The parabola $\mathcal P$ given by equation $y=x^2$ is rotated some acute angle $\theta$ clockwise about the origin such that it hits both the $x$ and $y$ axes at two distinct points. Suppose the length of the segment $\mathcal P$ cuts the $x$-axis is $1$. What is the length of the segment $\mathcal P$ cuts the $y$-axis?

Let $P(x)$ be the unique polynomial of minimal degree with the following properties: $P(x)$ has leading coefficient $1,$ $1$ is a root of $P(x) - 1,$ $2$ is a root of $P(x-2),$ $3$ is a root of $P(3x),$ $4$ is a root of $4P(x)$ The roots of $P(x)$ are integers, with one exception. The root that is not an integer can be written in the form $\frac{m}{n}$, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is $m+n$? $\textbf{(A) }41\qquad\textbf{(B) }43\qquad\textbf{(C) }45\qquad\textbf{(D) }47\qquad\textbf{(E) }49$

Find the area of the figure bounded by the curves $y=1-x^2$, $|x|=1-|y|.$

Six cities $A, B, C, D, E$, and $F$ are located on the vertices of a regular hexagon in that order. $G$ is the center of the hexagon. The sides of the hexagon are the roads connecting these cities. Further more, there are roads connecting cities $B, C, E, F$ and $G$, respectively. Because of raining, one or more roads maybe destroyed. The probability of the road keeping undestroyed between two consecutive cities is $p$. Determine the probability of the road between cities $A$ and $D$ is undestroyed.

Given a rectangle $ABCD$ such that $AB = b > 2a = BC$, let $E$ be the midpoint of $AD$. On a line parallel to $AB$ through point $E$, a point $G$ is chosen such that the area of $GCE$ is $$(GCE)= \frac12 \left(\frac{a^3}{b}+ab\right)$$ Point $H$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $E$ to $GD$ and a point $I$ is taken on the diagonal $AC$ such that the triangles $ACE$ and $AEI$ are similar. The lines $BH$ and $IE$ intersect at $K$ and the lines $CA$ and $EH$ intersect at $J$. Prove that $KJ \perp AB$.

A sphere with center at $O$ is inscribed in a trihedral angle with vertex $S$. Prove that the plane passing through the three tangent points is perpendicular to $OS$.

[b]p1.[/b] A function $f$ defined on the set of positive numbers satisfies the equality $$f(xy) = f(x) + f(y), x, y > 0.$$ Find $f(2007)$ if $f\left( \frac{1}{2007} \right) = 1$. [b]p2.[/b] The plane is painted in two colors. Show that there is an isosceles right triangle with all vertices of the same color. [b]p3.[/b] Show that the number of ways to cut a $2n \times 2n$ square into $1\times 2$ dominoes is divisible by $2$. [b]p4.[/b] Two mirrors form an angle. A beam of light falls on one mirror. Prove that the beam is reflected only finitely many times (even if the angle between mirrors is very small). [b]p5.[/b] A sequence is given by the recurrence relation $a_{n+1} = (s(a_n))^2 +1$, where $s(x)$ is the sum of the digits of the positive integer $x$. Prove that starting from some moment the sequence is periodic. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Two circles $S_1$ and $S_2$ intersect at different points $P,Q$. The arc of $S_1$ lying inside $S_2$ measures $2a$ and the arc of $S_2$ lying inside $S_1$ measures $2b$. Let $T$ be any point on $S_1$. Let $R,S$ be another points of intersection of $S_2$ with $TP$ and $TQ$ respectively. Let $a+2b<\pi$ . Find the locus of the intersection points of $PS$ and $RQ$. S.Shikh

A fair coin is flipped $6$ times. The probability that the coin lands on the same side $3$ flips in a row at some point can be expressed as a common fraction $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $100m + n$.

Let $P$ be the set of all subsets of ${1, 2, ... , n}$. Show that there are $1^n + 2^n + ... + m^n$ functions $f : P \longmapsto {1, 2, ... , m}$ such that $f(A \cap B) = min( f(A), f(B))$ for all $A, B.$

Let $D$ be a closed disc in the complex plane. Prove that for all positive integers $n$, and for all complex numbers $z_1,z_2,\ldots,z_n\in D$ there exists a $z\in D$ such that $z^n = z_1\cdot z_2\cdots z_n$.

