Found problems: 2529
Determine the minimum value of $\dfrac{m^m}{1\cdot 3\cdot 5\cdot \ldots \cdot(2m-1)}$ for positive integers $m$.
Let $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ be positive numbers. Prove that
$$(a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2)^2 \ge (a+b)(b+c)(c+d)(d+a)$$
When does equality hold?
(Georg Anegg)
[b]p1.[/b] David runs at $3$ times the speed of Alice. If Alice runs $2$ miles in $30$ minutes, determine how many minutes it takes for David to run a mile.
[b]p2.[/b] Al has $2019$ red jelly beans. Bob has $2018$ green jelly beans. Carl has $x$ blue jelly beans. The minimum number of jelly beans that must be drawn in order to guarantee $2$ jelly beans of each color is $4041$. Compute $x$.
[b]p3.[/b] Find the $7$-digit palindrome which is divisible by $7$ and whose first three digits are all $2$.
[b]p4.[/b] Determine the number of ways to put $5$ indistinguishable balls in $6$ distinguishable boxes.
[b]p5.[/b] A certain reduced fraction $\frac{a}{b}$ (with $a,b > 1$) has the property that when $2$ is subtracted from the numerator and added to the denominator, the resulting fraction has $\frac16$ of its original value. Find this fraction.
[b]p6.[/b] Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that $|\tau(n +1)-\tau(n)| = 7$. Here, $\tau(n)$ denotes the number of divisors of $n$.
[b]p7.[/b] Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be the triangle such that $AB = 3$, $AC = 6$ and $\angle BAC = 120^o$. Let $D$ be the point on $BC$ such that $AD$ bisect $\angle BAC$. Compute the length of $AD$.
[b]p8.[/b] $26$ points are evenly spaced around a circle and are labeled $A$ through $Z$ in alphabetical order. Triangle $\vartriangle LMT$ is drawn. Three more points, each distinct from $L, M$, and $T$ , are chosen to form a second triangle. Compute the probability that the two triangles do not overlap.
[b]p9.[/b] Given the three equations
$a +b +c = 0$
$a^2 +b^2 +c^2 = 2$
$a^3 +b^3 +c^3 = 19$
find $abc$.
[b]p10.[/b] Circle $\omega$ is inscribed in convex quadrilateral $ABCD$ and tangent to $AB$ and $CD$ at $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Given that $AP = 175$, $BP = 147$,$CQ = 75$, and $AB \parallel CD$, find the length of $DQ$.
[b]p11. [/b]Let $p$ be a prime and m be a positive integer such that $157p = m^4 +2m^3 +m^2 +3$. Find the ordered pair $(p,m)$.
[b]p12.[/b] Find the number of possible functions $f : \{-2,-1, 0, 1, 2\} \to \{-2,-1, 0, 1, 2\}$ that satisfy the following conditions.
(1) $f (x) \ne f (y)$ when $x \ne y$
(2) There exists some $x$ such that $f (x)^2 = x^2$
[b]p13.[/b] Let $p$ be a prime number such that there exists positive integer $n$ such that $41pn -42p^2 = n^3$. Find the sum of all possible values of $p$.
[b]p14.[/b] An equilateral triangle with side length $ 1$ is rotated $60$ degrees around its center. Compute the area of the region swept out by the interior of the triangle.
[b]p15.[/b] Let $\sigma (n)$ denote the number of positive integer divisors of $n$. Find the sum of all $n$ that satisfy the equation $\sigma (n) =\frac{n}{3}$.
[b]p16[/b]. Let $C$ be the set of points $\{a,b,c\} \in Z$ for $0 \le a,b,c \le 10$. Alice starts at $(0,0,0)$. Every second she randomly moves to one of the other points in $C$ that is on one of the lines parallel to the $x, y$, and $z$ axes through the point she is currently at, each point with equal probability. Determine the expected number of seconds it will take her to reach $(10,10,10)$.
[b]p17.[/b] Find the maximum possible value of $$abc \left( \frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}\right)^3$$ where $a,b,c$ are real such that $a +b +c = 0$.
