The numbers $1,2,3,\dots,2017$ are on the blackboard. Amelie and Boris take turns removing one of those until only two numbers remain on the board. Amelie starts. If the sum of the last two numbers is divisible by $8$, then Amelie wins. Else Boris wins. Who can force a victory?

An Emperor invited $2015$ wizards to a festival. Each of the wizards knows who of them is good and who is evil, however the Emperor doesn’t know this. A good wizard always tells the truth, while an evil wizard can tell the truth or lie at any moment. The Emperor gives each wizard a card with a single question, maybe different for different wizards, and after that listens to the answers of all wizards which are either “yes” or “no”. Having listened to all the answers, the Emperor expels a single wizard through a magic door which shows if this wizard is good or evil. Then the Emperor makes new cards with questions and repeats the procedure with the remaining wizards, and so on. The Emperor may stop at any moment, and after this the Emperor may expel or not expel a wizard. Prove that the Emperor can expel all the evil wizards having expelled at most one good wizard. [i]($10$ points)[/i]

Find all pairs of positive integers $(x, y)$ such that $(xy+1)(xy+x+2)$ be a perfect square .

A right rectangular prism whose surface area and volume are numerically equal has edge lengths $\log_2 x$, $\log_3 x$, and $\log_4 x$. What is $x$? $\textbf{(A) }2\sqrt{6}\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\sqrt{6}\qquad\textbf{(C) }24\qquad\textbf{(D) }48\qquad\textbf{(E) }576$

There are $2022$ black balls numbered $1$ to $2022$ and $2022$ white balls numbered $1$ to $2022$ as well. There are also $1011$ black boxes and white boxes each. In each box we put two balls that are the same color as the the box. Prove that no matter how the balls are distributed, we can always pick one ball from each box such that the $2022$ balls we chose have all the numbers from $1$ to $2022$.

Is it possible to partition $\{1, 2, 3, \ldots, 28\}$ into two sets $A$ and $B$ such that both of the following conditions hold simultaneously: (i) the number of odd integers in $A$ is equal to the number of odd integers in $B$; (ii) the difference between the sum of squares of the integers in $A$ and the sum of squares of the integers in $B$ is $16$?

Solve the system of equations: $\{\begin{array}{l}(1+\frac{12}{3x+y}).\sqrt{x}=2\\(1-\frac{12}{3x+y}).\sqrt{y}=6\end{array}$

$25$ men sit around a circular table. Every hour there is a vote, and each must respond [i]yes [/i]or [i]no[/i]. Each man behaves as follows: on the $n^{\text{th}}$, vote if his response is the same as the response of at least one of the two people he sits between, then he will respond the same way on the $(n+1)^{\text{th}}$ vote as on the $n^{\text{th}}$ vote; but if his response is different from that of both his neighbours on the $n^{\text{th}}$ vote, then his response on the $(n+1)^{\text{th}}$ vote will be different from his response on the $n^{\text{th}}$ vote. Prove that, however everybody responded on the first vote, there will be a time after which nobody's response will ever change.

The vertices and the circumcenter of an isosceles triangle lie on four different sides of a square. Find the angles of this triangle. (I. Bogdanov, B. Frenkin)

The polynomial $f(x) = x^3 + rx^2 + sx + t$ has $r, s$, and $t$ as its roots (with multiplicity), where $f(1)$ is rational and $t \ne 0$. Compute $|f(0)|$.

Find all natural numbers $n$ for which there is a permutation $(p_1,p_2,...,p_n)$ of numbers $(1,2,...,n)$ such that sets $\{p_1 +1, p_2 + 2,..., p_n +n\}$ and $\{p_1-1, p_2-2,...,p_n -n\}$ are complete residue systems $\mod n$.

