[b]p1.[/b] A very large lucky number $N$ consists of eighty-eight $8$s in a row. Find the remainder when this number $N$ is divided by $6$. [b]p2.[/b] If $3$ chickens can lay $9$ eggs in $4$ days, how many chickens does it take to lay $180$ eggs in $ 8$ days? [b]p3.[/b] Find the ordered pair $(x, y)$ of real numbers satisfying the conditions $x > y$, $x+y = 10$, and $xy = -119$. [b]p4.[/b] There is pair of similar triangles. One triangle has side lengths $4, 6$, and $9$. The other triangle has side lengths $ 8$, $12$ and $x$. Find the sum of two possible values of $x$. [b]p5.[/b] If $x^2 +\frac{1}{x^2} = 3$, there are two possible values of $x +\frac{1}{x}$. What is the smaller of the two values? [b]p6.[/b] Three flavors (chocolate strawberry, vanilla) of ice cream are sold at Brian’s ice cream shop. Brian’s friend Zerg gets a coupon for $10$ free scoops of ice cream. If the coupon requires Zerg to choose an even number of scoops of each flavor of ice cream, how many ways can he choose his ice cream scoops? (For example, he could have $6$ scoops of vanilla and $4$ scoops of chocolate. The order in which Zerg eats the scoops does not matter.) [b]p7.[/b] David decides he wants to join the West African Drumming Ensemble, and thus he goes to the store and buys three large cylindrical drums. In order to ensure none of the drums drop on the way home, he ties a rope around all of the drums at their mid sections so that each drum is next to the other two. Suppose that each drum has a diameter of $3.5$ feet. David needs $m$ feet of rope. Given that $m = a\pi + b$, where $a$ and $b$ are rational numbers, find sum $a + b$. [b]p8.[/b] Segment $AB$ is the diameter of a semicircle of radius $24$. A beam of light is shot from a point $12\sqrt3$ from the center of the semicircle, and perpendicular to $AB$. How many times does it reflect off the semicircle before hitting $AB$ again? [b]p9.[/b] A cube is inscribed in a sphere of radius $ 8$. A smaller sphere is inscribed in the same sphere such that it is externally tangent to one face of the cube and internally tangent to the larger sphere. The maximum value of the ratio of the volume of the smaller sphere to the volume of the larger sphere can be written in the form $\frac{a-\sqrt{b}}{36}$ , where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. Find the product $ab$. [b]p10.[/b] How many ordered pairs $(x, y)$ of integers are there such that $2xy + x + y = 52$? [b]p11.[/b] Three musketeers looted a caravan and walked off with a chest full of coins. During the night, the first musketeer divided the coins into three equal piles, with one coin left over. He threw it into the ocean and took one of the piles for himself, then went back to sleep. The second musketeer woke up an hour later. He divided the remaining coins into three equal piles, and threw out the one coin that was left over. He took one of the piles and went back to sleep. The third musketeer woke up and divided the remaining coins into three equal piles, threw out the extra coin, and took one pile for himself. The next morning, the three musketeers gathered around to divide the coins into three equal piles. Strangely enough, they had one coin left over this time as well. What is the minimum number of coins that were originally in the chest? [b]p12.[/b] The diagram shows a rectangle that has been divided into ten squares of different sizes. The smallest square is $2 \times 2$ (marked with *). What is the area of the rectangle (which looks rather like a square itself)? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/4/a/7b8ebc1a9e3808096539154f0107f3e23d168b.png[/img] [b]p13.[/b] Let $A = (3, 2)$, $B = (0, 1)$, and $P$ be on the line $x + y = 0$. What is the minimum possible value of $AP + BP$? [b]p14.[/b] Mr. Mustafa the number man got a $6 \times x$ rectangular chess board for his birthday. Because he was bored, he wrote the numbers $1$ to $6x$ starting in the upper left corner and moving across row by row (so the number $x + 1$ is in the $2$nd row, $1$st column). Then, he wrote the same numbers starting in the upper left corner and moving down each column (so the number $7$ appears in the $1$st row, $2$nd column). He then added up the two numbers in each of the cells and found that some of the sums were repeated. Given that $x$ is less than or equal to $100$, how many possibilities are there for $x$? [b]p15.[/b] Six congruent equilateral triangles are arranged in the plane so that every triangle shares at least one whole edge with some other triangle. Find the number of distinct arrangements. (Two arrangements are considered the same if one can be rotated and/or reflected onto another.) PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Positive reals $x, y, z$ satisfy $$\frac{xy+1}{x+1} = \frac{yz+1}{y+1} = \frac{zx+1}{z+1}$$ Do they all have to be equal? [i](Proposed by Oleksii Masalitin)[/i]

