2018 AMC 10B

Kate bakes a $20$-inch by $18$-inch pan of cornbread. The cornbread is cut into pieces that measure $2$ inches by $2$ inches. How many pieces of cornbread does the pan contain?

Sam drove $96$ miles in $90$ minutes. His average speed during the first $30$ minutes was $60$ mph (miles per hour), and his average speed during the second $30$ minutes was $65$ mph. What was his average speed, in mph, during the last $30$ minutes?

In the expression $(\underline{\phantom{x}} \times \underline{\phantom{x}}) + (\underline{\phantom{x}} \times \underline{\phantom{x}})$ each blank is to be filled in with one of the digits $1,$ $2,$ $3,$ or $4,$ with each digit being used once. How many different values can be obtained?

A three-dimensional rectangular box with dimensions $X,$ $Y,$ and $Z$ has faces whose surface areas are $24,$ $24,$ $48,$ $48,$ $72,$ and $72$ square units. What is $X + Y + Z?$

How many subsets of $\{2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9\}$ contain at least one prime number?

A box contains $5$ chips, numbered $1,$ $2,$ $3,$ $4,$ and $5.$ Chips are drawn randomly one at a time without replacement until the sum of the values drawn exceeds $4.$ What is the probability that $3$ draws are required?

In the figure below, $N$ congruent semicircles are drawn along a diameter of a large semicircle, with their diameters covering the diameter of the large semicircle with no overlap. Let $A$ be the combined area of the small semicircles and $B$ be the area of the region inside the large semicircle but outside the small semicircles. The ratio $A : B$ is $1 : 18.$ What is $N?$

Sara makes a staircase out of toothpicks as shown:



This is a $3$-step staircase and uses $18$ toothpicks. How many steps would be in a staircase that used $180$ toothpicks?

The faces of each of $7$ standard dice are labeled with the integers from $1$ to $6.$ Let $p$ be the probability that when all $7$ dice are rolled, the sum of the numbers on the top faces is $10.$ What other sum occurs with the same probability $p?$

In the rectangular parallelepiped shown, $AB = 3,$ $BC = 1,$ and $CG = 2.$ Point $M$ is the midpoint of $FG.$ What is the volume of the rectangular pyramid with base $BCHE$ and apex $M?$

Which of the following expressions is never a prime number when $p$ is a prime number?

Line segment $AB$ is a diameter of a circle with $AB = 24.$ Point $C,$ not equal to $A$ or $B,$ lies on the circle. As point $C$ moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of $\triangle ABC$ traces out a closed curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region bounded by this curve?

How many of the first $2018$ numbers in the sequence $101,$ $1001,$ $10001,$ $100001,$ $\ldots$ are divisible by $101?$

A list of $2018$ positive integers has a unique mode, which occurs exactly $10$ times. What is the least number of distinct values that can occur in the list?

A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point $A$ in the figure on the right. The box has base length $w$ and height $h.$ What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper?

Let $a_1,$ $a_2,$ $\ldots,$ $a_{2018}$ be a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers such that

$$
a_1 + a_2 + \cdots + a_{2018} = 2018^{2018}.
$$

What is the remainder when $a_1^3 + a_2^3 + \cdots + a_{2018}^3$ is divided by $6?$

In rectangle $PQRS,$ $PQ = 8$ and $QR = 6.$ Points $A$ and $B$ lie on $PQ,$ points $C$ and $D$ lie on $QR,$ points $E$ and $F$ lie on $RS,$ and points $G$ and $H$ lie on $SP$ so that $AP = BQ < 4$ and the convex octagon $ABCDEFGH$ is equilateral. The length of a side of this octagon can be expressed in the form $k + m\sqrt{n},$ where $k,$ $m,$ and $n$ are integers and $n$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is $k + m + n?$

Three young brother-sister pairs from different families need to take a trip in a van. These six children will occupy the second and third rows in the van, each of which has three seats. To avoid disruptions, siblings may not sit right next to each other in the same row, and no child may sit directly in front of his or her sibling. How many seating arrangements are possible for this trip?

Joey and Chloe and their daughter Zoe all have the same birthday. Joey is $1$ year older than Chloe, and Zoe is exactly $1$ year old today. Today is the first of the $9$ birthdays on which Chloe’s age will be an integral multiple of Zoe’s age. What will be the sum of the two digits of Joey’s age the next time his age is a multiple of Zoe’s age?

A function $f$ is defined recursively by $f(1) = f(2) = 1$ and

$$
f(n) = f(n - 1) - f(n - 2) + n
$$

for all integers $n \ge 3.$ What is $f(2018)?$