Found problems: 2529
Consider the system \[x+y=z+u,\] \[2xy=zu.\] Find the greatest value of the real constant $m$ such that $m \le \frac{x}{y}$ for any positive integer solution $(x, y, z, u)$ of the system, with $x \ge y$.
$ a>0,\quad\lim_{n\to\infty }\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{1}{n+a^i} $
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Let $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n > 1$ be real numbers whose product is $n+1$. Prove that \[\left(\frac{1}{1^2(x_1-1)}+1\right)\left(\frac{1}{2^2(x_2-1)}+1\right)\cdots\left(\frac{1}{n^2(x_n-1)}+1\right)\geq n+1\] and find for which values equality holds.
Decide whether there exists a largest positive integer $n$ such that the inequality
\[\frac{\frac{a^2}{b}+\frac{b^2}{a}}{2} \ge \sqrt[n]{\frac{a^n+b^n}{2}}\]
holds for all positive real numbers $a$ and $b$. If such a largest positive integer $n$ exists, determine it.
Let $a,b,c$ be real numbers such that $a^2+b^2+c^2=1$. Prove that
\[\frac{a^2}{1+2bc}+\frac{b^2}{1+2ca}+\frac{c^2}{1+2ab} \ge \frac35\]
[b]a)[/b] Show that $ \frac{n}{2}\ge \frac{2\sqrt{x} +3\sqrt[3]{x}+\cdots +n\sqrt[n]{x}}{n-1} -x, $ for all non-negative reals $ x $ and integers $ n\ge 2. $
[b]b)[/b] If $ x,y,z\in (0,\infty ) , $ then prove the inequality
$$ \sum_{\text{cyc}} \frac{x}{(2x+y+z)^2+4} \le 3/16 $$
As shown on the figure, square $PQRS$ is inscribed in right triangle $ABC$, whose right angle is at $C$, so that $S$ and $P$ are on sides $BC$ and $CA$, respectively, while $Q$ and $R$ are on side $AB$. Prove that $A B\geq3QR$ and determine when equality occurs.
[asy]
defaultpen(linewidth(0.7)+fontsize(10));
size(150);
real a=8, b=6;
real y=a/((a^2+b^2)/(a*b)+1), r=degrees((a,b))+180;
pair A=b*dir(-r)*dir(90), B=a*dir(180)*dir(-r), C=origin, S=y*dir(-r)*dir(180), P=(y*b/a)*dir(90-r), Q=foot(P, A, B), R=foot(S, A, B);
draw(A--B--C--cycle^^R--S--P--Q);
pair point=incenter(A,B,C);
label("$A$", A, dir(point--A));
label("$B$", B, dir(point--B));
label("$C$", C, dir(point--C));
label("$S$", S, dir(point--S));
label("$R$", R, dir(270));
label("$Q$", Q, dir(270));
label("$P$", P, dir(point--P));[/asy]
If $a,b,c,d$ are four positive reals such that $abcd= 1$ , prove that $(1+a) (1+b) (1 +c ) (1 +d ) \geq 16.$
Suppose that $a,b,c,d$ are positive real numbers satisfying $(a+c)(b+d)=ac+bd$. Find the smallest possible value of
$$\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{d}+\frac{d}{a}.$$
[i]Israel[/i]
Kostas and Helene have the following dialogue:
Kostas: I have in my mind three positive real numbers with product $1$ and sum equal to the sum of all their pairwise products.
Helene: I think that I know the numbers you have in mind. They are all equal to $1$.
Kostas: In fact, the numbers you mentioned satisfy my conditions, but I did not think of these numbers. The numbers you mentioned have the minimal sum between all possible solutions of the problem.
Can you decide if Kostas is right? (Explain your answer).
