Determine all positive integers $n$ for which $\dfrac{n^2+1}{[\sqrt{n}]^2+2}$ is an integer. Here $[r]$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $r$.

[b]p1.[/b] A dog on a $10$ meter long leash is tied to a $10$ meter long, infinitely thin section of fence. What is the minimum area over which the dog will be able to roam freely on the leash, given that we can fix the position of the leash anywhere on the fence? [b]p2.[/b] Suppose that the equation $$\begin{tabular}{cccccc} &\underline{C} &\underline{H} &\underline{M}& \underline{M}& \underline{C}\\ +& &\underline{H}& \underline{M}& \underline{M} & \underline{T}\\ \hline &\underline{P} &\underline{U} &\underline{M} &\underline{A} &\underline{C}\\ \end{tabular}$$ holds true, where each letter represents a single nonnegative digit, and distinct letters represent different digits (so that $\underline{C}\, \underline{H}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ C}$ and $ \underline{P}\, \underline{U}\, \underline{M}\, \underline{A}\, \underline{C}$ are both five digit positive integers, and the number $\underline{H }\, \underline{M}\, \underline{M}\, \underline{T}$ is a four digit positive integer). What is the largest possible value of the five digit positive integer$\underline{C}\, \underline{H}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ C}$ ? [b]p3.[/b] Square $ABCD$ has side length $4$, and $E$ is a point on segment $BC$ such that $CE = 1$. Let $C_1$ be the circle tangent to segments $AB$, $BE$, and $EA$, and $C_2$ be the circle tangent to segments $CD$, $DA$, and $AE$. What is the sum of the radii of circles $C_1$ and $C_2$? [b]p4.[/b] A finite set $S$ of points in the plane is called tri-separable if for every subset $A \subseteq S$ of the points in the given set, we can find a triangle $T$ such that (i) every point of $A$ is inside $T$ , and (ii) every point of $S$ that is not in $A$ is outside$ T$ . What is the smallest positive integer $n$ such that no set of $n$ distinct points is tri-separable? [b]p5.[/b] The unit $100$-dimensional hypercube $H$ is the set of points $(x_1, x_2,..., x_{100})$ in $R^{100}$ such that $x_i \in \{0, 1\}$ for $i = 1$, $2$, $...$, $100$. We say that the center of $H$ is the point $$\left( \frac12,\frac12, ..., \frac12 \right)$$ in $R^{100}$, all of whose coordinates are equal to $1/2$. For any point $P \in R^{100}$ and positive real number $r$, the hypersphere centered at $P$ with radius $r$ is defined to be the set of all points in $R^{100}$ that are a distance $r$ away from $P$. Suppose we place hyperspheres of radius $1/2$ at each of the vertices of the $100$-dimensional unit hypercube $H$. What is the smallest real number $R$, such that a hypersphere of radius $R$ placed at the center of $H$ will intersect the hyperspheres at the corners of $H$? [b]p6.[/b] Greg has a $9\times 9$ grid of unit squares. In each square of the grid, he writes down a single nonzero digit. Let $N$ be the number of ways Greg can write down these digits, so that each of the nine nine-digit numbers formed by the rows of the grid (reading the digits in a row left to right) and each of the nine nine-digit numbers formed by the columns (reading the digits in a column top to bottom) are multiples of $3$. What is the number of positive integer divisors of $N$? [b]p7.[/b] Find the largest positive integer $n$ for which there exists positive integers $x$, $y$, and $z$ satisfying $$n \cdot gcd(x, y, z) = gcd(x + 2y, y + 2z, z + 2x).$$ [b]p8.[/b] Suppose $ABCDEFGH$ is a cube of side length $1$, one of whose faces is the unit square $ABCD$. Point $X$ is the center of square $ABCD$, and $P$ and $Q$ are two other points allowed to range on the surface of cube $ABCDEFHG$. Find the largest possible volume of tetrahedron $AXPQ$. [b]p9.[/b] Deep writes down the numbers $1, 2, 3, ... , 8$ on a blackboard. Each minute after writing down the numbers, he uniformly at random picks some number $m$ written on the blackboard, erases that number from the blackboard, and increases the values of all the other numbers on the blackboard by $m$. After seven minutes, Deep is left with only one number on the black board. What is the expected value of the number Deep ends up with after seven minutes? [b]p10.[/b] Find the number of ordered tuples $(x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4, x_5)$ of positive integers such that $x_k \le 6$ for each index $k = 1$, $2$, $... $,$ 5$, and the sum $$x_1 + x_2 +... + x_5$$ is $1$ more than an integer multiple of $7$. [b]p11.[/b] The equation $$\left( x- \sqrt[3]{13}\right)\left( x- \sqrt[3]{53}\right)\left( x- \sqrt[3]{103}\right)=\frac13$$ has three distinct real solutions $r$, $s$, and $t$ for $x$. Calculate the value of $$r^3 + s^3 + t^3.$$ [b]p12.[/b] Suppose $a$, $b$, and $c$ are real numbers such that $$\frac{ac}{a + b}+\frac{ba}{b + c}+\frac{cb}{c + a}= -9$$ and $$\frac{bc}{a + b}+\frac{ca}{b+c}+\frac{ab}{c + a}= 10.$$ Compute the value of $$\frac{b}{a + b}+\frac{c}{b + c}+\frac{a}{c + a}.$$ [b]p13.[/b] The complex numbers $w$ and $z$ satisfy the equations $|w| = 5$, $|z| = 13$, and $$52w - 20z = 3(4 + 7i).$$ Find the value of the product $wz$. [b]p14.[/b] For $i = 1, 2, 3, 4$, we choose a real number $x_i$ uniformly at random from the closed interval $[0, i]$. What is the probability that $x_1 < x_2 < x_3 < x_4$ ? [b]p15.[/b] The terms of the infinite sequence of rational numbers $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, $...$ satisfy the equation $$a_{n+1} + a_{n-2} = a_na_{n-1}$$ for all integers $n\ge 2$. Moreover, the values of the initial terms of the sequence are $a_0 =\frac52$, $a_1 = 2$ and} $a_2 =\frac52.$ Call a nonnegative integer $m$ lucky if when we write $a_m =\frac{p}{q}$ for some relatively prime positive integers $p$ and $q$, the integer $p + q$ is divisible by $13$. What is the $101^{st}$ smallest lucky number? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Prove that among any $2n+1$ irrational numbers there are $n+1$ numbers such that the sum of any $k$ of them is irrational, for all $k \in \{1,2,3,\ldots, n+1 \}$.

