Find all fractions which can be written simultaneously in the forms $\frac{7k- 5}{5k - 3}$ and $\frac{6l - 1}{4l - 3}$ , for some integers $k, l$.

Let $n$ be a positive integer. A [i]Japanese triangle[/i] consists of $1 + 2 + \dots + n$ circles arranged in an equilateral triangular shape such that for each $i = 1$, $2$, $\dots$, $n$, the $i^{th}$ row contains exactly $i$ circles, exactly one of which is coloured red. A [i]ninja path[/i] in a Japanese triangle is a sequence of $n$ circles obtained by starting in the top row, then repeatedly going from a circle to one of the two circles immediately below it and finishing in the bottom row. Here is an example of a Japanese triangle with $n = 6$, along with a ninja path in that triangle containing two red circles. [asy] // credit to vEnhance for the diagram (which was better than my original asy): size(4cm); pair X = dir(240); pair Y = dir(0); path c = scale(0.5)*unitcircle; int[] t = {0,0,2,2,3,0}; for (int i=0; i<=5; ++i) { for (int j=0; j<=i; ++j) { filldraw(shift(i*X+j*Y)*c, (t[i]==j) ? lightred : white); draw(shift(i*X+j*Y)*c); } } draw((0,0)--(X+Y)--(2*X+Y)--(3*X+2*Y)--(4*X+2*Y)--(5*X+2*Y),linewidth(1.5)); path q = (3,-3sqrt(3))--(-3,-3sqrt(3)); draw(q,Arrows(TeXHead, 1)); label("$n = 6$", q, S); label("$n = 6$", q, S); [/asy] In terms of $n$, find the greatest $k$ such that in each Japanese triangle there is a ninja path containing at least $k$ red circles.

The sequence $\{a_n\}$ satisfies $a_0=1, a_1=2011,$ and $a_n=2a_{n-1}+a_{n-2}$ for all $n \geq 2$. Let \[ S = \sum_{i=1}^{\infty} \frac{a_{i-1}}{a_i^2-a_{i-1}^2} \] What is $\frac{1}{S}$? [i]Author: Ray Li[/i]

Let $n$ and $k$ be positive integers. Two infinite sequences $\{s_i\}_{i\geq 1}$ and $\{t_i\}_{i\geq 1}$ are [i]equivalent[/i] if, for all positive integers $i$ and $j$, $s_i = s_j$ if and only if $t_i = t_j$. A sequence $\{r_i\}_{i\geq 1}$ has [i]equi-period[/i] $k$ if $r_1, r_2, \ldots $ and $r_{k+1}, r_{k+2}, \ldots$ are equivalent. Suppose $M$ infinite sequences with equi-period $k$ whose terms are in the set $\{1, \ldots, n\}$ can be chosen such that no two chosen sequences are equivalent to each other. Determine the largest possible value of $M$ in terms of $n$ and $k$.

