Within an equilateral triangle $ABC$, take any point $P$. Let $L, M, N$ be the projections of $P$ on sides $AB, BC, CA$ respectively. Prove that $\frac{AP}{NL}=\frac{BP}{LM}=\frac{CP}{MN}$.

(a) Prove that there is a unique function $f : Q \to Q$ satisfying: (i) $f(q)= 1 + f\left(\frac{q}{1-2q}\right)$ for $0<q< \frac12$ (ii) $f(q)= 1 + f(q-1)$ for $1<q\le 2$ (iii) $f(q)f\left(\frac{1}{q}\right)=1$ for all $q\in Q^+$ (b) For this function $f$ , find all $r\in Q^+$ such that $f(r) = r$

Let $I $be the incenter of triangle $ABC$and $J$ the excenter of the side $BC$: Let $M$ be the midpoint of $CB$ and $N$ the midpoint of arc $BAC$ of circle $(ABC)$. If $T$ is the symmetric of the point $N$ by the point $A$, prove that the quadrilateral $JMIT$ is cyclic

Let $g:\mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N}$ be a bijective function and suppose that $f:\mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N}$ is a function such that: [list] [*] For all naturals $x$, $$\underbrace{f(\cdots (f}_{x^{2023}\;f\text{'s}}(x)))=x. $$ [*] For all naturals $x,y$ such that $x|y$, we have $f(x)|g(y)$. [/list] Prove that $f(x)=x$. [i]Proposed by Pulkit Sinha[/i]

Rhombus $ABCD$ has side length $2$ and $\angle B = 120 ^\circ$. Region $R$ consists of all points inside the rhombus that are closer to vertex $B$ than any of the other three vertices. What is the area of $R$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{3} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \frac{2\sqrt{3}}{3} \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 1+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3} \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 2 $

Find all positive integers $n$ and $k$ such that $(n+1)^n=2n^k+3n+1$.

Which of the following statements is (are) equivalent to the statement "If the pink elephant on planet alpha has purple eyes, then the wild pig on planet beta does not have a long nose"? $\textbf{I. }$ "If the wild pig on planet beta has a long nose, then the pink elephant on planet alpha has purple eyes." $\textbf{II. }$ "If the pink elephant on planet alpha does not have purple eyes, then the wild pig on planet beta does not have a long nose. $\textbf{III. }$ "If the wild pig on planet beta has a long nose, then the pink elephant on planet alpha does not have purple eyes." $ \textbf{IV. }$ "The pink elephant on planet alpha does not have purple eyes, or the wild pig on planet beta does not have a long nose." $\textbf{(A) }\textbf{I. }\text{and }\textbf{II. }\text{only}\qquad\textbf{(B) }\textbf{III. }\text{and }\textbf{IV. }\text{only}\qquad\textbf{(C) }\textbf{II. }\text{and }\textbf{IV. }\text{only}\qquad\textbf{(D) }\textbf{II. }\text{and }\textbf{III. }\text{only}\qquad \textbf{(E) }\text{and }\textbf{III. }\text{only}$

Does there exist a function $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, which satisfies both conditions : [b]a)[/b] $f( x + y + z) \leq 3(xy + yz + zx)$ for all real numbers $x , y , z$ and [b]b)[/b] there exist function $g$ and natural number $n$, such that $g(g(x)) = x ^ {2n + 1}$ and $f(g(x)) = (g(x)) ^2$ for every real number $x$ ?

Given sets $A = \{1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16, 17\}$, $B = \{2, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18\}$, if a positive integer leaves a remainder (the smallest non-negative remainder) that belongs to $A$ when divided by 19, then that positive integer is called an $\alpha$ number. If a positive integer leaves a remainder that belongs to $B$ when divided by 19, then that positive integer is called a $\beta$ number. (1) For what positive integer $n$, among all its positive divisors, are the numbers of $\alpha$ divisors and $\beta$ divisors equal? (2) For which positive integers $k$, are the numbers of $\alpha$ divisors less than the numbers of $\beta$ divisors? For which positive integers $l$, are the numbers of $\alpha$ divisors greater than the numbers of $\beta$ divisors?

In the plane, there are $n$ points ($n\ge 4$) where no 3 of them are collinear. Let $A(n)$ be the number of parallelograms whose vertices are those points with area $1$. Prove the following inequality: $A(n)\leq \frac{n^2-3n}{4}$ for all $n\ge 4$

It is given a triangle $ABC$. Let $R$ be the radius of the circumcircle of the triangle and $O_1,O_2,O_3$ be the centers of excircles of the triangle $ABC$ and $q$ is the perimeter of the triangle $O_1O_2O_3$. Prove that $q\le6R\sqrt3$. When does equality hold?

Given a cube with edge $ AB = a $ cm. Point $ M $ of segment $ AB $ is distant from the diagonal of the cube, which is oblique to $ AB $, by $ k $ cm. Find the distance of point $ M $ from the midpoint $ S $ of segment $ AB $.

