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AMC 12/AHSME 2012

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by bluecarneal, inquisitivity, Draco, Cortana, Mrdavid445, alex31415, narto928, dinoboy, anonymous0, ten-
niskidperson3, SteinsChaos, dft, rrusczyk

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1 A bug crawls along a number line, starting at −2. It crawls to −6, then turns around and crawls
to 5. How many units does the bug crawl altogether?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15

2 Cagney can frost a cupcake every 20 seconds and Lacey can frost a cupcake every 30 seconds.
Working together, how many cupcakes can they frost in 5 minutes?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30

3 A box 2 centimeters high, 3 centimeters wide, and 5 centimeters long can hold 40 grams of
clay. A second box with twice the height, three times the width, and the same length as the
first box can hold n grams of clay. What is n?
(A) 120 (B) 160 (C) 200 (D) 240 (E) 280

4 In a bag of marbles, 35 of the marbles are blue and the rest are red. If the number of red marbles
is doubled and the number of blue marbles stays the same, what fraction of the marbles will
be red?
2 3 4 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 7 7 5 5

5 A fruit salad consists of blueberries, raspberries, grapes, and cherries. The fruit salad has a
total of 280 pieces of fruit. There are twice as many raspberries as blueberries, three times as
many grapes as cherries, and four times as many cherries as raspberries. How many cherries
are there in the fruit salad?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 25 (D) 64 (E) 96

6 The sums of three whole numbers taken in pairs are 12, 17, and 19. What is the middle number?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

7 Mary divides a circle into 12 sectors. The central angles of these sectors, measured in degrees,
are all integers and they form an arithmetic sequence. What is the degree measure of the
smallest possible sector angle?

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(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

8 An iterative average of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 is computed in the following way. Arrange
the five numbers in some order. Find the mean of the first two numbers, then find the mean of
that with the third number, then the mean of that with the fourth number, and finally the mean
of that with the fifth number. What is the difference between the largest and smallest possible
values that can be obtained using this procedure?
31 17 65
(A) 16 (B) 2 (C) 8 (D) 3 (E) 16

9 A year is a leap year if and only if the year number is divisible by 400 (such as 2000) or is divisible
by 4 but not by 100 (such as 2012). The 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist Charles Dickens
was celebrated on February 7, 2012, a Tuesday. On what day of the week was Dickens born?
(A) Friday (B) Saturday (C) Sunday (D) Monday (E) Tuesday

10 A triangle has area 30, one side of length 10, and the median to that side of length 9. Let θ be
the acute angle formed by that side and the median. What is sin θ?
3 1 9 2 9
(A) 10 (B) 3 (C) 20 (D) 3 (E) 10

11 Alex, Mel, and Chelsea play a game that has 6 rounds. In each round there is a single winner,
and the outcomes of the rounds are independent. For each round the probability that Alex wins
is 12 , and Mel is twice as likely to win as Chelsea. What is the probability that Alex wins three
rounds, Mel wins two rounds, and Chelsea wins one round?
5 5 1 1
(A) 72 (B) 36 (C) 6 (D) 3 (E) 1

12 A square region ABCD is externally tangent to the circle with equation x2 + y 2 = 1 at the point
(0, 1) on the side CD. Vertices A and B are on the circle with equation x2 + y 2 = 4. What is the
side length of this square?
√ √ √ √ √
10+5 2 5 2 2 2 19−4 9− 17
(A) 10 (B) 5 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 5

13 Paula the painter and her two helpers each paint at constant, but different, rates. They always
start at 8:00 AM, and all three always take the same amount of time to eat lunch. On Monday
the three of them painted 50% of a house, quitting at 4:00 PM. On Tuesday, when Paula wasn’t
there, the two helpers painted only 24% of the house and quit at 2:12 PM. On Wednesday Paula
worked by herself and finished the house by working until 7:12 PM. How long, in minutes, was
each day’s lunch break?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 42 (D) 48 (E) 60

14 The closed curve in the figure is made up of 9 congruent circular arcs each of length 2π
3 , where
each of the centers of the corresponding circles is among the vertices of a regular hexagon of

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side 2. What is the area enclosed by the curve?

