In a triangle $ABC$, $M$ is the midpoint of the $AB$. A point $B_1$ is marked on $AC$ such that $CB=CB_1$. Circle $\omega$ and $\omega_1$, the circumcircles of triangles $ABC$ and $BMB_1$, respectively, intersect again at $K$. Let $Q$ be the midpoint of the arc $ACB$ on $\omega$. Let $B_1Q$ and $BC$ intersect at $E$. Prove that $KC$ bisects $B_1E$. [i]M. Kungozhin[/i]

Let $P = \{P_1, P_2, ..., P_{1997}\}$ be a set of $1997$ points in the interior of a circle of radius 1, where $P_1$ is the center of the circle. For each $k=1.\ldots,1997$, let $x_k$ be the distance of $P_k$ to the point of $P$ closer to $P_k$, but different from it. Show that $(x_1)^2 + (x_2)^2 + ... + (x_{1997})^2 \le 9.$

The diagram below shows a sequence of equally spaced parallel lines with a triangle whose vertices lie on these lines. The segment $\overline{CD}$ is $6$ units longer than the segment $\overline{AB}$. Find the length of segment $\overline{EF}$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/8/0/abac87d63d366bf4c4e913fdb1022798379a73.png[/img]

What fraction of the large $12$ by $18$ rectangular region is shaded? [asy] draw((0,0)--(18,0)--(18,12)--(0,12)--cycle); draw((0,6)--(18,6)); for(int a=6; a<12; ++a) { draw((1.5a,0)--(1.5a,6)); } fill((15,0)--(18,0)--(18,6)--(15,6)--cycle,black); label("0",(0,0),W); label("9",(9,0),S); label("18",(18,0),S); label("6",(0,6),W); label("12",(0,12),W); [/asy] $\text{(A)}\ \frac{1}{108} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \frac{1}{18} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \frac{1}{12} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \frac29 \qquad \text{(E)}\ \frac13$

The point $K{}$ is the middle of the arc $BAC$ of the circumcircle of the triangle $ABC$. The point $I{}$ is the center of its inscribed circle $\omega$. The line $KI$ intersects the circumcircle of the triangle $ABC$ at $T{}$ for the second time. Prove that the circle passing through the midpoints of the segments $BC, BT$ and $CT$ is tangent to the circle which is symmetric to $\omega$ with respect to $BC$.

Alice and Bob live on the edges and vertices of the unit cube. Alice begins at point $(0, 0, 0)$ and Bob begins at $(1, 1, 1)$. Every second, each of them chooses one of the three adjacent corners and walks at a constant rate of $1$ unit per second along the edge until they reach the corner, after which they repeat the process. What is the expected amount of time in seconds before Alice and Bob meet?

In the figure on the right, $O$ is the center of the circle, $OK$ and $OA$ are perpendicular to one another, $M$ is the midpoint of $OK$, $BN$ is parallel to $OK$, and $\angle AMN=\angle NMO$. Determine the measure of $\angle A B N$ in degrees. [asy] defaultpen(linewidth(0.7)+fontsize(10)); pair O=origin, A=dir(90), K=dir(180), M=0.5*dir(180), N=2/5*dir(90), B=dir(degrees((2/5, sqrt(21/25)))+90); draw(K--O--A--M--N--B--A^^Circle(origin,1)); label("$A$", A, dir(O--A)); label("$K$", K, dir(O--K)); label("$B$", B, dir(O--B)); label("$N$", N, E); label("$M$", M, S); label("$O$", O, SE);[/asy]

We have $4$ sticks. It is known, that for every $3$ sticks we can build a triangle with the same area. Is it true, that sticks have the same length?

