For all $a$ and $b$, let $a\clubsuit b = 3a + 2b + 1$. Compute $c$ such that $(2c)\clubsuit (5\clubsuit (c + 3)) = 60$.

A liquid is moving in an infinite pipe. For each molecule if it is at point with coordinate $x$ then after $t$ seconds it will be at a point of $p(t,x)$. Prove that if $p(t,x)$ is a polynomial of $t,x$ then speed of all molecules are equal and constant.

Find the smallest odd prime $p$, such that there exist coprime positive integers $k$ and $\ell$ which satisfy \[4k-3\ell=12\quad \text{ and }\quad \ell^2+\ell k +k^2\equiv 3\text{ }(\text{mod }p)\]

On a chessboard a square is chosen . The sum of the squares of distances from its centre to the centre of all black squares is designated by $a$ and to the centre of all white squares by $b$. Prove that $a = b$. (A. Andj ans, Riga)

Do there exist $2022$ polynomials with real coefficients, each of degree equal to $2021$, so that the $2021 \cdot 2022 + 1$ coefficients in their product are equal?

[hide=D stands for Descartes, L stands for Leibniz]they had two problem sets under those two names[/hide] [u]Set 4[/u] [b]D.16 / L.6[/b] Alex has $100$ Bluffy Funnies in some order, which he wants to sort in order of height. They’re already almost in order: each Bluffy Funny is at most $1$ spot off from where it should be. Alex can only swap pairs of adjacent Bluffy Funnies. What is the maximum possible number of swaps necessary for Alex to sort them? [b]D.17[/b] I start with the number $1$ in my pocket. On each round, I flip a coin. If the coin lands heads heads, I double the number in my pocket. If it lands tails, I divide it by two. After five rounds, what is the expected value of the number in my pocket? [b]D.18 / L.12[/b] Point $P$ inside square $ABCD$ is connected to each corner of the square, splitting the square into four triangles. If three of these triangles have area $25$, $25$, and $15$, what are all the possible values for the area of the fourth triangle? [b]D.19[/b] Mr. Stein and Mr. Schwartz are playing a yelling game. The teachers alternate yelling. Each yell is louder than the previous and is also relatively prime to the previous. If any teacher yells at $100$ or more decibels, then they lose the game. Mr. Stein yells first, at $88$ decibels. What volume, in decibels, should Mr. Schwartz yell at to guarantee that he will win? [b]D.20 / L.15[/b] A semicircle of radius $1$ has line $\ell$ along its base and is tangent to line $m$. Let $r$ be the radius of the largest circle tangent to $\ell$, $m$, and the semicircle. As the point of tangency on the semicircle varies, the range of possible values of $r$ is the interval $[a, b]$. Find $b - a$. [u]Set 5[/u] [b]D.21 / L.14[/b] Hungryman starts at the tile labeled “$S$”. On each move, he moves $1$ unit horizontally or vertically and eats the tile he arrives at. He cannot move to a tile he already ate, and he stops when the sum of the numbers on all eaten tiles is a multiple of nine. Find the minimum number of tiles that Hungryman eats. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/e/7/c2ecc2a872af6c4a07907613c412d3b86cd7bc.png [/img] [b]D.22 / L.11[/b] How many triples of nonnegative integers $(x, y, z)$ satisfy the equation $6x + 10y +15z = 300$? [b]D.23 / L.16[/b] Anson, Billiam, and Connor are looking at a $3D$ figure. The figure is made of unit cubes and is sitting on the ground. No cubes are floating; in other words, each unit cube must either have another unit cube or the ground directly under it. Anson looks from the left side and says, “I see a $5 \times 5$ square.” Billiam looks from the front and says the same thing. Connor looks from the top and says the same thing. Find the absolute difference between the minimum and maximum volume of the figure. [b]D.24 / L.13[/b] Tse and Cho are playing a game. Cho chooses a number $x \in [0, 1]$ uniformly at random, and Tse guesses the value of $x(1 - x)$. Tse wins if his guess is at most $\frac{1}{50}$ away from the correct value. Given that Tse plays optimally, what is the probability that Tse wins? [b]D.25 / L.20[/b] Find the largest solution to the equation $$2019(x^{2019x^{2019}-2019^2+2019})^{2019}) = 2019^{x^{2019}+1}.$$ [u]Set 6[/u] [i]This round is an estimation round. No one is expected to get an exact answer to any of these questions, but unlike other rounds, you will get points for being close. In the interest of transparency, the formulas for determining the number of points you will receive are located on the answer sheet, but they aren’t very important when solving these problems.[/i] [b]D.26 / L.26[/b] What is the sum over all MBMT volunteers of the number of times that volunteer has attended MBMT (as a contestant or as a volunteer, including this year)? Last year there were $47$ volunteers; this is the fifth MBMT. [b]D.27 / L.27[/b] William is sharing a chocolate bar with Naveen and Kevin. He first randomly picks a point along the bar and splits the bar at that point. He then takes the smaller piece, randomly picks a point along it, splits the piece at that point, and gives the smaller resulting piece to Kevin. Estimate the probability that Kevin gets less than $10\%$ of the entire chocolate bar. [b]D.28 / L.28[/b] Let $x$ be the positive solution to the equation $x^{x^{x^x}}= 1.1$. Estimate $\frac{1}{x-1}$. [b]D.29 / L.29[/b] Estimate the number of dots in the following box: [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/8/6/416ba6379d7dfe0b6302b42eff7de61b3ec0f1.png[/img] It may be useful to know that this image was produced by plotting $(4\sqrt{x}, y)$ some number of times, where x, y are random numbers chosen uniformly randomly and independently from the interval $[0, 1]$. [b]D.30 / L.30[/b] For a positive integer $n$, let $f(n)$ be the smallest prime greater than or equal to $n$. Estimate $$(f(1) - 1) + (f(2) - 2) + (f(3) - 3) + ...+ (f(10000) - 10000).$$ For $26 \le i \le 30$, let $E_i$ be your team’s answer to problem $i$ and let $A_i$ be the actual answer to problem $i$. Your score $S_i$ for problem $i$ is given by $S_{26} = \max(0, 12 - |E_{26} - A_{26}|/5)$ $S_{27} = \max(0, 12 - 100|E_{27} - A_{27}|)$ $S_{28} = \max(0, 12 - 5|E_{28} - A_{28}|))$ $S_{29} = 12 \max \left(0, 1 - 3 \frac{|E_{29} - A_{29}|}{A_{29}} \right)$ $S_{30} = \max (0, 12 - |E_{30} - A_{30}|/2000)$ PS. You should use hide for answers. D.1-15 / L1-9 problems have been collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2790795p24541357]here [/url] and L10,16-30 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2790825p24541816]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Find continuous functions $x(t),\ y(t)$ such that $\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x(t)=1+\int_{0}^{t}e^{-2(t-s)}x(s)ds$ $\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y(t)=\int_{0}^{t}e^{-2(t-s)}\{2x(s)+3y(s)\}ds$

