Found problems: 429
For each prime $p$, construct a graph $G_p$ on $\{1,2,\ldots p\}$, where $m\neq n$ are adjacent if and only if $p$ divides $(m^{2} + 1-n)(n^{2} + 1-m)$. Prove that $G_p$ is disconnected for infinitely many $p$
Find the largest positive integer $k{}$ for which there exists a convex polyhedron $\mathcal{P}$ with 2022 edges, which satisfies the following properties:
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[*]The degrees of the vertices of $\mathcal{P}$ don’t differ by more than one, and
[*]It is possible to colour the edges of $\mathcal{P}$ with $k{}$ colours such that for every colour $c{}$, and every pair of vertices $(v_1, v_2)$ of $\mathcal{P}$, there is a monochromatic path between $v_1$ and $v_2$ in the colour $c{}$.
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[i]Viktor Simjanoski, Macedonia[/i]
At a meeting of $ 12k$ people, each person exchanges greetings with exactly $ 3k\plus{}6$ others. For any two people, the number who exchange greetings with both is the same. How many people are at the meeting?
Call the ordered pair of distinct circles $(\omega, \gamma)$ scribable if there exists a triangle with circumcircle $\omega$ and incircle $\gamma$. Prove that among $n$ distinct circles there are at most $(n/2)^2$ scribable pairs.
[i]Proposed by Daniel Liu
Let $p$ be an odd prime and $n$ a positive integer. In the coordinate plane, eight distinct points with integer coordinates lie on a circle with diameter of length $p^{n}$. Prove that there exists a triangle with vertices at three of the given points such that the squares of its side lengths are integers divisible by $p^{n+1}$.
[i]Proposed by Alexander Ivanov, Bulgaria[/i]
Consider $2018$ pairwise crossing circles no three of which are concurrent. These circles subdivide the plane into regions bounded by circular $edges$ that meet at $vertices$. Notice that there are an even number of vertices on each circle. Given the circle, alternately colour the vertices on that circle red and blue. In doing so for each circle, every vertex is coloured twice- once for each of the two circle that cross at that point. If the two colours agree at a vertex, then it is assigned that colour; otherwise, it becomes yellow. Show that, if some circle contains at least $2061$ yellow points, then the vertices of some region are all yellow.
Proposed by [i]India[/i]
$n$ is a positive integer. An equilateral triangle of side length $3n$ is split into $9n^2$ unit equilateral triangles, each colored one of red, yellow, blue, such that each color appears $3n^2$ times. We call a trapezoid formed by three unit equilateral triangles as a "standard trapezoid". If a "standard trapezoid" contains all three colors, we call it a "colorful trapezoid". Find the maximum possible number of "colorful trapezoids".
There are 20 students in a high school class, and each student has exactly three close friends in the class. Five of the students have bought tickets to an upcoming concert. If any student sees that at least two of their close friends have bought tickets, then they will buy a ticket too.
Is it possible that the entire class buys tickets to the concert?
(Assume that friendship is mutual; if student $A$ is close friends with student $B$, then $B$ is close friends with $A$.)
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Define a chameleon to be any sequence of $3n$ letters, with exactly $n$ occurrences of each of the letters $a, b,$ and $c$. Define a swap to be the transposition of two adjacent letters in a chameleon. Prove that for any chameleon $X$ , there exists a chameleon $Y$ such that $X$ cannot be changed to $Y$ using fewer than $3n^2/2$ swaps.
There are $ n \geq 5$ pairwise different points in the plane. For every point, there are just four points whose distance from which is $ 1$. Find the maximum value of $ n$.
Let ${n}$ and $k$ be positive integers. There are given ${n}$ circles in the plane. Every two of them intersect at two distinct points, and all points of intersection they determine are pairwise distinct (i. e. no three circles have a common point). No three circles have a point in common. Each intersection point must be colored with one of $n$ distinct colors so that each color is used at least once and exactly $k$ distinct colors occur on each circle. Find all values of $n\geq 2$ and $k$ for which such a coloring is possible.
[i]Proposed by Horst Sewerin, Germany[/i]
On the Cartesian plane the curve $(C)$ has equation $x^2=y^3$. A line $d$ varies on the plane such that $d$ always cut $(C)$ at three distinct points with $x$-coordinates $x_1,\, x_2,\, x_3$.
a. Prove that the following quantity is a constant:
$$\sqrt[3]{\frac{x_1x_2}{x_3^2}}+\sqrt[3]{\frac{x_2x_3}{x_1^2}}+\sqrt[3]{\frac{x_3x_1}{x_2^2}}.$$
b. Prove the following inequality:
$$\sqrt[3]{\frac{x_1^2}{x_2x_3}}+\sqrt[3]{\frac{x_2^2}{x_3x_1}}+\sqrt[3]{\frac{x_3^2}{x_3x_1}}<-\frac{15}{4}.$$
Some club has 42 members. It’s known that among 31 arbitrary club members, we can find one pair of a boy and a girl that they know each other. Show that from club members we can choose 12 pairs of knowing each other boys and girls.
A [i]site[/i] is any point $(x, y)$ in the plane such that $x$ and $y$ are both positive integers less than or equal to 20.
