In a dance party initially there are $20$ girls and $22$ boys in the pool and infinitely many more girls and boys waiting outside. In each round, a participant is picked uniformly at random; if a girl is picked, then she invites a boy from the pool to dance and then both of them elave the party after the dance; while if a boy is picked, then he invites a girl and a boy from the waiting line and dance together. The three of them all stay after the dance. The party is over when there are only (two) boys left in the pool. (a) What is the probability that the party never ends? (b) Now the organizer of this party decides to reverse the rule, namely that if a girl is picked, then she invites a boy and a girl from the waiting line to dance and the three stay after the dance; while if a boy is picked, he invites a girl from the pool to dance and both leave after the dance. Still the party is over when there are only (two) boys left in the pool. What is the expected number of rounds until the party ends?

Consider a triangle $ABC$ with $\angle ACB = 2 \angle CAB $ and $\angle ABC> 90 ^ \circ$. Consider the perpendicular on $AC$ that passes through $A$ and intersects $BC$ at $D$, prove that $$\frac {1} {BC} - \frac {2} {DC} = \frac {1} {CA} $$

[b]a)[/b] Show that two real numbers $ x,y>1 $ chosen so that $ x^y=y^x, $ are equal or there exists a positive real number $ m\neq 1 $ such that $ x=m^{\frac{1}{m-1}} $ and $ y=m^{\frac{m}{m-1}} . $ [b]b)[/b] Solve in $ \left( 1,\infty \right)^2 $ the equation: $ x^y+x^{x^{y-1}}=y^x+y^{y^{x-1}} . $

Two circles $ G_1$ and $ G_2$ intersect at two points $ M$ and $ N$. Let $ AB$ be the line tangent to these circles at $ A$ and $ B$, respectively, so that $ M$ lies closer to $ AB$ than $ N$. Let $ CD$ be the line parallel to $ AB$ and passing through the point $ M$, with $ C$ on $ G_1$ and $ D$ on $ G_2$. Lines $ AC$ and $ BD$ meet at $ E$; lines $ AN$ and $ CD$ meet at $ P$; lines $ BN$ and $ CD$ meet at $ Q$. Show that $ EP \equal{} EQ$.

The World Cup, featuring $17$ teams from Europe and South America, as well as $15$ other teams that honestly don’t have a chance, is a soccer tournament that is held once every four years. As we speak, Croatia andMorocco are locked in a battle that has no significance whatsoever on the winner, but if you would like live score updates nonetheless, feel free to ask your proctor, who has no obligation whatsoever to provide them. [b]p1.[/b] During the group stage of theWorld Cup, groups of $4$ teams are formed. Every pair of teams in a group play each other once. Each team earns $3$ points for each win and $1$ point for each tie. Find the greatest possible sum of the points of each team in a group. [b]p2.[/b] In the semi-finals of theWorld Cup, the ref is bad and lets $11^2 = 121$ players per team go on the field at once. For a given team, one player is a goalie, and every other player is either a defender, midfielder, or forward. There is at least one player in each position. The product of the number of defenders, midfielders, and forwards is a mulitple of $121$. Find the number of ordered triples (number of defenders, number of midfielders, number of forwards) that satisfy these conditions. [b]p3.[/b] Messi is playing in a game during the Round of $16$. On rectangular soccer field $ABCD$ with $AB = 11$, $BC = 8$, points $E$ and $F$ are on segment $BC$ such that $BE = 3$, $EF = 2$, and $FC = 3$. If the distance betweenMessi and segment $EF$ is less than $6$, he can score a goal. The area of the region on the field whereMessi can score a goal is $a\pi +\sqrt{b} +c$, where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are integers. Find $10000a +100b +c$. [b]p4.[/b] The workers are building theWorld Cup stadium for the $2022$ World Cup in Qatar. It would take 1 worker working alone $4212$ days to build the stadium. Before construction started, there were 256 workers. However, each day after construction, $7$ workers disappear. Find the number of days it will take to finish building the stadium. [b]p5.[/b] In the penalty kick shootout, $2$ teams each get $5$ attempts to score. The teams alternate shots and the team that scores a greater number of times wins. At any point, if it’s impossible for one team to win, even before both teams have taken all $5$ shots, the shootout ends and nomore shots are taken. If each team does take all $5$ shots and afterwards the score is tied, the shootout enters sudden death, where teams alternate taking shots until one team has a higher score while both teams have taken the same number of shots. If each shot has a $\frac12$ chance of scoring, the expected number of times that any team scores can be written as $\frac{A}{B}$ for relatively prime positive integers $A$ and $B$. Find $1000A+B$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $0<a\leq 1$ be a real number and let $a\leq a_{i}\leq\frac{1}{a_{i}}\forall i=\overline{1,1996}$ are real numbers. Prove that for any nonnegative real numbers $k_{i}(i=1,2,...,1996)$ such that $\sum_{i=1}^{1996}k_{i}=1$ we have $(\sum_{i=1}^{1996}k_{i}a_{i})(\sum_{i=1}^{1996}\frac{k_{i}}{a_{i}})\leq (a+\frac{1}{a})^{2}$.

