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1 What is
2+4+6 1+3+5
− ?
1+3+5 2+4+6
5 7 147 43
(A) − 1 (B) 36 (C) 12 (D) 60 (E) 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
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
13 Brian writes down four integers w > x > y > z whose sum is 44. The pairwise positive dif-
ferences 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
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14 A segment through the focus F of a parabola with vertex V is perpendicular to F V and inter-
sects 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
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
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
2 < m < a. What is the maximum possible value of a?
1
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 4BDE
and 4CEF . What is XA + XB + XC?
√ √ √
(A) 24 (B) 14 3 (C) 195
8 (D) 12914 7 (E) 694 2
21 The arithmetic mean of two distinct positive integers x and y is a two-digit integer. The ge-
ometric 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
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22 Let T1 be a triangle with sides 2011, 2012, and 2013. For n ≥ 1, if Tn = 4ABC and D, E, and F
are the points of tangency of the incircle of 4ABC 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
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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?
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C
D
E
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 nec-
essary 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 aver-
age 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
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 suc-
cessful 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
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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?
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
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13 Triangle ABC has side-lengths AB = 12, BC = 24, and AC = 18. The line through the incenter
of 4ABC parallel to BC intersects AB at M and AC at N . What is the perimeter of 4AM 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?
(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
19 At a competition with N players, the number of players given elite status is equal to
21+blog2 (N −1)c − 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?
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√ √
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 z+b and g(z) = f (f (z)), where a and b are complex numbers. Suppose that |a| = 1
Let f (z) = z+a
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|?
√ √
(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 4ABC, 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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2011 AMC 12B Answer Key 2011 AMC 12A Answer Key
1. C 1. D
2. E 2. E
3. C 3. E
4. E 4. C
5. A 5. C
6. C 6. A
7. B 7. B
8. A 8. C
9. D 9. B
10. E 10. B
11. B 11. C
12. A 12. D
13. B 13. B
14. D 14. E
15. D 15. A
16. C 16. C
17. B 17. D
18. A 18. D
19. B 19. C
20. C 20. C
21. D 21. A
22. D 22. C
23. C 23. C
24. B 24. C
25. D 25. D