In a school, every pair of students are either friends or strangers. Friendship is mutual, and no student is friends with themselves. A sequence of (not necessarily distinct) students $A_1, A_2, \dots, A_{2023}$ is called [i]mischievous[/i] if $\bullet$ Total number of friends of $A_1$ is odd. $\bullet$ $A_i$ and $A_{i+1}$ are friends for $i=1, 2, \dots, 2022$. $\bullet$ Total number of friends of $A_{2023}$ is even. Prove that the total number of [i]mischievous[/i] sequences is even.

Each edge of a complete graph on $30$ vertices is coloured either red or blue. It is allowed to choose a non-monochromatic triangle and change the colour of the two edges of the same colour to make the triangle monochromatic. Prove that by using this operation repeatedly it is possible to make the entire graph monochromatic. (A complete graph is a graph where any two vertices are connected by an edge.)

Given any positive real number $\varepsilon$, prove that, for all but finitely many positive integers $v$, any graph on $v$ vertices with at least $(1+\varepsilon)v$ edges has two distinct simple cycles of equal lengths. (Recall that the notion of a simple cycle does not allow repetition of vertices in a cycle.) [i]Fedor Petrov, Russia[/i]

Starting at a vertex $x_0$, we walk over the edges of a connected graph $G$ according to the following rules: 1. We never walk the same edge twice in the same direction. 2. Once we reach a vertex $x \ne x_0$, never visited before, we mark the edge by which we come to $x$. We can use this marked edge to leave vertex $x$ only if we already have traversed, in both directions, all other edges incident to $x$. Show that, regardless of the path followed, we will always be stuck at $x_0$ and that all other edges will have been traveled in both directions.

Euler marks $n$ different points in the Euclidean plane. For each pair of marked points, Gauss writes down the number $\lfloor \log_2 d \rfloor$ where $d$ is the distance between the two points. Prove that Gauss writes down less than $2n$ distinct values. [i]Note:[/i] For any $d>0$, $\lfloor \log_2 d\rfloor$ is the unique integer $k$ such that $2^k\le d<2^{k+1}$. [i]Proposed by Pranjal Srivastava[/i]

$f,g$ are two permutations of set $X=\{1,\dots,n\}$. We say $f,g$ have common points iff there is a $k\in X$ that $f(k)=g(k)$. a) If $m>\frac{n}{2}$, prove that there are $m$ permutations $f_{1},f_{2},\dots,f_{m}$ from $X$ that for each permutation $f\in X$, there is an index $i$ that $f,f_{i}$ have common points. b) Prove that if $m\leq\frac{n}{2}$, we can not find permutations $f_{1},f_{2},\dots,f_{m}$ satisfying the above condition.

In a football tournament $2n$ teams play in a round. Every round consists of $n$ pairs of teams that haven’t played with each other yet. Every round’s schedule is determined before the round is held. Find the minimal positive integer $k$ such that the following situation is possible: after $k$ rounds it’s impossible to schedule the next round.

Let $G$ be the complete graph on $2015$ vertices. Each edge of $G$ is dyed red, blue or white. For a subset $V$ of vertices of $G$, and a pair of vertices $(u,v)$, define \[ L(u,v) = \{ u,v \} \cup \{ w | w \in V \ni \triangle{uvw} \text{ has exactly 2 red sides} \}\]Prove that, for any choice of $V$, there exist at least $120$ distinct values of $L(u,v)$.

One quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system is tiled with $1\times 2$ dominoes. The dominoes don’t overlap with each other, they cover the entire quadrant and they all fit in the quadrant. Farringdon the flea is initially sitting at the origin and is allowed to jump from one corner of a domino to the opposite corner any number of times. Is it possible that the dominoes are arranged in such a way that Farringdon is unable to move to a distance greater than 2023 from the origin?

In a school with $2022$ students, either a museum trip or a nature trip is organized every day during a holiday. No student participates in the same type of trip twice, and the number of students attending each trip is different. If there are no two students participating in the same two trips together, find the maximum number of trips held.

