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Given a number $b>0$, find all functions $f: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that: $f(x+y)=f(x).3^{b^{y}+f(y)-1}+b^{x}.\left(3^{b^{y}+f(y)-1}-b^{y}\right) \forall x,y\in\mathbb{R}$
Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of positive integers. Find all functions $f : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ such that for all $m, n \in \mathbb{N}$, \[m^2f(m) + n^2f(n) + 3mn(m + n)\] is a perfect cube.
Let $\mathbb R$ be set of real numbers. Determine all functions $f:\mathbb R\to \mathbb R$ such that $$f(y^2 - f(x)) = yf(x)^2+f(x^2y+y)$$ holds for all real numbers $x; y$
Let $f$ be the function of the set of positive integers into itself, defi ned by $f(1) = 1$, $f(2n) = f(n)$ and $f(2n + 1) = f(n) + f(n + 1)$. Show that, for any positive integer $n$, the number of positive odd integers m such that $f(m) = n$ is equal to the number of positive integers[color=#0000FF][b] less or equal to [/b][/color]$n$ and coprime to $n$. [color=#FF0000][mod: the initial statement said less than $n$, which is wrong.][/color]
What is the minimum value of $ f(x) \equal{} |x \minus{} 1| \plus{} |2x \minus{} 1| \plus{} |3x \minus{} 1| \plus{} \cdots \plus{} |119x \minus{} 1|$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 49 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 50 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 51 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 52 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 53$
Find the index of the singular point $0$ of the vector field \[(xy+yz+xz)\]
Let $n$ and $k$ be positive integers, and let be the sets $X=\{1,2,3,...,n\}$ and $Y=\{1,2,3,...,k\}$. Let $P$ be the set of all the subsets of the set $X$. Find the number of functions $ f: P \to Y$ that satisfy $f(A \cap B)=\min(f(A),f(B))$ for all $A,B \in P$.
Write $S_n$ for the set $\{1, 2,..., n\}$. Determine all positive integers $n$ for which there exist functions $f : S_n \to S_n$ and $g : S_n \to S_n$ such that for every $x$ exactly one of the equalities $f(g(x)) = x$ and $g(f(x)) = x$ holds.
Let $f : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}^+$ be a function, and define $h : \mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}^+$ by $h(x, y) = \gcd (f(x), f(y))$. If $h(x, y)$ is a two-variable polynomial in $x$ and $y$, prove that it must be constant.
Find a perfect set $ H \subset [0,1]$ of positive measure and a continuous function $ f$ defined on $ [0,1]$ such that for any twice differentiable function $ g$ defined on $ [0,1]$, the set $ \{ x \in H : \;f(x)\equal{}g(x)\ \}$ is finite. [i]M. Laczkovich[/i]
Find all the triangles such that its side lenghts, area and its angles' measures (in degrees) are rational.
Denote by $\mathbb{N}$ the set of all positive integers. Find all functions $f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that for all positive integers $m$ and $n$, the integer $f(m)+f(n)-mn$ is nonzero and divides $mf(m)+nf(n)$. [i]Proposed by Dorlir Ahmeti, Albania[/i]
Let $S$ be the set of positive integers. For any $a$ and $b$ in the set we have $GCD(a, b)>1$. For any $a$, $b$ and $c$ in the set we have $GCD(a, b, c)=1$. Is it possible that $S$ has $2012$ elements? [i]Proposed by Ognjen Stipetić.[/i]
Let $f \colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{R} $ be a differentiable function such that its derivative is an integrable function on $[0,1]$, and $f(1)=0$. Prove that \[ \int_0^1 (xf'(x))^2 dx \geq 12 \cdot \left( \int_0^1 xf(x) dx\right)^2 \]
Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle of area 1. Show that the triangle whose vertices are the feet of the perpendiculars from the centroid $G$ to $AB$, $BC$, $CA$ has area between $\frac 4{27}$ and $\frac 14$.
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}^+\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^+$ which satisfy the following conditions: $(\text{i})$ $f(x+f(y))=f(x)f(y)$ for all $x,y>0;$ $(\text{ii})$ there are at most finitely many $x$ with $f(x)=1$.
