Let $x, y, z$ be nonnegative real numbers such that $x + y + z = 3$. Prove that $$\frac{x}{4-y}+\frac{y}{4-z}+\frac{z}{4-x}+\frac{1}{16}(1-x)^2(1-y)^2(1-z)^2\leq 1,$$ and determine all such triples $(x, y, z)$ where the equality holds.

The function $f: A \rightarrow A$ is such that $f(x) \leq x^2 \mbox{ and } f(x+y) \leq f(x) + f(y) + 2xy$ for any $x, y \in A$. a) If $A = \mathbb{R}$, find all functions satisfying the conditions. b) If $A = \mathbb{R}^{-}$, prove that there are infinitely many functions satisfying the conditions. [i](With $\mathbb{R}^{-}$ we denote the set of negative real numbers.)[/i]

For $a$ a positive real number, let $x_1$, $x_2$, $x_3$ be the roots of the equation $x^3-ax^2+ax-a=0$. Determine the smallest possible value of $x_1^3+x_2^3+x_3^3-3x_1x_2x_3$.

let $x,y,z$ be positive reals , such that $x+y+z=1399$ find the $$\max( [x]y + [y]z + [z]x ) $$ ( $[a]$ is the biggest integer not exceeding $a$)

Let $r$, $s$ be real numbers, find maximum $t$ so that if $a_1, a_2, \ldots$ is a sequence of positive real numbers satisfying \[ a_1^r + a_2^r + \cdots + a_n^r \le 2023 \cdot n^t \] for all $n \ge 2023$ then the sum \[ b_n = \frac 1{a_1^s} + \cdots + \frac 1{a_n^s} \] is unbounded, i.e for all positive reals $M$ there is an $n$ such that $b_n > M$.

Let $M$ be a positive integer. $f(x):=x^3+ax^2+bx+c\in\mathbb Z[x]$ satisfy $|a|,|b|,|c|\le M.$ $x_1,x_2$ are different roots of $f.$ Prove that $$|x_1-x_2|>\frac 1{M^2+3M+1}.$$ [i]Created by Jingjun Han[/i]

Let the sequence $(a_{n})$ be defined by $a_{1} = t$ and $a_{n+1} = 4a_{n}(1 - a_{n})$ for $n \geq 1$. How many possible values of t are there, if $a_{1998} = 0$?

Let $n \geq 3$ be a positive integer. Find all positive integers $k$, such that the function $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ defined by $$f(x)=\cos^k(x)+\cos^k(x+\frac{2\pi}{n})+\ldots +\cos^k(x+\frac{2(n-1)\pi}{n})$$ is constant.

Consider the polynomial $$P\left(t\right)=t^3-29t^2+212t-399.$$ Find the product of all positive integers $n$ such that $P\left(n\right)$ is the sum of the digits of $n$.

Find the fifth root of $14348907$.

Show that \[ \max\limits_{|x|\leq t} |1 - a \cos x| \geq \tan^2 \frac{t}{2} \] for $a$ positive and $t \in (0, \frac{\pi}{2})$.

The graph of the degree $2021$ polynomial $P(x)$, which has real coefficients and leading coefficient 1, meets the x-axis at the points $(1, 0)$, $(2, 0)$, $(3, 0)$ , $...$ , $(2020, 0)$ and nowhere else. The mean of all possible values of $P(2021)$ can be written in the form $a!/b$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers and $a$ is as small as possible. Compute $a + b$.

Let $ f $ be a polynom of degree $ 3 $ and having rational coefficients. Prove that, if there exist two distinct nonzero rational numbers $ a,b $ and two roots $ x,y $ of $ f $ such that $ ax+by $ is rational, then all roots of $ f $ are rational.

Show that \[ abc \geq (a+b-c)(b+c-a)(c+a-b) \] for positive reals $a$, $b$, $c$.

The load for the space station "Salute" is packed in containers. There are more than $35$ containers, and the total weight is $18$ metric tons. There are $7$ one-way transport spaceships "Progress", each able to bring $3$ metric tons to the station. It is known that they are able to take an arbitrary subset of $35$ containers. Prove that they are able to take all the load.

Let a,b,c be three distinct positive numbers. Consider the quadratic polynomial $P (x) =\frac{c(x - a)(x - b)}{(c -a)(c -b)}+\frac{a(x - b)(x - c)}{(a - b)(a - c)}+\frac{b(x -c)(x - a)}{(b - c)(b - a)}+ 1$. The value of $P (2017)$ is (A): $2015$ (B): $2016$ (C): $2017$ (D): $2018$ (E): None of the above.