Let $a_1, a_2, ..., a_n, a_{n+1}$ be a finite sequence of real numbers satisfying $a_0 = a_{n+1} = 0$ and $|a_{k-1} - 2a_{k} + a_{k+1}| \leq 1$ for $k = 1, 2, ..., n$ Prove that for $k=0, 1, ..., n+1,$ $|a_k| \leq \frac{k(n+1-k)}{2}$

Let $ P(n)$ and $ S(n)$ denote the product and the sum, respectively, of the digits of the integer $ n$. For example, $ P(23) \equal{} 6$ and $ S(23) \equal{} 5$. Suppose $ N$ is a two-digit number such that $ N \equal{} P(N) \plus{} S(N)$. What is the units digit of $ N$? $ \textbf{(A) }2\qquad\textbf{(B) }3\qquad\textbf{(C) }6\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$

Let $p$ be prime and $ k > 1$ be a divisor of $p-1$. Show that if a polynomial of degree $k$ with integer coefficients attains every possible value modulo $ p$ that is $(0,1,\dots, p-1)$ at integer inputs then its leading coefficient must be divisible by $p$. [hide=Note]Note: the leading coefficient of a polynomial of degree d is the coefficient of the $x_d$ term.[/hide]

Let be a number $ n\ge 2, $ a binary funcion $ b:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}_2, $ and $ \frac{n^3+5n}{6} $ consecutive integers. Show that among these consecutive integers there are $ n $ of them, namely, $ b_1,b_2,\ldots ,b_n, $ that have the properties: $ \text{(i)} b\left( b_1\right) =b\left( b_2\right) =\cdots =b\left( b_n\right) $ $ \text{(ii)} 1\le b_2-b_1\le b_3-b_2\le \cdots\le b_n-b_{n-1} $

