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2009 Austria Beginners' Competition, 4

The center $M$ of the square $ABCD$ is reflected wrt $C$. This gives point $E$. The intersection of the circumcircle of the triangle $BDE$ with the line $AM$ is denoted by $S$. Show that $S$ bisects the distance $AM$. (W. Janous, WRG Ursulinen, Innsbruck)

1962 Leningrad Math Olympiad, grade 6

[b]6.1 [/b] Three people with one double seater motorbike simultaneously headed from city A to city B . How should they act so that time, for which the last of them will get to , was the smallest? Determine this time. Pedestrian speed - 5 km/h, motorcycle speed - 45 km/h, distance from A to B is equal to 60 kilometers . [b]6.2 / 7.2[/b] The numbers $A$ and $B$ are relatively prime. What common divisors can have the numbers $A+B$ and $A-B$? [b]6.3.[/b] A person's age in $1962$ was one more than the sum of digits of the year of his birth. How old is he? [b]6.4. / 7.3[/b] $15$ magazines lie on the table, completely covering it. Prove that it is possible to remove eight of them so that the remaining magz cover at least $7/15$ of the table area. [b]6.5.[/b] Prove that a $201 \times 201$ chessboard can be bypassed by moving a chess knight, visiting each square exactly once. [b]6.6.[/b] Can an integer whose last two digits are odd be the square of another integer? PS. You should use hide for answers.Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3983459_1962_leningrad_math_olympiad]here[/url].

1974 Putnam, A6

Given $n$, let $k = k(n)$ be the minimal degree of any monic integral polynomial $$f(x)=x^k + a_{k-1}x^{k-1}+\ldots+a_0$$ such that the value of $f(x)$ is exactly divisible by $n$ for every integer $x.$ Find the relationship between $n$ and $k(n)$. In particular, find the value of $k(n)$ corresponding to $n = 10^6.$

1974 AMC 12/AHSME, 19

Tags: geometry
In the adjoining figure $ABCD$ is a square and $CMN$ is an equilateral triangle. If the area of $ABCD$ is one square inch, then the area of $CMN$ in square inches is [asy] draw((0,0)--(1,0)--(1,1)--(0,1)--cycle); draw((.82,0)--(1,1)--(0,.76)--cycle); label("A", (0,0), S); label("B", (1,0), S); label("C", (1,1), N); label("D", (0,1), N); label("M", (0,.76), W); label("N", (.82,0), S); [/asy] $ \textbf{(A)}\ 2\sqrt{3}-3 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 1-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{4} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{3} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 4-2\sqrt{3} $

2014 India PRMO, 1

A natural number $k$ is such that $k^2 < 2014 < (k +1)^2$. What is the largest prime factor of $k$?

2015 CHMMC (Fall), 6

The icosahedron is a convex, regular polyhedron consisting of $20$ equilateral triangle for faces. A particular icosahedron given to you has labels on each of its vertices, edges, and faces. Each minute, you uniformly at random pick one of the labels on the icosahedron. If the label is on a vertex, you remove it. If the label is on an edge, you delete the label on the edge along with any labels still on the vertices of that edge. If the label is on a face, you delete the label on the face along with any labels on the edges and vertices which make up that face. What is the expected number of minutes that pass before you have removed all labels from the icosahedron?

1985 Tournament Of Towns, (083) T4

Three grasshoppers are on a straight line. Every second one grasshopper jumps. It jumps across one (but not across two) of the other grasshoppers . Prove that after $1985$ seconds the grasshoppers cannot be in the initial position . (Leningrad Mathematical Olympiad 1985)

Indonesia MO Shortlist - geometry, g11

Given triangle $ABC$ and point $P$ on the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$. Suppose the line $CP$ intersects line $AB$ at point $E$ and line $BP$ intersect line $AC$ at point $F$. Suppose also the perpendicular bisector of $AB$ intersects $AC$ at point $K$ and the perpendicular bisector of $AC$ intersects $AB$ at point $J$. Prove that $$\left( \frac{CE}{BF}\right)^2= \frac{AJ \cdot JE }{ AK \cdot KF}$$

