A twelve foot tree casts a five foot shadow. How long is Henry's shadow (at the same time of day) if he is five and a half feet tall?

Let $n$ be a positive integer number. Define $S(n)$ to be the least positive integer such that $S(n) \equiv n \pmod{2}$, $S(n) \geq n$, and such that there are [b]not[/b] positive integers numbers $k,x_1,x_2,...,x_k$ such that $n=x_1+x_2+...+x_k$ and $S(n)=x_1^2+x_2^2+...+x_k^2$. Prove that there exists a real constant $c>0$ and a positive integer $n_0$ such that, for all $n \geq n_0$, $S(n) \geq cn^{\frac{3}{2}}$.

Pixar Prison, for Pixar villains, is shaped like a 600 foot by 1000 foot rectangle with a 300 foot by 500 foot rectangle removed from it, as shown below. The warden separates the prison into three congruent polygonal sections for villains from The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Cars. What is the perimeter of each of these sections? [asy] draw((0,0)--(0,6)--(10,6)--(10,0)--(8,0)--(8,3)--(3,3)--(3,0)--(0,0)); label("600", (1,3.5)); label("1000", (5.5,6.5)); label("300", (4,1.5)); label("500", (5.5,3.5)); label("300", (1.5,-0.5)); [/asy] [i]Proposed by Peter Rowley

Prove that: $ \frac {x^{2}y}{z} \plus{} \frac {y^{2}z}{x} \plus{} \frac {z^{2}x}{y}\geq x^{2} \plus{} y^{2} \plus{} z^{2}$ where $ x;y;z$ are real numbers saisfying $ x \geq y \geq z \geq 0$

Two pupils $A$ and $B$ play the following game. They begin with a pile of $1998$ matches and $A$ plays first. A player who is on turn must take a nonzero square number of matches from the pile. The winner is the one who makes the last move. Decide who has the winning strategy and give one such strategy.

Let $ n$ be a composite natural number and $ p$ a proper divisor of $ n.$ Find the binary representation of the smallest natural number $ N$ such that \[ \frac{(1 \plus{} 2^p \plus{} 2^{n\minus{}p})N \minus{} 1}{2^n}\] is an integer.

Jane and Jena sit at non-adjacent chairs of a four-chair circular table. In a turn, one person can move to an adjacent chair without a person. Jane moves in the first turn, and alternates with Jena afterwards. In how many ways can Jena be adjacent to Jane after nine moves? $\textbf{(A) }16\qquad\textbf{(B) }18\qquad\textbf{(C) }32\qquad\textbf{(D) }162\qquad\textbf{(E) }512$

Find all functions $ f:\mathbb{Q}\to\mathbb{R}$ that satisfy $ f(x\plus{}y)\equal{}f(x)f(y)\minus{}f(xy)\plus{}1$ for every $x,y\in\mathbb{Q}$.

[b]i.)[/b] Let $g(x) = x^5 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1.$ What is the remainder when the polynomial $g(x^{12}$ is divided by the polynomial $g(x)$? [b]ii.)[/b] If $k$ is a positive number and $f$ is a function such that, for every positive number $x, f(x^2 + 1 )^{\sqrt{x}} = k.$ Find the value of \[ f( \frac{9 +y^2}{y^2})^{\sqrt{ \frac{12}{y} }} \] for every positive number $y.$ [b]iii.)[/b] The function $f$ satisfies the functional equation $f(x) + f(y) = f(x+y) - x \cdot y - 1$ for every pair $x,y$ of real numbers. If $f(1) = 1,$ then find the numbers of integers $n,$ for which $f(n) = n.$

Find all functions $f : R \to R$ such that $$2f(x) =f(x+y)+f(x+2y)$$, for all $x \in R$ and for all $y \ge 0$.

Let $S(N)$ be the number of 1's in the binary representation of an integer $N$, and let $D(N) = S(N + 1) - S(N)$. Compute the sum of $D(N)$ over all $N$ such that $1 \le N \le 2017$ and $D(N) < 0$.

$(BEL 1)$ A parabola $P_1$ with equation $x^2 - 2py = 0$ and parabola $P_2$ with equation $x^2 + 2py = 0, p > 0$, are given. A line $t$ is tangent to $P_2.$ Find the locus of pole $M$ of the line $t$ with respect to $P_1.$

Can we say that two triangles are congruent if the radii of the inscribed circles, the radii of the circumscribed circles, and the areas of these triangles are equal?

