Found problems: 85335
2003 Switzerland Team Selection Test, 3
Find the largest real number $ C_1 $ and the smallest real number $ C_2 $, such that, for all reals $ a,b,c,d,e $, we have \[ C_1 < \frac{a}{a+b}+\frac{b}{b+c}+\frac{c}{c+d}+\frac{d}{d+e}+\frac{e}{e+a} < C_2 \]
2012 Indonesia TST, 3
Suppose $l(M, XYZ)$ is a Simson line of the triangle $XYZ$ that passes through $M$.
Suppose $ABCDEF$ is a cyclic hexagon such that $l(A, BDF), l(B, ACE), l(D, ABF), l(E, ABC)$ intersect at a single point. Prove that $CDEF$ is a rectangle.
[color=blue]Should the first sentence read:
Suppose $l(M, XYZ)$ is a Simson line of the triangle $XYZ$ [u]with respect to[/u] $M$.
? Since it appears weird that a Simson line that passes a point is to be constructed. However, this is Unsolved after all, so I'm not sure.[/color]
2017 Macedonia JBMO TST, 5
Find all the positive integers $n$ so that $n$ has the same number of digits as its number of different prime factors and the sum of these different prime factors is equal to the sum of exponents of all these primes in factorization of $n$.
1991 Arnold's Trivium, 26
Investigate the behaviour as $t\to+\infty$ of solutions of the systems
\[\begin{cases}
\dot{x}=y\\
\dot{y}=2\sin y-y-x\end{cases}\]
\[\begin{cases}
\dot{x}=y\\
\dot{y}=2x-x^{3}-x^{2}-\epsilon y\end{cases}\]
where $\epsilon\ll 1$.
2014 AMC 12/AHSME, 11
David drives from his home to the airport to catch a flight. He drives $35$ miles in the first hour, but realizes that he will be $1$ hour late if he continues at this speed. He increases his speed by $15$ miles per hour for the rest of the way to the airport and arrives $30$ minutes early. How many miles is the airport from his home?
$\textbf{(A) }140\qquad
\textbf{(B) }175\qquad
\textbf{(C) }210\qquad
\textbf{(D) }245\qquad
\textbf{(E) }280\qquad$
2011 District Olympiad, 1
Find the real numbers $x$ and $y$ such that
$$(x^2 -x +1)(3y^2-2y + 3) -2=0.$$
2005 AMC 12/AHSME, 25
Six ants simultaneously stand on the six vertices of a regular octahedron, with each ant at a different vertex. Simultaneously and independently, each ant moves from its vertex to one of the four adjacent vertices, each with equal probability. What is the probability that no two ants arrive at the same vertex?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac {5}{256} \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ \frac {21}{1024} \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ \frac {11}{512} \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ \frac {23}{1024} \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ \frac {3}{128}$
2010 Regional Olympiad of Mexico Center Zone, 4
Let $a$ and $b$ be two positive integers and $A$ be a subset of $\{1, 2,…, a + b \}$ that has more than $ \frac {a + b} {2}$ elements. Show that there are two numbers in $A$ whose difference is $a$ or $b$.
1958 November Putnam, A4
In assigning dormitory rooms, a college gives preference to pairs of students in this order:
$$AA,\, AB ,\, AC, \, BB , \, BC ,\, AD , \, CC, \, BD, \, CD, \, DD$$
in which $AA$ means two seniors, $AB$ means a senior and a junior, etc. Determine numerical values to assign to $A,B,C$ and $D$ so that the set of numbers $A+A, A+B, A+C, B+B, \ldots $ corresponding to the order above will be in descending order. Find the general solution and the solution in least positive integers.
2009 Ukraine Team Selection Test, 2
Let $ a$, $ b$, $ c$ are sides of a triangle. Find the least possible value $ k$ such that the following inequality always holds:
$ \left|\frac{a\minus{}b}{a\plus{}b}\plus{}\frac{b\minus{}c}{b\plus{}c}\plus{}\frac{c\minus{}a}{c\plus{}a}\right|<k$
[i](Vitaly Lishunov)[/i]
2010 AMC 12/AHSME, 7
Logan is constructing a scaled model of his town. The city's water tower stands $ 40$ meters high, and the top portion is a sphere that holds $ 100,000$ liters of water. Logan's miniature water tower holds $ 0.1$ liters. How tall, in meters, should Logan make his tower?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 0.04\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{0.4}{\pi}\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 0.4\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \frac{4}{\pi}\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4$
2000 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 7
$8712$ is an integral multiple of its reversal, $2178$, as $8712=4 * 2178$. Find another $4$-digit number which is a non-trivial integral multiple of its reversal.
2020 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 10
Max repeatedly throws a fair coin in a hurricane. For each throw, there is a $4\%$ chance that the coin gets blown away. He records the number of heads $H$ and the number of tails $T$ before the coin is lost. (If the coin is blown away on a toss, no result is recorded for that toss.) What is the expected value of $|H-T|$?
