MAA American Mathematics Competitions

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73rd Annual
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AMC 12 B L
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 L
INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR COMPETITION MANAGER TELLS YOU TO
BEGIN.
在未收到监考老师指示前，请不要翻开此封面。
2. This is a 25-question multiple-choice competition. For each question, only one answer choice is
correct.
试卷包括25道单项选择题，每道题目只有一个正确答案。
3. Mark your answer to each problem on the answer sheet with a #2 pencil. Check blackened answers
for accuracy and erase errors completely. Only answers that are properly marked on the answer
sheet will be scored.
请将每道题目的答案用2B铅笔正确填涂在答题卡上，用橡皮完全擦掉错误答案
和标记，只有恰当标注在答题卡上的答案才会被评分。
4. SCORING: You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 1.5 points for each problem left
unanswered, and 0 points for each incorrect answer.
计分规则：每题答对得6分，不答得1.5分，答错得0分。
5. Only blank scratch paper, blank graph paper, rulers, compasses, and erasers are allowed as aids.
No calculators, smartwatches, phones, or computing devices are allowed. No problems on the
competition will require the use of a calculator.
考试只允许携带空白草稿纸、空白坐标纸、尺子、圆规、橡皮等工具，不允许使用
计算器、智能手表、手机或者其他计算设备。没有任何题目必须使用计算器。
6. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
图形不一定按比例绘制。
7. Before beginning the competition, make sure to record your name, school name and code on the
answer sheet.
开始作答前，务必确保已将你的姓名、学校名称和准考证号正确填涂在答题卡上。
8. You will have 75 minutes to complete the competition once your competition manager tells you
to begin.
监考老师宣布考试开始后，你有75 分钟的时间完成这套试卷。

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 Scores and official competition solutions will be sent to your
competition manager, who can share that information with you.
For more information about the MAA American Mathematics Competitions
program and our other competitions, please visit maa.org/amc.
Questions and comments about this competition should be sent to
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or
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Annapolis Junction, MD 20701.
The problems and solutions for this AMC 12 B were prepared
by the MAA AMC 10/12 Editorial Board under the direction of
Azar Khosravani and Carl Yerger, co-Editors-in-Chief.

MAA Partner Organizations

We acknowledge the generosity of the following organizations in
supporting the MAA AMC and Invitational Competitions:

Akamai Foundation

Army Educational Outreach Program

Art of Problem Solving

AwesomeMathGirls.org

Casualty Actuarial Society

Jane Street Capital

MathWorks
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

TBL Foundation
The D. E. Shaw Group

Tudor Investment Corporation

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 Fall 2021 AMC 12 B Problems

1. What is the value of 1234 + 2341 + 3412 + 4123 ?

1234 + 2341 + 3412 + 4123 的值是多少？

(A) 10,000 (B) 10,010 (C) 10,110 (D) 11,000 (E) 11,110

2. What is the area of the shaded figure shown below?

下图中阴影部分的面积是多少？

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

3. At noon on a certain day, Minneapolis is N degrees warmer than St. Louis. At 4:00
the temperature in Minneapolis has fallen by 5 degrees while the temperature in St.
Louis has risen by 3 degrees, at which time the temperatures in the two cities
differ by 2 degrees. What is the product of all possible values of N ?
某天中午，M 市的气温比 S 市高 N 度。4:00 时，M 市的气温下降了 5 度，S
市的气温上升了 3 度。此时两个城市的气温相差 2 度。请问 N 的所有可能值
的乘积是多少?

(A) 10 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 100 (E) 120

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4. Let n = 82022. Which of the following is equal to ?
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已知 n = 82022，请问以下哪个选项的值等于 ？
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(A) 41010 (B) 22022 (C) 82018 (D) 43031 (E) 43032

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5. Call a fraction , not necessarily in simplest form, special if a and b are positive
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integers whose sum is 15. How many distinct integers can be written as the sum of
two, not necessarily different, special fractions?
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对于分数 （不一定是最简形式），如果 a 和 b 为正整数，且它们的和为 15，
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那么就将这个分数称为“特殊分数”。请问有多少个不同的整数可以写成两
个“特殊分数”之和？（可以是两个相同的“特殊分数”）

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

6. The greatest prime number that is a divisor of 16,384 is 2 because 16,384 = 214.
What is the sum of the digits of the greatest prime number that is a divisor of 16,383 ?
因为 16,384 = 214，所以 16,384 的因数中最大的质数是 2。找出 16,383 的因数
中的最大质数，并计算它的各个数位上的数字之和。

(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 16 (E) 22

7. Which of the following conditions is sufficient to guarantee that integers x, y, and

z satisfy the equation
以下哪个选项是整数 x, y 和 z 满足以下方程的充分条件？

x (x - y) + y (y - z) + z (z - x) = 1 ?