Let $f_0=f_1=1$ and $f_{i+2}=f_{i+1}+f_i$ for all $n\ge 0$. Find all real solutions to the equation \[x^{2010}=f_{2009}\cdot x+f_{2008}\]

Let $M$ be the maximum value of $(6x-3y-8z)$, subject to $2x^2+3y^2+4z^2 = 1$. Find $[M]$.

Let $\{a_n\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ be the sequence defined by the recurrence relation $a_{n+3}=2a_{n+2} - 23a_{n+1}+3a_n$ for all $n \ge 0,$ with initial conditions $a_0=20, a_1=0,$ and $a_2=23.$ Let $b_n=a_n^3$ for all $n \ge 0.$ There exists a unique positive integer $k$ and constants $c_0, \ldots, c_{k-1}$ with $c_0 \neq 0$ and $c_{k-1} \neq 0$ such that for all sufficiently large $n,$ we have the recurrence relation $b_{n+k} = \sum_{t=0}^{k-1} c_t b_{n+t}.$ Find $k+\sqrt{|c_{k-1}|}+\sqrt{|c_0|}.$

In a plane, the point $(x,y)$ has temperature $x^2+y^2-6x+4y$. Determine the coldest point of the plane and its temperature.

Let $A > 1$ and $B > 1$ be real numbers and (xn) be a sequence of numbers in the interval $[1,AB]$. Prove that there exists a sequence $(y_n)$ of numbers in the interval $[1,A]$ such that $$\frac{x_m}{x_n}\le B\frac{y_m}{y_n} \,\,\, for \,\,\, all \,\,\, m,n = 1,2,...$$

The equation $ x^2 \plus{} ax \plus{} b \equal{} 0$ has two distinct real roots. Prove that the equation $ x^4 \plus{} ax^3 \plus{} (b \minus{} 2)x^2 \minus{} ax \plus{} 1 \equal{} 0$ has four distinct real roots.

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$.

Find all non-decreasing functions from real numbers to itself such that for all real numbers $x,y$ $f(f(x^2)+y+f(y))=x^2+2f(y)$ holds.

