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AMC 12 2003B: all 25 problems

Each problem has a solution worked from first principles and the first grade (by CCSS standards) that can solve it.

  1. AMC 12 2003B #1 grade 6+ arithmetic

    Which of the following is the same as (2-4+6-8+10-12+14)/(3-6+9-12+15-18+21)?

  2. AMC 12 2003B #2 grade 5+ arithmetic

    Al gets the disease algebritis and must take one green pill and one pink pill each day for two weeks. A green pill costs…

  3. AMC 12 2003B #3 grade 5+ geometry-2d

    Rose fills each of the rectangular regions of her rectangular flower bed with a different type of flower. The lengths, i…

  4. AMC 12 2003B #4 grade 6+ rate-ratio

    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 e…

  5. AMC 12 2003B #5 grade 8+ rate-ratio

    Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal l…

  6. AMC 12 2003B #6 grade 8+ arithmetic

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

  7. AMC 12 2003B #7 grade 8+ algebra

    Penniless Pete's piggy bank has no pennies in it, but it has 100 coins, all nickels, dimes, and quarters, whose total va…

  8. AMC 12 2003B #8 grade 2+ arithmetic

    Let ♣(x) denote the sum of the digits of the positive integer x. For example, ♣(8)=8 and ♣(123)=1+2+3=6. For how many tw…

  9. AMC 12 2003B #9 grade 8+ algebra

    Let f be a linear function for which f(6) - f(2) = 12. What is f(12) - f(2)?

  10. AMC 12 2003B #10 grade 8+ counting

    Several figures can be made by attaching two equilateral triangles to the regular pentagon ABCDE in two of the five posi…

  11. AMC 12 2003B #11 grade 6+ rate-ratio

    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…

  12. AMC 12 2003B #12 grade 6+ number-theory

    What is the largest integer that is a divisor of (n+1)(n+3)(n+5)(n+7)(n+9) for all positive even integers n?

  13. AMC 12 2003B #13 grade 8+ geometry-3d

    An ice cream cone consists of a sphere of vanilla ice cream and a right circular cone that has the same diameter as the…

  14. AMC 12 2003B #14 grade 8+ geometry-2d

    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 t…

  15. AMC 12 2003B #15 grade 8+ geometry-2d

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

  16. AMC 12 2003B #16 grade 8+ geometry-2d

    Three semicircles of radius 1 are constructed on diameter AB of a semicircle of radius 2. The centers of the small semic…

  17. AMC 12 2003B #17 grade 11+ algebra

    If log (xy³) = 1 and log (x²y) = 1, what is log (xy)?

  18. AMC 12 2003B #18 grade 8+ number-theory

    Let x and y be positive integers such that 7x⁵ = 11y¹³. The minimum possible value of x has a prime factorization a^cb^d…

  19. AMC 12 2003B #19 grade 7+ counting

    Let S be the set of permutations of the sequence 1,2,3,4,5 for which the first term is not 1. A permutation is chosen ra…

  20. AMC 12 2003B #20 grade 8+ algebra

    Part of the graph of f(x) = ax³ + bx² + cx + d is shown. What is b?

  21. AMC 12 2003B #21 grade 11+ geometry-2d

    An object moves 8 cm in a straight line from A to B, turns at an angle α, measured in radians and chosen at random from…

  22. AMC 12 2003B #22 grade 10+ geometry-2d

    Let ABCD be a rhombus with AC = 16 and BD = 30. Let N be a point on AB, and let P and Q be the feet of the perpendicular…

  23. AMC 12 2003B #23 grade 11+ algebra, counting

    The number of x-intercepts on the graph of y=sin(1/x) in the interval (0.0001,0.001) is closest to

  24. AMC 12 2003B #24 grade 9+ algebra

    Positive integers a,b, and c are chosen so that a<b<c, and the system of equations 2x + y = 2003 and y = |x-a| + |x-b| +…

  25. AMC 12 2003B #25 grade 10+ geometry-2d

    Three points are chosen randomly and independently on a circle. What is the probability that all three pairwise distance…

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