2010 AMC 12A 考试题目
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1.
What is
Answer: C
Difficulty rating: 770
Solution:
Distributing the negative signs gives
Thus, C is the correct answer.
2.
A ferry boat shuttles tourists to an island every hour starting at am until its last trip, which starts at pm. One day the boat captain notes that on the am trip there were tourists on the ferry boat, and that on each successive trip, the number of tourists was fewer than on the previous trip. How many tourists did the ferry take to the island that day?
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 970
Solution:
The ferry makes trips: at and
The numbers of tourists are so the total is
Thus, A is the correct answer.
3.
Rectangle pictured below, shares of its area with square Square shares of its area with rectangle What is
Answer: E
Difficulty rating: 1120
Solution:
Let be the side length of square The shaded overlap has width and height so its area is
Because the overlap is of the rectangle, so Because it is of the square, so
Therefore
Thus, E is the correct answer.
4.
If then which of the following must be positive?
Answer: D
Difficulty rating: 1070
Solution:
Choice (D) is When so
Testing shows the other choices need not be positive: and
Thus, D is the correct answer.
5.
Halfway through a -shot archery tournament, Chelsea leads by points. For each shot a bullseye scores points, with other possible scores being and points. Chelsea always scores at least points on each shot. If Chelsea's next shots are bullseyes she will be guaranteed victory. What is the minimum value for
Answer: C
Difficulty rating: 1350
Solution:
The opponent can score at most on the last shots. Since Chelsea leads by she must score more than points on her remaining shots to guarantee victory.
Her bullseyes give points, and her other shots give at least points, so This simplifies to i.e.
Therefore Chelsea needs at least bullseyes.
Thus, C is the correct answer.
6.
A palindrome, such as is a number that remains the same when its digits are reversed. The numbers and are three-digit and four-digit palindromes, respectively. What is the sum of the digits of
Answer: E
Difficulty rating: 1280
Solution:
Note that is at most This means that has a maximum of
Similarly, we have that the minimum value of is
The only palindrome in this range is so this is what equals.
Then
The sum of the digits is then
Thus, E is the correct answer.
7.
Logan is constructing a scaled model of his town. The city's water tower stands meters high, and the top portion is a sphere that holds liters of water. Logan's miniature water tower holds liters. How tall, in meters, should Logan make his tower?
Answer: C
Difficulty rating: 1420
Solution:
The miniature tower holds times less water than the actual tower. Since this is the ratio for volumes, the ratio of heights is This means that the height of the miniature tower is
Thus, C is the correct answer.
8.
Triangle has Let and be on and respectively, such that Let be the intersection of segments and and suppose that is equilateral. What is
Answer: C
Difficulty rating: 1660
Solution:
Let Note that since is equilateral.
We then have that
Then:
We then get that
Since and we have that is a triangle.
Thus, C is the correct answer.
9.
A solid cube has side length inches. A -inch by -inch square hole is cut into the center of each face. The edges of each cut are parallel to the edges of the cube, and each hole goes all the way through the cube. What is the volume, in cubic inches, of the remaining solid?
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 1790
Solution:
Note that all the cut out solids intersect in the middle of the cube.
This region of intersection is a cube with side length Then the volume of the cutout region is
We have to subtract out the center region twice since it is included in all regions.
The remaining volume is then
Thus, A is the correct answer.
10.
The first four terms of an arithmetic sequence are and What is the th term of this sequence?
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 1410
Solution:
Consecutive terms differ by a common difference From the last two terms,
From the first two terms, and from the second and third, Solving this system gives and
The th term is
Thus, A is the correct answer.
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12.
In a magical swamp there are two species of talking amphibians: toads, whose statements are always true, and frogs, whose statements are always false. Four amphibians, Brian, Chris, LeRoy, and Mike live together in this swamp, and they make the following statements.
Brian: "Mike and I are different species."
Chris: "LeRoy is a frog."
LeRoy: "Chris is a frog."
Mike: "Of the four of us, at least two are toads."
How many of these four amphibians are frogs?
Answer: D
Difficulty rating: 1540
Solution:
If Brian is a frog, then he must be lying, which means that Mike must be a frog.
If Brian is a toad, then he must be telling the truth, which also means that Mike is a frog.
Therefore, Mike is a frog, which means that Mike is lying. This means that there is at most one toad.
Then, at least one of LeRoy and Chris is a frog. This means the other is telling the truth, which makes them a toad.
This means there is one toad, which makes there be frogs.
Thus, D is the correct answer.
13.
For how many integer values of do the graphs of and not intersect?
Answer: C
Solution:
For the graph of is the single point and is the two axes, which meet at the origin, so the graphs intersect.
For the circle has radius and the hyperbola has its two vertices nearest the origin at distance The graphs meet exactly when that is
So they fail to intersect only when namely and giving values.
Thus, C is the correct answer.
14.
Nondegenerate has integer side lengths, is an angle bisector, and What is the smallest possible value of the perimeter?
Answer: B
Difficulty rating: 1600
Solution:
Using the Angle Bisector Theorem, we have that
For and to be integers, we must have that is a multiple of
To minimize the perimeter, we can set and This, however, makes the triangle degenerate.
must then be and Since the perimeter is
Thus, B is the correct answer.
15.
A coin is altered so that the probability that it lands on heads is less than and when the coin is flipped four times, the probability of an equal number of heads and tails is What is the probability that the coin lands on heads?
