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2011 AMC 12A

All 25 problems from the 2011 AMC 12A. 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. A cell phone plan costs $20\$20 each month, plus 55¢ per text message sent, plus 1010¢ for each minute used over 3030 hours. In January Michelle sent 100100 text messages and talked for 30.530.5 hours. How much did she have to pay?
  2. There are 55 coins placed flat on a table according to the figure. What is the order of the coins from top to bottom?
  3. A small bottle of shampoo can hold 3535 milliliters of shampoo, whereas a large bottle can hold 500500 milliliters of shampoo. Jasmine wants to buy the minimum number of small bottles necessary to completely fill a large bottle. How many bottles must she buy?
  4. At an elementary school, the students in third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade run an average of 12,12, 15,15, and 1010 minutes per day, respectively. There are twice as many third graders as fourth graders, and twice as many fourth graders as fifth graders. What is the average number of minutes run per day by these students?
  5. Last summer 30%30\% of the birds living on Town Lake were geese, 25%25\% were swans, 10%10\% were herons, and 35%35\% were ducks. What percent of the birds that were not swans were geese?
  6. The players on a basketball team made some three-point shots, some two-point shots, and some one-point free throws. They scored as many points with two-point shots as with three-point shots. Their number of successful free throws was one more than their number of successful two-point shots. The team’s total score was 6161 points. How many free throws did they make?
  7. A majority of the 3030 students in Ms. Demeanor’s class bought pencils at the school bookstore. Each of these students bought the same number of pencils, and this number was greater than 1.1. The cost of a pencil in cents was greater than the number of pencils each student bought, and the total cost of all the pencils was $17.71.\$17.71. What was the cost of a pencil in cents?
  8. In the eight-term sequence A,A, B,B, C,C, D,D, E,E, F,F, G,G, H,H, the value of CC is 55 and the sum of any three consecutive terms is 30.30. What is A+H?A + H?
  9. At a twins and triplets convention, there were 99 sets of twins and 66 sets of triplets, all from different families. Each twin shook hands with all the twins except his/her sibling and with half the triplets. Each triplet shook hands with all the triplets except his/her siblings and with half the twins. How many handshakes took place?
  10. A pair of standard 66-sided fair dice is rolled once. The sum of the numbers rolled determines the diameter of a circle. What is the probability that the numerical value of the area of the circle is less than the numerical value of the circle’s circumference?
  11. Circles A,A, B,B, and CC each have radius 1.1. Circles AA and BB share one point of tangency. Circle CC has a point of tangency with the midpoint of AB‾.\overline{AB}. What is the area inside circle CC but outside circle AA and circle B?B?
  12. A power boat and a raft both left dock AA on a river and headed downstream. The raft drifted at the speed of the river current. The power boat maintained a constant speed with respect to the river. The power boat reached dock BB downriver, then immediately turned and traveled back upriver. It eventually met the raft on the river 99 hours after leaving dock A.A. How many hours did it take the power boat to go from AA to B?B?
  13. Triangle ABCABC has side-lengths AB=12,AB = 12, BC=24,BC = 24, and AC=18.AC = 18. The line through the incenter of △ABC\triangle ABC parallel to BC‾\overline{BC} intersects AB‾\overline{AB} at MM and AC‾\overline{AC} at N.N. What is the perimeter of △AMN?\triangle AMN?
  14. Suppose aa and bb are single-digit positive integers chosen independently and at random. What is the probability that the point (a,b)(a, b) lies above the parabola y=ax2−bx?y = ax^2 - bx?
  15. The circular base of a hemisphere of radius 22 rests on the base of a square pyramid of height 6.6. The hemisphere is tangent to the other four faces of the pyramid. What is the edge-length of the base of the pyramid?
  16. Each vertex of convex pentagon ABCDEABCDE is to be assigned a color. There are 66 colors to choose from, and the ends of each diagonal must have different colors. How many different colorings are possible?
  17. Circles with radii 1,1, 2,2, and 33 are mutually externally tangent. What is the area of the triangle determined by the points of tangency?
  18. Suppose that ∣x+y∣+∣x−y∣=2.|x + y| + |x - y| = 2. What is the maximum possible value of x2−6x+y2?x^2 - 6x + y^2?
  19. At a competition with NN players, the number of players given elite status is equal to 21+⌊log⁡2(N−1)⌋−N. 2^{1 + \lfloor \log_2 (N - 1) \rfloor} - N. Suppose that 1919 players are given elite status. What is the sum of the two smallest possible values of N?N? Note: ⌊x⌋\lfloor x \rfloor is the greatest integer less than or equal to x.x.
  20. Let f(x)=ax2+bx+c,f(x) = ax^2 + bx + c, where a,a, b,b, and cc are integers. Suppose that f(1)=0,f(1) = 0, 50<f(7)<60,50 \lt f(7) \lt 60, 70<f(8)<80,70 \lt f(8) \lt 80, and 5000k<f(100)<5000(k+1)5000k \lt f(100) \lt 5000(k+1) for some integer k.k. What is k?k?
  21. Let f1(x)=1−x,f_1(x) = \sqrt{1 - x}, and for integers n≥2,n \ge 2, let fn(x)=fn−1 ⁣(n2−x).f_n(x) = f_{n-1}\!\left(\sqrt{n^2 - x}\right). If NN is the largest value of nn for which the domain of fnf_n is nonempty, the domain of fNf_N is {c}.\{c\}. What is N+c?N + c?
  22. Let RR be a square region and n≥4n \ge 4 an integer. A point XX in the interior of RR is called nn-ray partitional if there are nn rays emanating from XX that divide RR into nn triangles of equal area. How many points are 100100-ray partitional but not 6060-ray partitional?
  23. Let f(z)=z+az+bf(z) = \dfrac{z + a}{z + b} and g(z)=f(f(z)),g(z) = f(f(z)), where aa and bb are complex numbers. Suppose that ∣a∣=1|a| = 1 and g(g(z))=zg(g(z)) = z for all zz for which g(g(z))g(g(z)) is defined. What is the difference between the largest and smallest possible values of ∣b∣?|b|?
  24. Consider all quadrilaterals ABCDABCD such that AB=14,AB = 14, BC=9,BC = 9, CD=7,CD = 7, and DA=12.DA = 12. What is the radius of the largest possible circle that fits inside or on the boundary of such a quadrilateral?
  25. Triangle ABCABC has ∠BAC=60∘,\angle BAC = 60^\circ, ∠CBA≤90∘,\angle CBA \le 90^\circ, BC=1,BC = 1, and AC≥AB.AC \ge AB. Let H,H, I,I, and OO be the orthocenter, incenter, and circumcenter of △ABC,\triangle ABC, respectively. Assume that the area of the pentagon BCOIHBCOIH is the maximum possible. What is ∠CBA?\angle CBA?

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

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