Find all triples $(a,b,c)$ of real numbers such that $|2a + b| \ge 4$ and $|ax^2 + bx + c| \le 1$ $ \forall x \in [-1, 1]$.

A harmonic progression is a sequence of numbers such that their reciprocals are in arithmetic progression. Let $S_n$ represent the sum of the first $n$ terms of the harmonic progression; for example $S_3$ represents the sum of the first three terms. If the first three terms of a harmonic progression are $3,4,6$, then: $ \textbf{(A)}\ S_4=20 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ S_4=25\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ S_5=49\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ S_6=49\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ S_2=\frac12 S_4 $

Find all complex roots (with multiplicities) of the polynomial $$p(x)=\sum_{n=1}^{2008}(1004-|1004-n|)x^n.$$

Let $\mathbb R_{>0}$ be the set of positive real numbers. Determine all functions $f \colon \mathbb R_{>0} \to \mathbb R_{>0}$ such that \[x \big(f(x) + f(y)\big) \geqslant \big(f(f(x)) + y\big) f(y)\] for every $x, y \in \mathbb R_{>0}$.

find all $k$ distinct integers $a_1,a_2,...,a_k$ such that there exists an injective function $f$ from reals to themselves such that for each positive integer $n$ we have $$\{f^n(x)-x| x \in \mathbb{R} \}=\{a_1+n,a_2+n,...,a_k+n\}$$.

Let $\mathbb{Z} _{>0}$ be the set of positive integers. Find all functions $f: \mathbb{Z} _{>0}\rightarrow \mathbb{Z} _{>0}$ such that \[ m^2 + f(n) \mid mf(m) +n \] for all positive integers $m$ and $n$.

[b]p1.[/b] Compute $45\times 45 - 6$. [b]p2.[/b] Consecutive integers have nice properties. For example, $3$, $4$, $5$ are three consecutive integers, and $8$, $9$, $10$ are three consecutive integers also. If the sum of three consecutive integers is $24$, what is the smallest of the three numbers? [b]p3.[/b] How many positive integers less than $25$ are either multiples of $2$ or multiples of $3$? [b]p4.[/b] Charlotte has $5$ positive integers. Charlotte tells you that the mean, median, and unique mode of his five numbers are all equal to $10$. What is the largest possible value of the one of Charlotte's numbers? [b]p5.[/b] Mr. Meeseeks starts with a single coin. Every day, Mr. Meeseeks goes to a magical coin converter where he can either exchange $1$ coin for $5$ coins or exchange $5$ coins for $3$ coins. What is the least number of days Mr. Meeseeks needs to end with $15$ coins? [b]p6.[/b] Twelve years ago, Violet's age was twice her sister Holo's age. In $7$ years, Holo's age will be $13$ more than a third of Violet's age. $3$ years ago, Violet and Holo's cousin Rindo's age was the sum of their ages. How old is Rindo? [b]p7.[/b] In a $2 \times 3$ rectangle composed of $6$ unit squares, let $S$ be the set of all points $P$ in the rectangle such that a unit circle centered at $P$ covers some point in exactly $3$ of the unit squares. Find the area of the region $S$. For example, the diagram below shows a valid unit circle in a $2 \times 3$ rectangle. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/d/9/b6e00306886249898c2bdb13f5206ced37d345.png[/img] [b]p8.[/b] What are the last four digits of $2^{1000}$? [b]p9.[/b] There is a point $X$ in the center of a $2 \times 2 \times 2$ box. Find the volume of the region of points that are closer to $X$ than to any of the vertices of the box. [b]p10.[/b] Evaluate $\sqrt{37 \cdot 41 \cdot 113 \cdot 290 - 4319^2}$ [b]p11.[/b] (Estimation) A number is abundant if the sum of all its divisors is greater than twice the number. One such number is $12$, because $1+2+3+4+6+12 = 28 > 24$: How many abundant positive integers less than $20190$ are there? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Given an integer $n\geq2$, let $x_1<x_2<\cdots<x_n$ and $y_1<y_2<\cdots<y_n$ be positive reals. Prove that for every value $C\in (-2,2)$ (by taking $y_{n+1}=y_1$) it holds that $\hspace{122px}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\sqrt{x_i^2+Cx_iy_i+y_i^2}<\sum_{i=1}^{n}\sqrt{x_i^2+Cx_iy_{i+1}+y_{i+1}^2}$. [i]Proposed by Mirko Petrusevski[/i]

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that for all real numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfies, $$2+f(x)f(y)\leq xy+2f(x+y+1).$$

Determine all $a\in\mathbb R$ such that the inequality \[x^4+x^3-2(a+1)x^2-ax+a^2<0\] has at least one real solution $x.$

Let $a,b,c\in\{0,1,2,\cdots,9\}$.The quadratic equation $ax^2+bx+c=0$ has a rational root. Prove that the three-digit number $abc$ is not a prime number.