[b]p1.[/b] The oil pipeline passes by three villages $A$, $B$, $C$. In the first village, $30\%$ of the initial amount of oil is drained, in the second - $40\%$ of the amount that will reach village $B$, and in the third - $50\%$ of the amount that will reach village $C$ What percentage of the initial amount of oil reaches the end of the pipeline? [b]p2.[/b] There are several ordinary irreducible fractions (not necessarily proper) with natural numerators and denominators (and the denominators are greater than $1$). The product of all fractions is equal to $10$. All numerators and denominators are increased by $1$. Can the product of the resulting fractions be greater than $10$? [b]p3.[/b] The garland consists of $10$ light bulbs connected in series. Exactly one of the light bulbs has burned out, but it is not known which one. There is a suitable light bulb available to replace a burnt out one. To unscrew a light bulb, you need $10$ seconds, to screw it in - also $10$ seconds (the time for other actions can be neglected). Is it possible to be guaranteed to find a burnt out light bulb: a) in $10$ minutes, b) in $5$ minutes? [b]p4.[/b] When fast and slow athletes run across the stadium in one direction, the fast one overtakes the slow one every $15$ minutes, and when they run towards each other, they meet once every $5$ minutes. How many times is the speed of a fast runner greater than the speed of a slow runner? [b]p5.[/b] Petya was $35$ minutes late for school. Then he decided to run to the kiosk for ice cream. But when he returned, the second lesson had already begun. He immediately ran for ice cream a second time and was gone for the same amount of time. When he returned, it turned out that he was late again, and he had to wait $50$ minutes before the start of the fourth lesson. How long does it take to run from school to the ice cream stand and back if each lesson, including recess after it, lasts $55$ minutes? [b]p6.[/b] In a convex heptagon, draw as many diagonals as possible so that no three of them are sides of the same triangle, the vertices of which are at the vertices of the original heptagon. [b]p7.[/b] In the writing of the antipodes, numbers are also written with the digits $0, ..., 9$, but each of the numbers has different meanings for them and for us. It turned out that the equalities are also true for the antipodes $5 * 8 + 7 + 1 = 48$ $2 * 2 * 6 = 24$ $5* 6 = 30$ a) How will the equality $2^3 = ...$ in the writing of the antipodes be continued? b) What does the number 9 mean among the Antipodes? Clarifications: a) It asks to convert $2^3$ in antipodes language, and write with what number it is equal and find a valid equality in both numerical systems. b) What does the digit $9$ mean among the antipodes, i.e. with which digit is it equal in our number system? [b]p8.[/b] They wrote the numbers $1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 1996, 1997$ in a row. Which digits were used more when writing these numbers - ones or twos? How long? [b]p9.[/b] On the number axis there lives a grasshopper who can jump $1$ and $4$ to the right and left. Can he get from point $1$ to point $2$ of the numerical axis $in 1996$ jumps if he must not get to points with coordinates divisible by $ 4$ (points $0$, $\pm 4$, $\pm 8$, etc.)? [b]p10.[/b] Is there a convex quadrilateral that can be cut along a straight line into two parts of the same size and shape, but neither the diagonal nor the straight line passing through the midpoints of opposite sides divides it into two equal parts? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2416727_soros_olympiad_in_mathematics]here.[/url]

