Let $X$ be a set of rational numbers satisfying the following two conditions: (a) The set $X$ contains at least two elements, (b) For any $x, y$ in $X$, if $x \ne y$ then there exists $z$ in $X$ such that either $\left| \frac{x- z}{y - z} \right|= 2$ or $\left| \frac{y -z}{x - z} \right|= 2$ . Prove that $X$ contains infinitely many elements.

For a positive constant $ t$, let $ \alpha ,\ \beta$ be the roots of the quadratic equation $ x^2 \plus{} t^2x \minus{} 2t \equal{} 0$. Find the minimum value of $ \int_{ \minus{} 1}^2 \left\{\left(x \plus{} \frac {1}{\alpha ^ 2}\right)\left(x \plus{} \frac {1}{\beta ^ 2}\right) \plus{} \frac {1}{\alpha \beta}\right\}dx.$

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $\angle{C} = 90^{\circ}$, and let $H$ be the foot of the altitude from $C$. A point $D$ is chosen inside the triangle $CBH$ so that $CH$ bisects $AD$. Let $P$ be the intersection point of the lines $BD$ and $CH$. Let $\omega$ be the semicircle with diameter $BD$ that meets the segment $CB$ at an interior point. A line through $P$ is tangent to $\omega$ at $Q$. Prove that the lines $CQ$ and $AD$ meet on $\omega$.

In triangle $ ABC$ we have $ a \geq b$ and $ a \geq c.$ Prove that the ratio of circumcircle radius to incircle diameter is at least as big as the length of the centroidal axis $ s_a$ to the altitude $ a_a.$ When do we have equality?

Let $m \ge 2n$ be two positive integers. Find a closed form for the following expression: $$E(m, n) = \sum_{k=0}^{n} (-1)^k {{m- k} \choose n} { n \choose k}$$

Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the set $\{1,2,3,\ldots,10\}.$ Let $n$ be the number of sets of two non-empty disjoint subsets of $\mathcal{S}.$ (Disjoint sets are defined as sets that have no common elements.) Find the remainder obtained when $n$ is divided by $1000.$

Let $m,n \geq 2$ be integers with gcd$(m,n-1) = $gcd$(m,n) = 1$. Prove that among $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_{m-1}$, where $a_1 = mn+1, a_{k+1} = na_k + 1$, there is at least one composite number.

