2018年 AMC12 B卷
2018 AMC 12B Problems
Problem 1
Kate bakes 20-inch by 18-inch pan of cornbread. The cornbread is cut into pieces that measure 2 inches by 2 inches. How many pieces of cornbread does the pan contain?
Problem 2
Sam drove 96 miles in 90 minutes. His average speed during the first 30 minutes was 60 mph (miles per hour), and his average speed during the second 30 minutes was 65 mph. What was his average speed, in mph, during the last 30 minutes?
Problem 3
A line with slope 2 intersects a line with slope 6 at the point (40,30). What is the distance between the x-intercepts of these two lines?
Problem 4
A circle has a chord of length 10, and the distance from the center of the circle to the chord is 5. What is the area of the circle?
Problem 5
How many subsets of {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} contain at least one prime number?
Problem 6
Suppose S cans of soda can be purchased from a vending machine for Q quarters. Which of the following expressions describes the number of cans of soda that can be purchased for D dollars, where 1 dollar is worth 4 quarters?
Problem 7
What is the value of log3 7 · log5 9 · log7 11 · log9 13 ... log21 25 · log23 27?
Problem 8
Line segment is a diameter of a circle with AB = 24. Point C, not equal to A or B, lies on the circle. As point C moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of ∆ABC traces out a closed curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region bounded by this curve?
Problem 9
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Problem 10
A list of 2018 positive integers has a unique mode, which occurs exactly 10 times. What is the least number of distinct values that can occur in the list?
Problem 11
A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point A in the figure on the right. The box has base length w and height h. What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper?
Problem 12
Side of ∆ABC has length 10. The bisector of angle A meets
at D, and CD = 3. The set of all possible values of AC is an open interval (m, n). What is m + n?
Problem 13
Square ABCD has side length 30. Point P lies inside the square so that AP = 12 and BP = 26. The centroids of ∆ABP, ∆BCP,
∆CDP, and ∆DAP are the vertices of a convex quadrilateral. What is the area of that quadrilateral?
Problem 14
Joey, Chloe, and their daughter Zoe all have the same birthday. Joey is 1 year older than Chloe, and Zoe is exactly 1 year old today. Today is the first of the 9 birthdays on which Chloe's age will be an integral multiple of Zoe's age. What will be the sum of the two digits of Joey's age the next time his age is a multiple of Zoe's age?
Problem 15
How many odd positive 3-digit integers are divisible by 3 but do not contain the digit 3?
Problem 16
The solutions to the equation (Z + 6)8 = 81 are connected in the complex plane to form a convex regular polygon, three of whose vertices are labeled A, B and C. What is the least possible area of ∆ABC ?
Problem 17
Let p and q be positive integers such that and q is as small as possible. What is q - p?
Problem 18
A function f is defined recursively by f(1) = f(2) = 1 and f(n) = f(n - 1) - f(n - 2) + n for all integers n ≥ 3. What is f(2018) ?
Problem 19
Mary chose an even 4-digit number n. She wrote down all the divisors of n in increasing order from left to right: 1, 2, ..., , n . At some moment Mary wrote 323 as a divisor of n. What is the smallest possible value of the next divisor written to the right of 323 ?
Problem 20
Problem 21
In ∆ABC with side lengths AB = 13, AC = 12, and BC = 5, let O and I denote the circumcenter and incenter, respectively. A circle with center M is tangent to the legs AC and BC and to the circumcircle of ∆ABC. What is the area of ∆MOI ?
Problem 22
Consider polynomials P(x) of degree at most 3, each of whose coefficients is an element of {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}. How many such polynomials satisfy P(-1) = -9?
Problem 23
Ajay is standing at point A near Pontianak, Indonesia, 0° latitude and 110° E longitude. Billy is standing at point B near Big Baldy Mountain, Idaho, USA, 45° N latitude and 115° W longitude. Assume that Earth is a perfect sphere with center C. What is the degree measure of ∠ACB?
Problem 24
Let denote the greatest integer less than or equal to x. How many real numbers x satisfy the equation
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Problem 25
Circles ω1, ω2, and ω3 each have radius 4 and are placed in the plane so that each circle is externally tangent to the other two. Points P1, P2 , and P3 lie onω1, ω2, and ω3 respectively such that P1P2 = P2P3= P3P1 and line PiPi+1 is tangent to ωi for each i = 1,2,3, where P4 = P1. See the figure below. The area of ΔP1P2P3 can be written in the form for positive integers a and b. What is a + b?