AMC 12B American Mathematics Competition 12B Thursday, February 15, 2018 INSTRUCTIONS 1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR COMPETITION MANAGER TELLS YOU. 2. This is a 25-question multiple-choice exam. Each question is followed by answers marked A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct. 3. Mark your answer to each problem on the AMC 12 Answer Sheet with a #2 pencil. Check the blackened circles for accuracy and erase errors and stray marks completely. Only answers properly marked on the answer sheet will be graded. You must use and submit the original answer sheets provided by the MAA AMC. Photocopies will not be scored. 4. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 1.5 points for each problem left unanswered, and 0 points for each incorrect answer. 5. Only scratch paper, graph paper, rulers, compasses, protractors, and erasers are allowed as aids. No calculators, smartwatches, phones, or computing devices are allowed. No problems on the exam will require the use of a calculator. 6. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. 7. Before beginning the exam, your competition manager will ask you to record certain information on the answer form. 8. When your competition manager gives the signal, begin working on the problems. You will have 75 minutes to complete the exam. 9. When you finish the exam, sign your name in the space provided at the top of the Answer Sheet.
The Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions reserves the right to disqualify scores from a school if it determines that the required security procedures were not followed. Students who score well on this AMC 12 will be invited to take the 36th annual American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 or Wednesday, March 21, 2018. More details about the AIME are on the back page of this exam booklet.
1. Kate bakes a 20-inch by 18-inch pan of cornbread. The cornbread is
cut into pieces that measure 2 inches by 2 inches. How many pieces of cornbread does the pan contain?
(A) 90 (B) 100 (C) 180 (D) 200 (E) 360
2. Sam drove 96 miles in 90 minutes. His average speed during the first 30 minutes was 60 mph (miles per hour), and his average speed during the second 30 minutes was 65 mph. What was his average speed, in mph, during the last 30 minutes?
(A) 64 (B) 65 (C) 66 (D) 67 (E) 68
3. A line with slope 2 intersects a line with slope 6 at the point (40, 30). What is the distance between the x-intercepts of these two lines?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 50
4. A circle has a chord of length 10, and the distance from the center of the circle to the chord is 5. What is the area of the circle?
(A) 25π (B) 50π (C) 75π (D) 100π (E) 125π
5. How many subsets of {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} contain at least one prime
number?
(A) 128 (B) 192 (C) 224 (D) 240 (E) 256
6. Suppose S cans of soda can be purchased from a vending machine for
Q quarters. Which of the following expressions describes the number of cans of soda that can be purchased for D dollars, where 1 dollar is worth 4 quarters? 4DQ 4DS 4Q DQ DS (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) S Q DS 4S 4Q
8. Line segment AB is a diameter of a circle with AB = 24. Point C,
not equal to A or B, lies on the circle. As point C moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of 4ABC traces out a closed curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region bounded by this curve?
(A) 25 (B) 38 (C) 50 (D) 63 (E) 75
9. What is 100 X 100 X (i + j)? i=1 j=1
(A) 100,100 (B) 500,500 (C) 505,000 (D) 1,001,000
(E) 1,010,000
10. A list of 2018 positive integers has a unique mode, which occurs ex- actly 10 times. What is the least number of distinct values that can occur in the list?
(A) 202 (B) 223 (C) 224 (D) 225 (E) 234
11. A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point A in the figure on the right. The box has base length w and height h. What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper? A
12. Side AB of 4ABC has length 10. The bisector of angle A meets BC at D, and CD = 3. The set of all possible values of AC is an open interval (m, n). What is m + n ?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20
13. Square ABCD has side length 30. Point P lies inside the square so that AP = 12 and BP = 26. The centroids of 4ABP , 4BCP , 4CDP , and 4DAP are the vertices of a convex quadrilateral. What is the area of that quadrilateral?
14. Joey and Chloe and their daughter Zoe all have the same birthday. Joey is 1 year older than Chloe, and Zoe is exactly 1 year old today. Today is the first of the 9 birthdays on which Chloe’s age will be an integral multiple of Zoe’s age. What will be the sum of the two digits of Joey’s age the next time his age is a multiple of Zoe’s age?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
15. How many 3-digit positive odd multiples of 3 do not include the digit 3 ?
(A) 96 (B) 97 (C) 98 (D) 102 (E) 120
16. The solutions to the equation (z + 6)8 = 81 are connected in the com- plex plane to form a convex regular polygon, three of whose vertices are labeled A, B, and C. What is the least possible area of 4ABC ? 1√ 3√ 3 √ √ 1√ (A) 6 (B) 2− (C) 2 3 − 2 2 (D) 2 6 2 2 2 √ (E) 3 − 1 2018 AMC 12B Problems 5
17. Let p and q be positive integers such that
5 p 4 < < 9 q 7 and q is as small as possible. What is q − p ?
