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2023 AMC 12A

Question 1

Cities $A$ and $B$ are $45$ miles apart. Alicia lives in $A$ and Beth lives in $B.$ Alicia bikes towards $B$ at $18$ miles per hour. Leaving at the same time, Beth bikes toward $A$ at $12$ miles per hour. How many miles from City $A$ will they be when they meet?
  1. $20$
  2. $24$
  3. $25$
  4. $26$
  5. $27$

Question 2

The weight of $\tfrac13$ of a large pizza together with $3\tfrac12$ cups of orange slices is the same as the weight of $\tfrac34$ of a large pizza together with $\tfrac12$ cup of orange slices. A cup of orange slices weighs $\tfrac14$ of a pound. What is the weight, in pounds, of a large pizza?
  1. $1\tfrac45$
  2. $2$
  3. $2\tfrac25$
  4. $3$
  5. $3\tfrac35$

Question 3

How many positive perfect squares less than $2023$ are divisible by $5?$
  1. $8$
  2. $9$
  3. $10$
  4. $11$
  5. $12$

Question 4

How many digits are in the base-ten representation of $8^5\cdot 5^{10}\cdot 15^5?$
  1. $14$
  2. $15$
  3. $16$
  4. $17$
  5. $18$

Question 5

Janet rolls a standard $6$-sided die $4$ times and keeps a running total of the numbers she rolls. What is the probability that at some point, her running total will equal $3?$
  1. $\dfrac{2}{9}$
  2. $\dfrac{49}{216}$
  3. $\dfrac{25}{108}$
  4. $\dfrac{17}{72}$
  5. $\dfrac{13}{54}$

Question 6

Points $A$ and $B$ lie on the graph of $y=\log_2 x.$ The midpoint of $\overline{AB}$ is $(6,2).$ What is the positive difference between the $x$-coordinates of $A$ and $B?$
  1. $2\sqrt{11}$
  2. $4\sqrt{3}$
  3. $8$
  4. $4\sqrt{5}$
  5. $9$

Question 7

A digital display shows the current date as an $8$-digit integer consisting of a $4$-digit year, followed by a $2$-digit month, followed by a $2$-digit date within the month. For example, Arbor Day this year is displayed as $20230428.$ For how many dates in $2023$ will each digit appear an even number of times in the $8$-digit display for that date?
  1. $5$
  2. $6$
  3. $7$
  4. $8$
  5. $9$

Question 8

Maureen is keeping track of the mean of her quiz scores this semester. If Maureen scores an $11$ on the next quiz, her mean will increase by $1.$ If she scores an $11$ on each of the next three quizzes, her mean will increase by $2.$ What is the mean of her quiz scores currently?
  1. $4$
  2. $5$
  3. $6$
  4. $7$
  5. $8$

Question 9

A square of area $2$ is inscribed in a square of area $3,$ creating four congruent triangles, as shown below. What is the ratio of the shorter leg to the longer leg in the shaded right triangle?

Question illustration
  1. $\dfrac{1}{5}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{4}$
  3. $2-\sqrt{3}$
  4. $\sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2}$
  5. $\sqrt{2}-1$

Question 10

Positive real numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfy $y^3=x^2$ and $(y-x)^2=4y^2.$ What is $x+y?$
  1. $12$
  2. $18$
  3. $24$
  4. $36$
  5. $42$

Question 11

What is the degree measure of the acute angle formed by lines with slopes $2$ and $\tfrac13?$
  1. $30$
  2. $37.5$
  3. $45$
  4. $52.5$
  5. $60$

Question 12

What is the value of $$
\begin{gathered} 2^3-1^3+4^3-3^3+6^3-5^3\\ {}+\cdots+18^3-17^3? \end{gathered}
$$
  1. $2023$
  2. $2679$
  3. $2941$
  4. $3159$
  5. $3235$

Question 13

In a table tennis tournament every participant played every other participant exactly once. Although there were twice as many right-handed players as left-handed players, the number of games won by left-handed players was $40\%$ more than the number of games won by right-handed players. (There were no ties and no ambidextrous players.) What is the total number of games played?
  1. $15$
  2. $36$
  3. $45$
  4. $48$
  5. $66$

Question 14

How many complex numbers satisfy the equation $z^5=\overline{z},$ where $\overline{z}$ is the conjugate of the complex number $z?$
  1. $2$
  2. $3$
  3. $5$
  4. $6$
  5. $7$

Question 15

Usain is walking for exercise by zigzagging across a $100$-meter by $30$-meter rectangular field, beginning at point $A$ and ending on the segment $\overline{BC}.$ He wants to increase the distance walked by zigzagging as shown in the figure below ($APQRS$). What angle $\theta=\angle PAB$ $=\angle QPC$ $=\angle RQB=\cdots$ will produce a length that is $120$ meters? (Do not assume the zigzag path has exactly four segments as shown; there could be more or fewer.)

Question illustration
  1. $\arccos\tfrac{5}{6}$
  2. $\arccos\tfrac{4}{5}$
  3. $\arccos\tfrac{3}{10}$
  4. $\arcsin\tfrac{4}{5}$
  5. $\arcsin\tfrac{5}{6}$

Question 16

Consider the set of complex numbers $z$ satisfying $|1+z+z^2|=4.$ The maximum value of the imaginary part of $z$ can be written in the form $\dfrac{\sqrt{m}}{n},$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. What is $m+n?$
  1. $20$
  2. $21$
  3. $22$
  4. $23$
  5. $24$

Question 17

Flora the frog starts at $0$ on the number line and makes a sequence of jumps to the right. In any one jump, independent of previous jumps, Flora leaps a positive integer distance $m$ with probability $\dfrac{1}{2^m}.$ What is the probability that Flora will eventually land at $10?$
  1. $\dfrac{5}{512}$
  2. $\dfrac{45}{1024}$
  3. $\dfrac{127}{1024}$
  4. $\dfrac{511}{1024}$
  5. $\dfrac{1}{2}$

Question 18

Circle $C_1$ and $C_2$ each have radius $1,$ and the distance between their centers is $\tfrac12.$ Circle $C_3$ is the largest circle internally tangent to both $C_1$ and $C_2.$ Circle $C_4$ is internally tangent to both $C_1$ and $C_2$ and externally tangent to $C_3.$ What is the radius of $C_4?$

Question illustration
  1. $\dfrac{1}{14}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{12}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{10}$
  4. $\dfrac{3}{28}$
  5. $\dfrac{1}{9}$

Question 19

What is the product of all the solutions to the equation $$
\begin{gathered} \log_{7x}2023\cdot\log_{289x}2023\\ {}=\log_{2023x}2023? \end{gathered}
$$
  1. $(\log_{2023}7\cdot\log_{2023}289)^2$
  2. $\log_{2023}7\cdot\log_{2023}289$
  3. $1$
  4. $\log_7 2023\cdot\log_{289}2023$
  5. $(\log_7 2023\cdot\log_{289}2023)^2$

Question 20

Rows $1,$ $2,$ $3,$ $4,$ and $5$ of a triangular array of integers are shown below.

$$
\begin{array}{ccccccccc} &&&&1&&&&\\ &&&1&&1&&&\\ &&1&&3&&1&&\\ &1&&5&&5&&1&\\ 1&&7&&11&&7&&1 \end{array}
$$

Each row after the first row is formed by placing a $1$ at each end of the row, and each interior entry is $1$ greater than the sum of the two numbers diagonally above it in the previous row. What is the units digit of the sum of the $2023$ numbers in the $2023$rd row?
  1. $1$
  2. $3$
  3. $5$
  4. $7$
  5. $9$