Show that from any four distinct numbers lying in the interval $(0,1)$ one can choose two distinct numbers $a$ and $b$ such that $$\sqrt{(1-a^2)(1-b^2)} > \frac{a}{2b}+\frac{b}{2a}-ab-\frac{1}{8ab} $$

Find all functions $ f:\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} $ that verify, for any nonzero real number $ x $ the relation $$ xf(x/a)-f(a/x)=b, $$ where $ a\neq 0,b $ are two real numbers. [i]Dan Popescu[/i]

Find the largest real constant $k$ for which the inequality \[(a^2 + 3)(b^2 + 3)(c^2 + 3)(d^2 + 3) + k(a - 1)(b - 1)(c - 1)(d - 1) \ge 0\] holds for all real numbers $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$.

Suppose that $a,b,c,d$ are positive real numbers satisfying $(a+c)(b+d)=ac+bd$. Find the smallest possible value of $$\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{d}+\frac{d}{a}.$$ [i]Israel[/i]

Prove that there exists exactly one function $ƒ$ which is defined for all $x \in R$, and for which holds: $\bullet$ $x \le y \Rightarrow f(x) \le f(y)$, for all $x, y \in R$, and $\bullet$ $f(f(x)) = x$, for all $x \in R$.

[u]Round 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] What is $2 + 22 + 1 + 3 - 31 - 3$? [b]p2.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a rhombus. Given $AB = 5$, $AC = 8$, and $BD = 6$, what is the perimeter of the rhombus? [b]p3.[/b] There are $2$ hats on a table. The first hat has $3$ red marbles and 1 blue marble. The second hat has $2$ red marbles and $4$ blue marbles. Jordan picks one of the hats randomly, and then randomly chooses a marble from that hat. What is the probability that she chooses a blue marble? [u]Round 2[/u] [b]p4.[/b] There are twelve students seated around a circular table. Each of them has a slip of paper that they may choose to pass to either their clockwise or counterclockwise neighbor. After each person has transferred their slip of paper once, the teacher observes that no two students exchanged papers. In how many ways could the students have transferred their slips of paper? [b]p5.[/b] Chad wants to test David's mathematical ability by having him perform a series of arithmetic operations at lightning-speed. He starts with the number of cubic centimeters of silicon in his 3D printer, which is $109$. He has David perform all of the following operations in series each second: $\bullet$ Double the number $\bullet$ Subtract $4$ from the number $\bullet$ Divide the number by $4$ $\bullet$ Subtract $5$ from the number $\bullet$ Double the number $\bullet$ Subtract $4$ from the number Chad instructs David to shout out after three seconds the result of three rounds of calculations. However, David computes too slowly and fails to give an answer in three seconds. What number should David have said to Chad? [b]p6.[/b] Points $D, E$, and $F$ lie on sides $BC$, $CA$, and $AB$ of triangle $ABC$, respectively, such that the following length conditions are true: $CD = AE = BF = 2$ and $BD = CE = AF = 4$. What is the area of triangle $ABC$? [u]Round 3[/u] [b]p7.[/b] In the $2, 3, 5, 7$ game, players count the positive integers, starting with $1$ and increasing, which do not contain the digits $2, 3, 5$, and $7$, and also are not divisible by the numbers $2, 3, 5$, and $7$. What is the fifth number counted? [b]p8.[/b] If A is a real number for which $19 \cdot A = \frac{2014!}{1! \cdot 2! \cdot 2013!}$ , what is $A$? Note: The expression $k!$ denotes the product $k \cdot (k - 1) \cdot ...\cdot 2 \cdot 1$. [b]p9.[/b] What is the smallest number that can be written as both $x^3 + y^2$ and $z^3 + w^2$ for positive integers $x, y, z,$ and $w$ with $x \ne z$? [u]Round 4[/u] [i]Each of the three problems in this round depends on the answer to one of the other problems. There is only one set of correct answers to these problems; however, each problem will be scored independently, regardless of whether the answers to the other problems are correct. In addition, it is given that the answer to each of the following problems is a positive integer less than or equal to the problem number. [/i] [b]p10.[/b] Let $B$ be the answer to problem $11$ and let $C$ be the answer to problem $12$. What is the sum of a side length of a square with perimeter $B$ and a side length of a square with area $C$? [b]p11.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $10$ and let $C$ be the answer to problem $12$. What is $(C - 1)(A + 1) - (C + 1)(A - 1)$? [b]p12.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $10$ and let $B$ be the answer to problem $11$. Let $x$ denote the positive difference between $A$ and $B$. What is the sum of the digits of the positive integer $9x$? PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 5-8 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2915810p26040675]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Each of the quadratic polynomials $P(x), Q(x)$ and $P(x)+Q(x)$ with real coefficients has a repeated root. Is it guaranteed that those roots coincide? [i]Boris Frenkin[/i]

Let $P(x)$ be a polynomial of degree $5$ and suppose that a and b are real numbers different from zero. Suppose the remainder when $P(x)$ is divided by $x^3 + ax + b$ equals the remainder when $P(x)$ is divided by $x^3 + ax^2 + b$. Then determine $a + b$.

Let $ f$ be a polynomial of degree 2 with integer coefficients. Suppose that $ f(k)$ is divisible by 5 for every integer $ k$. Prove that all coefficients of $ f$ are divisible by 5.

