Found problems: 1671
Let $x,y$ be the positive real numbers with $x+y=1$, and $n$ be the positive integer with $n\ge2$. Prove that
\[\frac{x^n}{x+y^3}+\frac{y^n}{x^3+y}\ge\frac{2^{4-n}}{5}\]
Let $ k\geq 1 $ and let $ I_{1},\dots, I_{k} $ be non-degenerate subintervals of the interval $ [0, 1] $. Prove that
\[ \sum \frac{1}{\left | I_{i}\cup I_{j} \right |} \geq k^{2} \]
where the summation is over all pairs $ (i, j) $ of indices such that $I_i\cap I_j\neq \emptyset$.
Let $ p(x)\equal{}a_0 \plus{}a_1 x\plus{}...\plus{}a_n x^n$ be a polynomial with nonnegative real coefficients. Suppose that $ p(4)\equal{}2$ and $ p(16)\equal{}8$. Prove that $ p(8) \le 4$ and find all such $ p$ with $ p(8)\equal{}4$.
Let $x, y,$ and $z$ be positive real numbers such that $xy + yz + zx = 27$. Prove that
$x + y + z \ge \sqrt{3xyz}$.
When does equality hold?
Does there exist a sequence of positive real numbers $\{a_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty}$ satisfying:
\[
\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i \geq n^2 \quad \text{and} \quad \sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i^2 \leq n^3 + 2025n
\]
for all positive integers $n$.
Let $H = \{ \lfloor i\sqrt{2}\rfloor : i \in \mathbb Z_{>0}\} = \{1,2,4,5,7,\dots \}$ and let $n$ be a positive integer. Prove that there exists a constant $C$ such that, if $A\subseteq \{1,2,\dots, n\}$ satisfies $|A| \ge C\sqrt{n}$, then there exist $a,b\in A$ such that $a-b\in H$. (Here $\mathbb Z_{>0}$ is the set of positive integers, and $\lfloor z\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $z$.)
Show that if $a+b+c=0$ then $(\frac{a}{b-c}+\frac{b}{c-a}+\frac{c}{a-b})(\frac{b-c}{a}+\frac{c-a}{b}+\frac{a-b}{c})=9$.
Let $p$ be a prime number, and let $0 \le a_1<a_2<...<a_m<p$ and $0 \le b_1<b_2<...<b_n<p$ be arbitrary integers. Denote by $k$ the number of different remainders of $a_i+b_j$, $1 \le i \le m$ and $1 \le j \le n$, modulo $p$. Prove that
(i) if $m+n>p$, then $k=p$
(ii) if $m+n \le p$, then $k \ge m+n-1$
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that for all real numbers $x$ and $y$,
$$f(x^2)+2f(xy)=xf(x+y)+yf(x).$$
[i]Proposed by Dorlir Ahmeti, Kosovo[/i]
Show that
\[\left(a+2b+\dfrac{2}{a+1}\right)\left(b+2a+\dfrac{2}{b+1}\right)\geq 16\]
for all positive real numbers $a$ and $b$ such that $ab\geq 1$.
Let $ a,b,c$ be positive real numbers. Prove the inequality:
$ \frac {a^3}{b^2} \plus{} \frac {b^3}{c^2} \plus{} \frac {c^3}{a^2}\ge \frac {a^2}{b} \plus{} \frac {b^2}{c} \plus{} \frac {c^2}{a}$
Prove that if $ a_{1},a_{2},\ldots,a_{n}$, $ b_{1},b_{2},\ldots,b_{n}$ are arbitrary taken real numbers and $ c_{1},c_{2},\ldots,c_{n}$
are positive real numbers, than
$ \left(\sum_{i,j \equal{} 1}^{n}\frac {a_{i}a_{j}}{c_{i} \plus{} c_{j}}\right)\left(\sum_{i,j \equal{} 1}^{n}\frac {b_{i}b_{j}}{c_{i} \plus{} c_{j}}\right)\ge \left(\sum_{i,j \equal{} 1}^{n}\frac {a_{i}b_{j}}{c_{i} \plus{} c_{j}}\right)^{2}$.