Find all natural numbers $n$ for which the number of all positive divisors of the number lcm $(1,2,..., n)$ is equal to $2^k$ for some non-negative integer $k$.

Let $ n$ be a composite. Prove that there exists positive integer $ m$ satisfying $ m|n, m\le\sqrt {n},$ and $ d(n)\le d^3(m).$ Where $ d(k)$ denotes the number of positive divisors of positive integer $ k.$

For an odd positive integer $n>1$ define $S_n$ to be the set of the residues of the powers of two, modulo $n{}$. Do there exist distinct $n{}$ and $m{}$ whose corresponding sets $S_n$ and $S_m$ coincide? [i]Proposed by D. Kuznetsov[/i]

Suppose that $ s_1,s_2,s_3, \ldots$ is a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers such that the sub-sequences \[s_{s_1},\, s_{s_2},\, s_{s_3},\, \ldots\qquad\text{and}\qquad s_{s_1+1},\, s_{s_2+1},\, s_{s_3+1},\, \ldots\] are both arithmetic progressions. Prove that the sequence $ s_1, s_2, s_3, \ldots$ is itself an arithmetic progression. [i]Proposed by Gabriel Carroll, USA[/i]

The circles $k_1$ and $k_2$ intersect at points $M$ and $N$. The line $\ell$ intersects with the circle $k_1$ at points $A$ and $C$ and with circle $k_2$ at points $B$ and $D$, so that points $A, B, C$ and $D$ are on the line $\ell$ in that order. Let $X$ be a point on line $MN$ such that the point $M$ is between points $X$ and $N$. Lines $AX$ and $BM$ intersect at point $P$ and lines $DX$ and $CM$ intersect at point $Q$. Prove that $PQ \parallel \ell $.

Consider the statements: I: $ (\sqrt { \minus{} 4})(\sqrt { \minus{} 16}) \equal{} \sqrt {( \minus{} 4)( \minus{} 16)}$, II: $ \sqrt {( \minus{} 4)( \minus{} 16)} \equal{} \sqrt {64}$, and $ \sqrt {64} \equal{} 8$. Of these the following are [u]incorrect[/u]. $ \textbf{(A)}\ \text{none} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \text{I only} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \text{II only} \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \text{III only} \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{I and III only}$

Let ${\omega}$ be the circumcircle of an acute-angled triangle ${ABC}$. Point ${D}$ lies on the arc ${BC}$ of ${\omega}$ not containing point ${A}$. Point ${E}$ lies in the interior of the triangle ${ABC}$, does not lie on the line ${AD}$, and satisfies ${\angle DBE =\angle ACB}$ and ${\angle DCE = \angle ABC}$. Let ${F}$ be a point on the line ${AD}$ such that lines ${EF}$ and ${BC}$ are parallel, and let ${G}$ be a point on ${\omega}$ different from ${A}$ such that ${AF = FG}$. Prove that points ${D,E, F,G}$ lie on one circle. (Slovakia)

Determine all polynomials $p(x)$ with real coefficients such that $p((x+1)^3)=(p(x)+1)^3$ and $p(0)=0$.

Find all functions $f\colon \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}$, \[xf(x+f(y))=(y-x)f(f(x)).\] [i]Proposed by Nikola Velov, Macedonia[/i]

Let the [i]subbishop[/i] (a bishop is the figure moving only by a diagonal) be a figure moving only by diagonal but only in the next cells (squares) of the chessboard. Find the maximal count of subbishops over a chessboard $n\times n$, no two of which are not attacking. [i]V. Chukanov[/i]

Problems 17, 18, and 19 refer to the following: At Central Middle School the 108 students who take the AMC8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Walter and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 15 cookies, lists this items: 1.5 cups flour, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons butter, 3/4 cups sugar, and 1 package of chocolate drops. They will make only full recipes, not partial recipes. They learn that a big concert is scheduled for the same night and attendance will be down $25\%$. How many recipes of cookies should they make for their smaller party? $ \text{(A)}\ 6\qquad\text{(B)}\ 8\qquad\text{(C)}\ 9\qquad\text{(D)}\ 10\qquad\text{(E)}\ 11 $

Set $X$ has $56$ elements. Determine the least positive integer $n$ such that for any 15 subsets of $X$, if the union of any $7$ of the subsets has at least $n$ elements, then 3 of the subsets have nonempty intersection.