[i]25 problems for 30 minutes[/i] [b]p1.[/b] Today is Saturday, April $25$, $2020$. What is the value of $6 + 4 + 25 + 2020$? [b]p2.[/b] The figure below consists of a $2$ by $3$ grid of squares. How many squares of any size are in the grid? $\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|} \hline & & \\ \hline & & \\ \hline \end{tabular}$ [b]p3.[/b] James is playing a game. He first rolls a six-sided dice which contains a different number on each side, then randomly picks one of twelve dierent colors, and finally ips a quarter. How many different possible combinations of a number, a color and a flip are there in this game? [b]p4.[/b] What is the sum of the number of diagonals and sides in a regular hexagon? [b]p5.[/b] Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are best friends but they often fight. Each of their fights take up exactly one hour, and they always fight on prime days. For example, they fight on January $2$nd, $3$rd, but not the $4$th. Knowing this, how many total times do Mickey and Minnie fight in the months of April, May and June? [b]p6.[/b] Apple always loved eating watermelons. Normal watermelons have around $13$ black seeds and $25$ brown seeds, whereas strange watermelons had $45$ black seeds and $2$ brown seeds. If Apple bought $14$ normal watermelons and $7$ strange watermelons, then let $a$ be the total number of black seeds and $b$ be the total number of brown seeds. What is $a - b$? [b]p7.[/b] Jerry and Justin both roll a die once. The probability that Jerry's roll is greater than Justin's can be expressed as a fraction in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ in simplified terms. What is $m + n$? [b]p8.[/b] Taylor wants to color the sides of an octagon. What is the minimum number of colors Taylor will need so that no adjacent sides of the octagon will be filled in with the same color? [b]p9.[/b] The point $\frac23$ of the way from ($-6, 8$) to ($-3, 5$) can be expressed as an ordered pair $(a, b)$. What is $|a - b|$? [b]p10.[/b] Mary Price Maddox laughs $7$ times per class. If she teaches $4$ classes a day for the $5$ weekdays every week but doesn't laugh on Wednesdays, then how many times does she laugh after $5$ weeks of teaching? [b]p11.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a unit square. If $E$ is the midpoint of $AB$ and $F$ lies inside $ABCD$ such that $CFD$ is an equilateral triangle, the positive difference between the area of $CED$ and $CFD$ can be expressed in the form $\frac{a-\sqrt{b}}{c}$ , where $a$, $b$, $c$ are in lowest simplified terms. What is $a + b + c$? [b]p12.[/b] Eddie has musician's syndrome. Whenever a song is a $C$, $A$, or $F$ minor, he begins to cry and his body becomes very stiff. On the other hand, if the song is in $G$ minor, $A$ at major, or $E$ at major, his eyes open wide and he feels like the happiest human being ever alive. There are a total of $24$ keys. How many different possibilities are there in which he cries while playing one song with two distinct keys? [b]p13.[/b] What positive integer must be added to both the numerator and denominator of $\frac{12}{40}$ to make a fraction that is equivalent to $\frac{4}{11}$ ? [b]p14.[/b] The number $0$ is written on the board. Each minute, Gene the genie either multiplies the number on the board by $3$ or $9$, each with equal probability, and then adds either $1$,$2$, or $3$, each with equal probability. Find the expected value of the number after $3$ minutes. [b]p15.[/b] $x$ satisfies $\dfrac{1}{x+ \dfrac{1}{1+\frac{1}{2}}}=\dfrac{1}{2+ \dfrac{1}{1- \dfrac{1}{2+\frac{1}{2}}}}$ Find $x$. [b]p16.[/b] How many different points in a coordinate plane can a bug end up on if the bug starts at the origin and moves one unit to the right, left, up or down every minute for $8$ minutes? [b]p17.[/b] The triplets Addie, Allie, and Annie, are racing against the triplets Bobby, Billy, and Bonnie in a relay race on a track that is $100$ feet long. The first person of each team must run around the entire track twice and tag the second person for the second person to start running. Then, the second person must run once around the entire track and tag the third person, and finally, the third person would only have to run around half the track. Addie and Bob run first, Allie and Billy second, Annie and Bonnie third. Addie, Allie, and Annie run at $50$ feet per minute (ft/m), $25$ ft/m, and $20$ ft/m, respectively. If Bob, Billy, and Bonnie run half as fast as Addie, Allie, and Annie, respectively, then how many minutes will it take Bob, Billy, and Bonnie to finish the race. Assume that everyone runs at a constant rate. [b]p18.[/b] James likes to play with Jane and Jason. If the probability that Jason and Jane play together is $\frac13$, while the probability that James and Jason is $\frac14$ and the probability that James and Jane play together is $\frac15$, then the probability that they all play together is $\frac{\sqrt{p}}{q}$ for positive integers $p$, $q$ where $p$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $p + q$. [b]p19.[/b] Call an integer a near-prime if it is one more than a prime number. Find the sum of all near-primes less than$ 1000$ that are perfect powers. (Note: a perfect power is an integer of the form $n^k$ where $n, k \ge 2$ are integers.) [b]p20.[/b] What is the integer solution to $\sqrt{\frac{2x-6}{x-11}} = \frac{3x-7}{x+6}$ ? [b]p21.[/b] Consider rectangle $ABCD$ with $AB = 12$ and $BC = 4$ with $F$,$G$ trisecting $DC$ so that $F$ is closer to $D$. Then $E$ is on $AB$. We call the intersection of $EF$ and $DB$ $X$, and the intersection of $EG$ and $DB$ is $Y$. If the area of $\vartriangle XY E$ is \frac{8}{15} , then what is the length of $EB$? [b]p22.[/b] The sum $$\sum^{\infty}_{n=2} \frac{1}{4n^2-1}$$ can be expressed as a common fraction $\frac{a}{b}$ in lowest terms. Find $a + b$. [b]p23.[/b] In square $ABCD$, $M$, $N$, $O$, $P$ are points on sides $\overline{AB}$, $\overline{BC}$, $\overline{CD}$ and $\overline{DA}$, respectively. If $AB = 4$, $AM = BM$ and $DP = 3AP$, the least possible value of $MN + NO + OP$ can be expressed as $\sqrt{x}$ forsome integer x. Find x: [b]p24.[/b] Grand-Ovich the ant is at a vertex of a regular hexagon and he moves to one of the adjacent vertices every minute with equal probability. Let the probability that after $8$ minutes he will have returned to the starting vertex at least once be the common fraction $\frac{a}{b}$ in lowest terms. What is $a + b$? [b]p25.[/b] Find the last two non-zero digits at the end of $2020!$ written as a two digit number. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Six cards with numbers 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 5 are given. We are drawing 3 cards from 6 given cards one by one and are forming a three-digit number with the numbers over the cards drawn according to the drawing order. Find the probability that this three-digit number is a multiple of 3. (The card drawn is not put back) $\textbf{(A)}\ \frac {1}{5} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac {2}{5} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac {3}{7} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac {1}{2} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None}$

Let $n>1$ be an integer. Suppose we are given $2n$ points in the plane such that no three of them are collinear. The points are to be labelled $A_1, A_2, \dots , A_{2n}$ in some order. We then consider the $2n$ angles $\angle A_1A_2A_3, \angle A_2A_3A_4, \dots , \angle A_{2n-2}A_{2n-1}A_{2n}, \angle A_{2n-1}A_{2n}A_1, \angle A_{2n}A_1A_2$. We measure each angle in the way that gives the smallest positive value (i.e. between $0^{\circ}$ and $180^{\circ}$). Prove that there exists an ordering of the given points such that the resulting $2n$ angles can be separated into two groups with the sum of one group of angles equal to the sum of the other group.

