AMC12A 2020

1 Carlos took 70% of a whole pie. Maria took one third of the remainder. What portion of the
whole pie was left?
(A) 10% (B) 15% (C) 20% (D) 30% (E) 35%

2 The acronym AMC is shown in the rectangular grid below with grid lines spaced 1 unit apart.
In units, what is the sum of the lengths of the line segments that form the acronym AMC?

√ √ √
(A) 17 (B) 15 + 2 2 (C) 13 + 4 2 (D) 11 + 6 2 (E) 21

3 A driver travels for 2 hours at 60 miles per hour, during which her car gets 30 miles per gallon
of gasoline. She is paid $0.50 per mile, and her only expense is gasoline at $2.00 per gallon.
What is her net rate of pay, in dollars per hour, after this expense?
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 25 (E) 26

4 How many 4-digit positive integers (that is, integers between 1000 and 9999, inclusive) having
only even digits are divisible by 5?
(A) 80 (B) 100 (C) 125 (D) 200 (E) 500

5 The 25 integers from −10 to 14, inclusive, can be arranged to form a 5-by-5 square in which the
sum of the numbers in each row, the sum of the numbers in each column, and the sum of the
numbers along each of the main diagonals are all the same. What is the value of this common
sum?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 25 (E) 50

6 In the plane figure shown below, 3 of the unit squares have been shaded. What is the least
number of additional unit squares that must be shaded so that the resulting figure has two
lines of symmetry?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

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7 Seven cubes, whose volumes are 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216, and 343 cubic units, are stacked vertically
to form a tower in which the volumes of the cubes decrease from bottom to top. Except for
the bottom cube, the bottom face of each cube lies completely on top of the cube below it.
What is the total surface area of the tower (including the bottom) in square units?
(A) 644 (B) 658 (C) 664 (D) 720 (E) 749

8 What is the median of the following list of 4040 numbers?

1, 2, 3, ..., 2020, 12 , 22 , 32 , ..., 20202

(A) 1974.5 (B) 1975.5 (C) 1976.5 (D) 1977.5 (E) 1978.5

9 How many solutions does the equation tan (2x) = cos ( x2 ) have on the interval [0, 2π]?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

10 There is a unique positive integer n such that

log2 (log16 n) = log4 (log4 n).

What is the sum of the digits of n?

(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 11 (E) 13

11 A frog sitting at the point (1, 2) begins a sequence of jumps, where each jump is parallel to one
of the coordinate axes and has length 1, and the direction of each jump (up, down, right, or left)
is chosen independently at random. The sequence ends when the frog reaches a side of the
square with vertices (0, 0), (0, 4), (4, 4), and (4, 0). What is the probability that the sequence of
jumps ends on a vertical side of the square?
1 5 2 3 7
(A) 2 (B) 8 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 8

12 Line ` in the coordinate plane has the equation 3x − 5y + 40 = 0. This line is rotated 45◦
counterclockwise about the point (20, 20) to obtain line k. What is the x-coordinate of the x-
intercept of line k?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30

13 There are integers a, b, and c, each greater than 1, such that

r q
a b √
c
√
36
N N N= N 25

for all N > 1. What is b?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

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14 Regular octagon ABCDEF GH has area n. Let m be the area of quadrilateral ACEG. What is
m
n?
√ √ √ √
2 2 3 3 2 2 2
(A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 3

15 In the complex plane, let A be the set of solutions to z 3 −8 = 0 and let B be the set of solutions
to z 3 − 8z 2 − 8z + 64 = 0. What is the greatest distance between a point of A and a point of B?
√ √ √
(A) 2 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 2 21 (E) 9 + 3

16 A point is chosen at random within the square in the coordinate plane whose vertices are
(0, 0), (2020, 0), (2020, 2020), and (0, 2020). The probability that the point is within d units of a
lattice point is 21 . (A point (x, y) is a lattice point if x and y are both integers.) What is d to the
nearest tenth?
(A) 0.3 (B) 0.4 (C) 0.5 (D) 0.6 (E) 0.7

17 The vertices of a quadrilateral lie on the graph of y = ln x, and the x-coordinates of these
90 . What is the
vertices are consecutive positive integers. The area of the quadrilateral is ln 91
x-coordinate of the leftmost vertex?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 13

18 Quadrilateral ABCD satisfies ∠ABC = ∠ACD = 90◦ , AC = 20, and CD = 30. Diagonals AC
and BD intersect at point E, and AE = 5. What is the area of quadrilateral ABCD?
(A) 330 (B) 340 (C) 350 (D) 360 (E) 370

19 There exists a unique strictly increasing sequence of nonnegative integers a1 < a2 < < ak
such that
2289 + 1
= 2a1 + 2a2 + + 2ak .
217 + 1
What is k?
(A) 117 (B) 136 (C) 137 (D) 273 (E) 306

20 Let T be the triangle in the coordinate plane with vertices (0, 0), (4, 0), and (0, 3). Consider
the following five isometries (rigid transformations) of the plane: rotations of 90◦ , 180◦ , and
270◦ counterclockwise around the origin, reflection across the x-axis, and reflection across
the y-axis. How many of the 125 sequences of three of these transformations (not necessar-
ily distinct) will return T to its original position? (For example, a 180◦ rotation, followed by a
reflection across the x-axis, followed by a reflection across the y-axis will return T to its origi-
nal position, but a 90◦ rotation, followed by a reflection across the x-axis, followed by another
reflection across the x-axis will not return T to its original position.)
(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 17 (D) 20 (E) 25

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21 How many positive integers n are there such that n is a multiple of 5, and the least common
multiple of 5! and n equals 5 times the greatest common divisor of 10! and n?
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 72

22 Let (an ) and (bn ) be the sequences of real numbers such that

(2 + i)n = an + bn i
√
for all integers n ≥ 0, where i = −1. What is
∞
X an bn
?
7n
n=0

3 7 1 9 4
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 2 (D) 16 (E) 7

23 Jason rolls three fair standard six-sided dice. Then he looks at the rolls and chooses a subset
of the dice (possibly empty, possibly all three dice) to reroll. After rerolling, he wins if and only if
the sum of the numbers face up on the three dice is exactly 7. Jason always plays to optimize
his chances of winning. What is the probability that he chooses to reroll exactly two of the
dice?
7 5 2 17 1
(A) 36 (B) 24 (C) 9 (D) 72 (E) 4

24 Suppose that 4ABC is an equilateral triangle of side length √

s, with the property that there is
a unique point P inside the triangle such that AP = 1, BP = 3, and CP = 2. What is s?
√ √ p √ √
(A) 1 + 2 (B) 7 (C) 83 (D) 5 + 5 (E) 2 2

25 The number a = pq , where p and q are relatively prime positive integers, has the property that
the sum of all real numbers x satisfying

bxc · {x} = a · x2

is 420, where bxc denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to x and {x} = x−bxc denotes
the fractional part of x. What is p + q?
(A) 245 (B) 593 (C) 929 (D) 1331 (E) 1332