2022 AMC 8

The Math Team designed a logo shaped like a multiplication symbol, shown below on a grid of $1$-inch squares. What is the area of the logo in square inches?

Consider these two operations: $$
\begin{align*} a\,\blacklozenge\,b &= a^2 - b^2 \\ a \star b &= (a - b)^2 \end{align*}
$$

Compute the value:

$$
(5\,\blacklozenge\,3) \star 6
$$

When three positive integers $a,$ $b,$ and $c$ are multiplied together, their product is $100.$ Suppose $a < b < c.$ In how many ways can the numbers be chosen?

The letter **M** in the figure below is first reflected over the line $q$ and then reflected over the line $p.$ What is the resulting image?



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Anna and Bella are celebrating their birthdays together. Five years ago, when Bella turned $6$ years old, she received a newborn kitten as a birthday present. Today the sum of the ages of the two children and the kitten is $30$ years. How many years older than Bella is Anna?

Three positive integers are equally spaced on a number line. The middle number is $15$ and the largest number is $4$ times the smallest number. What is the smallest of these three numbers?

When the World Wide Web first became popular in the 1990s, download speeds reached a maximum of about $56$ kilobits per second. Approximately how many minutes would the download of a $4.2$-megabyte song have taken at that speed? (Note that there are $8000$ kilobits in a megabyte.)

What is the value of:

$$
\dfrac{1}{3} \cdot \dfrac{2}{4} \cdot \dfrac{3}{5} \cdots \dfrac{18}{20} \cdot \dfrac{19}{21} \cdot \dfrac{20}{22}
$$

A cup of boiling water ($212^\circ$ F) is placed to cool in a room whose temperature remains constant at $68^\circ$ F. Suppose the difference between the water temperature and the room temperature is halved every $5$ minutes. What is the water temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, after $15$ minutes?

One sunny day, Ling decided to take a hike in the mountains. She left her house at $8$ a.m., drove at a constant speed of $45$ miles per hour, and arrived at the hiking trail at $10$ a.m. After hiking for $3$ hours, Ling drove home at a constant speed of $60$ miles per hour. Which of the following graphs best illustrates the distance between Ling’s car and her house over the course of her trip?

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Henry the donkey has a very long piece of pasta. He takes a number of bites of pasta, each time eating $3$ inches of pasta from the middle of one piece. In the end, he has $10$ pieces of pasta whose total length is $17$ inches. How long, in inches, was the piece of pasta he started with?

The arrows on the two spinners shown below are spun. Let the number $N$ equal $10$ times the number on Spinner A, added to the number on Spinner B. What is the probability that $N$ is a perfect square number?

How many positive integers can fill the blank in the sentence below?

“One positive integer is ___ more than twice another, and the sum of the two numbers is $28$”

In how many ways can the letters in **BEEKEEPER** be rearranged so that two or more **E**’s do not appear together?

Laszlo went online to shop for black pepper and found thirty different black pepper options varying in weight and price, shown in the scatter plot below. In ounces, what is the weight of the pepper that offers the lowest price per ounce?

Four numbers are written in a row. The average of the first two is $21,$ the average of the middle two is $26,$ and the average of the last two is $30.$ What is the average of the first and last of the numbers?

If $n$ is an even positive integer, the double factorial notation $n!!$ represents the product of all the even integers from $2$ to $n.$ For example:

$$
8!! = 2 \times 4 \times 6 \times 8
$$

What is the units digit of the following sum?

$$
\begin{aligned} &2!! + 4!! + 6!! + \cdots \\ &\quad {}+ 2018!! + 2020!! + 2022!! \end{aligned}
$$

The midpoints of the four sides of a rectangle are $(-3, 0),$ $(2, 0),$ $(5, 4),$ and $(0, 4).$ What is the area of the rectangle?

Mr. Ramos gave a test to his class of $20$ students. The dot plot below shows the distribution of test scores.



Later Mr. Ramos discovered that there was a scoring error on one of the questions. He regraded the tests, awarding some of the students $5$ extra points, which increased the median test score to $85.$ What is the minimum number of students who received extra points?

(Note that the median test score equals the average of the $2$ scores in the middle if the $20$ test scores are arranged in increasing order.)

The grid below is to be filled with integers in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row and the sum of the numbers in each column are the same. Four numbers are missing. The number $x$ in the lower left corner is larger than the other three missing numbers. What is the smallest possible value of $x?$