Determine all functions $f$ defined on the set of all positive integers and taking non-negative integer values, satisfying the three conditions: [list] [*] $(i)$ $f(n) \neq 0$ for at least one $n$; [*] $(ii)$ $f(x y)=f(x)+f(y)$ for every positive integers $x$ and $y$; [*] $(iii)$ there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $f(k)=f(n-k)$ for all $k<n$. [/list]

The Pell numbers $P_n$ satisfy $P_0 = 0$, $P_1 = 1$, and $P_n=2P_{n-1}+P_{n-2}$ for $n\geq 2$. Find $$\sum \limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \left (\tan^{-1}\frac{1}{P_{2n}}+\tan^{-1}\frac{1}{P_{2n+2}}\right )\tan^{-1}\frac{2}{P_{2n+1}}$$

The sum $2\frac17+3\frac12+5\frac{1}{19}$ is between $\text{(A)}\ 10\text{ and }10\frac12 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 10\frac12 \text{ and } 11 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 11\text{ and }11\frac12 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 11\frac12 \text{ and }12 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 12\text{ and }12\frac12$

During chemistry labs, we oftentimes fold a disk-shaped filter paper twice, and then open up a flap of the quartercircle to form a cone shape, as in the diagram. What is the angle $\theta$, in degrees, of the bottom of the cone when we look at it from the side? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/d/2/f8e3a7afb606dfd6fad277f547b116566a4a91.png[/img]

Consider the polynomials \[P(x) = x^4 + ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + 1 \quad \text{and} \quad Q(x) = x^4 + cx^3 + bx^2 + ax + 1.\] Find the conditions on the parameters $a, b, $c with $a\neq c$ for which $P(x)$ and $Q(x)$ have two common roots and, in such cases, solve the equations $P(x) = 0$ and $Q(x) = 0.$

Find all the prime numbers $p, q$ and $r$ such that $p^2 + 1 = 74 (q^2 + r^2)$.

Two circles $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ are tangent externally at the point $P$. Through the point $A$ of the circle $\omega_1$ is drawn a tangent to this circle, which intersects the circle $\omega_2$ at points $B$ and $C$ (see figure). Line $CP$ intersects again the circle $\omega_1$ to $D$. Prove that the $PA$ is a bisector of the angle $DPB$. [img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmKZGdBXfao/XOd51gRFuyI/AAAAAAAAKO0/EYo2SCW0eGcJsF64-Avo6w73ugkIIQ30ACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Yasinsky%2B2019%2Bp2.png[/img]

Find the largest cube which can be placed inside a regular tetrahedron with side $1$ so that one of its faces lies on the base of the tetrahedron.

Let $I$ and $J$ be the centers of the incircle and the excircle in the angle $BAC$ of the triangle $ABC$. For any point $M$ in the plane of the triangle, not on the line $BC$, denote by $I_M$ and $J_M$ the centers of the incircle and the excircle (touching $BC$) of the triangle $BCM$. Find the locus of points $M$ for which $II_MJJ_M$ is a rectangle.

[u]Set 1[/u] [b]1.1[/b] How many positive integer divisors are there of $2^2 \cdot 3^3 \cdot 5^4$? [b]1.2[/b] Let $T$ be the answer from the previous problem. For how many integers $n$ between $1$ and $T$ (inclusive) is $\frac{(n)(n - 1)(n - 2)}{12}$ an integer? [b]1.3[/b] Let $T$ be the answer from the previous problem. Find $\frac{lcm(T, 36)}{gcd(T, 36)}$. PS. You should use hide for answers.

Let be the points $ K,L,M $ on the sides $ BC,CA,AB, $ respectively, of a triangle $ ABC. $ Show that at least one of the areas of the triangles $ MAL,KBM,LCK $ doesn't surpass a fourth of the area of $ ABC. $

If $x,y,z$ satisfies $x^2+y^2+z^2=1$, find the maximum possible value of $$(x^2-yz)(y^2-zx)(z^2-xy)$$

Let $r$ be the number that results when both the base and the exponent of $a^b$ are tripled, where $a, b>0$. If $r$ equals the product of $a^b$ and $x^b$ where $x>0$, then $x=$ $ \textbf{(A)}\ 3 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 3a^2 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 27a^2 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 2a^{3b} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 3a^{2b} $

Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram with $AB>BC$ and $\angle DAB$ less than $\angle ABC$. The perpendicular bisectors of sides $AB$ and $BC$ intersect at the point $M$ lying on the extension of $AD$. If $\angle MCD=15^{\circ}$, find the measure of $\angle ABC$

Let $\triangle ABC$ be an acute triangle. The line through $A$ perpendicular to $BC$ intersects $BC$ at $D$. Let $E$ be the midpoint of $AD$ and $\omega$ the the circle with center $E$ and radius equal to $AE$. The line $BE$ intersects $\omega$ at a point $X$ such that $X$ and $B$ are not on the same side of $AD$ and the line $CE$ intersects $\omega$ at a point $Y$ such that $C$ and $Y$ are not on the same side of $AD$. If both of the intersection points of the circumcircles of $\triangle BDX$ and $\triangle CDY$ lie on the line $AD$, prove that $AB = AC$.