From a collection of $n$ persons $q$ distinct two-member teams are selected and ranked $1, \cdots, q$ (no ties). Let $m$ be the least integer larger than or equal to $2q/n$. Show that there are $m$ distinct teams that may be listed so that : [b](i)[/b] each pair of consecutive teams on the list have one member in common and [b](ii)[/b] the chain of teams on the list are in rank order. [i]Alternative formulation.[/i] Given a graph with $n$ vertices and $q$ edges numbered $1, \cdots , q$, show that there exists a chain of $m$ edges, $m \geq \frac{2q}{n}$ , each two consecutive edges having a common vertex, arranged monotonically with respect to the numbering.

A group of mathematicians is attending a conference. We say that a mathematician is $k-$[i]content[/i] if he is in a room with at least $k$ people he admires or if he is admired by at least $k$ other people in the room. It is known that when all participants are in a same room then they are all at least $3k + 1$-content. Prove that you can assign everyone into one of $2$ rooms in a way that everyone is at least $k$-content in his room and neither room is empty. [i]Admiration is not necessarily mutual and no one admires himself.[/i] [i]Matija Bucić[/i]

In a given group of people $\mathcal{F}$, each member has at least two acquaintances from $\mathcal{F}$. Moreover, for each cycle $A_{1} \leftrightarrow A_{2} \leftrightarrow ... \leftrightarrow A_{n} \leftrightarrow A_{1}$ in $\mathcal{F}$ (here '$X \leftrightarrow Y$' means that $X$ and $Y$ are acquaintances), each $A_i$ knows exactly two other members $A_j$ of the cycle. Prove that there exist $X, Y \in \mathcal{F}$ such that each of them has exactly two acquaintances in $\mathcal{F}$, and $X, Y$ have at least one common acquaintance in the group. [i]Authored by Mirko Petrusevski[/i]

A social network has $2019$ users, some pairs of whom are friends. Whenever user $A$ is friends with user $B$, user $B$ is also friends with user $A$. Events of the following kind may happen repeatedly, one at a time: [list] [*] Three users $A$, $B$, and $C$ such that $A$ is friends with both $B$ and $C$, but $B$ and $C$ are not friends, change their friendship statuses such that $B$ and $C$ are now friends, but $A$ is no longer friends with $B$, and no longer friends with $C$. All other friendship statuses are unchanged. [/list] Initially, $1010$ users have $1009$ friends each, and $1009$ users have $1010$ friends each. Prove that there exists a sequence of such events after which each user is friends with at most one other user. [i]Proposed by Adrian Beker, Croatia[/i]

Given $5$ points in a plane, no three of them being collinear. Each two of these $5$ points are joined with a segment, and every of these segments is painted either red or blue; assume that there is no triangle whose sides are segments of equal color. [b]a.)[/b] Show that: [i](1)[/i] Among the four segments originating at any of the $5$ points, two are red and two are blue. [i](2)[/i] The red segments form a closed way passing through all $5$ given points. (Similarly for the blue segments.) [b]b.)[/b] Give a plan how to paint the segments either red or blue in order to have the condition (no triangle with equally colored sides) satisfied.

MO Space City plans to construct $n$ space stations, with a unidirectional pipeline connecting every pair of stations. A station directly reachable from station P without passing through any other station is called a directly reachable station of P. The number of stations jointly directly reachable by the station pair $\{P, Q\}$ is to be examined. The plan requires that all station pairs have the same number of jointly directly reachable stations. (1) Calculate the number of unidirectional cyclic triangles in the space city constructed according to this requirement. (If there are unidirectional pipelines among three space stations A, B, C forming $A \rightarrow B \rightarrow C \rightarrow A$, then triangle ABC is called a unidirectional cyclic triangle.) (2) Can a space city with $n$ stations meeting the above planning requirements be constructed for infinitely many integers $n \geq 3$?

Let $n>1$ be a given integer. Let $G$ be a finite simple graph with the property that each of its edges is contained in at most $n$ cycles. Prove that the chromatic number of the graph is at most $n+1$.

There are $mn$ line segments in a plane that connect $n$ given points. Prove that a sequence $V_0$, $V_1$, $...$, $V_m$ of different points can be selected from them such that $V_{i-1}$ and $V_i$ are connected by a line ($1 \le i \le m$).