1976 AMC 12/AHSME, 26

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[asy] size(150); dotfactor=4; draw(circle((0,0),4)); draw(circle((10,-6),3)); pair O,A,P,Q; O = (0,0); A = (10,-6); P = (-.55, -4.12); Q = (10.7, -2.86); dot("$O$", O, NE); dot("$O'$", A, SW); dot("$P$", P, SW); dot("$Q$", Q, NE); draw((2*sqrt(2),2*sqrt(2))--(10 + 3*sqrt(2)/2, -6 + 3*sqrt(2)/2)--cycle); draw((-1.68*sqrt(2),-2.302*sqrt(2))--(10 - 2.6*sqrt(2)/2, -6 - 3.4*sqrt(2)/2)--cycle); draw(P--Q--cycle); //Credit to happiface for the diagram[/asy] In the adjoining figure, every point of circle $\mathit{O'}$ is exterior to circle $\mathit{O}$. Let $\mathit{P}$ and $\mathit{Q}$ be the points of intersection of an internal common tangent with the two external common tangents. Then the length of $PQ$ is $\textbf{(A) }\text{the average of the lengths of the internal and external common tangents}\qquad$ $\textbf{(B) }\text{equal to the length of an external common tangent if and only if circles }\mathit{O}\text{ and }\mathit{O'}\text{ have equal radii}\qquad$ $\textbf{(C) }\text{always equal to the length of an external common tangent}\qquad$ $\textbf{(D) }\text{greater than the length of an external common tangent}\qquad$ $\textbf{(E) }\text{the geometric mean of the lengths of the internal and external common tangents}$

2021 AMC 10 Fall, 12

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The base-nine representation of the number $N$ is $27{,}006{,}000{,}052_{\rm nine}$. What is the remainder when $N$ is divided by $5?$ $\textbf{(A) }0\qquad\textbf{(B) }1\qquad\textbf{(C) }2\qquad\textbf{(D) }3\qquad\textbf{(E) }4$

LMT Speed Rounds, 14

Tags: geometry
In obtuse triangle $ABC$ with $AB = 7$, $BC = 20$, and $C A = 15$, let point $D$ be the foot of the altitude from $C$ to line $AB$. Evaluate $[ACD]+[BCD]$. (Note that $[XY Z]$ means the area of triangle $XY Z$.) [i]Proposed by Jonathan Liu[/i]

2012 ELMO Shortlist, 9

Let $a,b,c$ be distinct positive real numbers, and let $k$ be a positive integer greater than $3$. Show that \[\left\lvert\frac{a^{k+1}(b-c)+b^{k+1}(c-a)+c^{k+1}(a-b)}{a^k(b-c)+b^k(c-a)+c^k(a-b)}\right\rvert\ge \frac{k+1}{3(k-1)}(a+b+c)\] and \[\left\lvert\frac{a^{k+2}(b-c)+b^{k+2}(c-a)+c^{k+2}(a-b)}{a^k(b-c)+b^k(c-a)+c^k(a-b)}\right\rvert\ge \frac{(k+1)(k+2)}{3k(k-1)}(a^2+b^2+c^2).\] [i]Calvin Deng.[/i]

2013 India IMO Training Camp, 2

In a triangle $ABC$ with $B = 90^\circ$, $D$ is a point on the segment $BC$ such that the inradii of triangles $ABD$ and $ADC$ are equal. If $\widehat{ADB} = \varphi$ then prove that $\tan^2 (\varphi/2) = \tan (C/2)$.

1953 Polish MO Finals, 3

Through each vertex of a tetrahedron with a given volume $ V $, a plane is drawn parallel to the opposite face of the tetrahedron. Calculate the volume of the tetrahedron formed by these planes.

2016 Peru IMO TST, 11

Let $n> 2$ be an integer. A child has $n^2$ candies, which are distributed in $n$ boxes. An operation consists in choosing two boxes that together contain an even number of candies and redistribute the candy from those boxes so that both contain the same amount of candy. Determine all the values of $n$ for which the child, after some operations, can get each box containing $n$ candies, no matter which the initial distribution of candies is.

