Found problems: 14842
2019 Israel Olympic Revenge, P2
A $5779$-dimensional polytope is call a [b]$k$-tope[/b] if it has exactly $k$ $5778$-dimensional faces.
Find all sequences $b_{5780}, b_{5781}, \dots, b_{11558}$ of nonnegative integers, not all $0$, such that the following condition holds:
It is possible to tesselate every $5779$-dimensional polytope with [u]convex[/u] $5779$-dimensional polytopes, such that the number of $k$-topes in the tessellation is proportional to $b_k$, while there are no $k$-topes in the tessellation if $k\notin \{5780, 5781, \dots, 11558\}$.
2021 Tuymaada Olympiad, 4
An $n\times n$ square ($n$ is a positive integer) consists of $n^2$ unit squares.A $\emph{monotonous path}$ in this square is a path of length $2n$ beginning in the left lower corner of the square,ending in its right upper corner and going along the sides of unit squares.
For each $k$, $0\leq k\leq 2n-1$, let $S_k$ be the set of all the monotonous paths such that the number of unit squares lying below the path leaves remainder $k$ upon division by $2n-1$.Prove that all $S_k$ contain equal number of elements.
2019 Iran Team Selection Test, 5
A sub-graph of a complete graph with $n$ vertices is chosen such that the number of its edges is a multiple of $3$ and degree of each vertex is an even number. Prove that we can assign a weight to each triangle of the graph such that for each edge of the chosen sub-graph, the sum of the weight of the triangles that contain that edge equals one, and for each edge that is not in the sub-graph, this sum equals zero.
[i]Proposed by Morteza Saghafian[/i]
2014 Contests, 1
A basket is called "[i]Stuff Basket[/i]" if it includes $10$ kilograms of rice and $30$ number of eggs. A market is to distribute $100$ Stuff Baskets. We know that there is totally $1000$ kilograms of rice and $3000$ number of eggs in the baskets, but some of market's baskets include either more or less amount of rice or eggs. In each step, market workers can select two baskets and move an arbitrary amount of rice or eggs between selected baskets. Starting from an arbitrary situation, what's the minimum number of steps that workers provide $100$ Stuff Baskets?
1999 North Macedonia National Olympiad, 1
In a set of $21$ real numbers, the sum of any $10$ numbers is less than the sum of the remaining $11$ numbers.
Prove that all the numbers are positive.
2024 Stars of Mathematics, P1
Prove that any polygon $A_1A_2\dots A_n$ has three vertices $A_i,A_j,A_k$ such that $[A_iA_jA_k]>\frac{1}{4}[A_1A_2\dots A_n]$.
[i]Folklore[/i]
2022 Vietnam National Olympiad, 2
We are given 4 similar dices. Denote $x_i (1\le x_i \le 6)$ be the number of dots on a face appearing on the $i$-th dice $1\le i \le 4$
a) Find the numbers of $(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4)$
b) Find the probability that there is a number $x_j$ such that $x_j$ is equal to the sum of the other 3 numbers
c) Find the probability that we can divide $x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4$ into 2 groups has the same sum
2019 Taiwan TST Round 3, 3
Let $a$ and $b$ be distinct positive integers. The following infinite process takes place on an initially empty board.
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[*] If there is at least a pair of equal numbers on the board, we choose such a pair and increase one of its components by $a$ and the other by $b$.
[*] If no such pair exists, we write two times the number $0$.
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Prove that, no matter how we make the choices in $(i)$, operation $(ii)$ will be performed only finitely many times.
Proposed by [I]Serbia[/I].
2018 OMMock - Mexico National Olympiad Mock Exam, 6
Let $A$ be a finite set of positive integers, and for each positive integer $n$ we define
\[S_n = \{x_1 + x_2 + \cdots + x_n \;\vert\; x_i \in A \text{ for } i = 1, 2, \dots, n\}\]
That is, $S_n$ is the set of all positive integers which can be expressed as sum of exactly $n$ elements of $A$, not necessarily different. Prove that there exist positive integers $N$ and $k$ such that
$$\left\vert S_{n + 1} \right\vert = \left\vert S_n \right\vert + k \text{ for all } n\geq N.$$
[i]Proposed by Ariel García[/i]
1996 Estonia National Olympiad, 5
Three children wanted to make a table-game. For that purpose they wished to enumerate the $mn$ squares of an $m \times n$ game-board by the numbers $1, ... ,mn$ in such way that the numbers $1$ and $mn$ lie in the corners of the board and the squares with successive numbers have a common edge. The children agreed to place the initial square (with number $1$) in one of the corners but each child wanted to have the final square (with number $mn$ ) in different corner. For which numbers $m$ and $n$ is it possible to satisfy the wish of any of the children?
