Found problems: 4776
Let $F = \max_{1 \leq x \leq 3} |x^3 - ax^2 - bx - c|$. When $a$, $b$, $c$ run over all the real numbers, find the smallest possible value of $F$.
The radius of Earth at the equator is approximately 4000 miles. Suppose a jet flies once around Earth at a speed of 500 miles per hour relative to Earth. If the flight path is a neglibile height above the equator, then, among the following choices, the best estimate of the number of hours of flight is:
$\textbf{(A)}\ 25 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 8 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 75 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 50 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 100$
Let $n, a, b$ be integers with $n \geq 2$ and $a \notin \{0, 1\}$ and let $u(x) = ax + b$ be the function defined on integers. Show that there are infinitely many functions $f : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ such that $f_n(x) = \underbrace{f(f(\cdots f}_{n}(x) \cdots )) = u(x)$ for all $x$.
If $a = 1$, show that there is a $b$ for which there is no $f$ with $f_n(x) \equiv u(x)$.
Let $Q$ be a set of prime numbers, not necessarily finite. For a positive integer $n$ consider its prime factorization: define $p(n)$ to be the sum of all the exponents and $q(n)$ to be the sum of the exponents corresponding only to primes in $Q$. A positive integer $n$ is called [i]special[/i] if $p(n)+p(n+1)$ and $q(n)+q(n+1)$ are both even integers. Prove that there is a constant $c>0$ independent of the set $Q$ such that for any positive integer $N>100$, the number of special integers in $[1,N]$ is at least $cN$.
(For example, if $Q=\{3,7\}$, then $p(42)=3$, $q(42)=2$, $p(63)=3$, $q(63)=3$, $p(2022)=3$, $q(2022)=1$.)
Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R}\to{R}$ such that for any $a<b$, $f([a,b])$ is an interval of length $b-a$
The function $\varphi(x,y,z)$ defined for all triples $(x,y,z)$ of real numbers, is such that there are two functions $f$ and $g$ defined for all pairs of real numbers, such that
\[\varphi(x,y,z) = f(x+y,z) = g(x,y+z)\]
for all real numbers $x,y$ and $z.$ Show that there is a function $h$ of one real variable, such that
\[\varphi(x,y,z) = h(x+y+z)\]
for all real numbers $x,y$ and $z.$
Let $ n$ be a positive integer, and let $ x$ and $ y$ be a positive real number such that $ x^n \plus{} y^n \equal{} 1.$ Prove that
\[ \left(\sum^n_{k \equal{} 1} \frac {1 \plus{} x^{2k}}{1 \plus{} x^{4k}} \right) \cdot \left( \sum^n_{k \equal{} 1} \frac {1 \plus{} y^{2k}}{1 \plus{} y^{4k}} \right) < \frac {1}{(1 \minus{} x) \cdot (1 \minus{} y)}.
\]
[i]Author: Juhan Aru, Estonia[/i]
Let $S=\{1,2,...,100\}$ . Find number of functions $f: S\to S$ satisfying the following conditions
a)$f(1)=1$
b)$f$ is bijective
c)$f(n)=f(g(n))f(h(n))\forall n\in S$, where $g(n),h(n)$ are positive integer numbers such that $g(n)\leq h(n),n=g(n)h(n)$ that minimize $h(n)-g(n)$.
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ such that
$$f(x+f(y+1))+f(xy)=f(x+1)(f(y)+1)$$
for any $x,y$ integers.
Let $ a,b,c$ be positive numbers.Find $ k$ such that:
$ (k \plus{} \frac {a}{b \plus{} c})(k \plus{} \frac {b}{c \plus{} a})(k \plus{} \frac {c}{a \plus{} b}) \ge (k \plus{} \frac {1}{2})^3$
Is there exist a function $f:\mathbb {N}\to \mathbb {N}$ with for $\forall m,n \in \mathbb {N}$ $$f\left(mf\left(n\right)\right)=f\left(m\right)f\left(m+n\right)+n ?$$
Nonnegative real numbers $p_{1},\ldots,p_{n}$ and $q_{1},\ldots,q_{n}$ are such that $p_{1}+\cdots+p_{n}=q_{1}+\cdots+q_{n}$
Among all the matrices with nonnegative entries having $p_i$ as sum of the $i$-th row's entries and $q_j$ as sum of the $j$-th column's entries, find the maximum sum of the entries on the main diagonal.
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 42$, $AC = 39$, $BC = 45$. Let $E$, $F$ be on the sides $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{AB}$ such that $AF = 21, AE = 13$. Let $\overline{CF}$ and $\overline{BE}$ intersect at $P$, and let ray $AP$ meet $\overline{BC}$ at $D$. Let $O$ denote the circumcenter of $\triangle DEF$, and $R$ its circumradius. Compute $CO^2-R^2$.