An ant crawls along the grid lines of an infinite quadrille notebook. One grid point is marked red, this is its starting point. Every time the ant reaches a grid point, it continues forward with probability $\frac13$ , left with probability $\frac13$ , and right with probability $\frac13$. What is the chance that it is after its third turn, but not after its fourth turn that it returns to the red point? If the answer is $\frac{p}{q}$ , where $p$ and $q$ are coprime positive integers, then your answer should be $p + q$. [i]The steps of the ant are independent.[/i]

Georg has bought lots of filled chocolates for a party, and when he counts how many he has, he discovers that the number is a prime number. He distributes so many of the chocolates as possible on $60$ trays with an equal number on each. He notes then that he has more than one piece left and that the number left pieces is not a prime number. How many pieces of chocolate does Georg have left?

Prove that \[ \int^1_0 \int^1_0 \frac { dx \ dy }{ \frac 1x + |\log y| -1 } \leq 1 . \]

The five numbers $17$, $98$, $39$, $54$, and $n$ have a mean equal to $n$. Find $n$.

Consider a convex polyhedron whose faces are triangles. Prove that it is possible to color its edges by either red or blue, in a way that the following property is satisfied: one can travel from any vertex to any other vertex while passing only along red edges, and can also do this while passing only along blue edges.

Rohit is counting the minimum number of lines $m$, that can be drawn so that the number of distinct points of intersection exceeds $2020$. Find $m$. (A)$63$ (B)$64$ (C)$65$ (D)$66$

2008 persons take part in a programming contest. In one round, the 2008 programmers are divided into two groups. Find the minimum number of groups such that every two programmers ever be in the same group.

Call a positive integer [i]challenging[/i] if it can be expressed as $2^a(2^b+1)$, where $a,b$ are positive integers. Prove that if $X$ is a set of challenging numbers smaller than $2^n (n$ is a given positive integer) and $|X|\ge \frac{4}{3}(n-1)$, there exist two disjoint subsets $A,B\subset X$ such that $|A|=|B|$ and $\sum_{a\in A}a=\sum_{b \in B}b$.

Find the smallest positive integer $x$ such that $2^{254}$ divides $x^{2005} + 1$.

In a village $X_0$ there are $80$ tourists who are about to visit $5$ nearby villages $X_1,X_2,X_3,X_4,X_5$.Each of them has chosen to visit only one of them.However,there are cases when the visit in a village forces the visitor to visit other villages among $X_1,X_2,X_3,X_4,X_5$.Each tourist visits only the village he has chosen and the villages he is forced to.If $X_1,X_2,X_3,X_4,X_5$ are totally visited by $40,60,65,70,75$ tourists respectively,then find how many tourists had chosen each one of them and determine all the ordered pairs $(X_i,X_j):i,j\in \{1,2,3,4,5\}$ which are such that,the visit in $X_i$ forces the visitor to visit $X_j$ as well.