2009 Indonesia TST, 1

Let $ n \ge 1$ and $ k \ge 3$ be integers. A circle is divided into $ n$ sectors $ a_1,a_2,\dots,a_n$. We will color the $ n$ sectors with $ k$ different colors such that $ a_i$ and $ a_{i \plus{} 1}$ have different color for each $ i \equal{} 1,2,\dots,n$ where $ a_{n \plus{} 1}\equal{}a_1$. Find the number of ways to do such coloring.

2020 IMO Shortlist, A5

A magician intends to perform the following trick. She announces a positive integer $n$, along with $2n$ real numbers $x_1 < \dots < x_{2n}$, to the audience. A member of the audience then secretly chooses a polynomial $P(x)$ of degree $n$ with real coefficients, computes the $2n$ values $P(x_1), \dots , P(x_{2n})$, and writes down these $2n$ values on the blackboard in non-decreasing order. After that the magician announces the secret polynomial to the audience. Can the magician find a strategy to perform such a trick?

2011 IMC, 2

Does there exist a real $3\times 3$ matrix $A$ such that $\text{tr}(A)=0$ and $A^2+A^t=I?$ ($\text{tr}(A)$ denotes the trace of $A,\ A^t$ the transpose of $A,$ and $I$ is the identity matrix.) [i]Proposed by Moubinool Omarjee, Paris[/i]

2014 Turkey EGMO TST, 3

Tags: algebra
Denote by $d(n)$ be the biggest prime divisor of $|n|>1$. Find all polynomials with integer coefficients satisfy; $$P(n+d(n))=n+d(P(n)) $$ for the all $|n|>1$ integers such that $P(n)>1$ and $d(P(n))$ can be defined.

2019 Tournament Of Towns, 1

The polynomial P(x,y) is such that for every integer n >= 0 each of the polynomials P(x,n) and P(n,y) either is a constant zero or has a degree not greater than n. Is it possible that P(x,x) has an odd degree?

2021 MMATHS, 1

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Let $a,b,c$ be the roots of the polynomial $x^3 - 20x^2 + 22.$ Find \[\frac{bc}{a^2}+\frac{ac}{b^2}+\frac{ab}{c^2}.\] [i]Proposed by Deyuan Li and Andrew Milas[/i]

1975 Poland - Second Round, 6

Let $ f(x) $ and $ g(x) $ be polynomials with integer coefficients. Prove that if for every integer value $ n $ the number $ g(n) $ is divisible by the number $ f(n) $, then $ g(x) = f(x)\cdot h(x) $, where $ h(x) $ is a polynomial,. Show with an example that the coefficients of the polynomial $ h(x) $ do not have to be integer.

1952 AMC 12/AHSME, 18

Tags: logarithm
$ \log p \plus{} \log q \equal{} \log (p \plus{} q)$ only if: $ \textbf{(A)}\ p \equal{} q \equal{} 0 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ p \equal{} \frac {q^2}{1 \minus{} q} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ p \equal{} q \equal{} 1$ $ \textbf{(D)}\ p \equal{} \frac {q}{q \minus{} 1} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ p \equal{} \frac {q}{q \plus{} 1}$

2024 MMATHS, 10

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In acute $\triangle{ABC},$ $AB=11$ and $CB=10.$ Points $E$ and $D$ are constructed such that $\angle{CBE}$ and $\angle{ABD}$ are right, and $ACEBD$ is a non-degenerate pentagon. Additionally, $\angle{AEB} \cong \angle{DCB}, AE=CD,$ and $ED=20.$ Given that $EA$ and $CD$ intersect at $P$ and $AP=4,$ find $CP^2.$

2023 BMT, 4

Let f$(x)$ be a continuous function over the real numbers such that for every integer $n$, $f(n) = n^2$ and $f(x) $ is linear over the interval $[n, n + 1]$. There exists a unique two-variable polynomial $g$ such that $g(x, \lfloor x \rfloor) = f(x)$ for all $x$. Compute $g(20, 23)$. (Here, $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is defined as the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$. For example, $\lfloor 2\rfloor = 2$ and $\lfloor -3.5 \rfloor = -4$.)