经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析

_原题为 AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析

Problem 1
经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: C
Solution:

One is 468, the other is 579. 468+579=1047.
Problem 2经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: A
Solution:
When dealing with positive decimals, the leftmost digits affect the change in value more. Thus, to get the largest number, we change the 1 to a 9.
Problem 3经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: E
Solution:
Reflecting the square across the diagonal drawn, we see that the shaded region covers exactly the unshaded region in the original square, and thus makes up 1/2 of the square .
Problem 4经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: E
Solution:
For integers, only the units digit affects the units digit of the final result, so we only need to test the squares of the integers from 0 through 9 inclusive. Testing shows that 8 is unachievable, so the answer is E.
Problem 5经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: B
Solution:
Clearly, 0.4<0.48017<0.5; 0.5*0.5*0.5=0.125, so B is the answer.
Since 0.48017 is quite close to 0.5, we can look for the answer choice that is just below 0.5*0.5*0.5=0.125 , which would be B .
Problem 6经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: D
Solution:
The options given in choices A, B, and E don't change the initial value (13579) much, the option in choice C decreases 13579 by a lot, and the one given in choice D increases 13579 by a lot.
Problem 7经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: C
Solution:
First we try for a positive product, meaning we either pick three positive numbers or one positive number and two negative numbers. It is clearly impossible to pick three positive numbers. If we try the second case, we want to pick the numbers with the largest absolute values, so we choose 5, -3, and -2. Their product is 30.
Problem 8经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: D
Solution:
After the price reduction, the sale price is 80*(1-0.25)=60 dollars. The tax makes the final price 60*1.1=66 dollars.
Problem 9经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: D
Solution:
We just count to find that there are 5 students in the C range.
There are 15 total, so the percentage is 5/15=33.3%.
Problem 10经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: A
Solution:
Let the date behind c be x. Now the date behind A is x+1, and after looking at the calendar, the date behind B is x+13. Now we have x+1+x+13=x+y. for some date y, and we desire for y to be x+14. Now we find that y is the date behind P.
Problem 11经验教程|AMC8 -- 1990年真题解析
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Answer: E
Solution:
The only possibilities for the numbers are 11,12,13,14,15,16or10,11,12,13,14,15..


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