2024 AMC 12B 考试答案
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1.
In a long line of people arranged left to right, the 1013th person from the left is also the 1010th person from the right. How many people are in the line?
Difficulty rating: 890
Solution:
The target person has people to the left and people to the right. Including the person themself, the line has people.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
2.
What is
Difficulty rating: 1020
Solution:
Note that Therefore So
Thus, the correct answer is B.
3.
For how many integer values of is
Difficulty rating: 1130
Solution:
The inequality is equivalent to The integers satisfying this run from to which is values.
Thus, the correct answer is E.
4.
Balls numbered are deposited in bins, labeled and using the following procedure. Ball is deposited in bin and balls and are deposited in The next three balls are deposited in bin the next in bin and so on, cycling back to bin after balls are deposited in bin (For example, are deposited in bin at step of this process.) In which bin is ball deposited?
Difficulty rating: 1270
Solution:
Step deposits balls, so after step a total of balls have been placed. Since and ball falls in step
The steps cycle through the bins so step uses position Here which is the fourth bin,
Thus, the correct answer is D.
5.
In the following expression, Melanie changed some of the plus signs to minus signs:
When the new expression was evaluated, it was negative. What is the least number of plus signs that Melanie could have changed to minus signs?
Difficulty rating: 1340
Solution:
The original expression sums the first odd numbers, giving Changing a term of value from to decreases the total by so to make the result negative the flipped terms must total more than
To use as few terms as possible, flip the largest odd numbers The largest of them sum to With this is but with it is So sign changes suffice and do not.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
6.
The national debt of the United States is on track to reach dollars by How many digits does this number of dollars have when written as a numeral in base (The approximation of as is sufficient for this problem.)
Difficulty rating: 1370
Solution:
The number of digits of in base is With Converting bases,
Thus the number of digits is
Thus, the correct answer is B.
7.
In the figure below is a rectangle with and Point lies on point lies on and is a right angle. The areas of and are equal. What is the area of
Difficulty rating: 1420
Solution:
Set with on and on
Since so The areas give and Setting these equal yields
Substituting into gives so and Then with
Thus, the correct answer is C.
8.
What value of satisfies
Difficulty rating: 1460
Solution:
Dividing top and bottom by the left side becomes So meaning i.e.
Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is C.
9.
A dartboard is the region in the coordinate plane consisting of points such that A target is the region where A dart is thrown and lands at a random point in The probability that the dart lands in can be expressed as where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is
Difficulty rating: 1540
Solution:
The dartboard is a square with diagonals so its area is The target condition means i.e. an annulus of area
The distance from the origin to a side of the square (for instance ) is exactly the annulus's outer radius. So the annulus is tangent to the square and lies entirely within The probability is giving
Thus, the correct answer is B.
10.
A list of real numbers consists of and as well as with The range of the list is and the mean and median are both positive integers. How many ordered triples are possible?
infinitely many
Difficulty rating: 1600
Solution:
The six fixed numbers sum to The mean is an integer exactly when has fractional part The fixed numbers span so to make the range the extremes must be pushed apart by one more unit.
Checking the possibilities gives exactly three valid triples:
with mean and median with mean and median and with mean and median Each has range and integer mean and median.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
11.
Let What is the mean of
Difficulty rating: 1610
Solution:
Using In the cosine sum, the terms for and satisfy and so everything cancels except
Hence the sum is and the mean is
Thus, the correct answer is E.
12.
Suppose is a complex number with positive imaginary part, with real part greater than and with In the complex plane, the four points and are the vertices of a quadrilateral with area What is the imaginary part of
Difficulty rating: 1670
Solution:
For vertices the shoelace formula gives area
With this is Setting gives (Then as required.)
Thus, the correct answer is D.
13.
There are real numbers and that satisfy the system of equations
What is the minimum possible value of
Difficulty rating: 1640
Solution:
Adding the equations, Both squared terms are nonnegative, so the minimum occurs at giving
Thus, the correct answer is C.
14.
How many different remainders can result when the th power of an integer is divided by
Difficulty rating: 1760
Solution:
If is coprime to then since Euler's theorem gives If is a multiple of then is divisible by hence by leaving remainder
So the only possible remainders are and which is distinct values.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
15.
A triangle in the coordinate plane has vertices and What is the area of
Difficulty rating: 1800
Solution:
The vertices are By the shoelace formula,
This equals
Thus, the correct answer is B.
