Found problems: 85335
2007 Tournament Of Towns, 7
Nancy shuffles a deck of $52$ cards and spreads the cards out in a circle face up, leaving one spot empty. Andy, who is in another room and does not see the cards, names a card. If this card is adjacent to the empty spot, Nancy moves the card to the empty spot, without telling Andy; otherwise nothing happens. Then Andy names another card and so on, as many times as he likes, until he says "stop."
[list][b](a)[/b] Can Andy guarantee that after he says "stop," no card is in its initial spot?
[b](b)[/b] Can Andy guarantee that after he says "stop," the Queen of Spades is not adjacent to
the empty spot?[/list]
2014 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 1
Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral. Prove that $AC > BD$ if and only if $(AD-BC)(AB- CD) > 0$.
(V. Yasinsky)
1956 AMC 12/AHSME, 50
In triangle $ ABC$, $ \overline{CA} \equal{} \overline{CB}$. On $ CB$ square $ BCDE$ is constructed away from the triangle. If $ x$ is the number of degrees in angle $ DAB$, then
$ \textbf{(A)}\ x\text{ depends upon triangle }ABC \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ x\text{ is independent of the triangle}$
$ \textbf{(C)}\ x\text{ may equal angle }CAD \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ x\text{ can never equal angle }CAB$
$ \textbf{(E)}\ x\text{ is greater than }45^{\circ}\text{ but less than }90^{\circ}$
2018 Azerbaijan BMO TST, 1
Find all positive integers $(x,y)$ such that
$x^2+y^2=2017(x-y)$
1952 AMC 12/AHSME, 35
With a rational denominator, the expression $ \frac {\sqrt {2}}{\sqrt {2} \plus{} \sqrt {3} \minus{} \sqrt {5}}$ is equivalent to:
$ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac {3 \plus{} \sqrt {6} \plus{} \sqrt {15}}{6} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac {\sqrt {6} \minus{} 2 \plus{} \sqrt {10}}{6} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac {2 \plus{} \sqrt {6} \plus{} \sqrt {10}}{10}$
$ \textbf{(D)}\ \frac {2 \plus{} \sqrt {6} \minus{} \sqrt {10}}{6} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of these}$
2010 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 557
Find the folllowing limit.
\[ \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{(2n\plus{}1)\int_0^1 x^{n\minus{}1}\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{2}x\right)dx}{(n\plus{}1)^2\int_0^1 x^{n\minus{}1}\cos \left(\frac{\pi}{2}x\right)dx}\ \ (n\equal{}1,\ 2,\ \cdots).\]
2012 AMC 10, 2
A circle of radius $5$ is inscribed in a rectangle as shown. The ratio of the the length of the rectangle to its width is $2\ :\ 1$. What is the area of the rectangle?
[asy]
draw((0,0)--(0,10)--(20,10)--(20,0)--cycle);
draw(circle((10,5),5));
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$ \textbf{(A)}\ 50\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 100\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 125\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 150\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 200 $
2006 Baltic Way, 5
An occasionally unreliable professor has devoted his last book to a certain binary operation $*$. When this operation is applied to any two integers, the result is again an integer. The operation is known to satisfy the following axioms:
$\text{a})\ x*(x*y)=y$ for all $x,y\in\mathbb{Z}$;
$\text{b})\ (x*y)*y=x$ for all $x,y\in\mathbb{Z}$.
The professor claims in his book that
$1.$ The operation $*$ is commutative: $x*y=y*x$ for all $x,y\in\mathbb{Z}$.
$2.$ The operation $*$ is associative: $(x*y)*z=x*(y*z)$ for all $x,y,z\in\mathbb{Z}$.
Which of these claims follow from the stated axioms?
2005 Bulgaria Team Selection Test, 3
Let $\mathbb{R}^{*}$ be the set of non-zero real numbers. Find all functions $f : \mathbb{R}^{*} \to \mathbb{R}^{*}$ such that $f(x^{2}+y) = (f(x))^{2} + \frac{f(xy)}{f(x)}$, for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}^{*}$ and $-x^{2} \not= y$.
2011 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 14
In triangle $ABC$, the altitude and the median from vertex $A$ form (together with line $BC$) a triangle such that the bisectrix of angle $A$ is the median; the altitude and the median from vertex $B$ form (together with line AC) a triangle such that the bisectrix of angle $B$ is the bisectrix. Find the ratio of sides for triangle $ABC$.
2011 Iran MO (3rd Round), 1
We define the recursive polynomial $T_n(x)$ as follows:
$T_0(x)=1$
$T_1(x)=x$
$T_{n+1}(x)=2xT_n(x)+T_{n-1}(x)$ $\forall n \in \mathbb N$.
[b]a)[/b] find $T_2(x),T_3(x),T_4(x)$ and $T_5(x)$.
[b]b)[/b] find all the roots of the polynomial $T_n(x)$ $\forall n \in \mathbb N$.
[i]Proposed by Morteza Saghafian[/i]
2013 BAMO, 4
Consider a rectangular array of single digits $d_{i,j}$ with 10 rows and 7 columns, such that $d_{i+1,j}-d_{i,j}$ is always 1 or -9 for all $1 \leq i \leq 9$ and all $1 \leq j \leq 7$, as in the example below. For $1 \leq i \leq 10$, let $m_i$ be the median of $d_{i,1}$, ..., $d_{i,7}$. Determine the least and greatest possible values of the mean of $m_1$, $m_2$, ..., $m_{10}$.