[b]p18.[/b] Circle $\omega$ with radius $6$ is inscribed within quadrilateral $ABCD$. $\omega$ is tangent to $AB$, $BC$, $CD$, and $DA$ at $E, F, G$, and $H$ respectively. If $AE = 3$, $BF = 4$ and $CG = 5$, find the length of $DH$.
[b]p19.[/b] Find the maximum integer $p$ less than $1000$ for which there exists a positive integer $q$ such that the cubic equation $$x^3 - px^2 + q x -(p^2 -4q +4) = 0$$ has three roots which are all positive integers.
[b]p20.[/b] Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be the triangle such that $\angle ABC = 60^o$,$\angle ACB = 20^o$. Let $P$ be the point such that $CP$ bisects $\angle ACB$ and $\angle PAC = 30^o$. Find $\angle PBC$.
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Let $P$ be a polygon that is convex and symmetric to some point $O$. Prove that for some parallelogram $R$ satisfying $P\subset R$ we have \[\frac{|R|}{|P|}\leq \sqrt 2\]
where $|R|$ and $|P|$ denote the area of the sets $R$ and $P$, respectively.
[i]Proposed by Witold Szczechla, Poland[/i]
Let $a$ be positive real number such that $a^{3}=6(a+1)$. Prove that the equation $x^{2}+ax+a^{2}-6=0$ has no real solution.
For positive $a,b,c$, \[a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+abc=4\] Prove $a+b+c \leq3$
$\boxed{\text{A2}}$ Prove that for all Positive reals $a,b,c$ $\frac{a^2-bc}{2a^2+bc}+\frac{b^2-ca}{2b^2+ca}+\frac{c^2-ab}{2c^2+ab}\leq 0$
Anton wrote $4$ positive integers on the board. Oleksii calculated their product, while Fedir calculated the sum of their fourth powers. Is it possible that Oleksii's number and Fedir's number have the same number of digits and that these numbers are written as digit-reversals of each other?
[i]Proposed by Fedir Yudin and Mykhailo Shtandenko[/i]
Consider infinite sequences $a_1,a_2,\dots$ of positive integers satisfying $a_1=1$ and $$a_n \mid a_k+a_{k+1}+\dots+a_{k+n-1}$$ for all positive integers $k$ and $n.$ For a given positive integer $m,$ find the maximum possible value of $a_{2m}.$
[i]Proposed by Krit Boonsiriseth[/i]
The polynomial $x^k + a_1x^{k-1} + a_2x^{k-2} +... + a_k$ has $k$ distinct real roots. Show that $a_1^2 > \frac{2ka_2}{k-1}$.
Let $ x$, $ y$ and $ z$ be non negative numbers. Prove that \[ \frac{x^2\plus{}y^2\plus{}z^2\plus{}xy\plus{}yz\plus{}zx}{6}\le \frac{x\plus{}y\plus{}z}{3}\cdot\sqrt{\frac{x^2\plus{}y^2\plus{}z^2}{3}}\]
Fix a positive integer $n\geq 2$. What is the lest value that the expression $$\bigg\lfloor\frac{x_2+x_3+\dots +x_n}{x_1}\bigg\rfloor + \bigg\lfloor\frac{x_1+x_3+\dots +x_n}{x_2}\bigg\rfloor +\dots +\bigg\lfloor\frac{x_1+x_2+\dots +x_{n-1}}{x_n}\bigg\rfloor$$ may achieve, where $x_1,x_2,\dots ,x_n$ are positive real numbers.
Determine the real numbers $x$, $y$, $z > 0$ for which
$xyz \leq \min\left\{4(x - \frac{1}{y}), 4(y - \frac{1}{z}), 4(z - \frac{1}{x})\right\}$
Let $a$, $b$, $c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that \[ \frac{a}{b+c}+\frac{b}{c+a}+\frac{c}{a+b}+\sqrt{\frac{ab+bc+ca}{a^2+b^2+c^2}}\ge\frac52\] and determine when equality holds.
