2021 Fall AMC 12B Problems
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Contents
- 1 Problem 1
- 2 Problem 2
- 3 Problem 3
- 4 Problem 4
- 5 Problem 5
- 6 Problem 6
- 7 Problem 7
- 8 Problem 8
- 9 Problem 9
- 10 Problem 10
- 11 Problem 11
- 12 Problem 12
- 13 Problem 13
- 14 Problem 14
- 15 Problem 15
- 16 Problem 16
- 17 Problem 17
- 18 Problem 18
- 19 Problem 19
- 20 Problem 20
- 21 Problem 21
- 22 Problem 22
- 23 Problem 23
- 24 Problem 24
- 25 Problem 25
- 26 See also
Problem 1
What is the value of
Problem 2
What is the area of the shaded figure shown below?
Problem 3
At noon on a certain day, Minneapolis is degrees warmer than St. Louis. At
the temperature in Minneapolis has fallen by
degrees while the temperature in St. Louis has risen by
degrees, at which time the temperatures in the two cities differ by
degrees. What is the product of all possible values of
Problem 4
Let . Which of the following is equal to
Problem 5
Call a fraction , not necessarily in the simplest form, special if
and
are positive integers whose sum is
. How many distinct integers can be written as the sum of two, not necessarily different, special fractions?
Problem 6
The largest prime factor of is
, because
. What is the sum of the digits of the largest prime factor of
?
Problem 7
Which of the following conditions is sufficient to guarantee that integers ,
, and
satisfy the equation
and
and
and
and
Problem 8
Let be the least common multiple of all the integers
through
inclusive. Let
be the least common multiple of
and
What is the value of
Problem 9
Problem 10
Problem 11
Una rolls standard
-sided dice simultaneously and calculates the product of the
numbers obtained. What is the probability that the product is divisible by
Problem 12
What is the number of terms with rational coefficients among the terms in the expansion of
Problem 13
The angle bisector of the acute angle formed at the origin by the graphs of the lines and
has equation
What is
Problem 14
In the figure, equilateral hexagon has three nonadjacent acute interior angles that each measure
. The enclosed area of the hexagon is
. What is the perimeter of the hexagon?
Problem 15
Recall that the conjugate of the complex number , where
and
are real numbers and
, is the complex number
. For any complex number
, let
. The polynomial
has four complex roots:
,
,
, and
. Let
be the polynomial whose roots are
,
,
, and
, where the coefficients
and
are complex numbers. What is
Problem 16
An organization has employees,
of whom have a brand A computer while the other
have a brand B computer. For security, the computers can only be connected to each other and only by cables. The cables can only connect a brand A computer to a brand B computer. Employees can communicate with each other if their computers are directly connected by a cable or by relaying messages through a series of connected computers. Initially, no computer is connected to any other. A technician arbitrarily selects one computer of each brand and installs a cable between them, provided there is not already a cable between that pair. The technician stops once every employee can communicate with each other. What is the maximum possible number of cables used?
Problem 17
For how many ordered pairs of positive integers does neither
nor
have two distinct real solutions?
Problem 18
Each of balls is tossed independently and at random into one of
bins. Let
be the probability that some bin ends up with
balls, another with
balls, and the other three with
balls each. Let
be the probability that every bin ends up with
balls. What is
?
Problem 19
Let be the least real number greater than
such that sin
= sin
, where the arguments are in degrees. What is
rounded up to the closest integer?
Problem 20
For each positive integer , let
be twice the number of positive integer divisors of
, and for
, let
. For how many values of
is
Problem 21
Problem 22
Azar and Carl play a game of tic-tac-toe. Azar places an in one of the boxes in a 3-by-3 array of boxes, then Carl places an
in one of the remaining boxes. After that, Azar places an
in one of the remaining boxes, and so on until all boxes are filled or one of the players has of their symbols in a row—horizontal, vertical, or diagonal—whichever comes first, in which case that player wins the game. Suppose the players make their moves at random, rather than trying to follow a rational strategy, and that Carl wins the game when he places his third
. How many ways can the board look after the game is over?
Problem 23
A quadratic polynomial with real coefficients and leading coefficient is called
if the equation
is satisfied by exactly three real numbers. Among all the disrespectful quadratic polynomials, there is a unique such polynomial
for which the sum of the roots is maximized. What is
?
Problem 24
Convex quadrilateral has
, and
. In some order, the lengths of the four sides form an arithmetic progression, and side
is a side of maximum length. The length of another side is
. What is the sum of all possible values of
?
Problem 25
Let be an odd integer, and let
denote the number of quadruples
of distinct integers with
for all
such that
divides
. There is a polynomial
such that
for all odd integers
. What is
See also
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