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2004 Alexandru Myller, 4

Let be a real function that has the intermediate value property and is monotone on the irrationals. Show that it's continuous. [i]Mihai Piticari[/i]

2008 National Olympiad First Round, 19

Let $f:(0,\infty) \rightarrow (0,\infty)$ be a function such that \[ 10\cdot \frac{x+y}{xy}=f(x)\cdot f(y)-f(xy)-90 \] for every $x,y \in (0,\infty)$. What is $f(\frac 1{11})$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 11 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 21 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 31 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{There is more than one solution} $

2014 Contests, 3

Tags: function , algebra
Let $\mathbb{Z}$ be the set of integers. Find all functions $f : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ such that \[xf(2f(y)-x)+y^2f(2x-f(y))=\frac{f(x)^2}{x}+f(yf(y))\] for all $x, y \in \mathbb{Z}$ with $x \neq 0$.

2017 Romania National Olympiad, 4

Let be two natural numbers $ b>a>0 $ and a function $ f:\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} $ having the following property. $$ f\left( x^2+ay\right)\ge f\left( x^2+by\right) ,\quad\forall x,y\in\mathbb{R} $$ [b]a)[/b] Show that $ f(s)\le f(0)\le f(t) , $ for any real numbers $ s<0<t. $ [b]b)[/b] Prove that $ f $ is constant on the interval $ (0,\infty ) . $ [b]c)[/b] Give an example of a non-monotone such function.

1999 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 3

Find \[\int_{-4\pi\sqrt{2}}^{4\pi\sqrt{2}}\left(\dfrac{\sin x}{1+x^4}+1\right)dx.\]

2018 IFYM, Sozopol, 6

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, such that $f(x+y) = f(y) f(x f(y))$ for every two real numbers $x$ and $y$.

1958 AMC 12/AHSME, 38

Let $ r$ be the distance from the origion to a point $ P$ with coordinates $ x$ and $ y$. Designate the ratio $ \frac{y}{r}$ by $ s$ and the ratio $ \frac{x}{r}$ by $ c$. Then the values of $ s^2 \minus{} c^2$ are limited to the numbers: $ \textbf{(A)}\ \text{less than }{\minus{}1}\text{ are greater than }{\plus{}1}\text{, both excluded}\qquad\\ \textbf{(B)}\ \text{less than }{\minus{}1}\text{ are greater than }{\plus{}1}\text{, both included}\qquad \\ \textbf{(C)}\ \text{between }{\minus{}1}\text{ and }{\plus{}1}\text{, both excluded}\qquad \\ \textbf{(D)}\ \text{between }{\minus{}1}\text{ and }{\plus{}1}\text{, both included}\qquad \\ \textbf{(E)}\ {\minus{}1}\text{ and }{\plus{}1}\text{ only}$

2011 Math Prize For Girls Problems, 14

Tags: domain , function , algebra
If $0 \le p \le 1$ and $0 \le q \le 1$, define $F(p, q)$ by \[ F(p, q) = -2pq + 3p(1-q) + 3(1-p)q - 4(1-p)(1-q). \] Define $G(p)$ to be the maximum of $F(p, q)$ over all $q$ (in the interval $0 \le q \le 1$). What is the value of $p$ (in the interval $0 \le p \le 1$) that minimizes $G(p)$?

1994 Balkan MO, 4

Find the smallest number $n \geq 5$ for which there can exist a set of $n$ people, such that any two people who are acquainted have no common acquaintances, and any two people who are not acquainted have exactly two common acquaintances. [i]Bulgaria[/i]

2010 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 602

Prove the following inequality. \[\frac{e-1}{n+1}\leqq\int^e_1(\log x)^n dx\leqq\frac{(n+1)e+1}{(n+1)(n+2)}\ (n=1,2,\cdot\cdot\cdot) \] 1994 Kyoto University entrance exam/Science

2011 Romanian Master of Mathematics, 5

For every $n\geq 3$, determine all the configurations of $n$ distinct points $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_n$ in the plane, with the property that for any pair of distinct points $X_i$, $X_j$ there exists a permutation $\sigma$ of the integers $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, such that $\textrm{d}(X_i,X_k) = \textrm{d}(X_j,X_{\sigma(k)})$ for all $1\leq k \leq n$. (We write $\textrm{d}(X,Y)$ to denote the distance between points $X$ and $Y$.) [i](United Kingdom) Luke Betts[/i]

