JAMC 8

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December 2024 - January 2025

1. This is a 25-question multiple choice test.

2. You will have 40 minutes to complete the test after you have begun.
3. You will receive 1 point for each correct answer, and 0 points for each left unanswered or
incorrect.

4. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.

5. No aids are allowed other than writing utensils, scratch paper, rulers, compasses, and erasers.

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1. Evaluate .
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(A) 14 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 22

2. If f (x) = x2 + 2x + 1, what is f (f (f (1)))?

(A) 616 (B) 625 (C) 650 (D) 676 (E) 681
3. A school starts at 8 : 30 AM and ends at 3 : 30 PM. In one day, there are 8 periods, 4 minutes between
periods (7 of these), and a 30-minute lunch break. If the first 7 periods are 45 minutes long, how long is the
last period?
(A) 39 (B) 43 (C) 45 (D) 47 (E) 77
4. A mysterious liquid is made of water and other liquids. The current percentage of water is 10% out of the
whole 10-liter bottle. How many liters of water must be added such that the percentage of water in the bottle
is 70%?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 30
5. In a football game, a team scored a combination of 3 and 7 points. What is the greatest possible score that
the team could not have had?
(A) 8 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 16 (E) 17
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6. A square EF GH is inscribed in another square ABCD, as shown below. If AE = 5 3, and EB = 5, what is
the area of EF GH?

A E B

D G C

√ √
(A) 25 + 5 3 (B) 50 (C) 100 (D) 100 + 50 3 (E) 125
7. The Rattlers, Kittens, and Sharks are teams in a baseball league. The Rattlers play one game against both
the Kittens and the Sharks. The Rattlers have a 1/4 chance of beating the Kittens and a 3/4 chance of
p
beatting the Sharks. If the probability that the Rattlers win at least one of these games is , where p and q
q
are relatively prime, then what is p + q?
(A) 11 (B) 15 (C) 19 (D) 25 (E) 29

8. A swimming pool is filled with water, chlorine, and other chemicals. There is 150% more water than chlorine,
and 60% more chlorine than other chemicals. If there are 1, 000 gallons of chlorine in the pool, how many
gallons is the entire pool?
(A) 2125 (B) 3000 (C) 4000 (D) 4100 (E) 4125
9. How many 2-digit multiples of 7 are there?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16

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10. A square ABCD with side length 1 has point E on side AB. If the area of ∆EBC is the area of AECD,
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what is the length of EB?
1 1 1 2 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 4 3 5 2
11. Two spinners have the integers from 1 to 5 on them, inclusive, with equal chance to get each number. The
two spinners are spun. What is the probability that the product of the results of the two spinners is a prime
number?
1 6 7 2 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 25 25 5 2
12. In a 9-question multiple choice test, each question has an answer of (A), (B), or (C). If each of these answer
choices is the answer to 3 questions, how many possible ways can this happen?
(A) 280 (B) 960 (C) 1260 (D) 1680 (E) 3360
13. A set of 10 distinct positive integers sum to 133. What is the greatest possible integer in the set?
(A) 65 (B) 73 (C) 88 (D) 93 (E) 123
14. What is the sum of the digits of the least possible integer with 15 positive factors?
(A) 9 (B) 14 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 22
15. Caitlin and Lucy are racing each other. Caitlin, who runs at 120 meters per minute, starts 130 meters ahead
of Lucy, who runs 150 meters per minute. When Lucy finishes the race, she is 80 meters ahead of Caitlin.
How long is the race, in meters, if the starting point is where Lucy started?
(A) 685 (B) 750 (C) 840 (D) 910 (E) 1050
16. The ages of a father and a son share these properties:

• The father’s age is a perfect square.

• The son’s age is 13.
• The absolute difference of their ages is a perfect square.

If the sum of their ages is a, then what is the sum of the digits of a?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14
17. A rectangle ABCD with integer side lengths has an area of 91. E is the midpoint of AB and F is the midpoint
p
of AD. The area of ∆EF C can be written as . What is p + q?
q
(A) 95 (B) 128 (C) 194 (D) 277 (E) 281
18. How many ways can the letters of ALGEBRA be rearranged such that the two A’s are not adjacent?
(A) 1540 (B) 1760 (C) 1800 (D) 1950 (E) 2040

19. John is packing for his vacation. He must bring exactly 1 out of his 2 pairs of shoes, exactly 1 out of his 3
coats, exactly 2 out of his 4 hats, and least 3 out of his 5 pairs of socks. How many ways can he do this?
(A) 120 (B) 270 (C) 360 (D) 384 (E) 576
20. Three circles with radius 10 all intersect each others centers (as shown below). The area of the intersection of
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all of the circles can be written as mπ − n p, where p is prime. What is m + n + p?

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 (A) 28 (B) 58 (C) 73 (D) 97 (E) 103

21. On a graph, a frog starts at (0, 0), and moves either up 1 unit or right 1 unit randomly. If the frog goes on
forever, what is the probability that it passes through the point (3, 7)?
15 63 3 7 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
128 256 32 64 2
22. A 6-digit number is considered amazing if its digits add up to 9. How many amazing numbers are there?
(A) 972 (B) 1287 (C) 1500 (D) 1768 (E) 2002
23. A polynomial, x4 + ax3 + 51x2 + bx + c has 4 integer roots that form an arithmetic sequence with a common
difference of 3. If 3 of the roots are positive, what is a + b + c?
(A) -108 (B) -65 (C) -52 (D) 0 (E) 28
24. Jack is playing with two vases, A and B, which contain a certain number of marbles. In the beginning, B
contains 22/5 times as many marbles than A. First, Jack pours half of the marbles in B into A. Next, he
pours 1/4 of the marbles in A into B. Finally, he pours 7 marbles from B into A so that there is 1 more
marble in B than A. What is the total number of marbles in both containers?
(A) 45 (B) 110 (C) 135 (D) 170 (E) 200
25. In a 6 by 6 grid, 1 by 1, 2 by 2, and 3 by 3 squares are placed in it, nonoverlapping. How many ways can
these three squares be placed in the grid? (Two possible arrangments are shown below.)

(A) 3456 (B) 4320 (C) 4608 (D) 4692 (E) 4712