Show that the only polynomial of odd degree satisfying $p(x^2-1) = p(x)^2 - 1$ for all $x$ is $p(x) = x$

Let $p: \mathbb C \to \mathbb C$ be a polynomial with degree $n$ and complex coefficients which satisfies \[x \in \mathbb R \iff p(x) \in \mathbb R.\] Show that $n=1$

Let $S$ be a set of positive integers $n_1, n_2, \cdots, n_6$ and let $n(f)$ denote the number $n_1n_{f(1)} +n_2n_{f(2)} +\cdots+n_6n_{f(6)}$, where $f$ is a permutation of $\{1, 2, . . . , 6\}$. Let \[\Omega=\{n(f) | f \text{ is a permutation of } \{1, 2, . . . , 6\} \} \] Give an example of positive integers $n_1, \cdots, n_6$ such that $\Omega$ contains as many elements as possible and determine the number of elements of $\Omega$.

Determine whether there exists a polynomial $f(x_1, x_2)$ with two variables, with integer coefficients, and two points $A=(a_1, a_2)$ and $B=(b_1, b_2)$ in the plane, satisfying the following conditions: (i) $A$ is an integer point (i.e $a_1$ and $a_2$ are integers); (ii) $|a_1-b_1|+|a_2-b_2|=2010$; (iii) $f(n_1, n_2)>f(a_1, a_2)$ for all integer points $(n_1, n_2)$ in the plane other than $A$; (iv) $f(x_1, x_2)>f(b_1, b_2)$ for all integer points $(x_1, x_2)$ in the plane other than $B$. [i]Massimo Gobbino, Italy[/i]

Find all functions $ f: \mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R} $ satisfying the equality $ f (x ^ 2-y ^ 2) = (x-y) (f (x) + f (y)) $ for any $ x, y \in \mathbb {R} $.

Non-zero real numbers $a, b, c$ satisfy the condition $\frac{1}{a}+\frac{2}{b}+\frac{3}{c}= 0$. Determine the value of $w =\frac{3b + 2c}{6a}+\frac{2c + 6a}{3b}+\frac{6a + 3b}{2c}$ .

Let $P(x)$ be a nonconstant polynomial of degree $n$ with rational coefficients which can not be presented as a product of two nonconstant polynomials with rational coefficients. Prove that the number of polynomials $Q(x)$ of degree less than $n$ with rational coefficients such that $P(x)$ divides $P(Q(x))$ a) is finite b) does not exceed $n$.

Solve with full solution: \[\left\{\begin{matrix}\sqrt{(\sin x)^2+\frac{1}{(\sin x)^2}}+\sqrt{(\cos y)^2+\frac{1}{(\cos y)^2}}=\sqrt\frac{20y}{x+y} \\\sqrt{(\sin y)^2+\frac{1}{(\sin y)^2}}+\sqrt{(\cos x)^2+\frac{1}{(\cos x)^2}}=\sqrt\frac{20x}{x+y}\end{matrix}\right. \]

Ali Barber, the carpet merchant, has a rectangular piece of carpet whose dimensions are unknown. Unfortunately, his tape measure is broken and he has no other measuring instruments. However, he finds that if he lays it flat on the floor of either of his storerooms, then each corner of the carpet touches a different wall of that room. He knows that the sides of the carpet are integral numbers of feet and that his two storerooms have the same (unknown) length, but widths of 38 feet and 50 feet respectively. What are the carpet dimensions?

A sequence $ \left( a_n \right)_{n\ge 1} $ has the property that it´s nondecreasing, nonconstant and, for every natural $ n, a_n\big| n^2. $ Show that at least one of the following affirmations are true. $ \text{(i)} $ There exists an index $ n_1 $ such that $ a_n=n, $ for all $ n\ge n_1. $ $ \text{(ii)} $ There exists an index $ n_2 $ such that $ a_n=n^2, $ for all $ n\ge n_2. $

Let $x,y$ be two positive real numbers such that $x^4-y^4=x-y$. Prove that $$\frac{x-y}{x^6-y^6}\leq \frac{4}{3}(x+y).$$