[b]p1.[/b] If $a \diamond b = ab - a + b$, find $(3 \diamond 4) \diamond 5$ [b]p2.[/b] If $5$ chickens lay $5$ eggs in $5$ days, how many chickens are needed to lay $10$ eggs in $10$ days? [b]p3.[/b] As Alissa left her house to go to work one hour away, she noticed that her odometer read $16261$ miles. This number is a "special" number for Alissa because it is a palindrome and it contains exactly $1$ prime digit. When she got home that evening, it had changed to the next greatest "special" number. What was Alissa's average speed, in miles per hour, during her two hour trip? [b]p4.[/b] How many $1$ in by $3$ in by $8$ in blocks can be placed in a $4$ in by $4$ in by $9$ in box? [b]p5.[/b] Apple loves eating bananas, but she prefers unripe ones. There are $12$ bananas in each bunch sold. Given any bunch, if there is a $\frac13$ probability that there are $4$ ripe bananas, a $\frac16$ probability that there are $6$ ripe bananas, and a $\frac12$ probability that there are $10$ ripe bananas, what is the expected number of unripe bananas in $12$ bunches of bananas? [b]p6.[/b] The sum of the digits of a $3$-digit number $n$ is equal to the same number without the hundreds digit. What is the tens digit of $n$? [b]p7.[/b] How many ordered pairs of positive integers $(a, b)$ satisfy $a \le 20$, $b \le 20$, $ab > 15$? [b]p8.[/b] Let $z(n)$ represent the number of trailing zeroes of $n!$. What is $z(z(6!))?$ (Note: $n! = n\cdot (n-1) \cdot\cdot\cdot 2 \cdot 1$) [b]p9.[/b] On the Cartesian plane, points $A = (-1, 3)$, $B = (1, 8)$, and $C = (0, 10)$ are marked. $\vartriangle ABC$ is reflected over the line $y = 2x + 3$ to obtain $\vartriangle A'B'C'$. The sum of the $x$-coordinates of the vertices of $\vartriangle A'B'C'$ can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for relatively prime positive integers $a$, $b$. Compute $a + b$. [b]p10.[/b] How many ways can Bill pick three distinct points from the figure so that the points form a non-degenerate triangle? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/6/a/8b06f70d474a071b75556823f70a2535317944.png[/img] [b]p11.[/b] Say piece $A$ is attacking piece $B$ if the piece $B$ is on a square that piece $A$ can move to. How many ways are there to place a king and a rook on an $8\times 8$ chessboard such that the rook isn't attacking the king, and the king isn't attacking the rook? Consider rotations of the board to be indistinguishable. (Note: rooks move horizontally or vertically by any number of squares, while kings move $1$ square adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). [b]p12.[/b] Let the remainder when $P(x) = x^{2020} - x^{2017} - 1$ is divided by $S(x) = x^3 - 7$ be the polynomial $R(x) = ax^2 + bx + c$ for integers $a$, $b$, $c$. Find the remainder when $R(1)$ is divided by $1000$. [b]p13.[/b] Let $S(x) = \left \lfloor \frac{2020}{x} \right\rfloor + \left \lfloor \frac{2020}{x + 1} \right\rfloor$. Find the number of distinct values $S(x)$ achieves for integers $x$ in the interval $[1, 2020]$. [b]p14.[/b] Triangle $\vartriangle ABC$ is inscribed in a circle with center $O$ and has sides $AB = 24$, $BC = 25$, $CA = 26$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $\overline{AB}$. Points $K$ and $L$ are chosen on sides $\overline{BC}$ and $\overline{CA}$, respectively such that $BK < KC$ and $CL < LA$. Given that $OM = OL = OK$, the area of triangle $\vartriangle MLK$ can be expressed as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ where $a, b, c$ are positive integers, $gcd(a, c) = 1$ and $b$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $a + b + c$. [b]p15.[/b] Euler's totient function, $\phi (n)$, is defined as the number of positive integers less than $n$ that are relatively prime to $n$. Let $S(n)$ be the set of composite divisors of $n$. Evaluate $$\sum^{50}_{k=1}\left( k - \sum_{d\in S(k)} \phi (d) \right)$$ PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

If all vertices of a triangle on the square grid are grid points, then the triangle is called a [i]lattice[/i] triangle. What is the area of the lattice triangle with (one) of the smallest area, if one grid has area $1$ square unit?

Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral, $I_1$ and $I_2$ be the incenters of triangles $ABC$ and $DBC$ respectively. The line $I_1I_2$ intersects the lines $AB$ and $DC$ at points $E$ and $F$ respectively. Given that $AB$ and $CD$ intersect in $P$, and $PE=PF$, prove that the points $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$ lie on a circle.

Let $O$ be the circumcenter of an acute triangle $ABC$. Line $OA$ intersects the altitudes of $ABC$ through $B$ and $C$ at $P$ and $Q$, respectively. The altitudes meet at $H$. Prove that the circumcenter of triangle $PQH$ lies on a median of triangle $ABC$.

A triangle has area $30$, one side of length $10$, and the median to that side of length $9$. Let $\theta$ be the acute angle formed by that side and the median. What is $\sin{\theta}$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{3}{10}\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{1}{3}\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{9}{20}\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{2}{3}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{9}{10} $

Let $ABC$ be a triangle and $X$ be a point on its circumcircle. $Q,P$ lie on a line $BC$ such that $XQ\perp AC , XP\perp AB$. Let $Y$ be the circumcenter of $\triangle XQP$. Prove that $ABC$ is equilateral triangle if and if only $Y$ moves on a circle when $X$ varies on the circumcircle of $ABC$.

Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle with $AB \ne BC$ and radius $k$. Let $P$ and $Q$ be the points of intersection of $k$ with the internal bisector and the external bisector of $\angle CBA$ respectively. Let $D$ be the intersection of $AC$ and $PQ$. Find the ratio $AD: DC$.

$ABC$ is a triangle with $\angle{B}>45^{\circ}$ , $\angle{C}>45^{\circ}$. We draw the isosceles triangles $CAM,BAN$ on the sides $AC,AB$ and outside the triangle, respectively, such that $\angle{CAM}=\angle{BAN}=90^{\circ}$. And we draw isosceles triangle $BPC$ on the side $BC$ and inside the triangle such that $\angle{BPC}=90^{\circ}$. Prove that $\Delta{MPN}$ is an isosceles triangle, too, and $\angle{MPN}=90^{\circ}$.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with incenter $I,$ and let $D,E,F$ be the midpoints of sides $BC, CA, AB$, respectively. Lines $BI$ and $DE$ meet at $P $ and lines $CI$ and $DF$ meet at $Q$. Line $PQ$ meets sides $AB$ and $AC$ at $T$ and $S$, respectively. Prove that $AS = AT$

Given a triangle $ ABC$. Let $ G$, $ I$, $ H$ be the centroid, the incenter and the orthocenter of triangle $ ABC$, respectively. Prove that $ \angle GIH > 90^{\circ}$.

[u][b]The author of this posting is : Peter VDD[/b][/u] ____________________________________________________________________ most of us didn't really expect to get this, but here it goes (flanders mathematical olympiad 2004, today) triangle with sides 501m, 668m, 835m how many lines can be draws so that the line halves both area and circumference?

Fix a positive integer $n\ge 2$. For any cyclic $2n$-gon $P_1 P_2\cdots P_{2n}$ in this order, define its score as the maximal possible value of $$\angle P_iXP_{i+1} + \angle P_{i+n}XP_{i+n+1}$$ across all $1\le i\le n$ (indices modulo $n$), and over all points $X$ inside the $2n$-gon including its boundary. Prove that there exist a real number $r$ such that a cyclic $2n$-gon is regular if and only if it has score $r$. [i]Proposed by Wong Jer Ren[/i]

For a set $S$ of at least $3$ points in the plane, let $d_{\text{min}}$ denote the minimal distance between two different points in $S$ and $d_{\text{max}}$ the maximal distance between two different points in $S$. For a real $c>0$, a set $S$ will be called $c$-[i]balanced[/i] if \[\frac{d_{\text{max}}}{d_{\text{min}}}\leq c|S|\] Prove that there exists a real $c>0$ so that for every $c$-balanced set of points $S$, there exists a triangle with vertices in $S$ that contains at least $\sqrt{|S|}$ elements of $S$ in its interior or on its boundary.

Determine all integers $m$ for which the $m \times m$ square can be dissected into five rectangles, the side lengths of which are the integers $1,2,3,\ldots,10$ in some order.

