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2022 Costa Rica - Final Round, 2

Find all functions $f$, of the form $f(x) = x^3 +px^2 +qx+r$ with $p$, $q$ and $r$ integers, such that $f(s) = 506$ for some integer $s$ and $f(\sqrt3) = 0$.

2015 Purple Comet Problems, 23

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Larry and Diane start $100$ miles apart along a straight road. Starting at the same time, Larry and Diane drive their cars toward each other. Diane drives at a constant rate of 30 miles per hour. To make it interesting, at the beginning of each 10 mile stretch, if the two drivers have not met, Larry flips a fair coin. If the coin comes up heads, Larry drives the next 10 miles at 20 miles per hour. If the coin comes up tails, Larry drives the next 10 miles at 60 miles per hour. Larry and Diane stop driving when they meet. The expected number of times that Larry flips the coin is $\frac{m}{n}$ , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n.$

1995 IMO Shortlist, 8

Let $ p$ be an odd prime. Determine positive integers $ x$ and $ y$ for which $ x \leq y$ and $ \sqrt{2p} \minus{} \sqrt{x} \minus{} \sqrt{y}$ is non-negative and as small as possible.

2001 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 6

On the plane 100 lines are drawn, among which there are no parallel lines. From any five of these lines, some three pass through one point. Prove that there are two points such that each line contains at least of of them.

2017 Costa Rica - Final Round, LR2

Tags: combinatorics , set
There is a set of $17$ consecutive positive integers. Let $m$ be the smallest of these numbers. Determine for which values of $m$ the set can be divided into three subsets disjoint, such that the sum of the elements of each subset is the same.

MBMT Guts Rounds, 2022

[hide=D stands for Dedekind, Z stands for Zermelo]they had two problem sets under those two names[/hide] [u]Set 4[/u] [b]D16.[/b] The cooking club at Blair creates $14$ croissants and $21$ danishes. Daniel chooses pastries randomly, stopping when he gets at least one croissant and at least two danishes. How many pastries must he choose to guarantee that he has one croissant and two danishes? [b]D17.[/b] Each digit in a $3$ digit integer is either $1, 2$, or $4$ with equal probability. What is the probability that the hundreds digit is greater than the sum of the tens digit and the ones digit? [b]D18 / Z11.[/b] How many two digit numbers are there such that the product of their digits is prime? [b]D19 / Z9.[/b] In the coordinate plane, a point is selected in the rectangle defined by $-6 \le x \le 4$ and $-2 \le y \le 8$. What is the largest possible distance between the point and the origin, $(0, 0)$? [b]D20 / Z10.[/b] The sum of two numbers is $6$ and the sum of their squares is $32$. Find the product of the two numbers. [u]Set 5[/u] [b]D21 / Z12.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ has area $4$ and $\overline{AB} = 4$. What is the maximum possible value of $\angle ACB$? [b]D22 / Z13.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be an iscoceles trapezoid with $AB = CD$ and M be the midpoint of $AD$. If $\vartriangle ABM$ and $\vartriangle MCD$ are equilateral, and $BC = 4$, find the area of trapezoid $ABCD$. [b]D23 / Z14.[/b] Let $x$ and $y$ be positive real numbers that satisfy $(x^2 + y^2)^2 = y^2$. Find the maximum possible value of $x$. [b]D24 / Z17.[/b] In parallelogram $ABCD$, $\angle A \cdot \angle C - \angle B \cdot \angle D = 720^o$ where all angles are in degrees. Find the value of $\angle C$. [b]D25.[/b] The number $12ab9876543$ is divisible by $101$, where $a, b$ represent digits between $0$ and $9$. What is $10a + b$? [u]Set 6[/u] [b]D26 / Z26.[/b] For every person who wrote a problem that appeared on the final MBMT tests, take the number of problems they wrote, and then take that number’s factorial, and finally multiply all these together to get $n$. Estimate the greatest integer $a$ such that $2^a$ evenly divides $n$. [b]D27 / Z27.[/b] Circles of radius $5$ are centered at each corner of a square with side length $6$. If a random point $P$ is chosen randomly inside the square, what is the probability that $P$ lies within all four circles? [b]D28 / Z28.[/b] Mr. Rose’s evil cousin, Mr. Caulem, has teaches a class of three hundred bees. Every week, he tries to disrupt Mr. Rose’s $4$th period by sending three of his bee students to fly around and make human students panic. Unfortunately, no pair of bees can fly together twice, as then Mr. Rose will become suspicious and trace them back to Mr. Caulem. What’s the largest number of weeks Mr. Caulem can disrupt Mr. Rose’s class? [b]D29 / Z29. [/b]Two blind brothers Beard and Bored are driving their tractors in the middle of a field facing north, and both are $10$ meters west from a roast turkey. Beard, can turn exactly $0.7^o$ and Bored can turn exactly $0.2^o$ degrees. Driving at a consistent $2$ meters per second, they drive straight until they notice the smell of the turkey getting farther away, and then turn right and repeat until they get to the turkey. Suppose Beard gets to the Turkey in about $818.5$ seconds. Estimate the amount of time it will take Bored. [b]D30 / Z30.[/b] Let a be the probability that $4$ randomly chosen positive integers have no common divisor except for $1$. Estimate $300a$. Note that the integers $1, 2, 3, 4$ have no common divisor except for $1$. Remark. This problem is asking you to find $300 \lim_{n\to \infty} a_n$, if $a_n$ is defined to be the probability that $4$ randomly chosen integers from $\{1, 2, ..., n\}$ have greatest common divisor $1$. PS. You should use hide for answers. D.1-15 / Z.1-8 problems have been collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2916240p26045561]here [/url]and Z.15-25 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2916258p26045774]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2016 Indonesia TST, 2

