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1973 Chisinau City MO, 63

Each point in space is colored in one of four different colors. Prove that there is a segment $1$ cm long with endpoints of the same color.

1986 Austrian-Polish Competition, 3

Each point in space is colored either blue or red. Show that there exists a unit square having exactly $0, 1$ or $4$ blue vertices.

2019 Saudi Arabia Pre-TST + Training Tests, 1.1

In a school there are $40$ different clubs, each of them contains exactly $30$ children. For every $i$ from $1$ to $30$ define $n_i$ as a number of children who attend exactly $i$ clubs. Prove that it is possible to organize $40$ new clubs with $30$ children in each of them such, that the analogical numbers $n_1, n_2,..., n_{30}$ will be the same for them.

2024 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 9.9

An equilateral triangle $T$ with side $111$ is partitioned into small equilateral triangles with side $1$ using lines parallel to the sides of $T$. Every obtained point except the center of $T$ is marked. A set of marked points is called $\textit{linear}$ if the points lie on a line, parallel to a side of $T$ (among the drawn ones). In how many ways we can split the marked point into $111$ $\textit{linear}$ sets?

2010 Iran MO (3rd Round), 2

suppose that $\mathcal F\subseteq \bigcup_{j=k+1}^{n}X^{(j)}$ and $|X|=n$. we know that $\mathcal F$ is a sperner family and it's also $H_k$. prove that: $\sum_{B\in \mathcal F}\frac{1}{\dbinom{n-1}{|B|-1}}\le 1$ (15 points)

Novosibirsk Oral Geo Oly VII, 2022.7

Vera has several identical matches, from which she makes a triangle. Vera wants any two sides of this triangle to differ in length by at least $10$ matches, but it turned out that it is impossible to add such a triangle from the available matches (it is impossible to leave extra matches). What is the maximum number of matches Vera can have?

2019 Iran MO (3rd Round), 1

Hossna is playing with a $m*n$ grid of points.In each turn she draws segments between points with the following conditions. **1.** No two segments intersect. **2.** Each segment is drawn between two consecutive rows. **3.** There is at most one segment between any two points. Find the maximum number of regions Hossna can create.

2008 Tournament Of Towns, 3

Alice and Brian are playing a game on a $1\times (N + 2)$ board. To start the game, Alice places a checker on any of the $N$ interior squares. In each move, Brian chooses a positive integer $n$. Alice must move the checker to the $n$-th square on the left or the right of its current position. If the checker moves off the board, Alice wins. If it lands on either of the end squares, Brian wins. If it lands on another interior square, the game proceeds to the next move. For which values of $N$ does Brian have a strategy which allows him to win the game in a finite number of moves?

2024 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Qualification, 5

Let $ S$ be the set of $25$ points $(x, y)$ with $0\le x, y \le 4$. A triangle whose three vertices are in $S$ is chosen at random. What is the expected value of the square of its area?

2015 May Olympiad, 5

Twenty-six people gather in a house. Alicia is friends with only one person, Bruno is friends with two people, Carlos is a friend of three, Daniel is four, Elías is five, and so following each person is friend of a person more than the previous person, until reaching Yvonne, the person number twenty-five, who is a friend to everyone. How many people is Zoila a friend of, person number twenty-six? Clarification: If $A$ is a friend of $B$ then $B$ is a friend of $A$.

2012 Serbia National Math Olympiad, 3

A fly and $k$ spiders are placed in some vertices of $2012 \times 2012$ lattice. One move consists of following: firstly, fly goes to some adjacent vertex or stays where it is and then every spider goes to some adjacent vertex or stays where it is (more than one spider can be in the same vertex). Spiders and fly knows where are the others all the time. a) Find the smallest $k$ so that spiders can catch the fly in finite number of moves, regardless of their initial position. b) Answer the same question for three-dimensional lattice $2012\times 2012\times 2012$. (Vertices in lattice are adjacent if exactly one coordinate of one vertex is different from the same coordinate of the other vertex, and their difference is equal to $1$. Spider catches a fly if they are in the same vertex.)

2022 MMATHS, 2

How many ways are there to fill in a three by three grid of cells with $0$’s and $2$’s, one number in each cell, such that each two by two contiguous subgrid contains exactly three $2$’s and one $0$?

2020 Peru Cono Sur TST., P8

Let $n \ge 2$. Ana and Beto play the following game: Ana chooses $2n$ non-negative real numbers $x_1, x_2,\ldots , x_{2n}$ (not necessarily different) whose total sum is $1$, and shows them to Beto. Then Beto arranges these numbers in a circle in the way she sees fit, calculates the product of each pair of adjacent numbers, and writes the maximum value of these products. Ana wants to maximize the number written by Beto, while Beto wants to minimize it. What number will be written if both play optimally?