The headteacher wants to hire a certain number of new teachers in addition to existing teachers. If he hired an additional $10$ teachers, the number of school students would be reduced number per teacher by $5$. However, if the headmaster hired $20$ new teachers, the number of students per teacher would be reduced by $8$. How many students and how many there are teachers in this school? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/8/c0157ff43fd3d92138c87556a0fca2414e8a3f.png[/img]

Consider the set $\mathcal{F}$ of functions $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ (where $\mathbb{N}$ is the set of non-negative integers) having the property that \[f(a^2-b^2)=f(a)^2-f(b)^2,\ \text{for all }a,b\in\mathbb{N},\ a\ge b.\] a) Determine the set $\{f(1)\mid f\in\mathcal{F}\}$. b) Prove that $\mathcal{F}$ has exactly two elements. [i]Nelu Chichirim[/i]

Find all polynomial functions with real coefficients for which $$(x-2)P(x+2)+(x+2)P(x-2)=2xP(x)$$ for all real $x$

Let $\left ( a_{n} \right )_{n \geq 1}$ be an increasing sequence of positive integers such that $a_1=1$, and for all positive integers $n$, $a_{n+1}\leq 2n$. Prove that for every positive $n$; there exists positive integers $p$ and $q$ such that $n=a_{p}-a_{q}$.

Find the maximum number $ c$ such that for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ to have \[ \{n \cdot \sqrt{2}\} \geq \frac{c}{n}\] where $ \{n \cdot \sqrt{2}\} \equal{} n \cdot \sqrt{2} \minus{} [n \cdot \sqrt{2}]$ and $ [x]$ is the integer part of $ x.$ Determine for this number $ c,$ all $ n \in \mathbb{N}$ for which $ \{n \cdot \sqrt{2}\} \equal{} \frac{c}{n}.$

Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer. Show that there exist $n+1$ numbers $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_{n+1} \in \mathbb{Q} \setminus \mathbb{Z}$, so that $\{ x_1^3 \} + \{ x_2^3 \} + \cdots + \{ x_n^3 \}=\{ x_{n+1}^3 \}$, where $\{ x \}$ is the fractionary part of $x$.

Determine all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ for which $n^{10} + n^5 + 1$ is prime.

Consider a polynomial $P(x) = \prod^9_{j=1}(x+d_j),$ where $d_1, d_2, \ldots d_9$ are nine distinct integers. Prove that there exists an integer $N,$ such that for all integers $x \geq N$ the number $P(x)$ is divisible by a prime number greater than 20. [i]Proposed by Luxembourg[/i]

Let $\mathbb{Q}_{>0}$ denote the set of all positive rational numbers. Determine all functions $f:\mathbb{Q}_{>0}\to \mathbb{Q}_{>0}$ satisfying $$f(x^2f(y)^2)=f(x)^2f(y)$$ for all $x,y\in\mathbb{Q}_{>0}$

Let $A,B\in\mathcal{M}_{2}(\mathbb{R})$ (real $2\times 2$ matrices), that satisfy $A^{2}+B^{2}=AB$. Prove that $(AB-BA)^{2}=O_{2}$.

Find all functions $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ for which \[f(x + y) = f(x - y) + f(f(1 - xy))\] holds for all real numbers $x$ and $y$.

