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2016 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 28

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Among citizens of Cambridge there exist $8$ different types of blood antigens. In a crowded lecture hall are $256$ students, each of whom has a blood type corresponding to a distinct subset of the antigens; the remaining of the antigens are foreign to them. Quito the Mosquito flies around the lecture hall, picks a subset of the students uniformly at random, and bites the chosen students in a random order. After biting a student, Quito stores a bit of any antigens that student had. A student bitten while Quito had $k$ blood antigen foreign to him/her will suffer for $k$ hours. What is the expected total suffering of all $256$ students, in hours?

1990 IMO Longlists, 49

Tags: geometry
$AB, AC$ are two chords of the circle centered at $O$. The diameter, which is perpendicular to $BC$, intersects $AB, AC$ at $F, G$ respectively ($F$ is in the circle). The tangent from $G$ tangents the circle at $T$. Prove that $F$ is the projection of $T$ on $OG. $

2019 AMC 12/AHSME, 1

Tags: geometry , percent , ratio
The area of a pizza with radius $4$ inches is $N$ percent larger than the area of a pizza with radius $3$ inches. What is the integer closest to $N$? $\textbf{(A) } 25 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 33 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 44\qquad\textbf{(D) } 66 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 78$

2017 CHMMC (Fall), 10

Let $\alpha$ be the unique real root of the polynomial $x^3-2x^2+x-1$. It is known that $1<\alpha<2$. We define the sequence of polynomials $\left\{{p_n(x)}\right\}_{n\ge0}$ by taking $p_0(x)=x$ and setting \begin{align*} p_{n+1}(x)=(p_n(x))^2-\alpha \end{align*} How many distinct real roots does $p_{10}(x)$ have?

2004 Rioplatense Mathematical Olympiad, Level 3, 1

How many integers $n>1$ are there such that $n$ divides $x^{13}-x$ for every positive integer $x$?

2009 Brazil Team Selection Test, 1

Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $p$ be a prime number. Prove that if $a$, $b$, $c$ are integers (not necessarily positive) satisfying the equations \[ a^n + pb = b^n + pc = c^n + pa\] then $a = b = c$. [i]Proposed by Angelo Di Pasquale, Australia[/i]

2010 LMT, 12

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Al and Bob play Rock Paper Scissors until someone wins a game. What is the probability that this happens on the sixth game?

2016 Azerbaijan Balkan MO TST, 2

Set $A$ consists of natural numbers such that these numbers can be expressed as $2x^2+3y^2,$ where $x$ and $y$ are integers. $(x^2+y^2\not=0)$ $a)$ Prove that there is no perfect square in the set $A.$ $b)$ Prove that multiple of odd number of elements of the set $A$ cannot be a perfect square.

2024 Iran MO (3rd Round), 3

Tags: algebra
An integer number $n\geq 2$ and real numbers $x_1<x_2<\cdots < x_n$ are given. $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ is a function defined as $$ f(x) = \left | \dfrac{(x-x_2)(x-x_3)\cdots (x-x_n)}{(x_1-x_2)(x_1-x_3)\cdots (x_1-x_n)} \right | + \cdots + \left | \dfrac{(x-x_1)(x-x_2)\cdots (x-x_{n-1})}{(x_n-x_1)(x_n-x_2)\cdots (x_n-x_{n-1})} \right |. $$ Prove that there exists $i\in \{1,2,\cdots,n-1\}$ such that for all $x\in (x_i,x_{i+1})$ one has $f(x)< \sqrt n$. Proposed by [i]Navid Safaei[/i]

1999 China Team Selection Test, 3

Let $S = \lbrace 1, 2, \ldots, 15 \rbrace$. Let $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n$ be $n$ subsets of $S$ which satisfy the following conditions: [b]I.[/b] $|A_i| = 7, i = 1, 2, \ldots, n$; [b]II.[/b] $|A_i \cap A_j| \leq 3, 1 \leq i < j \leq n$ [b]III.[/b] For any 3-element subset $M$ of $S$, there exists $A_k$ such that $M \subset A_k$. Find the smallest possible value of $n$.

1992 AMC 12/AHSME, 12

Let $y = mx + b$ be the image when the line $x - 3y + 11 = 0$ is reflected across the x-axis. The value of $m + b$ is $ \textbf{(A)}\ -6\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ -5\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ -4\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ -3\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ -2 $

2004 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 8

Tags: geometry
A triangle has side lengths $18$, $24$, and $30$. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are the incenter, circumcenter, and centroid of the original triangle.

2002 IMO Shortlist, 2

Let $a_1,a_2,\ldots$ be an infinite sequence of real numbers, for which there exists a real number $c$ with $0\leq a_i\leq c$ for all $i$, such that \[\left\lvert a_i-a_j \right\rvert\geq \frac{1}{i+j} \quad \text{for all }i,\ j \text{ with } i \neq j. \] Prove that $c\geq1$.

