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“ContestBook10” — 2008/4/9 — 16:18 — page 192 — #208

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192 Solutions

2007 AMC 10B Solutions

The problems for the 2007 AMC 10B begin on page 65.

1. A NSWER (E) The perimeter of each bedroom is 2.12 C 10/ D 44 feet, so

the surface to be painted in each bedroom has an area of 44  8
60 D 292
square feet. Since there are 3 bedrooms, Isabella must paint 3  292 D 876
square feet.

2. A NSWER (E) Since 3?5 D .3C5/5 D 85 D 40 and 5?3 D .5C3/3 D

8  3 D 24, we have

3 ? 5
5 ? 3 D 40
24 D 16:

3. A NSWER (B) The student used 120=30 D 4 gallons on the trip home and
120=20 D 6 gallons on the trip back to school. So the average gas mileage
for the round trip was
240 miles
D 24 miles per gallon:
10 gallons

4. A NSWER (D) Since OA D OB D OC , triangles AOB, BOC , and COA

are all isosceles. Hence
180ı
140ı 180ı
120ı
∠ABC D ∠ABO C ∠OBC D C D 50ı :
2 2

OR
Since

∠AOC D 360ı
140ı
120ı D 100ı ;

the Central Angle Theorem implies that

1
∠ABC D ∠AOC D 50ı :
2

5. A NSWER (D) Let A, B, C , and D represent the following statements

about a person in the land.

A W Is an Arog. B W Is a Braf. C W Is a Crup. D W Is a Dramp.

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