Olympiad problems

2025 Iran MO (2nd Round), 6

Ali is hosting a large party. Together with his $n-1$ friends, $n$ people are seated around a circular table in a fixed order. Ali places $n$ apples for serving directly in front of himself and wants to distribute them among everyone. Since Ali and his friends dislike eating alone and won't start unless everyone receives an apple at the same time, in each step, each person who has at least one apple passes one apple to the first person to their right who doesn't have an apple (in the clockwise direction). Find all values of $n$ such that after some number of steps, the situation reaches a point where each person has exactly one apple.

2025 Iran MO (2nd Round), 2

Tags: combinatorics , Iran 2nd Round , infinite grid

Ali and Shayan are playing a turn-based game on an infinite grid. Initially, all cells are white. Ali starts the game, and in the first turn, he colors one unit square black. In the following turns, each player must color a white square that shares at least one side with a black square. The game continues for exactly 2808 turns, after which each player has made 1404 moves. Let $A$ be the set of black cells at the end of the game. Ali and Shayan respectively aim to minimize and maximise the perimeter of the shape $A$ by playing optimally. (The perimeter of shape $A$ is defined as the total length of the boundary segments between a black and a white cell.) What are the possible values of the perimeter of $A$, assuming both players play optimally?

2018 Iran MO (2nd Round), 6

Tags: geometry , Iran 2nd Round

Two circles $\omega_1,\omega_2$ intersect at $P,Q $. An arbitrary line passing through $P $ intersects $\omega_1 , \omega_2$ at $A,B $ respectively. Another line parallel to $AB $ intersects $\omega_1$ at $D,F $ and $\omega_2$ at $E,C $ such that $E,F $ lie between $C,D $.Let $X\equiv AD\cap BE $ and $Y\equiv BC\cap AF $. Let $R $ be the reflection of $P $ about $CD$. Prove that: a. $R $ lies on $XY $. b. PR is the bisector of $\hat {XPY}$.

2025 Iran MO (2nd Round), 5

Tags: inequalities , function , Functional inequality , Iran 2nd Round

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}$ such that for all $x,y,z>0$ $$ 3(x^3+y^3+z^3)\geq f(x+y+z)\cdot f(xy+yz+xz) \geq (x+y+z)(xy+yz+xz). $$