Found problems: 1671
Find the greatest positive integer $m$, such that one of the $4$ letters $C,G,M,O$ can be placed in each cell of a table with $m$ rows and $8$ columns, and has the following property: For any two distinct rows in the table, there exists at most one column, such that the entries of these two rows in such a column are the same letter.
Determine all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ for which there exists a function $g:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(x)+f(y)=\lfloor g(x+y)\rfloor$ for all real numbers $x$ and $y$.
[i]Emil Vasile[/i]
Determine all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that satisfy $$(f(a)-f(b))(f(b)-f(c))(f(c)-f(a)) = f(ab^2+bc^2+ca^2) - f(a^2b+b^2c+c^2a)$$for all real numbers $a$, $b$, $c$.
[i]Proposed by Ankan Bhattacharya, USA[/i]
Find all functions $f:(0,\infty) \rightarrow (0,\infty)$ such that \[f\left(x+\frac{1}{y}\right)+f\left(y+\frac{1}{z}\right) + f\left(z+\frac{1}{x}\right) = 1\] for all $x,y,z >0$ with $xyz =1$.
Let the sequence $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$, where $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of natural numbers, is given with $a_1=2$ and $a_{n+1}$ $=$ $a_n^2$ $-$ $a_n+1$. Find the minimum real number $L$, such that for every $k$ $\in$ $\mathbb{N}$
\begin{align*} \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{1}{a_i} < L \end{align*}
Let $ a_{1},a_{2},\cdots,a_{n}$ be positive real numbers satisfying $ a_{1} \plus{} a_{2} \plus{} \cdots \plus{} a_{n} \equal{} 1$. Prove that
\[\left(a_{1}a_{2} \plus{} a_{2}a_{3} \plus{} \cdots \plus{} a_{n}a_{1}\right)\left(\frac {a_{1}}{a_{2}^2 \plus{} a_{2}} \plus{} \frac {a_{2}}{a_{3}^2 \plus{} a_{3}} \plus{} \cdots \plus{} \frac {a_{n}}{a_{1}^2 \plus{} a_{1}}\right)\ge\frac {n}{n \plus{} 1}\]
Let $x_1,..., x_n$ be non-negative real numbers, not all of which are zeros.
(i) Prove that
$$1 \le \frac{\left(x_1+\frac{x_2}{2}+\frac{x_3}{3}+...+\frac{x_n}{n}\right)(x_1+2x_2+3x_3+...+nx_n)}{(x_1+x_2+x_3+...+x_n)^2} \le \frac{(n+1)^2}{4n}$$
(ii) Show that, for each $n > 1$, both inequalities can hold as equalities.
Let $ x$, $ y$, $ z$ be real numbers satisfying $ x^2\plus{}y^2\plus{}z^2\plus{}9\equal{}4(x\plus{}y\plus{}z)$. Prove that
\[ x^4\plus{}y^4\plus{}z^4\plus{}16(x^2\plus{}y^2\plus{}z^2) \ge 8(x^3\plus{}y^3\plus{}z^3)\plus{}27\]
and determine when equality holds.
Given are positive reals $a, b, c$, such that $\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}=3$. Prove that
$\frac{\sqrt{a+\frac{b}{c}}+\sqrt{b+\frac{c}{a}}+\sqrt{c+\frac{a}{b}}}{3}\leq \frac{a+b+c-1}{\sqrt{2}}$.
[i]Albania[/i]
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(0)\neq 0$ and for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$,
\[ f(x+y)^2 = 2f(x)f(y) + \max \left\{ f(x^2+y^2), f(x^2)+f(y^2) \right\}. \]
Let $ x,y,z $ be real numbers. Prove that the following conditions are equivalent:
(i) $ x,y,z $ are positive numbers and $ \dfrac 1x + \dfrac 1y + \dfrac 1z \leq 1 $;
(ii) $ a^2x+b^2y+c^2z>d^2 $ holds for every quadrilateral with sides $ a,b,c,d $.
Find all positive integers $n$ for which all positive divisors of $n$ can be put into the cells of a rectangular table under the following constraints:
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[*]each cell contains a distinct divisor;
[*]the sums of all rows are equal; and
[*]the sums of all columns are equal.
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If $x,y,z$ are positive real numbers and $xy+yz+zx=1$ prove that
\[ \frac{27}{4} (x+y)(y+z)(z+x) \geq ( \sqrt{x+y} +\sqrt{ y+z} + \sqrt{z+x} )^2 \geq 6 \sqrt 3. \]
Let $x,y$ and $z$ be positive real numbers such that $xy+yz+xz=3xyz$. Prove that \[ x^2y+y^2z+z^2x \ge 2(x+y+z)-3 \] and determine when equality holds.
[i]UK - David Monk[/i]
Let $x,y,z$ be positive integers such that $x\neq y\neq z \neq x$ .Prove that $$(x+y+z)(xy+yz+zx-2)\geq 9xyz.$$
When does the equality hold?
[i]Proposed by Dorlir Ahmeti, Albania[/i]
Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that $a + b + c + ab + bc + ca + abc = 7$. Prove
that $\sqrt{a^2 + b^2 + 2 }+\sqrt{b^2 + c^2 + 2 }+\sqrt{c^2 + a^2 + 2 } \ge 6$ .
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 $n\geq2$.
Determine all functions $ f$ defined on the set of rational numbers that take rational values for which
\[ f(2f(x) \plus{} f(y)) \equal{} 2x \plus{} y,
\]
for each $ x$ and $ y$.
Given real numbers $x, y, z, w$ such that $(x + y + 2z)(x + z + 3w) = 1$, what is the minimum possible value of $x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + w^2$?
Let $a, b, c>0$ such that $a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}=3abc.$ Prove the following inequality:
\[ \frac{a}{b^{2}c^{2}}+\frac{b}{c^{2}a^{2}}+\frac{c}{a^{2}b^{2}}\geq\frac{9}{a+b+c} \]
Determine all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that satisfy $$(f(a)-f(b))(f(b)-f(c))(f(c)-f(a)) = f(ab^2+bc^2+ca^2) - f(a^2b+b^2c+c^2a)$$for all real numbers $a$, $b$, $c$.
[i]Proposed by Ankan Bhattacharya, USA[/i]
Let $a$,$b$,$c$ and $d$ positive reals. Prove that
$$\frac{1}{a+b+c+d} \leq \frac{1}{64}(\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{4}{c}+\frac{16}{d})$$
If $b_{1}, b_{2}, \ldots, b_{n}$ are non-negative reals not all zero, then prove that the polynomial \[x^{n}-b_{1}x^{n-1}-b_{2}x^{n-2}-\ldots-b_{n}=0\] has only one positive root $p$, which is simple. Moreover prove that any root of the polynomial does not exceed $p$ in absolute value.
In an acute triangle $ABC$, let $D$, $E$, $F$ be the feet of the perpendiculars from the points $A$, $B$, $C$ to the lines $BC$, $CA$, $AB$, respectively, and let $P$, $Q$, $R$ be the feet of the perpendiculars from the points $A$, $B$, $C$ to the lines $EF$, $FD$, $DE$, respectively.
Prove that $p\left(ABC\right)p\left(PQR\right) \ge \left(p\left(DEF\right)\right)^{2}$, where $p\left(T\right)$ denotes the perimeter of triangle $T$ .
[i]Proposed by Hojoo Lee, Korea[/i]
In the coordinate plane the points with both coordinates being rational numbers are called rational points. For any positive integer $n$, is there a way to use $n$ colours to colour all rational points, every point is coloured one colour, such that any line segment with both endpoints being rational points contains the rational points of every colour?