Found problems: 1340
An island has $10$ cities, where some of the possible pairs of cities are connected by roads. A [i]tour route[/i] is a route starting from a city, passing exactly eight out of the other nine cities exactly once each, and returning to the starting city. (In other words, it is a loop that passes only nine cities instead of all ten cities.) For each city, there exists a tour route that doesn't pass the given city. Find the minimum number of roads on the island.
For a positive integer $k\ge 2$ define $\mathcal{T}_k=\{(x,y)\mid x,y=0,1,\ldots, k-1\}$ to be a collection of $k^2$ lattice points on the cartesian coordinate plane. Let $d_1(k)>d_2(k)>\cdots$ be the decreasing sequence of the distinct distances between any two points in $T_k$. Suppose $S_i(k)$ be the number of distances equal to $d_i(k)$.
Prove that for any three positive integers $m>n>i$ we have $S_i(m)=S_i(n)$.
Let $[z]$ denote the greatest integer not exceeding $z$. Let $x$ and $y$ satisfy the simultaneous equations
\[ \begin{array}{c} y=2[x]+3, \\ y=3[x-2]+5. \end{array} \]If $x$ is not an integer, then $x+y$ is
$\textbf {(A) } \text{an integer} \qquad \textbf {(B) } \text{between 4 and 5} \qquad \textbf {(C) } \text{between -4 and 4} \qquad \textbf {(D) } \text{between 15 and 16} \qquad \textbf {(E) } 16.5$
A positive integer given in decimal representation $\overline{ a_na_{n-1} \ldots a_1a_0 }$ is called [i]monotone[/i] if $a_n\leq a_{n-1} \leq \cdots \leq a_0$. Determine the number of monotone positive integers with at most 1993 digits.
Consider a $2n \times 2n$ board. From the $i$th line we remove the central $2(i-1)$ unit squares. What is the maximal number of rectangles $2 \times 1$ and $1 \times 2$ that can be placed on the obtained figure without overlapping or getting outside the board?
How many non-negative integral values of $x$ satisfy the equation $ \lfloor \frac{x}{5}\rfloor = \lfloor \frac{x}{7}\rfloor $
Let $n\ge 2$ be an integer. Show that there exists a subset $A\in \{1,2,\ldots ,n\}$ such that:
i) The number of elements of $A$ is at most $2\lfloor\sqrt{n}\rfloor+1$
ii) $\{ |x-y| \mid x,y\in A, x\not= y\} = \{ 1,2,\ldots n-1 \}$
[i]Radu Todor[/i]
Let $ a>0$, and let $ P(x)$ be a polynomial with integer coefficients such that
\[ P(1)\equal{}P(3)\equal{}P(5)\equal{}P(7)\equal{}a\text{, and}\]
\[ P(2)\equal{}P(4)\equal{}P(6)\equal{}P(8)\equal{}\minus{}a\text{.}\]
What is the smallest possible value of $ a$?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 105 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 315 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 945 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 7! \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 8!$
Draw a $2004 \times 2004$ array of points. What is the largest integer $n$ for which it is possible to draw a convex $n$-gon whose vertices are chosen from the points in the array?
Given triangle $ABC$. Let $A_1B_1$, $A_2B_2$,$ ...$, $A_{2008}B_{2008}$ be $2008$ lines parallel to $AB$ which divide triangle $ABC$ into $2009$ equal areas. Calculate the value of $$ \left\lfloor \frac{A_1B_1}{2A_2B_2} + \frac{A_1B_1}{2A_3B_3} + ... + \frac{A_1B_1}{2A_{2008}B_{2008}} \right\rfloor$$
$11$ theatrical groups participated in a festival. Each day, some of the groups were scheduled to perform while the remaining groups joined the general audience. At the conclusion of the festival, each group had seen, during its days off, at least $1$ performance of every other group. At least how many days did the festival last?
Prove that for any positive integer $n$, \[\left\lfloor \frac{n}{3}\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \frac{n+2}{6}\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \frac{n+4}{6}\right\rfloor = \left\lfloor \frac{n}{2}\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \frac{n+3}{6}\right\rfloor .\]
For any positive integers $a$ and $b$, define $a \oplus b$ to be the result when adding $a$ to $b$ in binary (base $2$), neglecting any carry-overs. For example, $20 \oplus 14 = 10100_2 \oplus 1110_2 = 11010_2 = 26$.
(The operation $\oplus$ is called the [i]exclusive or.[/i])
Compute the sum $$\sum^{2^{2014} -1}_{k=0} \left( k \oplus \left\lfloor \frac{k}{2} \right \rfloor \right).$$ Here $\lfloor x\rfloor$ is the greatest integer not exceeding $x$.