(A) x > y and y = z x>y且 y=z

(B) x = y - 1 and y = z - 1 x=y-1且 y=z-1
(C) x = z + 1 and y = x + 1 x=z+1且 y=x+1
(D) x = z and y - 1 = x x=z且 y-1=x
(E) x + y + z = 1 x+y+z=1

8. The product of the lengths of the two congruent sides of an obtuse isosceles
triangle is equal to the product of the base and twice the triangle’s height to the
base. What is the measure, in degrees, of the vertex angle of this triangle?
在一个等腰钝角三角形中，两条腰长的乘积等于底边长乘以底边上所作高的
两倍。请问该三角形的顶角是多少度？

(A) 105 (B) 120 (C) 135 (D) 150 (E) 165

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9. Triangle ABC is equilateral with side length 6. Suppose that O is the center of the
inscribed circle of this triangle. What is the area of the circle passing through A, O,
and C ?
等边三角形 ABC 的边长为 6 ，设点 O 为三角形内切圆的圆心。请问经过点
A、O、C 的圆的面积是多少？

(A) 9π (B) 12π (C) 18π (D) 24π (E) 27π

10. What is the sum of all possible values of t between 0 and 360 such that the triangle
in the coordinate plane whose vertices are (cos 40o, sin 40o), (cos 60o, sin 60o), and
(cos t o, sin t o) is isosceles?
已知坐标平面上三个点 (cos 40o, sin 40o)、(cos 60o, sin 60o) 和 (cos t o, sin t o)
构成的三角形为等腰三角形，t 的取值在 0 到 360 之间，请问 t 的所有可能
值之和是多少？

(A) 100 (B) 150 (C) 330 (D) 360 (E) 380

11. Una rolls 6 standard 6-sided dice simultaneously and calculates the product of the
6 numbers obtained. What is the probability that the product is divisible by 4 ?
Una 同时投掷 6 枚质地均匀的 6 面骰子，并计算掷出的 6 个点数的乘积。请
问这一乘积可以被 4 整除的概率是多少？

3 57 59 187 63
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 64 64 192 64

12. For n a positive integer, let f (n) be the quotient obtained when the sum of all
positive divisors of n is divided by n. For example, f (14) = (1 + 2 + 7 + 14) ÷ 14 =
12
. What is f (768) - f (384)?
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对于正整数 n， f (n)表示 n 的所有正因子之和除以 n 得到的商。比如 f (14) =
12
(1 + 2 + 7 + 14) ÷ 14 = 。请问 f (768) - f (384) 的值是多少？
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1 1 4 8
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) (E)
768 192 3 3

2π sin 3� ∙ sin 6� ∙ sin 9� ∙ sin 12� ∙ sin 15�

13. Let c = . What is the value of ？
11 sin � ∙ sin 2� ∙ sin 3� ∙ sin 4� ∙ sin 5�
2π
已知 c = 11 ，请问下列算式的值是多少？
sin 3� ∙ sin 6� ∙ sin 9� ∙ sin 12� ∙ sin 15�
sin � ∙ sin 2� ∙ sin 3� ∙ sin 4� ∙ sin 5�

11 11 10
(A) −1 (B) − (C) (D) (E) 1
5 5 11

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14. Suppose that P (z), Q (z), and R (z) are polynomials with real coefficients, having
degrees 2, 3, and 6, respectively, and constant terms 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Let
N be the number of distinct complex numbers z that satisfy the equation
� � · � � = � � . What is the minimum possible value of N ?
已知 P (z)、Q (z) 和 R (z) 为实系数多项式，次数分别为 2 次、3 次和 6 次，
常数项分别为 1、2 和 3。假设有 N 个不同的复数 z 满足方程 � � · � � =
� � 。请问 N 的最小可能值是多少？

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 5

15. Three identical square sheets of paper each with side length 6 are stacked on top of
each other. The middle sheet is rotated clockwise 30o about its center and the top
sheet is rotated clockwise 60o about its center, resulting in the 24-sided polygon
shown in the figure below. The area of this polygon can be expressed in the form
� − � � , where a, b, and c are positive integers, and c is not divisible by the
square of any prime. What is a + b + c ?
三张边长为 6 的相同方形纸片叠放在一起。将中间的纸片绕其中心顺时针旋
转 30°，最上方的纸片绕其中心顺时针旋转 60°，最终得到下图所示的 24
边形。这一多边形的面积可以表示为 � − � �，其中 a、b 和 c 均为正整数，
c 不能被任何质数的平方整除。请问 a + b + c 的值是多少？

(A) 75 (B) 93 (C) 96 (D) 129 (E) 147

16. Suppose a, b, and c are positive integers such that a + b + c = 23 and gcd (a, b) +
gcd (b, c) + gcd (c, a) = 9. What is the sum of all possible distinct values of a2 + b2
+ c2 ?
设 a、b和 c 都是正整数，满足 a + b + c = 23，gcd (a,b) + gcd (b,c) + gcd (c,a)
= 9。请问 a2 + b2 + c2 所有不同的可能值之和是多少？（gcd 表示最大公约数）