[i]25 problems for 30 minutes[/i] [b]p1.[/b] Somya has a football game $4$ days from today. If the day before yesterday was Wednesday, what day of the week is the game? [b]p2.[/b] Sammy writes the following equation: $$\frac{2 + 2}{8 + 8}=\frac{x}{8}.$$ What is the value of $x$ in Sammy's equation? [b]p3.[/b] On $\pi$ day, Peter buys $7$ pies. The pies costed $\$3$, $\$1$, $\$4$, $\$1$, $\$5$, $\$9$, and $\$2$. What was the median price of Peter's $7$ pies in dollars? [b]p4.[/b] Antonio draws a line on the coordinate plane. If the line passes through the points ($1, 3$) and ($-1,-1$), what is slope of the line? [b]p5.[/b] Professor Varun has $25$ students in his science class. He divides his students into the maximum possible number of groups of $4$, but $x$ students are left over. What is $x$? [b]p6.[/b] Evaluate the following: $$4 \times 5 \div 6 \times 3 \div \frac47$$ [b]p7.[/b] Jonny, a geometry expert, draws many rectangles with perimeter $16$. What is the area of the largest possible rectangle he can draw? [b]p8.[/b] David always drives at $60$ miles per hour. Today, he begins his trip to MIT by driving $60$ miles. He stops to take a $20$ minute lunch break and then drives for another $30$ miles to reach the campus. What is the total time in minutes he spends getting to MIT? [b]p9.[/b] Richard has $5$ hats: blue, green, orange, red, and purple. Richard also has 5 shirts of the same colors: blue, green, orange, red, and purple. If Richard needs a shirt and a hat of different colors, how many outts can he wear? [b]p10.[/b] Poonam has $9$ numbers in her bag: $1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9$. Eric runs by with the number $36$. How many of Poonam's numbers evenly divide Eric's number? [b]p11.[/b] Serena drives at $45$ miles per hour. If her car runs at $6$ miles per gallon, and each gallon of gas costs $2$ dollars, how many dollars does she spend on gas for a $135$ mile trip? [b]p12.[/b] Grace is thinking of two integers. Emmie observes that the sum of the two numbers is $56$ but the difference of the two numbers is $30$. What is the sum of the squares of Grace's two numbers? [b]p13.[/b] Chang stands at the point ($3,-3$). Fang stands at ($-3, 3$). Wang stands in-between Chang and Fang; Wang is twice as close to Fang as to Chang. What is the ordered pair that Wang stands at? [b]p14.[/b] Nithin has a right triangle. The longest side has length $37$ inches. If one of the shorter sides has length $12$ inches, what is the perimeter of the triangle in inches? [b]p15.[/b] Dora has $2$ red socks, $2$ blue socks, $2$ green socks, $2$ purple socks, $3$ black socks, and $4$ gray socks. After a long snowstorm, her family loses electricity. She picks socks one-by-one from the drawer in the dark. How many socks does she have to pick to guarantee a pair of socks that are the same color? [b]p16.[/b] Justin selects a random positive $2$-digit integer. What is the probability that the sum of the two digits of Justin's number equals $11$? [b]p17.[/b] Eddie correctly computes $1! + 2! + .. + 9! + 10!$. What is the remainder when Eddie's sum is divided by $80$? [b]p18.[/b] $\vartriangle PQR$ is drawn such that the distance from $P$ to $\overline{QR}$ is $3$, the distance from $Q$ to $\overline{PR}$ is $4$, and the distance from $R$ to $\overline{PQ}$ is $5$. The angle bisector of $\angle PQR$ and the angle bisector of $\angle PRQ$ intersect at $I$. What is the distance from $I$ to $\overline{PR}$? [b]p19.[/b] Maxwell graphs the quadrilateral $|x - 2| + |y + 2| = 6$. What is the area of the quadrilateral? [b]p20.[/b] Uncle Gowri hits a speed bump on his way to the hospital. At the hospital, patients who get a rare disease are given the option to choose treatment $A$ or treatment $B$. Treatment $A$ will cure the disease $\frac34$ of the time, but since the treatment is more expensive, only $\frac{8}{25}$ of the patients will choose this treatment. Treatment $B$ will only cure the disease $\frac{1}{2}$ of the time, but since it is much more aordable, $\frac{17}{25}$ of the patients will end up selecting this treatment. Given that a patient was cured, what is the probability that the patient selected treatment $A$? [b]p21.[/b] In convex quadrilateral $ABCD$, $AC = 28$ and $BD = 15$. Let $P, Q, R, S$ be the midpoints of $AB$, $BC$, $CD$ and $AD$ respectively. Compute $PR^2 + QS^2$. [b]p22.[/b] Charlotte writes the polynomial $p(x) = x^{24} - 6x + 5$. Let its roots be $r_1$, $r_2$, $...$, $r_{24}$. Compute $r^{24}_1 +r^{24}_2 + r^{24}_3 + ... + r^{24}_24$. [b]p23.[/b] In rectangle $ABCD$, $AB = 6$ and $BC = 4$. Let $E$ be a point on $CD$, and let $F$ be the point on $AB$ which lies on the bisector of $\angle BED$. If $FD^2 + EF^2 = 52$, what is the length of $BE$? [b]p24.[/b] In $\vartriangle ABC$, the measure of $\angle A$ is $60^o$ and the measure of $\angle B$ is $45^o$. Let $O$ be the center of the circle that circumscribes $\vartriangle ABC$. Let $I$ be the center of the circle that is inscribed in $\vartriangle ABC$. Finally, let $H$ be the intersection of the $3$ altitudes of the triangle. What is the angle measure of $\angle OIH$ in degrees? [b]p25.[/b] Kaitlyn fully expands the polynomial $(x^2 + x + 1)^{2018}$. How many of the coecients are not divisible by $3$? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, ... be an infinite sequence of real numbers satisfying the equation $a_n=\left|a_{n+1}-a_{n+2}\right|$ for all $n\geq 0$, where $a_0$ and $a_1$ are two different positive reals. Can this sequence $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, ... be bounded? [i]Proposed by Mihai Bălună, Romania[/i]

Consider cubes of edge length 5 composed of 125 cubes of edge length 1 where each of the 125 cubes is either coloured black or white. A cube of edge length 5 is called "big", a cube od edge length is called "small". A posititve integer $ n$ is called "representable" if there is a big cube with exactly $ n$ small cubes where each row of five small cubes has an even number of black cubes whose centres lie on a line with distances $ 1,2,3,4$ (zero counts as even number). (a) What is the smallest and biggest representable number? (b) Construct 45 representable numbers.

