Two distinct points $A$ and $B$ are marked on the left half of the parabola $y = x^2$. Consider any pair of parallel lines which pass through $A$ and $B$ and intersect the right half of the parabola at points $C$ and $D$. Let $K$ be the intersection point of the diagonals $AC$ and $BD$ of the obtained trapezoid $ABCD$. Let $M, N$ be the midpoints of the bases of $ABCD$. Prove that the difference $KM - KN$ depends only on the choice of points $A$ and $B$ but does not depend on the pair of parallel lines described above. (I. Voronovich)

Let $ABC$ be a triangle and let $D, E$ and $F$ be the midpoints of the sides $AB, BC$ and $CA$ respectively. Suppose that the angle bisector of $\angle BDC$ meets $BC$ at the point $M$ and the angle bisector of $\angle ADC$ meets $AC$ at the point $N$. Let $MN$ and $CD$ intersect at $O$ and let the line $EO$ meet $AC$ at $P$ and the line $FO$ meet $BC$ at $Q$. Prove that $CD = PQ$.

Let points $A$ and $B$ be on circle $\omega$ centered at $O$. Suppose that $\omega_A$ and $\omega_B$ are circles not containing $O$ which are internally tangent to $\omega$ at $A$ and $B$, respectively. Let $\omega_A$ and $\omega_B$ intersect at $C$ and $D$ such that $D$ is inside triangle $ABC$. Suppose that line $BC$ meets $\omega$ again at $E$ and let line $EA$ intersect $\omega_A$ at $F$. If $ FC \perp CD $, prove that $O$, $C$, and $D$ are collinear.

Let $AB$ be a diameter of a circle $(O)$ and let $P$ be any point on the tangent drawn at $B$ to $(O).$ Define $AP\cap (O)=C\neq A,$ and let $D$ be the point diametrically opposite to $C.$ If $DP$ meets $(O)$ second time in $E,$ then, [b](i)[/b] Prove that $AE, BC, PO$ concur at $M.$ [b](ii)[/b] If $R$ is the radius of $(O),$ find $P$ such that the area of $\triangle AMB$ is maximum, and calculate the area in terms of $R.$

a) Given $5$ points on a plane, no three of which lie on one line. Prove that four of these points can be taken as vertices of a convex quadrilateral. b) Inside a square, consider a convex quadrilateral and inside the quadrilateral, take a point $A$. It so happens that no three of the $9$ points — the vertices of the square, of the quadrilateral and $A$ — lie on one line. Prove that $5$ of these points are vertices of a convex pentagon.

In a convex quadrilateral $ABCD$ we have $\angle ADB=\angle ACD$ and $AC=CD=DB$. If the diagonals $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at $X$, prove that $\frac{CX}{BX}-\frac{AX}{DX}=1$.

Three different points $A, B, C $ lying on a circle with center $S$ and a line $p$ perpendicular to $ AS$ are given in the plane. Let's mark the intersections of the line $p$ with the lines $AB$, $AC$ as $D$ and $E$. Prove that the points $B, C, D, E$ lie on the same circle.

The point $M$ belongs to the side $[AC]$ of the acute-angle triangle $ABC$. Two circles are circumscribed around triangles $ABM$ and $BCM$ . What $M$ position corresponds to the minimal area of those circles intersection?

Let $B,C,D,E$ be four pairwise distinct collinear points and let $A$ be a point not on line $BC$. Now let the circumcircle of $ABC$ meet $AD$ and $AE$ respectively again at $F$ and $G$ Show that $DEFG$ is cyclic if and only if $AB=AC$

Prove that in a plane, arbitrary $ n$ points can be overlapped by discs that the sum of all the diameters is less than $ n$, and the distances between arbitrary two are greater than $ 1$. (where the distances between two discs that have no common points are defined as that the distances between its centers subtract the sum of its radii; the distances between two discs that have common points are zero)

Triangle $ABC$ has incircle $(I)$ and $P,Q$ are two points in the plane of the triangle. Let $QA,QB,QC$ meet $BA,CA,AB$ respectively at $D,E,F$. The tangent at $D$, other than $BC$, of the circle $(I)$ meets $PA$ at $X$. The points $Y$ and $Z$ are defined in the same manner. The tangent at $X$, other than $XD$, of the circle $(I)$ meets $ (I)$ at $U$. The points $V,W$ are defined in the same way. Prove that three lines $(AU,BV,CW)$ are concurrent. Tran Quang Hung, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi.

Given regular $17$-gon $A_1 ... A_{17}$. Prove that two triangles formed by lines $A_1A_4, A_2A_{10}, A_{13}A_{14}$ and $A_2A_3, A_4A_6 A_{14}A_{15} $ are equal. (N.Beluhov)

Prove that the group of orientation-preserving symmetries of the cube is isomorphic to $S_4$ (the group of permutations of $\{1,2,3,4\}$).(20 points)

In a quadrilateral $ABCD$ with $\angle A = 60^o, \angle B = 90^o, \angle C = 120^o$, the point $M$ of intersection of the diagonals satisfies $BM = 1$ and $MD = 2$. (a) Prove that the vertices of $ABCD$ lie on a circle and find the radius of that circle. (b) Find the area of quadrilateral $ABCD$.

