2007 AMC 12A 考试答案
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1.
One ticket to a show costs at full price. Susan buys tickets using a coupon that gives her a discount. Pam buys tickets using a coupon that gives her a discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?
Difficulty rating: 920
Solution:
Susan pays dollars.
Pam pays dollars.
So Pam pays more dollars than Susan.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
2.
An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures cm by cm and has a height of cm. It is filled with water to a height of cm. A brick with a rectangular base that measures cm by cm and a height of cm is placed in the aquarium. By how many centimeters does the water rise?
Difficulty rating: 1020
Solution:
The brick has a volume of cubic centimeters.
If the water rises by centimeters, the added volume is cubic centimeters.
Setting this equal to the brick's volume gives so
Thus, the correct answer is D.
3.
The larger of two consecutive odd integers is three times the smaller. What is their sum?
Difficulty rating: 890
Solution:
Let the smaller integer be Then the larger is
So which gives
The two integers are and and their sum is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
4.
Kate rode her bicycle for minutes at a speed of mph, then walked for minutes at a speed of mph. What was her overall average speed in miles per hour?
Difficulty rating: 1130
Solution:
Kate rode for hour at mph, covering miles.
She walked for hours at mph, covering miles.
She covered miles in hours, so her average speed was mph.
Thus, the correct answer is A.
5.
Last year Mr. John Q. Public received an inheritance. He paid in federal taxes on the inheritance, and paid of what he had left in state taxes. He paid a total of for both taxes. How many dollars was the inheritance?
Difficulty rating: 1200
Solution:
After federal taxes, Mr. Public keeps of his inheritance.
He pays of that in state taxes, which is of the inheritance.
His total tax is of the inheritance, so the inheritance is
Thus, the correct answer is D.
6.
Triangles and are isosceles with and Point is inside and What is the degree measure of
Difficulty rating: 1200
Solution:
Since is isosceles,
Since is isosceles,
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is D.
7.
Let and be five consecutive terms in an arithmetic sequence, and suppose that Which of the following can be found?
Difficulty rating: 1130
Solution:
Let be the common difference. Then and so
Thus giving
The other terms cannot be determined: the sequences and both satisfy the conditions but differ in every term except the middle one.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
8.
A star-polygon is drawn on a clock face by drawing a chord from each number to the fifth number counted clockwise from that number. That is, chords are drawn from to from to from to and so on, ending back at What is the degree measure of the angle at each vertex in the star-polygon?
Difficulty rating: 1350
Solution:
Consider the two chords meeting at the number They run to and to so the arc they subtend extends from to
That arc spans two of the twelve hour-marks, so its measure is
By the Inscribed Angle Theorem, the vertex angle is half the arc, or By symmetry every vertex angle equals
Thus, the correct answer is C.
9.
Yan is somewhere between his home and the stadium. To get to the stadium he can walk directly to the stadium, or else he can walk home and then ride his bicycle to the stadium. He rides times as fast as he walks, and both choices require the same amount of time. What is the ratio of Yan's distance from his home to his distance from the stadium?
Difficulty rating: 1440
Solution:
Let be the walking speed and let and be Yan's distances from home and from the stadium.
Walking to the stadium takes Walking home then biking takes
Setting these equal gives so and
Thus, the correct answer is B.
10.
A triangle with side lengths in the ratio is inscribed in a circle of radius What is the area of the triangle?
Difficulty rating: 1290
Solution:
Let the sides be and The triangle is right, so its hypotenuse is a diameter.
Thus giving
The area is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
11.
A finite sequence of three-digit integers has the property that the tens and units digits of each term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the next term, and the tens and units digits of the last term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the first term. For example, such a sequence might begin with terms and and end with the term Let be the sum of all the terms in the sequence. What is the largest prime number that always divides
Difficulty rating: 1500
Solution:
Because of the cycling property, each digit that appears is used the same number of times in the hundreds, tens, and units places.
Let be the sum of the units digits over all terms. Then
So is always divisible by It need not be divisible by anything larger: the sequence gives
Thus, the correct answer is D.
12.
Integers and not necessarily distinct, are chosen independently and at random from to inclusive. What is the probability that is even?
Difficulty rating: 1410
Solution:
Exactly half of the integers from to are odd.
A product is odd only when both factors are odd, with probability and even with probability The same holds for
Then is even when both products are odd or both are even:
Thus, the correct answer is E.
