(a) Sketch qualitativly the region with maximum area such that it lies in the first quadrant and is bound by $y=x^2-x^3$ and $y=kx$ where $k$ is a constent. The region must not have any other lines closing it. Note: $kx$ lies above $x^2-x^3$ (b) Find an expression for the volume of the solid obtained by spinning this region about the $y$ axis.

Five points $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$ and $E$ lie on a circle $\tau$ clockwise in that order such that $AB \parallel CE$ and $\angle ABC > 90^{\circ}$. Let $k$ be a circle tangent to $AD$, $CE$ and $\tau$ such that $k$ and $\tau$ touch on the arc $\widehat{DE}$ not containing $A$, $B$ and $C$. Let $F \neq A$ be the intersection of $\tau$ and the tangent line to $k$ passing through $A$ different from $AD$. Prove that there exists a circle tangent to $BD$, $BF$, $CE$ and $\tau$.

Square $PQRS$ lies in the first quadrant. Points $(3,0), (5,0), (7,0),$ and $(13,0)$ lie on lines $SP, RQ, PQ$, and $SR$, respectively. What is the sum of the coordinates of the center of the square $PQRS$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 6\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 6.2\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 6.4\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 6.6\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 6.8 $

[b]p1.[/b] Sarah needed a ride home to the farm from town. She telephoned for her father to come and get her with the pickup truck. Being eager to get home, she began walking toward the farm as soon as she hung up the phone. However, her father had to finish milking the cows, so could not leave to get her until fifteen minutes after she called. He drove rapidly to make up for lost time. They met on the road, turned right around and drove back to the farm at two-thirds of the speed her father drove coming. They got to the farm two hours after she had called. She walked and he drove both ways at constant rates of speed. How many minutes did she spend walking? [b]p2.[/b] Let $A = (a,b)$ be any point in a coordinate plane distinct from the origin $O$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $OA$, and let $P$ be a point such that $MP$ is perpendicular to $OA$ and the lengths $\overline{MP}$ and $\overline{OM}$ are equal. Determine the coordinates $(x,y)$ of $P$ in terms of $a$ and $b$. Give all possible solutions. [b]p3.[/b] Determine the exact sum of the series $$\frac{1}{1 \cdot 2\cdot 3} + \frac{1}{2\cdot 3\cdot 4} + \frac{1}{3\cdot 4\cdot 5} + ... + \frac{1}{98\cdot 99\cdot 100}$$ [b]p4.[/b] A six pound weight is attached to a four foot nylon cord that is looped over two pegs in the manner shown in the drawing. At $B$ the cord passes through a small loop in its end. The two pegs $A$ and $C$ are one foot apart and are on the same level. When the weight is released the system obtains an equilibrium position. Determine angle $ABC$ for this equilibrium position, and verify your answer. (Your verification should assume that friction and the weight of the cord are both negligible, and that the tension throughout the cord is a constant six pounds.) [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/1/620c59e678185f01ca8743c39423234d5ba04d.png[/img] [b]p5.[/b] The four corners of a rectangle have the property that when they are taken three at a time, they determine triangles all of which have the same perimeter. We will consider whether a set of five points can have this property. Let $S = \{p_1, p_2, p_3, p_4, p_5\}$ be a set of five points. For each $i$ and $j$, let $d_{ij}$ denote the distance from $p_i$ to $p_j$. Suppose that $S$ has the property that all triangles with vertices in $S$ have the same perimeter. (a) Prove that $d$ must be the same for every pair $(i,j)$ with $i \ne j$. (b) Can such a five-element set be found in three dimensional space? Justify your answer. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let \(ABC\) be a triangle. Let \(B'\) denote the reflection of \(b\) in the internal angle bisector \(l\) of \(\angle A\).Show that the circumcentre of the triangle \(CB'I\) lies on the line \(l\) where \(I\) is the incentre of \(ABC\).

