2020 Amc12b
2020 Amc12b
2020 Amc12b
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Problem 2
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Problem 3
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Problem 4
The acute angles of a right triangle are and , where and both and are prime numbers.
What is the least possible value of ?
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Problem 5
Teams and are playing in a basketball league where each game results in a win for one team and a
loss for the other team. Team has won of its games and team has won of its games. Also,
team has won more games and lost more games than team How many games has team
played?
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Problem 6
Problem 7
Two nonhorizontal, non vertical lines in the -coordinate plane intersect to form a angle. One line
has slope equal to times the slope of the other line. What is the greatest possible value of the product
of the slopes of the two lines?
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Problem 8
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Problem 9
A three-quarter sector of a circle of radius inches together with its interior can be rolled up to form the
lateral surface of a right circular cone by taping together along the two radii shown. What is the volume
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Problem 10
Problem 11
As shown in the figure below, six semicircles lie in the interior of a regular hexagon with side length so
that the diameters of the semicircles coincide with the sides of the hexagon. What is the area of the
shaded region—inside the hexagon but outside all of the semicircles?
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Problem 12
Let be a diameter in a circle of radius Let be a chord in the circle that intersects
at a point such that and What is
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Problem 13
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Problem 14
Bela and Jenn play the following game on the closed interval of the real number line, where is a
fixed integer greater than . They take turns playing, with Bela going first. At his first turn, Bela chooses
any real number in the interval . Thereafter, the player whose turn it is chooses a real number that
is more than one unit away from all numbers previously chosen by either player. A player unable to
choose such a number loses. Using optimal strategy, which player will win the game?
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Problem 15
There are 10 people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each person knows exactly 3 of the other 9
people: the 2 people standing next to her or him, as well as the person directly across the circle. How
many ways are there for the 10 people to split up into 5 pairs so that the members of each pair know
each other?
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Problem 16
An urn contains one red ball and one blue ball. A box of extra red and blue balls lie nearby. George
performs the following operation four times: he draws a ball from the urn at random and then takes a
ball of the same color from the box and returns those two matching balls to the urn. After the four
iterations the urn contains six balls. What is the probability that the urn contains three balls of each
color?
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Problem 17
are real numbers, have the property that whenever is a root, so is ? (Note
that )
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Problem 18
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Problem 19
Each of these transformations maps the squares onto itself, but the positions of the labeled vertices will
change. For example, applying and then would send the vertex at to and
would send the vertex at to itself. How many sequences of transformations chosen
from will send all of the labeled vertices back to their original positions? (For
example, is one sequence of transformations that will send the vertices back to their
original positions.)
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Problem 20
Two different cubes of the same size are to be painted, with the color of each face being chosen
independently and at random to be either black or white. What is the probability that after they are
painted, the cubes can be rotated to be identical in appearance?
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Problem 21
How many positive integers satisfy (Recall that is the greatest integer not
exceeding .)
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Problem 22
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Problem 23
How many integers are there such that whenever are complex numbers such that
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Problem 24
Let denote the number of ways of writing the positive integer as a product
where , the are integers strictly greater than , and the order in which
the factors are listed matters (that is, two representations that differ only in the order of the factors are
counted as distinct). For example, the number can be written as , , and , so .
What is ?
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Problem 25
For each real number with , let numbers and be chosen independently at random
from the intervals and , respectively, and let be the probability that
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