Found problems: 2529
p1. Find all real numbers that satisfy the equation $$(1 + x^2 + x^4 + .... + x^{2014})(x^{2016} + 1) = 2016x^{2015}$$
p2. Let $A$ be an integer and $A = 2 + 20 + 201 + 2016 + 20162 + ... + \underbrace{20162016...2016}_{40\,\, digits}$
Find the last seven digits of $A$, in order from millions to units.
p3. In triangle $ABC$, points $P$ and $Q$ are on sides of $BC$ so that the length of $BP$ is equal to $CQ$, $\angle BAP = \angle CAQ$ and $\angle APB$ is acute. Is triangle $ABC$ isosceles? Write down your reasons.
p4. Ayu is about to open the suitcase but she forgets the key. The suitcase code consists of nine digits, namely four $0$s (zero) and five $1$s. Ayu remembers that no four consecutive numbers are the same. How many codes might have to try to make sure the suitcase is open?
p5. Fulan keeps $100$ turkeys with the weight of the $i$-th turkey, being $x_i$ for $i\in\{1, 2, 3, ... , 100\}$. The weight of the $i$-th turkey in grams is assumed to follow the function $x_i(t) = S_it + 200 - i$ where $t$ represents the time in days and $S_i$ is the $i$-th term of an arithmetic sequence where the first term is a positive number $a$ with a difference of $b =\frac15$. It is known that the average data on the weight of the hundred turkeys at $t = a$ is $150.5$ grams. Calculate the median weight of the turkey at time $t = 20$ days.
a) (version for grades 10-11)
Let $P$ be a point lying in the interior of a triangle. Show that the product of the distances from $P$ to the sides of the triangle is at least $8$ times less than the product of the distances from $P$ to the tangents to the circumcircle at the vertices of the triangle.
b) (version for grades 8-9)
Is it true that for any triangle there exists a point $P$ for which equality in the inequality from a) holds?
Let $a$ and $b$ be positive real numbers such that $a+b=1$. Prove that $a^ab^b+a^bb^a\le 1$.
If $a,b,c>0$ then
$$\frac{1}{abc}+1\ge3\left(\frac{1}{a^2+b^2+c^2}+\frac{1}{a+b+c}\right)$$
Let $P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_n$ be distinct $2$-element subsets of $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$. Suppose that for every $1 \le i < j \le n$, if $P_i \cap P_j \neq \emptyset$, then there is some $k$ such that $P_k = \{i, j\}$. Prove that if $a \in P_i$ for some $i$, then $a \in P_j$ for exactly one value of $j$ not equal to $i$.
Find the smallest possible value of the nonnegative number $\lambda$ such that the inequality $$\frac{a+b}{2}\geq\lambda \sqrt{ab}+(1-\lambda )\sqrt{\frac{a^2+b^2}{2}}$$ holds for all positive real numbers $a, b$.
Prove without using advanced (differential) calculus:
(a) For any real numbers a,b,c,d it holds that $a^6+b^6+c^6+d^6-6abcd \ge -2$.
When does equality hold?
(b) For which natural numbers $k$ does some inequality of the form $a^k +b^k +c^k +d^k -kabcd \ge M_k$ hold for all real $a,b,c,d$? For each such $k$,
Let $a,b$ and $c$ be positive real numbers such that $a^5+b^5+c^5=ab^2+bc^2+ca^2$.
Prove the inequality:
$$\frac{a^2+b^2}{b}+\frac{b^2+c^2}{c}+\frac{c^2+a^2}{a}\geq 2(ab+bc+ca).$$
Prove that for positive reals $a$,$b$,$c$ so that $a+b+c+abc=4$, \[\left (1+\dfrac{a}{b}+ca \right )\left (1+\dfrac{b}{c}+ab \right)\left (1+\dfrac{c}{a}+bc \right) \ge 27\] holds.
Suppose that a sequence $a_1,a_2,\ldots$ of positive real numbers satisfies \[a_{k+1}\geq\frac{ka_k}{a_k^2+(k-1)}\] for every positive integer $k$. Prove that $a_1+a_2+\ldots+a_n\geq n$ for every $n\geq2$.