If $a,b,c$ are positive real numbers with $abc=1$, prove that
(a) \[2\left(\frac{ab}{a+b}+\frac{bc}{b+c}+\frac{ca}{c+a}\right) \geqslant \frac{9}{ab+bc+ca}\]
(b)\[2\left(\frac{ab}{a+b}+\frac{bc}{b+c}+\frac{ca}{c+a}\right) \geqslant \frac{9}{a^2 b+b^2 c+c^2 a}\]
Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca\le 3abc$. Prove that
\[\sqrt{\frac{a^2+b^2}{a+b}}+\sqrt{\frac{b^2+c^2}{b+c}}+\sqrt{\frac{c^2+a^2}{c+a}}+3\le \sqrt{2} (\sqrt{a+b}+\sqrt{b+c}+\sqrt{c+a})\]
Given positive reals $ a, b, c $ that satisfy $ a + b + c = 1 $, show that $$ \displaystyle \sum^{}_{cyc}\frac{a^3+bc}{a^2+bc}\ge 2 $$
Prove that if m,n are nonnegative integers and 0<=x<=1 then
$(1-x^n)^m + (1-(1-x)^m)^n \ge 1$
Let $a, b, c, d, e \in \mathbb{R}^+$ and $f:\{(x, y) \in (\mathbb{R}^+)^2|c-dx-ey > 0\}\to \mathbb{R}^+$ be given by $f(x, y) = (ax)(by)(c- dx- ey)$.
Find the maximum value of $f$.
For $ a,b,c\geq 0$ with $ a\plus{}b\plus{}c\equal{}1$, prove that
$ \sqrt{a\plus{}\frac{(b\minus{}c)^2}{4}}\plus{}\sqrt{b}\plus{}\sqrt{c}\leq \sqrt{3}$
Let $n\ge 2$ be an integer. $a_1,a_2,\dotsc,a_n$ are arbitrarily chosen positive integers with $(a_1,a_2,\dotsc,a_n)=1$. Let $A=a_1+a_2+\dotsb+a_n$ and $(A,a_i)=d_i$. Let $(a_2,a_3,\dotsc,a_n)=D_1, (a_1,a_3,\dotsc,a_n)=D_2,\dotsc, (a_1,a_2,\dotsc,a_{n-1})=D_n$.
Find the minimum of $\prod\limits_{i=1}^n\dfrac{A-a_i}{d_iD_i}$
Given positive real numbers $a, b, c, d$ such that $cd=1$. Prove that there exists at least one positive integer $m$ such that $$ab\le m^2\le (a+c) (b+d). $$
There are $63$ houses at the distance of $1, 2, 3, . . . , 63 \text{ km}$ from the north pole, respectively. Santa Clause wants to distribute vaccine to each house. To do so, he will let his assistants, $63$ elfs named $E_1, E_2, . . . , E_{63}$ , deliever the vaccine to each house; each elf will deliever vaccine to exactly one house and never return. Suppose that the elf $E_n$ takes $n$ minutes to travel $1 \text{ km}$ for each $n = 1,2,...,63$ , and that all elfs leave the north pole simultaneously. What is the minimum amount of time to complete the delivery?
[u]Set 1[/u]
[b]B1.[/b] Evaluate $2 + 0 - 2 \times 0$.
[b]B2.[/b] It takes four painters four hours to paint four houses. How many hours does it take forty painters to paint forty houses?
[b]B3.[/b] Let $a$ be the answer to this question. What is $\frac{1}{2-a}$?
[u]Set 2[/u]
[b]B4.[/b] Every day at Andover is either sunny or rainy. If today is sunny, there is a $60\%$ chance that tomorrow is sunny and a $40\%$ chance that tomorrow is rainy. On the other hand, if today is rainy, there is a $60\%$ chance that tomorrow is rainy and a $40\%$ chance that tomorrow is sunny. Given that today is sunny, the probability that the day after tomorrow is sunny can be expressed as n%, where n is a positive integer. What is $n$?
[b]B5.[/b] In the diagram below, what is the value of $\angle DD'Y$ in degrees?
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/0/8/6c966b13c840fa1885948d0e4ad598f36bee9d.png[/img]
[b]B6.[/b] Christina, Jeremy, Will, and Nathan are standing in a line. In how many ways can they be arranged such that Christina is to the left of Will and Jeremy is to the left of Nathan?
Note: Christina does not have to be next to Will and Jeremy does not have to be next to Nathan. For example, arranging them as Christina, Jeremy, Will, Nathan would be valid.
[u]Set 3[/u]
[b]B7.[/b] Let $P$ be a point on side $AB$ of square $ABCD$ with side length $8$ such that $PA = 3$. Let $Q$ be a point on side $AD$ such that $P Q \perp P C$. The area of quadrilateral $PQDB$ can be expressed in the form $m/n$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m + n$.
