MAA American Mathematics Competitions

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23rd Annual
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AMC 10 B
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR COMPETITION MANAGER TELLS YOU TO
BEGIN.
2. This is a 25-question multiple-choice competition. For each question, only one answer choice is
correct.
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the answer sheet with a #2 pencil. Check blackened answers
for accuracy and erase errors completely. Only answers that are properly marked on the answer
sheet will be scored.
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.
5. Only blank scratch paper, blank graph paper, rulers, compasses, and erasers are allowed as aids.
No calculators, smartwatches, phones, or computing devices are allowed. No problems on the
competition will require the use of a calculator.
6. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
7. Before beginning the competition, your competition manager will ask you to record your name
on the answer sheet.
8. You will have 75 minutes to complete the competition once your competition manager tells you
to begin.
9. When you finish the competition, sign your name in the space provided on the answer sheet and
complete the demographic information questions on the back of the answer sheet.

The MAA AMC office reserves the right to disqualify scores from a school if it determines that the rules
or the required security procedures were not followed.
The publication, reproduction, or communication of the problems or solutions of this competition
during the period when students are eligible to participate seriously jeopardizes the integrity of the
results. Dissemination via phone, email, or digital media of any type during this period is a violation
of the competition rules.
Students who score well on this AMC 10 will be invited to take the 40th annual American Invitational
Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, or Wednesday, February 16, 2022.
More details about the AIME are on the back page of this test booklet.
© 2021 Mathematical Association of America
2 Fall 2021 AMC 10 B Problems

1. What is the value of 1234 C 2341 C 3412 C 4123 ?

(A) 10;000 (B) 10;010 (C) 10;110 (D) 11;000 (E) 11;110

2. What is the area of the shaded figure shown below?

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

3. The expression 2021

2020
2020
2021
is equal to the fraction pq in which p and q are
positive integers whose greatest common divisor is 1. What is p ?

(A) 1 (B) 9 (C) 2020 (D) 2021 (E) 4041

4. At noon on a certain day, Minneapolis is N degrees warmer than St. Louis.

At 4:00 the temperature in Minneapolis has fallen by 5 degrees while the
temperature in St. Louis has risen by 3 degrees, at which time the tempera-
tures in the two cities differ by 2 degrees. What is the product of all possible
values of N ?

(A) 10 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 100 (E) 120

n
5. Let n D 82022 . Which of the following is equal to 4
?

(A) 41010 (B) 22022 (C) 82018 (D) 43031 (E) 43032

6. The least positive integer with exactly 2021 distinct positive divisors can be
written in the form m
6k , where m and k are integers and 6 is not a divisor
of m. What is m C k ?

(A) 47 (B) 58 (C) 59 (D) 88 (E) 90

Fall 2021 AMC 10 B Problems 3

7. Call a fraction ab , not necessarily in simplest form, special if a and b are

positive integers whose sum is 15. How many distinct integers can be writ-
ten as the sum of two, not necessarily different, special fractions?

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

8. The greatest prime number that is a divisor of 16;384 is 2 because 16;384 D

214 . What is the sum of the digits of the greatest prime number that is a
divisor of 16;383 ?

(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 16 (E) 22

9. The knights in a certain kingdom come in two colors: 27 of them are red, and
the rest are blue. Furthermore, 16 of the knights are magical, and the fraction
of red knights who are magical is 2 times the fraction of blue knights who
are magical. What fraction of red knights are magical?
2 3 7 2 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 13 27 7 3

10. Forty slips of paper numbered 1 to 40 are placed in a hat. Alice and Bob
each draw one number from the hat without replacement, keeping their
numbers hidden from each other. Alice says, “I can’t tell who has the larger
number.” Then Bob says, “I know who has the larger number.” Alice says,
“You do? Is your number prime?” Bob replies, “Yes.” Alice says, “In that
case, if I multiply your number by 100 and add my number, the result is a
perfect square.” What is the sum of the two numbers drawn from the hat?

(A) 27 (B) 37 (C) 47 (D) 57 (E) 67

11. A regular hexagon of side length 1 is inscribed in a circle. Each minor arc
of the circle determined by a side of the hexagon is reflected over that side.
What is the area of the region bounded by these 6 reflected arcs?
p p
5 3 p p 3 3
(A)  (B) 3 3  (C) 4 3 (D) 
2 2 2
p
C 3
(E)
2
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12. Which of the following conditions is sufficient to guarantee that integers x,

y, and z satisfy the equation

x.x y/ C y.y z/ C z.z x/ D 1 ‹

(A) x > y and y D z (B) x D y 1 and y D z 1

(C) x D z C 1 and y D x C 1 (D) x D z and y 1Dx
(E) x C y C z D 1

13. A square with side length 3 is inscribed in an isosceles triangle with one
side of the square along the base of the triangle. A square with side length
2 has two vertices on the other square and the other two on sides of the
triangle, as shown. What is the area of the triangle?

