfrac{a\sqrt{b} - c}{d}, where aa, bb, cc, and dd are positive integers, bb is not divisible by the square of any prime, and dd is relatively prime to the greatest common divisor of aa and cc. What is a+b+c+da + b + c + d?

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A set of numbers is called sum-free if whenever xx and yy are (not necessarily distinct) elements of the set, x+yx + y is not an element of the set. For example, {1,4,6}\{1, 4, 6\} and the empty set are sum-free, but {2,4,5}\{2, 4, 5\} is not. What is the greatest possible number of elements in a sum-free subset of {1,2,3,,20}\{1, 2, 3, \ldots, 20\}?

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A circle of radius rr is surrounded by three circles, whose radii are 11, 22, and 33, all externally tangent to the inner circle and to each other, as shown.

The figure shows four mutually tangent circles: the inner circle of radius rr, and three outer circles of radii 11, 22, and 33, each pair of outer circles also tangent to each other.

What is rr?

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Triangle ABC\triangle ABC has side lengths AB=80AB = 80, BC=45BC = 45, and AC=75AC = 75. The bisector of B\angle B and the altitude to side AB\overline{AB} intersect at point PP. What is BPBP?

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Call a positive integer fair if no digit is used more than once, it has no 00s, and no digit is adjacent to two greater digits. For example, 196196, 2323, and 1246312463 are fair, but 15461546, 320320, and 3432134321 are not. How many fair positive integers are there?

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A point PP is chosen at random inside square ABCDABCD. The probability that AP\overline{AP} is neither the shortest nor the longest side of APB\triangle APB can be written as a+bπcde\dfrac{a + b\pi - c\sqrt{d}}{e}, where aa, bb, cc, dd, and ee are positive integers, gcd(a,b,c,e)=1\gcd(a, b, c, e) = 1, and dd is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is a+b+c+d+ea + b + c + d + e?