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1992 AMC 12

Question 1

If $3(4x+5\pi)=P,$ then $6(8x+10\pi)=$
  1. $2P$
  2. $4P$
  3. $6P$
  4. $8P$
  5. $18P$

Question 2

An urn is filled with coins and beads, all of which are either silver or gold. Twenty percent of the objects in the urn are beads. Forty percent of the coins in the urn are silver. What percent of the objects in the urn are gold coins?
  1. $40\%$
  2. $48\%$
  3. $52\%$
  4. $60\%$
  5. $80\%$

Question 3

If $m\gt0$ and the points $(m,3)$ and $(1,m)$ lie on a line with slope $m,$ then $m=$
  1. $1$
  2. $\sqrt2$
  3. $\sqrt3$
  4. $2$
  5. $\sqrt5$

Question 4

If $a,$ $b,$ and $c$ are positive integers and $a$ and $b$ are odd, then $3^a+(b-1)^2c$ is
  1. odd for all choices of $c$
  2. even for all choices of $c$
  3. odd if $c$ is even; even if $c$ is odd
  4. odd if $c$ is odd; even if $c$ is even
  5. odd if $c$ is not a multiple of $3$; even if $c$ is a
    multiple of $3$

Question 5

$6^6+6^6+6^6+6^6+6^6+6^6=$
  1. $6^6$
  2. $6^7$
  3. $36^6$
  4. $6^{36}$
  5. $36^{36}$

Question 6

If $x\gt y\gt0,$ then $$
\frac{x^y y^x}{y^y x^x}=
$$
  1. $(x-y)^{\frac{y}{x}}$
  2. $\left(\frac{x}{y}\right)^{x-y}$
  3. $1$
  4. $\left(\frac{x}{y}\right)^{y-x}$
  5. $(x-y)^{\frac{x}{y}}$

Question 7

The ratio of $w$ to $x$ is $4:3,$ of $y$ to $z$ is $3:2,$ and of $z$ to $x$ is $1:6.$ What is the ratio of $w$ to $y?$
  1. $1:3$
  2. $16:3$
  3. $20:3$
  4. $27:4$
  5. $12:1$

Question 8

A square floor is tiled with congruent square tiles. The tiles on the two diagonals of the floor are black. The rest of the tiles are white. If there are $101$ black tiles, then the total number of tiles is

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  1. $121$
  2. $625$
  3. $676$
  4. $2500$
  5. $2601$

Question 9

Five equilateral triangles, each with side $2\sqrt3,$ are arranged so they are all on the same side of a line containing one side of each. Along this line, the midpoint of the base of one triangle is a vertex of the next. The area of the region of the plane that is covered by the union of the five triangular regions is

Question illustration
  1. $10$
  2. $12$
  3. $15$
  4. $10\sqrt3$
  5. $12\sqrt3$

Question 10

The number of positive integers $k$ for which the equation $$
kx-12=3k
$$ has an integer solution for $x$ is
  1. $3$
  2. $4$
  3. $5$
  4. $6$
  5. $7$

Question 11

The ratio of the radii of two concentric circles is $1:3.$ If $\overline{AC}$ is a diameter of the larger circle, $\overline{BC}$ is a chord of the larger circle that is tangent to the smaller circle, and $AB=12,$ then the radius of the larger circle is

Question illustration
  1. $13$
  2. $18$
  3. $21$
  4. $24$
  5. $26$

Question 12

Let $y=mx+b$ be the image when the line $x-3y+11=0$ is reflected across the $x$-axis. The value of $m+b$ is
  1. $-6$
  2. $-5$
  3. $-4$
  4. $-3$
  5. $-2$

Question 13

How many pairs of positive integers $(a,b)$ with $a+b\le100$ satisfy the equation $$
\frac{a+b^{-1}}{a^{-1}+b}=13?
$$
  1. $1$
  2. $5$
  3. $7$
  4. $9$
  5. $13$

Question 14

Which of the following equations have the same graph? $$
\begin{aligned} &\text{I. }y=x-2\\ &\text{II. }y=\dfrac{x^2-4}{x+2}\\ &\text{III. }(x+2)y=x^2-4 \end{aligned}
$$
  1. $\mathrm{I}$ and $\mathrm{II}$ only
  2. $\mathrm{I}$ and $\mathrm{III}$ only
  3. $\mathrm{II}$ and $\mathrm{III}$ only
  4. $\mathrm{I},$ $\mathrm{II}$ and $\mathrm{III}$
  5. None. All the equations have different
    graphs

Question 15

Let $i=\sqrt{-1}.$ For $n\ge1,$ define a sequence of complex numbers by $$
\begin{aligned} z_1&=0,\\ z_{n+1}&=z_n^2+i. \end{aligned}
$$ In the complex plane, how far from the origin is $z_{111}?$
  1. $1$
  2. $\sqrt2$
  3. $\sqrt3$
  4. $\sqrt{110}$
  5. $\sqrt{2^{55}}$

Question 16

If $$
\frac{y}{x-z}=\frac{x+y}{z}=\frac{x}{y}
$$ for three positive numbers $x,$ $y,$ and $z,$ all different, then $\frac{x}{y}=$
  1. $\frac12$
  2. $\frac35$
  3. $\frac23$
  4. $\frac53$
  5. $2$

Question 17

The two-digit integers from $19$ to $92$ are written consecutively to form the large integer $$
N=19202122\ldots909192.
$$ If $3^k$ is the highest power of $3$ that is a factor of $N,$ then $k=$
  1. $0$
  2. $1$
  3. $2$
  4. $3$
  5. more than $3$

Question 18

The increasing sequence of positive integers $a_1,$ $a_2,$ $a_3,$ $\ldots$ has the property that, for every $n\ge1,$ $$
a_{n+2}=a_n+a_{n+1}.
$$ If $a_7=120,$ then $a_8$ is
  1. $128$
  2. $168$
  3. $193$
  4. $194$
  5. $210$

Question 19

For each vertex of a solid cube, consider the tetrahedron determined by the vertex and the midpoints of the three edges that meet at that vertex. The portion of the cube that remains when these eight tetrahedra are cut away is called a *cuboctahedron*. The ratio of the volume of the cuboctahedron to the volume of the original cube is closest to which of these?
  1. $75\%$
  2. $78\%$
  3. $81\%$
  4. $84\%$
  5. $87\%$

Question 20

Part of an “$n$-pointed regular star” is shown. It is a simple closed polygon in which all $2n$ edges are congruent, angles $A_1,$ $A_2,$ $\ldots,$ $A_n$ are congruent, and angles $B_1,$ $B_2,$ $\ldots,$ $B_n$ are congruent. If the acute angle at $A_1$ is $10^\circ$ less than the acute angle at $B_1,$ then $n=$

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  1. $12$
  2. $18$
  3. $24$
  4. $36$
  5. $60$