Qualifying zone 2
15 problems of difficulty 3–4 in 45 minutes: the score-deciding zone
- 1.2010 AMC 10B #18
Positive integers , , and are randomly and independently selected with replacement from the set . What is the probability that is divisible by ?
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- 2.2015 AMC 10B #16
Al, Bill, and Cal will each randomly be assigned a whole number from to , inclusive, with no two of them getting the same number. What is the probability that Al's number will be a whole number multiple of Bill's and Bill's number will be a whole number multiple of Cal's?
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- 3.2016 AMC 10B #14
How many squares whose sides are parallel to the axis and whose vertices have coordinates that are integers lie entirely within the region bounded by the line , the line and the line
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- 4.2017 AMC 10A #20
Let equal the sum of the digits of positive integer . For example, . For a particular positive integer , . Which of the following could be the value of ?
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- 5.2017 AMC 10B #15
Rectangle has and . Point is the foot of the perpendicular from to diagonal . What is the area of ?
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- 6.2019 AMC 10A #17
A child builds towers using identically shaped cubes of different colors. How many different towers with a height cubes can the child build with red cubes, blue cubes, and green cubes? (One cube will be left out.)
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- 7.2019 AMC 10A #18
For some positive integer , the repeating base- representation of the (base-ten) fraction is . What is ?
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- 8.2021 AMC 10B #14
Three equally spaced parallel lines intersect a circle, creating three chords of lengths and . What is the distance between two adjacent parallel lines?
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- 9.2021 AMC Fall 10B #16
Five balls are arranged around a circle. Chris chooses two adjacent balls at random and interchanges them. Then Silva does the same, with her choice of adjacent balls to interchange being independent of Chris's. What is the expected number of balls that occupy their original positions after these two successive transpositions?
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- 10.2021 AMC 10B #15
The real number satisfies the equation . What is the value of
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- 11.2021 AMC 10A #18
Let be a function defined on the set of positive rational numbers with the property that for all positive rational numbers and . Furthermore, suppose that also has the property that for every prime number . For which of the following numbers is ?
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- 12.2021 AMC 10A #14
All the roots of the polynomial are positive integers, possibly repeated. What is the value of ?
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- 13.2025 AMC 10B #18
What is the ones digit of the sum (Recall that represents the greatest integer less than or equal to .)
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- 14.2020 AMC 10B #17
There are people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each person knows exactly of the other people: the people standing next to him or her, as well as the person directly across the circle. How many ways are there for the people to split up into pairs so that the members of each pair know each other?
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- 15.2021 AMC 10A #17
Trapezoid has , , and . Let be the intersection of the diagonals and , and let be the midpoint of . Given that , the length can be written in the form , where and are positive integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is ?
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