Found problems: 85335
2006 QEDMO 3rd, 1
Peter is a pentacrat and spends his time drawing pentagrams.
With the abbreviation $\left|XYZ\right|$ for the area of an arbitrary triangle $XYZ$, he notes that any convex pentagon $ABCDE$ satisfies the equality
$\left|EAC\right|\cdot\left|EBD\right|=\left|EAB\right|\cdot\left|ECD\right|+\left|EBC\right|\cdot\left|EDA\right|$.
Guess what you are supposed to do and do it.
2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 4
Determine all real values of $A$ for which there exist distinct complex numbers $x_1$, $x_2$ such that the following three equations hold:
\begin{align*}x_1(x_1+1)&=A\\x_2(x_2+1)&=A\\x_1^4+3x_1^3+5x_1&=x_2^4+3x_2^3+5x_2.\end{align*}
LMT Guts Rounds, 2021 F
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] The temperature inside is $28^o$ F. After the temperature is increased by $5^o$ C, what will the new temperature in Fahrenheit be?
[b]p2.[/b] Find the least positive integer value of $n$ such that $\sqrt{2021+n}$ is a perfect square.
[b]p3.[/b] A heart consists of a square with two semicircles attached by their diameters as shown in the diagram. Given that one of the semicircles has a diameter of length $10$, then the area of the heart can be written as $a +b\pi$ where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. Find $a +b$.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/7/b/d277d9ebad76f288504f0d5273e19df568bc44.png[/img]
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4.[/b] An $L$-shaped tromino is a group of $3$ blocks (where blocks are squares) arranged in a $L$ shape, as pictured below to the left. How many ways are there to fill a $12$ by $2$ rectangle of blocks (pictured below to the right) with $L$-shaped trominos if the trominos can be rotated or reflected?
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/d/c/cf37cdf9703ae0cd31c38af23b6874fddb3c12.png[/img]
[b]p5.[/b] How many permutations of the word $PIKACHU$ are there such that no two vowels are next to each other?
[b]p6.[/b] Find the number of primes $n$ such that there exists another prime $p$ such that both $n +p$ and $n-p$ are also prime numbers.
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] Maisy the Bear is at the origin of the Cartesian Plane. WhenMaisy is on the point $(m,n)$ then it can jump to either $(m,n +1)$ or $(m+1,n)$. Let $L(x, y)$ be the number of jumps it takes forMaisy to reach point (x, y). The sum of $L(x, y)$ over all lattice points $(x, y)$ with both coordinates between $0$ and $2020$, inclusive, is denoted as $S$. Find $\frac{S}{2020}$ .
[b]p8.[/b] A circle with center $O$ and radius $2$ and a circle with center $P$ and radius $3$ are externally tangent at $A$. Points $B$ and $C$ are on the circle with center $O$ such that $\vartriangle ABC$ is equilateral. Segment $AB$ extends past $B$ to point $D$ and $AC$ extends past $C$ to point $E$ such that $BD = CE = \sqrt3$. The area of $\vartriangle DEP$ can be written as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are integers such that $b$ is squarefree and $gcd (a,c) = 1$. Find $a +b +c$.
[b]p9.[/b] Find the number of trailing zeroes at the end of $$\prod^{2021}_{i=1}(2021+i -1) = (2021)(2022)...(4041).$$
[u]Round 4[/u]
[b]p10.[/b] Let $a, b$, and $c$ be side lengths of a rectangular prism with space diagonal $10$. Find the value of $$(a +b)^2 +(b +c)^2 +(c +a)^2 -(a +b +c)^2.$$
[b]p11.[/b] In a regular heptagon $ABCDEFG$, $\ell$ is a line through $E$ perpendicular to $DE$. There is a point $P$ on $\ell$ outside the heptagon such that $PA = BC$. Find the measure of $\angle EPA$.
[b]p12.[/b] Dunan is being "$SUS$". The word "$SUS$" is a palindrome. Find the number of palindromes that can be written using some subset of the letters $\{S, U, S, S, Y, B, A, K, A\}$.
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1975 AMC 12/AHSME, 9
Let $ a_1, a_2, ...$ and $ b_1, b_2, ...$ be arithmetic progressions such that $ a_1 \equal{} 25$, $ b_1 \equal{} 75$, and $ a_{100} \plus{} b_{100} \equal{} 100$. Find the sum of the first hundred terms of the progression $ a_1 \plus{} b_1, a_2 \plus{} b_2, ...$
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 0 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 100 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 10,000 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 505,000 \qquad$
$ \textbf{(E)}\ \text{not enough information given to solve the problem}$
1984 Iran MO (2nd round), 8
Define the operation $\bigoplus$ on the set of real numbers such that
\[x \bigoplus y = x+y-xy \qquad \forall x,y \in \mathbb R.\]
Prove that this operation is associative.
2021 Saudi Arabia Training Tests, 15
Let $ABC$ be convex quadrilateral and $X$ lying inside it such that $XA \cdot XC^2 = XB \cdot XD^2$ and $\angle AXD + \angle BXC = \angle CXD$. Prove that $\angle XAD + \angle XCD = \angle XBC + \angle XDC$.
