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2020 Amc12b

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Problem 1

What is the value in simplest form of the following expression?

Solution

Problem 2

What is the value of the following expression?

Solution

Problem 3

The ratio of to is , the ratio of to is , and the ratio of to is . What is the


ratio of to ?

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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?

Solution

Problem 6

For all integers the value of is always which of the following?


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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

How many ordered pairs of integers satisfy the equation

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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

of the cone in cubic inches?

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Problem 10

In unit square the inscribed circle intersects at and intersects at a


point different from What is
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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?

Solution

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

Which of the following is the value of

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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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

Problem 17

How many polynomials of the form , where , , , and

are real numbers, have the property that whenever is a root, so is ? (Note
that )

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Problem 18

In square , points and lie on and , respectively, so that


Points and lie on and , respectively, and points and lie on so
that and . See the figure below. Triangle , quadrilateral ,
quadrilateral , and pentagon each has area What is ?

Solution

Problem 19

Square in the coordinate plane has vertices at the


points and Consider the following four
transformations:

a rotation of counterclockwise around the origin;

a rotation of clockwise around the origin;

a reflection across the -axis; and

a reflection across the -axis.

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.)

Solution

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?

Solution

Problem 21

How many positive integers satisfy (Recall that is the greatest integer not
exceeding .)

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Problem 22

What is the maximum value of for real values of

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Problem 23

How many integers are there such that whenever are complex numbers such that

then the numbers


are equally spaced on the unit circle in the complex plane?

Solution

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 ?

Solution
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

What is the maximum value of

Solution

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