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2014 QEDMonthly Diagnostic

There are 25 questions to be answered over a period of 75 minutes. This
mimics the format of the AMC 10/12.
Each question has 5 answer choices, exactly one of which is correct.
You will receive 6 points for every correct answer and 1.5 points for every
question you leave blank. Thus blind guessing is not in your favor. If you
are able to eliminate 2 or more answer choices, it is generally favorable for
you to guess.

ANSWERS (circle at most one per question):

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1 2 3
+ + in simplest form.
2 3 4
13
23
2
(A) (B) 1 (C)
(D)
(E) 2
3
12
12

1. Express

2. Kelvin the Frog flips a coin 4 times. What is the probability that he gets
more heads than tails?
3
1
5
11
5
(B) (C) (D) (E)
(A)
16
8
2
8
16
3. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 13 and 21 respectively, and the area
of the triangle is 126. Compute the length of the third side.
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20
4. Kelvin the Frog has three songs on his aPod: AJ Dennis, which lasts 5
minutes, AJ Phone, which lasts 10 minutes, and AJ Song, which lasts
15 minutes. He randomly shuffles these songs and then listens to them,
one immediately after the other. What is the probability that, after 20
minutes, Kelvin is in the middle of listening to AJ Song?
1
1
2
5
1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6
3
2
3
6
5. Two similar triangles have areas 40 and 160. If the perimeter of the smaller
triangle is 36, what is the perimeter of the larger triangle?
(A) 36 (B) 72 (C) 108 (D) 144 (E) 180
6. Everyone in Dr. Abramsons class takes a test except for one late student.
Their average score is a 79. When the late student arrives, he scores a
perfect 100, causing the average score to raise by a point. How many
people are in Dr. Abramsons class?
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 25 (E) 30
7. On a Saturday, between 60 and 100 people came to math team to take
a math competition. When they attempted to seat exactly 4 people per
table, one table only contained two people. When they rearranged themselves to have exactly 5 people per table, one table only contained three
people. Finally, they successfully rearranged themselves to have exactly 6
people per table. How many students were there?
(A) 72 (B) 78 (C) 84 (D) 90 (E) 96
8. If 22 44 88 = 2x , compute x.
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 34 (D) 42 (E) 84
9. 12 lines are drawn in the plane, no two parallel and no three concurrent
(i.e. no three lines meet at the same point). How many intersection points
are formed by these lines?
(A) 55 (B) 66 (C) 78 (D) 110 (E) 132

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10. What is the sum of all two-digit integers that are equal to 4 times the
sum of their digits? For example, 36 is one such number as 3+6=9 and
9 4 = 36.
(A) 72 (B) 120 (C) 168 (D) 216 (E) 264
11. Kelvin the Frog is tied to one corner of a square barn with a 12 meter long
rope. If the barn has a side length of 6 meters, what is the area in which
Kelvin the Frog can hop (he cannot hop inside the barn)?
(A) 126 (B) 400 (C) 135 (D) 450 (E) 144
12. For integers a, b, define a ? b to be the smallest multiple of b greater than
or equal to a. For example, 39 ? 10 = 40, 7 ? 3 = 9, and 6 ? 2 = 6. Find
the sum of all possible values of x such that x ? 5 + x ? 4 = 71.
(A) 33 (B) 34 (C) 67 (D) 102 (E) 138
13. The sum of 19 consecutive integers is 2014. Find the largest of these
numbers.
(A) 103 (B) 106 (C) 109 (D) 112 (E) 115
14. Kelvin the Frog can swim along the whole length of his river upstream
(against the current) in 12 hours and downstream (with the current) in 4
hours. If there was no current, how long would it take Kelvin the Frog to
swim along his river (in hours)?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
15. Kelvin the Frog accidentally reversed the digits of a three-digit number,
forming a new three-digit number that is 594 less than the original. How
many possibilities are there for the original number?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 30 (D) 36 (E) 60
16. Distinct points E and F lie in the plane of square ABCD so that ABE and
ABF are both equilateral triangles. Find |CED CF D| in degrees.
(A) 30 (B) 60 (C) 90 (D) 120 (E) 150
17. Let r and s be the roots of the quadratic x2 + 12x 5. Find (r + 1)(s + 1).
(A) -18 (B) -16 (C) 8 (D) 16 (E) 18
18. Find the last digit of 12014 + 22014 + . . . + 20142014 .
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9
39
can be expressed as 0.abcabcabc for
19. The decimal representation of
111
some digits a, b, and c. Find a b c.
(A) 0 (B) 9 (C) 15 (D) 25 (E) 27

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20. ABCD is a square with side length 2. Point E is outside the square and
point F is inside the square such that ABE and BCF are both equilateral
triangles. Find EF 2 .

(A) 8 4 3 (B) 6 (C) 6 + 2 (D) 8 (E) 8 + 4 3

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21. A coin is weighted so that it comes up heads exactly of the time. Kelvin
5
the Frog and Alex the Kat play a game with this coin, taking turns flipping
it with Kelvin flipping it first. The winner of the game is the first person
to flip a head. What is the probability that Alex wins this game?
4
1
5
4
1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5
9
2
9
5
22. Points E and F lie on side CD of rectangle ABCD such that CE = EF =
F D, and the lengths AF, AE, AC are in geometric progression. Let x be
x2
the longer side length of the rectangle and y be the shorter one. Then 2
y
m
where m, n are relatively prime positive
can be expressed in the form
n
integers. Find m + n.
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 25
23. There is exactly one integer n such that reversing the digits of ns (3digit) base 13 representation gives the digits of ns (also 3-digit) base 37
representation. For example, 1337 is not this integer because 1337s base
37 representation is only 2 digits, and 2014 is not this integer because
201410 = (11)(11)(12)13 = 1(17)(16)37 (note that 11, 12, . . . are digits
in these bases) which are not the reverses of each other. Which of the
following intervals contains n?
(A) 0 n < 500 (B) 500 n < 1000 (C) 1000 n < 1500
(D) 1500 n < 2000 (E) 2000 n
24. What is the value of sin(15 ) sin(75 )?

1
3
1
3
3
(A) (B)
(C) (D) (E)
4
4
2
4
2
25. Suppose a and b are distinct real numbers satisfying loga b = logb a. What
is the value of ab?
(A) -1 (B) 0 (C)

1
4

(D)

1
2

(E) 1