1989 Flanders Math Olympiad, 3

Show that:\[\alpha = \pm \frac{\pi}{12} + k\cdot \frac{\pi}2 (k\in \mathbb{Z}) \Longleftrightarrow\ |{\tan \alpha}| + |{\cot \alpha}| = 4\]

1994 AMC 8, 3

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Each day Maria must work $8$ hours. This does not include the $45$ minutes she takes for lunch. If she begins working at $\text{7:25 A.M.}$ and takes her lunch break at noon, then her working day will end at $\text{(A)}\ \text{3:40 P.M.} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \text{3:55 P.M.} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \text{4:10 P.M.} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \text{4:25 P.M.} \qquad \text{(E)}\ \text{4:40 P.M.}$

1998 Brazil Team Selection Test, Problem 4

(a) Show that, for each positive integer $n$, the number of monic polynomials of degree $n$ with integer coefficients having all its roots on the unit circle is finite. (b) Let $P(x)$ be a monic polynomial with integer coefficients having all its roots on the unit circle. Show that there exists a positive integer $m$ such that $y^m=1$ for each root $y$ of $P(x)$.

2023 ISI Entrance UGB, 8

Let $f \colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function which is differentiable on $(0,1)$. Prove that either $f(x) = ax + b$ for all $x \in [0,1]$ for some constants $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$ or there exists $t \in (0,1)$ such that $|f(1) - f(0)| < |f'(t)|$.

2018 Mathematical Talent Reward Programme, MCQ: P 1

A coin is tossed 9 times. Hence $2^{9}$ different outcomes are possible. In how many cases 2 consecutive heads does not appear? [list=1] [*] 34 [*] 55 [*] 89 [*] None of these [/list]

2002 Vietnam Team Selection Test, 2

On a blackboard a positive integer $n_0$ is written. Two players, $A$ and $B$ are playing a game, which respects the following rules: $-$ acting alternatively per turn, each player deletes the number written on the blackboard $n_k$ and writes instead one number denoted with $n_{k+1}$ from the set $\left\{n_k-1, \dsp \left\lfloor\frac {n_k}3\right\rfloor\right\}$; $-$ player $A$ starts first deleting $n_0$ and replacing it with $n_1\in\left\{n_0-1, \dsp \left\lfloor\frac {n_0}3\right\rfloor\right\}$; $-$ the game ends when the number on the table is 0 - and the player who wrote it is the winner. Find which player has a winning strategy in each of the following cases: a) $n_0=120$; b) $n_0=\dsp \frac {3^{2002}-1}2$; c) $n_0=\dsp \frac{3^{2002}+1}2$.

2005 Estonia Team Selection Test, 1

On a plane, a line $\ell$ and two circles $c_1$ and $c_2$ of different radii are given such that $\ell$ touches both circles at point $P$. Point $M \ne P$ on $\ell$ is chosen so that the angle $Q_1MQ_2$ is as large as possible where $Q_1$ and $Q_2$ are the tangency points of the tangent lines drawn from $M$ to $c_i$ and $c_2$, respectively, differing from $\ell$ . Find $\angle PMQ_1 + \angle PMQ_2$·

2015 NZMOC Camp Selection Problems, 3

Let $ABC$ be an acute angled triangle. The arc between $A$ and $B$ of the circumcircle of $ABC$ is reflected through the line $AB$, and the arc between $A$ and $C$ of the circumcircle of $ABC$ is reflected over the line $AC$. Obviously these two reflected arcs intersect at the point $A$. Prove that they also intersect at another point inside the triangle $ABC$.

2023 Azerbaijan IMO TST, 4

A number is called [i]Norwegian[/i] if it has three distinct positive divisors whose sum is equal to $2022$. Determine the smallest Norwegian number. (Note: The total number of positive divisors of a Norwegian number is allowed to be larger than $3$.)

2017 Bosnia Herzegovina Team Selection Test, 1

Incircle of triangle $ ABC$ touches $ AB,AC$ at $ P,Q$. $ BI, CI$ intersect with $ PQ$ at $ K,L$. Prove that circumcircle of $ ILK$ is tangent to incircle of $ ABC$ if and only if $ AB\plus{}AC\equal{}3BC$.

2010 Germany Team Selection Test, 1

Let $ABC$ be a triangle. The incircle of $ABC$ touches the sides $AB$ and $AC$ at the points $Z$ and $Y$, respectively. Let $G$ be the point where the lines $BY$ and $CZ$ meet, and let $R$ and $S$ be points such that the two quadrilaterals $BCYR$ and $BCSZ$ are parallelogram. Prove that $GR=GS$. [i]Proposed by Hossein Karke Abadi, Iran[/i]

2000 Putnam, 5

Three distinct points with integer coordinates lie in the plane on a circle of radius $r>0$. Show that two of these points are separated by a distance of at least $r^{1/3}$.