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2018 Taiwan TST Round 2, 2

There are $n$ sheep and a wolf in sheep's clothing . Some of the sheep are friends (friendship is mutual). The goal of the wolf is to eat all the sheep. First, the wolf chooses some sheep to make friend's with. In each of the following days, the wolf eats one of its friends. Whenever the wolf eats a sheep $A$: (a) If a friend of $A$ is originally a friend of the wolf, it un-friends the wolf. (b) If a friend of $A$ is originally not a friend of the wolf, it becomes a friend of the wolf. Repeat the procedure until the wolf has no friend left. Find the largest integer $m$ in terms of $n$ satisfying the following: There exists an initial friendsheep structure such that the wolf has $m$ different ways of choosing initial sheep to become friends, so that the wolf has a way to eat all of the sheep.

2012 India IMO Training Camp, 3

In a $2\times n$ array we have positive reals s.t. the sum of the numbers in each of the $n$ columns is $1$. Show that we can select a number in each column s.t. the sum of the selected numbers in each row is at most $\frac{n+1}4$.

PEN S Problems, 29

What is the rightmost nonzero digit of $1000000!$?

2012 Canada National Olympiad, 4

A number of robots are placed on the squares of a finite, rectangular grid of squares. A square can hold any number of robots. Every edge of each square of the grid is classified as either passable or impassable. All edges on the boundary of the grid are impassable. You can give any of the commands up, down, left, or right. All of the robots then simultaneously try to move in the specified direction. If the edge adjacent to a robot in that direction is passable, the robot moves across the edge and into the next square. Otherwise, the robot remains on its current square. You can then give another command of up, down, left, or right, then another, for as long as you want. Suppose that for any individual robot, and any square on the grid, there is a finite sequence of commands that will move that robot to that square. Prove that you can also give a finite sequence of commands such that all of the robots end up on the same square at the same time.

2014 Purple Comet Problems, 21

Tags: vector , algorithm
Let $a$, $b$, $c$ be positive integers such that $29a + 30b + 31c = 366$. Find $19a + 20b + 21c$.

2009 APMO, 5

Larry and Rob are two robots travelling in one car from Argovia to Zillis. Both robots have control over the steering and steer according to the following algorithm: Larry makes a 90 degrees left turn after every $ \ell$ kilometer driving from start, Rob makes a 90 degrees right turn after every $ r$ kilometer driving from start, where $ \ell$ and $ r$ are relatively prime positive integers. In the event of both turns occurring simultaneously, the car will keep going without changing direction. Assume that the ground is flat and the car can move in any direction. Let the car start from Argovia facing towards Zillis. For which choices of the pair ($ \ell$, $ r$) is the car guaranteed to reach Zillis, regardless of how far it is from Argovia?

2012 India IMO Training Camp, 3

In a $2\times n$ array we have positive reals s.t. the sum of the numbers in each of the $n$ columns is $1$. Show that we can select a number in each column s.t. the sum of the selected numbers in each row is at most $\frac{n+1}4$.

2014 Contests, 1

Let $\leftarrow$ denote the left arrow key on a standard keyboard. If one opens a text editor and types the keys "ab$\leftarrow$ cd $\leftarrow \leftarrow$ e $\leftarrow \leftarrow$ f", the result is "faecdb". We say that a string $B$ is [i]reachable[/i] from a string $A$ if it is possible to insert some amount of $\leftarrow$'s in $A$, such that typing the resulting characters produces $B$. So, our example shows that "faecdb" is reachable from "abcdef". Prove that for any two strings $A$ and $B$, $A$ is reachable from $B$ if and only if $B$ is reachable from $A$.

2019 EGMO, 5

Let $n\ge 2$ be an integer, and let $a_1, a_2, \cdots , a_n$ be positive integers. Show that there exist positive integers $b_1, b_2, \cdots, b_n$ satisfying the following three conditions: $\text{(A)} \ a_i\le b_i$ for $i=1, 2, \cdots , n;$ $\text{(B)} \ $ the remainders of $b_1, b_2, \cdots, b_n$ on division by $n$ are pairwise different; and $\text{(C)} \ $ $b_1+b_2+\cdots b_n \le n\left(\frac{n-1}{2}+\left\lfloor \frac{a_1+a_2+\cdots a_n}{n}\right \rfloor \right)$ (Here, $\lfloor x \rfloor$ denotes the integer part of real number $x$, that is, the largest integer that does not exceed $x$.)