2018 Belarusian National Olympiad, 10.4

Some cells of a checkered plane are marked so that figure $A$ formed by marked cells satisfies the following condition:$1)$ any cell of the figure $A$ has exactly two adjacent cells of $A$; and $2)$ the figure $A$ can be divided into isosceles trapezoids of area $2$ with vertices at the grid nodes (and acute angles of trapezoids are equal to $45$) . Prove that the number of marked cells is divisible by $8$.

2010 Irish Math Olympiad, 4

The country of Harpland has three types of coins: green, white and orange. The unit of currency in Harpland is the shilling. Any coin is worth a positive integer number of shillings, but coins of the same color may be worth different amounts. A set of coins is stacked in the form of an equilateral triangle of side $n$ coins, as shown below for the case of $n=6$. [asy] size(100); for (int j=0; j<6; ++j) { for (int i=0; i<6-j; ++i) { draw(Circle((i+j/2,0.866j),0.5)); } } [/asy] The stacking has the following properties: (a) no coin touches another coin of the same color; (b) the total worth, in shillings, of the coins lying on any line parallel to one of the sides of the triangle is divisible by by three. Prove that the total worth in shillings of the [i]green[/i] coins in the triangle is divisible by three.

2019 Argentina National Olympiad Level 2, 2

A $7 \times 7$ grid is given. Julián colors $29$ cells black. Pilar must then place an $L$-shaped piece, covering exactly three cells (oriented in any direction, as shown in the figure). Pilar wins if all three cells covered by the $L$-shaped piece are black. Can Julián color the grid in such a way that it is impossible for Pilar to win? [asy] size(1.5cm); draw((0,1)--(1,1)--(1,2)--(0,2)--(0,1)--(0,0)--(1,0)--(2,0)--(2,1)--(1,1)--(1,0)); [/asy]

2017 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 9

There are $80$ peoples, one of them is murderer, and other one is witness of crime. Every day detective interrogates some peoples from this group. Witness will says about crime only if murderer will not be in interrogatory with him. It is enough $12$ days to find murderer ?

2018 HMIC, 4

Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R}^+\to\mathbb{R}^+$ such that \[f(x+f(y+xy))=(y+1)f(x+1)-1\]for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}^+$. ($\mathbb{R}^+$ denotes the set of positive real numbers.)

2012 Pan African, 1

The numbers $\frac{1}{1}, \frac{1}{2}, \cdots , \frac{1}{2012}$ are written on the blackboard. Aïcha chooses any two numbers from the blackboard, say $x$ and $y$, erases them and she writes instead the number $x + y + xy$. She continues to do this until only one number is left on the board. What are the possible values of the final number?

2004 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 10

A [i]lattice point[/i] is a point whose coordinates are both integers. Suppose Johann walks in a line from the point $(0, 2004)$ to a random lattice point in the interior (not on the boundary) of the square with vertices $(0, 0)$, $(0, 99)$, $(99,99)$, $(99, 0)$. What is the probability that his path, including the endpoints, contains an even number of lattice points?

2003 Kurschak Competition, 2

Prove that if a graph $\mathcal{G}$ on $n\ge 3$ vertices has a unique $3$-coloring, then $\mathcal{G}$ has at least $2n-3$ edges. (A graph is $3$-colorable when there exists a coloring of its vertices with $3$ colors such that no two vertices of the same color are connected by an edge. The graph can be $3$-colored uniquely if there do not exist vertices $u$ and $v$ of the graph that are painted different colors in one $3$-coloring, yet are colored the same in another.)

2008 All-Russian Olympiad, 6

A magician should determine the area of a hidden convex $ 2008$-gon $ A_{1}A_{2}\cdots A_{2008}$. In each step he chooses two points on the perimeter, whereas the chosen points can be vertices or points dividing selected sides in selected ratios. Then his helper divides the polygon into two parts by the line through these two points and announces the area of the smaller of the two parts. Show that the magician can find the area of the polygon in $ 2006$ steps.

2002 Portugal MO, 6

On March $6$, $2002$, the celebrations of the $500$th anniversary of the birth of by mathematician Pedro Nunes. That morning, only ten people entered the Viva bookstore for science. Each of these people bought exactly $3$ different books. Furthermore, any two people bought at least one copy of the same book. The Adventures of Mathematics by Pedro Nunes was one of the books that achieved the highest number of sales in this morning. What is the smallest value this number could have taken?

1992 Taiwan National Olympiad, 2

Every positive integer can be represented as a sum of one or more consecutive positive integers. For each $n$ , find the number of such represententation of $n$.

2011 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 6

Some regular polygons are inscribed in a circle. Fedir turned some of them, so all polygons have a common vertice. Prove that the number of vertices did not increase.