2024 AMC 12B Problems
Problem 1
In a long line of people, the 1013th person from the left is also the 1010th person
from the right. How many people are in the line?
Problem 2
What is ?
Problem 3
For how many integer values of is
Problem 4
Balls numbered are placed in bins and so that the first ball
is placed in the next two are placed in the next three are placed in the next
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four are placed in the next five are placed in and then the next six go in etc.
For example, are placed in Which bin contains ball ?
Problem 5
In the following expression, Melanie changed some of the plus signs to minus signs:
When the new expression was evaluated, it was negative. What is the least number
of plus signs that Melanie could have changed to minus signs?
Problem 6
The national debt of the United States is on track to reach dollars
by . How many digits does this number of dollars have when written as a
numeral in base ? (The approximation of as is sufficient for this
problem.)
Problem 7
In the figure below is a rectangle
with and . Point lies , point lies
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on , and is a right angle. The areas of and are equal.
What is the area of ?
Problem 8
What value of satisfies
Problem 9
A dartboard is the region B in the coordinate plane consisting of points such
that
A target T is the region where
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A dart is thrown at a random point in B. The probability that the dart lands in T can
be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What
is ?
Problem 10
A list of 9 real numbers consists of , , , , , , as well
as with . The range of the list is , and the mean and median are
both positive integers. How many ordered triples are possible?
Problem 11
Let . What is the mean of ?
Problem 12
Let be a complex number with real part greater than and . In the complex
plane, the four points , , , and are the vertices of a quadrilateral with
area . What is the imaginary part of ?
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Problem 13
There are real numbers and that satisfy the system of equations
What is the minimum possible value of ?
Problem 14
How many different remainders can result when the th power of an integer is
divided by ?
Problem 15
A triangle in the coordinate plane has
vertices , , and . What is the area
of ?
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Problem 16
A group of people will be partitioned into indistinguishable -person
committees. Each committee will have one chairperson and one secretary. The
number of different ways to make these assignments can be written
as , where and are positive integers and is not divisible by . What
is ?
Problem 17
Integers and are randomly chosen without replacement from the set of integers
with absolute value not exceeding . What is the probability that the
polynomial has distinct integer roots?
Problem 18
The Fibonacci numbers are defined
by and for What Is
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Problem 19
Equilateral triangle with side length is rotated about its center by angle to
form , where . The area of hexagon is . What
is ?
Problem 20
Suppose , , and are points in the plane with and , and
let be the length of the line segment from to the midpoint of . Define a
function by letting be the area of . Then the domain of is an open
interval , and the maximum value of occurs at . What
is ?
Problem 21
The measures of the smallest angles of three different right triangles sum to . All
three triangles have side lengths that are primitive Pythagorean triples. Two of them
are and . What is the perimeter of the third triangle?
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Problem 22
Let be a triangle with integer side lengths and the property
that . What is the least possible perimeter of such a triangle?
Problem 23
A right pyramid has regular octagon with side length as its base
and apex Segments and are perpendicular. What is the square of the
height of the pyramid?
Problem 24
What is the number of ordered triples of positive integers,
with , such that there exists a (non-degenerate) triangle with
an integer inradius for which , , and are the lengths of the altitudes
from to , to , and to , respectively? (Recall that the inradius of a
triangle is the radius of the largest possible circle that can be inscribed in the triangle.)
Problem 25
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Pablo will decorate each of identical white balls with either a striped or a dotted
pattern, using either red or blue paint. He will decide on the color and pattern for
each ball by flipping a fair coin for each of the decisions he must make. After the
paint dries, he will place the balls in an urn. Frida will randomly select one ball
from the urn and note its color and pattern. The events "the ball Frida selects is red"
and "the ball Frida selects is striped" may or may not be independent, depending on
the outcome of Pablo's coin flips. The probability that these two events are
independent can be written as where and are relatively prime positive
integers. What is (Recall that two events and are independent
if )
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2024 AMC 12B Answer Key
1. B
2. B
3. E
4. D
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. C
11. E
12. D
13. C
14. B
15. B
16. A
17. C
18. B
19. B
20. C
21. C
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. A
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