2001 AMC 12/AHSME

AMC 12/AHSME 2001

1 The sum of two numbers is S. Suppose 3 is added to each number and then
each of the resulting numbers is doubled. What is the sum of the final two
numbers?
(A) 2S + 3 (B) 3S + 2 (C) 3S + 6 (D) 2S + 6 (E) 2S + 12

2 Let P (n) and S(n) denote the product and the sum, respectively, of the digits
of the integer n. For example, P (23) = 6 and S(23) = 5. Suppose N is a
two-digit number such that N = P (N ) + S(N ). What is the units digit of N ?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9

3 The state income tax where Kristin lives is levied at the rate of p% of the first
$28000 of annual income plus (p + 2)% of any amount above $28000. Kristin
noticed that the state income tax she paid amounted to (p + 0.25)% of her
annual income. What was her annual income?
(A) $28000 (B) $32000 (C) $35000 (D) $42000 (E) $56000

4 The mean of three numbers is 10 more than the least of the numbers and 15
less than the greatest. The median of the three numbers is 5. What is their
sum?
(A) 5 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 36

5 What is the product of all odd positive integers less than 10000?
10000!
(A) (5000!) 2 (B) 10000!
25000
(C) 29999!
5000
10000!
(D) 25000 ·5000!
(E) 5000!
25000

6 A telephone number has the form ABC − DEF − GHIJ, where each letter
represents a different digit. The digits in each part of the numbers are in
decreasing order; that is, A > B > C, D > E > F , and G > H > I > J.
Furthermore, D, E, and F are consecutive even digits; G, H, I, and J are
consecutive odd digits; and A + B + C = 9. Find A.
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

7 A charity sells 140 benefit tickets for a total of $2001. Some tickets sell for
full price (a whole dollar amount), and the rest sells for half price. How much
money is raised by the full-price tickets?
(A) $782 (B) $986 (C) $1158 (D) $1219 (E) $1449

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8 Which of the cones listed below can be formed from a 252◦ sector of a circle of
radius 10 by aligning the two straight sides?

252◦
10

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

9 Let f be a function satisfying f (xy) = f (x)/y for all positive real numbers x
and y. If f (500) = 3, what is the value of f (600)?
5 18
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) (D) 3 (E)
2 5

10 The plane is tiled by congruent squares and congruent pentagons as indicated.

The percent of the plane that is enclosed by the pentagons is closest to
(A) 50 (B) 52 (C) 54 (D) 56 (E) 58

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11 A box contains exactly five chips, three red and two white. Chips are randomly
removed one at a time without replacement until all the red chips are drawn or
all the white chips are drawn. What is the probability that the last chip drawn
is white?
3 2 1 3 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 5 2 5 10

12 How many positive integers not exceeding 2001 are multiple of 3 or 4 but not
5?
(A) 768 (B) 801 (C) 934 (D) 1067 (E) 1167

13 The parabola with equation y = ax2 + bx + c and vertex (h, k) is reflected about
the line y = k. This results in the parabola with equation y = dx2 + ex + f .
Which of the following equals a + b + c + d + e + f ?
(A) 2b (B) 2c (C) 2a + 2b (D) 2h (E) 2k

14 Given the nine-sided regular polygon A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 , how many dis-

tinct equilateral triangles in the plane of the polygon have at least two vertices
in the set {A1 , A2 , ...A9 }?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 63 (D) 66 (E) 72

15 An insect lives on the surface of a regular tetrahedron with edges of length 1. It

wishes to travel on the surface of the tetrahedron from the midpoint of one edge
to the midpoint of the opposite edge. What is the length of the shortest such
trip? (Note: Two edges of a tetrahedron are opposite if they have no common
endpoint.)
1√ √ 3
(A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) (E) 2
2 2

16 A spider has one sock and one shoe for each of its eight legs. In how many
different orders can the spider put on its socks and shoes, assuming that, on
each leg, the sock must be put on before the shoe?
(A) 8! (B) 28 · 8! (C) (8!)2 (D) 16!
28
(E) 16!

17 A point P is selected at random from the interior of the pentagon with vertices
A = (0, 2), B = (4, 0), C = (2π + 1, 0), D = (2π + 1, 4), and E = (0, 4). What
is the probability that ∠AP B is obtuse?

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E D

C
B

1 1 5 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 4 16 8 2

18 A circle centered at A with a radius of 1 and a circle centered at B with a

radius of 4 are externally tangent. A third circle is tangent to the first two and
to one of their common external tangents as shown. The radius of the third
circle is

B
4

1 A

1 2 5 4 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 5 12 9 2

19 The polynomial P (x) = x3 + ax2 + bx + c has the property that the mean of
its zeros, the product of its zeros, and the sum of its coefficients are all equal.
If the y-intercept of the graph of y = P (x) is 2, what is b?
(A) − 11 (B) − 10 (C) − 9 (D) 1 (E) 5

20 Points A = (3, 9), B = (1, 1), C = (5, 3), and D = (a, b) lie in the first quadrant
and are the vertices of quadrilateral ABCD. The quadrilateral formed by
joining the midpoints of AB, BC, CD, and DA is a square. What is the sum

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of the coordinates of point D?

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16

21 Four positive integers a, b, c, and d have a product of 8! and satisfy

ab + a + b = 524
bc + b + c = 146
cd + c + d = 104.

What is a − d?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

22 In rectangle ABCD, points F and G lie on AB so that AF = F G = GB and

E is the midpoint of DC. Also, AC intersects EF at H and EG at J. The
area of the rectangle ABCD is 70. Find the area of triangle EHJ.

E
D C

J
H

A B
F G

5 35 7 35
(A) (B) (C) 3 (D) (E)
2 12 2 8

23 A polynomial of degree four with leading coefficient 1 and integer coefficients

has two zeros, both of which are integers. Which of the following can also be a
zero of the
√ polynomial? √
1+i 11 1+i 1 i 1+i 13
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 2 + i (D) 1 + 2 (E) 2

24 In △ABC, ∠ABC = 45◦ . Point D is on BC so that 2 · BD = CD and

∠DAB = 15◦ . Find ∠ACB.

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B A

(A) 54◦ (B) 60◦ (C) 72◦ (D) 75◦ (E) 90◦

25 Consider sequences of positive real numbers of the form x, 2000, y, ..., in which
every term after the first is 1 less than the product of its two immediate neigh-
bors. For how many different values of x does the term 2001 appear somewhere
in the sequence?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) more than 4

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