Let $x; y$ and $z$ be positive real numbers such that $\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{y}+\sqrt{z}= 1$. Prove that $\frac{x^{2}+yz}{\sqrt{2x^{2}(y+z)}}+\frac{y^{2}+zx}{\sqrt{2y^{2}(z+x)}}+\frac{z^{2}+xy}{\sqrt{2z^{2}(x+y)}}\geq 1.$
Prove that for positive real numbers $a, b, c$ the following inequality holds:
\begin{align*}
\frac{a}{9bc+1}+\frac{b}{9ca+1}+\frac{c}{9ab+1}\geq \frac{a+b+c}{1+(a+b+c)^2}
\end{align*}
When does equality occur?
Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that \[\left((3a^2+1)^2+2\left(1+\frac{3}{b}\right)^2\right)\left((3b^2+1)^2+2\left(1+\frac{3}{c}\right)^2\right)\left((3c^2+1)^2+2\left(1+\frac{3}{a}\right)^2\right)\geq 48^3\]
Let $a, b, c$ be positive reals. Prove that $\sqrt{2a^2+bc}+\sqrt{2b^2+ac}+\sqrt{2c^2+ab}\ge 3 \sqrt{ab+bc+ca}$
Let $ a_0$, $ a_1$, $ a_2$, $ \ldots$ be a sequence of positive integers such that the greatest common divisor of any two consecutive terms is greater than the preceding term; in symbols, $ \gcd (a_i, a_{i \plus{} 1}) > a_{i \minus{} 1}$. Prove that $ a_n\ge 2^n$ for all $ n\ge 0$.
[i]Proposed by Morteza Saghafian, Iran[/i]
Prove that there exists a positive integer $ n$ such that for every $ x\ge0$ the inequality $ (x\minus{}1)(x^{2005}\minus{}2005x^{n\plus{}1}\plus{}2005x^n\minus{}1)\ge0$ holds.
Let $a \geq b \geq 1 \geq c \geq 0$ be real numbers such that $a+b+c=3$. Show that
$$3 \left( \frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a} \right ) \geq 4c^2+\frac{a^2}{b}+\frac{b^2}{a}$$
In a Cartesian coordinate plane, call a rectangle $standard$ if all of its sides are parallel to the $x$- and $y$- axes, and call a set of points $nice$ if no two of them have the same $x$- or $y$- coordinate. First, Bert chooses a nice set $B$ of $2016$ points in the coordinate plane. To mess with Bert, Ernie then chooses a set $E$ of $n$ points in the coordinate plane such that $B\cup E$ is a nice set with $2016+n$ points. Bert returns and then miraculously notices that there does not exist a standard rectangle that contains at least two points in $B$ and no points in $E$ in its interior. For a given nice set $B$ that Bert chooses, define $f(B)$ as the smallest positive integer $n$ such that Ernie can find a nice set $E$ of size $n$ with the aforementioned properties. Help Bert determine the minimum and maximum possible values of $f(B)$.
[i]Yannick Yao[/i]
Prove the following inequality where positive reals $a$, $b$, $c$ satisfies $ab+bc+ca=1$.
\[
\frac{a+b}{\sqrt{ab(1-ab)}} + \frac{b+c}{\sqrt{bc(1-bc)}} + \frac{c+a}{\sqrt{ca(1-ca)}} \le \frac{\sqrt{2}}{abc}
\]
[b]a)[/b] Show that the expression $ x^3-5x^2+8x-4 $ is nonegative, for every $ x\in [1,\infty ) . $
[b]b)[/b] Determine $ \min_{a,b\in [1,\infty )} \left( ab(a+b-10) +8(a+b) \right) . $
Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $a_1 \le a_2 \le \dots \le a_n$ and $b_1 \le b_2 \le \dots \le b_n$ be two nondecreasing sequences of real numbers such that
\[ a_1 + \dots + a_i \le b_1 + \dots + b_i \text{ for every } i = 1, \dots, n \]
and
\[ a_1 + \dots + a_n = b_1 + \dots + b_n. \]
Suppose that for every real number $m$, the number of pairs $(i,j)$ with $a_i-a_j=m$ equals the numbers of pairs $(k,\ell)$ with $b_k-b_\ell = m$. Prove that $a_i = b_i$ for $i=1,\dots,n$.