Initially, each of the 400 sites is unoccupied. Amy and Ben take turns placing stones with Amy going first. On her turn, Amy places a new red stone on an unoccupied site such that the distance between any two sites occupied by red stones is not equal to $\sqrt{5}$. On his turn, Ben places a new blue stone on any unoccupied site. (A site occupied by a blue stone is allowed to be at any distance from any other occupied site.) They stop as soon as a player cannot place a stone.
Find the greatest $K$ such that Amy can ensure that she places at least $K$ red stones, no matter how Ben places his blue stones.
[i]Proposed by Gurgen Asatryan, Armenia[/i]
An equilateral triangle is divided into $25$ equal equilateral triangles labelled by $1$ through $25$. Prove that one can find two triangles having a common side whose labels differ by more than $3$.
Consider an $n$-by-$n$ board of unit squares for some odd positive integer $n$. We say that a collection $C$ of identical dominoes is a [i]maximal grid-aligned configuration[/i] on the board if $C$ consists of $(n^2-1)/2$ dominoes where each domino covers exactly two neighboring squares and the dominoes don't overlap: $C$ then covers all but one square on the board. We are allowed to slide (but not rotate) a domino on the board to cover the uncovered square, resulting in a new maximal grid-aligned configuration with another square uncovered. Let $k(C)$ be the number of distinct maximal grid-aligned configurations obtainable from $C$ by repeatedly sliding dominoes. Find all possible values of $k(C)$ as a function of $n$.
[i]Proposed by Holden Mui[/i]
Let $S = \{1, \dots, n\}$. Given a bijection $f : S \to S$ an [i]orbit[/i] of $f$ is a set of the form $\{x, f(x), f(f(x)), \dots \}$ for some $x \in S$. We denote by $c(f)$ the number of distinct orbits of $f$. For example, if $n=3$ and $f(1)=2$, $f(2)=1$, $f(3)=3$, the two orbits are $\{1,2\}$ and $\{3\}$, hence $c(f)=2$.
Given $k$ bijections $f_1$, $\ldots$, $f_k$ from $S$ to itself, prove that \[ c(f_1) + \dots + c(f_k) \le n(k-1) + c(f) \] where $f : S \to S$ is the composed function $f_1 \circ \dots \circ f_k$.
[i]Proposed by Maria Monks Gillespie[/i]
Let $S$ be an infinite set of positive integers, such that there exist four pairwise distinct $a,b,c,d \in S$ with $\gcd(a,b) \neq \gcd(c,d)$. Prove that there exist three pairwise distinct $x,y,z \in S$ such that $\gcd(x,y)=\gcd(y,z) \neq \gcd(z,x)$.
There are 2023 employees in the office, each of them knowing exactly $1686$ of the others. For any pair of employees they either both know each other or both don’t know each other. Prove that we can find $7$ employees each of them knowing all $6$ others.
[i]Biribol[/i] is a game played between two teams of 4 people each (teams are not fixed). Find all the possible values of $ n$ for which it is possible to arrange a tournament with $ n$ players in such a way that every couple of people plays a match in opposite teams exactly once.
Let $n$ and $k$ be positive integers. Two infinite sequences $\{s_i\}_{i\geq 1}$ and $\{t_i\}_{i\geq 1}$ are [i]equivalent[/i] if, for all positive integers $i$ and $j$, $s_i = s_j$ if and only if $t_i = t_j$. A sequence $\{r_i\}_{i\geq 1}$ has [i]equi-period[/i] $k$ if $r_1, r_2, \ldots $ and $r_{k+1}, r_{k+2}, \ldots$ are equivalent.
Suppose $M$ infinite sequences with equi-period $k$ whose terms are in the set $\{1, \ldots, n\}$ can be chosen such that no two chosen sequences are equivalent to each other. Determine the largest possible value of $M$ in terms of $n$ and $k$.
On the football training there was $n$ footballers - forwards and goalkeepers. They made $k$ goals. Prove that main trainer can give for every footballer squad number from $1$ to $n$ such, that for every goal the difference between squad number of forward and squad number of goalkeeper is more than $n-k$.
[i](S. Berlov)[/i]
The Fibonacci numbers $F_0, F_1, F_2, . . .$ are defined inductively by $F_0=0, F_1=1$, and $F_{n+1}=F_n+F_{n-1}$ for $n \ge 1$. Given an integer $n \ge 2$, determine the smallest size of a set $S$ of integers such that for every $k=2, 3, . . . , n$ there exist some $x, y \in S$ such that $x-y=F_k$.
[i]Proposed by Croatia[/i]
Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane such that no four points are collinear. Let $\{d_1,d_2,\cdots ,d_k\}$ be the set of distances between pairs of distinct points in $S$, and let $m_i$ be the multiplicity of $d_i$, i.e. the number of unordered pairs $\{P,Q\}\subseteq S$ with $|PQ|=d_i$. Prove that $\sum_{i=1}^k m_i^2\leq n^3-n^2$.
Each two of $n$ students, who attended an activity, have different ages. It is given that each student shook hands with at least one student, who did not shake hands with anyone younger than the other. Find all possible values of $n$.