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2022 Portugal MO, 5
In a badminton competition, $16$ players participate, of which $10$ are professionals and $6$ are amateurs. In the first phase, eight games are drawn. Among the eight winners of these games, four games are drawn. The four winners qualify for the semi-finals of the competition. Assuming that, whenever a professional player and an amateur play each other, the professional wins the game, what is the probability that an amateur player will reach the semi-finals of the competition?
LMT Team Rounds 2021+, 5
In regular hexagon $ABCDEF$ with side length $2$, let $P$, $Q$, $R$, and $S$ be the feet of the altitudes from $A$ to $BC$, $EF$, $CF$, and $BE$, respectively. Find the area of quadrilateral $PQRS$.
2022 Assara - South Russian Girl's MO, 2
There are $2022$ natural numbers written in a row. Product of any two adjacent numbers is a perfect cube. Prove that the product of the two extremes is also a perfect cube.
2018 Ramnicean Hope, 1
Let be two nonzero real numbers $ a,b $ such that $ |a|\neq |b| $ and let $ f:\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} $ be a function satisfying the functional relation
$$ af(x)+bf(-x)=(x^3+x)^5+\sin^5 x . $$
Calculate $ \int_{-2019}^{2019}f(x)dx . $
[i]Constantin Rusu[/i]
2015 AMC 12/AHSME, 14
What is the value of $a$ for which $\frac1{\log_2a}+\frac1{\log_3a}+\frac1{\log_4a}=1$?
$\textbf{(A) }9\qquad\textbf{(B) }12\qquad\textbf{(C) }18\qquad\textbf{(D) }24\qquad\textbf{(E) }36$
1998 Estonia National Olympiad, 5
The paper is marked with the finite number of blue and red dots and some these points are connected by lines. Let's name a point $P$ [i]special [/i] if more than half of the points connected with $P$ has a color other than point $P$. Juku selects one special point and reverses its color. Then Juku selects a new special point and changes its color, etc. Prove that by a finite number of integers Juku ends up in a situation where the paper has not made a special point.
2020 Kyiv Mathematical Festival, 1.1
(a) Find the numbers $a_0,. . . , a_{100}$, such that $a_0 = 0, a_{100} = 1$ and for all $k = 1,. . . , 99$ :
$$a_k = \frac12 a_{k- 1} + \frac12 a_{k+1 }$$
(b) Find the numbers $a_0,. . . , a_{100}$, such that $a_0 = 0, a_{100} = 1$ and for all $k = 1,. . . , 99$ :
$$a_k = 1+\frac12 a_{k- 1} + \frac12 a_{k+1 }$$.
2023 CMWMC, R3
[u]Set 3[/u]
[b]3.1[/b] Find the number of distinct values that can be made by inserting parentheses into the expression
$$1\,\,\,\,\, - \,\,\,\,\, 1 \,\,\,\,\, -\,\,\,\,\, 1 \,\,\,\,\, - \,\,\,\,\, 1 \,\,\,\,\, - \,\,\,\,\, 1\,\,\,\,\, - \,\,\,\,\, 1$$
such that you don’t introduce any multiplication. For example, $(1-1)-((1-1)-1-1)$ is a valid way to insert parentheses, but $1 - 1(-1 - 1) - 1 - 1$ is not.
[b]3.2[/b] Let $T$ be the answer from the previous problem. Katie rolls T fair 4-sided dice with faces labeled $0-3$. Considering all possible sums of these rolls, there are two sums that have the highest probability of occurring. Find the smaller of these two sums.
[b]3.3[/b] Let $T$ be the answer from the previous problem. Amy has a fair coin that she will repeatedly flip until her total number of heads is strictly greater than her total number of tails. Find the probability she will flip the coin exactly T times. (Hint: Finding a general formula in terms of T is hard, try solving some small cases while you wait for $T$.)
PS. You should use hide for answers.
1985 Tournament Of Towns, (081) T2
There are $68$ coins , each coin having a different weight than that of each other . Show how to find the heaviest and lightest coin in $100$ weighings on a balance beam.
(S. Fomin, Leningrad)
2025 AIME, 8
Let $k$ be a real number such that the system \begin{align*} &|25+20i-z|=5\\ &|z-4-k|=|z-3i-k| \\ \end{align*} has exactly one complex solution $z.$ The sum of all possible values of $k$ can be written as $\dfrac{m}{n},$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$ Here $i=\sqrt{-1}.$
2016 Polish MO Finals, 5
There are given two positive real number $a<b$. Show that there exist positive integers $p, \ q, \ r, \ s$ satisfying following conditions:
$1$. $a< \frac{p}{q} < \frac{r}{s} < b$.
$2.$ $p^2+q^2=r^2+s^2$.