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that $ \forall x\notin\{-1,1\}$ holds: \[\displaystyle{f\Big(\frac{x-3}{x+1}\Big)+f\Big(\frac{3+x}{1-x}\Big)=x}\]
Solve in $ \mathbb{R} $ the equation $ 4^{x^2-x}=\log_2 x+\sqrt{x-1} +14. $ [i]Marin Tolosi[/i]
For each positive integer $n$, let $f_n$ be a real-valued symmetric function of $n$ real variables. Suppose that for all $n$ and all real numbers $x_1,\ldots,x_n, x_{n+1},y$ it is true that $\;(1)\; f_{n}(x_1 +y ,\ldots, x_n +y) = f_{n}(x_1 ,\ldots, x_n) +y,$ $\;(2)\;f_{n}(-x_1 ,\ldots, -x_n) =-f_{n}(x_1 ,\ldots, x_n),$ $\;(3)\; f_{n+1}(f_{n}(x_1,\ldots, x_n),\ldots, f_{n}(x_1,\ldots, x_n), x_{n+1}) =f_{n+1}(x_1 ,\ldots, x_{n}).$ Prove that $f_{n}(x_{1},\ldots, x_n) =\frac{x_{1}+\cdots +x_{n}}{n}.$
Let $\mathbb{R}^{+}$ denote the set of all positive real numbers. Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}^{+}\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}$ satisfying \[f(x)+f(y)\le \frac{f(x+y)}{2}, \frac{f(x)}{x}+\frac{f(y)}{y}\ge \frac{f(x+y)}{x+y},\] for all $x, y\in \mathbb{R}^{+}$.
A function $ f: R^3\rightarrow R$ for all reals $ a,b,c,d,e$ satisfies a condition: \[ f(a,b,c)\plus{}f(b,c,d)\plus{}f(c,d,e)\plus{}f(d,e,a)\plus{}f(e,a,b)\equal{}a\plus{}b\plus{}c\plus{}d\plus{}e\] Show that for all reals $ x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n$ ($ n\geq 5$) equality holds: \[ f(x_1,x_2,x_3)\plus{}f(x_2,x_3,x_4)\plus{}\ldots \plus{}f(x_{n\minus{}1},x_n,x_1)\plus{}f(x_n,x_1,x_2)\equal{}x_1\plus{}x_2\plus{}\ldots\plus{}x_n\]
For each integer $n$ ($n \ge 2$), let $f(n)$ denote the sum of all positive integers that are at most $n$ and not relatively prime to $n$. Prove that $f(n+p) \neq f(n)$ for each such $n$ and every prime $p$.
For a function $ f(x)\equal{}(\ln x)^2\plus{}2\ln x$, let $ C$ be the curve $ y\equal{}f(x)$. Denote $ A(a,\ f(a)),\ B(b,\ f(b))\ (a<b)$ the points of tangency of two tangents drawn from the origin $ O$ to $ C$ and the curve $ C$. Answer the following questions. (1) Examine the increase and decrease, extremal value and inflection point , then draw the approximate garph of the curve $ C$. (2) Find the values of $ a,\ b$. (3) Find the volume by a rotation of the figure bounded by the part from the point $ A$ to the point $ B$ and line segments $ OA,\ OB$ around the $ y$-axis.
There exist $4$ positive integers $a,b,c,d$ such that $abcd \neq 1$ and each pair of them have a GCD of $1$. Two functions $f,g : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ are multiplicative functions such that for each positive integer $n$ we have : $$f(an+b)=g(cn+d)$$ Prove that at least one of the followings hold. $i)$ for each positive integer $n$ we have $f(an+b)=g(cn+d)=0$ $ii)$ There exists a positive integer $k$ such that for all $n$ where $(n,k)=1$ we have $g(n)=f(n)=1$ (Function $f$ is multiplicative if for any natural numbers $a,b$ we have $f(ab)=f(a)f(b)$) Proposed by [i]Navid Safaii[/i]
Let $A = \{1,2,\ldots,2011\}$. Find the number of functions $f$ from $A$ to $A$ that satisfy $f(n) \le n$ for all $n$ in $A$ and attain exactly $2010$ distinct values.