[b]p1.[/b] What is $20\times 19 + 20 \div (2 - 7)$? [b]p2.[/b] Will has three spinners. The first has three equally sized sections numbered $1$, $2$, $3$; the second has four equally sized sections numbered $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$; and the third has five equally sized sections numbered $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$. When Will spins all three spinners, the probability that the same number appears on all three spinners is $p$. Compute $\frac{1}{p}$. [b]p3.[/b] Three girls and five boys are seated randomly in a row of eight desks. Let $p$ be the probability that the students at the ends of the row are both boys. If $p$ can be expressed in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$, compute $m + n$. [b]p4.[/b] Jaron either hits a home run or strikes out every time he bats. Last week, his batting average was $.300$. (Jaron's batting average is the number of home runs he has hit divided by the number of times he has batted.) After hitting $10$ home runs and striking out zero times in the last week, Jaron has now raised his batting average to $.310$. How many home runs has Jaron now hit? [b]p5.[/b] Suppose that the sum $$\frac{1}{1 \cdot 4} +\frac{1}{4 \cdot 7}+ ...+\frac{1}{97 \cdot 100}$$ is expressible as $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m + n$. [b]p6.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a unit square with center $O$, and $\vartriangle OEF$ be an equilateral triangle with center $A$. Suppose that $M$ is the area of the region inside the square but outside the triangle and $N$ is the area of the region inside the triangle but outside the square, and let $x = |M -N|$ be the positive difference between $M$ and $N$. If $$x =\frac1 8(p -\sqrt{q})$$ for positive integers $p$ and $q$, find $p + q$. [b]p7.[/b] Find the number of seven-digit numbers such that the sum of any two consecutive digits is divisible by $3$. For example, the number $1212121$ satisfies this property. [b]p8.[/b] There is a unique positive integer $x$ such that $x^x$ has $703$ positive factors. What is $x$? [b]p9.[/b] Let $x$ be the number of digits in $2^{2019}$ and let $y$ be the number of digits in $5^{2019}$. Compute $x + y$. [b]p10.[/b] Let $ABC$ be an isosceles triangle with $AB = AC = 13$ and $BC = 10$. Consider the set of all points $D$ in three-dimensional space such that $BCD$ is an equilateral triangle. This set of points forms a circle $\omega$. Let $E$ and $F$ be points on $\omega$ such that $AE$ and $AF$ are tangent to $\omega$. If $EF^2$ can be expressed in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers, determine $m + n$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $ S$ be a finite set of points in the plane such that no three of them are on a line. For each convex polygon $ P$ whose vertices are in $ S$, let $ a(P)$ be the number of vertices of $ P$, and let $ b(P)$ be the number of points of $ S$ which are outside $ P$. A line segment, a point, and the empty set are considered as convex polygons of $ 2$, $ 1$, and $ 0$ vertices respectively. Prove that for every real number $ x$ \[\sum_{P}{x^{a(P)}(1 \minus{} x)^{b(P)}} \equal{} 1,\] where the sum is taken over all convex polygons with vertices in $ S$. [i]Alternative formulation[/i]: Let $ M$ be a finite point set in the plane and no three points are collinear. A subset $ A$ of $ M$ will be called round if its elements is the set of vertices of a convex $ A \minus{}$gon $ V(A).$ For each round subset let $ r(A)$ be the number of points from $ M$ which are exterior from the convex $ A \minus{}$gon $ V(A).$ Subsets with $ 0,1$ and 2 elements are always round, its corresponding polygons are the empty set, a point or a segment, respectively (for which all other points that are not vertices of the polygon are exterior). For each round subset $ A$ of $ M$ construct the polynomial \[ P_A(x) \equal{} x^{|A|}(1 \minus{} x)^{r(A)}. \] Show that the sum of polynomials for all round subsets is exactly the polynomial $ P(x) \equal{} 1.$ [i]Proposed by Federico Ardila, Colombia[/i]

1400 real numbers are given. Prove that one can choose three of them like $x,y,z$ such that : $$\left|\frac{(x-y)(y-z)(z-x)}{x^4+y^4+z^4+1}\right| < 0.009$$

Let $x$ and $y$ be positive real numbers that satisfy $(\log x)^2+(\log y)^2=\log(x^2)+\log(y^2)$. Compute the maximum possible value of $(\log(xy))^2$.

Let $f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function, and $a<b$ be two points in the image of $f$ (that is, there exists $x,y$ such that $f(x)=a$ and $f(y)=b$). Show that there is an interval $I$ such that $f(I)=[a,b]$.

Prove that if the numbers $a, b, c$ are the lengths of the sides of some nondegenerate triangle, then the equation $$b^2x^2 + (b^2 + c^2 - a^2) x + c^2 = 0$$ has imaginary roots.

Solve in the set of rational numbers the equation $$2\sqrt{3(x + 1)^2} -3 \sqrt{2(y - 2)^2}= 4\sqrt2 + 5|\sqrt2 - \sqrt3|$$