[i]Proposed by Yang Liu[/i]
Let $ \left( c_n \right)_{n\ge 1} $ be a sequence of real numbers. Prove that the sequences $ \left( c_n\sin n \right)_{n\ge 1} ,\left( c_n\cos n \right)_{n\ge 1} $ are both convergent if and only if $ \left( c_n \right)_{n\ge 1} $ converges to $ 0. $
[i]Mihai Piticari[/i] and [i]Vladimir Cerbu[/i]
Let $f$ be a function defined on the positive integers, taking positive integral values, such that
$f(a)f(b) = f(ab)$ for all positive integers $a$ and $b$,
$f(a) < f(b)$ if $a < b$,
$f(3) \geq 7$.
Find the smallest possible value of $f(3)$.
[b]i.)[/b] Let $g(x) = x^5 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1.$ What is the remainder when the polynomial $g(x^{12}$ is divided by the polynomial $g(x)$?
[b]ii.)[/b] If $k$ is a positive number and $f$ is a function such that, for every positive number $x, f(x^2 + 1 )^{\sqrt{x}} = k.$ Find the value of
\[ f( \frac{9 +y^2}{y^2})^{\sqrt{ \frac{12}{y} }} \] for every positive number $y.$
[b]iii.)[/b] The function $f$ satisfies the functional equation $f(x) + f(y) = f(x+y) - x \cdot y - 1$ for every pair $x,y$ of real numbers. If $f(1) = 1,$ then find the numbers of integers $n,$ for which $f(n) = n.$
Find all functions $f : R \to R$ which satisfy $f(x)f(y) = f(xy) + xy$ for all $x, y \in R$.
Jackie and Phil have two fair coins and a third coin that comes up heads with probability $ \frac47$. Jackie flips the three coins, and then Phil flips the three coins. Let $ \frac{m}{n}$ be the probability that Jackie gets the same number of heads as Phil, where $ m$ and $ n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $ m \plus{} n$.
Acute-angled $~$ $\triangle{ABC}$ $~$ is given. A line $~$ $l$ $~$ parallel to side $~$ $AB$ $~$ passing through vertex $~$ $C$ $~$ is drawn. Let the angle bisectors of $~$ $\angle{BAC}$ $~$ and $~$ $\angle{ABC}$ $~$ intersect the sides $~$ $BC$ and $~$ $AC$ at points $~$ $D$ $~$ and $~$ $F$, and line $~$ $l$ $~$ at points $~$ $E$ $~$ and $~$ $G$ $~$ respectively. Prove that if $~$ $\overline{DE}=\overline{GF}$ $~$ then $~$ $\overline{AC}=\overline{BC}\, .$
Let $a$ and $b$ be relatively prime positive integers such that $a/b$ is the maximum possible value of \[\sin^2x_1+\sin^2x_2+\sin^2x_3+\cdots+\sin^2x_{2007},\] where, for $1\leq i\leq 2007$, $x_i$ is a nonnegative real number, and \[x_1+x_2+x_3+\cdots+x_{2007}=\pi.\] Find the value of $a+b$.
Find the largest possible value of $M$ for which $\frac{x}{1+\frac{yz}{x}}+\frac{y}{1+\frac{zx}{y}}+\frac{z}{1+\frac{xy}{z}}\geq M$ for all $x,y,z>0$ with $xy+yz+zx=1$
Prove that there exist two functions $f,g \colon \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$, such that $f\circ g$ is strictly decreasing and $g\circ f$ is strictly increasing.
[i](Poland) Andrzej Komisarski and Marcin Kuczma[/i]
Find all functions $f : Z \to Z$ satisfying
$\bullet$ $ f(p) > 0$ for all prime numbers $p$,
$\bullet$ $p| (f(x) + f(p))^{f(p)}- x$ for all $x \in Z$ and all prime numbers $p$.
Let $f(x)$ be a continuous real-valued function defined on the interval $[0, 1]$. Show that \[\int_0^1\int_0^1|f(x)+f(y)|dx \; dy \ge \int_0^1 |f(x)|dx\]
Let $f$ be a real-valued function such that \[f(x)+2f\left(\dfrac{2002}x\right)=3x\] for all $x>0$. Find $f(2)$.
$\textbf{(A) }1000\qquad\textbf{(B) }2000\qquad\textbf{(C) }3000\qquad\textbf{(D) }4000\qquad\textbf{(E) }6000$