The integers from $1$ through $9$ inclusive, are placed in the squares of a $3 \times 3$ grid. Each square contains a different integer. The product of the integers in the first and second rows are $60$ and $96$ respectively. Find the sum of the integers in the third row. [i]Proposed by bissue [/i]

In the plane we have a line $r$ and two points $A$ and $B$ outside the line and in the same half plane. Determine a point $M$ on the line such that the angle of $r$ with $AM$ is double that of $r$ with $BM$. (Consider the smaller angle of two lines of the angles they form).

A unit equilateral triangle is given. Divide each side into three equal parts. Remove the equilateral triangles whose bases are middle one-third segments. Now we have a new polygon. Remove the equilateral triangles whose bases are middle one-third segments of the sides of the polygon. After repeating these steps for infinite times, what is the area of the new shape? $ \textbf{(A)}\ \dfrac {1}{2\sqrt 3} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \dfrac {\sqrt 3}{8} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \dfrac {\sqrt 3}{10} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \dfrac {1}{4\sqrt 3} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of the above} $

Pieces are placed in some squares of an $8 \times 8$ board sothat: a) There is at least one token in any rectangle with sides $2 \times 1$ or $1\times 2$. b) There are at least two neighboring pieces in any rectangle with sides $7\times 1$ or $1\times 7$. Find the smallest number of tokens that can be taken to fulfill with both conditions.

Let be given $ \vartriangle ABC$ with area $ (\vartriangle ABC) = 60$ cm$^2$. Let $R,S $ lie in $BC$ such that $BR = RS = SC$ and $P,Q$ be midpoints of $AB$ and $AC$, respectively. Suppose that $PS$ intersects $QR$ at $T$. Evaluate area $(\vartriangle PQT)$.

$1019$ stones are placed into two non-empty boxes. Each second Alex chooses a box with an even amount of stones and shifts half of these stones into another box. Prove that for each $k$, $1\le k\le1018$, at some moment there will be a box with exactly $k$ stones. [i](O. Izhboldin)[/i]

Three circles $C_1$, $C_2$, $C_3$ in the plane touch each other (in three different points). Connect the common point of $C_1$ and $C_2$ with the other two common points by straight lines. Show that these lines meet $C_3$ in diametrically opposite points.

Two walkers are at the same altitude in a range of mountains. The path joining them is piecewise linear with all its vertices above the two walkers. Can they each walk along the path until they have changed places, so that at all times their altitudes are equal?

Find all positive integers $n$ that have precisely $\sqrt{n + 1}$ natural divisors.

Jared has 3 distinguishable Rolexes. Each day, he selects a subset of his Rolexes and wears them on his arm (the order he wears them does not matter). However, he does not want to wear the same Rolex 2 days in a row. How many ways can he wear his Rolexes during a 6 day period?

If all edges of a non-planar quadrilateral tangent the faces of a sphere, prove that all of the points of tangency belong to a plane.

A pile of n pebbles is placed in a vertical column. This configuration is modified according to the following rules. A pebble can be moved if it is at the top of a column which contains at least two more pebbles than the column immediately to its right. (If there are no pebbles to the right, think of this as a column with 0 pebbles.) At each stage, choose a pebble from among those that can be moved (if there are any) and place it at the top of the column to its right. If no pebbles can be moved, the configuration is called a final configuration. For each n, show that, no matter what choices are made at each stage, the final configuration obtained is unique. Describe that configuration in terms of n.

Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{R}^{ \plus{} }\to\mathbb{R}^{ \plus{} }$ satisfying $ f\left(x \plus{} f\left(y\right)\right) \equal{} f\left(x \plus{} y\right) \plus{} f\left(y\right)$ for all pairs of positive reals $ x$ and $ y$. Here, $ \mathbb{R}^{ \plus{} }$ denotes the set of all positive reals. [i]Proposed by Paisan Nakmahachalasint, Thailand[/i]

$2013$ smurfs are sitting at a large round table. Each of them has two tickets. on each card represents a number from $\{1, 2, . . ., 2013\}$ such that each of the numbers from this set occurs exactly twice. Every smurf takes the card every minute with the smaller of the two numbers, it smurfs on to its left neighbor and receives a card from his right neighbor. Show that there will come a time when a smurf has two cards with the same number.