Found problems: 14842
2000 Mediterranean Mathematics Olympiad, 1
Let $F=\{1,2,...,100\}$ and let $G$ be any $10$-element subset of $F$. Prove that there exist two disjoint nonempty subsets $S$ and $T$ of $G$ with the same sum of elements.
1991 Czech And Slovak Olympiad IIIA, 2
A museum has the shape of a (not necessarily convex) 3$n$-gon.
Prove that $n$ custodians can be positioned so as to control all of the museum’s space.
2023 Tuymaada Olympiad, 1
The numbers $1, 2, 3, \ldots$ are arranged in a spiral in the vertices of an infinite square grid (see figure). Then in the centre of each square the sum of the numbers in its vertices is placed. Prove that for each positive integer n the centres of the squares contain infinitely many multiples of $n$.
2022 IMC, 8
Let $n, k \geq 3$ be integers, and let $S$ be a circle. Let $n$ blue points and $k$ red points be
chosen uniformly and independently at random on the circle $S$. Denote by $F$ the intersection of the
convex hull of the red points and the convex hull of the blue points. Let $m$ be the number of vertices
of the convex polygon $F$ (in particular, $m=0$ when $F$ is empty). Find the expected value of $m$.
1985 Tournament Of Towns, (091) T2
From the set of numbers $1 , 2, 3, . . . , 1985$ choose the largest subset such that the difference between any two numbers in the subset is not a prime number (the prime numbers are $2, 3 , 5 , 7,... , 1$ is not a prime number) .
2011 Chile National Olympiad, 3
Consider the following figure formed by $10$ nodes and $15$ edges:
[asy]
unitsize(1.5 cm);
pair A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J;
A = dir(90);
B = dir(90 + 360/5);
C = dir(90 + 2*360/5);
D = dir(90 + 3*360/5);
E = dir(90 + 4*360/5);
F = 0.6*A;
G = 0.6*B;
H = 0.6*C;
I = 0.6*D;
J = 0.6*E;
draw(A--B--C--D--E--cycle);
draw(F--H--J--G--I--cycle);
draw(A--F);
draw(B--G);
draw(C--H);
draw(D--I);
draw(E--J);
dot(A);
dot(B);
dot(C);
dot(D);
dot(E);
dot(F);
dot(G);
dot(H);
dot(I);
dot(J);
[/asy]
Prove that the edges of the figure cannot be colored by using $3$ different colors so that the edges that reach each node have different colors from each other.
2023 Czech-Polish-Slovak Junior Match, 2
The numbers $1, 2,..., 2023$ are written on the board in this order. We can repeatedly perform the following operation with them: We select any odd number of consecutively written numbers and write these numbers in reverse order. How many different orders of these $2023$ numbers can we get?
[i]Example[/i]: If we start with only the numbers $1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6$, we can perform the following steps
$$1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 \to 3, 2, 1,4, 5, 6 \to 3, 6, 5, 4, 1, 2 \to 3, 6, 1, 4, 5, 2 \to ...$$
2013 IMO, 6
Let $n \ge 3$ be an integer, and consider a circle with $n + 1$ equally spaced points marked on it. Consider all labellings of these points with the numbers $0, 1, ... , n$ such that each label is used exactly once; two such labellings are considered to be the same if one can be obtained from the other by a rotation of the circle. A labelling is called [i]beautiful[/i] if, for any four labels $a < b < c < d$ with $a + d = b + c$, the chord joining the points labelled $a$ and $d$ does not intersect the chord joining the points labelled $b$ and $c$.
Let $M$ be the number of beautiful labelings, and let N be the number of ordered pairs $(x, y)$ of positive integers such that $x + y \le n$ and $\gcd(x, y) = 1$. Prove that $$M = N + 1.$$
1999 BAMO, 4
Finitely many cards are placed in two stacks, with more cards in the left stack than the right. Each card has one or more distinct names written on it, although different cards may share some names. For each name, we define a “shuffle” by moving every card that has this name written on it to the opposite stack. Prove that it is always possible to end up with more cards in the right stack by picking several distinct names, and doing in turn the shuffle corresponding to each name.
2015 Middle European Mathematical Olympiad, 2
Let $n\ge 3$ be an integer. An [i]inner diagonal[/i] of a [i]simple $n$-gon[/i] is a diagonal that is contained in the $n$-gon. Denote by $D(P)$ the number of all inner diagonals of a simple $n$-gon $P$ and by $D(n)$ the least possible value of $D(Q)$, where $Q$ is a simple $n$-gon. Prove that no two inner diagonals of $P$ intersect (except possibly at a common endpoint) if and only if $D(P)=D(n)$.
[i]Remark:[/i] A simple $n$-gon is a non-self-intersecting polygon with $n$ vertices. A polygon is not necessarily convex.
2017 Indonesia MO, 2
Five people are gathered in a meeting. Some pairs of people shakes hands. An ordered triple of people $(A,B,C)$ is a [i]trio[/i] if one of the following is true:
[list]
[*]A shakes hands with B, and B shakes hands with C, or
[*]A doesn't shake hands with B, and B doesn't shake hands with C.
[/list]
If we consider $(A,B,C)$ and $(C,B,A)$ as the same trio, find the minimum possible number of trios.
2007 Tournament Of Towns, 3
Michael is at the centre of a circle of radius $100$ metres. Each minute, he will announce the direction in which he will be moving. Catherine can leave it as is, or change it to the opposite direction. Then Michael moves exactly $1$ metre in the direction determined by Catherine. Does Michael have a strategy which guarantees that he can get out of the circle, even though Catherine will try to stop him?
