Found problems: 341
Find the least positive integer $n$ for which $2^n + 5^n - n$ is a multiple of $1000$.
Find all pairs $(x,y)$ of positive integers that satisfy the equation \[y^{2}=x^{3}+16.\]
$[x,y]-[x,z]=y-z$ and $x \neq y \neq z \neq x$
Prove, that $x|y,x|z$
2010 MOPpers are assigned numbers 1 through 2010. Each one is given a red slip and a blue slip of paper. Two positive integers, A and B, each less than or equal to 2010 are chosen. On the red slip of paper, each MOPper writes the remainder when the product of A and his or her number is divided by 2011. On the blue slip of paper, he or she writes the remainder when the product of B and his or her number is divided by 2011. The MOPpers may then perform either of the following two operations:
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[*] Each MOPper gives his or her red slip to the MOPper whose number is written on his or her blue slip.
[*] Each MOPper gives his or her blue slip to the MOPper whose number is written on his or her red slip.[/list]
Show that it is always possible to perform some number of these operations such that each MOPper is holding a red slip with his or her number written on it.
[i]Brian Hamrick.[/i]
Let $f : \{ 1, 2, 3, \dots \} \to \{ 2, 3, \dots \}$ be a function such that $f(m + n) | f(m) + f(n) $ for all pairs $m,n$ of positive integers. Prove that there exists a positive integer $c > 1$ which divides all values of $f$.
Find all pairs $(p,q)$ of prime numbers which $p>q$ and
$$\frac{(p+q)^{p+q}(p-q)^{p-q}-1}{(p+q)^{p-q}(p-q)^{p+q}-1}$$
is an integer.
Find all prime numbers $ p,q,r$, such that $ \frac{p}{q}\minus{}\frac{4}{r\plus{}1}\equal{}1$
For a positive integer $n$, an [i]$n$-sequence[/i] is a sequence $(a_0,\ldots,a_n)$ of non-negative integers satisfying the following condition: if $i$ and $j$ are non-negative integers with $i+j \leqslant n$, then $a_i+a_j \leqslant n$ and $a_{a_i+a_j}=a_{i+j}$.
Let $f(n)$ be the number of $n$-sequences. Prove that there exist positive real numbers $c_1$, $c_2$, and $\lambda$ such that \[c_1\lambda^n<f(n)<c_2\lambda^n\] for all positive integers $n$.
a. Determine all nonnegative integers $x$ and $y$ so that $3^x + 7^y$ is a perfect square and $y$ is even.
b. Determine all nonnegative integers $x$ and $y$ so that $3^x + 7^y$ is a perfect square and $y$ is odd
Let $p$ be a prime number. Let $\mathbb F_p$ denote the integers modulo $p$, and let $\mathbb F_p[x]$ be the set of polynomials with coefficients in $\mathbb F_p$. Define $\Psi : \mathbb F_p[x] \to \mathbb F_p[x]$ by \[ \Psi\left( \sum_{i=0}^n a_i x^i \right) = \sum_{i=0}^n a_i x^{p^i}. \] Prove that for nonzero polynomials $F,G \in \mathbb F_p[x]$, \[ \Psi(\gcd(F,G)) = \gcd(\Psi(F), \Psi(G)). \] Here, a polynomial $Q$ divides $P$ if there exists $R \in \mathbb F_p[x]$ such that $P(x) - Q(x) R(x)$ is the polynomial with all coefficients $0$ (with all addition and multiplication in the coefficients taken modulo $p$), and the gcd of two polynomials is the highest degree polynomial with leading coefficient $1$ which divides both of them. A non-zero polynomial is a polynomial with not all coefficients $0$. As an example of multiplication, $(x+1)(x+2)(x+3) = x^3+x^2+x+1$ in $\mathbb F_5[x]$.
[i]Proposed by Mark Sellke[/i]
Let $S$ be a set of nonnegative integers such that
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[*] there exist two elements $a$ and $b$ in $S$ such that $a,b>1$ and $\gcd(a,b)=1$; and
[*] for any (not necessarily distinct) element $x$ and nonzero element $y$ in $S$, both $xy$ and the remainder when $x$ is divided by $y$ are in $S$.
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Prove that $S$ contains every nonnegative integer.
[i]Jacob Paltrowitz[/i]
Let $\mathbb{Z}^+$ be the set of positive integers. Determine all functions $f : \mathbb{Z}^+\to\mathbb{Z}^+$ such that $a^2+f(a)f(b)$ is divisible by $f(a)+b$ for all positive integers $a,b$.
