2011 AMC 12/AHSME

AMC 12/AHSME 2011

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1 What is
2+4+6 1+3+5
− ?
1+3+5 2+4+6
5 7
(A) − 1 (B) 36 (C) 12 (D) 147
60 (E) 43
3

2 Josanna’s test scores to date are 90, 80, 70, 60, and 85. Her goal is to raise her
test average at least 3 points with her next test. What is the minimum test
score she would need to accomplish this goal?
(A) 80 (B) 82 (C) 85 (D) 90 (E) 95

3 LeRoy and Bernardo went on a week-long trip together and agreed to share
the costs equally. Over the week, each of them paid for various joint expenses
such as gasoline and car rental. At the end of the trip it turned out that LeRoy
had paid A dollars and Bernardo had paid B dollars, where A < B. How many
dollars must LeRoy give to Bernardo so that they share the costs equally?
A+B A−B B−A
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) B − A (E) A + B

4 In multiplying two positive integers a and b, Ron reversed the digits of the
two-digit number a. His errorneous product was 161. What is the correct value
of the product of a and b?
(A) 116 (B) 161 (C) 204 (D) 214 (E) 224

5 Let N be the second smallest positive integer that is divisible by every positive
integer less than 7. What is the sum of the digits of N ?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 9

6 Two tangents to a circle are drawn from a point A. The points of contact B
and C divide the circle into arcs with lengths in the ratio 2 : 3. What is the
degree measure of ∠BAC?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 60

7 Let x and y be two-digit positive integers with mean 60. What is the maximum
value of the ratio xy ?
33 39 99
(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 10

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8 Keiko walks once around a track at exactly the same constant speed every day.
The sides of the track are straight, and the ends are semicircles. The track has
width 6 meters, and it takes her 36 seconds longer to walk around the outside
edge of the track than around the inside edge. What is Keiko’s speed in meters
per second?
π 2π 4π 5π
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) π (D) 3 (E) 3

9 Two real numbers are selected independently at random from the interval [-20,
10]. What is the probability that the product of those numbers is greater than
zero?
1 1 4 5 2
(A) 9 (B) 3 (C) 9 (D) 9 (E) 3

10 Rectangle ABCD has AB = 6 and BC = 3. Point M is chosen on side AB so

that ∠AM D = ∠CM D. What is the degree measure of ∠AM D?
(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 45 (D) 60 (E) 75

11 A frog located at (x, y), with both x and y integers, makes successive jumps of
length 5 and always lands on points with integer coordinates. Suppose that the
frog starts at (0, 0) and ends at (1, 0). What is the smallest possible number of
jumps the frog makes?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

12 A dart board is a regular octagon divided into regions as shown. Suppose that
a dart thrown at the board is equally likely to land anywhere on the board.
What is probability that the dart lands within the center square?

√
2−1 1
√
2− 2
√
2
√
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 2 − 2

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13 Brian writes down four integers w > x > y > z whose sum is 44. The pairwise
positive differences of these numbers are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. What is the sum of
the possible values for w?
(A) 16 (B) 31 (C) 48 (D) 62 (E) 93

14 A segment through the focus F of a parabola with vertex V is perpendicular

to F V and intersects the parabola in points A and B. What is cos(∠AV B)?
√ √
3 5 2 5 4 3 1
(A) − 7 (B) − 5 (C) − 5 (D) − 5 (E) − 2

15 How many positive two-digit integers are factors of 224 − 1?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14

16 Rhombus ABCD has side length 2 and ∠B = 120◦ . Region R consists of all
points inside the rhombus that are closer to vertex B than any of the other
three vertices. What is the area of R?
√ √ √ √
3 3 2 3 3
(A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 1 + 3 (E) 2

x
Let f (x) = 1010x , g (x) = log10 10


17 , h1 (x) = g (f (x)) , and hn (x) = h1 (hn−1 (x))
for integers n ≥ 2. What is the sum of the digits of h2011 (1)?
(A) 16, 081 (B) 16, 089 (C) 18, 089 (D) 18, 098 (E) 18, 099

18 A pyramid has a square base with sides of length 1 and has lateral faces that
are equilateral triangles. A cube is placed within the pyramid so that one face is
on the base of the pyramid and its opposite face has all its edges on the lateral
faces of the pyramid. What is the volume of this cube?
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 5 2 − 7 (B) 7 − 4 3 (C) 2272 (D) 92 (E) 93

19 A lattice point in an xy-coordinate system is any point (x, y) where both x and
y are integers. The graph of y = mx + 2 passes through no lattice point with
0 < x ≤ 100 for all m such that 21 < m < a. What is the maximum possible
value of a?
51 50 51 52 13
(A) 101 (B) 99 (C) 100 (D) 101 (E) 25

20 Triangle ABC has AB = 13, BC = 14, and AC = 15. The points D, E, and
F are the midpoints of AB, BC, and AC respectively. Let X 6= E be the
intersection of the circumcircles of △BDE and △CEF . What is XA + XB +
XC?