Solve the equation $(2015x -2014)^3 = 8(x-1)^3 + (2013x -2012)^3$

[b]p1.[/b] The final Big $10$ standings for the $1996$ Women's Softball season were 1. Michigan 2. Minnesota З. Iowa 4. Indiana 5. Michigan State 6. Purdue 7. Northwestern 8. Ohio State 9. Penn State 10. Wisconsin (Illinois does not participate in Women's Softball.) When you compare the $1996$ final standings (above) to the final standings for the $1999$ season, you find that the following pairs of teams changed order relative to each other from $1996$ to $1999$ (there are no ties, and no other pairs changed places): (Iowa, Michigan State) (Indiana, Penn State) (Purdue, Wisconsin) (Iowa, Penn State) (Indiana, Wisconsin) (Northwestern, Penn State) (Indiana, Michigan State) (Michigan State, Penn State) (Northwestern, Wisconsin) (Indiana, Purdue) (Purdue, Northwestern) (Ohio State, Penn State) (Indiana, Northwestern) (Purdue, Penn State) (Ohio State, Penn State) (Indiana, Ohio State) Determine as much as you can about the final Big $10$ standings for the $1999$ Women's Softball season. If you cannot determine the standings, explain why you do not have enough information. You must justify your answer. [b]p2.[/b] a) Take as a given that any expression of the form $A \sin t + B \cos t$ ($A>0$) can be put in the form $C \sin (t + D)$, where $C>0$ and $-\pi /2 <D <\pi /2 $. Determine $C$ and $D$ in terms of $A$ and $B$. b) For the values of $C$ and $D$ found in part a), prove that $A \sin t + B \cos t = C \sin (t + D)$. c) Find the maximum value of $3 \sin t +2 \cos t$. [b]pЗ.[/b] А $6$-bу-$6$ checkerboard is completelу filled with $18$ dominoes (blocks of size $1$-bу-$2$). Prove that some horizontal or vertical line cuts the board in two parts but does not cut anу of the dominoes. [b]p4.[/b] a) The midpoints of the sides of a regular hexagon are the vertices of a new hexagon. What is the ratio of the area of the new hexagon to the area of the original hexagon? Justify your answer and simplify as much as possible. b) The midpoints of the sides of a regular $n$-gon ($n >2$) are the vertices of a new $n$-gon. What is the ratio of the area of the new $n$-gon to that of the old? Justify your answer and simplify as much as possible. [b]p5. [/b] You run a boarding house that has $90$ rooms. You have $100$ guests registered, but on any given night only $90$ of these guests actually stay in the boarding house. Each evening a different random set of $90$ guests will show up. You don't know which $90$ it will be, but they all arrive for dinner before you have to assign rooms for the night. You want to give out keys to your guests so that for any set of $90$ guests, you can assign each to a private room without any switching of keys. a) You could give every guest a key to every room. But this requires $9000$ keys. Find a way to hand out fewer than $9000$ keys so that each guest will have a key to a private room. b) What is the smallest number of keys necessary so that each guest will have a key to a private room? Describe how you would distribute these keys and assign the rooms. Prove that this number of keys is as small as possible. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $ S(n)$ be the sum of decimal digits of a natural number $ n$. Find the least value of $ S(m)$ if $ m$ is an integral multiple of $ 2003$.

Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that $n^4 + (n+1)^4$ is composite.

[b]p7[/b] Cindy cuts regular hexagon $ABCDEF$ out of a sheet of paper. She folds $B$ over $AC$, resulting in a pentagon. Then, she folds $A$ over $CF$, resulting in a quadrilateral. The area of $ABCDEF$ is $k$ times the area of the resulting folded shape. Find $k$. [b]p8[/b] Call a sequence $\{a_n\} = a_1, a_2, a_3, . . .$ of positive integers [i]Fib-o’nacci[/i] if it satisfies $a_n = a_{n-1}+a_{n-2}$ for all $n \ge 3$. Suppose that $m$ is the largest even positive integer such that exactly one [i]Fib-o’nacci[/i] sequence satisfies $a_5 = m$, and suppose that $n$ is the largest odd positive integer such that exactly one [i]Fib-o’nacci[/i] sequence satisfies $a_5 = n$. Find $mn$. [b]p9[/b] Compute the number of ways there are to pick three non-empty subsets $A$, $B$, and $C$ of $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\}$, such that $|A| = |B| = |C|$ and the following property holds: $$A \cap B \cap C = A \cap B = B \cap C = C \cap A.$$

Three points of a triangle are among 8 vertex of a cube. So the number of such acute triangles is $\text{(A)}0\qquad\text{(B)}6\qquad\text{(C)}8\qquad\text{(D)}24$

In a non equilateral triangle $ABC$ the sides $a,b,c$ form an arithmetic progression. Let $I$ be the incentre and $O$ the circumcentre of the triangle $ABC$. Prove that (1) $IO$ is perpendicular to $BI$; (2) If $BI$ meets $AC$ in $K$, and $D$, $E$ are the midpoints of $BC$, $BA$ respectively then $I$ is the circumcentre of triangle $DKE$.

Let $ x$, $ y$, and $ z$ be integers satisfying the equation \[ \dfrac{2008}{41y^2}\equal{}\dfrac{2z}{2009}\plus{}\dfrac{2007}{2x^2}.\] Determine the greatest value that $ z$ can take. [i]Budi Surodjo, Jogjakarta[/i]

$P(x)$ is a polynomial with real coefficients such that $P(a_1) = 0, P(a_{i+1}) = a_i$ ($i = 1, 2,\ldots$) where $\{a_i\}_{i=1,2,\ldots}$ is an infinite sequence of distinct natural numbers. Determine the possible values of degree of $P(x)$.

