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2025 Iran MO (2nd Round), 6
Ali is hosting a large party. Together with his $n-1$ friends, $n$ people are seated around a circular table in a fixed order. Ali places $n$ apples for serving directly in front of himself and wants to distribute them among everyone. Since Ali and his friends dislike eating alone and won't start unless everyone receives an apple at the same time, in each step, each person who has at least one apple passes one apple to the first person to their right who doesn't have an apple (in the clockwise direction).
Find all values of $n$ such that after some number of steps, the situation reaches a point where each person has exactly one apple.
Russian TST 2017, P3
Find the largest real constant $a$ such that for all $n \geq 1$ and for all real numbers $x_0, x_1, ... , x_n$ satisfying $0 = x_0 < x_1 < x_2 < \cdots < x_n$ we have
\[\frac{1}{x_1-x_0} + \frac{1}{x_2-x_1} + \dots + \frac{1}{x_n-x_{n-1}} \geq a \left( \frac{2}{x_1} + \frac{3}{x_2} + \dots + \frac{n+1}{x_n} \right)\]
2024 ELMO Shortlist, N3
Given a positive integer $k$, find all polynomials $P$ of degree $k$ with integer coefficients such that for all positive integers $n$ where all of $P(n)$, $P(2024n)$, $P(2024^2n)$ are nonzero, we have
$$\frac{\gcd(P(2024n), P(2024^2n))}{\gcd(P(n), P(2024n))}=2024^k.$$
[i]Allen Wang[/i]
1997 German National Olympiad, 4
Find all real solutions $(x,y,z)$ of the system of equations
$$\begin{cases} x^3 = 2y-1 \\y^3 = 2z-1\\ z^3 = 2x-1\end{cases}$$
2007 China Second Round Olympiad, 1
In an acute triangle $ABC$, $AB<AC$. $AD$ is the altitude dropped onto $BC$ and $P$ is a point on $AD$. Let $PE\perp AC$ at $E$, $PF\perp AB$ at $F$ and let $J,K$ be the circumcentres of triangles $BDF, CDE$ respectively. Prove that $J,K,E,F$ are concyclic if and only if $P$ is the orthocentre of triangle $ABC$.
1994 Baltic Way, 3
Find the largest value of the expression
\[xy+x\sqrt{1-x^2}+y\sqrt{1-y^2}-\sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}\]
2011 Saudi Arabia Pre-TST, 4.3
Let $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$ be positive real numbers for which $$\frac{1}{1+x_1}+\frac{1}{1+x_2}+...+\frac{1}{1+x_n}=1$$
Prove that $x_1x_2...x_n \ge (n -1)^n$.
2007 Nicolae Coculescu, 1
Let $w\in \mathbb{C}\setminus \mathbb{R}$, $|w|\neq 1$. Prove that $f\colon \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$, given by $f(z)= z+w\overline{z}$, is a bijection, and find its inverse.
2022 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 4
Vasya has a calculator that works with pairs of numbers. The calculator knows hoe to make a pair $(x+y,x)$ or a pair $(2x+y+1,x+y+1)$ from a pair $(x,y).$ At the beginning, the pair $(1,1)$ is presented on the calculator. Prove that for any natural $n$ there is exactly one pair $(n,k)$ that can be obtained using a calculator.
2010 Princeton University Math Competition, 3
Find the sum of the first 5 positive integers $n$ such that $n^2 - 1$ is the product of 3 distinct primes.
2022 CCA Math Bonanza, I8
Lason Jiu gives a problem to Sick Nong and Ayush Agrawal. Sick takes 6 minutes to solve the problem, while Ayush takes 9 minutes. Sick has a 1/3 chance of solving correctly and Ayush has a 2/3 chance of solving correctly. If they solved it incorrectly, they resume solving with the same time and accuracy. Lason gives a rubber chicken to the first person who solves it correctly. If Sick and Ayush solve the question at the same time, Lason checks Sick's work first. The probability that Ayush wins the rubber chicken can be expressed as $\frac{p}{q}$. Find $p+q$.
[i]2022 CCA Math Bonanza Individual Round #8[/i]
2014-2015 SDML (High School), 14
What is the greatest integer $n$ such that $$n\leq1+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2014}}?$$
$\text{(A) }31\qquad\text{(B) }59\qquad\text{(C) }74\qquad\text{(D) }88\qquad\text{(E) }112$
1988 Polish MO Finals, 1
The real numbers $x_1, x_2, ... , x_n$ belong to the interval $(0,1)$ and satisfy $x_1 + x_2 + ... + x_n = m + r$, where $m$ is an integer and $r \in [0,1)$. Show that $x_1 ^2 + x_2 ^2 + ... + x_n ^2 \leq m + r^2$.