Some cities of Russia are connected with some cities of Ukraine with international airlines. The Interstate Council for the Promotion of Migration intends to introduce a one-way traffic on each airline so that, by taking off from the city, it could no longer be returned in this city (using other one-way airlines). Prove that the number of ways to do this is not divided by $3$.

Let $n\geqslant 2$ be a positive integer. Paul has a $1\times n^2$ rectangular strip consisting of $n^2$ unit squares, where the $i^{\text{th}}$ square is labelled with $i$ for all $1\leqslant i\leqslant n^2$. He wishes to cut the strip into several pieces, where each piece consists of a number of consecutive unit squares, and then [i]translate[/i] (without rotating or flipping) the pieces to obtain an $n\times n$ square satisfying the following property: if the unit square in the $i^{\text{th}}$ row and $j^{\text{th}}$ column is labelled with $a_{ij}$, then $a_{ij}-(i+j-1)$ is divisible by $n$. Determine the smallest number of pieces Paul needs to make in order to accomplish this.

A finite graph $G(V,E)$ on $n$ points is drawn in the plane. For an edge $e$ of the graph, let $\chi(e)$ denote the number of edges that cross over edge $e$. Prove that \[\sum_{e\in E}\frac{1}{\chi(e)+1}\leq 3n-6.\][i]Proposed by Dömötör Pálvölgyi, Budapest[/i]

Let $m$ be a positive integer, and $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m$ (not necessarily different) be $m$ subsets of a finite set $A$. It is known that for any nonempty subset $I$ of $\{1, 2 \ldots, m \}$, \[ \Big| \bigcup_{i \in I} A_i \Big| \ge |I|+1. \] Show that the elements of $A$ can be colored black and white, so that each of $A_1,A_2,\ldots,A_m$ contains both black and white elements.

Let $n$ and $k$ be positive integers, with $n\geq k+1$. There are $n$ countries on a planet, with some pairs of countries establishing diplomatic relations between them, such that each country has diplomatic relations with at least $k$ other countries. An evil villain wants to divide the countries, so he executes the following plan: (1) First, he selects two countries $A$ and $B$, and let them lead two allies, $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$, respectively (so that $A\in \mathcal{A}$ and $B\in\mathcal{B}$). (2) Each other country individually decides wether it wants to join ally $\mathcal{A}$ or $\mathcal{B}$. (3) After all countries made their decisions, for any two countries with $X\in\mathcal{A}$ and $Y\in\mathcal{B}$, eliminate any diplomatic relations between them. Prove that, regardless of the initial diplomatic relations among the countries, the villain can always select two countries $A$ and $B$ so that, no matter how the countries choose their allies, there are at least $k$ diplomatic relations eliminated. [i]Proposed by YaWNeeT.[/i]

Find all pairs of integers $(c, d)$, both greater than 1, such that the following holds: For any monic polynomial $Q$ of degree $d$ with integer coefficients and for any prime $p > c(2c+1)$, there exists a set $S$ of at most $\big(\tfrac{2c-1}{2c+1}\big)p$ integers, such that \[\bigcup_{s \in S} \{s,\; Q(s),\; Q(Q(s)),\; Q(Q(Q(s))),\; \dots\}\] contains a complete residue system modulo $p$ (i.e., intersects with every residue class modulo $p$).

In a mathematical competition, some competitors are friends; friendship is mutual, that is, when $A$ is a friend of $B$, then $B$ is also a friend of $A$. We say that $n \geq 3$ different competitors $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n$ form a [i]weakly-friendly cycle [/i]if $A_i$ is not a friend of $A_{i+1}$ for $1 \leq i \leq n$ (where $A_{n+1} = A_1$), and there are no other pairs of non-friends among the components of the cycle. The following property is satisfied: "for every competitor $C$ and every weakly-friendly cycle $\mathcal{S}$ of competitors not including $C$, the set of competitors $D$ in $\mathcal{S}$ which are not friends of $C$ has at most one element" Prove that all competitors of this mathematical competition can be arranged into three rooms, such that every two competitors in the same room are friends. ([i]Serbia[/i])