Determine all 4-tuples ($a, b,c, d$) of real numbers satisfying the following four equations: $\begin{cases} ab + c + d = 3 \\ bc + d + a = 5 \\ cd + a + b = 2 \\ da + b + c = 6 \end{cases}$

[b]p1.[/b] Solve: $INK + INK + INK + INK + INK + INK = PEN$ ($INK$ and $PEN$ are $3$-digit numbers, and different letters stand for different digits). [b]p2. [/b]Two people play a game. They put $3$ piles of matches on the table: the first one contains $1$ match, the second one $3$ matches, and the third one $4$ matches. Then they take turns making moves. In a move, a player may take any nonzero number of matches FROM ONE PILE. The player who takes the last match from the table loses the game. a) The player who makes the first move can win the game. What is the winning first move? b) How can he win? (Describe his strategy.) [b]p3.[/b] The planet Naboo is under attack by the imperial forces. Three rebellion camps are located at the vertices of a triangle. The roads connecting the camps are along the sides of the triangle. The length of the first road is less than or equal to $20$ miles, the length of the second road is less than or equal to $30$ miles, and the length of the third road is less than or equal to $45$ miles. The Rebels have to cover the area of this triangle with a defensive field. What is the maximal area that they may need to cover? [b]p4.[/b] Money in Wonderland comes in $\$5$ and $\$7$ bills. What is the smallest amount of money you need to buy a slice of pizza that costs $\$ 1$ and get back your change in full? (The pizza man has plenty of $\$5$ and $\$7$ bills.) For example, having $\$7$ won't do, since the pizza man can only give you $\$5$ back. [b]p5.[/b] (a) Put $5$ points on the plane so that each $3$ of them are vertices of an isosceles triangle (i.e., a triangle with two equal sides), and no three points lie on the same line. (b) Do the same with $6$ points. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $P,Q,R$ be polynomials and let $S(x) = P(x^3) + xQ(x^3) + x^2R(x^3)$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ whose roots $x_1,\ldots, x_n$ are distinct. Construct with the aid of the polynomials $P,Q,R$ a polynomial $T$ of degree $n$ that has the roots $x_1^3 , x_2^3 , \ldots, x_n^3.$

Let the real numbers $a,b,c,d$ satisfy the relations $a+b+c+d=6$ and $a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2=12.$ Prove that \[36 \leq 4 \left(a^3+b^3+c^3+d^3\right) - \left(a^4+b^4+c^4+d^4 \right) \leq 48.\] [i]Proposed by Nazar Serdyuk, Ukraine[/i]

Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R}\to [0;+\infty)$ such that: \[f(x^2+y^2)=f(x^2-y^2)+f(2xy)\] for all real numbers $x$ and $y$. [i]Laurentiu Panaitopol[/i]

Elmo calls a monic polynomial with real coefficients [i]tasty[/i] if all of its coefficients are in the range $[-1,1]$. A monic polynomial $P$ with real coefficients and complex roots $\chi_1,\cdots,\chi_m$ (counted with multiplicity) is given to Elmo, and he discovers that there does not exist a monic polynomial $Q$ with real coefficients such that $PQ$ is tasty. Find all possible values of $\max\left(|\chi_1|,\cdots,|\chi_m|\right)$. [i]Proposed by Carl Schildkraut[/i]

The polynomial $ (x\plus{}y)^9$ is expanded in decreasing powers of $ x$. The second and third terms have equal values when evaluated at $ x\equal{}p$ and $ y\equal{}q$, where $ p$ and $ q$ are positive numbers whose sum is one. What is the value of $ p$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 1/5 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 4/5 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 1/4 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 3/4 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 8/9$

Consider a function \( n \mapsto f(n) \) that satisfies the following conditions: \( f(n) \) is an integer for each \( n \). \( f(0) = 1 \). \( f(n+1) > f(n) + f(n-1) + \cdots + f(0) \) for each \( n = 0, 1, 2, \dots \). Determine the smallest possible value of \( f(2023) \).