.Let $CH$ be an altitude of right-angled triangle $ABC$ ($\angle C = 90^o$), $HA_1$, $HB_1$ be the bisectors of angles $CHB$, $AHC$ respectively, and $E, F$ be the midpoints of $HB_1$ and $HA_1$ respectively. Prove that the lines $AE$ and $BF$ meet on the bisector of angle $ACB$.

A uniform circular disc is suspended in a horizontal position on a string attached to its center $ O $. At three different points $ A $, $ B $, $ C $ on the edge of the disc, weights $ p_1 $, $ p_2 $, $ p_3 $ are placed, after which the disc remains in equilibrium. Calculate angles $ AOB $, $ BOC $, and $ COA $.

On the plane there are two cylindrical towers with radii of bases $r$ and $R$. Find the set of all those points of the plane from which these towers are visible at the same angle. Consider the case of more towers.

In a $\triangle XYZ$, points $A,B$ lie on segment $ZX, C,D$ lie on segment $XY , E, F$ lie on segment $YZ$. $A, B, C, D$ lie on a circle, and $\frac{AZ \cdot EY \cdot ZB \cdot Y F}{EZ \cdot CY \cdot ZF \cdot Y D}= 1$ . Let $L = ZX \cap DE$, $M = XY \cap AF$, $N = Y Z \cap BC$. Prove that $L,M,N$ are collinear.

a) Let $ABC$ be a triangle and a point $I$ lies inside the triangle. Assume $\angle IBA > \angle ICA$ and $\angle IBC >\angle ICB$. Prove that, if extensions of $BI$, $CI$ intersect $AC$, $AB$ at $B'$, $C'$ respectively, then $BB' < CC'$. b) Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB < AC$ and angle bisector $AD$. Prove that for every point $I, J$ on the segment $[AD]$ and $I \ne J$, we always have $\angle JBI > \angle JCI$. c) Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB < AC$ and angle bisector $AD$. Choose $M, N$ on segments $CD$ and $BD$, respectively, such that $AD$ is the bisector of angle $\angle MAN$. On the segment $[AD]$ take an arbitrary point $I$ (other than $D$). The lines $BI$, $CI$ intersect $AM$, $AN$ at $B', C'$. Prove that $BB' < CC'$.

Prove that if a triangle has integral side lengths and its circumradius is a prime number then the triangle is right-angled.

Show that it is impossible to cover a unit square with five equal squares with side $s<\frac{1}{2}$.

Let $ABC$ be an isosceles triangle with $AB=AC$. Let $D$ be a point on the segment $BC$ such that $BD=2DC$. Let $P$ be a point on the segment $AD$ such that $\angle BAC=\angle BPD$. Prove that $\angle BAC=2\angle DPC$.

In an acute triangle $ABC$ the point $O{}$ is the circumcenter, $H_1$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $A{}$ onto $BC$, and $M_H$ and $N_H$ are the projections of $H_1$ on $AC$ and $AB{}$, respectively. Prove that the polyline $M_HON_H$ divides the triangle $ABC$ in two figures of equal area. [i]Proposed by I. A. Kushner[/i]

Let $L$ be a circle with center $O$ and tangent to sides $AB$ and $AC$ of a triangle $ABC$ in points $E$ and $F$, respectively. Let the perpendicular from $O$ to $BC$ meet $EF$ at $D$. Prove that $A,D$ and $M$ are collinear, where $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$.

