17) An object is thrown directly downward from the top of a 180-meter-tall building. It takes 1.0 seconds for the object to fall the last 60 meters. With what initial downward speed was the object thrown from the roof? A) 15 m/s B) 25 m/s C) 35 m/s D) 55 m/s E) insufficient information

Find the sum of the coefficients of the polynomial $P(x) = x^4- 29x^3 + ax^2 + bx + c$, given that $P(5) = 11$, $P(11) = 17$, and $P(17) = 23$.

A castaway is building a rectangular raft $ABCD$. He fixes a mast perpendicular to the raft, with ropes passing from the top of the mast (point $S$ in the figure) to the four corners of the raft. The rope $SA$ measures $8$ meters, the rope $SB$ measures $2$ meters and the rope $SC$ measures $14$ meters. Compute the length of the rope $SD$. [asy] size(250); // Coordinates for the parallelogram ABCD pair A = (0, 0); pair B = (8, 0); pair C = (10, 5); pair D = (2, 5); // Position of point S (outside the parallelogram) pair S = (5, 8); pair T = (5, 3); // Draw the parallelogram ABCD filldraw(A--B--C--D--cycle, lightgray, black); // Draw the ropes from point S to each corner of the parallelogram draw(S--A, blue); draw(S--B, blue); draw(S--C, blue); draw(S--D, blue); draw(S--T, black); // Mark the points dot(A); dot(B); dot(C); dot(D); dot(S); dot(T); // Label the points label("A", A, SW); label("B", B, SE); label("C", C, NE); label("D", D, NW); label("S", S, N); [/asy]

(1) Show the following inequality for every natural number $ k$. \[ \frac {1}{2(k \plus{} 1)} < \int_0^1 \frac {1 \minus{} x}{k \plus{} x}dx < \frac {1}{2k}\] (2) Show the following inequality for every natural number $ m,\ n$ such that $ m > n$. \[ \frac {m \minus{} n}{2(m \plus{} 1)(n \plus{} 1)} < \log \frac {m}{n} \minus{} \sum_{k \equal{} n \plus{} 1}^{m} \frac {1}{k} < \frac {m \minus{} n}{2mn}\]

Let $p_1 = 2012$ and $p_n = 2012^{p_{n-1}}$ for $n > 1$. Find the largest integer $k$ such that $p_{2012}- p_{2011}$ is divisible by $2011^k$.

N numbers are marked in the set $\{1,2,...,2000\}$ so that any pair of the numbers $(1,2),(2,4),...,(1000,2000)$ contains at least one marked number. Find the least possible value of $N$. I.Gorodnin

Let $k$ be a positive integer. An arrangement of finitely many open intervals in $R$ is called [i]good [/i] if for any of the intervals the number of other intervals which intersect with it is a nonzero multiple of $k$. Find the maximum positive integer $n$ (as a function of $k$) for which there is no good arrangement with $n$ intervals

For a positive integer $m$, let $\varphi(m)$ be the number of positive integers $k \le m$ such that $k$ and $m$ are relatively prime, and let $\sigma(m)$ be the sum of the positive divisors of $m$. Find the sum of all even positive integers $n$ such that \[ \frac{n^5\sigma(n) - 2}{\varphi(n)} \] is an integer.

Let $a_0,a_1,\dots$ be a sequence of positive reals such that $$ a_{n+2} \leq \frac{2023a_n}{a_na_{n+1}+2023}$$ for all integers $n\geq 0$. Prove that either $a_{2023}<1$ or $a_{2024}<1$.

Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers with $m\le 2000$ and $k=3-\frac{m}{n}$. Find the smallest positive value of $k$.

Consider a cylinder and a cone with a common base such that the volume of the part of the cylinder enclosed in the cone equals the volume of the part of the cylinder outside the cone. Find the ratio of the height of the cone to the height of the cylinder.

Show that if $15$ numbers lie between $2$ and $1992$ and each pair is coprime, then at least one is prime.