Let $ a,b,c \in (0,1) $ and $ab+bc+ca=4abc .$ Prove that $$\sqrt{a+b+c}\geq \sqrt{1-a}+\sqrt{1-b}+\sqrt{1-c}$$
Prove that for positive reals $a,b,c$ satisfying $a+b+c=3$ the following inequality holds:
$$ \frac{a}{1+2b^3}+\frac{b}{1+2c^3}+\frac{c}{1+2a^3} \ge 1 $$
Find all integers $x,y,z$ such that
\[x^3+y^3+z^3=x+y+z=8\]
Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{N^{*}}\to \mathbb{N^{*}}$ satisfying
\[ \left(f^{2}\left(m\right)+f\left(n\right)\right) \mid \left(m^{2}+n\right)^{2}\]
for any two positive integers $ m$ and $ n$.
[i]Remark.[/i] The abbreviation $ \mathbb{N^{*}}$ stands for the set of all positive integers:
$ \mathbb{N^{*}}=\left\{1,2,3,...\right\}$.
By $ f^{2}\left(m\right)$, we mean $ \left(f\left(m\right)\right)^{2}$ (and not $ f\left(f\left(m\right)\right)$).
[i]Proposed by Mohsen Jamali, Iran[/i]
Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers where $ab+bc+ca = 3$. Prove that $$\dfrac{1}{a^2+1}+\dfrac{1}{b^2+1}+\dfrac{1}{c^2+1}\geq\dfrac{3} {2}.$$
[i](dektep)[/i]
Consider a matrix of size $n\times n$ whose entries are real numbers of absolute value not exceeding $1$. The sum of all entries of the matrix is $0$. Let $n$ be an even positive integer. Determine the least number $C$ such that every such matrix necessarily has a row or a column with the sum of its entries not exceeding $C$ in absolute value.
[i]Proposed by Marcin Kuczma, Poland[/i]
Let $x > 1$ be a non-integer number. Prove that
\[\biggl( \frac{x+\{x\}}{[x]} - \frac{[x]}{x+\{x\}} \biggr) + \biggl( \frac{x+[x]}{ \{x \} } - \frac{ \{ x \}}{x+[x]} \biggr) > \frac 92 \]
For a positive integer $k\ge 2$ define $\mathcal{T}_k=\{(x,y)\mid x,y=0,1,\ldots, k-1\}$ to be a collection of $k^2$ lattice points on the cartesian coordinate plane. Let $d_1(k)>d_2(k)>\cdots$ be the decreasing sequence of the distinct distances between any two points in $T_k$. Suppose $S_i(k)$ be the number of distances equal to $d_i(k)$.
Prove that for any three positive integers $m>n>i$ we have $S_i(m)=S_i(n)$.
Let $a,b,c \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$ such that $abc=1$. Prove that:
$$a^2b + b^2c + c^2a \ge \sqrt{(a+b+c)(ab + bc +ca)}$$
Prove that if $x$, $y$, $z$ are positive real numbers and $xyz = 1$ then
\[\frac{x^3}{x^2+y}+\frac{y^3}{y^2+z}+\frac{z^3}{z^2+x}\geq \dfrac {3} {2}.\]
[i]A. Golovanov[/i]
Let $a, b$, and $c$ be positive real numbers. Prove: $\frac{a}{b}+ \frac{b}{c}+ \frac{c}{a}\le \frac{a^2}{b^2} + \frac{b^2}{c^2} + \frac{c^2}{a^2}$ .
Determine all triples $(x,y,z)$ of real numbers such that the following system of equations holds true:
\begin{align*}2^{\sqrt[3]{x^2}}\cdot 4^{\sqrt[3]{y^2}}\cdot 16^{\sqrt[3]{z^2}}&=128\\
\left(xy^2+z^4\right)^2&=4+\left(xy^2-z^4\right)^2\mbox{.}\end{align*}
Let $a \geq b \geq 1 \geq c \geq 0$ be real numbers such that $a+b+c=3$. Show that
$$3 \left( \frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a} \right ) \geq 4c^2+\frac{a^2}{b}+\frac{b^2}{a}$$
Let $a,b,c$ be real numbers such that $0 \leq a \leq b \leq c$ and $a+b+c=ab+bc+ca >0.$
Prove that $\sqrt{bc}(a+1) \geq 2$ and determine the equality cases.
(Edit: Proposed by sir Leonard Giugiuc, Romania)
In a triangle $ABC$, points $D, E$ and $F$ are considered on the sides $BC, CA$ and $AB$ respectively, such that the areas of the triangles $AFE, BFD$ and $CDE$ are equal. Prove that $$\frac{(DEF) }{ (ABC)} \ge \frac{1}{4}$$
Note: $(XYZ)$ is the area of triangle $XYZ$.