2012年AMC8真题及英文详解.docVIP

1. Rachelle uses 3 pounds of meat to make 8 hamburgers for her family. How many pounds of meat does she need to make 24 hamburgers for a neighborhood picnic? Solution Solution 1 Since Rachelle uses??pounds of meat to make??hamburgers, she uses??pounds of meat to make one hamburger. Shell need 24 times that amount of meat for 24 hamburgers, or?. Solution 2 Rachelle uses meat for hamburgers in the ratio?. If we multiply this ratio on top and bottom by 3 to get 24 hamburgers on the bottom, we get?. Therefore, she uses 9 pounds of meat for 24 hamburgers, making the answer?. 2. In the country of East Westmore, statisticians estimate there is a baby born every??hours and a death every day. To the nearest hundred, how many people are added to the population of East Westmore each year? Solution There are??births and one death everyday in East Westmore. Therefore, the population increases by??people everyday. Thus, there are??people added to the population every year. Rounding, we find the answer is?. 3. On February 13?The Oshkosh Northwester?listed the length of daylight as 10 hours and 24 minutes, the sunrise was?, and the sunset as?. The length of daylight and sunrise were correct, but the sunset was wrong. When did the sun really set? Solution The problem wants us to find the time of sunset and gives us the length of daylight and time of sunrise. So all we have to do is add the length of daylight to the time of sunrise to obtain the answer. Convert 10 hours and 24 minutes into??in order to add easier. Adding, we find that the time of sunset is?. 4. Peters family ordered a 12-slice pizza for dinner. Peter ate one slice and shared another slice equally with his brother Paul. What fraction of the pizza did Peter eat? Solution Peter ate??slices. The pizza has??slices total. Taking the ratio of the amount of slices Peter ate to the amount of slices in the pizza, we find that Peter ate??of the pizza. 5. In the diagram, all angles are right angles and the lengths of the sides