16.
A group of people will be partitioned into indistinguishable -person committees. Each committee will have one chairperson and one secretary. The number of different ways to make these assignments can be written as where and are positive integers and is not divisible by What is
Difficulty rating: 1860
Solution:
The number of ways to split people into indistinguishable groups of is Each committee then chooses a chairperson and a secretary in ways, contributing So the total is
Counting factors of contributes The denominator contributes And contributes Thus
Thus, the correct answer is A.
17.
Integers and are randomly chosen without replacement from the set of integers with absolute value not exceeding What is the probability that the polynomial has distinct integer roots?
Difficulty rating: 1910
Solution:
The set has integers, so there are ordered choices of If the polynomial has distinct integer roots then and
The triples of distinct integers with product are and These give and The fourth has so it is invalid; the other four are valid and distinct.
The probability is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
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19.
Equilateral with side length is rotated about its center by angle where to form See the figure. The area of hexagon is What is
Difficulty rating: 2040
Solution:
The six vertices lie on the circumcircle of radius so Going around, the central angles alternate between (three times) and (three times). The cyclic-hexagon area is
By sum-to-product, Setting the area to gives so and
Then and
Thus, the correct answer is B.
20.
Suppose and are points in the plane with and and let be the length of the line segment from to the midpoint of Define a function by letting be the area of Then the domain of is an open interval and the maximum value of occurs at What is
Difficulty rating: 2110
Solution:
Let The median length gives The triangle inequality requires i.e. which translates to So
With and fixed, the area is largest when giving Then so i.e.
Thus
Thus, the correct answer is C.
21.
The measures of the smallest angles of three different right triangles sum to All three triangles have side lengths that are primitive Pythagorean triples. Two of them are -- and -- What is the perimeter of the third triangle?
Difficulty rating: 2130
Solution:
The smallest angles of the -- and -- triangles have and By the tangent addition formula,
The third smallest angle satisfies so The right triangle with legs and has hypotenuse a primitive triple. Its perimeter is
Thus, the correct answer is C.
22.
Let be a triangle with integer side lengths and the property that What is the least possible perimeter of such a triangle?
Difficulty rating: 2230
Solution:
When the side lengths satisfy where So must be a positive integer, and the sides must form a valid triangle.
Trying small values, gives and the sides form a valid triangle with Its perimeter is and a search shows no smaller perimeter works.
Thus, the correct answer is C.
23.
A right pyramid has regular octagon with side length as its base and apex Segments and are perpendicular. What is the square of the height of the pyramid?
Difficulty rating: 2300
Solution:
Let be the circumradius of the octagon and the length of each lateral edge, so Since
Vertices and are three steps apart, a central angle of so Setting gives
For a regular octagon of side Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is B.
24.
What is the number of ordered triples of positive integers, with such that there exists a (non-degenerate) triangle with an integer inradius for which and are the lengths of the altitudes from to to and to respectively? (Recall that the inradius of a triangle is the radius of the largest possible circle that can be inscribed in the triangle.)
Difficulty rating: 2410
Solution:
Writing each side as the semiperimeter is so the inradius satisfies We need this to be for a positive integer with the sides (proportional to ) forming a non-degenerate triangle, requiring
Searching the triples with that also satisfy the triangle inequality are exactly the equilateral ones: with with and with Other solutions such as or give degenerate triangles. So there are triples.
Thus, the correct answer is B.
25.
Pablo will decorate each of identical white balls with either a striped or a dotted pattern, using either red or blue paint. He will decide on the color and pattern for each ball by flipping a fair coin for each of the decisions he must make. After the paint dries, he will place the balls in an urn. Frida will randomly select one ball from the urn and note its color and pattern. The events "the ball Frida selects is red" and "the ball Frida selects is striped" may or may not be independent, depending on the outcome of Pablo's coin flips. The probability that these two events are independent can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is (Recall that two events and are independent if )
Difficulty rating: 2510
Solution:
Each ball is independently one of four equally likely types: red-striped, red-dotted, blue-striped, blue-dotted. Suppose among the balls there are red-striped, with red and striped in total. For Frida's uniform pick, and Independence means i.e.
Summing the multinomial counts of all type-assignments of the balls satisfying gives favorable outcomes out of The probability is so
Thus, the correct answer is A.