1989 IMO Shortlist, 12
There are n cars waiting at distinct points of a circular race track. At the starting signal each car starts. Each car may choose arbitrarily which of the two possible directions to go. Each car has the same constant speed. Whenever two cars meet they both change direction (but not speed). Show that at some time each car is back at its starting point.
2022 Brazil Team Selection Test, 4
Determine the largest integer $N$ for which there exists a table $T$ of integers with $N$ rows and $100$ columns that has the following properties:
$\text{(i)}$ Every row contains the numbers $1$, $2$, $\ldots$, $100$ in some order.
$\text{(ii)}$ For any two distinct rows $r$ and $s$, there is a column $c$ such that $|T(r,c) - T(s, c)|\geq 2$. (Here $T(r,c)$ is the entry in row $r$ and column $c$.)
ABMC Online Contests, 2023 Dec
[b]p1.[/b] Eric is playing Brawl Stars. If he starts playing at $11:10$ AM, and plays for $2$ hours total, then how many minutes past noon does he stop playing?
[b]p2.[/b] James is making a mosaic. He takes an equilateral triangle and connects the midpoints of its sides. He then takes the center triangle formed by the midsegments and connects the midpoints of its sides. In total, how many equilateral triangles are in James’ mosaic?
[b]p3.[/b] What is the greatest amount of intersections that $3$ circles and $3$ lines can have, given that they all lie on the same plane?
[b]p4.[/b] In the faraway land of Arkesia, there are two types of currencies: Silvers and Gold. Each Silver is worth $7$ dollars while each Gold is worth $17$ dollars. In Daniel’s wallet, the total dollar value of the Silvers is $1$ more than that of the Golds. What is the smallest total dollar value of all of the Silvers and Golds in his wallet?
[b]p5.[/b] A bishop is placed on a random square of a $8$-by-$8$ chessboard. On average, the bishop is able to move to $s$ other squares on the chessboard. Find $4s$.
Note: A bishop is a chess piece that can move diagonally in any direction, as far as it wants.
[b]p6.[/b] Andrew has a certain amount of coins. If he distributes them equally across his $9$ friends, he will have $7$ coins left. If he apportions his coins for each of his $15$ classmates, he will have $13$ coins to spare. If he splits the coins into $4$ boxes for safekeeping, he will have $2$ coins left over. What is the minimum number of coins Andrew could have?
[b]p7.[/b] A regular polygon $P$ has three times as many sides as another regular polygon $Q$. The interior angle of $P$ is $16^o$ greater than the interior angle of $Q$. Compute how many more diagonals $P$ has compared to $Q$.
[b]p8.[/b] In an certain airport, there are three ways to switch between the ground floor and second floor that are 30 meters apart: either stand on an escalator, run on an escalator, or climb the stairs. A family on vacation takes 65 seconds to climb up the stairs. A solo traveller late for their flight takes $25$ seconds to run upwards on the escalator. The amount of time (in seconds) it takes for someone to switch floors by standing on the escalator can be expressed as $\frac{u}{v}$ , where $u$ and $v$ are relatively prime. Find $u + v$.
(Assume everyone has the same running speed, and the speed of running on an escalator is the sum of the speeds of riding the escalator and running on the stairs.)
[b]p9.[/b] Avanish, being the studious child he is, is taking practice tests to improve his score. Avanish has a $60\%$ chance of passing a practice test. However, whenever Avanish passes a test, he becomes more confident and instead has a $70\%$ chance of passing his next immediate test. If Avanish takes $3$ practice tests in a row, the expected number of practice tests Avanish will pass can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ , where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime. Find $a + b$.
[b]p10.[/b] Triangle $\vartriangle ABC$ has sides $AB = 51$, $BC = 119$, and $AC = 136$. Point $C$ is reflected over line $\overline{AB}$ to create point $C'$. Next, point $B$ is reflected over line $\overline{AC'}$ to create point $B'$. If $[B'C'C]$ can be expressed in the form of $a\sqrt{b}$, where $b$ is not divisible by any perfect square besides $1$, find $a + b$.
[b]p11[/b]. Define the following infinite sequence $s$: $$s = \left\{\frac{1}{1},\frac{1}{1 + 3},\frac{1}{1 + 3 + 6}, ... ,\frac{1}{1 + 3 + 6 + ...+ t_k},...\right\},$$
where $t_k$ denotes the $k$th triangular number. The sum of the first $2024$ terms of $s$, denoted $S$, can be
expressed as $$S = 3 \left(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{a}-\frac{1}{b}\right),$$ where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. Find the minimal possible value of $a + b$.
