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2002 AMC 8

Question 1

A circle and two distinct lines are drawn on a sheet of paper. What is the largest possible number of points of intersection of these figures?
  1. $2$
  2. $3$
  3. $4$
  4. $5$
  5. $6$

Question 2

How many different combinations of $\$5$ bills and $\$2$ bills can be used to make a total of $\$17?$ Order does not matter in this problem.
  1. $2$
  2. $3$
  3. $4$
  4. $5$
  5. $6$

Question 3

What is the smallest possible average of four distinct positive even integers?
  1. $3$
  2. $4$
  3. $5$
  4. $6$
  5. $7$

Question 4

The year $2002$ is a palindrome (a number that reads the same from left to right as it does from right to left). What is the product of the digits of the next year after $2002$ that is a palindrome?
  1. $0$
  2. $4$
  3. $9$
  4. $16$
  5. $25$

Question 5

Carlos Montado was born on Saturday, November $9,$ $2002.$ On what day of the week will Carlos be $706$ days old?
  1. Monday
  2. Wednesday
  3. Friday
  4. Saturday
  5. Sunday

Question 6

A birdbath is designed to overflow so that it will be self-cleaning. Water flows in at the rate of $20$ milliliters per minute and drains at the rate of $18$ milliliters per minute. One of these graphs shows the volume of water in the birdbath during the filling time and continuing into the overflow time. Which one is it?

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**(E)** Question illustration
  1. Choice A shown above
  2. Choice B shown above
  3. Choice C shown above
  4. Choice D shown above
  5. Choice E shown above

Question 7

The students in Mrs. Sawyer’s class were asked to do a taste test of five kinds of candy. Each student chose one kind of candy. A bar graph of their preferences is shown. What percent of her class chose candy $E?$

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  1. $5$
  2. $12$
  3. $15$
  4. $16$
  5. $20$

Question 8

Problems $8,$ $9,$ and $10$ use the data found in the accompanying paragraph and table.

Juan’s Old Stamping Grounds

Juan organizes the stamps in his collection by country and by the decade in which they were issued. The prices he paid for them at a stamp shop were: Brazil and France, $6$¢ each, Peru $4$¢ each, and Spain $5$¢ each. (Brazil and Peru are South American countries and France and Spain are in Europe.)

**Number of Stamps by Decade**

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How many of his European stamps were issued in the ‘$80$s?
  1. $9$
  2. $15$
  3. $18$
  4. $24$
  5. $42$

Question 9

His South American stamps issued before the ‘$70$s cost him
  1. $\$0.40$
  2. $\$1.06$
  3. $\$1.80$
  4. $\$2.38$
  5. $\$2.64$

Question 10

The average price of his ‘$70$s stamps is closest to
  1. $3.5$¢
  2. $4$¢
  3. $4.5$¢
  4. $5$¢
  5. $5.5$¢

Question 11

A sequence of squares is made of identical square tiles. The edge of each square is one tile length longer than the edge of the previous square. The first three squares are shown. How many more tiles does the seventh square require than the sixth?

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  1. $11$
  2. $12$
  3. $13$
  4. $14$
  5. $15$

Question 12

A board game spinner is divided into three regions labeled $A,$ $B$ and $C.$ The probability of the arrow stopping on region $A$ is $\frac{1}{3}$ and on region $B$ is $\frac{1}{2}.$ The probability of the arrow stopping on region $C$ is
  1. $\dfrac{1}{12}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{6}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{5}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
  5. $\dfrac{2}{5}$

Question 13

For his birthday, Bert gets a box that holds $125$ jellybeans when filled to capacity. A few weeks later, Carrie gets a larger box full of jellybeans. Her box is twice as high, twice as wide and twice as long as Bert’s. Approximately, how many jellybeans did Carrie get?
  1. $250$
  2. $500$
  3. $625$
  4. $750$
  5. $1000$

Question 14

A merchant offers a large group of items at $30\%$ off. Later, the merchant takes $20\%$ off these sale prices and claims that the final price of these items is $50\%$ off the original price. The total discount is
  1. $35\%$
  2. $44\%$
  3. $50\%$
  4. $56\%$
  5. $60\%$

Question 15

Which of the following polygons has the largest area?

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  1. $\text{A}$
  2. $\text{B}$
  3. $\text{C}$
  4. $\text{D}$
  5. $\text{E}$

Question 16

Right isosceles triangles are constructed on the sides of a $3-4-5$ right triangle, as shown. A capital letter represents the area of each triangle. Which one of the following is true?

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  1. $X + Z = W + Y$
  2. $W + X = Z$
  3. $3X + 4Y = 5Z$
  4. $X + W = \dfrac{1}{2}(Y + Z)$
  5. $X + Y = Z$

Question 17

In a mathematics contest with ten problems, a student gains $5$ points for a correct answer and loses $2$ points for an incorrect answer. If Olivia answered every problem and her score was $29,$ how many correct answers did she have?
  1. $5$
  2. $6$
  3. $7$
  4. $8$
  5. $9$

Question 18

Gage skated $1$ hr $15$ min each day for $5$ days and $1$ hr $30$ min each day for $3$ days. How long would he have to skate the ninth day in order to average $85$ minutes of skating each day for the entire time?
  1. $1$ hr
  2. $1$ hr $10$ min
  3. $1$ hr $20$ min
  4. $1$ hr $40$ min
  5. $2$ hr

Question 19

How many whole numbers between $99$ and $999$ contain exactly one $0?$
  1. $72$
  2. $90$
  3. $144$
  4. $162$
  5. $180$

Question 20

The area of triangle $XYZ$ is $8$ square inches. Points $A$ and $B$ are midpoints of congruent segments $\overline{XY}$ and $\overline{XZ}.$ Altitude $\overline{XC}$ bisects $\overline{YZ}.$ The area (in square inches) of the shaded region is

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  1. $1 \frac{1}{2}$
  2. $2$
  3. $2 \frac{1}{2}$
  4. $3$
  5. $3 \frac{1}{2}$