[b]p1.[/b] Thirty players participate in a chess tournament. Every player plays one game with every other player. What maximal number of players can get exactly $5$ points? (any game adds $1$ point to the winner’s score, $0$ points to a loser’s score, in the case of a draw each player obtains $1/2$ point.) [b]p2.[/b] A father and his son returned from a fishing trip. To make their catches equal the father gave to his son some of his fish. If, instead, the son had given his father the same number of fish, then father would have had twice as many fish as his son. What percent more is the father's catch more than his son's? [b]p3.[/b] What is the maximal number of pieces of two shapes, [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/5/6c567cf6a04b0aa9e998dbae3803b6eeb24a35.png[/img] and [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/8/a/7a7754d0f2517c93c5bb931fb7b5ae8f5e3217.png[/img], that can be used to tile a $7\times 7$ square? [b]p4.[/b] Six shooters participate in a shooting competition. Every participant has $5$ shots. Each shot adds from 1 to $10$ points to shooter’s score. Every person can score totally for all five shots from $5$ to $50$ points. Each participant gets $7$ points for at least one of his shots. The scores of all participants are different. We enumerate the shooters $1$ to $6$ according to their scores, the person with maximal score obtains number $1$, the next one obtains number $2$, the person with minimal score obtains number $6$. What score does obtain the participant number 3? The total number of all obtained points is $264$. [b]p5.[/b] There are $2014$ stones in a pile. Two players play the following game. First, player $A$ takes some number of stones (from $1$ to $30$) from the pile, then player B takes $1$ or $2$ stones, then player $A$ takes $2$ or $3$ stones, then player $B$ takes $3$ or $4$ stones, then player A takes $4$ or $5$ stones, etc. The player who gets the last stone is the winner. If no player gets the last stone (there is at least one stone in the pile but the next move is not allowed) then the game results in a draw. Who wins the game using the right strategy? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Find, with justification, all positive real numbers $a,b,c$ satisfying the system of equations: \[a\sqrt{b}=a+c,b\sqrt{c}=b+a,c\sqrt{a}=c+b.\]

$a)$ Let $a$, $b$ and $c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that for all positive integers $m$ holds: $$(a+b)^m+(b+c)^m+(c+a)^m \leq 2^m(a^m+b^m+c^m)$$ $b)$ Does inequality $a)$ holds for $1)$ arbitrary real numbers $a$, $b$ and $c$ $2)$ any integer $m$

Prove that the equation $x^{2}+p|x| = qx - 1 $ has 4 distinct real solutions if and only if $p+|q|+2<0$ ($p$ and $q$ are two real parameters).