[i]Proposed by Krit Boonsiriseth.[/i]
2011 N.N. Mihăileanu Individual, 1
Let be a quadratic polynom that has the property that the modulus of the sum between the leading and the free coefficient is smaller than the modulus of the middle coefficient. Prove that this polynom admits two distinct real roots, one belonging to the interval $ (-1,1) , $ and the other belonging outside of the interval $ (-1,1). $
1982 Spain Mathematical Olympiad, 8
Given a set $C$ of points in the plane, it is called the distance of a point $P$ from the plane to the set $C$ at the smallest of the distances from $P$ to each of the points of $C$. Let the sets be $C = \{A,B\}$, with $A = (1, 0)$ and $B = (2, 0)$; and $C'= \{A',B'\}$ with $A' = (0, 1)$ and $B' = (0, 7)$, in an orthogonal reference system. Find and draw the set $M$ of points in the plane that are equidistant from $C$ and $C'$ . Study whether the function whose graph is the set $M$ previously obtained is derivable.
1985 Traian Lălescu, 1.2
Prove that all real roots of the polynomial
$$ P=X^{1985}-X^{1984}+1983\cdot X^{1983}+1994\cdot X^{992} -884064 $$
are positive.
1985 Miklós Schweitzer, 4
[b]4.[/b] Call a subset $S$ of the set $\{1,\dots,n\}$ [i]exceptional[/i] if any pair of distinct elements of $S$ are coprime. Consider an exceptional set with a maximal sum of elements (among all exceptional sets for a fixed $n$). Prove that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then each element of $S$ has at most two distinct prime divisors. ([b]N.17[/b])
[P. Erdos]
1999 May Olympiad, 5
There are $12$ points that are vertices of a regular polygon with $12$ sides. Rafael must draw segments that have their two ends at two of the points drawn. He is allowed to have each point be an endpoint of more than one segment and for the segments to intersect, but he is prohibited from drawing three segments that are the three sides of a triangle in which each vertex is one of the $12$ starting points. Find the maximum number of segments Rafael can draw and justify why he cannot draw a greater number of segments.
2010 Balkan MO Shortlist, G8
Let $c(0, R)$ be a circle with diameter $AB$ and $C$ a point, on it different than $A$ and $B$ such that $\angle AOC > 90^o$. On the radius $OC$ we consider the point $K$ and the circle $(c_1)$ with center $K$ and radius $KC = R_1$. We draw the tangents $AD$ and $AE$ from $A$ to the circle $(c_1)$. Prove that the straight lines $AC, BK$ and $DE$ are concurrent
2001 Poland - Second Round, 1
Find all integers $n\ge 3$ for which the following statement is true:
Any arithmetic progression $a_1,\ldots ,a_n$ with $n$ terms for which $a_1+2a_2+\ldots+na_n$ is rational contains at least one rational term.
1969 Vietnam National Olympiad, 2
Find all real $x$ such that $0 < x < \pi $ and $\frac{8}{3 sin x - sin 3x} + 3 sin^2x \le 5$.
2013 Benelux, 4
a) Find all positive integers $g$ with the following property: for each odd prime number $p$ there exists a positive integer $n$ such that $p$ divides the two integers
\[g^n - n\quad\text{ and }\quad g^{n+1} - (n + 1).\]
b) Find all positive integers $g$ with the following property: for each odd prime number $p$ there exists a positive integer $n$ such that $p$ divides the two integers
\[g^n - n^2\quad\text{ and }g^{n+1} - (n + 1)^2.\]
2023 Indonesia TST, C
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Each cell on an $n \times n$ board will be filled with a positive integer less than or equal to $2n-1$ such that for each index $i$ with $1 \leq i \leq n$, the $2n-1$ cells in the $i^{\text{th}}$ row or $i^{\text{th}}$ collumn contain distinct integers.
(a) Is this filling possible for $n=4$?
(b) Is this filling possible for $n=5$?
2017 NZMOC Camp Selection Problems, 4
Ross wants to play solitaire with his deck of $n$ playing cards, but he’s discovered that the deck is “boxed”: some cards are face up, and others are face down. He wants to turn them all face down again, by repeatedly choosing a block of consecutive cards, removing the block from the deck, turning it over, and replacing it back in the deck at the same point. What is the smallest number of such steps Ross needs in order to guarantee that he can turn all the cards face down again, regardless of how they start out?
2018 South East Mathematical Olympiad, 3
Let $O$ be the circumcenter of $\triangle ABC$, where $\angle ABC> 90^{\circ}$ and $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$. Point $P$ lies inside $\triangle ABC$ such that $PB\perp PC$. $D,E$ distinct from $P$ lies on the perpendicular to $AP$ through $P$ such that $BD=BP, CE=CP$. If quadrilateral $ADOE$ is a parallelogram, prove that $$\angle OPE = \angle AMB.$$