13.
A piece of cheese is located at in a coordinate plane. A mouse is at and is running up the line At the point the mouse starts getting farther from the cheese rather than closer to it. What is
Difficulty rating: 1410
Solution:
The mouse is closest to the cheese at the foot of the perpendicular from to the line.
This perpendicular has slope so its equation is
Setting gives and Thus and
Thus, the correct answer is B.
14.
Let and be distinct integers such that
What is
Difficulty rating: 1440
Solution:
The five factors are distinct integers multiplying to If any factor had absolute value more than the remaining four (distinct) would have product at least forcing the total above
So the factors come from The product of all six of these is so the five factors are
Then are in some order, and their sum is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
15.
The set is augmented by a fifth element not equal to any of the other four. The median of the resulting set is equal to its mean. What is the sum of all possible values of
Difficulty rating: 1500
Solution:
The mean is
If the median is so and
If the median is so and
If the median is so and
The sum of all possible values is
Thus, the correct answer is E.
16.
How many three-digit numbers are composed of three distinct digits such that one digit is the average of the other two?
Difficulty rating: 1630
Solution:
The three distinct digits form an increasing arithmetic progression. Counting by common difference: with difference with difference with difference and with difference for sets.
Of these, sets contain (namely ); each yields valid numbers since cannot lead.
The other sets each yield numbers. The total is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
17.
Suppose that and What is
Difficulty rating: 1570
Solution:
Squaring both equations gives and
Adding and using twice,
So
Thus, the correct answer is B.
18.
The polynomial has real coefficients, and What is
Difficulty rating: 1630
Solution:
Since has real coefficients, the conjugates and are also roots. Thus
Then Equivalently,
Thus, the correct answer is D.
19.
Triangles and have areas and respectively, with and What is the sum of all possible -coordinates of
Difficulty rating: 1840
Solution:
The altitude from in satisfies so Thus lies on or
Line has equation The condition on similarly places on one of two lines parallel to
The four possible positions of are the vertices of a parallelogram whose center is the intersection of with line namely Hence the sum of the four -coordinates is
Thus, the correct answer is E.
20.
Corners are sliced off a unit cube so that the six faces each become regular octagons. What is the total volume of the removed tetrahedra?
Difficulty rating: 1840
Solution:
Slicing removes two equal segments of length from each edge. Each octagon then has side length and the edge satisfies so
Each removed corner is a tetrahedron with three mutually perpendicular legs of length so its volume is There are corners, giving total volume
Thus, the correct answer is B.
21.
The sum of the zeros, the product of the zeros, and the sum of the coefficients of the function are equal. Their common value must also be which of the following?
the coefficient of
the coefficient of
the -intercept of the graph of
one of the -intercepts of the graph of
the mean of the -intercepts of the graph of
Difficulty rating: 1660
Solution:
The product of the zeros is and the sum of the zeros is Equating them gives
Then the sum of the coefficients is which is the coefficient of
The other choices fail in general: for the common value is but the coefficient of is the -intercept is the -intercepts are and their mean is
Thus, the correct answer is A.
22.
For each positive integer let denote the sum of the digits of For how many values of is
Difficulty rating: 1910
Solution:
For and then So any solution has
Also and are congruent modulo and is a multiple of so all three must be multiples of
Checking the multiples of between and (many are eliminated because already exceeds ) leaves and That is values.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
23.
Square has area and is parallel to the -axis. Vertices and are on the graphs of and respectively. What is
Difficulty rating: 1990
Solution:
Let and Since is horizontal, so
The side length is whose only positive solution is
Since the vertical side gives Thus so
Thus, the correct answer is A.
24.
For each integer let be the number of solutions of the equation on the interval What is
Difficulty rating: 2420
Solution:
On each interval where the graphs of and meet twice, unless they share the value there, in which case they meet once. Counting the humps and the endpoint at gives
when is even or and when
Thus The first sum is and there are values in the range, giving
Thus, the correct answer is D.
25.
Call a set of integers spacy if it contains no more than one out of any three consecutive integers. How many subsets of including the empty set, are spacy?
Difficulty rating: 2240
Solution:
Let be the number of spacy subsets of A spacy subset either omits (there are of these) or contains in which case it omits and (there are of these).
Hence with
The sequence continues so
Thus, the correct answer is E.