Example:
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2005 JBMO Shortlist, 7
Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram. $P \in (CD), Q \in (AB)$, $M= AP \cap DQ$, $N=BP \cap CQ$, $ K=MN \cap AD$, $L= MN \cap BC$. Prove that $BL=DK$.
2007 Swedish Mathematical Competition, 3
Let $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be the angles of a triangle. If $a$, $b$, $c$ are the side length of the triangle and $R$ is the circumradius, show that
\[
\cot \alpha + \cot \beta +\cot \gamma =\frac{R\left(a^2+b^2+c^2\right)}{abc}
\]
1989 APMO, 4
Let $S$ be a set consisting of $m$ pairs $(a,b)$ of positive integers with the property that $1 \leq a < b \leq n$. Show that there are at least
\[ 4m \cdot \dfrac{(m - \dfrac{n^2}{4})}{3n} \]
triples $(a,b,c)$ such that $(a,b)$, $(a,c)$, and $(b,c)$ belong to $S$.
2004 AMC 10, 18
A sequence of three real numbers forms an arithmetic progression with a first term of $ 9$. If $ 2$ is added to the second term and $ 20$ is added to the third term, the three resulting numbers form a geometric progression. What is the smallest possible value for the third term of the geometric progression?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 1\qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 4\qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 36\qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 49\qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 81$
2010 ELMO Shortlist, 2
Given a prime $p$, show that \[\left(1+p\sum_{k=1}^{p-1}k^{-1}\right)^2 \equiv 1-p^2\sum_{k=1}^{p-1}k^{-2} \pmod{p^4}.\]
[i]Timothy Chu.[/i]
2003 AMC 12-AHSME, 13
An ice cream cone consists of a sphere of vanilla ice cream and a right circular cone that has the same diameter as the sphere. If the ice cream melts, it will exactly fill the cone. Assume that the melted ice cream occupies $ 75\%$ of the volume of the frozen ice cream. What is the ratio of the cone’s height to its radius?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 2: 1 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 3: 1 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 4: 1 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 16: 3 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 6: 1$
2022 AMC 10, 14
Suppose that $S$ is a subset of $\{1, 2, 3,...,25\}$ such that the sum of any two (not necessarily distinct) elements of $S$ is never an element of $S$. What is the maximum number of elements $S$ may contain?
$\textbf{(A) }12 \qquad \textbf{(B) }13 \qquad \textbf{(C) }14 \qquad \textbf{(D) }15 \qquad \textbf{(E) }16$
2018 China Team Selection Test, 1
Given a triangle $ABC$. $D$ is a moving point on the edge $BC$. Point $E$ and Point $F$ are on the edge $AB$ and $AC$, respectively, such that $BE=CD$ and $CF=BD$. The circumcircle of $\triangle BDE$ and $\triangle CDF$ intersects at another point $P$ other than $D$. Prove that there exists a fixed point $Q$, such that the length of $QP$ is constant.
2010 National Olympiad First Round, 33
Let $D$ be the midpoint of $[AC]$ of $\triangle ABC$ with $m(\widehat{ABC})=90^\circ$ and $|AC|=10$. Let $E$ be the point of intersections of bisectors of $[AD]$ and $[BD]$. Let $F$ be the point of intersections of bisectors of $[BD]$ and $[CD]$. If $|EF|=13$, then $|AB|$ can be
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 20\sqrt{\frac 2{13}}
\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 15\sqrt{\frac 2{13}}
\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 10\sqrt{\frac 2{13}}
\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 5\sqrt{\frac 2{13}}
\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None}
$
2019 Jozsef Wildt International Math Competition, W. 33
Let $0 < \frac{1}{q} \leq \frac{1}{p} < 1$ and $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}=1$. Let $u_k$, $v_k$, $a_k$ and $b_k$ be non-negative real sequences such as $u^2_k > a^p_k$ and $v_k > b^q_k$, where $k = 1, 2,\cdots , n$. If $0 < m_1\leq u_k \leq M_1$ and $0 < m_2 \leq v_k \leq M_2$ , then $$\left(\sum \limits_{k=1}^n\left(l^p\left(u_k+v_k\right)^2-\left(a_k+b_k\right)^p\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{p}}\geq \left(\sum \limits_{k=1}^n\left(u_k^2-a_k^p\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{p}}\left(\sum \limits_{k=1}^n\left(v_k^2-b_k^p\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{p}}$$where $$l=\frac{M_1M_2+m_1m_2}{2\sqrt{m_1M_1m_2M_2}}$$
2005 Junior Balkan Team Selection Tests - Moldova, 6
Let $n$ be a nonzero natural number, and $x_1, x_2,..., x_n$ positive real numbers that $ \frac{1}{x_1}+\frac{1}{x_2}+...+\frac{1}{x_n}= n$. Find the minimum value of the expression $x_1 +\frac{x_2^2}{2}++\frac{x_3^3}{3}+...++\frac{x_n^n}{n}$.
2015 ASDAN Math Tournament, 13
A three-digit number $x$ in base $10$ has a units-digit of $6$. When $x$ is written is base $9$, the second digit of the number is $4$, and the first and third digit are equal in value. Compute $x$ in base $10$.
2010 IMO Shortlist, 7
Let $a_1, a_2, a_3, \ldots$ be a sequence of positive real numbers, and $s$ be a positive integer, such that
\[a_n = \max \{ a_k + a_{n-k} \mid 1 \leq k \leq n-1 \} \ \textrm{ for all } \ n > s.\]
Prove there exist positive integers $\ell \leq s$ and $N$, such that
\[a_n = a_{\ell} + a_{n - \ell} \ \textrm{ for all } \ n \geq N.\]
[i]Proposed by Morteza Saghafiyan, Iran[/i]