The game of circulate is played with a deck of $kn$ cards each with a number in $1,2,\ldots,n$ such that there are $k$ cards with each number. First, $n$ piles numbered $1,2,\ldots,n$ of $k$ cards each are dealt out face down. The player then flips over a card from pile $1$, places that card face up at the bottom of the pile, then next flips over a card from the pile whose number matches the number on the card just flipped. The player repeats this until he reaches a pile in which every card has already been flipped and wins if at that point every card has been flipped. Hamster has grown tired of losing every time, so he decides to cheat. He looks at the piles beforehand and rearranges the $k$ cards in each pile as he pleases. When can Hamster perform this procedure such that he will win the game? [i]Brian Hamrick.[/i]

Given is a graph $G$ of $n+1$ vertices, which is constructed as follows: initially there is only one vertex $v$, and one a move we can add a vertex and connect it to exactly one among the previous vertices. The vertices have non-negative real weights such that $v$ has weight $0$ and each other vertex has a weight not exceeding the avarage weight of its neighbors, increased by $1$. Prove that no weight can exceed $n^2$.

For any subset $S \subseteq \mathbb{Z}^+$, a function $f : S \to S$ is called [i]interesting[/i] if the following two conditions hold: [b]1.[/b] There is no element $a \in S$ such that $f(a) = a$. [b]2.[/b] For every $a \in S$, we have $f^{f(a) + 1}(a) = a$ (where $f^{k}$ denotes the $k$-th iteration of $f$). Prove that: [b]a) [/b]There exist infinitely many interesting functions $f : \mathbb{Z}^+ \to \mathbb{Z}^+$. [b]b) [/b]There exist infinitely many positive integers $n$ for which there is no interesting function $$ f : \{1, 2, \ldots, n\} \to \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}. $$ [i]Proposed by Giorgi Kekenadze, Georgia[/i]

Alice and Bob are playing a game on a graph with $n\ge3$ vertices. At each moment, Alice needs to choose two vertices so that the graph is connected even if one of them (along with the edges incident to it) is removed. Each turn, Bob removes one edge in the graph, and upon the removal, Alice needs to re-select the two vertices if necessary. However, Bob has to guarantee that after each removal, any two vertices in the graph are still connected via at most $k$ intermediate vertices. Here $0\le k\le n-2$ is some given integer. Suppose that Bob always knows which two vertices Alice chooses, and that initially, the graph is a complete graph. Alice's objective is to change her choice of the two vertices as few times as possible, and Bob's objective is to make Alive re-select as many times as possible. If both Alice and Bob are sufficiently smart, how many times will Alice change her choice of the two vertices? (usjl)

There are six ports on a lake. Is it possible to organize a series of routes satisfying the following conditions ? [i](i)[/i] Every route includes exactly three ports; [i](ii)[/i] No two routes contain the same three ports; [i](iii)[/i] The series offers exactly two routes to each tourist who desires to visit two different arbitrary ports.

The map of a country is in the form of a convex polygon with $n (n\geq5)$ sides, such as any 3 diagonals do not concur inside the polygon. Some of the diagonals are roads, which allow movement in both directions and the other diagonals are not roads. There are cities on the intersection points of any two diagonals inside the polygon and at least one of the two diagonals is a road. Prove that you can move from any city to any other city using at most 3 roads.

In a country, some pairs of cities are connected by one-way roads. It turns out that every city has at least two out-going and two in-coming roads assigned to it, and from every city one can travel to any other city by a sequence of roads. Prove that it is possible to delete a cyclic route so that it is still possible to travel from any city to any other city.

We have a polyhedron such that an ant can walk from one vertex to another, traveling only along edges, and traversing every edge exactly once. What is the smallest possible total number of vertices, edges, and faces of this polyhedron?

A positive integer $n < 2017$ is given. Exactly $n$ vertices of a regular 2017-gon are colored red, and the remaining vertices are colored blue. Prove that the number of isosceles triangles whose vertices are monochromatic does not depend on the chosen coloring (but does depend on $n$.)

In a country, there are ${}N{}$ cities and $N(N-1)$ one-way roads: one road from $X{}$ to $Y{}$ for each ordered pair of cities $X \neq Y$. Every road has a maintenance cost. For each $k = 1,\ldots, N$ let's consider all the ways to select $k{}$ cities and $N - k{}$ roads so that from each city it is possible to get to some selected city, using only selected roads. We call such a system of cities and roads with the lowest total maintenance cost $k{}$[i]-optimal[/i]. Prove that cities can be numbered from $1{}$ to $N{}$ so that for each $k = 1,\ldots, N$ there is a $k{}$-optimal system of roads with the selected cities numbered $1,\ldots, k$. [i]Proposed by V. Buslov[/i]

We have $n$ countries. Each country have $m$ persons who live in that country ($n>m>1$). We divide $m \cdot n$ persons into $n$ groups each with $m$ members such that there don't exist two persons in any groups who come from one country. Prove that one can choose $n$ people into one class such that they come from different groups and different countries.

