2016 AMC 12B 试题及解答概要1.docx

2016 AMC 12BProblem 1What is the value of??when??Solution By: DragonflyWe find that??is the same as?, since a number to the power of??is just the reciprocal of that number. We then get the equation to beWe can then simplify the equation to get?Problem 2The harmonic mean of two numbers can be calculated as twice their product divided by their sum. The harmonic mean of??and?is closest to which integer?SolutionBy: dragonflySince the harmonic mean is??times their product divided by their sum, we get the equationwhich is thenwhich is finally closest to?.Problem 3Let?. What is the value of?????SolutionBy: dragonflyFirst of all, lets plug in all of the?s into the equation.???Then we simplify to get???which simplifies into???and finally we get?Problem 4The ratio of the measures of two acute angles is?, and the complement of one of these two angles is twice as large as the complement of the other. What is the sum of the degree measures of the two angles?SolutionBy: dragonflyWe set up equations to find each angle. The larger angle will be represented as??and the larger angle will we represented as?, in degrees. This implies thatandsince the larger the original angle, the smaller the complement.We then find that??and?, and their sum is?Problem 5The War of??started with a declaration of war on Thursday, June?,?. The peace treaty to end the war was signed??days later, on December?,?. On what day of the week was the treaty signed?SolutionBy: dragonflyTo find what day of the week it is in??days, we have to divide??by??to see the remainder, and then add the remainder to the current day. We get that??has a remainder of 2, so we increase the current day by??to get?Problem 6All three vertices of??lie on the parabola defined by?, with??at the origin and??parallel to the?-axis. The area of the triangle is?. What is the length of??SolutionBy: Albert471Plotting points??and??on the graph shows that they are at??and?, which is isosceles. By setting up the triangle area formula you get:??Mak