The sequence $\{x_n\}$ of real numbers is defined by \[x_1=1 \quad\text{and}\quad x_{n+1}=x_n+\sqrt[3]{x_n} \quad\text{for}\quad n\geq 1.\] Show that there exist real numbers $a, b$ such that $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}\frac{x_n}{an^b} = 1$.

A matrix $M$ is called idempotent if $M^2 = M$. Find an idempotent $2 \times 2$ matrix with distinct rational entries or write “none” if none exist.

Find all pairs of real numbers $x$ and $y$ which satisfy the following equations: \begin{align*} x^2 + y^2 - 48x - 29y + 714 & = 0 \\ 2xy - 29x - 48y + 756 & = 0 \end{align*}

Let $f: \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ be a function that satisfies: \[ f(1) = 2008, \] \[ f(4n^2) = 4f(n^2), \] \[ f(4n^2 + 2) = 4f(n^2) + 3, \] \[ f(4n(n+1)) = 4f(n(n+1)) + 1, \] \[ f(4n(n+1) + 3) = 4f(n(n+1)) + 4. \] Determine whether there exists a natural number $m$ such that: \[ 1^2 + 2^2 + \dots + m^2 + f(1^2) + \dots + f(m^2) = 2008m + 251. \]

Given positive numbers $a_1, \ldots , a_n$, $b_1, \ldots , b_n$, $c_1, \ldots , c_n$. Let $m_k$ be the maximum of the products $a_ib_jc_l$ over the sets $(i, j, l)$ for which $max(i, j, l) = k$. Prove that $$(a_1 + \ldots + a_n) (b_1 +\ldots + b_n) (c_1 +\ldots + c_n) \leq n^2 (m_1 + \ldots + m_n).$$

For all reals $x,y,z$ prove that $$\sqrt {x^2+\frac {1}{y^2}}+ \sqrt {y^2+\frac {1}{z^2}}+ \sqrt {z^2+\frac {1}{x^2}}\geq 3\sqrt {2}. $$

Basil needs to solve an exercise on summing two fractions $\dfrac{a}{b}$ and $\dfrac{c}{d}$, where $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are some non-zero real numbers. But instead of summing he performed multiplication (correctly). It appears that Basil's answer coincides with the correct answer to given exercise. Find the value of $\dfrac{b}{a} + \dfrac{d}{c}$.

Let $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ be different real numbers. Prove that \[\sum_{1 \leqslant i \leqslant n} \prod_{j \neq i} \frac{1-x_{i} x_{j}}{x_{i}-x_{j}}=\left\{\begin{array}{ll} 0, & \text { if } n \text { is even; } \\ 1, & \text { if } n \text { is odd. } \end{array}\right.\]

Give an example of a second degree polynomial $P\in \mathbb{R}[x]$ such that \[\forall x\in \mathbb{R}\text{ with } |x|\leqslant 1: \; \left|P(x)+\frac{1}{x-4}\right| \leqslant 0.01.\] Are there linear polynomials with this property? [i]Octavian Stănășilă[/i]

Let the real numbers $a, b, c$ be such that $a \ge b \ge c > 0$. Show that $$\frac{a^2-b^2}{c}+ \frac{c^2-b^2}{a}+ \frac{a^2-c^2}{b}\ge 3a - 4b + c.$$ When does equality hold?

For positive integer n, define $a_n$ as the number of the triangles with integer length of every side and the length of the longest side being $2n.$ (1) Find $a_n$ in terms of $n;$ (2)If the sequence $\{ b_n\}$ satisfying for any positive integer $n,$ $\sum_{k=1}^n(-1)^{n-k}\binom {n}{k} b_k=a_n.$ Find the number of positive integer $n$ satisfying that $b_n\leq 2019a_n.$

Find the root that the following three polynomials have in common: \begin{align*} & x^3+41x^2-49x-2009 \\ & x^3 + 5x^2-49x-245 \\ & x^3 + 39x^2 - 117x - 1435\end{align*}

For $a,b,c>0$, prove that (i) $\frac{a+b+c}{2}-\frac{ab}{a+b}-\frac{bc}{b+c}-\frac{ca}{c+a}\ge 0$ (ii) $a(1+b)+b(1+c)+c(1+a)\ge 6\sqrt{abc}$

Given three nonzero real numbers $a,b,c,$ such that $a>b>c$, prove the equation has at least one real root. $$\frac{1}{x+a}+\frac{1}{x+b}+\frac{1}{x+c}-\frac{3}{x}=0$$ @below sorry, I believe I fixed it with the added constraint.