[b]p1.[/b] If $x$ is $20\%$ of $23$ and $y$ is $23\%$ of $20$, compute $xy$ . [b]p2.[/b] Pablo wants to eat a banana, a mango, and a tangerine, one at a time. How many ways can he choose the order to eat the three fruits? [b]p3.[/b] Let $a$, $b$, and $c$ be $3$ positive integers. If $a + \frac{b}{c} = \frac{11}{6}$ , what is the minimum value of $a + b + c$? [b]p4.[/b] A rectangle has an area of $12$. If all of its sidelengths are increased by $2$, its area becomes $32$. What is the perimeter of the original rectangle? [b]p5.[/b] Rohit is trying to build a $3$-dimensional model by using several cubes of the same size. The model’s front view and top view are shown below. Suppose that every cube on the upper layer is directly above a cube on the lower layer and the rotations are considered distinct. Compute the total number of different ways to form this model. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/b/b/40615b956f3d18313717259b12fcd6efb74cf8.png[/img] [b]p6.[/b] Priscilla has three octagonal prisms and two cubes, none of which are touching each other. If she chooses a face from these five objects in an independent and uniformly random manner, what is the probability the chosen face belongs to a cube? (One octagonal prism and cube are shown below.) [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/0/0/b4f56a381c400cae715e70acde2cdb315ee0e0.png[/img] [b]p7.[/b] Let triangle $\vartriangle ABC$ and triangle $\vartriangle DEF$ be two congruent isosceles right triangles where line segments $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{DF}$ are their respective hypotenuses. Connecting a line segment $\overline{CF}$ gives us a square $ACFD$ but with missing line segments $\overline{AC}$, $\overline{AD}$, and $\overline{DF}$. Instead, $A$ and $D$ are connected by an arc defined by the semicircle with endpoints $A$ and $D$. If $CF = 1$, what is the perimeter of the whole shape $ABCFED$ ? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/5/098d4f58fee1b3041df23ba16557ed93ee9f5b.png[/img] [b]p8.[/b] There are two moles that live underground, and there are five circular holes that the moles can hop out of. The five holes are positioned as shown in the diagram below, where $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$, and $E$ are the centers of the circles, $AE = 30$ cm, and congruent triangles $\vartriangle ABC$, $\vartriangle CBD$, and $\vartriangle CDE$ are equilateral. The two moles randomly choose exactly two of the five holes, hop out of the two chosen holes, and hop back in. What is the probability that the holes that the two moles hop out of have centers that are exactly $15$ cm apart? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/c/e/b46ba87b954a1904043020d7a211477caf321d.png[/img] [b]p9.[/b] Carson is planning a trip for $n$ people. Let $x$ be the number of cars that will be used and $y$ be the number of people per car. What is the smallest value of $n$ such that there are exactly $3$ possibilities for $x$ and $y$ so that $y$ is an integer, $x < y$, and exactly one person is left without a car? [b]p10.[/b] Iris is eating an ice cream cone, which consists of a hemisphere of ice cream with radius $r > 0$ on top of a cone with height $12$ and also radius $r$. Iris is a slow eater, so after eating one-third of the ice cream, she notices that the rest of the ice cream has melted and completely filled the cone. Assuming the ice cream did not change volume after it melted, what is the value of $r$? [b]p11.[/b] As Natasha begins eating brunch between $11:30$ AM and $12$ PM, she notes that the smaller angle between the minute and hour hand of the clock is $27$ degrees. What is the number of degrees in the smaller angle between the minute and hour hand when Natasha finishes eating brunch $20$ minutes later? [b]p12.[/b] On a regular hexagon $ABCDEF$, Luke the frog starts at point $A$, there is food on points $C$ and $E$ and there are crocodiles on points $B$ and $D$. When Luke is on a point, he hops to any of the five other vertices with equal probability. What is the probability that Luke will visit both of the points with food before visiting any of the crocodiles? [b]p13.