Given an integer ${n>1}$, denote by $P_{n}$ the product of all positive integers $x$ less than $n$ and such that $n$ divides ${x^2-1}$. For each ${n>1}$, find the remainder of $P_{n}$ on division by $n$. [i]Proposed by John Murray, Ireland[/i]

Find, with proof, the maximum positive integer $k$ for which it is possible to color $6k$ cells of $6 \times 6$ grid such that, for any choice of three distinct rows $R_1$, $R_2$, $R_3$ and three distinct columns $C_1$, $C_2$, $C_3$, there exists an uncolored cell $c$ and integers $1 \le i, j \le 3$ so that $c$ lies in $R_i$ and $C_j$

Let $(a_{n})_{n\geq 1}$ and $(b_{n})_{n\geq 1}$ be the sequence of positive integers defined by $a_{n+1}=na_{n}+1$ and $b_{n+1}=nb_{n}-1$ for $n\geq 1$. Show that the two sequence cannot have infinitely many common terms. [i]Laurentiu Panaitopol[/i]

Prove that number $1$ has infinitely many representations of the form $$1 =\frac{1}{5}+\frac{1}{a_1}+\frac{1}{a_2}+ ...+\frac{1}{a_n}$$ , where$ n$ and $a_i $ are positive integers with $5 < a_1 < a_2 < ... < a_n$.

Let $a,\ b$ be positive real numbers. Consider the circle $C_1: (x-a)^2+y^2=a^2$ and the ellipse $C_2: x^2+\frac{y^2}{b^2}=1.$ (1) Find the condition for which $C_1$ is inscribed in $C_2$. (2) Suppose $b=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$ and $C_1$ is inscribed in $C_2$. Find the coordinate $(p,\ q)$ of the point of tangency in the first quadrant for $C_1$ and $C_2$. (3) Under the condition in (1), find the area of the part enclosed by $C_1,\ C_2$ for $x\geq p$. 60 point

Let $f(x)=x^2-ax+b$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. (a) Suppose that $a=2$ and $b=2$. Determine the set of real roots of $f(x)-x$, and the set of real roots of $f(f(x))-x$. (b) Determine the number of positive integers $(a,b)$ with $1\le a,b\le 2011$ for which every root of $f(f(x))-x$ is an integer.

Let $ m$ and $ n$ be two positive integers. Let $ a_1$, $ a_2$, $ \ldots$, $ a_m$ be $ m$ different numbers from the set $ \{1, 2,\ldots, n\}$ such that for any two indices $ i$ and $ j$ with $ 1\leq i \leq j \leq m$ and $ a_i \plus{} a_j \leq n$, there exists an index $ k$ such that $ a_i \plus{} a_j \equal{} a_k$. Show that \[ \frac {a_1 \plus{} a_2 \plus{} ... \plus{} a_m}{m} \geq \frac {n \plus{} 1}{2}. \]

Prove that: a) there are infinitely many natural numbers of the form 3p + 1, p is positive integer , which can be represented as the difference of 2 cubes of positive integers; b) there are infinitely many natural numbers of the form 5q + 1, q is positive integer , which can be represented as the difference of two cubes of positive integers.

Given $2017$ positive numbers $x_1,\dots,x_{2017}$ such that $$\sum_{i=1}^{2017}x_i=\sum_{i=1}^{2017}\frac{1}{x_i}=2018,$$ compute the maximum possible value of $x_1+\frac{1}{x_1}$.

In 3-dimensional hyperbolic space, we are given a plane $P$ and four distinct straight lines: the lines $a_1$ and $a_2$ are perpendicular to $P$; while the lines $r_1$ and $r_2$ do not intersect $P$, and their distances from $P$ are equal. Denote by $S_i$ the surface of revolution obtained by rotating $r_i$ around $a_i$. Show that the common points of $S_1$ and $S_2$ can be covered by two planes.

Let $f(x) =x^4+14x^3+52x^2+56x+16.$ Let $z_1, z_2, z_3, z_4$ be the four roots of $f$. Find the smallest possible value of $|z_az_b+z_cz_d|$ where $\{a,b,c,d\}=\{1,2,3,4\}$.