[i]20 problems for 25 minutes.[/i] [b]p1.[/b] Ben was trying to solve for $x$ in the equation $6 + x = 1$. Unfortunately, he was reading upside-down and misread the equation as $1 = x + 9$. What is the positive difference between Ben's answer and the correct answer? [b]p2.[/b] Anjali and Meili each have a chocolate bar shaped like a rectangular box. Meili's bar is four times as long as Anjali's, while Anjali's is three times as wide and twice as thick as Meili's. What is the ratio of the volume of Anjali's chocolate to the volume of Meili's chocolate? [b]p3.[/b] For any two nonnegative integers $m, n$, not both zero, define $m?n = m^n + n^m$. Compute the value of $((2?0)?1)?7$. [b]p4.[/b] Eliza is making an in-scale model of the Phillips Exeter Academy library, and her prototype is a cube with side length $6$ inches. The real library is shaped like a cube with side length $120$ feet, and it contains an entrance chamber in the front. If the chamber in Eliza's model is $0.8$ inches wide, how wide is the real chamber, in feet? [b]p5.[/b] One day, Isaac begins sailing from Marseille to New York City. On the exact same day, Evan begins sailing from New York City to Marseille along the exact same route as Isaac. If Marseille and New York are exactly $3000$ miles apart, and Evan sails exactly 40 miles per day, how many miles must Isaac sail each day to meet Evan's ship in $30$ days? [b]p6.[/b] The conversion from Celsius temperature C to Fahrenheit temperature F is: $$F = 1.8C + 32.$$ If the lowest temperature at Exeter one day was $20^o$ F, and the next day the lowest temperature was $5^o$ C higher, what would be the lowest temperature that day, in degrees Fahrenheit? [b]p7.[/b] In a school, $60\%$ of the students are boys and $40\%$ are girls. Given that $40\%$ of the boys like math and $50\%$ of the people who like math are girls, what percentage of girls like math? [b]p8.[/b] Adam and Victor go to an ice cream shop. There are four sizes available (kiddie, small, medium, large) and seventeen different flavors, including three that contain chocolate. If Victor insists on getting a size at least as large as Adam's, and Adam refuses to eat anything with chocolate, how many different ways are there for the two of them to order ice cream? [b]p9.[/b] There are $10$ (not necessarily distinct) positive integers with arithmetic mean $10$. Determine the maximum possible range of the integers. (The range is defined to be the nonnegative difference between the largest and smallest number within a list of numbers.) [b]p10.[/b] Find the sum of all distinct prime factors of $11! - 10! + 9!$. [b]p11.[/b] Inside regular hexagon $ZUMING$, construct square $FENG$. What fraction of the area of the hexagon is occupied by rectangle $FUME$? [b]p12.[/b] How many ordered pairs $(x, y)$ of nonnegative integers satisfy the equation $4^x \cdot 8^y = 16^{10}$? [b]p13.[/b] In triangle $ABC$ with $BC = 5$, $CA = 13$, and $AB = 12$, Points $E$ and $F$ are chosen on sides $AC$ and $AB$, respectively, such that $EF \parallel BC$. Given that triangle $AEF$ and trapezoid $EFBC$ have the same perimeter, find the length of $EF$. [b]p14.[/b] Find the number of two-digit positive integers with exactly $6$ positive divisors. (Note that $1$ and $n$ are both counted among the divisors of a number $n$.) [b]p15.[/b] How many ways are there to put two identical red marbles, two identical green marbles, and two identical blue marbles in a row such that no red marble is next to a green marble? [b]p16.[/b] Every day, Yannick submits $8$ more problems to the EMCC problem database than he did the previous day. Every day, Vinjai submits twice as many problems to the EMCC problem database as he did the previous day. If Yannick and Vinjai initially both submit one problem to the database on a Monday, on what day of the week will the total number of Vinjai's problems first exceed the total number of Yannick's problems? [b]p17.[/b] The tiny island nation of Konistan is a cone with height twelve meters and base radius nine meters, with the base of the cone at sea level. If the sea level rises four meters, what is the surface area of Konistan that is still above water, in square meters? [b]p18.[/b] Nicky likes to doodle. On a convex octagon, he starts from a random vertex and doodles a path, which consists of seven line segments between vertices. At each step, he chooses a vertex randomly among all unvisited vertices to visit, such that the path goes through all eight vertices and does not visit the same vertex twice. What is the probability that this path does not cross itself? [b]p19.[/b] In a right-angled trapezoid $ABCD$, $\angle B = \angle C = 90^o$, $AB = 20$, $CD = 17$, and $BC = 37$. A line perpendicular to $DA$ intersects segment $BC$ and $DA$ at $P$ and $Q$ respectively and separates the trapezoid into two quadrilaterals with equal area. Determine the length of $BP$. [b]p20.[/b] A sequence of integers $a_i$ is defined by $a_1 = 1$ and $a_{i+1} = 3i - 2a_i$ for all integers $i \ge 1$. Given that $a_{15} = 5476$, compute the sum $a_1 + a_2 + a_3 + ...+ a_{15}$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $D$ and $E$ be points on the sides $BC$ and $AC$ of the triangle $\triangle ABC$, respectively. The circumcircle of $\triangle ADC$ meets the circumcircle of $\triangle BCE$ for the second time at $F$. The line $FE$ meets the line $AD$ at $G$, while the line $FD$ meets the line $BE$ at $H$. Prove that the lines $CF$, $AH$ and $BG$ pass through the same point. [i]Authored by Petar Filipovski[/i]