(A) 259 (B) 438 (C) 516 (D) 625 (E) 687

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17. A bug starts at a vertex of a grid made up of equilateral triangles of side length 1.
At each step the bug moves in one of the 6 possible directions along the grid lines
randomly and independently with equal probability. What is the probability that
after 5 moves the bug never will have been more than 1 unit away from the
starting position？
一个网格由边长为 1 的小正三角形组成，一只昆虫从其中一个顶点出发， 沿
网格线每次独立随机地向 6 个可能的方向中的一个方向移动一次。请问移动
5 次后，昆虫距离出发位置始终不超过一个单位的概率是多少？

13 7 29 4 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
108 54 216 27 6

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18. Set u0 = 4 , and for k ≥ 0 let uk + 1 be determined by the recurrence uk + 1 = 2uk - 2uk2.
This sequence tends to a limit; call it L. What is the least value of k such that
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�� − � ≤ 21000 ？
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令 u0 = 4 ，k ≥ 0 时，uk + 1 的值可以通过递归数列 uk + 1 = 2uk - 2uk2 确定，将这
1
一数列的极限值表示为 L。要使得 �� − � ≤ 21000 成立，请问 k 的最小值是
多少？

(A) 10 (B) 97 (C) 123 (D) 329 (E) 401

19. Regular polygons with 5, 6, 7, and 8 sides are inscribed in the same circle. No two
of the polygons share a vertex, and no three of their sides intersect at a common
point. At how many points inside the circle do two of their sides intersect?
一个正五边形、正六边形、正七边形和正八边形内接于同一个圆内。已知任
意两个多边形都不存在共同顶点，多边形的任意三条边都不相交于一点。请
问圆内一共有多少个任意两条边相交的交点?

(A) 52 (B) 56 (C) 60 (D) 64 (E) 68

20. A cube is constructed from 4 white unit cubes and 4 blue unit cubes. How many
different ways are there to construct the 2 × 2 × 2 cube using these smaller cubes?
(Two constructions are considered the same if one can be rotated to match the
other.)
一个立方体由 4 个白色单位立方体和 4 个蓝色单位立方体组成。用这些单位
立方体组成 2×2×2 的大立方体有多少种不同的方法？（如果一个大立方体
旋转后可以得到另一个，则认为两个立方体相同。）

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

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21. For real numbers x, let

P(x) = 1 + cos (x) + i sin (x) - cos (2x) - i sin (2x) + cos (3x) + i sin (3x),

where i = −1. For how many values of x with 0 ≤ x < 2π does P (x) = 0?
对于实数 x，满足

P(x) = 1 + cos (x) + i sin (x) - cos (2x) - i sin (2x) + cos (3x) + i sin (3x),

其中 i = −1。对于 0 ≤ x < 2π ，x 有多少个值满足 P (x) = 0 ?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

22. Right triangle ABC has side lengths BC = 6, AC = 8, and AB = 10. A circle centered
at O is tangent to line BC at B and passes through A. A circle centered at P is tangent
to line AC at A and passes through B. What is OP ?
直角三角形 ABC 的边长分别为 BC = 6, AC = 8, AB = 10。圆心为 O 的圆经过
点 A，并与 BC 相切于点 B。圆心为 P 的圆经过点 B，并与 AC 相切于点 A。
请问 OP 的长度是多少？

23 29 35 73
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 3
8 10 12 25

23. What is the average number of pairs of consecutive integers in a randomly selected
subset of 5 distinct integers chosen from the set｛1, 2, 3, . . . , 30｝？(For example,
the set｛1, 17, 18, 19, 30｝has 2 pairs of consecutive integers.)
从集合｛1, 2, 3, . . . , 30｝中随机选择 5 个不同的整数构成该集合的子集，请问
子集中连续整数对的数量的均值是多少？（比如，子集｛1, 17, 18, 19, 30｝中
含有两对连续整数。）

2 29 5 29
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 1
3 36 6 30

24. Triangle ABC has side lengths AB = 11, BC= 24, and CA= 20. The bisector of
∠BAC intersects �� in point D and intersects the circumcircle of ∆ ABC in point
E ≠ A. The circumcircle of ∆ BED intersects the line AB in points B and F ≠ B.
What is CF ?
三角形 ABC 的边长为 AB = 11, BC = 24, CA = 20。∠BAC 的平分线与 �� 相
交于点 D，与 ∆ ABC的外接圆相交于点 E，E ≠ A。∆ BED 的外接圆与直线
AB 相交于点 B 和点 F ，F ≠ B。请问线段 CF 的长度是多少？

(A) 28 (B) 20 2 (C) 30 (D) 32 (E) 20 3

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25. For n a positive integer, let R (n) be the sum of remainders when n is divided by 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. For example, R (15) = 1 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 7 + 6 + 5 =
26. How many two-digit positive integers n satisfy R (n) = R (n + 1) ?
已知 n 为正整数，R (n) 表示 n 分别除以 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 后所得余数的
和。比如，R (15) = 1 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 7 + 6 + 5 = 26。请问有多少个两位
正整数 n 满足 R (n) = R (n + 1)？

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4