An isosceles triangle $ABC$ ($AB = AC$) with an incircle of radius $r$ is given. We know that the point $M$ of the intersection of the medians of the triangle $ABC$ lies on this circle. Find the distance from the vertex $A$ to the point of intersection of the bisectrix of the triangle $ABC$. (Grigory Filippovsky)

Let $n$ be a positive integer and $d$ be the greatest common divisor of $n^2+1$ and $(n + 1)^2 + 1$. Find all the possible values of $d$. Justify your answer.

Let $P(x)$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ whose roots are $i-1, i-2,\cdot\cdot\cdot, i-n$ (where $i^2=-1$), and let $R(x)$ and $S(x)$ be the polynomials with real coefficients such that $P(x)=R(x)+iS(x)$. Show that the polynomial $R$ has $n$ real roots. (R. Stanojevic)

Given trapezoid $ ABCD$ with parallel sides $ AB$ and $ CD$, assume that there exist points $ E$ on line $ BC$ outside segment $ BC$, and $ F$ inside segment $ AD$ such that $ \angle DAE \equal{} \angle CBF$. Denote by $ I$ the point of intersection of $ CD$ and $ EF$, and by $ J$ the point of intersection of $ AB$ and $ EF$. Let $ K$ be the midpoint of segment $ EF$, assume it does not lie on line $ AB$. Prove that $ I$ belongs to the circumcircle of $ ABK$ if and only if $ K$ belongs to the circumcircle of $ CDJ$. [i]Proposed by Charles Leytem, Luxembourg[/i]

Find all pairs of positive integers $(a,b)$ such that $8b+1$ is a multiple of $a$ and $8a+1$ is a multiple of $b$.

Four different positive integers less than 10 are chosen randomly. What is the probability that their sum is odd?

Let $p$ be a prime number such that $p\equiv 1\pmod{4}$. Determine $\sum_{k=1}^{\frac{p-1}{2}}\left \lbrace \frac{k^2}{p} \right \rbrace$, where $\{x\}=x-[x]$.

In the middle of the school year, $40\%$ of Poolesville magnet students decided to transfer to the Blair magnet, and $5\%$ of the original Blair magnet students transferred to the Poolesville magnet. If the Blair magnet grew from $400$ students to $480$ students, how many students does the Poolesville magnet have after the transferring has occurred?

The diagram below shows square $ABCD$ which has side length $12$ and has the same center as square $EFGH$ which has side length $6$. Find the area of quadrilateral $ABFE$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/a/8cfedf396cd2e86092c03fa0dcb1fb3c978965.png[/img]

We have finite white and finite black points that for each 4 oints there is a line that white points and black points are at different sides of this line.Prove there is a line that all white points and black points are at different side of this line.

The first triangle number is $1$; the second is $1 + 2 = 3$; the third is $1 + 2 + 3 = 6$; and so on. Find the sum of the first $100$ triangle numbers.

Let $P$ be a point on the circumcircle of a square $ABCD$. Find all integers $n > 0$ such that the sum $$S_n(P) = |PA|^n + |PB|^n + |PC|^n + |PD|^n$$ is constant with respect to the point $P$.

The factors of the expression $ x^2\plus{}y^2$ are: $ \textbf{(A)}\ (x\plus{}y)(x\minus{}y) \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ (x\plus{}y)^2 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ (x^{\frac{2}{3}}\plus{}y^{\frac{2}{3}})(x^{\frac{4}{3}}\plus{}y^{\frac{4}{3}}) \\ \textbf{(D)}\ (x\plus{}iy)(x\minus{}iy) \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of these}$

Four congruent rectangles are placed as shown. The area of the outer square is $ 4$ times that of the inner square. What is the ratio of the length of the longer side of each rectangle to the length of its shorter side? [asy]unitsize(6mm); defaultpen(linewidth(.8pt)); path p=(1,1)--(-2,1)--(-2,2)--(1,2); draw(p); draw(rotate(90)*p); draw(rotate(180)*p); draw(rotate(270)*p);[/asy]$ \textbf{(A)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \sqrt {10} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 2 \plus{} \sqrt2 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 2\sqrt3 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4$