The expression $\dfrac{\dfrac{a}{a+y}+\dfrac{y}{a-y}}{\dfrac{y}{a+y}-\dfrac{a}{a-y}}$, a real, $a\neq 0$, has the value $-1$ for: $\textbf{(A)}\ \text{all but two real values of }y \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \text{only two real values of }y \qquad$ $\textbf{(C)}\ \text{all real values of }y \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \text{only one real value of }y \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{no real values of }y$

Find the number of different quadruples $(a, b, c, d)$ of positive integers such that $ab =cd = a + b + c + d - 3$.

Prove the identity $ \left[ \frac{3+x}{6} \right] -\left[ \frac{4+x}{6} \right] +\left[ \frac{5+x}{6} \right] =\left[ \frac{1+x}{2} \right] -\left[ \frac{1+x}{3} \right] ,\quad\forall x\in\mathbb{R} , $ where $ [] $ is the integer part. [i]C. Mortici[/i]

For how many nonnegative integer values of $k$ does the equation $7x^2 +kx +11 = 0$ have no real solutions?

Let $f$ be an irreducible (in $Z[x]$) monic polynomial with integer coefficients and of odd degree greater than $1$. Suppose that the modules of the roots of $f$ are greater than $1$ and that $f(0)$ is a square-free number. Prove that the polynomial $g(x) = f(x^3)$ is also irreducible

For the positive integer $k$ we denote by the $a_n$ , the $k$ from the left digit in the decimal notation of the number $2^n$ ($a_n = 0$ if in the notation of the number $2^n$ less than the digits). Consider the infinite decimal fraction $a = \overline{0, a_1a_2a_3...}$. Prove that the number $a$ is irrational.

[i]20 problems for 25 minutes.[/i] [b]p1.[/b] What is $20 \div 2 - 0 \times 1 + 2 \times 5$? [b]p2.[/b] Today is Saturday, January $25$, $2020$. Exactly four hundred years from today, January $25$, $2420$, is again a Saturday. How many weekend days (Saturdays and Sundays) are in February, $2420$? (January has $31$ days and in year $2040$, February has $29$ days.) [b]p3.[/b] Given that there are four people sitting around a circular table, and two of them stand up, what is the probability that the two of them were originally sitting next to each other? [b]p4.[/b] What is the area of a triangle with side lengths $5$, $5$, and $6$? [b]p5.[/b] Six people go to OBA Noodles on Main Street. Each person has $1/2$ probability to order Duck Noodle Soup, $1/3$ probability to order OBA Ramen, and $1/6$ probability to order Kimchi Udon Soup. What is the probability that three people get Duck Noodle Soup, two people get OBA Ramen, and one person gets Kimchi Udon Soup? [b]p6.[/b] Among all positive integers $a$ and $b$ that satisfy $a^b = 64$, what is the minimum possible value of $a+b$? [b]p7.[/b] A positive integer $n$ is called trivial if its tens digit divides $n$. How many two-digit trivial numbers are there? [b]p8.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ has $AB = 5$, $BC = 13$, and $AC = 12$. Square $BCDE$ is constructed outside of the triangle. The perpendicular line from $A$ to side $DE$ cuts the square into two parts. What is the positive difference in their areas? [b]p9.[/b] In an increasing arithmetic sequence, the first, third, and ninth terms form an increasing geometric sequence (in that order). Given that the first term is $5$, find the sum of the first nine terms of the arithmetic sequence. [b]p10.[/b] Square $ABCD$ has side length $1$. Let points $C'$ and $D'$ be the reflections of points $C$ and $D$ over lines $AB$ and $BC$, respectively. Let P be the center of square $ABCD$. What is the area of the concave quadrilateral $PD'BC'$? [b]p11.[/b] How many four-digit palindromes are multiples of $7$? (A palindrome is a number which reads the same forwards and backwards.) [b]p12.[/b] Let $A$ and $B$ be positive integers such that the absolute value of the difference between the sum of the digits of $A$ and the sum of the digits of $(A + B)$ is $14$. What is the minimum possible value for $B$? [b]p13.[/b] Clark writes the following set of congruences: $x \equiv a$ (mod $6$), $x \equiv b$ (mod $10$), $x \equiv c$ (mod $15$), and he picks $a$, $b$, and $c$ to be three randomly chosen integers. What is the probability that a solution for $x$ exists? [b]p14.[/b] Vincent the bug is crawling on the real number line starting from $2020$. Each second, he may crawl from $x$ to $x - 1$, or teleport from $x$ to $\frac{x}{3}$ . What is the least number of seconds needed for Vincent to get to $0$? [b]p15.[/b] How many positive divisors of $2020$ do not also divide $1010$? [b]p16.[/b] A bishop is a piece in the game of chess that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Two bishops attack each other if the two bishops lie on the same diagonal of a chessboard. Find the maximum number of bishops that can be placed on an $8\times 8$ chessboard such that no two bishops attack each other. [b]p17.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a right triangle with hypotenuse $20$ and perimeter $41$. What is the area of $ABC$? [b]p18.[/b] What is the remainder when $x^{19} + 2x^{18} + 3x^{17} +...+ 20$ is divided by $x^2 + 1$? [b]p19.[/b] Ben splits the integers from $1$ to $1000$ into $50$ groups of $20$ consecutive integers each, starting with $\{1, 2,...,20\}$. How many of these groups contain at least one perfect square? [b]p20.[/b] Trapezoid $ABCD$ with $AB$ parallel to $CD$ has $AB = 10$, $BC = 20$, $CD = 35$, and $AD = 15$. Let $AD$ and $BC$ intersect at $P$ and let $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at $Q$. Line $PQ$ intersects $AB$ at $R$. What is the length of $AR$? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Show that for all real numbers $x$ and $y$ with $x > -1$ and $y > -1$ and $x + y = 1$ the inequality $$\frac{x}{y + 1} +\frac{y}{x + 1} \ge \frac23$$ holds. When does equality apply? [i](Walther Janous)[/i]

