Found problems: 4776
2011 USA TSTST, 1
Find all real-valued functions $f$ defined on pairs of real numbers, having the following property: for all real numbers $a, b, c$, the median of $f(a,b), f(b,c), f(c,a)$ equals the median of $a, b, c$.
(The [i]median[/i] of three real numbers, not necessarily distinct, is the number that is in the middle when the three numbers are arranged in nondecreasing order.)
1978 IMO Longlists, 29
Given a nonconstant function $f : \mathbb{R}^+ \longrightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(xy) = f(x)f(y)$ for any $x, y > 0$, find functions $c, s : \mathbb{R}^+ \longrightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that satisfy $c\left(\frac{x}{y}\right) = c(x)c(y)-s(x)s(y)$ for all $x, y > 0$ and $c(x)+s(x) = f(x)$ for all $x > 0$.
2008 Romania National Olympiad, 1
Find functions $ f: \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$, such that $ f(x^2 \plus{} f(y)) \equal{} xf(x) \plus{} y$, for $ x,y \in \mathbb{N}$.
2006 Balkan MO, 4
Let $m$ be a positive integer and $\{a_n\}_{n\geq 0}$ be a sequence given by $a_0 = a \in \mathbb N$, and \[ a_{n+1} = \begin{cases} \displaystyle \frac{a_n}2 & \textrm { if } a_n \equiv 0 \pmod 2, \\ a_n + m & \textrm{ otherwise. } \end{cases} \]
Find all values of $a$ such that the sequence is periodical (starting from the beginning).
1993 IMO Shortlist, 3
Prove that \[ \frac{a}{b+2c+3d} +\frac{b}{c+2d+3a} +\frac{c}{d+2a+3b}+ \frac{d}{a+2b+3c} \geq \frac{2}{3} \] for all positive real numbers $a,b,c,d$.
1986 China Team Selection Test, 2
Given a tetrahedron $ABCD$, $E$, $F$, $G$, are on the respectively on the segments $AB$, $AC$ and $AD$. Prove that:
i) area $EFG \leq$ max{area $ABC$,area $ABD$,area $ACD$,area $BCD$}.
ii) The same as above replacing "area" for "perimeter".
2010 Contests, 2
Each of two different lines parallel to the the axis $Ox$ have exactly two common points on the graph of the function $f(x)=x^3+ax^2+bx+c$. Let $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ be two lines parallel to $Ox$ axis which meet the graph of $f$ in points $K_1, K_2$ and $K_3, K_4$, respectively. Prove that the quadrilateral formed by $K_1, K_2, K_3$ and $ K_4$ is a rhombus if and only if its area is equal to $6$ units.
1998 Singapore MO Open, 2
Let $N$ be the set of natural numbers, and let $f: N \to N$ be a function satisfying $f(x) + f(x + 2) < 2 f(x + 1)$ for any $x \in N$. Prove that there exists a straight line in the $xy$-plane which contains infinitely many points with coordinates $(n,f(n))$.
2013 Puerto Rico Team Selection Test, 4
If $x_0=x_1=1$, and for $n\geq1$
$x_{n+1}=\frac{x_n^2}{x_{n-1}+2x_n}$,
find a formula for $x_n$ as a function of $n$.
Russian TST 2019, P2
Determine all functions $f:(0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ satisfying $$\left(x+\frac{1}{x}\right)f(y)=f(xy)+f\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)$$ for all $x,y>0$.