How many real roots of the equation \[x^2 - 18[x]+77=0\] are not integer, where $[x]$ denotes the greatest integer not exceeding the real number $x$?
$
\textbf{(A)}\ 0
\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 1
\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 2
\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 3
\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of the preceding}
$
Determine whether there exists a polynomial $f(x_1, x_2)$ with two variables, with integer coefficients, and two points $A=(a_1, a_2)$ and $B=(b_1, b_2)$ in the plane, satisfying the following conditions:
(i) $A$ is an integer point (i.e $a_1$ and $a_2$ are integers);
(ii) $|a_1-b_1|+|a_2-b_2|=2010$;
(iii) $f(n_1, n_2)>f(a_1, a_2)$ for all integer points $(n_1, n_2)$ in the plane other than $A$;
(iv) $f(x_1, x_2)>f(b_1, b_2)$ for all integer points $(x_1, x_2)$ in the plane other than $B$.
[i]Massimo Gobbino, Italy[/i]
Find the real numbers $x$ such that $$3^x + 3^{\lfloor x\rfloor} + 3^{\{x\}}=4.$$
Determine all positive real numbers $ a$ such that there exists a positive integer $ n$ and sets $ A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n$ satisfying the following conditions:
(1) every set $ A_i$ has infinitely many elements;
(2) every pair of distinct sets $ A_i$ and $ A_j$ do not share any common element
(3) the union of sets $ A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n$ is the set of all integers;
(4) for every set $ A_i,$ the positive difference of any pair of elements in $ A_i$ is at least $ a^i.$
Let $n$ and $q$ be integers with $n \ge 5$, $2 \le q \le n$. Prove that $q-1$ divides $\left\lfloor \frac{(n-1)!}{q}\right\rfloor $.
Let $H = \{ \lfloor i\sqrt{2}\rfloor : i \in \mathbb Z_{>0}\} = \{1,2,4,5,7,\dots \}$ and let $n$ be a positive integer. Prove that there exists a constant $C$ such that, if $A\subseteq \{1,2,\dots, n\}$ satisfies $|A| \ge C\sqrt{n}$, then there exist $a,b\in A$ such that $a-b\in H$. (Here $\mathbb Z_{>0}$ is the set of positive integers, and $\lfloor z\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $z$.)
Given $n\ge 4$ real numbers $a_{n}>...>a_{1} > 0$. For $r > 0$, let $f_{n}(r)$ be the number of triples $(i,j,k)$ with $1\leq i<j<k\leq n$ such that $\frac{a_{j}-a_{i}}{a_{k}-a_{j}}=r$. Prove that ${f_{n}(r)}<\frac{n^{2}}{4}$.
Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that \[0< \sqrt[4]{n}-\lfloor \sqrt[4]{n}\rfloor < 0.00001.\]
A set $M$ of positive integers is called [i]connected[/i] if for any element $x\in M$ at least one of the numbers $x-1,x+1$ is in $M$. Let $U_n$ be the number of the connected subsets of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$.
a) Compute $U_7$;
b) Find the smallest number $n$ such that $U_n \geq 2006$.
Given an integer $ m\geq 2$, and two real numbers $ a,b$ with $ a > 0$ and $ b\neq 0$. The sequence $ \{x_n\}$ is such that $ x_1 \equal{} b$ and $ x_{n \plus{} 1} \equal{} ax^{m}_{n} \plus{} b$, $ n \equal{} 1,2,...$. Prove that
(1)when $ b < 0$ and m is even, the sequence is bounded if and only if $ ab^{m \minus{} 1}\geq \minus{} 2$;
(2)when $ b < 0$ and m is odd, or when $ b > 0$ the sequence is bounded if and only if $ ab^{m \minus{} 1}\geq\frac {(m \minus{} 1)^{m \minus{} 1}}{m^m}$.
Let $S$ be a set with $n$ elements. Take a positive integer $k$. Let $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_k$ be any distinct subsets of $S$. For each $i$ take $B_i = A_i$ or $B_i = S - A_i$. Find the smallest $k$ such that we can always choose $B_i$ so that $\bigcup_{i=1}^k B_i = S$, no matter what the subsets $A_i$ are.
The number $5^{867}$ is between $2^{2013}$ and $2^{2014}$. How many pairs of integers $(m,n)$ are there such that $1\leq m\leq 2012$ and \[5^n<2^m<2^{m+2}<5^{n+1}?\]
$\textbf{(A) }278\qquad
\textbf{(B) }279\qquad
\textbf{(C) }280\qquad
\textbf{(D) }281\qquad
\textbf{(E) }282\qquad$