Let $ H $ be the orthocenter of $ ABC $ and $ A',B',C', $ the symmetric points of $ A,B,C $ with respect to $ H. $ The intersection of the segments $ BC,CA, AB $ with the circles of diameter $ A'H,B'H, $ respectively, $ C'H, $ consists of $ 6 $ points. Prove that these are concyclic.

Let $A$ be a solid $a\times b\times c$ rectangular brick, where $a,b,c>0$. Let $B$ be the set of all points which are a distance of at most one from some point of $A$. Express the volume of $B$ as a polynomial in $a,b,$ and $c$.

Prove that every convex $n$-gon of area $1$ contains a quadrilateral of area at least $\frac12 $. .

Two segments slide along two skew lines. On each straight line there is a segment. Consider the tetrahedron with vertices at the endpoints of the segments. Prove that the volume of the tetrahedron does not depend on the position of the segments

Two segment $AB,CD$ of the same length are given in plane such that lines $AB,CD$ are not parallel. Consider a point $S$ with the following property: the image of segment $AB$ under point reflection with respect to $S$ is identical to the mirror-image of segment $CD$ with respect to some axis. Find the locus of all such points $S.$

[b]p1.[/b] Find all integer solutions of the equation $a^2 - b^2 = 2002$. [b]p2.[/b] Prove that the disks drawn on the sides of a convex quadrilateral as on diameters cover this quadrilateral. [b]p3.[/b] $30$ students from one school came to Mathematical Olympiad. In how many different ways is it possible to place them in four rooms? [b]p4.[/b] A $12$ liter container is filled with gasoline. How to split it in two equal parts using two empty $5$ and $8$ liter containers? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

[u]Set 3[/u] [b]p7.[/b] On unit square $ABCD$, a point $P$ is selected on segment $CD$ such that $DP =\frac14$ . The segment $BP$ is drawn and its intersection with diagonal $AC$ is marked as $E$. What is the area of triangle $AEP$? [b]p8.[/b] Five distinct points are arranged on a plane, creating ten pairs of distinct points. Seven pairs of points are distance $1$ apart, two pairs of points are distance $\sqrt3$ apart, and one pair of points is distance $2$ apart. Draw a line segment from one of these points to the midpoint of a pair of these points. What is the longest this line segment can be? [b]p9.[/b] The inhabitants of Mars use a base $8$ system. Mandrew Mellon is competing in the annual Martian College Interesting Competition of Math (MCICM). The first question asks to compute the product of the base $8$ numerals $1245415_8$, $7563265_8$, and $ 6321473_8$. Mandrew correctly computed the product in his scratch work, but when he looked back he realized he smudged the middle digit. He knows that the product is $1014133027\blacksquare 27662041138$. What is the missing digit? PS. You should use hide for answers.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $\angle B > \angle C$. Let $P$ and $Q$ be two different points on line $AC$ such that $\angle PBA = \angle QBA = \angle ACB $ and $A$ is located between $P$ and $C$. Suppose that there exists an interior point $D$ of segment $BQ$ for which $PD=PB$. Let the ray $AD$ intersect the circle $ABC$ at $R \neq A$. Prove that $QB = QR$.