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√ √ √
(A) 2π + 6 (B) 2π + 4 3 (C) 3π + 4 (D) 2π + 3 3 + 2 (E) π + 6 3

15 A 3×3 square is partitioned into 9 unit squares. Each unit square is painted either white or black
with each color being equally likely, chosen independently and at random. The square is the
rotated 90◦ clockwise about its center, and every white square in a position formerly occupied
by a black square is painted black. The colors of all other squares are left unchanged. What is
the probability that the grid is now entirely black?
49 7 121 81 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
512 64 1024 512 32

16 Circle C1 has its center O lying on circle C2 . The two circles meet at X and Y . Point Z in the
exterior of C1 lies on circle C2 and XZ = 13, OZ = 11, and Y Z = 7. What is the radius of circle
C1 ?
√ √ √ √
(A) 5 (B) 26 (C) 3 3 (D) 2 7 (E) 30

17 Let S be a subset of {1, 2, 3, . . . , 30} with the property that no pair of distinct elements in S has
a sum divisible by 5. What is the largest possible size of S?
(A) 10 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 18

18 Triangle ABC has AB = 27, AC = 26, and BC = 25. Let I denote the intersection of the
internal angle bisectors of 4ABC. What is BI?
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 15 (B) 5 + 26 + 3 3 (C) 3 26 (D) 23 546 (E) 9 3

19 Adam, Benin, Chiang, Deshawn, Esther, and Fiona have internet accounts. Some, but not all, of
them are internet friends with each other, and none of them has an internet friend outside this

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group. Each of them has the same number of internet friends. In how many different ways can
this happen?
(A) 60 (B) 170 (C) 290 (D) 320 (E) 660

20 Consider the polynomial

10
k
Y
P (x) = (x2 + 2k ) = (x + 1)(x2 + 2)(x4 + 4) · · · (x1024 + 1024).
k=0

The coefficient of x2012 is equal to 2a . What is a?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 10 (E) 24

21 Let a, b, and c be positive integers with a ≥ b ≥ c such that

a2 − b2 − c2 + ab = 2011 and
a2 + 3b2 + 3c2 − 3ab − 2ac − 2bc = −1997
What is a?
(A) 249 (B) 250 (C) 251 (D) 252 (E) 253

22 Distinct planes p1 ,Sp2 , ...., pk intersect the interior of a cube Q. Let S be the union of the faces
of Q and let P = kj=1 pj . The intersection of P and S consists of the union of all segments
joining the midpoints of every pair of edges belonging to the same face of Q. What is the
difference between the maximum and minimum possible values of k?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 20 (D) 23 (E) 24

23 Let S be the square one of whose diagonals has endpoints (0.1, 0.7) and (−0.1, −0.7). A point
v = (x, y) is chosen uniformly at random over all pairs of real numbers x and y such that
0 ≤ x ≤ 2012 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 2012. Let T (v) be a translated copy of S centered at v. What is the
probability that the square region determined by T (v) contains exactly two points with integer
coordinates in its interior?
(A) 0.125 (B) 0.14 (C) 0.16 (D) 0.25 (E) 0.32

24 Let {ak }2011

k=1 be the sequence of real numbers defined by

a1 = 0.201, a2 = (0.2011)a1 , a3 = (0.20101)a2 , a4 = (0.201011)a3 ,

and more generally 
(0. 20101
 · · · 0101})ak−1 , if k is odd,
 |
 {z
k+2 digits
ak =

 · · 01011})ak−1 ,
(0. 20101 ·{z if k is even.
 |

k+2 digits

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Rearranging the numbers in the sequence {ak }2011 k=1 in decreasing order produces a new se-
quence {bk }2011
k=1 . What is the sum of all the integers k, 1 ≤ k ≤ 2011, such that ak = bk ?
(A) 671 (B) 1006 (C) 1341 (D) 2011 (E) 2012

25 Let f (x) = |2{x} − 1| where {x} denotes the fractional part of x. The number n is the smallest
positive integer such that the equation

nf (xf (x)) = x

has at least 2012 real solutions x. What is n?