[b]B8.[/b] Jessica and Jeffrey each pick a number uniformly at random from the set $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5\}$ (they could pick the same number). If Jessica’s number is $x$ and Jeffrey’s number is $y$, the probability that $x^y$ has a units digit of $1$ can be expressed as $m/n$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$.
[b]B9.[/b] For two points $(x_1, y_1)$ and $(x_2, y_2)$ in the plane, we define the taxicab distance between them as $|x_1 - x_2| + |y_1 - y_2|$. For example, the taxicab distance between $(-1, 2)$ and $(3,\sqrt2)$ is $6-\sqrt2$. What is the largest number of points Nathan can find in the plane such that the taxicab distance between any two of the points is the same?
[u]Set 4[/u]
[b]B10.[/b] Will wants to insert some × symbols between the following numbers: $$1\,\,\,2\,\,\,3\,\,\,4\,\,\,6$$ to see what kinds of answers he can get. For example, here is one way he can insert $\times$ symbols: $$1 \times 23 \times 4 \times 6 = 552.$$ Will discovers that he can obtain the number $276$. What is the sum of the numbers that he multiplied together to get $276$?
[b]B11.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram with $AB = 5$, $BC = 3$, and $\angle BAD = 60^o$ . Let the angle bisector of $\angle ADC$ meet $AC$ at $E$ and $AB$ at $F$. The length $EF$ can be expressed as $m/n$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. What is $m + n$?
[b]B12.[/b] Find the sum of all positive integers $n$ such that $\lfloor \sqrt{n^2 - 2n + 19} \rfloor = n$.
Note: $\lfloor x \rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.
[u]Set 5[/u]
[b]B13.[/b] This year, February $29$ fell on a Saturday. What is the next year in which February $29$ will be a Saturday?
[b]B14.[/b] Let $f(x) = \frac{1}{x} - 1$. Evaluate $$f\left( \frac{1}{2020}\right) \times f\left( \frac{2}{2020}\right) \times f\left( \frac{3}{2020}\right) \times \times ... \times f\left( \frac{2019}{2020}\right) .$$
[b]B15.[/b] Square $WXYZ$ is inscribed in square $ABCD$ with side length $1$ such that $W$ is on $AB$, $X$ is on $BC$, $Y$ is on $CD$, and $Z$ is on $DA$. Line $W Y$ hits $AD$ and $BC$ at points $P$ and $R$ respectively, and line $XZ$ hits $AB$ and $CD$ at points $Q$ and $S$ respectively. If the area of $WXYZ$ is $\frac{13}{18}$ , then the area of $PQRS$ can be expressed as $m/n$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. What is $m + n$?
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Solve the system of equations: \[ x+y+z=a \] \[ x^2+y^2+z^2=b^2 \] \[ xy=z^2 \] where $a$ and $b$ are constants. Give the conditions that $a$ and $b$ must satisfy so that $x,y,z$ are distinct positive numbers.
Determine all prime numbers $p$ and all positive integers $x$ and $y$ satisfying $$x^3+y^3=p(xy+p).$$
Let $a, b,$ and $c$ be positive real numbers such that $ab + bc + ca = 3$. Show that \[ \dfrac{bc}{1 + a^4} + \dfrac{ca}{1 + b^4} + \dfrac{ab}{1 + c^4} \geq \dfrac{3}{2}. \]
If $k$ and $n$ are positive integers, prove the inequality
$$\frac{1}{kn} +\frac{1}{kn+1} +...+\frac{1}{(k+1)n-1} \ge n \left(\sqrt[n]{\frac{k+1}{k}}-1\right)$$
In a city of gnomes there are $1000$ identical towers, each of which has $1000$ stories, with exactly one gnome living on each story. Every gnome in the city wears a hat colored in one of $1000$ possible colors and any two gnomes in the same tower have different hats. A pair of gnomes are friends if they wear hats of the same color, one of them lives in the $k$-th story of his tower and the other one in the $(k+1)$-st story of his tower. Determine the maximal possible number of pairs of gnomes which are friends.
[i]Authored by Nikola Velov[/i]