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2012 AMC 12B

All 25 problems from the 2012 AMC 12B. 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. 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?
  4. Suppose that the euro is worth 1.301.30 dollars. If Diana has 500500 dollars and Étienne has 400400 euros, by what percent is the value of Étienne’s money greater than the value of Diana’s money?
  5. 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?
  6. In order to estimate the value of x−yx-y where xx and yy are real numbers with x>y>0,x \gt y \gt 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. Small lights are hung on a string 66 inches apart in the order red, red, green, green, green, red, red, green, green, green, and so on continuing this pattern of 22 red lights followed by 33 green lights. How many feet separate the 33rd red light and the 2121st red light? Note: 11 foot is equal to 1212 inches.
  8. 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?
  9. 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?
  10. What is the area of the polygon whose vertices are the points of intersection of the curves x2+y2=25x^2 + y^2 = 25 and (x−4)2+9y2=81?(x - 4)^2 + 9y^2 = 81?
  11. In the equation below, AA and BB are consecutive positive integers, and A,A, B,B, and A+BA + B represent number bases: 132A+43B=69A+B.132_A + 43_B = 69_{A+B}. What is A+B?A + B?
  12. How many sequences of zeros and/or ones of length 2020 have all the zeros consecutive, or all the ones consecutive, or both?
  13. Two parabolas have equations y=x2+ax+by = x^2 + ax + b and y=x2+cx+d,y = x^2 + cx + d, where a,a, b,b, c,c, and dd are integers (not necessarily different), each chosen independently by rolling a fair six-sided die. What is the probability that the parabolas have at least one point in common?
  14. Bernardo and Silvia play the following game. An integer between 00 and 999,999, 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?
  15. 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?
  16. 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?
  17. Square PQRSPQRS lies in the first quadrant. Points (3,0),(3, 0), (5,0),(5, 0), (7,0),(7, 0), and (13,0)(13, 0) lie on lines SP,SP, RQ,RQ, PQ,PQ, and SR,SR, respectively. What is the sum of the coordinates of the center of the square PQRS?PQRS?
  18. 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 \le 10 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?
  19. A unit cube has vertices P1,P_1, P2,P_2, P3,P_3, P4,P_4, P1′,P_1', P2′,P_2', P3′,P_3', and P4′.P_4'. Vertices P2,P_2, P3,P_3, and P4P_4 are adjacent to P1,P_1, and for 1≤i≤4,1 \le i \le 4, vertices PiP_i and Pi′P_i' are opposite to each other. A regular octahedron has one vertex in each of the segments P1P2,P_1P_2, P1P3,P_1P_3, P1P4,P_1P_4, P1′P2′,P_1'P_2', P1′P3′,P_1'P_3', and P1′P4′.P_1'P_4'. What is the octahedron’s side length?
  20. A trapezoid has side lengths 3,3, 5,5, 7,7, and 11.11. The sum of all the possible areas of the trapezoid can be written in the form of r1n1+r2n2+r3,r_1\sqrt{n_1} + r_2\sqrt{n_2} + r_3, where r1,r_1, r2,r_2, and r3r_3 are rational numbers and n1n_1 and n2n_2 are positive integers not divisible by the square of a prime. What is the greatest integer less than or equal to r1+r2+r3+n1+n2?r_1 + r_2 + r_3 + n_1 + n_2?
  21. Square AXYZAXYZ is inscribed in equiangular hexagon ABCDEFABCDEF with XX on BC‾,\overline{BC}, YY on DE‾,\overline{DE}, and ZZ on EF‾.\overline{EF}. Suppose that AB=40AB = 40 and EF=41(3−1).EF = 41(\sqrt{3} - 1). What is the side-length of the square?
  22. 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?
  23. Consider all polynomials of a complex variable, P(z)=4z4+az3P(z) = 4z^4 + az^3 +bz2+cz+d,+ bz^2 + cz + d, where a,a, b,b, c,c, and dd are integers, 0≤d≤c≤b≤a≤4,0 \le d \le c \le b \le a \le 4, and the polynomial has a zero z0z_0 with ∣z0∣=1.|z_0| = 1. What is the sum of all values P(1)P(1) over all the polynomials with these properties?
  24. Define the function f1f_1 on the positive integers by setting f1(1)=1f_1(1) = 1 and if n=p1e1p2e2⋯pkekn = p_1^{e_1} p_2^{e_2} \cdots p_k^{e_k} is the prime factorization of n>1,n \gt 1, then f1(n)=(p1+1)e1−1(p2+1)e2−1⋯(pk+1)ek−1. \begin{aligned} &f_1(n) = (p_1 + 1)^{e_1 - 1}(p_2 + 1)^{e_2 - 1} \\ &\quad \cdots (p_k + 1)^{e_k - 1}. \end{aligned} For every m≥2,m \ge 2, let fm(n)=f1(fm−1(n)).f_m(n) = f_1(f_{m-1}(n)). For how many NN in the range 1≤N≤4001 \le N \le 400 is the sequence (f1(N),f2(N),f3(N),…)(f_1(N), f_2(N), f_3(N), \ldots) unbounded? Note: a sequence of positive numbers is unbounded if for every integer B,B, there is a member of the sequence greater than B.B.
  25. Let S={(x,y):x∈{0,1,2,3,4},S = \{(x, y) : x \in \{0, 1, 2, 3, 4\}, y∈{0,1,2,3,4,5},y \in \{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5\}, and (x,y)≠(0,0)}.(x, y) \ne (0, 0)\}. Let TT be the set of all right triangles whose vertices are in S.S. For every right triangle t=△ABCt = \triangle ABC with vertices A,A, B,B, and CC in counter-clockwise order and right angle at A,A, let f(t)=tan⁡(∠CBA).f(t) = \tan(\angle CBA). What is ∏t∈Tf(t)?\prod_{t \in T} f(t)?

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

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