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2022 Germany Team Selection Test, 1

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 $\gcd(x,y)=\gcd(y,z) \neq \gcd(z,x)$.

2021 IMO Shortlist, C1

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 $\gcd(x,y)=\gcd(y,z) \neq \gcd(z,x)$.

2005 Baltic Way, 10

Let $m = 30030$ and let $M$ be the set of its positive divisors which have exactly $2$ prime factors. Determine the smallest positive integer $n$ with the following property: for any choice of $n$ numbers from $M$, there exist 3 numbers $a$, $b$, $c$ among them satisfying $abc=m$.

2016 Miklós Schweitzer, 2

Let $K=(V,E)$ be a finite, simple, complete graph. Let $d$ be a positive integer. Let $\phi:E\to \mathbb{R}^d$ be a map from the edge set to Euclidean space, such that the preimage of any point in the range defines a connected graph on the entire vertex set $V$, and the points assigned to the edges of any triangle in $K$ are collinear. Show that the range of $\phi$ is contained in a line.

2008 Hong Kong TST, 2

Define a $ k$-[i]clique[/i] to be a set of $ k$ people such that every pair of them are acquainted with each other. At a certain party, every pair of 3-cliques has at least one person in common, and there are no 5-cliques. Prove that there are two or fewer people at the party whose departure leaves no 3-clique remaining.

2017 AIME Problems, 11

Five towns are connected by a system of roads. There is exactly one road connecting each pair of towns. Find the number of ways there are to make all the roads one-way in such a way that it is still possible to get from any town to any other town using the roads (possibly passing through other towns on the way).

2021 China Team Selection Test, 1

Given positive integer $ n \ge 5 $ and a convex polygon $P$, namely $ A_1A_2...A_n $. No diagonals of $P$ are concurrent. Proof that it is possible to choose a point inside every quadrilateral $ A_iA_jA_kA_l (1\le i<j<k<l\le n) $ not on diagonals of $P$, such that the $ \tbinom{n}{4} $ points chosen are distinct, and any segment connecting these points intersect with some diagonal of P.

the 9th XMO, 4

One hundred million cities lie on Planet MO. Initially, there are no air routes between any two cities. Now an airline company comes. It plans to establish $5050$ two-way routes, each route connects two different cities, and no two routes connect the same two cities. The "degree" of a city is defined to be the number of routes departing from that city. The "benefit" of a route is the product of the "degrees" of the two cities it connects. Find the maximum possible value of the sum of the benefits of these $5050$ routes.

2004 Bulgaria Team Selection Test, 2

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.

2011 Danube Mathematical Competition, 4

Given a positive integer number $n$, determine the maximum number of edges a triangle-free Hamiltonian simple graph on $n$ vertices may have.

2019 Romanian Master of Mathematics, 6

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 $p$).

2015 All-Russian Olympiad, 3

$110$ teams participate in a volleyball tournament. Every team has played every other team exactly once (there are no ties in volleyball). Turns out that in any set of $55$ teams, there is one which has lost to no more than $4$ of the remaining $54$ teams. Prove that in the entire tournament, there is a team that has lost to no more than $4$ of the remaining $109$ teams.

2016 China Team Selection Test, 5

Let $S$ be a finite set of points on a plane, where no three points are collinear, and the convex hull of $S$, $\Omega$, is a $2016-$gon $A_1A_2\ldots A_{2016}$. Every point on $S$ is labelled one of the four numbers $\pm 1,\pm 2$, such that for $i=1,2,\ldots , 1008,$ the numbers labelled on points $A_i$ and $A_{i+1008}$ are the negative of each other. Draw triangles whose vertices are in $S$, such that any two triangles do not have any common interior points, and the union of these triangles is $\Omega$. Prove that there must exist a triangle, where the numbers labelled on some two of its vertices are the negative of each other.

2012 IMO Shortlist, C5

The columns and the row of a $3n \times 3n$ square board are numbered $1,2,\ldots ,3n$. Every square $(x,y)$ with $1 \leq x,y \leq 3n$ is colored asparagus, byzantium or citrine according as the modulo $3$ remainder of $x+y$ is $0,1$ or $2$ respectively. One token colored asparagus, byzantium or citrine is placed on each square, so that there are $3n^2$ tokens of each color. Suppose that one can permute the tokens so that each token is moved to a distance of at most $d$ from its original position, each asparagus token replaces a byzantium token, each byzantium token replaces a citrine token, and each citrine token replaces an asparagus token. Prove that it is possible to permute the tokens so that each token is moved to a distance of at most $d+2$ from its original position, and each square contains a token with the same color as the square.