Let $a,b$ be two positive integers, such that $ab\neq 1$. Find all the integer values that $f(a,b)$ can take, where \[ f(a,b) = \frac { a^2+ab+b^2} { ab- 1} . \]

2023 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad, 1

Tags: geometry
In triangle ABC $\angle ABC=60^{o}$ and $O$ is the center of the circumscribed circle. The bisector $BL$ intersects the circumscribed circle at the point $W$. Prove that $OW$ is tangent to $(BOL)$

2014 IMC, 2

Let $A=(a_{ij})_{i, j=1}^n$ be a symmetric $n\times n$ matrix with real entries, and let $\lambda _1, \lambda _2, \dots, \lambda _n$ denote its eigenvalues. Show that $$\sum_{1\le i<j\le n} a_{ii}a_{jj}\ge \sum_{1\le i < j\le n} \lambda _i \lambda _j$$ and determine all matrices for which equality holds. (Proposed by Matrin Niepel, Comenius University, Bratislava)

2020 BMT Fall, 7

Tags: algebra
Let $a,\,b,$ and $c$ be real numbers such that $a+b+c=\frac1{a}+\frac1{b}+\frac1{c}$ and $abc=5$. The value of $$\left(a-\frac1{b}\right)^3+\left(b-\frac1{c}\right)^3+\left(c-\frac1{a}\right)^3$$ can be written in the form $\tfrac{m}{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $m+n$.

2001 AMC 8, 8

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Problems 7, 8 and 9 are about these kites. [asy] for (int a = 0; a < 7; ++a) { for (int b = 0; b < 8; ++b) { dot((a,b)); } } draw((3,0)--(0,5)--(3,7)--(6,5)--cycle);[/asy] Genevieve puts bracing on her large kite in the form of a cross connecting opposite corners of the kite. How many inches of bracing material does she need? $ \text{(A)}\ 30\qquad\text{(B)}\ 32\qquad\text{(C)}\ 35\qquad\text{(D)}\ 38\qquad\text{(E)}\ 39 $

Dumbest FE I ever created, 2.

Find all functions \( f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) such that for all \( x, y \in \mathbb{R} \), \[ f(x + f(2y)) + f(x^2 - y) = f(f(x)) f(x + 1) + 2y - f(y). \]

2011 ISI B.Stat Entrance Exam, 7

[b](i)[/b] Show that there cannot exists three peime numbers, each greater than $3$, which are in arithmetic progression with a common difference less than $5$. [b](ii)[/b] Let $k > 3$ be an integer. Show that it is not possible for $k$ prime numbers, each greater than $k$, to be in an arithmetic progression with a common difference less than or equal to $k+1$.

2010 Iran MO (3rd Round), 3

[b]points in plane[/b] set $A$ containing $n$ points in plane is given. a $copy$ of $A$ is a set of points that is made by using transformation, rotation, homogeneity or their combination on elements of $A$. we want to put $n$ $copies$ of $A$ in plane, such that every two copies have exactly one point in common and every three of them have no common elements. a) prove that if no $4$ points of $A$ make a parallelogram, you can do this only using transformation. ($A$ doesn't have a parallelogram with angle $0$ and a parallelogram that it's two non-adjacent vertices are one!) b) prove that you can always do this by using a combination of all these things. time allowed for this question was 1 hour and 30 minutes

2014 Romania National Olympiad, 2

Let $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ be a cube with side $AB = a$. Consider points $E \in (AB)$ and $F \in (BC)$ such that $AE + CF = EF$. a) Determine the measure the angle formed by the planes $(D'DE)$ and $(D'DF)$. b) Calculate the distance from $D'$ to the line $EF$.

Kyiv City MO Juniors Round2 2010+ geometry, 2015.7.41

The equal segments $AB$ and $CD$ intersect at the point $O$ and divide it by the relation $AO: OB = CO: OD = 1: 2 $. The lines $AD$ and $BC$ intersect at the point $M$. Prove that $DM = MB$.