Let $ n$ be a positive integer and let $ a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_n$ be positive real numbers such that:
\[ \sum^n_{i \equal{} 1} a_i \equal{} \sum^n_{i \equal{} 1} \frac {1}{a_i^2}.
\]
Prove that for every $ i \equal{} 1,2,\ldots,n$ we can find $ i$ numbers with sum at least $ i$.
Prove that the following inequality holds for all positive real numbers $x,y,z$:
\[\dfrac{x^3}{y^2+z^2}+\dfrac{y^3}{z^2+x^2}+\dfrac{z^3}{x^2+y^2}\ge \dfrac{x+y+z}{2}.\]
There are $n\ge 3$ girls in a class sitting around a circular table, each having some apples with her. Every time the teacher notices a girl having more apples than both of her neighbours combined, the teacher takes away one apple from that girl and gives one apple each to her neighbours. Prove that, this process stops after a finite number of steps.
(Assume that, the teacher has an abundant supply of apples.)
Let $a, b, c, d$ be four real numbers such that
\begin{align*}a + b + c + d &= 8, \\
ab + ac + ad + bc + bd + cd &= 12.\end{align*}
Find the greatest possible value of $d$.
Let $a$, $b$ and $c$ be non-negative numbers such that $ab+ac+bc+abc=4.$ . Prove that:
$$\sqrt{\frac{ab+ac+1}{a+2}}+\sqrt{\frac{ab+bc+1}{b+2}}+\sqrt{\frac{ac+bc+1}{c+2}}\leq3.$$
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Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers such that $$\frac{a}{1+a}+\frac{b}{1+b}+\frac{c}{1+c}=1.$$ Prove that $abc \le \frac{1}{8}$.
Find the largest real number $\lambda$ with the following property: for any positive real numbers $p,q,r,s$ there exists a complex number $z=a+bi$($a,b\in \mathbb{R})$ such that $$ |b|\ge \lambda |a| \quad \text{and} \quad (pz^3+2qz^2+2rz+s) \cdot (qz^3+2pz^2+2sz+r) =0.$$
Let $a,b,c$ be non-negative real numbers such that $a^2+b^2+c^2 \le 3$ then prove that;
$$(a+b+c)(a+b+c-abc)\ge2(a^2b+b^2c+c^2a)$$
Consider a round-robin tournament with $2n+1$ teams, where each team plays each other team exactly one. We say that three teams $X,Y$ and $Z$, form a [i]cycle triplet [/i] if $X$ beats $Y$, $Y$ beats $Z$ and $Z$ beats $X$. There are no ties.
a)Determine the minimum number of cycle triplets possible.
b)Determine the maximum number of cycle triplets possible.
Find all $n$ for which there are real numbers $0 < a_1 \le a_2 \le ... \le a_n$ with
$$\begin{cases} \sum_{k=1}^{n}a_k = 96 \\ \\ \sum_{k=1}^{n}a_k^2 = 144 \\ \\ \sum_{k=1}^{n}a_k^3 = 216 \end{cases}$$
$ P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_n $ are different two-element subsets of $ \{1,2,\ldots,n\} $. The sets $ P_i $, $ P_j $ for $ i\neq j $ have a common element if and only if the set $ \{i,j\} $ is one of the sets $ P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_n $. Prove that each of the numbers $ 1,2,\ldots,n $ is a common element of exactly two sets from $ P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_n $.
Find all $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that, for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}-\{0\}$,
$$ f(x) \neq 0 \text{ and } \frac{f(x)}{f(y)} + \frac{f(y)}{f(x)} - f \left( \frac{x}{y}-\frac{y}{x} \right) =2 $$
For the nonnegative numbers $a, b, c$ prove the inequality:
$$\frac{a}{b+c}+\frac{b}{c+a}+\frac{c}{a+b}+\sqrt{\frac{ab+bc+ca}{a^2+b^2+c^2}}\ge \frac52$$