2008 JBMO Shortlist, 12

Find all prime numbers $ p,q,r$, such that $ \frac{p}{q}\minus{}\frac{4}{r\plus{}1}\equal{}1$

2013 All-Russian Olympiad, 4

$N$ lines lie on a plane, no two of which are parallel and no three of which are concurrent. Prove that there exists a non-self-intersecting broken line $A_0A_1A_2A_3...A_N$ with $N$ parts, such that on each of the $N$ lines lies exactly one of the $N$ segments of the line.

1994 IMO Shortlist, 1

Two players play alternately on a $ 5 \times 5$ board. The first player always enters a $ 1$ into an empty square and the second player always enters a $ 0$ into an empty square. When the board is full, the sum of the numbers in each of the nine $ 3 \times 3$ squares is calculated and the first player's score is the largest such sum. What is the largest score the first player can make, regardless of the responses of the second player?

2007 All-Russian Olympiad, 4

[i]A. Akopyan, A. Akopyan, A. Akopyan, I. Bogdanov[/i] A conjurer Arutyun and his assistant Amayak are going to show following super-trick. A circle is drawn on the board in the room. Spectators mark $2007$ points on this circle, after that Amayak removes one of them. Then Arutyun comes to the room and shows a semicircle, to which the removed point belonged. Explain, how Arutyun and Amayak may show this super-trick.

2010 ELMO Shortlist, 3

2010 MOPpers are assigned numbers 1 through 2010. Each one is given a red slip and a blue slip of paper. Two positive integers, A and B, each less than or equal to 2010 are chosen. On the red slip of paper, each MOPper writes the remainder when the product of A and his or her number is divided by 2011. On the blue slip of paper, he or she writes the remainder when the product of B and his or her number is divided by 2011. The MOPpers may then perform either of the following two operations: [list] [*] Each MOPper gives his or her red slip to the MOPper whose number is written on his or her blue slip. [*] Each MOPper gives his or her blue slip to the MOPper whose number is written on his or her red slip.[/list] Show that it is always possible to perform some number of these operations such that each MOPper is holding a red slip with his or her number written on it. [i]Brian Hamrick.[/i]

2008 Romanian Master of Mathematics, 2

Prove that every bijective function $ f: \mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ can be written in the way $ f\equal{}u\plus{}v$ where $ u,v: \mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ are bijective functions.

2021 Taiwan TST Round 3, A

A magician intends to perform the following trick. She announces a positive integer $n$, along with $2n$ real numbers $x_1 < \dots < x_{2n}$, to the audience. A member of the audience then secretly chooses a polynomial $P(x)$ of degree $n$ with real coefficients, computes the $2n$ values $P(x_1), \dots , P(x_{2n})$, and writes down these $2n$ values on the blackboard in non-decreasing order. After that the magician announces the secret polynomial to the audience. Can the magician find a strategy to perform such a trick?

2004 Germany Team Selection Test, 3

We consider graphs with vertices colored black or white. "Switching" a vertex means: coloring it black if it was formerly white, and coloring it white if it was formerly black. Consider a finite graph with all vertices colored white. Now, we can do the following operation: Switch a vertex and simultaneously switch all of its neighbours (i. e. all vertices connected to this vertex by an edge). Can we, just by performing this operation several times, obtain a graph with all vertices colored black? [It is assumed that our graph has no loops (a [i]loop[/i] means an edge connecting one vertex with itself) and no multiple edges (a [i]multiple edge[/i] means a pair of vertices connected by more than one edge).]

2014 Brazil Team Selection Test, 2

Let $n$ be an positive integer. Find the smallest integer $k$ with the following property; Given any real numbers $a_1 , \cdots , a_d $ such that $a_1 + a_2 + \cdots + a_d = n$ and $0 \le a_i \le 1$ for $i=1,2,\cdots ,d$, it is possible to partition these numbers into $k$ groups (some of which may be empty) such that the sum of the numbers in each group is at most $1$.