[u]Round 9[/u] [b]p25.[/b] Maisy the Bear is at the origin of the Cartesian Plane. WhenMaisy is on the point $(m,n)$ then it can jump to either $(m,n +1)$ or $(m+1,n)$. Let $L(x, y)$ be the number of pathsMaisy can take to reach the point $(x, y)$. The sum of $L(x, y)$ over all lattice points $(x, y)$ with both coordinates between $0$ and $2020$, inclusive, can be written as ${2k \choose k} - j$ for a minimum positive integer k and corresponding positive integer $j$ . Find $k + j$ . [b]p26.[/b] A circle with center $O$ and radius $2$ and a circle with center $P$ and radius $3$ are externally tangent at $A$. Points $B$ and $C$ are on the circle with center $O$ such that $\vartriangle ABC$ is equilateral. Segment $AB$ extends past B to point $D$ and $AC$ extends past $C$ to point $E$ such that $BD = CE =\sqrt3$. A line through $D$ is tangent to circle $P$ at $F$. The value of $EF^2$ can be expressed as $\frac{a+b\sqrt{c}}{d}$ where $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ are integers, c is squarefree, and $gcd(a,b,d) = 1$. Find $a +b +c +d$. [b]p27.[/b] Find the number of trailing zeroes at the end of $$\sum^{2021}_{i=1}(2021^i -1) = (2021^1 -1)...(2021^{2021}-1).$$ [u]Round 10[/u] [b]p28.[/b] Points $A, B, C, P$, and $D$ lie on circle ω in that order. Let $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at $I$ . Given that $PI = PC = PD$, $\angle DAB = 137^o$, and $\angle ABC = 109^o$, find the measure of $\angle BIC$ in degrees. [b]p29.[/b] Find the sum of all positive integers $n < 2021$ such that when ${d_1,d_2,... ,d_k}$ are the positive integer factors of $n$, then $$\left( \sum^{k}_{i=1}d_i \right) \left( \sum^{k}_{i=1} \frac{1}{d_i} \right)= r^2$$ for some rational number $r$ . [b]p30.[/b] Let $a, b, c, d$ and $e$ be positive real numbers. Define the function $f (x, y) = \frac{x}{y}+\frac{y}{x}$ for all positive real numbers. Given that $f (a,b) = 7$, $f (b,c) = 5$, $f (c,d) = 3$, and $f (d,e) = 2$, find the sum of all possible values of $f (e,a)$. [u]Round 11[/u] [b]p31.[/b] There exist $100$ (not necessarily distinct) complex numbers $r_1, r_2,..., r_{100}$ such that for any positive integer $1 \le k \le 100$, we have that $P(r_k ) = 0$ where the polynomial $P$ is defined as $$P(x) = \sum^{101}_{i=1}i \cdot x^{101-i} = x^{100} +2x^{99} +3x^{98} +...+99x^2 +100x +101.$$ Find the value of $$\prod^{100}_{j=1} (r^2_j+1) = (r^2_1 +1)(r^2_2 +1)...(r^2_{100} +1).$$ [b]p32.[/b] Let $BT$ be the diameter of a circle $\omega_1$, and $AT$ be a tangent of $\omega_1$. Line $AB$ intersects $\omega_1$ at $C$, and $\vartriangle ACT$ has circumcircle $\omega_2$. Points $P$ and $S$ exist such that $PA$ and $PC$ are tangent to $\omega_2$ and $SB = BT = 20$. Given that $AT = 15$, the length of $PS$ can be written as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ , where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are positive integers, $b$ is squarefree, and $gcd(a,b) = 1$. Find $a +b +c$. [b]p33.[/b] There are a hundred students in math team. Each pair of students are either mutually friends or mutually enemies. It is given that if any three students are chosen, then they are not all mutually friends. The maximum possible number of ways to choose four students such that it is possible to label them $A, B, C$, and $D$ such that $A$ and $B$ are friends, $B$ and $C$ are friends, $C$ and $D$ are friends, and D and A are friends can be expressed as $n^4$. Find $n$. [u]Round 12[/u] [b]p34.[/b] Let $\{p_i\}$ be the prime numbers, such that $p_1 = 2, p_2 = 3, p_3 = 5, ...$ For each $i$ , let $q_i$ be the nearest perfect square to $p_i$ . Estimate $\sum^{2021}_{i=1}|p_i=q_i |$. If the correct answer is $A$ and your answer is $E$, your score will be $\left \lfloor 30 \cdot \max - \left(0,1-5 \cdot \left| \log_{10} \frac{A}{E} \right| \right)\right \rfloor.$ [b]p35.[/b] Estimate the number of digits of $(2021!)^{2021}$. If the correct answer is $A$ and your answer is $E$, your score will be $\left \lfloor 15 \cdot \max \left(0,2- \cdot \left| \log_{10} \frac{A}{E} \right| \right) \right \rfloor.$ [b]p36.[/b] Pick a positive integer between$ 1$ and $1000$, inclusive. If your answer is $E$ and a quarter of the mean of all the responses to this problem is $A$, your score will be $$ \lfloor \max \left(0,30- |A-E|, 2-|E-1000| \right) \rfloor.$$ Note that if you pick $1000$, you will automatically get $2$ points. PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 1-4 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3166489p28814241]here [/url] and 5-8 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3166494p28814284]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $p = 1+\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2^2}+\frac{1}{2^3}+\frac{1}{2^4}+\frac{1}{2^5}. $ For nonnegative reals $x, y,z$ satisfying $(x-1)^2 + (y-1)^2 + (z-1)^2 = 27,$ find the maximum value of $x^p + y^p + z^p.$