2009 Purple Comet Problems, 4
John, Paul, George, and Ringo baked a circular pie. Each cut a piece that was a sector of the circle. John took one-third of the whole pie. Paul took one-fourth of the whole pie. George took one-fifth of the whole pie. Ringo took one-sixth of the whole pie. At the end the pie had one sector remaining. Find the measure in degrees of the angle formed by this remaining sector.
2023 Mexican Girls' Contest, 3
Find all triples $(a,b,c)$ of real numbers all different from zero that satisfies:
\begin{eqnarray} a^4+b^2c^2=16a\nonumber \\ b^4+c^2a^2=16b \nonumber\\ c^4+a^2b^2=16c \nonumber \end{eqnarray}
2013 Canada National Olympiad, 1
Determine all polynomials $P(x)$ with real coefficients such that
\[(x+1)P(x-1)-(x-1)P(x)\]
is a constant polynomial.
1989 IMO Longlists, 32
Given an acute triangle find a point inside the triangle such that the sum of the distances from this point to the three vertices is the least.
2021 Puerto Rico Team Selection Test, 1
Ana and Beto are playing a game. Ana writes a whole number on the board. Beto then has the right to erase the number and add $2$ to it, or erase the number and subtract $3$, as many times as he wants. Beto wins if he can get $2021$ after a finite number of stages; otherwise, Ana wins. Which player has a winning strategy?
2022 Korea Junior Math Olympiad, 3
For a given odd prime number $p$, define $f(n)$ the remainder of $d$ divided by $p$, where $d$ is the biggest divisor of $n$ which is not a multiple of $p$. For example when $p=5$, $f(6)=1, f(35)=2, f(75)=3$. Define the sequence $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n, \ldots$ of integers as the followings:
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[*]$a_1=1$
[*]$a_{n+1}=a_n+(-1)^{f(n)+1}$ for all positive integers $n$.
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Determine all integers $m$, such that there exist infinitely many positive integers $k$ such that $m=a_k$.
2010 Indonesia TST, 4
For each positive integer $ n$, define $ f(n)$ as the number of digits $ 0$ in its decimal representation. For example, $ f(2)\equal{}0$, $ f(2009)\equal{}2$, etc. Please, calculate \[ S\equal{}\sum_{k\equal{}1}^{n}2^{f(k)},\] for $ n\equal{}9,999,999,999$.
[i]Yudi Satria, Jakarta[/i]
2015 China Team Selection Test, 1
Let $x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n$ $(n\geq2)$ be a non-decreasing monotonous sequence of positive numbers such that $x_1,\frac{x_2}{2},\cdots,\frac{x_n}{n}$ is a non-increasing monotonous sequence .Prove that
\[ \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} x_i }{n\left (\prod_{i=1}^{n}x_i \right )^{\frac{1}{n}}}\le \frac{n+1}{2\sqrt[n]{n!}}\]
2005 Tournament of Towns, 6
Two operations are allowed:
(i) to write two copies of number $1$;
(ii) to replace any two identical numbers $n$ by $(n + 1)$ and $(n - 1)$.
Find the minimal number of operations that required to produce the number $2005$ (at the beginning there are no numbers).
[i](8 points)[/i]
2014 Thailand TSTST, 2
Find the number of permutations $(a_1, a_2, . . . , a_{2013})$ of $(1, 2, \dots , 2013)$ such that there are exactly two indices $i \in \{1, 2, \dots , 2012\}$ where $a_i < a_{i+1}$.
2010 Postal Coaching, 3
Find all natural numbers $n$ such that the number $n(n+1)(n+2)(n+3)$ has exactly three different prime divisors.
2024 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 10.1
The diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ meet at point $P$. The bisector of angle $ABD$ meets $AC$ at point $E$, and the bisector of angle $ACD$ meets $BD$ at point $F$. Prove that the lines $AF$ and $DE$ meet on the median of triangle $APD$.
2024 Chile TST IMO, 1
Consider a set of \( n \geq 3 \) points in the plane where no three are collinear. Prove that the points can be labeled as \( P_1, P_2, \dots, P_n \) so that the angles \( \angle P_i P_{i+1} P_{i+2} \) are less than \( 90^\circ \) for all \( i \).
1989 IMO Longlists, 55
The set $ \{a_0, a_1, \ldots, a_n\}$ of real numbers satisfies the following conditions:
[b](i)[/b] $ a_0 \equal{} a_n \equal{} 0,$
[b](ii)[/b] for $ 1 \leq k \leq n \minus{} 1,$ \[ a_k \equal{} c \plus{} \sum^{n\minus{}1}_{i\equal{}k} a_{i\minus{}k} \cdot \left(a_i \plus{} a_{i\plus{}1} \right)\]
Prove that $ c \leq \frac{1}{4n}.$