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2012 AMC 10B

All 25 problems from the 2012 AMC 10B. Take it as a timed mock test — 1:15:00 on the clock, scored the way the real contest is — or read through the problems and open any of them for hints and a worked solution.

25 problems · 6 points correct, 1.5 for blank, 0 for wrong

  1. Each third-grade classroom at Pearl Creek Elementary has 1818 students and 22 pet rabbits. How many more students than rabbits are there in all 44 of the third-grade classrooms?
  2. A circle of radius 55 is inscribed in a rectangle as shown. The ratio of the length of the rectangle to its width is 2:1.2:1. What is the area of the rectangle?
  3. The point in the xyxy-plane with coordinates (1000,2012)(1000, 2012) is reflected across the line y=2000.y=2000. What are the coordinates of the reflected point?
  4. When Ringo places his marbles into bags with 66 marbles per bag, he has 44 marbles left over. When Paul does the same with his marbles, he has 33 marbles left over. Ringo and Paul pool their marbles and place them into as many bags as possible, with 66 marbles per bag. How many marbles will be left over?
  5. Anna enjoys dinner at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., where the sales tax on meals is 10%.10\%. She leaves a 15%15\% tip on the price of her meal before the sales tax is added, and the tax is calculated on the pre-tip amount. She spends a total of $27.50\$27.50 for dinner. What is the cost of her dinner without tax or tip?
  6. In order to estimate the value of x−yx-y where xx and yy are real numbers with x>y>0,x > y > 0, Xiaoli rounded xx up by a small amount, rounded yy down by the same amount, and then subtracted her rounded values. Which of the following statements is necessarily correct?
  7. For a science project, Sammy observed a chipmunk and a squirrel stashing acorns in holes. The chipmunk hid 33 acorns in each of the holes it dug. The squirrel hid 44 acorns in each of the holes it dug. They each hid the same number of acorns, although the squirrel needed 44 fewer holes. How many acorns did the chipmunk hide?
  8. What is the sum of all integer solutions to the following inequality? 1<(x−2)2<251 < (x-2)^2 < 25
  9. Two integers have a sum of 26.26. When two more integers are added to the first two integers the sum is 41.41. Finally when two more integers are added to the sum of the previous four integers the sum is 57.57. What is the minimum number of even integers among the 66 integers?
  10. How many ordered pairs of positive integers (M,N)(M,N) satisfy the equation M6=6N\frac{M}{6}=\frac{6}{N}
  11. A dessert chef prepares the dessert for every day of a week starting with Sunday. The dessert each day is either cake, pie, ice cream, or pudding. The same dessert may not be served two days in a row. There must be cake on Friday because of a birthday. How many different dessert menus for the week are possible?
  12. Point BB is due east of point A.A. Point CC is due north of point B.B. The distance between points AA and CC is 10210\sqrt 2 meters, and ∠BAC=45∘.\angle BAC = 45^\circ. Point DD is 2020 meters due north of point C.C. The distance ADAD is between which two integers?
  13. It takes Clea 6060 seconds to walk down an escalator when it is not operating, and only 2424 seconds to walk down the escalator when it is operating. How many seconds does it take Clea to ride down the operating escalator when she just stands on it?
  14. Two equilateral triangles are contained in a square whose side length is 23.2\sqrt 3. The bases of these triangles are opposite sides of the square, and their intersection is a rhombus. What is the area of the rhombus?
  15. In a round-robin tournament with 66 teams, each team plays one game against each other team, and each game results in one team winning and one team losing. At the end of the tournament, the teams are ranked by the number of games won. What is the maximum number of teams that could be tied for the most wins at the end of the tournament?
  16. Three circles with radius 22 are mutually tangent. What is the total area of the circles and the region bounded by them, as shown in the figure?
  17. Jesse cuts a circular paper disk of radius 1212 along two radii to form two sectors, the smaller having a central angle of 120120 degrees. He makes two circular cones, using each sector to form the lateral surface of a cone. What is the ratio of the volume of the smaller cone to that of the larger?
  18. Suppose that one of every 500500 people in a certain population has a particular disease, which displays no symptoms. A blood test is available for screening for this disease. For a person who has this disease, the test always turns out positive. For a person who does not have the disease, however, there is a 2%2\% false positive rate. In other words, for such people, 98%98\% of the time the test will turn out negative, but 2%2\% of the time the test will turn out positive and will incorrectly indicate that the person has the disease. Let pp be the probability that a person who is chosen at random from this population and gets a positive test result actually has the disease. Which of the following is closest to p?p?
  19. In rectangle ABCD,ABCD, AB=6,AB=6, AD=30,AD=30, and GG is the midpoint of AD‾.\overline{AD}. Segment ABAB is extended 22 units beyond BB to point E,E, and FF is the intersection of ED‾\overline{ED} and BC‾.\overline{BC}. What is the area of quadrilateral BFDG?BFDG?
  20. Bernardo and Silvia play the following game. An integer between 00 and 999999 inclusive is selected and given to Bernardo. Whenever Bernardo receives a number, he doubles it and passes the result to Silvia. Whenever Silvia receives a number, she adds 5050 to it and passes the result to Bernardo. The winner is the last person who produces a number less than 1000.1000. Let NN be the smallest initial number that results in a win for Bernardo. What is the sum of the digits of N?N?
  21. Four distinct points are arranged in a plane so that the segments connecting them have lengths a,a, a,a, a,a, a,a, 2a,2a, and b.b. What is the ratio of bb to a?a?
  22. Let (a1,a2,…,a10)(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_{10}) be a list of the first 1010 positive integers such that for each 2≤i≤102\le i\le10 either ai+1a_i + 1 or ai−1a_i-1 or both appear somewhere before aia_i in the list. How many such lists are there?
  23. A solid tetrahedron is sliced off a solid wooden unit cube by a plane passing through two nonadjacent vertices on one face and one vertex on the opposite face not adjacent to either of the first two vertices. The tetrahedron is discarded and the remaining portion of the cube is placed on a table with the cut surface face down. What is the height of this object?
  24. Amy, Beth, and Jo listen to four different songs and discuss which ones they like. No song is liked by all three. Furthermore, for each of the three pairs of the girls, there is at least one song liked by those two girls but disliked by the third. In how many different ways is this possible?
  25. A bug travels from AA to BB along the segments in the hexagonal lattice pictured below. The segments marked with an arrow can be traveled only in the direction of the arrow, and the bug never travels the same segment more than once. How many different paths are there?

0 of 25 answered. Each problem left blank still scores 1.5 points.

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