Given a positive integer $n$, suppose that $P(x,y)$ is a real polynomial such that \[P(x,y)=\frac{1}{1+x+y} \hspace{0.5cm} \text{for all $x,y\in\{0,1,2,\dots,n\}$} \] What is the minimum degree of $P$? [i]Proposed by Loke Zhi Kin[/i]

Numbers $-1011, -1010, \ldots, -1, 1, \ldots, 1011$ in some order form the sequence $a_1,a_2,\ldots, a_{2022}$. Find the maximum possible value of the sum $$|a_1|+|a_1+a_2|+\ldots+|a_1+\ldots+a_{2022}|$$

Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R} $ such that $$ f\left(f\left(x\right)+y\right) = f\left(x^2-y\right)+4\left(y-2\right)\left(f\left(x\right)+2\right) $$ holds for all $ x, y \in \mathbb{R} $

Given the positive real numbers $a_{1}<a_{2}<\cdots<a_{n}$, consider the function \[f(x)=\frac{a_{1}}{x+a_{1}}+\frac{a_{2}}{x+a_{2}}+\cdots+\frac{a_{n}}{x+a_{n}}\] Determine the sum of the lengths of the disjoint intervals formed by all the values of $x$ such that $f(x)>1$.

Determine the number of ordered quadruples $(x, y, z, u)$ of integers, such that \[\dfrac{x-y}{x+y}+\dfrac{y-z}{y+z}+\dfrac{z-u}{z+u}>0 \textrm{ and } 1\le x,y,z,u\le 10.\]

Is there an infinite sequence of positive real numbers $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$ satisfying for all $n\ge 1$ the relation $x_{n+2}= \sqrt{x_{n+1}}-\sqrt{x_n}$?

A group of clerks is assigned the task of sorting $1775$ files. Each clerk sorts at a constant rate of $30$ files per hour. At the end of the first hour, some of the clerks are reassigned to another task; at the end of the second hour, the same number of the remaining clerks are also reassigned to another task, and a similar reassignment occurs at the end of the third hour. The group finishes the sorting in $3$ hours and $10$ minutes. Find the number of files sorted during the first one and a half hours of sorting.

Let $n$ be a positive integer. How many integer solutions $(i, j, k, l) , \ 1 \leq i, j, k, l \leq n$, does the following system of inequalities have: \[1 \leq -j + k + l \leq n\]\[1 \leq i - k + l \leq n\]\[1 \leq i - j + l \leq n\]\[1 \leq i + j - k \leq n \ ?\]

Find the maximum possible value of the product of distinct positive integers whose sum is $2004$.

Let $f$ be a representation of the set $M = \{1, 2,..., 1988\}$ into $M$. For any natural $n$, let $x_1 = f(1)$, $x_{n+1} = f(x_n)$. Find out if there exists $m$ such that $x_{2m} = x_m$.

Show that the equation \[x(x+1)(x+2)\dots (x+2020)-1=0\] has exactly one positive solution $x_0$, and prove that this solution $x_0$ satisfies \[\frac{1}{2020!+10}<x_0<\frac{1}{2020!+6}.\]

Prove that, if $a,b,c$ are sides of a triangle, then we have the following inequality: $3(a^3 b+b^3 c+c^3 a)+2(ab^3+bc^3+ca^3 )\geq 5(a^2 b^2+a^2 c^2+b^2 c^2 )$.

Karl likes the number $17$ his favorite polynomials are monic quadratics with integer coefficients such that $17$ is a root of the quadratic and the roots differ by no more than $17$. Compute the sum of the coefficients of all of Karl's favorite polynomials. (A monic quadratic is a quadratic polynomial whose $x^2$ term has a coefficient of $1$.)

The positive integers $a$ and $b$ are such that the numbers $15a+16b$ and $16a-15b$ are both squares of positive integers. What is the least possible value that can be taken on by the smaller of these two squares?

Solve the equation: \[4x^2+|9-6x|=|10x-15|+6(2x+1)\]

Suppose that $a, b, c$, and $d$ are real numbers simultaneously satisfying $a + b - c - d = 3$ $ab - 3bc + cd - 3da = 4$ $3ab - bc + 3cd - da = 5$ Find $11(a - c)^2 + 17(b -d)^2$.

The two lines with slopes $2$ and $1/2$ pass through an arbitrary point $T$ on the axis $Oy$ and intersect the hyperbola $y=1/x$ at two points. [b]a)[/b] Prove that these four points lie on a circle. [b]b)[/b] The point $T$ runs through the entire $y$-axis. Find the locus of centers of such circles. [i](I. Gorodnin)[/i]