2017 Saudi Arabia BMO TST, 2
Let $R^+$ be the set of positive real numbers. Find all function $f : R^+ \to R$ such that, for all positive real number $x$ and $y$, the following conditions are satisfied:
i) $2f (x) + 2f (y) \le f (x + y)$
ii) $(x + y)[y f (x) + x f (y)] \ge x y f (x + y)$
2002 Belarusian National Olympiad, 6
The altitude $CH$ of a right triangle $ABC$, with $\angle{C}=90$, cut the angles bisectors $AM$ and $BN$ at $P$ and $Q$, and let $R$ and $S$ be the midpoints of $PM$ and $QN$. Prove that $RS$ is parallel to the hypotenuse of $ABC$
2013 Federal Competition For Advanced Students, Part 2, 2
Let $k$ be an integer. Determine all functions $f\colon \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ with $f(0)=0$ and \[f(x^ky^k)=xyf(x)f(y)\qquad \mbox{for } x,y\neq 0.\]
1952 AMC 12/AHSME, 40
In order to draw a graph of $ f(x) \equal{} ax^2 \plus{} bx \plus{} c$, a table of values was constructed. These values of the function for a set of equally spaced increasing values of $ x$ were $ 3844$, $ 3969$, $ 4096$, $ 4227$, $ 4356$, $ 4489$, $ 4624$, and $ 4761$. The one which is incorrect is:
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 4096 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 4356 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 4489 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 4761 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of these}$
2019 CIIM, Problem 6
Determine all the injective functions $f : \mathbb{Z}_+ \to \mathbb{Z}_+$, such that for each pair of integers $(m, n)$ the following conditions hold:
$a)$ $f(mn) = f(m)f(n)$
$b)$ $f(m^2 + n^2) \mid f(m^2) + f(n^2).$
1979 IMO Longlists, 61
There are two non-decreasing sequences $\{a_i\}$ and $\{b_i\}$ of $n$ real numbers each, such that $a_i\le a_{i+1}$ for each $1\le i\le n-1$, and $b_i\le b_{i+1}$ for each $1\le i\le n-1$, and $\sum_{k=1}^{m}{a_k}\ge \sum_{k=1}^{m}{b_k}$ where $m\le n$ with equality for $m=n$. For a convex function $f$ defined on the real numbers, prove that $\sum_{k=1}^{n}{f(a_k)}\le \sum_{k=1}^{n}{f(b_k)}$.
2013 Miklós Schweitzer, 9
Prove that there is a function ${f: (0,\infty) \rightarrow (0,\infty)}$ which is nowhere continuous and for all ${x,y \in (0,\infty)}$ and any rational ${\alpha}$ we have
\[ \displaystyle f\left( \left(\frac{x^\alpha+y^\alpha}{2}\right)^{\frac{1}{\alpha}}\right)\leq \left(\frac{f(x)^\alpha +f(y)^\alpha }{2}\right)^{\frac{1}{\alpha}}. \]
Is there such a function if instead the above relation holds for every ${x,y \in (0,\infty)}$ and for every irrational ${\alpha}?$
[i]Proposed by Maksa Gyula and Zsolt Páles[/i]
2011 Romanian Master of Mathematics, 4
Given a positive integer $\displaystyle n = \prod_{i=1}^s p_i^{\alpha_i}$, we write $\Omega(n)$ for the total number $\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^s \alpha_i$ of prime factors of $n$, counted with multiplicity. Let $\lambda(n) = (-1)^{\Omega(n)}$ (so, for example, $\lambda(12)=\lambda(2^2\cdot3^1)=(-1)^{2+1}=-1$).
Prove the following two claims:
i) There are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $\lambda(n) = \lambda(n+1) = +1$;
ii) There are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $\lambda(n) = \lambda(n+1) = -1$.
[i](Romania) Dan Schwarz[/i]
2014 Purple Comet Problems, 15
Find $n$ such that $\dfrac1{2!9!}+\dfrac1{3!8!}+\dfrac1{4!7!}+\dfrac1{5!6!}=\dfrac n{10!}$.
2007 AIME Problems, 14
Let $f(x)$ be a polynomial with real coefficients such that $f(0) = 1,$ $f(2)+f(3)=125,$ and for all $x$, $f(x)f(2x^{2})=f(2x^{3}+x).$ Find $f(5).$
2018-2019 SDML (High School), 5
Let $f(x) = x^2 + ax + b$, where $a$ and $b$ are real numbers. If $f(f(1)) = f(f(2)) = 0$, then find $f(0)$.
2014 Contests, 903
Let $\{a_n\}_{n\geq 1}$ be a sequence defined by $a_n=\int_0^1 x^2(1-x)^ndx$.
Find the real value of $c$ such that $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (n+c)(a_n-a_{n+1})=2.$
2018 VJIMC, 4
Determine all possible (finite or infinite) values of
\[\lim_{x \to -\infty} f(x)-\lim_{x \to \infty} f(x),\]
if $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a strictly decreasing continuous function satisfying
\[f(f(x))^4-f(f(x))+f(x)=1\]
for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$.
2007 Balkan MO Shortlist, C2
Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the set of all the functions $f : \mathcal{P}(S) \longrightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for all $X, Y \subseteq S$, we have $f(X \cap Y) = \min (f(X), f(Y))$, where $S$ is a finite set (and $\mathcal{P}(S)$ is the set of its subsets). Find
\[\max_{f \in \mathcal{F}}| \textrm{Im}(f) |. \]
PEN E Problems, 25
Prove that $\ln n \geq k\ln 2$, where $n$ is a natural number and $k$ is the number of distinct primes that divide $n$.