(A) 7 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 17 (E) 19
18. A function f is defined recursively by f (1) = f (2) = 1 and
f (n) = f (n − 1) − f (n − 2) + n
for all integers n ≥ 3. What is f (2018) ?
(A) 2016 (B) 2017 (C) 2018 (D) 2019 (E) 2020
19. Mary chose an even 4-digit number n. She wrote down all the divisors of n in increasing order from left to right: 1, 2, . . . , n2 , n. At some moment Mary wrote 323 as a divisor of n. What is the smallest possible value of the next divisor written to the right of 323 ?
(A) 324 (B) 330 (C) 340 (D) 361 (E) 646
20. Let ABCDEF be a regular hexagon with side length 1. Denote by X,
Y , and Z the midpoints of sides AB, CD, and EF , respectively. What is the area of the convex hexagon whose interior is the intersection of the interiors of 4ACE and 4XY Z ? 3√ 7√ 15 √ 1√ 9√ (A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 3 (D) 3 (E) 3 8 16 32 2 16
21. In 4ABC with side lengths AB = 13, AC = 12, and BC = 5,
let O and I denote the circumcenter and incenter, respectively. A circle with center M is tangent to the legs AC and BC and to the circumcircle of 4ABC. What is the area of 4M OI ? 5 11 13 7 (A) (B) (C) 3 (D) (E) 2 4 4 2
22. Consider polynomials P (x) of degree at most 3, each of whose co-
efficients is an element of {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}. How many such polynomials satisfy P (−1) = −9 ?
23. Ajay is standing at point A near Pontianak, Indonesia, 0◦ latitude
and 110◦ E longitude. Billy is standing at point B near Big Baldy Mountain, Idaho, USA, 45◦ N latitude and 115◦ W longitude. Assume that Earth is a perfect sphere with center C. What is the degree measure of ∠ACB ? 1 (A) 105 (B) 112 (C) 120 (D) 135 (E) 150 2
24. Let bxc denote the greatest integer less than or equal to x. How many real numbers x satisfy the equation x2 + 10,000bxc = 10,000x ?
(A) 197 (B) 198 (C) 199 (D) 200 (E) 201
25. Circles ω1 , ω2 , and ω3 each have radius 4 and are placed in the plane so that each circle is externally tangent to the other two. Points P1 , P2 , and P3 lie on ω1 , ω2 , and ω3 , respectively, so that P1 P2 = P2 P3 = P3 P1 and line Pi Pi+1 is tangent to ωi for each i = 1, 2, 3, where P4 = P1 . See√the figure √ below. The area of 4P1 P2 P3 can be written in the form a + b, where a and b are positive integers. What is a + b?
and solutions for this exam should be sent to: amchq@maa.org Send questions and comments about administrative arrangements to: amcinfo@maa.org or MAA American Mathematics Competitions P.O. Box 471 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
The problems and solutions for this AMC 12 were prepared by MAA’s Subcommittee on the AMC10/AMC12 Exams, under the direction of the co-chairs Jerrold W. Grossman and Carl Yerger.
2018 AIME The 36th annual AIME will be held on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 with the alternate on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. It is a 15-question, 3-hour, integer-answer exam. You will be invited to partici- pate if you achieve a high score on this competition. Top-scoring students on the AMC 10/12/ AIME will be selected to take the 47th Annual USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) on April 18–19, 2018. 2018
AMC 12B DO NOT OPEN UNTIL Thursday, February 15, 2018
**Administration On An Earlier Date Will Disqualify Your School’s Results**
1. All the information needed to administer this exam is contained in the AMC 10/12 Teacher’s Manual. PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE February 15, 2018. 2. Your PRINCIPAL or VICE PRINCIPAL must verify on the AMC 10/12 COMPETITION CERTIFICATION FORM (found on maa.org/amc under ‘AMC 10/12’) that you followed all rules associated with the administration of the exam. 3. Answer sheets must be returned to the MAA AMC office the day after the competition. Ship with appropriate postage using a trackable method. FedEx or UPS is strongly recommended. 4. The publication, reproduction, or communication of the problems or solutions of this exam during the period when students are eligible to participate seriously jeopardizes the integrity of the results. Dissemination via phone, email, or digital media of any type during this period is a violation of the competition rules.
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