1954 AMC 12/AHSME, 30
$ A$ and $ B$ together can do a job in $ 2$ days; $ B$ and $ C$ can do it in four days; and $ A$ and $ C$ in $ 2\frac{2}{5}$ days. The number of days required for $ A$ to do the job alone is:
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 3 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 6 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 12 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 2.8$
2012 Argentina Cono Sur TST, 6
A large number of rocks are placed on a table. On each turn, one may remove some rocks from the table following these rules: on the first turn, only one rock may be removed, and on every subsequent turn, one may remove either twice as many rocks or the same number of rocks as they have discarded on the previous turn. Determine the minimum number of turns required to remove exactly $2012$ rocks from the table.
2021 CMIMC, 1.7
As a gift, Dilhan was given the number $n=1^1\cdot2^2\cdots2021^{2021}$, and each day, he has been dividing $n$ by $2021!$ exactly once. One day, when he did this, he discovered that, for the first time, $n$ was no longer an integer, but instead a reduced fraction of the form $\frac{a}b$. What is the sum of all distinct prime factors of $b$?
[i]Proposed by Adam Bertelli[/i]
2014 Contests, 3
There are $ n$ students; each student knows exactly $d $ girl students and $d $ boy students ("knowing" is a symmetric relation). Find all pairs $ (n,d) $ of integers .
2024 ELMO Shortlist, N9
Let $P(x)$ be a polynomial with integer coefficients that has at least one rational root. Let $n$ be a positive integer.
Alan and Allan are playing a game. First, Alan writes down $n$ integers at $n$ different locations on a board. Then Allan may make moves of the following kind: choose a position that has integer $a$ written, then choose a different position that has integer $b$ written, then at the first position erase $a$ and in its place write $a+P(b)$. After any nonnegative number of moves, Allan may choose to end the game. Once Allan ends the game, his score is the number of times the mode (most common element) of the integers on the board appears.
Find, in terms of $P(x)$ and $n$, the maximum score Allan can guarantee.
[i]Henrick Rabinovitz[/i]
2019 Miklós Schweitzer, 4
An $n \times m$ matrix is nice if it contains every integer from $1$ to $mn$ exactly once and $1$ is the only entry which is the smallest both in its row and in its column. Prove that the number of $n \times m$ nice matrices is $(nm)!n!m!/(n+m-1)!$.
2022 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 17
Let a point $P$ lie inside a triangle $ABC$. The rays starting at $P$ and crossing the sides $BC$, $AC$, $AB$ under the right angle meet the circumcircle of $ABC$ at $A_{1}$, $B_{1}$, $C_{1}$ respectively. It is known that lines $AA_{1}$, $BB_{1}$, $CC_{1}$ concur at point $Q$. Prove that all such lines $PQ$ concur.
1992 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 563
$A$ and $B$ lie on a circle. $P$ lies on the minor arc $AB$. $Q$ and $R$ (distinct from $P$) also lie on the circle, so that $P$ and $Q$ are equidistant from $A$, and $P$ and $R$ are equidistant from $B$. Show that the intersection of $AR$ and $BQ$ is the reflection of $P$ in $AB$.
2016 Iranian Geometry Olympiad, 4
In a convex quadrilateral $ABCD$, the lines $AB$ and $CD$ meet at point $E$ and the lines $AD$ and $BC$ meet at point $F$. Let $P$ be the intersection point of diagonals $AC$ and $BD$. Suppose that $\omega_1$ is a circle passing through $D$ and tangent to $AC$ at $P$. Also suppose that $\omega_2$ is a circle passing through $C$ and tangent to $BD$ at $P$. Let $X$ be the intersection point of $\omega_1$ and $AD$, and $Y$ be the intersection point of $\omega_2$ and $BC$. Suppose that the circles $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ intersect each other in $Q$ for the second time. Prove that the perpendicular from $P$ to the line $EF$ passes through the circumcenter of triangle $XQY$ .
Proposed by Iman Maghsoudi
1997 National High School Mathematics League, 3
In a $100\times25$ rectangle table, fill in a positive real number in each blank. Let the number in the $i$th line, the $j$th column be $x_{i,j}(i=1,2,\cdots,100,j=1,2,\cdots,25)$ (shown in Fig.1 ). Then, we rearrange the numbers in each column: $x'_{1,j}\geq x'_{2,j}\geq\cdots\geq x'_{100,j}(j=1,2,\cdots,25)$ (shown in Fig.2 ). Find the minumum value of $k$, satisfying:
As long as $\sum_{j=1}^{25}x_{i,j}\leq1$ for numbers in Fig.1 ($i=1,2,\cdots,100$), then $\sum_{j=1}^{25}x'_{i,j}\leq1$ for $i\geq k$ in Fig.2.
$$\textbf{Fig.1}\\
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
$x_{1,1}$&$x_{1,2}$&$\cdots$&$x_{1,25}$\\
\hline
$x_{2,1}$&$x_{2,2}$&$\cdots$&$x_{2,25}$\\
\hline
$\cdots$&$\cdots$&$\cdots$&$\cdots$\\
\hline
$x_{100,1}$&$x_{100,2}$&$\cdots$&$x_{100,25}$\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\qquad\textbf{Fig.2}\\
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
$x'_{1,1}$&$x'_{1,2}$&$\cdots$&$x'_{1,25}$\\
\hline
$x'_{2,1}$&$x'_{2,2}$&$\cdots$&$x'_{2,25}$\\
\hline
$\cdots$&$\cdots$&$\cdots$&$\cdots$\\
\hline
$x'_{100,1}$&$x'_{100,2}$&$\cdots$&$x'_{100,25}$\\
\hline
\end{tabular}$$
1957 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 353
Solve the equation $x^3 - [x] = 3$.