[b]p1.[/b] The number $2020$ is very special: the sum of its digits is equal to the product of its nonzero digits. How many such four digit numbers are there? (Numbers with only one nonzero digit, like $3000$, also count) [b]p2.[/b] A locker has a combination which is a sequence of three integers between $ 0$ and $49$, inclusive. It is known that all of the numbers in the combination are even. Let the total of a lock combination be the sum of the three numbers. Given that the product of the numbers in the combination is $12160$, what is the sum of all possible totals of the locker combination? [b]p3.[/b] Given points $A = (0, 0)$ and $B = (0, 1)$ in the plane, the set of all points P in the plane such that triangle $ABP$ is isosceles partitions the plane into $k$ regions. The sum of the areas of those regions that are bounded is $s$. Find $ks$. [b]p4.[/b] Three families sit down around a circular table, each person choosing their seat at random. One family has two members, while the other two families have three members. What is the probability that every person sits next to at least one person from a different family? [b]p5.[/b] Jacob and Alexander are walking up an escalator in the airport. Jacob walks twice as fast as Alexander, who takes $18$ steps to arrive at the top. Jacob, however, takes $27$ steps to arrive at the top. How many of the upward moving escalator steps are visible at any point in time? [b]p6.[/b] Points $A, B, C, D, E$ lie in that order on a circle such that $AB = BC = 5$, $CD = DE = 8$, and $\angle BCD = 150^o$ . Let $AD$ and $BE$ intersect at $P$. Find the area of quadrilateral $PBCD$. [b]p7.[/b] Ivan has a triangle of integers with one number in the first row, two numbers in the second row, and continues up to eight numbers in the eighth row. He starts with the first $8$ primes, $2$ through $19$, in the bottom row. Each subsequent row is filled in by writing the least common multiple of two adjacent numbers in the row directly below. For example, the second last row starts with$ 6, 15, 35$, etc. Let P be the product of all the numbers in this triangle. Suppose that P is a multiple of $a/b$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers and $a > 1$. Given that $b$ is maximized, and for this value of $b, a$ is also maximized, find $a + b$. [b]p8.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral. Given that triangle $ABD$ is equilateral, $\angle CBD = 15^o$, and $AC = 1$, what is the area of $ABCD$? [b]p9.[/b] Let $S$ be the set of all integers greater than $ 1$. The function f is defined on $S$ and each value of $f$ is in $S$. Given that $f$ is nondecreasing and $f(f(x)) = 2x$ for all $x$ in $S$, find $f(100)$. [b]p10.[/b] An [i]origin-symmetric[/i] parallelogram $P$ (that is, if $(x, y)$ is in $P$, then so is $(-x, -y)$) lies in the coordinate plane. It is given that P has two horizontal sides, with a distance of $2020$ between them, and that there is no point with integer coordinates except the origin inside $P$. Also, $P$ has the maximum possible area satisfying the above conditions. The coordinates of the four vertices of P are $(a, 1010)$, $(b, 1010)$, $(-a, -1010)$, $(-b, -1010)$, where a, b are positive real numbers with $a < b$. What is $b$? [b]p11.[/b] What is the remainder when $5^{200} + 5^{50} + 2$ is divided by $(5 + 1)(5^2 + 1)(5^4 + 1)$? [b]p12.[/b] Let $f(n) = n^2 - 4096n - 2045$. What is the remainder when $f(f(f(... f(2046)...)))$ is divided by $2047$, where the function $f$ is applied $47$ times? [b]p13.[/b] What is the largest possible area of a triangle that lies completely within a $97$-dimensional hypercube of side length $1$, where its vertices are three of the vertices of the hypercube? [b]p14.[/b] Let $N = \left \lfloor \frac{1}{61} \right \rfloor + \left \lfloor\frac{3}{61} \right \rfloor+\left \lfloor \frac{3^2}{61} \right \rfloor+... +\left \lfloor\frac{3^{2019}}{61} \right \rfloor$. Given that $122N$ can be expressed as $3^a - b$, where $a, b$ are positive integers and $a$ is as large as possible, find $a + b$. Note: $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is defined as the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$. [b]p15.[/b] Among all ordered triples of integers $(x, y, z)$ that satisfy $x + y + z = 8$ and $x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 134$, what is the maximum possible value of $|x| + |y| + |z|$? PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Find the least value of the expression $(x+y)(y+z)$, under the conditionthat $x,y,z$ are positive numbers satisfying the equation $xyz(x + y + z) = 1$.