If $x,y$ are real, then the $\textit{absolute value}$ of the complex number $z=x+yi$ is \[|z|=\sqrt{x^2+y^2}.\] Find the number of polynomials $f(t)=A_0+A_1t+A_2t^2+A_3t^3+t^4$ such that $A_0,\ldots,A_3$ are integers and all roots of $f$ in the complex plane have absolute value $\leq 1$.

Let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be real numbers with $\beta \ne 0$. Determine all functions $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that \[f(\alpha f(x)+f(y))=\beta x+f(y)\] holds for all real $x$ and $y$. [i](Walther Janous)[/i]

Prove that for positive reals $a,b,c$ satisfying $a+b+c=3$ the following inequality holds: $$ \frac{a}{1+2b^3}+\frac{b}{1+2c^3}+\frac{c}{1+2a^3} \ge 1 $$

(a) Show that the equation \[\lfloor x \rfloor (x^2 + 1) = x^3,\] where $\lfloor x \rfloor$ denotes the largest integer not larger than $x$, has exactly one real solution in each interval between consecutive positive integers. (b) Show that none of the positive real solutions of this equation is rational.

[u]Round 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] When Shiqiao sells a bale of kale, he makes $x$ dollars, where $$x =\frac{1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8}{3 + 4 + 5 + 6}.$$ Find $x$. [b]p2.[/b] The fraction of Shiqiao’s kale that has gone rotten is equal to $$\sqrt{ \frac{100^2}{99^2} -\frac{100}{99}}.$$ Find the fraction of Shiqiao’s kale that has gone rotten. [b]p3.[/b] Shiqiao is growing kale. Each day the number of kale plants doubles, but $4$ of his kale plants die afterwards. He starts with $6$ kale plants. Find the number of kale plants Shiqiao has after five days. [u]Round 2[/u] [b]p4.[/b] Today the high is $68$ degrees Fahrenheit. If $C$ is the temperature in Celsius, the temperature in Fahrenheit is equal to $1.8C + 32$. Find the high today in Celsius. [b]p5.[/b] The internal angles in Evan’s triangle are all at most $68$ degrees. Find the minimum number of degrees an angle of Evan’s triangle could measure. [b]p6.[/b] Evan’s room is at $68$ degrees Fahrenheit. His thermostat has two buttons, one to increase the temperature by one degree, and one to decrease the temperature by one degree. Find the number of combinations of $10$ button presses Evan can make so that the temperature of his room never drops below $67$ degrees or rises above $69$ degrees. [u]Round 3[/u] [b]p7.[/b] In a digital version of the SAT, there are four spaces provided for either a digit $(0-9)$, a fraction sign $(\/)$, or a decimal point $(.)$. The answer must be in simplest form and at most one space can be a non-digit character. Determine the largest fraction which, when expressed in its simplest form, fits within this space, but whose exact decimal representation does not. [b]p8.[/b] Rounding Rox picks a real number $x$. When she rounds x to the nearest hundred, its value increases by $2.71828$. If she had instead rounded $x$ to the nearest hundredth, its value would have decreased by $y$. Find $y$. [b]p9.[/b] Let $a$ and $b$ be real numbers satisfying the system of equations $$\begin{cases} a + \lfloor b \rfloor = 2.14 \\ \lfloor a \rfloor + b = 2.72 \end{cases}$$ Determine $a + b$. [u]Round 4[/u] [b]p10.[/b] Carol and Lily are playing a game with two unfair coins, both of which have a $1/4$ chance of landing on heads. They flip both coins. If they both land on heads, Lily loses the game, and if they both land on tails, Carol loses the game. If they land on different sides, Carol and Lily flip the coins again. They repeat this until someone loses the game. Find the probability that Lily loses the game. [b]p11.[/b] Dongchen is carving a circular coin design. He carves a regular pentagon of side length $1$ such that all five vertices of the pentagon are on the rim of the coin. He then carves a circle inside the pentagon so that the circle is tangent to all five sides of the pentagon. Find the area of the region between the smaller circle and the rim of the coin. [b]p12.[/b] Anthony flips a fair coin six times. Find the probability that at some point he flips $2$ heads in a row. PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 5-8 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3248731p29808147]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].