Note: the fractional part of x is a real number y = {x}, such that 0 ≤ y < 1 and x − y is an
integer.
(A) 30 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 62 (E) 64

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1 Each third-grade classroom at Pearl Creek Elementary has 18 students and 2 pet rabbits. How
many more students than rabbits are there in all 4 of the third-grade classrooms?
(A) 48 (B) 56 (C) 64 (D) 72 (E) 80

2 A circle of radius 5 is inscribed in a rectangle as shown. The ratio of the the length of the
rectangle to its width is 2 : 1. What is the area of the rectangle?

(A) 50 (B) 100 (C) 125 (D) 150 (E) 200

3 For a science project, Sammy observed a chipmunk and a squirrel stashing acorns in holes.
The chipmunk hid 3 acorns in each of the holes it dug. The squirrel hid 4 acorns in each of the
holes it dug. They each hid the same
number of acorns, although the squirrel needed 4 fewer holes. How many acorns did the chip-
munk hide?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 42 (D) 48 (E) 54

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4 Suppose that the euro is worth 1.30 dollars. If Diana has 500 dollars and Etienne has 400 euros,
by what percent is the value of Etienne’s money greater than the value of Diana’s money?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6.5 (D) 8 (E) 13

5 Two integers have a sum of 26. When two more integers are added to the first two integers the
sum is 41. Finally when two more integers are added to the sum of the previous four integers
the sum is 57. What is the minimum number of even integers among the 6 integers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

6 In order to estimate the value of x − y where x and y are real numbers with x > y > 0, Xiaoli
rounded x up by a small amount, rounded y down by the same amount, and then subtracted
her values. Which of the following statements is necessarily correct?
(A) Her estimate is larger than x − y
(B) Her estimate is smaller than x − y
(C) Her estimate equals x − y
(D) Her estimate equals y − x
(E) Her estimate is 0

7 Small lights are hung on a string 6 inches apart in the order red, red, green, green, green, red,
red, green, green, green, and so on continuing this pattern of 2 red lights followed by 3 green
lights. How many feet separate the third red light and the 21st red light?
Note: 1 foot is equal to 12 inches.
(A) 18 (B) 18.5 (C) 20 (D) 20.5 (E) 22.5

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?
(A) 729 (B) 972 (C) 1024 (D) 2187 (E) 2304

9 It takes Clea 60 seconds to walk down an escalator when it is not operating and only 24 sec-
onds 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?
(A) 36 (B) 40 (C) 42 (D) 48 (E) 52

10 What is the area of the polygon whose vertices are the points of intersection of the curves
x2 + y 2 = 25 and (x − 4)2 + 9y 2 = 81?
(A) 24 (B) 27 (C) 36 (D) 37.5 (E) 42

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11 In the equation below, A and B are consecutive positive integers, and A, B, and A+B represent
number bases:
132A + 43B = 69A+B.
What is A + B?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 17

12 How many sequences of zeros and ones of length 20 have all the zeros consecutive, or all the
ones consecutive, or both?
(A) 190 (B) 192 (C) 211 (D) 380 (E) 382

13 Two parabolas have equations y = x2 + ax + b and y = x2 + cx + d, where a, b, c, and d 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?
1 25 5 31
(A) 2 (B) 36 (C) 6 (D) 36 (E) 1

14 Bernado and Silvia play the following game. An integer between 0 and 999, inclusive, is se-
lected and given to Bernado. Whenever Bernado receives a number, he doubles it and passes
the result to Silvia. Whenever Silvia receives a number, she adds 50 to it and passes the result
to Bernado. The winner is the last person who produces a number less than 1000. Let N be
the smallest initial number that results in a win for Bernado. What is the sum of the digits of
N?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