2009 Serbia National Math Olympiad, 3

Determine the largest positive integer $n$ for which there exist pairwise different sets $\mathbb{S}_1 , ..., \mathbb{S}_n$ with the following properties: $1$) $|\mathbb{S}_i \cup \mathbb{S}_j | \leq 2004$ for any two indices $1 \leq i, j\leq n$, and $2$) $\mathbb{S}_i \cup \mathbb{S}_j \cup \mathbb{S}_k = \{ 1,2,...,2008 \}$ for any $1 \leq i < j < k \leq n$ [i]Proposed by Ivan Matic[/i]

1992 IMO Shortlist, 4

Consider $9$ points in space, no four of which are coplanar. Each pair of points is joined by an edge (that is, a line segment) and each edge is either colored blue or red or left uncolored. Find the smallest value of $\,n\,$ such that whenever exactly $\,n\,$ edges are colored, the set of colored edges necessarily contains a triangle all of whose edges have the same color.

2010 Singapore MO Open, 4

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Find the smallest positive integer $k$ with the property that for any colouring nof the squares of a $2n$ by $k$ chessboard with $n$ colours, there are $2$ columns and $2$ rows such that the $4$ squares in their intersections have the same colour.

STEMS 2021 CS Cat B, Q1

We are given $k$ colors and we have to assign a single color to every vertex. An edge is [u][b]satisfied[/b][/u] if the vertices on that edge, are of different colors. [list] [*]Prove that you can always find an algorithm which assigns colors to vertices so that at least $\frac{k - 1}{k}|E|$ edges are satisfied where \(|E|\) is the cardinality of the edges in the graph.[/*] [*]Prove that there is a poly time deterministic algorithm for this [/*] [/list]

2025 India STEMS Category B, 2

Alice and Bob play a game on a connected graph with $2n$ vertices, where $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and $n>1$.. Alice and Bob have tokens named A and B respectively. They alternate their turns with Alice going first. Alice gets to decide the starting positions of A and B. Every move, the player with the turn moves their token to an adjacent vertex. Bob's goal is to catch Alice, and Alice's goal is to prevent this. Note that positions of A, B are visible to both Alice and Bob at every moment. Provided they both play optimally, what is the maximum possible number of edges in the graph if Alice is able to evade Bob indefinitely? [i]Proposed by Shashank Ingalagavi and Vighnesh Sangle[/i]

1990 IMO Longlists, 4

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?

2007 Germany Team Selection Test, 2

An $ (n, k) \minus{}$ tournament is a contest with $ n$ players held in $ k$ rounds such that: $ (i)$ Each player plays in each round, and every two players meet at most once. $ (ii)$ If player $ A$ meets player $ B$ in round $ i$, player $ C$ meets player $ D$ in round $ i$, and player $ A$ meets player $ C$ in round $ j$, then player $ B$ meets player $ D$ in round $ j$. Determine all pairs $ (n, k)$ for which there exists an $ (n, k) \minus{}$ tournament. [i]Proposed by Carlos di Fiore, Argentina[/i]

1990 IMO, 2

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.

2013 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 4

We are given a graph $G$ with $n$ edges. For each edge, we write down the lesser degree of two vertices at the end of that edge. Prove that the sum of the resulting $n$ numbers is at most $100n\sqrt{n}$.

2007 Italy TST, 1

We have a complete graph with $n$ vertices. We have to color the vertices and the edges in a way such that: no two edges pointing to the same vertice are of the same color; a vertice and an edge pointing him are coloured in a different way. What is the minimum number of colors we need?

1991 IMO, 1

Suppose $ \,G\,$ is a connected graph with $ \,k\,$ edges. Prove that it is possible to label the edges $ 1,2,\ldots ,k\,$ in such a way that at each vertex which belongs to two or more edges, the greatest common divisor of the integers labeling those edges is equal to 1. [b]Note: Graph-Definition[/b]. A [b]graph[/b] consists of a set of points, called vertices, together with a set of edges joining certain pairs of distinct vertices. Each pair of vertices $ \,u,v\,$ belongs to at most one edge. The graph $ G$ is connected if for each pair of distinct vertices $ \,x,y\,$ there is some sequence of vertices $ \,x \equal{} v_{0},v_{1},v_{2},\cdots ,v_{m} \equal{} y\,$ such that each pair $ \,v_{i},v_{i \plus{} 1}\;(0\leq i < m)\,$ is joined by an edge of $ \,G$.