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√ 195
√
129 7
√
69 2
(A) 24 (B) 14 3 (C) 8 (D) 14 (E) 4

21 The arithmetic mean of two distinct positive integers x and y is a two-digit

integer. The geometric mean of x and y is obtained by reversing the digits of
the arithmetic mean. What is |x − y|?
(A) 24 (B) 48 (C) 54 (D) 66 (E) 70

22 Let T1 be a triangle with sides 2011, 2012, and 2013. For n ≥ 1, if Tn = △ABC
and D, E, and F are the points of tangency of the incircle of △ABC to the
sides AB, BC and AC, respectively, then Tn+1 is a triangle with side lengths
AD, BE, and CF , if it exists. What is the perimeter of the last triangle in the
sequence (Tn )?
1509 1509 1509 1509 1509
(A) 8 (B) 32 (C) 64 (D) 128 (E) 256

23 A bug travels in the coordinate plane, moving only along the lines that are
parallel to the x-axis or y-axis. Let A = (−3, 2) and B = (3, −2). Consider all
possible paths of the bug from A to B of length at most 20. How many points
with integer coordinates lie on at least one of these paths?
(A) 161 (B) 185 (C) 195 (D) 227 (E) 255
√ √
24 Let P (z) = z 8 + (4 3 + 6)z 4 − (4 3 + 7). What is the minimum perimeter
among all the 8-sided polygons in the complex plane whose vertices are precisely
the zeros of P (z)?
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
(A) 4 3+4 (B) 8 2 (C) 3 2+3 6 (D) 4 2+4 3 (E) 4 3+
6

25 For every m and k integers with k odd, denote by [ m k ] the integer closest to
m
k.
For every odd integer k, let P (k) be the probability that
n 100 − n 100
[ ]+[ ]=[ ]
k k k
for an integer n randomly chosen from the interval 1 ≤ n ≤ 99!. What is
the minimum possible value of P (k) over the odd integers k in the interval
1 ≤ k ≤ 99?
1 50 44 34 7
(A) 2 (B) 99 (C) 87 (D) 67 (E) 13

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1 A cell phone plan costs $20 dollars each month, plus 5 cents per text message
sent, plus 10 cents for each minute used over 30 hours. In January Michelle
sent 100 text messages and talked for 30.5 hours. How much did she have to
pay?
(A) $24.00 (B) $24.50 (C) $25.50 (D) $28.00 (E) $30.00

2 There are 5 coins placed flat on a table according to the figure. What is the
order of the coins from top to bottom?

B
C

D
E

(A) (C, A, E, D, B) (B) (C, A, D, E, B) (C) (C, D, E, A, B)

(D) (C, E, A, D, B) (E) (C, E, D, A, B)

3 A small bottle of shampoo can hold 35 milliliters of shampoo, whereas a large

bottle can hold 500 milliliters of shampoo. Jasmine wants to buy the minimum
number of small bottles necessary to completely fill a large bottle. How many
bottles must she buy?
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15

4 At an elementary school, the students in third grade, fourth grade, and fifth
grade run an average of 12, 15, and 10 minutes per day, respectively. There
are twice as many third graders as fourth graders, and twice as many fourth
graders as fifth graders. What is the average number of minutes run per day
by these students?
37 88
(A) 12 (B) 3 (C) 7 (D) 13 (E) 14

5 Last summer 30% of the birds living on Town Lake were geese, 25% were swans,
10% were herons, and 35% were ducks. What percent of the birds that were
not swans were geese?
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 60

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6 The players on a basketball team made some three-point shots, some two-point
shots, and some one-point free throws. They scored as many points with two-
point shots as with three-point shots. Their number of successful free throws
was one more than their number of successful two-point shots. The team’s total
score was 61 points. How many free throws did they make?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

7 A majority of the 30 students in Ms. Demeanor’s class bought pencils at the

school bookstore. Each of these students bought the same number of pencils,
and this number was greater than 1. The cost of a pencil in cents was greater
than the number of pencils each student bought, and the total cost of all the
pencils was $17.71. What was the cost of a pencil in cents?
(A) 7 (B) 11 (C) 17 (D) 23 (E) 77

8 In the eight-term sequence A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, the value of C is 5 and the

sum of any three consecutive terms is 30. What is A + H?
(A) 17 (B) 18 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 43

9 At a twins and triplets convention, there were 9 sets of twins and 6 sets of
triplets, all from different families. Each twin shook hands with all the twins
except his/her sibling and with half the triplets. Each triplet shook hands with
all the triplets except his/her siblings and half the twins. How many handshakes
took place?
(A) 324 (B) 441 (C) 630 (D) 648 (E) 882

10 A pair of standard 6-sided fair dice is rolled once. The sum of the numbers
rolled determines the diameter of a circle. What is the probability that the
numerical value of the area of the circle is less than the numerical value of the
circle’s circumference?
1 1 1 1 5
(A) 36 (B) 12 (C) 6 (D) 4 (E) 18

11 Circles A, B, and C each have radius 1. Circles A and B share one point of
tangency. Circle C has a point of tangency with the midpoint of AB. What is
the area inside circle C but outside circle A and circle B?