[/b] $2023$ regular unit hexagons are arranged in a tessellating lattice, as follows. The first hexagon $ABCDEF$ (with vertices in clockwise order) has leftmost vertex $A$ at the origin, and hexagons $H_2$ and $H_3$ share edges $\overline{CD}$ and $\overline{DE}$ with hexagon $H_1$, respectively. Hexagon $H_4$ shares edges with both hexagons $H_2$ and $H_3$, and hexagons $H_5$ and $H_6$ are constructed similarly to hexagons H_2 and $H_3$. Hexagons $H_7$ to $H_{2022}$ are constructed following the pattern of hexagons $H_4$, $H_5$, $H_6$. Finally, hexagon H_{2023} is constructed, sharing an edge with both hexagons H2021 and H2022. Compute the perimeter of the resulting figure. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/d/eaf0d04676bac3e3c197b4686dcddd08fce9ac.png[/img] [b]p14.[/b] Aditya’s favorite number is a positive two-digit integer. Aditya sums the integers from $5$ to his favorite number, inclusive. Then, he sums the next $12$ consecutive integers starting after his favorite number. If the two sums are consecutive integers and the second sum is greater than the first sum, what is Aditya’s favorite number? [b]p15.[/b] The $100^{th}$ anniversary of BMT will fall in the year $2112$, which is a palindromic year. Compute the sum of all years from $0000$ to $9999$, inclusive, that are palindromic when written out as four-digit numbers (including leading zeros). Examples include $2002$, $1991$, and $0110$. [b]p16.[/b] Points $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$, and $E$ lie on line $r$, in that order, such that $DE = 2DC$ and $AB = 2BC$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of segment $\overline{AC}$. Finally, let point $P$ lie on $r$ such that $PE = x$. If $AB = 8x$, $ME = 9x$, and $AP = 112$, compute the sum of the two possible values of $CD$. [b]p17.[/b] A parabola $y = x^2$ in the xy-plane is rotated $180^o$ about a point $(a, b)$. The resulting parabola has roots at $x = 40$ and $x = 48$. Compute $a + b$. [b]p18.[/b] Susan has a standard die with values $1$ to $6$. She plays a game where every time she rolls the die, she permanently increases the value on the top face by $1$. What is the probability that, after she rolls her die 3 times, there is a face on it with a value of at least $7$? [b]p19.[/b] Let $N$ be a $6$-digit number satisfying the property that the average value of the digits of $N^4$ is $5$. Compute the sum of the digits of $N^4$. [b]p20.[/b] Let $O_1$, $O_2$, $...$, $O_8$ be circles of radius $1$ such that $O_1$ is externally tangent to $O_8$ and $O_2$ but no other circles, $O_2$ is externally tangent to $O_1$ and $O_3$ but no other circles, and so on. Let $C$ be a circle that is externally tangent to each of $O_1$, $O_2$, $...$, $O_8$. Compute the radius of $C$. PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $ \lfloor x \rfloor$ denote the greatest integer less than or equal to $ x.$ Pick any $ x_1$ in $ [0, 1)$ and define the sequence $ x_1, x_2, x_3, \ldots$ by $ x_{n\plus{}1} \equal{} 0$ if $ x_n \equal{} 0$ and $ x_{n\plus{}1} \equal{} \frac{1}{x_n} \minus{} \left \lfloor \frac{1}{x_n} \right \rfloor$ otherwise. Prove that \[ x_1 \plus{} x_2 \plus{} \ldots \plus{} x_n < \frac{F_1}{F_2} \plus{} \frac{F_2}{F_3} \plus{} \ldots \plus{} \frac{F_n}{F_{n\plus{}1}},\] where $ F_1 \equal{} F_2 \equal{} 1$ and $ F_{n\plus{}2} \equal{} F_{n\plus{}1} \plus{} F_n$ for $ n \geq 1.$

Find all functions $f:R -\{0,2\} \to R$ that satisfy for all $x \ne 0,2$ $$f(x) \cdot \left(f\left(\sqrt[3]{\frac{2+x}{2-x}}\right) \right)^2=\frac{x^3}{4}$$

We have $98$ cards, in each one we will write one of the numbers: $1, 2, 3, 4,...., 97, 98$. We can order the $98$ cards, in a sequence such that two consecutive numbers $X$ and $Y$ and the number $X - Y$ is greater than $48$, determine how and how many ways we can make this sequence!!