[b]p1.[/b] Consider a right triangle with legs of lengths $a$ and $b$ and hypotenuse of length $c$ such that the perimeter of the right triangle is numerically (ignoring units) equal to its area. Prove that there is only one possible value of $a + b - c$, and determine that value. [b]p2.[/b] Last August, Jennifer McLoud-Mann, along with her husband Casey Mann and an undergraduate David Von Derau at the University of Washington, Bothell, discovered a new tiling pattern of the plane with a pentagon. This is the fifteenth pattern of using a pentagon to cover the plane with no gaps or overlaps. It is unknown whether other pentagons tile the plane, or even if the number of patterns is finite. Below is a portion of this new tiling pattern. [img]https://services.artofproblemsolving.com/download.php?id=YXR0YWNobWVudHMvOS8xLzM4M2RjZDEzZTliYTlhYTJkZDU4YTA4ZGMwMTA0MzA5ODk1NjI0LnBuZw==&rn=bW1wYyAyMDE1LnBuZw==[/img] Determine the five angles (in degrees) of the pentagon $ABCDE$ used in this tiling. Explain your reasoning, and give the values you determine for the angles at the bottom. [b]p3.[/b] Let $f(x) =\sqrt{2019 + 4\sqrt{2015}} +\sqrt{2015} x$. Find all rational numbers $x$ such that $f(x)$ is a rational number. [b]p4.[/b] Alice has a whiteboard and a blackboard. The whiteboard has two positive integers on it, and the blackboard is initially blank. Alice repeats the following process. $\bullet$ Let the numbers on the whiteboard be $a$ and $b$, with $a \le b$. $\bullet$ Write $a^2$ on the blackboard. $\bullet$ Erase $b$ from the whiteboard and replace it with $b - a$. For example, if the whiteboard began with 5 and 8, Alice first writes $25$ on the blackboard and changes the whiteboard to $5$ and $3$. Her next move is to write $9$ on the blackboard and change the whiteboard to $2$ and $3$. Alice stops when one of the numbers on the whiteboard is 0. At this point the sum of the numbers on the blackboard is $2015$. a. If one of the starting numbers is $1$, what is the other? b. What are all possible starting pairs of numbers? [b]p5.[/b] Professor Beatrix Quirky has many multi-volume sets of books on her shelves. When she places a numbered set of $n$ books on her shelves, she doesn’t necessarily place them in order with book $1$ on the left and book $n$ on the right. Any volume can be placed at the far left. The only rule is that, except the leftmost volume, each volume must have a volume somewhere to its left numbered either one more or one less. For example, with a series of six volumes, Professor Quirky could place them in the order $123456$, or $324561$, or $564321$, but not $321564$ (because neither $4$ nor $6$ is to the left of $5$). Let’s call a sequence of numbers a [i]quirky [/i] sequence of length $n$ if: 1. the sequence contains each of the numbers from $1$ to $n$, once each, and 2. if $k$ is not the first term of the sequence, then either $k + 1$ or $k - 1$ occurs somewhere before $k$ in the sequence. Let $q_n$ be the number of quirky sequences of length $n$. For example, $q_3 = 4$ since the quirky sequences of length $3$ are $123$, $213$, $231$, and $321$. a. List all quirky sequences of length $4$. b. Find an explicit formula for $q_n$. Prove that your formula is correct. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Find all triplets of real numbers $(x, y, z)$ that satisfies the system of equations $x^5 = 2y^3 + y - 2$ $y^5 = 2z^3 + z - 2$ $z^5 = 2x^3 + x - 2$

Find all $x,y,z \in R^+$ such that the sets $(23x+24y+25z,23y+24z+25x,23z+24x+25y)$ and $(x^5+y^5,y^5+z^5,z^5+x^5)$ are same

Determine all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$, where $\mathbb{R}$ is the set of all real numbers, satisfying the following two conditions: 1) There exists a real number $M$ such that for every real number $x,f(x)<M$ is satisfied. 2) For every pair of real numbers $x$ and $y$, \[ f(xf(y))+yf(x)=xf(y)+f(xy)\] is satisfied.

Starting with the triple $(1007\sqrt{2},2014\sqrt{2},1007\sqrt{14})$, define a sequence of triples $(x_{n},y_{n},z_{n})$ by $x_{n+1}=\sqrt{x_{n}(y_{n}+z_{n}-x_{n})}$ $y_{n+1}=\sqrt{y_{n}(z_{n}+x_{n}-y_{n})}$ $ z_{n+1}=\sqrt{z_{n}(x_{n}+y_{n}-z_{n})}$ for $n\geq 0$.Show that each of the sequences $\langle x_n\rangle _{n\geq 0},\langle y_n\rangle_{n\geq 0},\langle z_n\rangle_{n\geq 0}$ converges to a limit and find these limits.

Are there positive real numbers $x$, $y$ and $z$ such that $ x^4 + y^4 + z^4 = 13\text{,} $ $ x^3y^3z + y^3z^3x + z^3x^3y = 6\sqrt{3} \text{,} $ $ x^3yz + y^3zx + z^3xy = 5\sqrt{3} \text{?} $ [i]Proposed by Matko Ljulj.[/i]

Anna and Boris move simultaneously towards each other, from points A and B respectively. Their speeds are constant, but not necessarily equal. Had Anna started 30 minutes earlier, they would have met 2 kilometers nearer to B. Had Boris started 30 minutes earlier instead, they would have met some distance nearer to A. Can this distance be uniquely determined? [i](3 points)[/i]

None of the positive integers $k,m,n$ are divisible by $5$. Prove that at least one of the numbers $k^2-m^2,m^2-n^2,n^2-k^2$ is divisible by $5$.