Find $A=x^5+y^5+z^5$ if $x+y+z=1$, $x^2+y^2+z^2=2$ and $x^3+y^3+z^3=3$.

Let $\{a_n\}_{n \geq 1}$ be a bounded sequence satisfying \[a_n < \displaystyle\sum_{k=a}^{2n+2006} \frac{a_k}{k+1} + \frac{1}{2n+2007} \quad \forall \quad n = 1, 2, 3, \ldots \] Show that \[a_n < \frac{1}{n} \quad \forall \quad n = 1, 2, 3, \ldots\]

An infinite sequence $ \,x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},\ldots \,$ of real numbers is said to be [b]bounded[/b] if there is a constant $ \,C\,$ such that $ \, \vert x_{i} \vert \leq C\,$ for every $ \,i\geq 0$. Given any real number $ \,a > 1,\,$ construct a bounded infinite sequence $ x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},\ldots \,$ such that \[ \vert x_{i} \minus{} x_{j} \vert \vert i \minus{} j \vert^{a}\geq 1 \] for every pair of distinct nonnegative integers $ i, j$.

Let $n$ be a positive integer. For each $4n$-tuple of nonnegative real numbers $a_1,\ldots,a_{2n}$, $b_1,\ldots,b_{2n}$ that satisfy $\sum_{i=1}^{2n}a_i=\sum_{j=1}^{2n}b_j=n$, define the sets \[A:=\left\{\sum_{j=1}^{2n}\frac{a_ib_j}{a_ib_j+1}:i\in\{1,\ldots,2n\} \textup{ s.t. }\sum_{j=1}^{2n}\frac{a_ib_j}{a_ib_j+1}\neq 0\right\},\] \[B:=\left\{\sum_{i=1}^{2n}\frac{a_ib_j}{a_ib_j+1}:j\in\{1,\ldots,2n\} \textup{ s.t. }\sum_{i=1}^{2n}\frac{a_ib_j}{a_ib_j+1}\neq 0\right\}.\] Let $m$ be the minimum element of $A\cup B$. Determine the maximum value of $m$ among those derived from all such $4n$-tuples $a_1,\ldots,a_{2n},b_1,\ldots,b_{2n}$. [I]Proposed by usjl.[/i]

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Determine the maximum of the sum $x_1+\cdots+x_n$ where $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ are non-negative integers satisfying the condition \[x_1^3+\cdots+x_n^3\le7n.\]