1984 Dutch Mathematical Olympiad, 2
The circuit diagram drawn (see figure ) contains a battery $B$, a lamp $L$ and five switches $S_1$ to $S_5$. The probability that switch $S_3$ is closed (makes contact) is $\frac23$, for the other four switches that probability is $\frac12$ (the probabilities are mutually independent). Calculate the probability that the light is on.
[asy]
unitsize (2 cm);
draw((-1,1)--(-0.5,1));
draw((-0.25,1)--(1,1)--(1,0.25));
draw((1,-0.25)--(1,-1)--(0.05,-1));
draw((-0.05,-1)--(-1,-1)--(-1,0.25));
draw((-1,0.5)--(-1,1));
draw((-1,1)--(-0.5,0.5));
draw((-0.25,0.25)--(0,0));
draw((-1,0)--(-0.75,0));
draw((-0.5,0)--(0,0));
draw((0,1)--(0,0.75));
draw((0,0.5)--(0,0));
draw((-0.25,1)--(-0.5,1.25));
draw((-1,0.25)--(-1.25,0.5));
draw((-0.5,0.5)--(-0.25,0.5));
draw((0,0.75)--(0.25,0.5));
draw((-0.75,0)--(-0.5,-0.25));
draw(Circle((1,0),0.25));
draw(((1,0) + 0.25*dir(45))--((1,0) + 0.25*dir(225)));
draw(((1,0) + 0.25*dir(135))--((1,0) + 0.25*dir(315)));
draw((0.05,-0.9)--(0.05,-1.1));
draw((-0.05,-0.8)--(-0.05,-1.2));
label("$L$", (1.25,0), E);
label("$B$", (-0.1,-1.1), SW);
label("$S_1$", (-0.5,1.25), NE);
label("$S_2$", (-1.25,0.5), SW);
label("$S_3$", (-0.5,0.5), SW);
label("$S_4$", (0.25,0.5), NE);
label("$S_5$", (-0.5,-0.25), SW);
[/asy]
2024 Romania National Olympiad, 2
We consider the inscriptible pentagon $ABCDE$ in which $AB=BC=CD$ and the centroid of the pentagon coincides with the circumcenter. Prove that the pentagon $ABCDE$ is regular.
[i]The centroid of a pentagon is the point in the plane of the pentagon whose position vector is equal to the average of the position vectors of the vertices.[/i]
1959 AMC 12/AHSME, 25
The symbol $|a|$ means $+a$ if $a$ is greater than or equal to zero, and $-a$ if $a$ is less than or equal to zero; the symbol $<$ means "less than"; the symbol $>$ means "greater than."
The set of values $x$ satisfying the inequality $|3-x|<4$ consists of all $x$ such that:
$ \textbf{(A)}\ x^2<49 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ x^2>1 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 1<x^2<49\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ -1<x<7\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ -7<x<1 $
2016 Latvia Baltic Way TST, 9
The numbers from$ 1$ to $2016$ are divided into three (disjoint) subsets $A, B$ and $C$, each one contains exactly $672$ numbers. Prove that you can find three numbers, each from a different subset, such that the sum of two of them is equal to the third.
[hide=original wording]Skaitļi no 1 līdz 2016 ir sadalīti trīs (nešķeļošās) apakškopās A, B un C, katranotām satur tieši 672 skaitļus. Pierādīt, ka var atrast trīs tādus skaitļus, katru no citas apakškopas, ka divu no tiem summa ir vienāda ar trešo.
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2000 Moldova Team Selection Test, 1
Find all integers that can be written in the form $\frac{(x+y+z)^2}{xyz}$, where $x,y,z$ are positive integers.
MathLinks Contest 3rd, 1
Find all functions $f : (0, +\infty) \to (0, +\infty)$ which are increasing on $[1, +\infty)$ and for all positive reals $a, b, c$ they fulfill the following relation $f(ab)f(bc)f(ca)=f(a^2b^2c^2)+f(a^2)+f(b^2)+f(c^2)$.
2014 Purple Comet Problems, 6
The twenty-first century began on January $1$, $2001$ and runs through December $31$, $2100$. Note that March $1$, $2014$ fell on Saturday, so there were five Mondays in March $2014$. In how many years of the twenty-first century does March have five Mondays?
2022 Saudi Arabia IMO TST, 3
Show that $n!=a^{n-1}+b^{n-1}+c^{n-1}$ has only finitely many solutions in positive integers.
[i]Proposed by Dorlir Ahmeti, Albania[/i]