2012 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 849

Evaluate $\int_1^{e^2} \frac{(2x^2+2x+1)e^{x}}{\sqrt{x}}\ dx.$

2022 Ecuador NMO (OMEC), 2

Determine all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for all real numbers $x, y$ \[f(x + y)=f(f(x)) + y + 2022\]

2008 Grigore Moisil Intercounty, 4

Let be a function $ f:(0,\infty )\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} . $ [b]a)[/b] Show that if $ f $ is differentiable and $ \lim_{x\to \infty } xf'(x)=1, $ then $ \lim_{x\to\infty } f(x)=\infty .$ [b]b)[/b] Prove that if $ f $ is twice differentiable and $ f''+5f'+6f $ has limit at plus infinity, then: $$ \lim_{x\to\infty } f(x)=\frac{1}{6}\lim_{x\to\infty } \left( f''(x)+5f'(x)+6f(x)\right) $$ [i]Dorel Duca[/i] and [i]Dorian Popa[/i]

2009 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 476

Suppose a parabola with the axis as the $ y$ axis, concave up and touches the graph $ y\equal{}1\minus{}|x|$. Find the equation of the parabola such that the area of the region surrounded by the parabola and the $ x$ axis is maximal.

2012 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 828

Find a function $f(x)$, which is differentiable and $f'(x) $ is continuous, such that $\int_0^x f(t)\cos (x-t)\ dt=xe^{2x}.$

1970 IMO Longlists, 6

Tags: algebra , function
There is an equation $\sum_{i=1}^{n}{\frac{b_i}{x-a_i}}=c$ in $x$, where all $b_i >0$ and $\{a_i\}$ is a strictly increasing sequence. Prove that it has $n-1$ roots such that $x_{n-1}\le a_n$, and $a_i \le x_i$ for each $i\in\mathbb{N}, 1\le i\le n-1$.

2001 Mediterranean Mathematics Olympiad, 4

Tags: function , geometry
Let $S$ be the set of points inside a given equilateral triangle $ABC$ with side $1$ or on its boundary. For any $M \in S, a_M, b_M, c_M$ denote the distances from $M$ to $BC,CA,AB$, respectively. Define \[f(M) = a_M^3 (b_M - c_M) + b_M^3(c_M - a_M) + c_M^3(a_M - b_M).\] [b](a)[/b] Describe the set $\{M \in S | f(M) \geq 0\}$ geometrically. [b](b)[/b] Find the minimum and maximum values of $f(M)$ as well as the points in which these are attained.

1991 AMC 12/AHSME, 2

$|3 - \pi| =$ $ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{1}{7}\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 0.14\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 3 - \pi\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 3 + \pi\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \pi - 3 $

2003 Croatia National Olympiad, Problem 2

The product of the positive real numbers $x, y, z$ is 1. Show that if \[ \frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y} + \frac{1}{z} \geq x+y+z \]then \[ \frac{1}{x^{k}}+\frac{1}{y^{k}} + \frac{1}{z^{k}} \geq x^{k}+y^{k}+z^{k} \] for all positive integers $k$.

2002 APMO, 5

Let ${\bf R}$ denote the set of all real numbers. Find all functions $f$ from ${\bf R}$ to ${\bf R}$ satisfying: (i) there are only finitely many $s$ in ${\bf R}$ such that $f(s)=0$, and (ii) $f(x^4+y)=x^3f(x)+f(f(y))$ for all $x,y$ in ${\bf R}$.

2022 Iran-Taiwan Friendly Math Competition, 6

Find all completely multipiclative functions $f:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{\geqslant 0}$ such that for any $a,b\in \mathbb{Z}$ and $b\neq 0$, there exist integers $q,r$ such that $$a=bq+r$$ and $$f(r)<f(b)$$ Proposed by Navid Safaei

2023 Korea Summer Program Practice Test, P2

Find all functions $f : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $$f(f(x)^2 + |y|) = x^2 + f(y)$$

2012 IMC, 4

Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer. Find all real numbers $a$ such that there exist real numbers $x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n$ satisfying \[x_1(1-x_2)=x_2(1-x_3)=\dots=x_n(1-x_1)=a.\] [i]Proposed by Walther Janous and Gerhard Kirchner, Innsbruck.[/i]

2006 Greece National Olympiad, 4

Tags: algebra , function
Does there exist a function $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, which satisfies both conditions : [b]a)[/b] $f( x + y + z) \leq 3(xy + yz + zx)$ for all real numbers $x , y , z$ and [b]b)[/b] there exist function $g$ and natural number $n$, such that $g(g(x)) = x ^ {2n + 1}$ and $f(g(x)) = (g(x)) ^2$ for every real number $x$ ?