[b]p1.[/b] How many lines of symmetry does a square have? [b]p2.[/b] Compute$ 1/2 + 1/6 + 1/12 + 1/4$. [b]p3.[/b] What is the maximum possible area of a rectangle with integer side lengths and perimeter $8$? [b]p4.[/b] Given that $1$ printer weighs $400000$ pennies, and $80$ pennies weighs $2$ books, what is the weight of a printer expressed in books? [b]p5.[/b] Given that two sides of a triangle are $28$ and $3$ and all three sides are integers, what is the sum of the possible lengths of the remaining side? [b]p6.[/b] What is half the sum of all positive integers between $1$ and $15$, inclusive, that have an even number of positive divisors? [b]p7.[/b] Austin the Snowman has a very big brain. His head has radius $3$, and the volume of his torso is one third of his head, and the volume of his legs combined is one third of his torso. If Austin's total volume is $a\pi$ where $a$ is an integer, what is $a$? [b]p8.[/b] Neethine the Kiwi says that she is the eye of the tiger, a fighter, and that everyone is gonna hear her roar. She is standing at point $(3, 3)$. Neeton the Cat is standing at $(11,18)$, the farthest he can stand from Neethine such that he can still hear her roar. Let the total area of the region that Neeton can stand in where he can hear Neethine's roar be $a\pi$ where $a$ is an integer. What is $a$? [b]p9.[/b] Consider $2018$ identical kiwis. These are to be divided between $5$ people, such that the first person gets $a_1$ kiwis, the second gets $a_2$ kiwis, and so forth, with $a_1 \le a_2 \le a_3 \le a_4 \le a_5$. How many tuples $(a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4, a_5)$ can be chosen such that they form an arithmetic sequence? [b]p10.[/b] On the standard $12$ hour clock, each number from $1$ to $12$ is replaced by the sum of its divisors. On this new clock, what is the number of degrees in the measure of the non-reflex angle between the hands of the clock at the time when the hour hand is between $7$ and $6$ while the minute hand is pointing at $15$? [b]p11.[/b] In equiangular hexagon $ABCDEF$, $AB = 7$, $BC = 3$, $CD = 8$, and $DE = 5$. The area of the hexagon is in the form $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ with $b$ square free and $a$ and $c$ relatively prime. Find $a+b+c$ where $a, b,$ and $c$ are integers. [b]p12.[/b] Let $\frac{p}{q} = \frac15 + \frac{2}{5^2} + \frac{3}{5^3} + ...$ . Find $p + q$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. [b]p13.[/b] Two circles $F$ and $G$ with radius $10$ and $4$ respectively are externally tangent. A square $ABMC$ is inscribed in circle $F$ and equilateral triangle $MOP$ is inscribed in circle $G$ (they share vertex $M$). If the area of pentagon $ABOPC$ is equal to $a + b\sqrt{c}$, where $a$, $b$, $c$ are integers $c$ is square free, then find $a + b + c$. [b]p14.[/b] Consider the polynomial $P(x) = x^3 + 3x^2 + ax + 8$. Find the sum of all integer $a$ such that the sum of the squares of the roots of $P(x)$ divides the sum of the coecients of $P(x)$. [b]p15.[/b] Nithin and Antonio play a number game. At the beginning of the game, Nithin picks a prime $p$ that is less than $100$. Antonio then tries to find an integer $n$ such that $n^6 + 2n^5 + 2n^4 + n^3 + (n^2 + n + 1)^2$ is a multiple of $p$. If Antonio can find such a number n, then he wins, otherwise, he loses. Nithin doesn't know what he is doing, and he always picks his prime randomly while Antonio always plays optimally. The probability of Antonio winning is $a/b$ where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find$a + b$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Define $g(x)$ as the largest value of$ |y^2 - xy|$ for $y$ in $[0, 1]$. Find the minimum value of $g$ (for real $x$).

Real numbers $a,b$ and $c$ satisfy the equalities $2015 (a + b + c) =1$ and $ab+bc+ca=2015 abc$. Determine the numeric value of the expression $E=a^{2015}+b^{2015}+c^{2015}.$

Prove that the polynomial $$(a-x)^6 -3a(a-x)^5 +\frac{5}{2} a^2 (a-x)^4 -\frac{1}{2} a^4 (a-x)^2 $$ takes only negative values for $0<x<a$.

Determine all functions $ f: \mathbb{R} \mapsto \mathbb{R}$ with $ x,y \in \mathbb{R}$ such that \[ f(x \minus{} f(y)) \equal{} f(x\plus{}y) \plus{} f(y)\]

Let $$f(x) = a \cos(x + 1) + b \cos(x + 2) + c \cos(x + 3)$$, where $a, b, c$ are real. Given that $f(x)$ has at least two zeros in the interval $(0, \pi)$, find all its real zeros.

Matilda drew $12$ quadrilaterals. The first quadrilateral is an rectangle of integer sides and $7$ times more width than long. Every time she drew a quadrilateral she joined the midpoints of each pair of consecutive sides with a segment. It´s is known that the last quadrilateral Matilda drew was the first with area less than $1$. What is the maximum area possible for the first quadrilateral? [asy]size(200); pair A, B, C, D, M, N, P, Q; real base = 7; real altura = 1; A = (0, 0); B = (base, 0); C = (base, altura); D = (0, altura); M = (0.5*base, 0*altura); N = (0.5*base, 1*altura); P = (base, 0.5*altura); Q = (0, 0.5*altura); draw(A--B--C--D--cycle); // Rectángulo draw(M--P--N--Q--cycle); // Paralelogramo dot(M); dot(N); dot(P); dot(Q); [/asy] $\textbf{Note:}$ The above figure illustrates the first two quadrilaterals that Matilda drew.

A sequence of integers $ a_1,a_2,a_3,...$ is such that $ a_1\equal{}2, a_2\equal{}3$, and $ a_{n\plus{}1}\equal{}2a_{n\minus{}1}$ or $ 3a_n\minus{}2a_{n\minus{}1}$ for all $ n \ge 2$. Prove that no number between $ 1600$ and $ 2000$ can be an element of the sequence.