2015 AMC 12A Problems
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
Two of the three sides of a triangle are 20 and 15. Which of the following numbers is not a possible perimeter of the triangle?
Problem 3
Mr. Patrick teaches math to 15 students. He was grading tests and found that when he graded everyone's test except Payton's, the average grade for the class was 80. after he graded Payton's test, the class average became 81. What was Payton's score on the test?
Problem 4
The sum of two positive numbers is 5 times their difference. What is the ratio of the larger number to the smaller?
Problem 5
Amelia needs to estimate the quantity , where
and
are large positive integers. She rounds each of the integers so that the calculation will be easier to do mentally. In which of these situations will her answer necessarily be greater than the exact value of
?
Problem 6
Two years ago Pete was three times as old as his cousin Claire. Two years before that, Pete was four times as old as Claire. In how many years will the ratio of their ages be ?
Problem 7
Two right circular cylinders have the same volume. The radius of the second cylinder is more than the radius of the first. What is the relationship between the heights of the two cylinders?
Problem 8
The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is :
. If the rectangle has diagonal of length
, then the area may be expressed as
for some constant
. What is
?
Problem 9
A box contains 2 red marbles, 2 green marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. Carol takes 2 marbles from the box at random; then Claudia takes 2 of the remaining marbles at random; and then Cheryl takes the last 2 marbles. What is the probability that Cheryl gets 2 marbles of the same color?
Problem 10
Integers and
with
satisfy
. What is
?
Problem 11
On a sheet of paper, Isabella draws a circle of radius , a circle of radius
, and all possible lines simultaneously tangent to both circles. Isabella notices that she has drawn exactly
lines. How many different values of
are possible?
Problem 12
The parabolas and
intersect the coordinate axes in exactly four points, and these four points are the vertices of a kite of area
. What is
?
Problem 13
A league with 12 teams holds a round-robin tournament, with each team playing every other team exactly once. Games either end with one team victorious or else end in a draw. A team scores 2 points for every game it wins and 1 point for every game it draws. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the list of 12 scores?
Problem 14
What is the value of for which
?
Problem 15
What is the minimum number of digits to the right of the decimal point needed to express the fraction as a decimal?
Problem 16
Tetrahedron has
and
. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
Problem 17
Eight people are sitting around a circular table, each holding a fair coin. All eight people flip their coins and those who flip heads stand while those who flip tails remain seated. What is the probability that no two adjacent people will stand?
Problem 18
The zeros of the function are integers. What is the sum of the possible values of
?
Problem 19
For some positive integers , there is a quadrilateral
with positive integer side lengths, perimeter
, right angles at
and
,
, and
. How many different values of
are possible?
Problem 20
Isosceles triangles and
are not congruent but have the same area and the same perimeter. The sides of
have lengths of
and
, while those of
have lengths of
and
. Which of the following numbers is closest to
?
Problem 21
A circle of radius passes through both foci of, and exactly four points on, the ellipse with equation
. The set of all possible values of
is an interval
. What is
?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 5\sqrt{2}+4 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \sqrt{17}+7 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 6\sqrt{2}+3 \qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \sqrt{15}+8 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 12$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 22
For each positive integer , let
be the number of sequences of length
consisting solely of the letters
and
, with no more than three
s in a row and no more than three
s in a row. What is the remainder when
is divided by 12?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 0 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 4 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 6 \qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 8 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 10$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 23
Let be a square of side length 1. Two points are chosen independently at random on the sides of
. The probability that the straight-line distance between the points is at least
is
, where
and
are positive integers and
. What is
?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 59 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 60 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 61 \qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 62 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 63$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 24
Rational numbers and
are chosen at random among all rational numbers in the interval
that can be written as fractions
where
and
are integers with
. What is the probability that
is a real number?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \frac{3}{5} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{4}{25} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{41}{200} \qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \frac{6}{25} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{13}{50}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Problem 25
A collection of circles in the upper half-plane, all tangent to the -axis, is constructed in layers as follows. Layer
consists of two circles of radii
and
that are externally tangent. For
, the circles in
are ordered according to their points of tangency with the
-axis. For every pair of consecutive circles in this order, a new circle is constructed externally tangent to each of the two circles in the pair. Layer
consists of the
circles constructed in this way. Let
, and for every circle
denote by
its radius. What is
$ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{286}{35} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{583}{70} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{715}{73} \qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \frac{143}{14} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{1573}{146}$
See also
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