2008 India Regional Mathematical Olympiad, 3

Prove that for every positive integer $n$ and a non-negative real number $a$, the following inequality holds: $$n(n+1)a+2n \geqslant 4\sqrt{a}(\sqrt{1}+\sqrt{2}+\dots+\sqrt{n}).$$

2018 AMC 12/AHSME, 11

Tags: geometry
A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point $A$ in the figure on the right. The box has base length $w$ and height $h$. What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper? [asy]size(270pt); defaultpen(fontsize(10pt)); filldraw(((3,3)--(-3,3)--(-3,-3)--(3,-3)--cycle),lightgrey); dot((-3,3)); label("$A$",(-3,3),NW); draw((1,3)--(-3,-1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((-1,3)--(3,-1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((-1,-3)--(3,1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((1,-3)--(-3,1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((0,2)--(2,0)--(0,-2)--(-2,0)--cycle,linewidth(.5)); draw((0,3)--(0,-3),linetype("2.5 2.5")+linewidth(.5)); draw((3,0)--(-3,0),linetype("2.5 2.5")+linewidth(.5)); label('$w$',(-1,-1),SW); label('$w$',(1,-1),SE); draw((4.5,0)--(6.5,2)--(8.5,0)--(6.5,-2)--cycle); draw((4.5,0)--(8.5,0)); draw((6.5,2)--(6.5,-2)); label("$A$",(6.5,0),NW); dot((6.5,0)); [/asy] $\textbf{(A) } 2(w+h)^2 \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{(w+h)^2}2 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2w^2+4wh \qquad \textbf{(D) } 2w^2 \qquad \textbf{(E) } w^2h $

2011 Cuba MO, 2

Determine all the integer solutions of the equation $3x^4-2024y+1= 0$.

2010 Pan African, 1

Seven distinct points are marked on a circle of circumference $c$. Three of the points form an equilateral triangle and the other four form a square. Prove that at least one of the seven arcs into which the seven points divide the circle has length less than or equal $\frac{c}{24}$.

2011 Ukraine Team Selection Test, 4

Tags: combinatorics , sum , set
Suppose an ordered set of $ ({{a} _{1}}, \ {{a} _{2}},\ \ldots,\ {{a} _{n}}) $ real numbers, $n \ge 3 $. It is possible to replace the number $ {{a} _ {i}} $, $ i = \overline {2, \ n-1} $ by the number $ a_ {i} ^ {*} $ that $ {{a} _ {i}} + a_ {i} ^ {*} = {{a} _ {i-1}} + {{a} _ {i + 1}} $. Let $ ({{b} _ {1}},\ {{b} _ {2}}, \ \ldots, \ {{b} _ {n}}) $ be the set with the largest sum of numbers that can be obtained from this, and $ ({{c} _ {1}},\ {{c} _ {2}}, \ \ldots, \ {{c} _ {n}}) $ is a similar set with the least amount. For the odd $n \ge 3 $ and set $ (1,\ 3, \ \ldots, \ n, \ 2, \ 4, \ \ldots,\ n-1) $ find the values of the expressions $ {{b} _ {1}} + {{b} _ {2}} + \ldots + {{b} _ {n}} $ and $ {{c} _ {1}} + {{c} _ {2}} + \ldots + {{c} _ {n}} $.

LMT Theme Rounds, 2023F 1A

Tags: theme , alg
Sam dumps tea for $6$ hours at a constant rate of $60$ tea crates per hour. Eddie takes $4$ hours to dump the same amount of tea at a different constant rate. How many tea crates does Eddie dump per hour? [i]Proposed by Samuel Tsui[/i] [hide=Solution] [i]Solution.[/i] $\boxed{90}$ Sam dumps a total of $6 \cdot 60 = 360$ tea crates and since it takes Eddie $4$ hours to dump that many he dumps at a rate of $\dfrac{360}{4}= \boxed{90}$ tea crates per hour. [/hide]

2004 Iran Team Selection Test, 4

Tags: geometry
Let $ M,M'$ be two conjugates point in triangle $ ABC$ (in the sense that $ \angle MAB\equal{}\angle M'AC,\dots$). Let $ P,Q,R,P',Q',R'$ be foots of perpendiculars from $ M$ and $ M'$ to $ BC,CA,AB$. Let $ E\equal{}QR\cap Q'R'$, $ F\equal{}RP\cap R'P'$ and $ G\equal{}PQ\cap P'Q'$. Prove that the lines $ AG, BF, CE$ are parallel.

PEN H Problems, 59

Solve the equation $28^x =19^y +87^z$, where $x, y, z$ are integers.

2024 India IMOTC, 15

In a conference, mathematicians from $11$ different countries participate and they have integer-valued ages between $27$ and $33$ years (including $27$ and $33$). There is at least one mathematician from each country, and there is at least one mathematician of each possible age between $27$ and $33$. Show that we can find at least five mathematicians $m_1, \ldots, m_5$ such that for any $i \in \{1, \ldots, 5 \}$ there are more mathematicians in the conference having the same age as $m_i$ than those having the same nationality as $m_i$. [i]Proposed by S. Muralidharan[/i]