15 Jesse cuts a circular paper disk of radius 12 along two radii to form two sectors, the smaller
having a central angle of 120 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?
√ √ √
1 1 10 5 10
(A) 8 (B) 4 (C) 10 (D) 6 (E) 5

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?
(A) 108 (B) 132 (C) 671 (D) 846 (E) 1105

17 Square P QRS lies in the first quadrant. Points (3, 0), (5, 0), (7, 0), and (13, 0) lie on lines SP, RQ, P Q,
and SR, respectively. What is the sum of the coordinates of the center of the square P QRS?
(A) 6 (B) 6.2 (C) 6.4 (D) 6.6 (E) 6.8

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18 Let (a1 , a2 , . . . , a10 ) be a list of the first 10 positive integers such that for each 2 ≤ i ≤ 10 either
ai + 1 or ai − 1 or both appear somewhere before ai in the list. How many such lists are there?
(A) 120 (B) 512 (C) 1024 (D) 181, 440 (E) 362, 880

19 A unit cube has vertices P1 , P2 , P3 , P4 , P10 , P20 , P30 , and P40 . Vertices P2 , P3 , and P4 are adjacent
to P1 , and for 1 ≤ i ≤ 4, vertices Pi and Pi0 are opposite to each other. A regular octahedron
has one vertex in each of the segments P1 P2 , P1 P3 , P1 P4 , P10 P20 , P10 P30 , and P10 P40 . What is the
octahedron’s side length?

√ √ √ √ √
3 2 7 6 5 2 3 6
(A) 4 (B) 16 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 2

20 A trapezoid has side lengths 3, 5, 7, and 11. The sum of all the possible areas of the trapezoid
√ √
can be written in the form of r1 n1 + r2 n2 + r3 , where r1 , r2 , and r3 are rational numbers
and n1 and n2 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 ?
(A) 57 (B) 59 (C) 61 (D) 63 (E) 65

21 Square AXY Z is inscribed in equiangular hexagon

√ ABCDEF with X on BC, Y on DE, and Z
on EF . Suppose that AB = 40, and EF = 41( 3 − 1). What is the side-length of the square?

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E Y D

F C

A B

√ 21
√ 41
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 29 3 (B) 2 2+ 2 3 (C) 20 3 + 16 (D) 20 2 + 13 3 (E) 21 6

22 A bug travels from A to B 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?

A B

(A) 2112 (B) 2304 (C) 2368 (D) 2384 (E) 2400

23 Consider all polynomials of a complex variable, P (z) = 4z 4 + az 3 + bz 2 + cz + d, where a, b, c

and d are integers, 0 ≤ d ≤ c ≤ b ≤ a ≤ 4, and the polynomial has a zero z0 with |z0 | = 1. What
is the sum of all values P (1) over all the polynomials with these properties?
(A) 84 (B) 92 (C) 100 (D) 108 (E) 120

24 Define the function f1 on the positive integers by setting f1 (1) = 1 and if n = pe11 pe22 ...pekk is the

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prime factorization of n > 1, then

f1 (n) = (p1 + 1)e1 −1 (p2 + 1)e2 −1 · · · (pk + 1)ek −1 .

For every m ≥ 2, let fm (n) = f1 (fm−1 (n)). For how many N in the range 1 ≤ N ≤ 400 is the
sequence (f1 (N ), f2 (N ), f3 (N ), ...) unbounded?
Note: a sequence of positive numbers is unbounded if for every integer B, there is a member
of the sequence greater than B.
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 19

25 Let S = {(x, y) : x ∈ {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}, y ∈ {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, and (x, y) 6= (0, 0)}. Let T be the set of all
right triangles whose vertices are in S. For every right triangle t = 4ABC with vertices A, B,
and C in counter-clockwise order and right angle at A, let f (t) = tan(∠CBA). What is
Y
f (t)?
t∈T

625 125 625

(A) 1 (B) 144 (C) 24 (D) 6 (E) 24

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