[b]p1.[/b] Suppose $a_1 \cdot 2 = a_2 \cdot 3 = a_3$ and $a_1 + a_2 + a_3 = 66$. What is $a_3$? [b]p2.[/b] Ankit buys a see-through plastic cylindrical water bottle. However, in coming home, he accidentally hits the bottle against a wall and dents the top portion of the bottle (above the $7$ cm mark). Ankit now wants to determine the volume of the bottle. The area of the base of the bottle is $20$ cm$^2$ . He fills the bottle with water up to the $5$ cm mark. After flipping the bottle upside down, he notices that the height of the empty space is at the $7$ cm mark. Find the total volume (in cm$^3$) of this bottle. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/9/f5735c77b056aaf31b337ea1b777a591807819.png[/img] [b]p3.[/b] If $P$ is a quadratic polynomial with leading coefficient $ 1$ such that $P(1) = 1$, $P(2) = 2$, what is $P(10)$? [b]p4.[/b] Let ABC be a triangle with $AB = 1$, $AC = 3$, and $BC = 3$. Let $D$ be a point on $BC$ such that $BD =\frac13$ . What is the ratio of the area of $BAD$ to the area of $CAD$? [b]p5.[/b] A coin is flipped $ 12$ times. What is the probability that the total number of heads equals the total number of tails? Express your answer as a common fraction in lowest terms. [b]p6.[/b] Moor pours $3$ ounces of ginger ale and $ 1$ ounce of lime juice in cup $A$, $3$ ounces of lime juice and $ 1$ ounce of ginger ale in cup $B$, and mixes each cup well. Then he pours $ 1$ ounce of cup $A$ into cup $B$, mixes it well, and pours $ 1$ ounce of cup $B$ into cup $A$. What proportion of cup $A$ is now ginger ale? Express your answer as a common fraction in lowest terms. [b]p7.[/b] Determine the maximum possible area of a right triangle with hypotenuse $7$. Express your answer as a common fraction in lowest terms. [b]p8.[/b] Debbie has six Pusheens: $2$ pink ones, $2$ gray ones, and $2$ blue ones, where Pusheens of the same color are indistinguishable. She sells two Pusheens each to Alice, Bob, and Eve. How many ways are there for her to do so? [b]p9.[/b] How many nonnegative integer pairs $(a, b)$ are there that satisfy $ab = 90 - a - b$? [b]p10.[/b] What is the smallest positive integer $a_1...a_n$ (where $a_1, ... , a_n$ are its digits) such that $9 \cdot a_1 ... a_n = a_n ... a_1$, where $a_1$, $a_n \ne 0$? [b]p11.[/b] Justin is growing three types of Japanese vegetables: wasabi root, daikon and matsutake mushrooms. Wasabi root needs $2$ square meters of land and $4$ gallons of spring water to grow, matsutake mushrooms need $3$ square meters of land and $3$ gallons of spring water, and daikon need $ 1$ square meter of land and $ 1$ gallon of spring water to grow. Wasabi sell for $60$ per root, matsutake mushrooms sell for $60$ per mushroom, and daikon sell for $2$ per root. If Justin has $500$ gallons of spring water and $400$ square meters of land, what is the maximum amount of money, in dollars, he can make? [b]p12.[/b] A [i]prim [/i] number is a number that is prime if its last digit is removed. A [i]rime [/i] number is a number that is prime if its first digit is removed. Determine how many numbers between $100$ and $999$ inclusive are both prim and rime numbers. [b]p13.[/b] Consider a cube. Each corner is the intersection of three edges; slice off each of these corners through the midpoints of the edges, obtaining the shape below. If we start with a $2\times 2\times 2$ cube, what is the volume of the resulting solid? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/4/8/856814bf99e6f28844514158344477f6435a3a.png[/img] [b]p14.[/b] If a parallelogram with perimeter $14$ and area $ 12$ is inscribed in a circle, what is the radius of the circle? [b]p15.[/b] Take a square $ABCD$ of side length $1$, and draw $\overline{AC}$. Point $E$ lies on $\overline{BC}$ such that $\overline{AE}$ bisects $\angle BAC$. What is the length of $BE$? [b]p16.[/b] How many integer solutions does $f(x) = (x^2 + 1)(x^2 + 2) + (x^2 + 3)(x + 4) = 2017$ have? [b]p17.[/b] Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dave stand in a circle. Simultaneously, each player selects another player at random and points at that person, who must then sit down. What is the probability that Alice is the only person who remains standing? [b]p18.[/b] Let $x$ be a positive integer with a remainder of $2$ when divided by $3$, $3$ when divided by $4$, $4$ when divided by $5$, and $5$ when divided by $6$. What is the smallest possible such $x$? [b]p19[/b]. A circle is inscribed in an isosceles trapezoid such that all four sides of the trapezoid are tangent to the circle. If the radius of the circle is $ 1$, and the upper base of the trapezoid is $ 1$, what is the area of the trapezoid? [b]p20.[/b] Ray is blindfolded and standing $ 1$ step away from an ice cream stand. Every second, he has a $1/4$ probability of walking $ 1$ step towards the ice cream stand, and a $3/4$ probability of walking $ 1$ step away from the ice cream stand. When he is $0$ steps away from the ice cream stand, he wins. What is the probability that Ray eventually wins? PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].