美国数学竞赛2016 AMC 12B（解析版）.pdfVIP

2016-AMC-12B Problem-1 What is the value of when ? Solution By: Dragonfly We 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 be We can then simplify the equation to get Problem-2 The 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? Solution Since the harmonic mean is times their product divided by their sum, we get the equation which is then