Found problems: 14842
2015 Caucasus Mathematical Olympiad, 1
At the round table, $10$ people are sitting, some of them are knights, and the rest are liars (knights always say pride, and liars always lie) . It is clear thath I have at least one knight and at least one liar.
What is the largest number of those sitting at the table can say: ''Both of my neighbors are knights '' ?
(A statement that is at least partially false is considered false.)
1960 Kurschak Competition, 1
Among any four people at a party there is one who has met the three others before the party. Show that among any four people at the party there must be one who has met everyone at the party before the party
2004 IMO Shortlist, 7
Define a "hook" to be a figure made up of six unit squares as shown below in the picture, or any of the figures obtained by applying rotations and reflections to this figure.
[asy]
unitsize(0.5 cm);
draw((0,0)--(1,0));
draw((0,1)--(1,1));
draw((2,1)--(3,1));
draw((0,2)--(3,2));
draw((0,3)--(3,3));
draw((0,0)--(0,3));
draw((1,0)--(1,3));
draw((2,1)--(2,3));
draw((3,1)--(3,3));
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Determine all $ m\times n$ rectangles that can be covered without gaps and without overlaps with hooks such that
- the rectangle is covered without gaps and without overlaps
- no part of a hook covers area outside the rectangle.
2020 Estonia Team Selection Test, 2
Let $n$ be an integer, $n \ge 3$. Select $n$ points on the plane, none of which are three on the same line. Consider all triangles with vertices at selected points, denote the smallest of all the interior angles of these triangles by the variable $\alpha$. Find the largest possible value of $\alpha$ and identify all the selected $n$ point placements for which the max occurs.
2012 HMNT, 6
Let $\pi$ be a permutation of the numbers from $1$ through $2012$. What is the maximum possible number of integers $n$ with $1 \le n \le 2011$ such that $\pi (n)$ divides $\pi (n + 1)$?
2002 Iran Team Selection Test, 12
We call a permutation $ \left(a_1, a_2, ..., a_n\right)$ of $ \left(1, 2, ..., n\right)$ [i]quadratic[/i] if there exists at least a perfect square among the numbers $ a_1$, $ a_1 \plus{} a_2$, $ ...$, $ a_1 \plus{} a_2 \plus{} ... \plus{} a_n$. Find all natural numbers $ n$ such that all permutations in $ S_n$ are quadratic.
[i]Remark.[/i] $ S_{n}$ denotes the $ n$-th symmetric group, the group of permutations on $ n$ elements.
2025 All-Russian Olympiad, 10.1
Petya and Vasya are playing a game on an initially empty \(100 \times 100\) grid, taking turns. Petya goes first. On his turn, a player writes an uppercase Russian letter in an empty cell (each cell can contain only one letter). When all cells are filled, Petya is declared the winner if there are four consecutive cells horizontally spelling the word ``ПЕТЯ'' (PETYA) from left to right, or four consecutive cells vertically spelling ``ПЕТЯ'' from top to bottom. Can Petya guarantee a win regardless of Vasya's moves?
2014 Mid-Michigan MO, 5-6
[b]p1.[/b] Find any integer solution of the puzzle: $WE+ST+RO+NG=128$
(different letters mean different digits between $1$ and $9$).
[b]p2.[/b] A $5\times 6$ rectangle is drawn on the piece of graph paper (see the figure below). The side of each square on the graph paper is $1$ cm long. Cut the rectangle along the sides of the graph squares in two parts whose areas are equal but perimeters are different by $2$ cm.
$\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
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[b]p3.[/b] Three runners started simultaneously on a $1$ km long track. Each of them runs the whole distance at a constant speed. Runner $A$ is the fastest. When he runs $400$ meters then the total distance run by runners $B$ and $C$ together is $680$ meters. What is the total combined distance remaining for runners $B$ and $C$ when runner $A$ has $100$ meters left?
[b]p4.[/b] There are three people in a room. Each person is either a knight who always tells the truth or a liar who always tells lies. The first person said «We are all liars». The second replied «Only you are a liar». Is the third person a liar or a knight?