Ukrainian From Tasks to Tasks - geometry, 2010.9
On the sides $AB, BC, CD$ and $DA$ of the parallelogram $ABCD$ marked the points $M, N, K$ and $F$. respectively. Is it possible to determine, using only compass, whether the area of the quadrilateral $MNKF$ is equal to half the area of the parallelogram $ABCD$?
2001 Croatia National Olympiad, Problem 3
Let there be given triples of integers $(r_j,s_j,t_j),~j=1,2,\ldots,N$, such that for each $j$, $r_j,t_j,s_j$ are not all even. Show that one can find integers $a,b,c$ such that $ar_j+bs_j+ct_j$ is odd for at least $\frac{4N}7$ of the indices $j$.
2015 India National Olympiad, 2
For any natural number $n > 1$ write the finite decimal expansion of $\frac{1}{n}$ (for example we write $\frac{1}{2}=0.4\overline{9}$ as its infinite decimal expansion not $0.5)$. Determine the length of non-periodic part of the (infinite) decimal expansion of $\frac{1}{n}$.
2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 5
Thaddeus is given a $2013 \times 2013$ array of integers each between $1$ and $2013$, inclusive. He is allowed two operations:
1. Choose a row, and subtract $1$ from each entry.
2. Chooses a column, and add $1$ to each entry.
He would like to get an array where all integers are divisible by $2013$. On how many arrays is this possible?
2015 AIME Problems, 9
Let $S$ be the set of all ordered triples of integers $(a_1,a_2,a_3)$ with $1 \le a_1,a_2,a_3 \le 10$. Each ordered triple in $S$ generates a sequence according to the rule $a_n=a_{n-1}\cdot | a_{n-2}-a_{n-3} |$ for all $n\ge 4$. Find the number of such sequences for which $a_n=0$ for some $n$.
2017 South East Mathematical Olympiad, 2
Let $x_i \in \{0,1\}(i=1,2,\cdots ,n)$,if the value of function $f=f(x_1,x_2, \cdots ,x_n)$ can only be $0$ or $1$,then we call $f$ a $n$-var Boole function,and we denote $D_n(f)=\{(x_1,x_2, \cdots ,x_n)|f(x_1,x_2, \cdots ,x_n)=0\}.$
$(1)$ Find the number of $n$-var Boole function;
$(2)$ Let $g$ be a $n$-var Boole function such that $g(x_1,x_2, \cdots ,x_n) \equiv 1+x_1+x_1x_2+x_1x_2x_3 +\cdots +x_1x_2 \cdots x_n \pmod 2$,
Find the number of elements of the set $D_n(g)$,and find the maximum of $n \in \mathbb{N}_+$ such that
$\sum_{(x_1,x_2, \cdots ,x_n) \in D_n(g)}(x_1+x_2+ \cdots +x_n) \le 2017.$
1983 Brazil National Olympiad, 5
Show that $1 \le n^{1/n} \le 2$ for all positive integers $n$.
Find the smallest $k$ such that $1 \le n ^{1/n} \le k$ for all positive integers $n$.
2008 USA Team Selection Test, 7
Let $ ABC$ be a triangle with $ G$ as its centroid. Let $ P$ be a variable point on segment $ BC$. Points $ Q$ and $ R$ lie on sides $ AC$ and $ AB$ respectively, such that $ PQ \parallel AB$ and $ PR \parallel AC$. Prove that, as $ P$ varies along segment $ BC$, the circumcircle of triangle $ AQR$ passes through a fixed point $ X$ such that $ \angle BAG = \angle CAX$.
2007 France Team Selection Test, 1
For a positive integer $a$, $a'$ is the integer obtained by the following method: the decimal writing of $a'$ is the inverse of the decimal writing of $a$ (the decimal writing of $a'$ can begin by zeros, but not the one of $a$); for instance if $a=2370$, $a'=0732$, that is $732$.
Let $a_{1}$ be a positive integer, and $(a_{n})_{n \geq 1}$ the sequence defined by $a_{1}$ and the following formula for $n \geq 1$:
\[a_{n+1}=a_{n}+a'_{n}. \]
Can $a_{7}$ be prime?
2012 Hanoi Open Mathematics Competitions, 8
Determine the greatest number m such that the
system $x^2$ + $y^2$ = 1; |$x^3$-$y^3$|+|x-y|=$m^3$ has a solution.
2012 IMO Shortlist, N2
Find all triples $(x,y,z)$ of positive integers such that $x \leq y \leq z$ and
\[x^3(y^3+z^3)=2012(xyz+2).\]
2014 Saudi Arabia Pre-TST, 1.2
Let $D$ be the midpoint of side $BC$ of triangle $ABC$ and $E$ the midpoint of median $AD$. Line $BE$ intersects side $CA$ at $F$. Prove that the area of quadrilateral $CDEF$ is $\frac{5}{12}$ the area of triangle $ABC$.