What is the minimum value of the expression $$xy+yz+zx+\frac 1x+\frac 2y+\frac 5z$$ where $x, y, z$ are positive real numbers?

For every real number $ b$ determine all real numbers $ x$ satisfying $ x\minus{}b\equal{} \sum_{k\equal{}0}^{\infty}x^k$.

[b]p1.[/b] At a certain point in time, $20\%$ of seniors, $30\%$ of juniors, and $50\%$ of sophomores at a school had a cold. If the number of sick students was the same for each grade, the fraction of sick students across all three grades can be written as $\frac{a}{b}$ , where a and b are relatively prime positive integers. Find $a + b$. [b]p2.[/b] The average score on Mr. Feng’s recent test is a $63$ out of $100$. After two students drop out of the class, the average score of the remaining students on that test is now a $72$. What is the maximum number of students that could initially have been in Mr. Feng’s class? (All of the scores on the test are integers between $0$ and $100$, inclusive.) [b]p3.[/b] Madeline is climbing Celeste Mountain. She starts at $(0, 0)$ on the coordinate plane and wants to reach the summit at $(7, 4)$. Every hour, she moves either $1$ unit up or $1$ unit to the right. A strawberry is located at each of $(1, 1)$ and $(4, 3)$. How many paths can Madeline take so that she encounters exactly one strawberry? [b]p4.[/b] Let $E$ be a point on side $AD$ of rectangle $ABCD$. Given that $AB = 3$, $AE = 4$, and $\angle BEC = \angle CED$, the length of segment $CE$ can be written as $\sqrt{a}$ for some positive integer $a$. Find $a$. [b]p5.[/b] Lucy has some spare change. If she were to convert it into quarters and pennies, the minimum number of coins she would need is $66$. If she were to convert it into dimes and pennies, the minimum number of coins she would need is $147$. How much money, in cents, does Lucy have? [b]p6.[/b] For how many positive integers $x$ does there exist a triangle with altitudes of length $20$, $22$, and $x$? [b]p7.[/b] Compute the number of positive integers $x$ for which $\frac{x^{20}}{x+22}$ is an integer. [b]p8.[/b] Vincent the Bug is crawling along an octagonal prism. He starts on a fixed vertex $A$, visits all other vertices exactly once by traveling along the edges, and returns to $A$. Find the number of paths Vincent could have taken. [b]p9.[/b] Point $U$ is chosen inside square $ALEX$ so that $\angle AUL = 90^o$. Given that $UL = 56$ and $UE = 65$, what is the sum of all possible values for the area of square $ALEX$? [b]p10.[/b] Miranda has prepared $8$ outfits, no two of which are the same quality. She asks her intern Andrea to order these outfits for the new runway show. Andrea first randomly orders the outfits in a list. She then starts removing outfits according to the following method: she chooses a random outfit which is both immediately preceded and immediately succeeded by a better outfit and then removes it. Andrea repeats this process until there are no outfits that can be removed. Given that the expected number of outfits in the final routine can be written as $\frac{a}{b}$ for some relatively prime positive integers $a$ and $b$, find $a + b$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Prove that there is no polynomial $P \in \mathbb C[x]$ such that set $\left \{ P(z) \; | \; \left | z \right | =1 \right \}$ in complex plane forms a polygon. In other words, a complex polynomial can't map the unit circle to a polygon. (30 points)

Find all triples $(a, b, c)$ of real numbers such that $$ a^2 + ab + c = 0, $$ $$b^2 + bc + a = 0, $$ $$c^2 + ca + b = 0.$$

Compute the positive difference between the two real solutions to the equation $$(x-1)(x-4)(x-2)(x-8)(x-5)(x-7)+48\sqrt 3 = 0.$$