1 1 3 1 3
(A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23
4 4 4 2 4

14. Una rolls 6 standard 6-sided dice simultaneously and calculates the prod-
uct of the 6 numbers obtained. What is the probability that the product is
divisible by 4 ?
3 57 59 187 63
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 64 64 192 64
Fall 2021 AMC 10 B Problems 5

15. In square ABCD, points P and Q lie on AD and AB, respectively. Seg-
ments BP and CQ intersect at right angles at R, with BR D 6 and PR D 7.
What is the area of the square?

D C

R
6

A Q B

(A) 85 (B) 93 (C) 100 (D) 117 (E) 125

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?

(A) 1:6 (B) 1:8 (C) 2:0 (D) 2:2 (E) 2:4

17. Distinct lines ` and m lie in the xy-plane. They intersect at the origin. Point
P . 1; 4/ is reflected about line ` to point P 0 , and then P 0 is reflected about
line m to point P 00 . The equation of line ` is 5x y D 0, and the coordinates
of P 00 are .4; 1/. What is the equation of line m ?

(A) 5x C 2y D 0 (B) 3x C 2y D 0 (C) x 3y D 0

(D) 2x 3y D 0 (E) 5x 3y D 0
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18. Three identical square sheets of paper each with side length 6 are stacked on
top of each other. The middle sheet is rotated clockwise 30ı about its center
and the top sheet is rotated clockwise 60ı about its center, resulting in the
24-sided polygon shown in thep figure below. The area of this polygon can
be expressed in the form a b c, where a, b, and c are positive integers,
and c is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is a C b C c ?

(A) 75 (B) 93 (C) 96 (D) 129 (E) 147

19. Let N be the positive integer 7777 : : : 777, a 313-digit number where each
digit is a 7. Let f .r/ be the leading digit of the rth root of N . What is
f .2/ C f .3/ C f .4/ C f .5/ C f .6/ ?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 22 (E) 29

20. In a particular game, each of 4 players rolls a standard 6-sided die. The
winner is the player who rolls the highest number. If there is a tie for the
highest roll, those involved in the tie will roll again and this process will
continue until one player wins. Hugo is one of the players in this game.
What is the probability that Hugo’s first roll was a 5, given that he won the
game?
61 367 41 185 11
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
216 1296 144 648 36
Fall 2021 AMC 10 B Problems 7

21. Regular polygons with 5, 6, 7, and 8 sides are inscribed in the same circle.
No two of the polygons share a vertex, and no three of their sides intersect
at a common point. At how many points inside the circle do two of their
sides intersect?

(A) 52 (B) 56 (C) 60 (D) 64 (E) 68

22. For each integer n  2, let Sn be the sum of all products j k, where j and
k are integers and 1  j < k  n. What is the sum of the 10 least values
of n such that Sn is divisible by 3 ?

(A) 196 (B) 197 (C) 198 (D) 199 (E) 200

23. Each of the 5 sides and the 5 diagonals of a regular pentagon are randomly
and independently colored red or blue with equal probability. What is the
probability that there will be a triangle whose vertices are among the ver-
tices of the pentagon such that all of its sides have the same color?
2 105 125 253
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 1
3 128 128 256

24. A cube is constructed from 4 white unit cubes and 4 blue unit cubes. How
many different ways are there to construct the 2  2  2 cube using these
smaller cubes? (Two constructions are considered the same if one can be
rotated to match the other.)

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

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25. A rectangle with side lengths 1 and 3, a square with side length 1, and a
rectangle R are inscribed inside a larger square as shown. The sum of all
possible values for the area of R can be written in the form m
n
, where m and
n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m C n ?

1
1
1
1 R

1
3

3
1

(A) 14 (B) 23 (C) 46 (D) 59 (E) 67

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The problems and solutions for this AMC 10 B were prepared
by the MAA AMC 10/12 Editorial Board under the direction of
Azar Khosravani and Carl Yerger, co-Editors-in-Chief.

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DO NOT OPEN until Tuesday, November 16, 2021

**Administration on an earlier date will disqualify your school’s results.**

• All the information needed to administer this competition is contained in
the AMC 10/12 Teacher’s Manual. PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE
Tuesday, November 16, 2021.
• Answer sheets must be returned to the MAA AMC office within 24 hours of
the competition administration. Use an overnight or 2-day shipping service,
with a tracking number, to guarantee timely arrival of these answer sheets.
FedEx, UPS, or USPS overnight are strongly recommended.
• The 40th annual American Invitational Mathematics Exam will be held
on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, with an alternate date on Wednesday,
February 16, 2022. It is a 15-question, 3-hour, integer-answer competition.
Students who achieve a high score on the AMC 10 will be invited to
participate. Top-scoring students on the AMC 10/12 and AIME will be
selected to take the USA (Junior) Mathematical Olympiad.
• The publication, reproduction, or communication of the problems or solu-
tions of this competition during the period when students are eligible to
participate seriously jeopardizes the integrity of the results. Dissemination
via phone, email, or digital media of any type during this period is a viola-
tion of the competition rules.