Let $n$ be integer, $n>1.$ An element of the set $M=\{ 1,2,3,\ldots,n^2-1\}$ is called [i]good[/i] if there exists some element $b$ of $M$ such that $ab-b$ is divisible by $n^2.$ Furthermore, an element $a$ is called [i]very good[/i] if $a^2-a$ is divisible by $n^2.$ Let $g$ denote the number of [i]good[/i] elements in $M$ and $v$ denote the number of [i]very good[/i] elements in $M.$ Prove that \[v^2+v \leq g \leq n^2-n.\]

$\vartriangle ABC$ satisfies $AB = 16$, $BC = 30$, and $\angle ABC = 90^o$. On the circumcircle of $\vartriangle ABC$, let $P$ be the midpoint of arc $AC$ not containing $B$, and let $X$ and $Y$ lie on lines $AB$ and $BC$, respectively, with $PX \perp AB$ and $PY \perp BC$. Find $XY^2$.

Let $A = \{ 1,2, 3 , \ldots, 100 \}$ and $B$ be a subset of $A$ having $53$ elements. Show that $B$ has 2 distinct elements $x$ and $y$ whose sum is divisible by $11$.

Given two angles $ACT$ and $TCB$, where $A$, $C$ and $B$ lie on a line in that order. A circle $\alpha$ is inscribed in the first angle, and $\beta$ in the second. $\alpha$ is tangent to $AB$ and $CT$ at points $A$ and $E$, and $\beta$ is tangent to $AE$ and $BF$ at $B$ and $F \neq E$. Lines $AE$ and $BF$ intersect at $P$. Circumcircle $\omega$ of triangle $PEF$ intersects $\alpha$ and $\beta$ at $X$ and $Y$ respectively. Prove that $AX$ and $BY$ intersect on $\omega$. [i]Matsvei Zorka[/i]

For which finite group G does there exist natural number s with the following property: for any subgroup H of a finite direct power of G, each subgroup of H is produced as an intersection of subgroups of H with index at most s. not sure of translation.

A function $f:\{ 1,2,3,\cdots ,2016\}\rightarrow \{ 1,2,3,\cdots , 2016\}$ is called [i]good[/i] if the function $g(n)=|f(n)-n|$ is injective. Furthermore, a good function $f$ is called [i]excellent[/i] if there exists another good function $f'$ such that $f(n)-f'(n)$ is nonzero for exactly one value of $n$. Let $N$ be the number of good functions that are not excellent. Find the remainder when $N$ is divided by $1000$. [i]Proposed by Nathan Ramesh

Let $AL$ and $BK$ be the angle bisectors in a non-isosceles triangle $ABC,$ where $L$ lies on $BC$ and $K$ lies on $AC.$ The perpendicular bisector of $BK$ intersects the line $AL$ at $M$. Point $N$ lies on the line $BK$ such that $LN$ is parallel to $MK.$ Prove that $LN=NA.$

The point $ O$ is the center of the circle circumscribed about $ \triangle ABC$, with $ \angle BOC \equal{} 120^\circ$ and $ \angle AOB \equal{} 140^\circ$, as shown. What is the degree measure of $ \angle ABC$? [asy]unitsize(2cm); defaultpen(linewidth(.8pt)+fontsize(10pt)); pair B=dir(80), A=dir(220), C=dir(320), O=(0,0); draw(unitcircle); draw(A--B--C--O--A--C); draw(O--B); draw(anglemark(C,O,A,2)); label("$A$",A,SW); label("$B$",B,NNE); label("$C$",C,SE); label("$O$",O,S); label("$140^{\circ}$",O,NW,fontsize(8pt)); label("$120^{\circ}$",O,ENE,fontsize(8pt));[/asy]$ \textbf{(A)}\ 35 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 40 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 45 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 50 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 60$

Is there a tetrahedron $ABCD$ such that $AB+BC+CD+DA=12\text{ cm}$ with volume $\mathrm V\ge2\sqrt3\text{ cm}^3?$