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 2019 AMC 10CA Problems 2

1. Find the product 1 × 3 × 5 × 7 × 9 × 11 × 13 × 15.

(A) 2027025 (B) 2028025 (C) 2029025 (D) 2030025 (E) 2031025

2. Compute (2 + 1) + (3 + 1) + (4 + 1) + 5 × (5 + 1).

(A) 40 (B) 41 (C) 42 (D) 43 (E) 44

y
3. A whole number x can be expressed in the form y − x. Find .
x
1
(A) 0 (B) 2
(C) 1 (D) 2 (E) ∞

4. William likes a girl and asks her 10 times to go on a date. Every time, the girl
accepts with 1% chance. What is the probability William is accepted? Round as
percent to nearest hundredth percent.
California Mathcounts Team
(A) 9.56 (B) 9.57 (C) 9.58 (D) 9.59 (E) 9.60
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are naughty at practice and are sent to time out for 40 minutes each, with one Correspondence about the problems and solutions for this AMC 10
time outs being from 1:00 to 1:40 A.M. and the other from 1:30 to 2:10 A.M. and orders for publications should be addressed to:
The other members all participate. For how many seconds are only 66 members Nowhere
participating? No members in time-outs are participating.

(A) 10 (B) 60 (C) 120 (D) 600 (E) 100000

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6. 200 people are at the beach on a cold January day. They are wearing sunglasses, Committee on the AMC 10CA under the direction of AMC 10CA Subcommittee Chair:

slippers, and shorts. 100 people have sunglasses, 75 have slippers, and 88 wear
shorts. What is the maximum number of people that wear all three? Nobody

(A) 0 (B) 75 (C) 88 (D) 100 (E) 200

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side lengths less than 200?
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(A) 1253699 (B) 1263699 (C) 1273699 (D) 1283699 (E) 1293699

8. Of the 200 students at National Math Counts, 50 are team captains. How many
ways are there to choose a committee of 50 people that includes no captains to
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9. I am making problems (for this mock!) at a rate of 29 minutes per problem. My

friend helps by making problems at a rate of 17 minutes per problem. As a mixed
number, how many problems do we make in 3 hours working together?
197 219 392 491 492
(A) 16 (B) 16 (C) 16 (D) 16 (E) 16
493 493 493 493 493
10. In quadrilateral ABCD, AB = 17, BC = 18, CD = 19, DA = 20, AC = 21, and
BD = 22. Let M and N be the midpoints of AC and BD, respectively. Find M N .
√ √ √ √ √
445 447 449 451 453
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 2 2 2 2
11. Find the sum of all primes less than 100.

(A) 1040 (B) 1043 (C) 1060 (D) 1080 (E) 1083

12. How many ways are there to put pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar
coins into a jar, with the total value of the coins equaling $10.00? The order in
which coins are put into the jar does not matter, and coins of the same type are
indistinguishable.

(A) 438966 (B) 438967 (C) 438968 (D) 438969 (E) 438970

13. Fix x and y as distinct positive real numbers. How many a and b are in the
following ordering of numbers such that a is before b, but a > b?
r r !
x+y+z x2 + y 2 + z 2 √ 3 x3 + y 3 + z 3 3
, , 3 xyz, , 1 .
3 3 3 x
+ y1 + z1

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

14. Given a triangle ABC with AB < AC , let D be the foot from A to BC . Construct
E and F on lines AB and AC , respectively, such that D lies on segment EF , and G
lies on segment EF such that AG and EF are perpendicular. If ∠BAD = ∠GAD,
and AD2 = 5 · BD · CD, compute AE : AF .
3 4 5 6
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 2
2 3 4 5
15. The sum of the numbers in a row of Pascal’s triangle is T . The sum of the
numbers in the previous row of Pascal’s triangle is S − 209 and the sum of the
numbers in the next row is S − 17. Find the sum of the digits of T .

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

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16. How many a and b are in the following ordering of numbers such that a is before 21. William is throwing balls at a wall in a hotel at a rate of one ball every 5 seconds.
b, but a > b? Whenever the ball hits the wall, the guests in the adjoining room, including
Andrew and Eric, wake up. Whenever Andrew wakes up, there is a 73% chance
(16 miles, 24 kilometers, 30000 yards, 84000 feet, 1000000 inches)
he asks Eric to let him check his instagram, and there is a 47% chance Eric
agrees. Furthermore, Eric calls William’s dad with a 19% chance. No matter
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10 what happens, they both immediately fall asleep. After 29 minutes, which of
the following is closest to the expected number of times that Andrew checks his
17. Find the sum of the digits of 22019 .
Instagram and Eric calls William’s dad simultaneously?
(A) 2759 (B) 2760 (C) 2761 (D) 2762 (E) 2763
(A) 21 (B) 22 (C) 23 (D) 24 (E) 25

18. Find the sum of the digits of the product of the nonzero digits of 22019 .
22. 4038 fair coins are flipped simultaneously. The probability there are at least 12
p
(A) 1211 (B) 1213 (C) 1215 (D) 1217 (E) 1219 heads in a row can be expressed as 1 − 4038 . Find p.
2
(A) 371629112 (B) 371629212 (C) 371629312 (D) 371629412
19. In triangle ABC , let a = BC, b = CA, c = AB . Let s denote the semiperimeter,
(E) 371629512
and R and r the circumradius and inradius, respectively. Let tA , hA denote the
lengths of the angle bisector and altitude from A, and define cyclic variations 23. In triangle ABC , AB = 37, BC = 41, and CA = 47. Let IB , IC , H, G denote the
similarly. Consider the following assertions. B -excenter, C -excenter, orthocenter, and centroid on 4ABC , respectively. Which
abc of the following is closest to the area of quadrilateral IB IC HG?
• 2Rr = .
a+b+c
2ab cos C (A) 1169 (B) 1170 (C) 1171 (D) 1172 (E) 1173
• tC = .
a+b
p 24. Let x, y, z be positive real numbers such that
2 abs(s − c) q q
• tC = . √
a+b z = x(1 − y ) + y (1 − x).
1 1 1 1
• = + + .
r hA hB hC If x + y + z = 1.129 and xyz = 0.02321, which of the following is closest to
x2 + y 2 + z 2 ?
How many of the above are true?
(A) 0.25 (B) 0.35 (C) 0.45 (D) 0.55 (E) 0.65
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
25. Let x be a real number such that
20. Consider the polynomial
29x3 − 67x2 − 2019x − 1378421 = 0.
6 5 4 3 2
P (x) = x + 6x − 84x − 390x + 1731x + 4272x + 2240.
Then, x can be expressed in the form
Find the sum of all distinct roots of P . p3
√ p
3
√
a+ b−c d+ b+c d
,
(A) − 6 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 15 (E) 21 e
where a, b, c, d, e are positive integers such that a and e are relatively prime, and
d is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find the sum of the digits of
a + b + c + d + e.

(A) 62 (B) 63 (C) 64 (D) 65 (E) 66