[b]p1.[/b] There is a string of numbers $1234567891023...910134 ...91012...$ that concatenates the numbers $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$, $10$, then $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$, $10$, $1$, then $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$, $10$, $1$, $2$, and so on. After $10$, $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$, the string will be concatenated with $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$, $10$ again. What is the $2021$st digit? [b]p2.[/b] Bob really likes eating rice. Bob starts eating at the rate of $1$ bowl of rice per minute. Every minute, the number of bowls of rice Bob eats per minute increases by $1$. Given there are $78$ bowls of rice, find number of minutes Bob needs to finish all the rice. [b]p3.[/b] Suppose John has $4$ fair coins, one red, one blue, one yellow, one green. If John flips all $4$ coins at once, the probability he will land exactly $3$ heads and land heads on both the blue and red coins can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for relatively prime positive integers $a$, $b$, Find $a + b$. [b]p4.[/b] Three of the sides of an isosceles trapezoid have lengths $1$, $10$, $20$ Find the sum of all possible values of the fourth side. [b]p5.[/b] An number two-three-delightful if and only if it can be expressed as the product of $2$ consecutive integers larger than $1$ and as the product of $3$ consecutive integers larger than $1$. What is the smallest two-three-delightful number? [b]p6.[/b] There are $3$ students total in Justin's online chemistry class. On a $100$ point test, Justin's two classmates scored $4$ and $7$ points. The teacher notices that the class median score is equal to $gcd(x, 42)$, where the positive integer $x$ is Justin's score. Find the sum of all possible values of Justin's score. [b]p7.[/b] Eddie's gym class of $10$ students decides to play ping pong. However, there are only $4$ tables and only $2$ people can play at a table. If $8$ students are randomly selected to play and randomly assigned a partner to play against at a table, the probability that Eddie plays against Allen is $\frac{a}{b}$ for relatively prime positive integers $a$, $b$, Find $a + b$. [b]p8.[/b] Let $S$ be the set of integers $k$ consisting of nonzero digits, such that $300 < k < 400$ and $k - 300$ is not divisible by $11$. For each $k$ in $S$, let $A(k)$ denote the set of integers in $S$ not equal to $k$ that can be formed by permuting the digits of $k$. Find the number of integers $k$ in $S$ such that $k$ is relatively prime to all elements of $A(k)$. [b]p9.[/b] In $\vartriangle ABC$, $AB = 6$ and $BC = 5$. Point $D$ is on side $AC$ such that $BD$ bisects angle $\angle ABC$. Let $E$ be the foot of the altitude from $D$ to $AB$. Given $BE = 4$, find $AC^2$. [b]p10.[/b] For each integer $1 \le n \le 10$, Abe writes the number $2^n + 1$ on a blackboard. Each minute, he takes two numbers $a$ and $b$, erases them, and writes $\frac{ab-1}{a+b-2}$ instead. After $9$ minutes, there is one number $C$ left on the board. The minimum possible value of $C$ can be expressed as $\frac{p}{q}$ for relatively prime positive integers $p, q$. Find $p + q$. [b]p11.[/b] Estimation (Tiebreaker) Let $A$ and $B$ be the proportions of contestants that correctly answered Questions $9$ and $10$ of this round, respectively. Estimate $\left \lfloor \dfrac{1}{(AB)^2} \right \rfloor$ PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB > AC$ with incenter $I{}$. The internal bisector of the angle $BAC$ intersects the $BC$ at the point $D{}$. Let $M{}$ the midpoint of the segment $AD{}$, and let $F{}$ be the second intersection point of $MB$ with the circumcircle of the triangle $BIC$. Prove that $AF$ is perpendicular to $FC$.

Prove that it is not possible to cover a $6\times 6$ square board with eighteen $2\times 1$ rectangles, in such a way that each of the lines going along the interior gridlines cuts at least one of the rectangles. Show also that it is possible to cover a $6\times 5$ rectangle with fifteen $2\times 1 $ rectangles so that the above condition is fulfilled.