[b]p5.[/b] A $5\times 8$ rectangle is divided into forty $1\times 1$ square boxes (see the figure below). Choose 24 such boxes and one diagonal in each chosen box so that these diagonals don't have common points.
$\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
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\end{tabular}$
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1995 China Team Selection Test, 1
Let $S = \lbrace A = (a_1, \ldots, a_s) \mid a_i = 0$ or $1, i = 1, \ldots, 8 \rbrace$. For any 2 elements of $S$, $A = \lbrace a_1, \ldots, a_8\rbrace$ and $B = \lbrace b_1, \ldots, b_8\rbrace$. Let $d(A,B) = \sum_{i=1}{8} |a_i - b_i|$. Call $d(A,B)$ the distance between $A$ and $B$. At most how many elements can $S$ have such that the distance between any 2 sets is at least 5?
2017 Korea Winter Program Practice Test, 2
There are $m \ge 2$ blue points and $n \ge 2$ red points in three-dimensional space, and no four points are coplanar. Geoff and Nazar take turns, picking one blue point and one red point and connecting the two with a straight-line segment. Assume that Geoff starts first and the one who first makes a cycle wins. Who has the winning strategy?
2024 Turkey Olympic Revenge, 6
Let $n$ be a positive integer. On a number line, Azer is at point $0$ in his car which have fuel capacity of $2^n$ units and is initially full. At each positive integer $m$, there is a gas station. Azer only moves to the right with constant speed and doesn't stop anywhere except the gas stations. Each time his car moves to the right by some amount, its fuel decreases by the same amount. Azer may choose to stop at a gas station or pass it.
There are thieves at some gas stations. (A station may have multiple thieves) If Azer stops at a station which have $k\ge 0$ thieves while its car have fuel capacity $d$, his cars new fuel capacity becomes $\frac{d}{2^k}$. After that, Azer fulls his cars tank and leaves the station. Find the minimum number of thieves needed to guarantee that Azer will eventually run out of fuel.
Proposed by[i] Mehmet Can Baştemir[/i] and [i]Deniz Can Karaçelebi[/i]
2022 Germany Team Selection Test, 3
For each integer $n\ge 1,$ compute the smallest possible value of \[\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left\lfloor\frac{a_k}{k}\right\rfloor\] over all permutations $(a_1,\dots,a_n)$ of $\{1,\dots,n\}.$
[i]Proposed by Shahjalal Shohag, Bangladesh[/i]
2003 Estonia Team Selection Test, 1
Two treasure-hunters found a treasure containing coins of value $a_1< a_2 < ... < a_{2003}$ (the quantity of coins of each value is unlimited). The first treasure-hunter forms all the possible sets of different coins containing odd number of elements, and takes the most valuable coin of each such set. The second treasure-hunter forms all the possible sets of different coins containing even number of elements, and takes the most valuable coin of each such set. Which one of them is going to have more money and how much more?
(H. Nestra)
2017 IFYM, Sozopol, 6
Let $A_n$ be the number of arranged n-tuples of natural numbers $(a_1,a_2…a_n)$, such that
$\frac{1}{a_1} +\frac{1}{a_2} +...+\frac{1}{a_n} =1$.
Find the parity of $A_{68}$.
2021 BMT, 5
Bill divides a $28 \times 30$ rectangular board into two smaller rectangular boards with a single straightcut, so that the side lengths of both boards are positive whole numbers. How many different pairs of rectangular boards, up to congruence and arrangement, can Bill possibly obtain? (For instance, a cut that is $1$ unit away from either of the edges with length $28$ will result in the same pair of boards: either way, one would end up with a $1 \times 28$ board and a $29 \times 28$ board.)
2004 Estonia Team Selection Test, 6
Call a convex polyhedron a [i]footballoid [/i] if it has the following properties.
(1) Any face is either a regular pentagon or a regular hexagon.
(2) All neighbours of a pentagonal face are hexagonal (a [i]neighbour [/i] of a face is a face that has a common edge with it).
Find all possibilities for the number of pentagonal and hexagonal faces of a footballoid.
