Found problems: 801
2015 China Team Selection Test, 2
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 $L(u,v)$.
2017 Saint Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad, 6
In the country some mathematicians know each other and any division of them into two sets contain 2 friends from different sets.It is known that if you put any set of four or more mathematicians at a round table so that any two neighbours know each other , then at the table there are two friends not sitting next to each other.We denote by $c_i $ the number of sets of $i$ pairwise familiar mathematicians(by saying "familiar" it means know each other).Prove that
$c_1-c_2+c_3-c_4+...=1$
2022 Korea Winter Program Practice Test, 4
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.
2001 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 8
Assume that the connected graph $G$ has $n$ vertices all with degree at least three. Prove that there exists a spanning tree of $G$ with more than $\frac{2}{9}n$ leaves.
2007 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 8.8
In the class, there are $ 15$ boys and $ 15$ girls. On March $ 8$, some boys made phone calls to some girls to congratulate them on the holiday ( each boy made no more than one call to each girl). It appears that there is a unique way to split the class in $ 15$ pairs (each consisting of a boy and a girl) such that in every pair the boy has phoned the girl. Find the maximal possible number of calls.
2022 Saudi Arabia IMO TST, 3
The kingdom of Anisotropy consists of $n$ cities. For every two cities there exists exactly one direct one-way road between them. We say that a [i]path from $X$ to $Y$[/i] is a sequence of roads such that one can move from $X$ to $Y$ along this sequence without returning to an already visited city. A collection of paths is called [i]diverse[/i] if no road belongs to two or more paths in the collection.
Let $A$ and $B$ be two distinct cities in Anisotropy. Let $N_{AB}$ denote the maximal number of paths in a diverse collection of paths from $A$ to $B$. Similarly, let $N_{BA}$ denote the maximal number of paths in a diverse collection of paths from $B$ to $A$. Prove that the equality $N_{AB} = N_{BA}$ holds if and only if the number of roads going out from $A$ is the same as the number of roads going out from $B$.
[i]Proposed by Warut Suksompong, Thailand[/i]
1990 Putnam, B4
Let $G$ be a finite group of order $n$ generated by $a$ and $b$. Prove or disprove: there is a sequence \[ g_1, g_2, g_3, \cdots, g_{2n} \] such that:
$(1)$ every element of $G$ occurs exactly twice, and
$(2)$ $g_{i+1}$ equals $g_{i}a$ or $g_ib$ for $ i = 1, 2, \cdots, 2n $. (interpret $g_{2n+1}$ as $g_1$.)
2024 ISI Entrance UGB, P8
In a sports tournament involving $N$ teams, each team plays every other team exactly one. At the end of every match, the winning team gets $1$ point and losing team gets $0$ points. At the end of the tournament, the total points received by the individual teams are arranged in decreasing order as follows: \[x_1 \ge x_2 \ge \cdots
\ge x_N . \]
Prove that for any $1\le k \le N$, \[\frac{N - k}{2} \le x_k \le N - \frac{k+1}{2}\]
2019 China Team Selection Test, 6
Given positive integers $d \ge 3$, $r>2$ and $l$, with $2d \le l <rd$. Every vertice of the graph $G(V,E)$ is assigned to a positive integer in $\{1,2,\cdots,l\}$, such that for any two consecutive vertices in the graph, the integers they are assigned to, respectively, have difference no less than $d$, and no more than $l-d$.
A proper coloring of the graph is a coloring of the vertices, such that any two consecutive vertices are not the same color. It's given that there exist a proper subset $A$ of $V$, such that for $G$'s any proper coloring with $r-1$ colors, and for an arbitrary color $C$, either all numbers in color $C$ appear in $A$, or none of the numbers in color $C$ appear in $A$.
Show that $G$ has a proper coloring within $r-1$ colors.
2005 MOP Homework, 5
A group consists of $n$ tourists. Among every three of them there are at least two that are not familiar. For any partition of the group into two busses, there are at least two familiar tourists in one bus. Prove that there is a tourist who is familiar with at most two fifth of all the tourists.
2007 Junior Balkan Team Selection Tests - Romania, 3
At a party there are eight guests, and each participant can't talk with at most three persons. Prove that we can group the persons in four pairs such that in every pair a conversation can take place.
2025 Israel National Olympiad (Gillis), P5
$2024$ otters live in the river. Some are friends with each other. Is it possible that, for any collection of $1012$ otters, there is exactly one additional otter that is friends with all $1012$ otters?