[b]p12.[/b] Omar writes the numbers from $1$ to $1296$ on a whiteboard and then converts each of them into base $6$. Find the sum of all of the digits written on the whiteboard (in base $10$), including both the base $10$ and base $6$ numbers.
[b]p13.[/b] A mountain number is a number in a list that is greater than the number to its left and right. Let $N$ be the amount of lists created from the integers $1$ - $100$ such that each list only has one mountain number. $N$ can be expressed as
$$N = 2^a(2^b - c^2),$$
where $a$, $b$ and $c$ are positive integers and $c$ is not divisible by $2$. Find $a + b+c$.
(The numbers at the beginning or end of a list are not considered mountain numbers.)[hide]Original problem was voided because the original format of the answer didn't match the result's format. So I changed it in the wording, in order the problem to be correct[/hide]
[b]p14.[/b] A circle $\omega$ with center $O$ has a radius of $25$. Chords $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{CD}$ are drawn in $\omega$ , intersecting at $X$ such that $\angle BXC = 60^o$ and $AX > BX$. Given that the shortest distance of $O$ with $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{CD}$ is $7$ and $15$ respectively, the length of $BX$ can be expressed as $x - \frac{y}{\sqrt{z}}$ , where $x$, $y$, and $z$ are positive integers such that $z$ is not divisible by any perfect square. Find $x + y + z.$ [hide]two answers were considered correct according to configuration[/hide]
[b]p15.[/b] How many ways are there to split the first $10$ natural numbers into $n$ sets (with $n \ge 1$) such that all the numbers are used and each set has the same average?
PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].
EMCC Accuracy Rounds, 2016
[b]p1.[/b] A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length $25$ and a leg of length $16$. Compute the length of the other leg of this triangle.
[b]p2.[/b] Tanya has a circular necklace with $5$ evenly-spaced beads, each colored red or blue. Find the number of distinct necklaces in which no two red beads are adjacent. If a necklace can be transformed into another necklace through a series of rotations and reflections, then the two necklaces are considered to be the same.
[b]p3.[/b] Find the sum of the digits in the decimal representation of $10^{2016} - 2016$.
[b]p4.[/b] Let $x$ be a real number satisfying $$x^1 \cdot x^2 \cdot x^3 \cdot x^4 \cdot x^5 \cdot x^6 = 8^7.$$ Compute the value of $x^7$.
[b]p5.[/b] What is the smallest possible perimeter of an acute, scalene triangle with integer side lengths?
[b]p6.[/b] Call a sequence $a_1, a_2, a_3,..., a_n$ mountainous if there exists an index $t$ between $1$ and $n$ inclusive such that $$a_1 \le a_2\le ... \le a_t \,\,\,\, and \,\,\,\, a_t \ge a_{t+1} \ge ... \ge a_n$$
In how many ways can Bishal arrange the ten numbers $1$, $1$, $2$, $2$, $3$, $3$, $4$, $4$, $5$, and $5$ into a mountainous sequence? (Two possible mountainous sequences are $1$, $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $4$, $5$, $5$, $3$, $2$ and $5$, $5$, $4$, $4$, $3$, $3$, $2$, $2$, $1$, $1$.)
[b]p7.[/b] Find the sum of the areas of all (non self-intersecting) quadrilaterals whose vertices are the four points $(-3,-6)$, $(7,-1)$, $(-2, 9)$, and $(0, 0)$.
[b]p8.[/b] Mohammed Zhang's favorite function is $f(x) =\sqrt{x^2 - 4x + 5} +\sqrt{x^2 + 4x + 8}$. Find the minumum possible value of $f(x)$ over all real numbers $x$.
[b]p9.[/b] A segment $AB$ with length $1$ lies on a plane. Find the area of the set of points $P$ in the plane for which $\angle APB$ is the second smallest angle in triangle $ABP$.
[b]p10.[/b] A binary string is a dipalindrome if it can be produced by writing two non-empty palindromic strings one after the other. For example, $10100100$ is a dipalindrome because both $101$ and $00100$ are palindromes. How many binary strings of length $18$ are both palindromes and dipalindromes?
PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].
1971 Bulgaria National Olympiad, Problem 3
There are given $20$ points in the plane, no three of which lie on a single line. Prove that there exist at least $969$ quadrilaterals with vertices from the given points.