There are $2022$ students in winter school. Two arbitrary students are friend or enemy each other. Each turn, we choose a student $S$, make friends of $S$ enemies, and make enemies of $S$ friends. This continues until it satisfies the final condition. [b]Final Condition[/b] : For any partition of students into two non-empty groups $A$, $B$, there exist two students $a$, $b$ such that $a\in A$, $b\in B$, and $a$, $b$ are friend each other. Determine the minimum value of $n$ such that regardless of the initial condition, we can satisfy the final condition with no more than $n$ turns.

In the simple and connected graph $G$ let $x_i$ be the number of vertices with degree $i$. Let $d>3$ be the biggest degree in the graph $G$. Prove that if : $$x_d \ge x_{d-1} + 2x_{d-2}+... +(d-1)x_1$$ Then there exists a vertex with degree $d$ such that after removing that vertex the graph $G$ is still connected. Proposed by [i]Ali Mirzaie[/i]

The edges of a graph with $2n$ vertices ($n \ge 4$) are colored in blue and red such that there is no blue triangle and there is no red complete subgraph with $n$ vertices. Find the least possible number of blue edges.

Let $G$ be a weighted bipartite graph $A \cup B$, with $|A| = |B| = n$. In other words, each edge in the graph is assigned a positive integer value, called its [i]weight.[/i] Also, define the weight of a perfect matching in $G$ to be the sum of the weights of the edges in the matching. Let $G'$ be the graph with vertex set $A \cup B$, and (which) contains the edge $e$ if and only if $e$ is part of some minimum weight perfect matching in $G$. Show that all perfect matchings in $G'$ have the same weight.

In the simple and connected graph $G$ let $x_i$ be the number of vertices with degree $i$. Let $d>3$ be the biggest degree in the graph $G$. Prove that if : $$x_d \ge x_{d-1} + 2x_{d-2}+... +(d-1)x_1$$ Then there exists a vertex with degree $d$ such that after removing that vertex the graph $G$ is still connected. Proposed by [i]Ali Mirzaie[/i]

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.

The game of circulate is played with a deck of $kn$ cards each with a number in $1,2,\ldots,n$ such that there are $k$ cards with each number. First, $n$ piles numbered $1,2,\ldots,n$ of $k$ cards each are dealt out face down. The player then flips over a card from pile $1$, places that card face up at the bottom of the pile, then next flips over a card from the pile whose number matches the number on the card just flipped. The player repeats this until he reaches a pile in which every card has already been flipped and wins if at that point every card has been flipped. Hamster has grown tired of losing every time, so he decides to cheat. He looks at the piles beforehand and rearranges the $k$ cards in each pile as he pleases. When can Hamster perform this procedure such that he will win the game? [i]Brian Hamrick.[/i]

Let $G$ be a planar graph, which is also bipartite. Is it always possible to assign a vertex to each face of the graph such that no two faces have the same vertex assigned to them? [i]Submitted by Dávid Matolcsi, Budapest[/i]

On a party, there are 6 boys and a number of girls. Two of the girls know exactly four boys each and the remaining girls know exactly two boys each. None of the boys know more than three girls. (We assume that if $ A$ knows $ B$, then $ B$ will also know $ A$). Then, the greatest possible number of girls on the party is $ \text{(A)}\ 6 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 7 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 8 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 9 \qquad \text{(E)}\ \text{10 or more}$

Show that a graph with 2n points and $n^2 + 1$ edges necessarily contains a 3-cycle, but that we can find a graph with 2n points and $n^2$ edges without a 3-cycle. please prove it without induction .

What is the largest possible number of subsets of the set $\{1, 2, \dots , 2n+1\}$ such that the intersection of any two subsets consists of one or several consecutive integers?

A weighted complete graph with distinct positive wights is given such that in every triangle is [i]degenerate [/i] that is wight of an edge is equal to sum of two other. Prove that one can assign values to the vertexes of this graph such that the wight of each edge is the difference between two assigned values of the endpoints. [i]Proposed by Morteza Saghafian [/i]

Let $ n \geq 3$ and consider a set $ E$ of $ 2n \minus{} 1$ distinct points on a circle. Suppose that exactly $ k$ of these points are to be colored black. Such a coloring is [b]good[/b] if there is at least one pair of black points such that the interior of one of the arcs between them contains exactly $ n$ points from $ E$. Find the smallest value of $ k$ so that every such coloring of $ k$ points of $ E$ is good.

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?