Are there six different positive odd numbers $a,b,c,d,e,f$ such that \[ 1/a + 1/b + 1/c + 1/d + 1/e + 1/f = 1?\]

Consider 2 non-constant polynomials $P(x),Q(x)$, with nonnegative coefficients. The coefficients of $P(x)$ is not larger than $2021$ and $Q(x)$ has at least one coefficient larger than $2021$. Assume that $P(2022)=Q(2022)$ and $P(x),Q(x)$ has a root $\frac p q \ne 0 (p,q\in \mathbb Z,(p,q)=1)$. Prove that $|p|+n|q|\le Q(n)-P(n)$ for all $n=1,2,...,2021$

1.1 Let $f(A)$ denote the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of a set $A$. Find the sum of $f(A)$ as $A$ ranges over the subsets of $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$. 1.2 All cells of an $8 × 8$ board are initially white. A move consists of flipping the color (white to black or vice versa) of cells in a $1\times 3$ or $3\times 1$ rectangle. Determine whether there is a finite sequence of moves resulting in the state where all $64$ cells are black. 1.3 Prove that for all positive integers $m$, there exists a positive integer $n$ such that the set $\{n, n + 1, n + 2, \dots , 3n\}$ contains exactly $m$ perfect squares.

Let $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of all positive integers. Find all functions $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ such that $$x^2-y^2+2y(f(x)+f(y))$$ is a square of an integer for all positive integers $x$ and $y$.

$a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_n$ is a sequence of positive integers that has at least $\frac {2n}{3}+1$ distinct numbers and each positive integer has occurred at most three times in it. Prove that there exists a permutation  $b_1,b_2,\ldots,b_n$ of $a_i $'s such that all the $n$ sums $b_i+b_{i+1}$ are distinct ($1\le i\le n $ , $b_{n+1}\equiv b_1 $) [i]Proposed by Mohsen Jamali[/i]

Let $(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)$ be a point chosen at random in the $n$-dimensional region defined by $0<x_1<x_2<\ldots<x_n<1$, denoting $x_0=0$ and $x_{n+1}=1$. Let $f$ be a continuous function on $[0,1]$ with $f(1)=0$. Show that the expected value of the sum $$\sum_{i=0}^n(x_{i+1}-x_i)f(x_{i+1})$$is $\int^1_0f(t)P(t)dt$., where $P$ is a polynomial of degree $n$, independent of $f$, with $0\le P(t)\le1$ for $0\le t\le1$.

Find all triples $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers with $a+b+c = 10$ such that there are $a$ red, $b$ blue and $c$ green points (all different) in the plane satisfying the following properties: $\bullet$ for each red point and each blue point we consider the distance between these two points, the sum of these distances is $37$, $\bullet$ for each green point and each red point we consider the distance between these two points, the sum of these distances is $30$, $\bullet$ for each blue point and each green point we consider the distance between these two points, the sum of these distances is $1$.

A square and a circle have the same area. What is the ratio of the side length of the square to the radius of the circle? $ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \sqrt{\pi} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \pi \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 2\pi \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \pi^{2}$

Let $a,b,c > 0$ and $ab+bc+ca = 1$. Prove the inequality $3\sqrt[3]{\frac{1}{abc} +6(a+b+c) }\le \frac{\sqrt[3]3}{abc}$

In the trapezoid $ABCD$ with bases $BC = a$, $AD = b$, the equality holds: $\angle BAC + \angle ACD = 180^o$. The straight line $AC$ intersects the common tangents to the circumcircles of the triangles $ABC$ and $ACD$ at the points Find $PQ$.

A cylindrical glass filled to the brim with water stands on a horizontal plane. The height of the glass is $2$ times the diameter of the base. At what angle must the glass be tilted from the vertical so that exactly $1/3$ of the water it contains pours out?

In a triangle $ABC$, let $D$ and $E$ be the feet of the angle bisectors of angles $A$ and $B$, respectively. A rhombus is inscribed into the quadrilateral $AEDB$ (all vertices of the rhombus lie on different sides of $AEDB$). Let $\varphi$ be the non-obtuse angle of the rhombus. Prove that $\varphi \le \max \{ \angle BAC, \angle ABC \}$.

A triangle $\Delta$ with sidelengths $a\leq b\leq c$ is given. It appears that it is impossible to construct a triangle from three segments whose lengths are equal to the altitudes of $\Delta$. Prove that $b^2>ac$.