MathLinks Contest 7th, 2.1

Let $ k$ be an integer, $ k \geq 2$, and let $ p_{1},\ p_{2},\ \ldots,\ p_{k}$ be positive reals with $ p_{1} \plus{} p_{2} \plus{} \ldots \plus{} p_{k} \equal{} 1$. Suppose we have a collection $ \left(A_{1,1},\ A_{1,2},\ \ldots,\ A_{1,k}\right)$, $ \left(A_{2,1},\ A_{2,2},\ \ldots,\ A_{2,k}\right)$, $ \ldots$, $ \left(A_{m,1},\ A_{1,2},\ \ldots,\ A_{m,k}\right)$ of $ k$-tuples of finite sets satisfying the following two properties: (i) for every $ i$ and every $ j \neq j^{\prime}$, $ A_{i,j}\cap A_{i,j^{\prime}} \equal{} \emptyset$, and (ii) for every $ i\neq i^{\prime}$ there exist $ j\neq j^{\prime}$ for which $ A_{i,j} \cap A_{i^{\prime},j^{\prime}}\neq\emptyset$. Prove that \[ \sum_{b \equal{} 1}^{m}{\prod_{a \equal{} 1}^{k}{p_{a}^{|A_{b,a}|}}} \leq 1. \]

2009 Turkey Team Selection Test, 1

Find all $ f: Q^ \plus{} \to\ Z$ functions that satisfy $ f \left(\frac {1}{x} \right) \equal{} f(x)$ and $ (x \plus{} 1)f(x \minus{} 1) \equal{} xf(x)$ for all rational numbers that are bigger than 1.

2012 Iran MO (3rd Round), 1

We've colored edges of $K_n$ with $n-1$ colors. We call a vertex rainbow if it's connected to all of the colors. At most how many rainbows can exist? [i]Proposed by Morteza Saghafian[/i]

2022 China Team Selection Test, 3

Let $a, b, c, p, q, r$ be positive integers with $p, q, r \ge 2$. Denote \[Q=\{(x, y, z)\in \mathbb{Z}^3 : 0 \le x \le a, 0 \le y \le b , 0 \le z \le c \}. \] Initially, some pieces are put on the each point in $Q$, with a total of $M$ pieces. Then, one can perform the following three types of operations repeatedly: (1) Remove $p$ pieces on $(x, y, z)$ and place a piece on $(x-1, y, z)$ ; (2) Remove $q$ pieces on $(x, y, z)$ and place a piece on $(x, y-1, z)$ ; (3) Remove $r$ pieces on $(x, y, z)$ and place a piece on $(x, y, z-1)$. Find the smallest positive integer $M$ such that one can always perform a sequence of operations, making a piece placed on $(0,0,0)$, no matter how the pieces are distributed initially.

2007 IMO, 3

In a mathematical competition some competitors are friends. Friendship is always mutual. Call a group of competitors a [i]clique[/i] if each two of them are friends. (In particular, any group of fewer than two competitiors is a clique.) The number of members of a clique is called its [i]size[/i]. Given that, in this competition, the largest size of a clique is even, prove that the competitors can be arranged into two rooms such that the largest size of a clique contained in one room is the same as the largest size of a clique contained in the other room. [i]Author: Vasily Astakhov, Russia[/i]

2013 Finnish National High School Mathematics Competition, 2

In a particular European city, there are only $7$ day tickets and $30$ day tickets to the public transport. The former costs $7.03$ euro and the latter costs $30$ euro. Aina the Algebraist decides to buy at once those tickets that she can travel by the public transport the whole three year (2014-2016, 1096 days) visiting in the city. What is the cheapest solution?

2010 Contests, 4

The sequence of Fibonnaci's numbers if defined from the two first digits $f_1=f_2=1$ and the formula $f_{n+2}=f_{n+1}+f_n$, $\forall n \in N$. [b](a)[/b] Prove that $f_{2010} $ is divisible by $10$. [b](b)[/b] Is $f_{1005}$ divisible by $4$? Albanian National Mathematical Olympiad 2010---12 GRADE Question 4.