Let $P$ be a non-constant polynomial with integer coefficients such that if $n$ is a perfect power, so is $P(n)$. Prove that $P(x) = x$ or $P$ is a perfect power of a polynomial with integer coefficients.
A perfect power is an integer $n^k$, where $n \in \mathbb Z$ and $k \ge 2$. A perfect power of a polynomial is a polynomial $P(x)^k$, where $P$ has integer coefficients and $k \ge 2$.
Prove that the function $f : \mathbb{N}\longrightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ defined by $f(n) = n^{2007}-n!$, is injective.
Consider the sequence $(a_k)_{k\ge 1}$ of positive rational numbers defined by $a_1 = \frac{2020}{2021}$ and for $k\ge 1$, if $a_k = \frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$, then
\[a_{k+1} = \frac{m + 18}{n+19}.\]
Determine the sum of all positive integers $j$ such that the rational number $a_j$ can be written in the form $\frac{t}{t+1}$ for some positive integer $t$.
Find all positive integers $n$ with the following property: the $k$ positive divisors of $n$ have a permutation $(d_1,d_2,\ldots,d_k)$ such that for $i=1,2,\ldots,k$, the number $d_1+d_2+\cdots+d_i$ is a perfect square.
8. You have been kidnapped by a witch and are stuck in the [i]Terrifying Tower[/i], which has an infinite number of floors, starting with floor 1, each initially having 0 boxes. The witch allows you to do the following two things:[list]
[*] For a floor $i$, put 2 boxes on floor $i+5$, 6 on floor $i+4$, 13 on floor $i+3$, 12 on floor $i+2$, 8 on floor $i+1$, and 1 on floor $i$, or remove the corresponding number of boxes from each floor if possible.
[*] For a floor $i$, put 1 box on floor $i+4$, put 3 boxes on floor $i+3$, 6 on floor $i+2$, 5 on floor $i+1$, and 3 on floor $i$, or remove the corresponding number of boxes from each floor if possible. [/list]
At the end, suppose the witch wishes to have exactly $n$ boxes in the tower. Specifically, she wants them to be on the first 10 floors. Let $T(n)$ be the number of distinct distributions of these $n$ boxes that you can make. Find $\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^{15} T(n)$.
[i]Proposed by Monkey_king1[/i]
Determine all integers $n$ for which $\frac{4n-2}{n+5}$ is the square of a rational number.
Consider a polynomial $P(x) = \prod^9_{j=1}(x+d_j),$ where $d_1, d_2, \ldots d_9$ are nine distinct integers. Prove that there exists an integer $N,$ such that for all integers $x \geq N$ the number $P(x)$ is divisible by a prime number greater than 20.
[i]Proposed by Luxembourg[/i]
A function $f$ from the positive integers to the positive integers is called [i]Canadian[/i] if it satisfies $$\gcd\left(f(f(x)), f(x+y)\right)=\gcd(x, y)$$ for all pairs of positive integers $x$ and $y$.
Find all positive integers $m$ such that $f(m)=m$ for all Canadian functions $f$.
Let $n$ be a positive integer greater than $1$, and let $p$ be a prime such that $n$ divides $p-1$ and $p$ divides $n^3-1$. Prove that $4p-3$ is a square.
Call a quadruple of positive integers $(a, b, c, d)$ fruitful if there are infinitely many integers $m$ such that $\text{gcd} (am + b, cm + d) = 2019$. Find all possible values of $|ad-bc|$ over fruitful quadruples $(a, b, c, d)$.
Let $S$ be the set of all positive integers $n$ such that $n^4$ has a divisor in the range $n^2 +1, n^2 + 2,...,n^2 + 2n$. Prove that there are infinitely many elements of $S$ of each of the forms $7m, 7m+1, 7m+2, 7m+5, 7m+6$ and no elements of $S$ of the form $7m+3$ and $7m+4$, where $m$ is an integer.
Given are the non zero natural numbers $a,b,c$ such that the number $\frac{a\sqrt2+b\sqrt3}{b\sqrt2+c\sqrt3}$ is rational.
Prove that the number $\frac{a^2+b^2+c^2}{a+b+c}$ is an integer .
$\textbf{N5.}$ Find all $f: \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that for all $a,b,c \in \mathbb{N}$
$f(a)+f(b)+f(c)-ab-bc-ca \mid af(a)+bf(b)+cf(c)-3abc$