Let $ a\geq 2$ be a real number; with the roots $ x_{1}$ and $ x_{2}$ of the equation $ x^2\minus{}ax\plus{}1\equal{}0$ we build the sequence with $ S_{n}\equal{}x_{1}^n \plus{} x_{2}^n$. [b]a)[/b]Prove that the sequence $ \frac{S_{n}}{S_{n\plus{}1}}$, where $ n$ takes value from $ 1$ up to infinity, is strictly non increasing. [b]b)[/b]Find all value of $ a$ for the which this inequality hold for all natural values of $ n$ $ \frac{S_{1}}{S_{2}}\plus{}\cdots \plus{}\frac{S_{n}}{S_{n\plus{}1}}>n\minus{}1$

A wall contains three switches $A,B,C$, each of which powers a light when flipped on. Every $20$ seconds, switch $A$ is turned on and then immediately turned off again. The same occurs for switch $B$ every $21$ seconds and switch $C$ every $22$ seconds. At time $t = 0$, all three switches are simultaneously on. Let $t = T > 0$ be the earliest time that all three switches are once again simultaneously on. Compute the number of times $t > 0$ before $T$ when at least two switches are simultaneously on.

On equilateral $\triangle{ABC}$ point D lies on BC a distance 1 from B, point E lies on AC a distance 1 from C, and point F lies on AB a distance 1 from A. Segments AD, BE, and CF intersect in pairs at points G, H, and J which are the vertices of another equilateral triangle. The area of $\triangle{ABC}$ is twice the area of $\triangle{GHJ}$. The side length of $\triangle{ABC}$ can be written $\frac{r+\sqrt{s}}{t}$, where r, s, and t are relatively prime positive integers. Find $r + s + t$. [center][img]https://i.snag.gy/TKU5Fc.jpg[/img][/center]

Let $p$ be an odd prime, and put $N=\frac{1}{4} (p^3 -p) -1.$ The numbers $1,2, \dots, N$ are painted arbitrarily in two colors, red and blue. For any positive integer $n \leqslant N,$ denote $r(n)$ the fraction of integers $\{ 1,2, \dots, n \}$ that are red. Prove that there exists a positive integer $a \in \{ 1,2, \dots, p-1\}$ such that $r(n) \neq a/p$ for all $n = 1,2, \dots , N.$ [I]Netherlands[/i]

Janet played a song on her clarinet in 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Janet’s goal is to play the song at a 25% faster rate. Find the number of seconds it will take Janet to play the song when she reaches her goal.

Find all positive integers $ n $ such that there exists an integer $ m $ satisfying $$ \frac{1}{n}\sum\limits_{k=m}^{m+n-1}{k^2} $$ is a perfect square.

For every integer $ k \geq 2,$ prove that $ 2^{3k}$ divides the number \[ \binom{2^{k \plus{} 1}}{2^{k}} \minus{} \binom{2^{k}}{2^{k \minus{} 1}} \] but $ 2^{3k \plus{} 1}$ does not. [i]Author: Waldemar Pompe, Poland[/i]

We denote the number of positive divisors of a positive integer $m$ by $d(m)$ and the number of distinct prime divisors of $m$ by $\omega(m)$. Let $k$ be a positive integer. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $\omega(n) = k$ and $d(n)$ does not divide $d(a^2+b^2)$ for any positive integers $a, b$ satisfying $a + b = n$.

Let $ABCDEF$ be a convex hexagon. Segments $AE$ and $BF$ intersect at $X$ and segments $BD$ and $CE$ intersect in $Y.$ It's known that $$ \angle XBC = \angle XDE = \angle YAB = \angle YEF = 80^\circ \text{ and } \angle XCB = \angle XED = \angle YBA = \angle YFE = \angle 70^\circ.$$ Let $P$ and $Q$ be such points on line $XY$ that segments $PX$ and $AF$ intersect, segments $QY$ and $CD$ intersect and $\angle APF = \angle CQD = 30 ^\circ.$ Estimate the sum: \[ \frac{BX}{BF} + \frac{BY}{BD} + \frac{EX}{EA} + \frac{EY}{EC} + \frac{PX}{PY} + \frac{QY}{QX} \] [i]Proposed by Gogi Khimshiashvili, Georgia [/i]

In triangle $ABC$, $\angle A=60^{\circ}$. The point $D$ changes on the segment $BC$. Let $O_1,O_2$ be the circumcenters of the triangles $\Delta ABD,\Delta ACD$, respectively. Let $M$ be the meet point of $BO_1,CO_2$ and let $N$ be the circumcenter of $\Delta DO_1O_2$. Prove that, by changing $D$ on $BC$, the line $MN$ passes through a constant point.

In a triangle, each median forms an angle with the side it is drawn to, which is less than $\alpha$. Prove that one of the angles of the triangle is greater than $180^\circ - \frac{4}{3}\alpha$. [i]Proposed by S. Berlov[/i]

$11$ carriers will carry $270$ kg of melons at one step where each melons weighs at most $7$ kg. Each carrier can carry at most $30$ kg in one step. Show that it is possible to carry all the melons at one step whatever a melon weighs.

Let \(n\) be a positive integer and consider an \(n\times n\) square grid. For \(1\le k\le n\), a [i]python[/i] of length \(k\) is a snake that occupies \(k\) consecutive cells in a single row, and no other cells. Similarly, an [i]anaconda[/i] of length \(k\) is a snake that occupies \(k\) consecutive cells in a single column, and no other cells. The grid contains at least one python or anaconda, and it satisfies the following properties: [list] [*]No cell is occupied by multiple snakes. [*]If a cell in the grid is immediately to the left or immediately to the right of a python, then that cell must be occupied by an anaconda. [*]If a cell in the grid is immediately to above or immediately below an anaconda, then that cell must be occupied by a python. [/list] Prove that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the snakes is at least \(n^2\). [i]Proposed by Linus Tang[/i]