2002 amc12a (美国数学竞赛).doc

2002 AMC 12A Problems Problem 1 Compute the sum of all the roots of? Solution Problem 2 Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and then divided the result by 3, giving an answer of 43. What would her answer have been had she worked the problem correctly? Solution Problem 3 According to the standard convention for exponentiation, If the order in which the exponentiations are performed is changed, how many other values are possible? Solution Problem 4 Find the degree measure of an angle whose complement is 25% of its supplement. Solution Problem 5 Each of the small circles in the figure has radius one. The innermost circle is tangent to the six circles that surround it, and each of those circles is tangent to the large circle and to its small-circle neighbors. Find the area of the shaded region. Solution Problem 6 For how many positive integers??does there exist at least one positive integer n such that?? ?infinitely many Solution Problem 7 A??arc of circle A is equal in length to a??arc of circle B. What is the ratio of circle As area and circle Bs area? Solution Problem 8 Betsy designed a flag using blue triangles, small white squares, and a red center square, as shown. Let??be the total area of the blue triangles,??the total area of the white squares, and??the area of the red square. Which of the following is correct? Solution Problem 9 Jamal wants to save 30 files onto disks, each with 1.44 MB space. 3 of the files take up 0.8 MB, 12 of the files take up 0.7 MB, and the rest take up 0.4 MB. It is not possible to split a file onto 2 different disks. What is the smallest number of disks needed to store all 30 files? Solution Problem 10 Sarah places four ounces of coffee into an eight-ounce cup and four ounces of cream into a second cup of the same size. She then pours half the coffee from the first cup to the second and, after stirring thoroughly, pours half the liquid in the seco