A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point $A$ in the figure on the right. The box has base length $w$ and height $h$. What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper? [asy]size(270pt); defaultpen(fontsize(10pt)); filldraw(((3,3)--(-3,3)--(-3,-3)--(3,-3)--cycle),lightgrey); dot((-3,3)); label("$A$",(-3,3),NW); draw((1,3)--(-3,-1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((-1,3)--(3,-1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((-1,-3)--(3,1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((1,-3)--(-3,1),dashed+linewidth(.5)); draw((0,2)--(2,0)--(0,-2)--(-2,0)--cycle,linewidth(.5)); draw((0,3)--(0,-3),linetype("2.5 2.5")+linewidth(.5)); draw((3,0)--(-3,0),linetype("2.5 2.5")+linewidth(.5)); label('$w$',(-1,-1),SW); label('$w$',(1,-1),SE); draw((4.5,0)--(6.5,2)--(8.5,0)--(6.5,-2)--cycle); draw((4.5,0)--(8.5,0)); draw((6.5,2)--(6.5,-2)); label("$A$",(6.5,0),NW); dot((6.5,0)); [/asy] $\textbf{(A) } 2(w+h)^2 \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{(w+h)^2}2 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 2w^2+4wh \qquad \textbf{(D) } 2w^2 \qquad \textbf{(E) } w^2h $

Show that each integer $n$ can be written as the sum of five perfect cubes (not necessarily positive).

On a $ 10 \times 10$ chessboard, some $ 4n$ unit squares are chosen to form a region $ \mathcal{R}.$ This region $ \mathcal{R}$ can be tiled by $ n$ $ 2 \times 2$ squares. This region $ \mathcal{R}$ can also be tiled by a combination of $ n$ pieces of the following types of shapes ([i]see below[/i], with rotations allowed). Determine the value of $ n.$

In the diagram below, three squares are inscribed in right triangles. Their areas are $A$, $M$, and $N$, as indicated in the diagram. If $M = 5$ and $N = 12$, then $A$ can be expressed as $a + b\sqrt{c}$, where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are positive integers and $c$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Compute $a + b + c$. [asy] size(250); defaultpen (linewidth (0.7) + fontsize (10)); pair O = origin, A = (1, 1), B = (4/3, 1/3), C = (2/3, 5/3), P = (3/2, 0), Q = (0,3); draw (P--O--Q--cycle^^(0, 5/3)--C--(2/3,1)^^(0,1)--A--(1,0)^^(1,1/3)--B--(4/3,0)); label("$A$", (.5,.5)); label("$M$", (7/6, 1/6)); label("$N$", (1/3, 4/3));[/asy] [i]Proposed by Aaron Lin[/i]

Circle $S$ with center $O$ and circle $S'$ intersect at points $A$ and $B$. Point $C$ is taken on the arc of a circle $S$ lying inside $S'$. Denote the intersection points of $AC$ and $BC$ with $S'$, other than $A$ and $B$, as $E$ and $D$, respectively. Prove that lines $DE$ and $OC$ are perpendicular.

Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle. Let $A_1,B_1,C_1$ be interior points of $ABC$ such that $BA_1=A_1C$, $CB_1=B_1A$, $AC_1=C_1B$, and $$\angle BA_1C+\angle CB_1A+\angle AC_1B=480^\circ$$ Let $BC_1$ and $CB_1$ meet at $A_2,$ let $CA_1$ and $AC_1$ meet at $B_2,$ and let $AB_1$ and $BA_1$ meet at $C_2.$ Prove that if triangle $A_1B_1C_1$ is scalene, then the three circumcircles of triangles $AA_1A_2, BB_1B_2$ and $CC_1C_2$ all pass through two common points. (Note: a scalene triangle is one where no two sides have equal length.) [i]Proposed by Ankan Bhattacharya, USA[/i]

Let $ABC$ be a triangle and let $I$ and $O$ denote its incentre and circumcentre respectively. Let $\omega_A$ be the circle through $B$ and $C$ which is tangent to the incircle of the triangle $ABC$; the circles $\omega_B$ and $\omega_C$ are defined similarly. The circles $\omega_B$ and $\omega_C$ meet at a point $A'$ distinct from $A$; the points $B'$ and $C'$ are defined similarly. Prove that the lines $AA',BB'$ and $CC'$ are concurrent at a point on the line $IO$. [i](Russia) Fedor Ivlev[/i]

Given a cube. On each edge of the cube, we write a number, either $1$ or $-1$. For each face of the cube, we multiply the four numbers on the edges of this face, and write the product on this face. Finally, we add all the eighteen numbers that we wrote down on the edges and face of the cube. What is the smallest possible sum that we can get?

Find the area enclosed by the graph of $a^2x^4=b^2x^2-y^2\ (a>0,\ b>0).$

The segments connecting the interior point of a convex non-sided $n$-gon with its vertices divide the $n$-gon into $n$ congruent triangles. For what is the smallest $n$ that is possible?

Consider the points $A_1$ and $A_2$ on the side $AB$ of the square $ABCD$ taken in such a way that $|AB| = 3 |AA_1| $ and $|AB| = 4 |A_2B|$, similarly consider points $B_1$ and $B_2, C_1$ and $C_2, D_1$ and $D_2$ respectively on the sides $BC$, $CD$ and $DA$. The intersection point of straight lines $D_2A_1$ and $A_2B_1$ is $E$, the intersection point of straight lines $A_2B_1$ and $B_2C_1$ is $F$, the intersection point of straight lines $B_2C_1$ and $C_2D_1$ is $G$ and the intersection point of straight lines $C_2D_1$ and $D_2A_1$ is $H$. Find the area of the square $EFGH$, knowing that the area of $ABCD$ is $1$.