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2020 AMC 12A

Question 1

Carlos took $70\%$ of a whole pie. Maria took one third of the remainder. What portion of the whole pie was left?
  1. $10\%$
  2. $15\%$
  3. $20\%$
  4. $30\%$
  5. $35\%$

Question 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?

Question illustration
  1. $17$
  2. $15 + 2\sqrt{2}$
  3. $13 + 4\sqrt{2}$
  4. $11 + 6\sqrt{2}$
  5. $21$

Question 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?
  1. $20$
  2. $22$
  3. $24$
  4. $25$
  5. $26$

Question 4

How many $4$-digit positive integers (that is, integers between $1000$ and $9999,$ inclusive) having only even digits are divisible by $5?$
  1. $80$
  2. $100$
  3. $125$
  4. $200$
  5. $500$

Question 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?
  1. $2$
  2. $5$
  3. $10$
  4. $25$
  5. $50$

Question 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?

Question illustration
  1. $4$
  2. $5$
  3. $6$
  4. $7$
  5. $8$

Question 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?
  1. $644$
  2. $658$
  3. $664$
  4. $720$
  5. $749$

Question 8

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

$1,$ $2,$ $3,$ $\ldots,$ $2020,$ $1^2,$ $2^2,$ $3^2,$ $\ldots,$ $2020^2$
  1. $1974.5$
  2. $1975.5$
  3. $1976.5$
  4. $1977.5$
  5. $1978.5$

Question 9

How many solutions does the equation $\tan(2x) = \cos\left(\dfrac{x}{2}\right)$ have on the interval $[0, 2\pi]?$
  1. $1$
  2. $2$
  3. $3$
  4. $4$
  5. $5$

Question 10

There is a unique positive integer $n$ such that $$
\log_2(\log_{16} n) = \log_4(\log_4 n).
$$

What is the sum of the digits of $n?$
  1. $4$
  2. $7$
  3. $8$
  4. $11$
  5. $13$

Question 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. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
  2. $\dfrac{5}{8}$
  3. $\dfrac{2}{3}$
  4. $\dfrac{3}{4}$
  5. $\dfrac{7}{8}$

Question 12

Line $\ell$ in the coordinate plane has the equation $3x - 5y + 40 = 0.$ This line is rotated $45^\circ$ counterclockwise about the point $(20, 20)$ to obtain line $k.$ What is the $x$-coordinate of the $x$-intercept of line $k?$
  1. $10$
  2. $15$
  3. $20$
  4. $25$
  5. $30$

Question 13

There are integers $a,$ $b,$ and $c,$ each greater than $1,$ such that $$
\sqrt[a]{N \sqrt[b]{N \sqrt[c]{N}}} = \sqrt[36]{N^{25}}
$$ for all $N \gt 1.$ What is $b?$
  1. $2$
  2. $3$
  3. $4$
  4. $5$
  5. $6$

Question 14

Regular octagon $ABCDEFGH$ has area $n.$ Let $m$ be the area of quadrilateral $ACEG.$ What is $\dfrac{m}{n}?$
  1. $\dfrac{\sqrt{2}}{4}$
  2. $\dfrac{\sqrt{2}}{2}$
  3. $\dfrac{3}{4}$
  4. $\dfrac{3\sqrt{2}}{5}$
  5. $\dfrac{2\sqrt{2}}{3}$

Question 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 $B?$
  1. $2\sqrt{3}$
  2. $6$
  3. $9$
  4. $2\sqrt{21}$
  5. $9 + \sqrt{3}$

Question 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 $\tfrac12.$ (A point $(x, y)$ is a lattice point if $x$ and $y$ are both integers.) What is $d$ to the nearest tenth?
  1. $0.3$
  2. $0.4$
  3. $0.5$
  4. $0.6$
  5. $0.7$

Question 17

The vertices of a quadrilateral lie on the graph of $y = \ln x,$ and the $x$-coordinates of these vertices are consecutive positive integers. The area of the quadrilateral is $\ln\dfrac{91}{90}.$ What is the $x$-coordinate of the leftmost vertex?
  1. $6$
  2. $7$
  3. $10$
  4. $12$
  5. $13$

Question 18

Quadrilateral $ABCD$ satisfies $\angle ABC = \angle ACD = 90^\circ,$ $AC = 20,$ and $CD = 30.$ Diagonals $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at point $E,$ and $AE = 5.$ What is the area of quadrilateral $ABCD?$
  1. $330$
  2. $340$
  3. $350$
  4. $360$
  5. $370$

Question 19

There exists a unique strictly increasing sequence of nonnegative integers $a_1 \lt a_2 \lt \cdots \lt a_k$ such that $$
\frac{2^{289} + 1}{2^{17} + 1} = 2^{a_1} + 2^{a_2} + \cdots + 2^{a_k}.
$$ What is $k?$
  1. $117$
  2. $136$
  3. $137$
  4. $273$
  5. $306$

Question 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 $90^\circ,$ $180^\circ,$ and $270^\circ$ 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 necessarily distinct) will return $T$ to its original position? (For example, a $180^\circ$ rotation, followed by a reflection across the $x$-axis, followed by a reflection across the $y$-axis will return $T$ to its original position, but a $90^\circ$ 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.)
  1. $12$
  2. $15$
  3. $17$
  4. $20$
  5. $25$