1996 IMO, 1
We are given a positive integer $ r$ and a rectangular board $ ABCD$ with dimensions $ AB \equal{} 20, BC \equal{} 12$. The rectangle is divided into a grid of $ 20 \times 12$ unit squares. The following moves are permitted on the board: one can move from one square to another only if the distance between the centers of the two squares is $ \sqrt {r}$. The task is to find a sequence of moves leading from the square with $ A$ as a vertex to the square with $ B$ as a vertex.
(a) Show that the task cannot be done if $ r$ is divisible by 2 or 3.
(b) Prove that the task is possible when $ r \equal{} 73$.
(c) Can the task be done when $ r \equal{} 97$?
2013 Iran MO (3rd Round), 5
Consider a graph with $n$ vertices and $\frac{7n}{4}$ edges.
(a) Prove that there are two cycles of equal length.
(25 points)
(b) Can you give a smaller function than $\frac{7n}{4}$ that still fits in part (a)? Prove your claim.
We say function $a(n)$ is smaller than $b(n)$ if there exists an $N$ such that for each $n>N$ ,$a(n)<b(n)$
(At most 5 points)
[i]Proposed by Afrooz Jabal'ameli[/i]
2002 Kurschak Competition, 3
Prove that the edges of a complete graph with $3^n$ vertices can be partitioned into disjoint cycles of length $3$.
2020 Iran Team Selection Test, 1
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]
2022 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 4
The degrees of all vertices of a graph are not less than 100 and not more than 200. Prove that its vertices can be divided into connected pairs and triples.
2021 China National Olympiad, 5
$P$ is a convex polyhedron such that:
[b](1)[/b] every vertex belongs to exactly $3$ faces.
[b](1)[/b] For every natural number $n$, there are even number of faces with $n$ vertices.
An ant walks along the edges of $P$ and forms a non-self-intersecting cycle, which divides the faces of this polyhedron into two sides, such that for every natural number $n$, the number of faces with $n$ vertices on each side are the same. (assume this is possible)
Show that the number of times the ant turns left is the same as the number of times the ant turn right.
2019 Iran MO (2nd Round), 6
Consider lattice points of a $6*7$ grid.We start with two points $A,B$.We say two points $X,Y$ connected if one can reflect several times WRT points $A,B$ and reach from $X$ to $Y$.Over all choices of $A,B$ what is the minimum number of connected components?
2005 Korea - Final Round, 6
A set $P$ consists of $2005$ distinct prime numbers. Let $A$ be the set of all possible products of $1002$ elements of $P$ , and $B$ be the set of all products of $1003$ elements of $P$ . Find a one-to-one correspondance $f$ from $A$ to $B$ with the property that $a$ divides $f (a)$ for all $a \in A.$
1986 IMO Shortlist, 9
Given a finite set of points in the plane, each with integer coordinates, is it always possible to color the points red or white so that for any straight line $L$ parallel to one of the coordinate axes the difference (in absolute value) between the numbers of white and red points on $L$ is not greater than $1$?
2007 Stars of Mathematics, 2
Let be a structure formed by $ n\ge 4 $ points in space, four by four noncoplanar, and two by two connected by a wire. If we cut the $ n-1 $ wires that connect a point to the others, the remaining point is said to be [i]isolated.[/i] The structure is said to be [i]disconnected[/i] if there are at least two points for which there isn´t a chain of wires connecting them. So, initially, it´s not disconnected.
$ \text{(1)} $ Prove that, by cutting a number smaller or equal with $ n-2, $ the structure won´t become disconnected.
$ \text{(2)} $ Determine the minimum number of wires that needs to be cut so that the remaining structure is disconnected, yet every point, not isloated.
2009 Ukraine National Mathematical Olympiad, 4
Let $G$ be a connected graph, with degree of all vertices not less then $m \geq 3$, such that there is no path through all vertices of $G$ being in every vertex exactly once. Find the least possible number of vertices of $G.$
1990 IMO Shortlist, 2
Given $ n$ countries with three representatives each, $ m$ committees $ A(1),A(2), \ldots, A(m)$ are called a cycle if
[i](i)[/i] each committee has $ n$ members, one from each country;
[i](ii)[/i] no two committees have the same membership;
[i](iii)[/i] for $ i \equal{} 1, 2, \ldots,m$, committee $ A(i)$ and committee $ A(i \plus{} 1)$ have no member in common, where $ A(m \plus{} 1)$ denotes $ A(1);$
[i](iv)[/i] if $ 1 < |i \minus{} j| < m \minus{} 1,$ then committees $ A(i)$ and $ A(j)$ have at least one member in common.
Is it possible to have a cycle of 1990 committees with 11 countries?
2001 China Team Selection Test, 3
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 $n \geq 3$?