2022 Baltic Way, 6
Mattis is hosting a badminton tournament for $40$ players on $20$ courts numbered from $1$ to $20$. The players are distributed with $2$ players on each court. In each round a winner is determined on each court. Afterwards, the player who lost on court $1$, and the player who won on court $20$ stay in place. For the remaining $38$ players, the winner on court $i$ moves to court $i + 1$ and the loser moves to court $i - 1$. The tournament continues until every player has played every other player at least once. What is the minimal number of rounds the tournament can last?
2013 Irish Math Olympiad, 4
Each of the $36$ squares of a $6 \times 6$ table is to be coloured either Red, Yellow or Blue.
(a) No row or column is contain more than two squares of the same colour.
(b) In any four squares obtained by intersecting two rows with two columns, no colour is to occur exactly three times.
In how many dierent ways can the table be coloured if both of these rules are to be respected?
1999 Kazakhstan National Olympiad, 4
Seven dwarfs live in one house and each has its own hat. One morning one day, two dwarfs inadvertently exchanged hats. At any time, any three gnomes can sit down at the round table and exchange hats clockwise. Is it possible that by evening all the gnomes will be with their hats.
2009 Portugal MO, 3
Duarte wants to draw a square whose side's length is $2009$ cm and which is divided in $2009\times2009$ squares whose side's length is $1$ cm and whose sides are parallel to the original square's one, without taking the pencil out of the paper. Starting on one of the vertex of the giant square, what is the length of the shortest line that allows him to make this drawing?
2004 China Girls Math Olympiad, 8
When the unit squares at the four corners are removed from a three by three squares, the resulting shape is called a cross. What is the maximum number of non-overlapping crosses placed within the boundary of a $ 10\times 11$ chessboard? (Each cross covers exactly five unit squares on the board.)
2005 International Zhautykov Olympiad, 3
Let $ A$ be a set of $ 2n$ points on the plane such that no three points are collinear. Prove that for any distinct two points $ a,b\in A$ there exists a line that partitions $ A$ into two subsets each containing $ n$ points and such that $ a,b$ lie on different sides of the line.
2000 Switzerland Team Selection Test, 10
At $n$ distinct points of a circular race course there are $n$ cars ready to start. Each car moves at a constant speed and covers the circle in an hour. On hearing the initial signal, each of them selects a direction and starts moving immediately. If two cars meet, both of them change directions and go on without loss of speed. Show that at a certain moment each car will be at its starting point.
2024 Taiwan TST Round 3, N
For each positive integer $k$, define $r(k)$ as the number of runs of $k$ in base-$2$, where a run is a collection of consecutive $0$s or consecutive $1$s without a larger one containing it. For example, $(11100100)_2$ has $4$ runs, namely $111-00-1-00$. Also, $r(0) = 0$. Given a positive integer $n$, find all functions $f : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ such that
\[\sum_{k=0}^{2^n-1} 2^{r(k)}f(k+(-1)^{k} x)=(-1)^{x+n}\text{ for all integer $x$.}\]
[i]Proposed by YaWNeeT[/i]
2023 BMT, 16
Sabine rolls a fair $14$-sided die numbered $1$ to $14$ and gets a value of $x$. She then draws $x$ cards uniformly at random (without replacement) from a deck of $14$ cards, each of which labeled a different integer from $1$ to $14$. She finally sums up the value of her die roll and the value on each card she drew to get a score of $S$. Let $A$ be the set of all obtainable scores. Compute the probability that $S$ is greater than or equal to the median of $A$.
2015 Taiwan TST Round 3, 3
We are given an infinite deck of cards, each with a real number on it. For every real number $x$, there is exactly one card in the deck that has $x$ written on it. Now two players draw disjoint sets $A$ and $B$ of $100$ cards each from this deck. We would like to define a rule that declares one of them a winner. This rule should satisfy the following conditions:
1. The winner only depends on the relative order of the $200$ cards: if the cards are laid down in increasing order face down and we are told which card belongs to which player, but not what numbers are written on them, we can still decide the winner.
2. If we write the elements of both sets in increasing order as $A =\{ a_1 , a_2 , \ldots, a_{100} \}$ and $B= \{ b_1 , b_2 , \ldots , b_{100} \}$, and $a_i > b_i$ for all $i$, then $A$ beats $B$.
3. If three players draw three disjoint sets $A, B, C$ from the deck, $A$ beats $B$ and $B$ beats $C$ then $A$ also beats $C$.
How many ways are there to define such a rule? Here, we consider two rules as different if there exist two sets $A$ and $B$ such that $A$ beats $B$ according to one rule, but $B$ beats $A$ according to the other.
[i]Proposed by Ilya Bogdanov, Russia[/i]