2003 AMC 12B Problems

Contents
1 Problem 1
2 Problem 2
3 Problem 3
4 Problem 4
5 Problem 5
6 Problem 6
7 Problem 7
8 Problem 8
9 Problem 9
10 Problem 10
11 Problem 11
12 Problem 12
13 Problem 13
14 Problem 14
15 Problem 15
16 Problem 16
17 Problem 17
18 Problem 18
19 Problem 19
20 Problem 20
21 Problem 21
22 Problem 22
23 Problem 23
24 Problem 24
25 Problem 25
26 See also

Problem 1
Which of the following is the same as

Solution

Problem 2
Al gets the disease algebritis and must take one green pill and one pink pill each day for two weeks. A green pill costs 1
dollar more than a pink pill, and Al's pills cost a total of 546 dollars for the two weeks. How much does one green pill
cost?

Solution

Problem 3
Rose fills each of the rectangular regions of her rectangular flower bed with a different type of flower. The lengths, in
feet, of the rectangular regions in her flower bed are as shown in the figure. She plants one flower per square foot in
each region. Asters cost $1 each, begonias $1.50 each, cannas $2 each, dahlias $2.50 each, and Easter lilies $3 each. What
is the least possible cost, in dollars, for her garden?
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Problem 4
Moe uses a mower to cut his rectangular 90-foot by 150-foot lawn. The swath he cuts is 28 inches wide, but he overlaps
each cut by 4 inches to make sure that no grass is missed. he walks at the rate of 5000 feet per hour while pushing the
mower. Which of the following is closest to the number of hours it will take Moe to mow his lawn?

Solution

Problem 5
Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal
length to the height in a standard television screen is 4 : 3. The horizontal length of a "27-inch" television screen is
closest, in inches, to which of the following?

Solution

Problem 6
The second and fourth terms of a geometric sequence are 2 and 6. Which of the following is a possible first term?

Solution

Problem 7
Penniless Pete's piggy bank has no pennies in it, but it has 100 coins, all nickels,dimes, and quarters, whose total value
is $8.35. It does not necessarily contain coins of all three types. What is the difference between the largest and
smallest number of dimes that could be in the bank?

Solution

Problem 8
Let denote the sum of the digits of the positive integer . For example, and
For how many two-digit values of is

Solution

Problem 9
Let be a linear function for which What is
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Problem 10
Several figures can be made by attaching two equilateral triangles to the regular pentagon ABCDE in two of the five
positions shown. How many non-congruent figures can be constructed in this way?

Solution

Problem 11
Cassandra sets her watch to the correct time at noon. At the actual time of 1:00 PM, she notices that her watch reads
12:57 and 36 seconds. Assuming that her watch loses time at a constant rate, what will be the actual time when her watch
first reads 10:00 PM?

Solution

Problem 12
What is the largest integer that is a divisor of for all positive even
integers ?

Solution

Problem 13
An ice cream cone consists of a sphere of vanilla ice cream and a right circular cone that has the same diameter as the
sphere. If the ice cream melts, it will exactly fill the cone. Assume that the melted ice cream occupies of the
volume of the frozen ice cream. What is the ratio of the cone’s height to its radius?

Solution

Problem 14
In rectangle ABCD, AB = 5 and BC = 3. Points F and G are on CD so that DF = 1 and GC = 2. Lines AF and BG intersect at E.

Find the area of .

Solution

Problem 15
A regular octagon has an area of one square unit. What is the area of the rectangle ?

Solution

Problem 16
Three semicircles of radius 1 are constructed on diameter AB of a semicircle of radius 2. The centers of the small
semicircles divide AB into four line segments of equal length, as shown. What is the area of the shaded region that lies
within the large semicircle but outside the smaller semicircles?

Solution

Problem 17
If and , what is ?

Solution
Problem 18
Let and be positive integers such that The minimum possible value of has a prime factorization
What is ?

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Problem 19
Let be the set of permutations of the sequence for which the first term is not . A permutation is chosen
randomly from . The probability that the second term is , in lowest terms, is . What is ?

Solution

Problem 20
Part of the graph of is shown. What is ?

Solution

Problem 21
An object moves cm in a straight line from to , turns at an angle , measured in radians and chosen at random
from the interval , and moves cm in a straight line to . What is the probability that ?

Solution

Problem 22
Let be a rhombus with and . Let be a point on , and let and be the feet
of the perpendiculars from to and , respectively. Which of the following is closest to the minimum possible
value of ?
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Problem 23
The number of -intercepts on the graph of in the interval is closest to

Solution

Problem 24
Positive integers and are chosen so that , and the system of equations

and

has exactly one solution. What is the minimum value of ?

Solution

Problem 25
Three points are chosen randomly and independently on a circle. What is the probability that all three pairwise distance
between the points are less than the radius of the circle?

Solution

See also
AMC 12
AMC 12 Problems and Solutions
2003 AMC 12B
Mathematics competition resources

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