Answer: D
Difficulty rating: 1650
Solution:
Let be the probability of heads. The chance of two heads and two tails in four flips is
Thus so
This gives so Since we take
Thus, D is the correct answer.
16.
Bernardo randomly picks distinct numbers from the set and arranges them in descending order to form a -digit number. Silvia randomly picks distinct numbers from the set and also arranges them in descending order to form a -digit number. What is the probability that Bernardo's number is larger than Silvia's number?
Answer: B
Difficulty rating: 1900
Solution:
There are two cases: Bernardo picks a or he doesn't.
Case 1: Bernardo picks a
Since a number is fixed, there are ways to choose the other two numbers.
There are a total of ways to pick all three numbers. The probability is then
Note that if Bernardo picks a he automatically has a greater number than Silvia.
This means that Bernardo always wins in this case.
Case 2: Bernardo doesn't pick a
There is a chance of this happening. Since both people are choosing from the same numbers, they have an equal chance of winning.
We still need to find the probability that the numbers are the same. There is a chance that Silvia chooses the same numbers as Bernardo. The probability that Bernardo gets a higher number is then
The total probability of Bernardo getting a higher number is then
Thus, B is the correct answer.
17.
Equiangular hexagon has side lengths and The area of is of the area of the hexagon. What is the sum of all possible values of
Answer: E
Difficulty rating: 1960
Solution:
Note that is equilateral. Using the Law of Cosines in we get
The area of is then
The three corner triangles and each have area
Thus the hexagon has area
The condition gives so
By Vieta's formulas, the sum of the possible values of is
Thus, E is the correct answer.
18.
A -step path is to go from to with each step increasing either the -coordinate or the -coordinate by How many such paths stay outside or on the boundary of the square at each step?
Answer: D
Difficulty rating: 1880
Solution:
Every step increases by which runs from to so each path passes through exactly one lattice point with
To stay out of the open square, that point must have so it is one of
By symmetry consider the three points and double. The number of paths from to is and the number continuing on to is also
Therefore the total is
Thus, D is the correct answer.
19.
Each of boxes in a line contains a single red marble, and for the box in the th position also contains white marbles. Isabella begins at the first box and successively draws a single marble at random from each box, in order. She stops when she first draws a red marble. Let be the probability that Isabella stops after drawing exactly marbles. What is the smallest value of for which
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 2240
Solution:
Since there are marbles in the th box, there is a chance Isabella draws a white marble from it.
The probability of drawing a red marble is then To stop after drawing the th marble, the first marbles must have been white.
This happens with a probability of
Note that all the numerators cancel with the adjacent denominator, which means that this expression reduces to
We have to find the smallest such that
Guessing and checking gives us that the smallest that works is
Thus, A is the correct answer.
20.
Arithmetic sequences and have integer terms with and for some What is the largest possible value of
Answer: C
Difficulty rating: 1950
Solution:
Since and for integers the value divides both and hence divides
The factor pairs of with are and
For every pair except the numbers and are relatively prime, forcing For so can equal giving
The sequences and realize this, so the largest value is
Thus, C is the correct answer.
21.
The graph of lies above the line except at three values of where the graph and the line intersect. What is the largest of those values?
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 2000
Solution:
Let be the graph minus the line. It is nonnegative and vanishes at three points, each a double root, so
Matching coefficients gives then then
Thus the cubic is with roots and The largest is
Thus, A is the correct answer.
22.
What is the minimum value of
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 2000
Solution:
The function is piecewise linear with breakpoints at On the interval its slope is where
This slope is zero when i.e. so the minimum occurs at the right endpoint
There, terms with contribute and terms with contribute so
Thus, A is the correct answer.
23.
The number obtained from the last two nonzero digits of is equal to What is
Answer: A
Difficulty rating: 2390
Solution:
The number of trailing zeroes in is Let
There are still more than two factors of left after removing so
Let be the product of factors of not divisible by and let be the product of the factors divisible by Grouping residues modulo gives and
Therefore Since
The number congruent to and is so the last two nonzero digits form
Thus, A is the correct answer.
24.
Let The intersection of the domain of with the interval is a union of disjoint open intervals. What is
Answer: B
Difficulty rating: 2460
Solution:
Let the domain of is where Since and is even, so it suffices to study and double.
In the zeros of are the fractions with and For there are of them, totaling
These zeros split into subintervals on which has constant sign. Near every factor is positive, so there, and the sign flips at each zero except and where an even number of factors vanish.
Tracking the signs, exactly of the subintervals have By symmetry there are more in so
Thus, B is the correct answer.
25.
Two quadrilaterals are considered the same if one can be obtained from the other by a rotation and a translation. How many different convex cyclic quadrilaterals are there with integer sides and perimeter equal to
Answer: C
Difficulty rating: 2520
Solution:
A convex cyclic quadrilateral is determined up to rotation and translation by its cyclic sequence of side lengths, and it exists exactly when the largest side is less than the sum of the others. With perimeter this means each side is at most
First count ordered quadruples of positive integers with and each entry at most Without the upper bound there are removing those with some entry at least subtracts leaving
Rotations of the quadrilateral correspond to cyclic permutations of By Burnside's lemma the number of distinct quadrilaterals is where counts quadruples fixed by rotating positions.
A one- or three-step rotation fixes only so A two-step rotation fixes with and giving
Hence the count is
Thus, C is the correct answer.