Let $\mathbb{P}$ be the set of positive rational numbers and let $f:\mathbb{P}\to\mathbb{P}$ be such that $$f(x)+f\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)=1$$ and $$f(2x)=2f(f(x))$$ for all $x\in\mathbb{P}$. Find, with proof, an explicit expression for $f(x)$ for all $x\in \mathbb{P}$.

Find all nonnegative solutions $(x,y,z)$ to the system $$\begin{cases} \sqrt{x+y}+\sqrt{z} = 7 \\ \sqrt{x+z}+\sqrt{y} = 7 \\ \sqrt{y+z}+\sqrt{x} = 5 \end{cases}$$

Let $a, b, c $ be distinct positive integers. a) Prove that $a^2b^2 + a^2c^2 + b^2c^2 \ge 9$. b) if, moreover, $ab + ac + bc +3 = abc > 0,$ show that $$(a -1)(b -1)+(a -1)(c -1)+(b -1)(c -1) \ge 6.$$

$100$ schoolchildren took part in the Mathematical Olympiad. $4$ tasks were proposed. The first problem was solved by $90$ people, the second by $80$, the third by $70$ and the fourth by $60$. However, no one solved all the problems. Students who solved both the third and fourth questions received an award. How many students were awarded?

Solve the following equation in positive numbers. $$(2a+1)(2a^2+2a+1)(2a^4+4a^3+6a^2+4a+1)=828567056280801$$

Let $F_1=1, F_2=1,$ and $F_{n+2}=F_{n+1}+F_n.$ Then, $$S = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \arctan\left(\frac{1}{F_n}\right)\arctan\left(\frac{1}{F_{n+1}}\right)$$ Find $\lfloor 80S \rfloor.$ (Hint: it may be useful to note that $\arctan(\tfrac{1}{1}) = \arctan(\tfrac{1}{2})+\arctan(\tfrac{1}{3}).$)

For polynomials $P(x) = a_nx^n + \cdots + a_0$, let $f(P) = a_n\cdots a_0$ be the product of the coefficients of $P$. The polynomials $P_1,P_2,P_3,Q$ satisfy $P_1(x) = (x-a)(x-b)$, $P_2(x) = (x-a)(x-c)$, $P_3(x) = (x-b)(x-c)$, $Q(x) = (x-a)(x-b)(x-c)$ for some complex numbers $a,b,c$. Given $f(Q) = 8$, $f(P_1) + f(P_2) + f(P_3) = 10$, and $abc>0$, find the value of $f(P_1)f(P_2)f(P_3)$. [i]Proposed by Justin Hsieh[/i]

If $a\ge 0$ prove that $a^4+ a^3-10 a^2+9 a+4>0$.

Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N} $ such that $$ f\left(x+yf\left(x\right)\right) = x+f\left(y\right)f\left(x\right) $$ holds for all $ x,y \in \mathbb{N} $

For positive integers $N$ and $m$, where $m \le N$, define $$a_{m,N} =\frac{1}{{N+1 \choose m}} \sum_{i=m-1}^{N-1} \frac{ {i \choose m-1}}{N - i}$$ Compute the smallest positive integer $N$ such that $$\sum^N_{m=1}a_{m,N} >\frac{2020N}{N +1}$$

Let $a, b, c$ be real numbers such that $a+b+c=abc$. Prove that $\frac{1}{a^2+1}+\frac{1}{b^2+1}+\frac{1}{c^2+1}\ge \frac{3}{4}$.

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\mapsto \mathbb{R}$ satisfy: $$f(x^2)+f(xy)=f(x)f(y)+yf(x)+xf(x+y)$$ for all real numbers $x,y$.

An ordered quadruple $(y_1,y_2,y_3,y_4)$ is $\textbf{quadratic}$ if there exist real numbers $a$, $b$, and $c$ such that \[y_n=an^2+bn+c\] for $n=1,2,3,4$. Prove that if $16$ numbers are placed in a $4\times 4$ grid such that all four rows are quadratic and the first three columns are also quadratic then the fourth column must also be quadratic. [i](We say that a row is quadratic if its entries, in order, are quadratic. We say the same for a column.)[/i] [asy] size(100); defaultpen(linewidth(0.8)); for(int i=0;i<=4;i=i+1) draw((i,0)--(i,4)); for(int i=0;i<=4;i=i+1) draw((0,i)--(4,i)); [/asy]

Decide whether there is a member in the arithmetic sequence $\{a_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ whose first member is $a_1=1998$ and the common difference $d=131$ which is a palindrome (palindrome is a number such that its decimal expansion is symmetric, e.g., $7$, $33$, $433334$, $2135312$ and so on).

Let $a_1, a_2, \ldots$ be a sequence of real numbers such that $a_1=4$ and $a_2=7$ such that for all integers $n$, $\frac{1}{a_{2n-1}}, \frac{1}{a_{2n}}, \frac{1}{a_{2n+1}}$ forms an arithmetic progression, and $a_{2n}, a_{2n+1}, a_{2n+2}$ forms an arithmetic progression. Find, with proof, the prime factorization of $a_{2019}$.

Let $h(t)$ and $f(t)$ be polynomials such that $h(t)=t^2$ and $f_n(t)=h(h(h(h(h...h(t))))))-1$ where $h(t)$ occurs $n$ times. Prove that $f_n(t)$ is a factor of $f_N(t)$ whenever $n$ is a factor of $N$