2024 VJIMC, 3
Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a simple undirected graph on $n$ vertices. Let $d_i$ be the
degree of its $i$-th vertex, $i = 1, \dots , n$. Denote $\Delta=\max d_i$. Prove that if
\[\sum_{i=1}^n d_i^2>n\Delta(n-\Delta),\]
then $G$ contains a triangle.
2012 Baltic Way, 10
Two players $A$ and $B$ play the following game. Before the game starts, $A$ chooses 1000 not necessarily different odd primes, and then $B$ chooses half of them and writes them on a blackboard. In each turn a player chooses a positive integer $n$, erases some primes $p_1$, $p_2$, $\dots$, $p_n$ from the blackboard and writes all the prime factors of $p_1 p_2 \dotsm p_n - 2$ instead (if a prime occurs several times in the prime factorization of $p_1 p_2 \dotsm p_n - 2$, it is written as many times as it occurs). Player $A$ starts, and the player whose move leaves the blackboard empty loses the game. Prove that one of the two players has a winning strategy and determine who.
Remark: Since 1 has no prime factors, erasing a single 3 is a legal move.
2021 Winter Stars of Mathematics, 4
Prove that, if every three consecutive vertices of a convex $n{}$-gon, $n\geqslant 4$, span a triangle of area at least 1, then the area of the $n{}$-gon is (strictly) greater than $(n\log_2 n)/4-1/2.$
[i]Radu Bumbăcea & Călin Popescu[/i]
2022 Indonesia TST, C
Let $A$ be a subset of $\{1,2,\ldots,2020\}$ such that the difference of any two distinct elements in $A$ is not prime. Determine the maximum number of elements in set $A$.
1991 IMO Shortlist, 30
Two students $ A$ and $ B$ are playing the following game: Each of them writes down on a sheet of paper a positive integer and gives the sheet to the referee. The referee writes down on a blackboard two integers, one of which is the sum of the integers written by the players. After that, the referee asks student $ A:$ “Can you tell the integer written by the other student?” If A answers “no,” the referee puts the same question to student $ B.$ If $ B$ answers “no,” the referee puts the question back to $ A,$ and so on. Assume that both students are intelligent and truthful. Prove that after a finite number of questions, one of the students will answer “yes.”
1974 IMO Shortlist, 12
In a certain language words are formed using an alphabet of three letters. Some words of two or more letters are not allowed, and any two such distinct words are of different lengths. Prove that one can form a word of arbitrary length that does not contain any non-allowed word.
1995 Miklós Schweitzer, 5
Let A be a subset of the set $\{1,2, ...,n\}$ with at least $100\sqrt n$ elements. Prove that there is a four-element arithmetic sequence in which each element is the sum of two different elements of the set A.
2015 NZMOC Camp Selection Problems, 9
Consolidated Megacorp is planning to send a salesperson to Elbonia who needs to visit every town there. It is possible to travel between any two towns of Elbonia directly either by barge or by mule cart (the same type of travel is available in either direction, and these are the only types of travel available). Show that it is possible to choose a starting town so that the salesperson can complete a round trip visiting each town exactly once and returning to her starting point, while changing the type of transportation used at most one time (this is desirable, since it’s hard to arrange for the merchandise to be transferred from barge to cart or vice versa).
2021 Regional Competition For Advanced Students, 3
The numbers $1, 2, ..., 2020$ and $2021$ are written on a blackboard. The following operation is executed:
Two numbers are chosen, both are erased and replaced by the absolute value of their difference.
This operation is repeated until there is only one number left on the blackboard.
(a) Show that $2021$ can be the final number on the blackboard.
(b) Show that $2020$ cannot be the final number on the blackboard.
(Karl Czakler)
2020 Turkey Team Selection Test, 5
There is at least one friend pair in a class of students with different names. Students in an ordered list of some of the students write the names of all their friends who are not currently written on the blackboard, in order. If each student on the list wrote at least one name on the board and the name of each student with at least one friend on the blackboard at the end of the process, call this list a $golden$ $ list$. Prove that there exists a $golden$ $ list$ such that number of students in this list is even.
2010 Regional Olympiad of Mexico Northeast, 4
In a group of people, every two of them have exactly one mutual friend in the group. Prove that there is one person who is friends with all the other people in the group.
Note: the friendship is mutual, that is, if $X$ is friends with $Y$, then $Y$ is friends with $X$.
2008 Croatia Team Selection Test, 4
Let $ S$ be the set of all odd positive integers less than $ 30m$ which are not multiples of $ 5$, where $ m$ is a given positive integer. Find the smallest positive integer $ k$ such that each $ k$-element subset of $ S$ contains two distinct numbers, one of which divides the other.
2015 ITAMO, 6
Ada and Charles play the following game:at the beginning, an integer n>1 is written on the blackboard.In turn, Ada and Charles remove the number k that they find on the blackboard.In turn Ad and Charles remove the number k that they find on the blackboard and they replace it :
1 -either with a positive divisor k different from 1 and k
2- or with k+1
At the beginning each players have a thousand points each.When a player choses move 1, he/she gains one point;when a player choses move 2, he/she loses one point.The game ends when one of the tho players is left with zero points and this player loses the game.Ada moves first.For what values Chares has a winning strategy?