1978 Kurschak Competition, 2
The vertices of a convex $n$-gon are colored so that adjacent vertices have different colors. Prove that if $n$ is odd, then the polygon can be divided into triangles with non-intersecting diagonals such that no diagonal has its endpoints the same color.
1999 Austrian-Polish Competition, 9
A point in the cartesian plane with integer coordinates is called a lattice point. Consider the following one player game. A finite set of selected lattice points and finite set of selected segments is called a position in this game if the following hold:
(i) The endpoints of each selected segment are lattice points;
(ii) Each selected segment is parallel to a coordinate axis or to one of the lines $y = \pm x$,
(iii) Each selected segment contains exactly five lattice points, all of which are selected,
(iv) Every two selected segments have at most one common point.
A move in this game consists of selecting a lattice point and a segment such that the new set of selected lattice points and segments is a position. Prove or disprove that there exists an initial position such that the game can have infinitely many moves.
2022 Baltic Way, 7
The writer Arthur has $n \ge1$ co-authors who write books with him. Each book has a list of authors including Arthur himself. No two books have the same set of authors. At a party with all his co-author, each co-author writes on a note how many books they remember having written with Arthur. Inspecting the numbers on the notes, they discover that the numbers written down are the first $n$ Fibonacci numbers (defined by $F_1 = F_2 = 1$ and $F_{k+2}= F_{k+1} + F_k$). For which $n$ is it possible that none of the co-authors had a lapse of memory?
2009 China National Olympiad, 3
Given two integers $ m,n$ satisfying $ 4 < m < n.$ Let $ A_{1}A_{2}\cdots A_{2n \plus{} 1}$ be a regular $ 2n\plus{}1$ polygon. Denote by $ P$ the set of its vertices. Find the number of convex $ m$ polygon whose vertices belongs to $ P$ and exactly has two acute angles.
2024 Junior Balkan Team Selection Tests - Romania, P1
The integers from 1 to 49 are written in a $7\times 7$ table, such that for any $k\in\{1,2,\ldots,7\}$ the product of the numbers in the $k$-th row equals the product of the numbers in the $(8-k)$-th row.
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[*]Prove that there exists a row such that the sum of the numbers written on it is a prime number.
[*]Give an example of such a table.
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[i]Cristi Săvescu[/i]
2008 USA Team Selection Test, 3
For a pair $ A \equal{} (x_1, y_1)$ and $ B \equal{} (x_2, y_2)$ of points on the coordinate plane, let $ d(A,B) \equal{} |x_1 \minus{} x_2| \plus{} |y_1 \minus{} y_2|$. We call a pair $ (A,B)$ of (unordered) points [i]harmonic[/i] if $ 1 < d(A,B) \leq 2$. Determine the maximum number of harmonic pairs among 100 points in the plane.
2011 QEDMO 10th, 7
Cookies should be placed on a $7 \times 7$ chess board, so that never four cookies can form a rectangle whose sides are parallel to those of the chessboard. Find the maximum number of biscuits that can be positioned in this way.
Note: If you do the same job for a $13 \times 13$ chessboard, you get a biscuit.
If you solve it for an infinite number of squares of chessboards, you get two biscuits.
If you solve them for all sidelengths, , you even get two three biscuits
(We cannot distribute more cookies, otherwise we run the risk of them to form a rectangle).
2023 4th Memorial "Aleksandar Blazhevski-Cane", P5
There are $1000$ students in a school. Every student has exactly $4$ friends. A group of three students $ \left \{A,B,C \right \}$ is said to be a [i]friendly triplet[/i] if any two students in the group are friends. Determine the maximal possible number of friendly triplets.
[i]Proposed by Nikola Velov[/i]
2019 Moldova Team Selection Test, 3
On the table there are written numbers $673, 674, \cdots, 2018, 2019.$ Nibab chooses arbitrarily three numbers $a,b$ and $c$, erases them and writes the number $\frac{\min(a,b,c)}{3}$, then he continues in an analogous way. After Nibab performed this operation $673$ times, on the table remained a single number $k$. Prove that $k\in(0,1).$