{"status": "success", "data": {"description_md": "In the plane figure shown below, $3$ of the unit squares have been shaded. What is the least number of additional unit squares that must be shaded so that the resulting figure has two lines of symmetry$?$<br><center><img class=\"problem-image\" alt=\"[asy] import olympiad; unitsize(25); filldraw((1,3)--(1,4)--(2,4)--(2,3)--cycle, gray(0.7)); filldraw((2,1)--(2,2)--(3,2)--(3,1)--cycle, gray(0.7)); filldraw((4,0)--(5,0)--(5,1)--(4,1)--cycle, gray(0.7)); for (int i = 0; i &lt; 5; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j &lt; 6; ++j) { pair A = (j,i); } } for (int i = 0; i &lt; 5; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j &lt; 6; ++j) { if (j!= 5) { draw((j,i)--(j+1,i)); } if (i!= 4) { draw((j,i)--(j,i+1)); } } } [/asy]\" class=\"latexcenter\" height=\"168\" src=\"https://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/b/f/0/bf0987ebf1bcdda763449e461f9bc1e7a648be9a.png\" width=\"212\"/></center>\n\n$\\textbf{(A) } 4 \\qquad \\textbf{(B) } 5 \\qquad \\textbf{(C) } 6 \\qquad \\textbf{(D) } 7 \\qquad \\textbf{(E) } 8$\n___\nFull credit goes to [MAA](https://maa.org/) for authoring these problems. These problems were taken on the [AOPS](https://artofproblemsolving.com/) website.", "description_html": "<p>In the plane figure shown below,  <span class=\"katex--inline\">3</span>  of the unit squares have been shaded. What is the least number of additional unit squares that must be shaded so that the resulting figure has two lines of symmetry <span class=\"katex--inline\">?</span> <br/><center><img class=\"latexcenter\" alt=\"[asy] import olympiad; unitsize(25); filldraw((1,3)--(1,4)--(2,4)--(2,3)--cycle, gray(0.7)); filldraw((2,1)--(2,2)--(3,2)--(3,1)--cycle, gray(0.7)); filldraw((4,0)--(5,0)--(5,1)--(4,1)--cycle, gray(0.7)); for (int i = 0; i &lt; 5; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j &lt; 6; ++j) { pair A = (j,i); } } for (int i = 0; i &lt; 5; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j &lt; 6; ++j) { if (j&#160;!= 5) { draw((j,i)--(j+1,i)); } if (i&#160;!= 4) { draw((j,i)--(j,i+1)); } } } [/asy]\" height=\"168\" src=\"https://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/b/f/0/bf0987ebf1bcdda763449e461f9bc1e7a648be9a.png\" width=\"212\"/></center></p>&#10;<p> <span class=\"katex--inline\">\\textbf{(A) } 4 \\qquad \\textbf{(B) } 5 \\qquad \\textbf{(C) } 6 \\qquad \\textbf{(D) } 7 \\qquad \\textbf{(E) } 8</span> </p>&#10;<hr><p>Full credit goes to <a href=\"https://maa.org/\">MAA</a> for authoring these problems. These problems were taken on the <a href=\"https://artofproblemsolving.com/\">AOPS</a> website.</p>", "hints_md": "", "hints_html": "", "editorial_md": "", "editorial_html": "", "flag_hint": "", "point_value": 2, "problem_name": "2020 AMC 12A Problem 6", "can_next": true, "can_prev": true, "nxt": "/problem/20_amc12A_p07", "prev": "/problem/20_amc12A_p05"}}