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A B

π π 3π π
(A) 3 − 2 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 1 + 2

12 A power boat and a raft both left dock A on a river and headed downstream.
The raft drifted at the speed of the river current. The power boat maintained
a constant speed with respect to the river. The power boat reached dock B
downriver, then immediately turned and traveled back upriver. It eventually
met the raft on the river 9 hours after leaving dock A. How many hours did it
take the power boat to go from A to B?
(A) 3 (B) 3.5 (C) 4 (D) 4.5 (E) 5

13 Triangle ABC has side-lengths AB = 12, BC = 24, and AC = 18. The line
through the incenter of △ABC parallel to BC intersects AB at M and AC at
N . What is the perimeter of △AM N ?
(A) 27 (B) 30 (C) 33 (D) 36 (E) 42

14 Suppose a and b are single-digit positive integers chosen independently and at

random. What is the probability that the point (a, b) lies above the parabola
y = ax2 − bx?
11 13 5 17 19
(A) 81 (B) 81 (C) 27 (D) 81 (E) 81

15 The circular base of a hemisphere of radius 2 rests on the base of a square

pyramid of height 6. The hemisphere is tangent to the other four faces of the
pyramid. What is the edge-length of the base of the pyramid?
√ √
(A) 3 2 (B) 13
3 (C) 4 2 (D) 6 (E) 13
2

16 Each vertex of convex pentagon ABCDE is to be assigned a color. There are 6

colors to choose from, and the ends of each diagonal must have different colors.
How many different colorings are possible?

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(A) 2520 (B) 2880 (C) 3120 (D) 3250 (E) 3750

17 Circles with radii 1, 2, and 3 are mutually externally tangent. What is the area
of the triangle determined by the points of tangency?
3 4 6 4
(A) 5 (B) 5 (C) 1 (D) 5 (E) 3

18 Suppose that |x + y| + |x − y| = 2. What is the maximum possible value of

x2 − 6x + y 2 ?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

19 At a competition with N players, the number of players given elite status is

equal to
21+⌊log2 (N −1)⌋ − N.
Suppose that 19 players are given elite status. What is the sum of the two
smallest possible values of N ?
(A) 38 (B) 90 (C) 154 (D) 406 (E) 1024

20 Let f (x) = ax2 + bx + c, where a, b, and c are integers. Suppose that f (1) = 0,
50 < f (7) < 60, 70 < f (8) < 80, and 5000k < f (100) < 5000(k + 1) for some
integer k. What is k?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

√ √
21 Let f1 (x) = 1 − x, and for integers n ≥ 2, let fn (x) = fn−1 ( n2 − x). If N
is the largest value of n for which the domain of fn is nonempty, the domain of
fN is c. What is N + c?
(A) − 226 (B) − 144 (C) − 20 (D) 20 (E) 144

22 Let R be a square region and n ≥ 4 an integer. A point X in the interior of

R is called n-ray partitional if there are n rays emanating from X that divide
R into n triangles of equal area. How many points are 100-ray partitional but
not 60-ray partitional?
(A) 1500 (B) 1560 (C) 2320 (D) 2480 (E) 2500

23 Let f (z) = z+a

z+b and g(z) = f (f (z)), where a and b are complex numbers.
Suppose that |a| = 1 and g(g(z)) = z for all z for which g(g(z)) is defined.
What is the difference between the largest and smallest possible values of |b|?

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√ √
(A) 0 (B) 2−1 (C) 3−1 (D) 1 (E) 2

24 Consider all quadrilaterals ABCD such that AB = 14, BC = 9, CD = 7,

DA = 12. What is the radius of the largest possible circle that fits inside or on
the boundary of such a quadrilateral?
√ √ √ √
(A) 15 (B) 21 (C) 2 6 (D) 5 (E) 2 7

25 Triangle ABC has ∠BAC = 60◦ , ∠CBA ≤ 90◦ , BC = 1, and AC ≥ AB.

Let H, I, and O be the orthocenter, incenter, and circumcenter of △ABC,
respectively. Assume that the area of the pentagon BCOIH is the maximum
possible. What is ∠CBA?
(A) 60◦ (B) 72◦ (C) 75◦ (D) 80◦ (E) 90◦

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