Diagnostic - AMC12

A team of students is going to compete against a team of teachers in a trivia contest. The total number of students and teachers is $15$. Ash, a cousin of one of the students, wants to join the contest. If Ash plays with the students, the average age on that team will increase from $12$ to $14$. If Ash plays with the teachers, the average age on that team will decrease from $55$ to $52$. How old is Ash?

In the figure below, the outside square contains infinitely many squares, each of them with the same center and sides parallel to the outside square. The ratio of the side length of a square to the side length of the next inner square is $k,$ where $0 < k < 1.$ The spaces between squares are alternately shaded, as shown in the figure (which is not necessarily drawn to scale). The area of the shaded portion of the figure is $64\%$ of the area of the original square. What is $k?$

Six chairs are arranged around a round table. Two students and two teachers randomly select four of the chairs to sit in. What is the probability that the two students will sit in two adjacent chairs and the two teachers will also sit in two adjacent chairs?

There are integers $a$ and $b$ such that the polynomial $x^3 - 5x^2 + ax + b$ has $4+\sqrt{5}$ as a root. What is $a+b$?

Let $C = \{1, 2, 3, \dots, 13\}$. Let $N$ be the greatest integer such that there exists a subset of $C$ with $N$ elements that does not contain five consecutive integers. Suppose $N$ integers are chosen at random from $C$ without replacement. What is the probability that the chosen elements do not include five consecutive integers?

Consider a decreasing sequence of n positive integers \[x_1 > x_2 > \cdots > x_n\] that satisfies the following conditions: What is the greatest possible value of n?

Awnik repeatedly plays a game that has a probability of winning of $\frac{1}{3}$. The outcomes of the games are independent. What is the expected value of the number of games he will play until he has both won and lost at least once?

Let $a$, $b$, and $c$ be the roots of the polynomial $x^3 + kx + 1$. What is the sum\[a^3b^2 + a^2b^3 + b^3c^2 + b^2c^3 + c^3a^2 + c^2a^3?\]

What is the greatest possible area of the triangle in the complex plane with vertices $2z$, $(1+i)z$, and $(1-i)z$, where $z$ is a complex number satisfying $|4z - 2| = 1$?

A circle of radius $r$ is surrounded by $12$ circles of radius $1,$ externally tangent to the central circle and sequentially tangent to each other, as shown. Then $r$ can be written as $\sqrt a + \sqrt b + c,$ where $a, b, c$ are integers. What is $a+b+c?$