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AMC 12 2011 A

Question 1

A cell phone plan costs dollars each month, plus cents per text message sent, plus cents for each minute used over hours. In January Michelle sent text messages and talked for hours. How much did she have to pay?

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Question 2

There are coins placed flat on a table according to the figure. What is the order of the coins from top to bottom?

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Question 3

A small bottle of shampoo can hold milliliters of shampoo, whereas a large bottle can hold 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?

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Question 4

At an elementary school, the students in third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade run an average of , , and 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?

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Question 5

Last summer of the birds living on Town Lake were geese, were swans, were herons, and were ducks. What percent of the birds that were not swans were geese?

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Question 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 points. How many free throws did they make?

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Question 7

A majority of the 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 . 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 . What was the cost of a pencil in cents?

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Question 8

In the eight term sequence , , , , , , , , the value of is and the sum of any three consecutive terms is . What is ?

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Question 9

At a twins and triplets convention, there were sets of twins and sets of triplets, all from different families. Each twin shook hands with all the twins except his/her siblings 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?

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Question 10

A pair of standard -sided 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?

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Question 11

Circles and each have radius 1. Circles and share one point of tangency. Circle has a point of tangency with the midpoint of What is the area inside circle but outside circle and circle

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Question 12

A power boat and a raft both left dock 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 downriver, then immediately turned and traveled back upriver. It eventually met the raft on the river 9 hours after leaving dock How many hours did it take the power boat to go from to

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Question 13

Triangle has side-lengths and The line through the incenter of parallel to intersects at and at What is the perimeter of

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Question 14

Suppose and are single-digit positive integers chosen independently and at random. What is the probability that the point lies above the parabola ?

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Question 15

The circular base of a hemisphere of radius rests on the base of a square pyramid of height . The hemisphere is tangent to the other four faces of the pyramid. What is the edge-length of the base of the pyramid?

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Question 16

Each vertex of convex polygon is to be assigned a color. There are colors to choose from, and the ends of each diagonal must have different colors. How many different colorings are possible?

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Question 17

Circles with radii , , and are mutually externally tangent. What is the area of the triangle determined by the points of tangency?

Solution

First, have a review of this rule to calculate the area of a triangle when we know its 2 sides and the angle between the 2 sides:

Area of a triangle = 1/2 * b * c * sin A where A is the angle between sides b and c.

Connecting the centers of the 3 circles and you will get a 3-4-5 triangle. Its area is: 1/2 * 3 * 4 = 6

Within the triangle, the areas of the three small triangles determined by the center of the circle and the two points of tangency of each circle are

1/2 * 1 * 1 * 1 = 1/2
1/2 * 2 * 2 * 4/5 = 8/5
1/2 * 3 * 3 * 3/5 = 27/10

which add up to 4.8

We get above because we know the 2 sides and the angle between the 2 sides, of the 3 small triangles.

Now the area of the triangle that the question wanted us to solve will be: 6 - 4.8 = 1.2 = 6/5
  
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Question 18

Suppose that . What is the maximum possible value of ?

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Question 19

At a competition with players, the number of players given elite status is equal to . Suppose that players are given elite status. What is the sum of the two smallest possible values of ?

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See attached for the solution
  
jimmy  2016-10-01 23:08:26

Question 20

Let , where , , and are integers. Suppose that , , , for some integer . What is ?

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Question 21

Let , and for integers , let . If is the largest value of for which the domain of is nonempty, the domain of is . What is ?

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Question 22

Let be a square region and an integer. A point in the interior of is called n-ray partitional if there are rays emanating from that divide into triangles of equal area. How many points are -ray partitional but not -ray partitional?

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Question 23

Let and , where and are complex numbers. Suppose that and for all for which is defined. What is the difference between the largest and smallest possible values of ?

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Question 24

Consider all quadrilaterals such that , , , and . What is the radius of the largest possible circle that fits inside or on the boundary of such a quadrilateral?

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Question 25

Triangle has , , , and . Let , , and be the orthocenter, incenter, and circumcenter of , respectively. Assume that the area of pentagon is the maximum possible. What is ?

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Answer Keys


Question 1: D
Question 2: E
Question 3: E
Question 4: C
Question 5: C
Question 6: A
Question 7: B
Question 8: C
Question 9: B
Question 10: B
Question 11: C
Question 12: D
Question 13: B
Question 14: E
Question 15: A
Question 16: C
Question 17: D
Question 18: D
Question 19: C
Question 20: C
Question 21: A
Question 22: C
Question 23: C
Question 24: C
Question 25: D