Aurick has a cup, a right cone with a circular base of radius $\frac12$, filled with milk tea. The slant height of the cup is $1$, and the tea fills the cup $\frac12$ of the way up the cup’s side. Suppose that Aurick tips the cup just to the point of spilling, as shown in the diagram. The new slant height EA and the tilted tea surface’s major axis $ET$ form $\angle T EA$. Compute $\cos(\angle T EA)$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/e/e/76e12ee31ce4ba8a5daaf0f5538b98726a0d37.png[/img]

A function f : $R$ $\rightarrow$ $R$ satisfies the property $f(x^2) - f^2(x) \geq 1/4$ for all x. Verify if the function is one-one.

$a)$ Let $a$, $b$ and $c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that for all positive integers $m$ holds: $$(a+b)^m+(b+c)^m+(c+a)^m \leq 2^m(a^m+b^m+c^m)$$ $b)$ Does inequality $a)$ holds for $1)$ arbitrary real numbers $a$, $b$ and $c$ $2)$ any integer $m$

Let $A_1A_2A_3A_4A_5A_6A_7A_8$ be a right octagon with center $O$ and $\lambda_1$,$\lambda_2$, $\lambda_3$, $\lambda_4$ be some rational numbers for which: $\lambda_1 \overrightarrow{OA_1}+\lambda_2 \overrightarrow{OA_2}+\lambda_3 \overrightarrow{OA_3}+\lambda_4 \overrightarrow{OA_4} =\overrightarrow{o}$. Prove that $\lambda_1=\lambda_2=\lambda_3=\lambda_4=0$.

If the points $(1,y_1)$ and $(-1,y_2)$ lie on the graph of $y=ax^2+bx+c$, and $y_1-y_2=-6$, then $b$ equals: $\textbf{(A) }-3\qquad \textbf{(B) }0\qquad \textbf{(C) }3\qquad \textbf{(D) }\sqrt{ac}\qquad \textbf{(E) }\dfrac{a+c}2$

Let $X$ be a non empty subset of $\mathbb{N} = \{1,2,\ldots \}$. Suppose that for all $x \in X$, $4x \in X$ and $\lfloor \sqrt{x} \rfloor \in X$. Prove that $X=\mathbb{N}$.

In triangle $ABC$, $D$ is a point on $AB$ between $A$ and $B$, $E$ is a point on $AC$ between $A$ and $C$, and $F$ is a point on $BC$ between $B$ and $C$ such that $AF$, $BE$, and $CD$ all meet inside $\triangle ABC$ at a point $G$. Given that the area of $\triangle ABC$ is $15$, the area of $\triangle ABE$ is $5$, and the area of $\triangle ACD$ is $10$, compute the area of $\triangle ABF$.

Prove that the equation $x^{2}+p|x| = qx - 1 $ has 4 distinct real solutions if and only if $p+|q|+2<0$ ($p$ and $q$ are two real parameters).

Let $ K$ be the circumscribed circle of the trapezoid $ ABCD$ . In this trapezoid the diagonals $ AC$ and $ BD$ are perpendicular. The parallel sides $ AB\equal{}a$ and $ CD\equal{}c$ are diameters of the circles $ K_{a}$ and $ K_{b}$ respectively. Find the perimeter and the area of the part inside the circle $ K$, that is outside circles $ K_{a}$ and $ K_{b}$.

We say that a prism is [i]binary[/i] if there exists a labelling of the vertices of the prism with integers from the set $\{-1,1\}$ such that the product of the numbers assigned to the vertices of each face (base or lateral face) is equal to $-1$. a) Prove that any [i]binary[/i] prism has the number of total vertices divisible by 8; b) Prove that any prism with 2000 vertices is [i]binary[/i].

[u]Round 9[/u] [b]p25.[/b] Maisy the Bear is at the origin of the Cartesian Plane. WhenMaisy is on the point $(m,n)$ then it can jump to either $(m,n +1)$ or $(m+1,n)$. Let $L(x, y)$ be the number of pathsMaisy can take to reach the point $(x, y)$. The sum of $L(x, y)$ over all lattice points $(x, y)$ with both coordinates between $0$ and $2020$, inclusive, can be written as ${2k \choose k} - j$ for a minimum positive integer k and corresponding positive integer $j$ . Find $k + j$ . [b]p26.[/b] A circle with center $O$ and radius $2$ and a circle with center $P$ and radius $3$ are externally tangent at $A$. Points $B$ and $C$ are on the circle with center $O$ such that $\vartriangle ABC$ is equilateral. Segment $AB$ extends past B to point $D$ and $AC$ extends past $C$ to point $E$ such that $BD = CE =\sqrt3$. A line through $D$ is tangent to circle $P$ at $F$. The value of $EF^2$ can be expressed as $\frac{a+b\sqrt{c}}{d}$ where $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ are integers, c is squarefree, and $gcd(a,b,d) = 1$. Find $a +b +c +d$. [b]p27.[/b] Find the number of trailing zeroes at the end of $$\sum^{2021}_{i=1}(2021^i -1) = (2021^1 -1)...(2021^{2021}-1).$$ [u]Round 10[/u] [b]p28.[/b] Points $A, B, C, P$, and $D$ lie on circle ω in that order. Let $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at $I$ . Given that $PI = PC = PD$, $\angle DAB = 137^o$, and $\angle ABC = 109^o$, find the measure of $\angle BIC$ in degrees. [b]p29.[/b] Find the sum of all positive integers $n < 2021$ such that when ${d_1,d_2,... ,d_k}$ are the positive integer factors of $n$, then $$\left( \sum^{k}_{i=1}d_i \right) \left( \sum^{k}_{i=1} \frac{1}{d_i} \right)= r^2$$ for some rational number $r$ . [b]p30.[/b] Let $a, b, c, d$ and $e$ be positive real numbers. Define the function $f (x, y) = \frac{x}{y}+\frac{y}{x}$ for all positive real numbers. Given that $f (a,b) = 7$, $f (b,c) = 5$, $f (c,d) = 3$, and $f (d,e) = 2$, find the sum of all possible values of $f (e,a)$. [u]Round 11[/u] [b]p31.[/b] There exist $100$ (not necessarily distinct) complex numbers $r_1, r_2,..., r_{100}$ such that for any positive integer $1 \le k \le 100$, we have that $P(r_k ) = 0$ where the polynomial $P$ is defined as $$P(x) = \sum^{101}_{i=1}i \cdot x^{101-i} = x^{100} +2x^{99} +3x^{98} +...+99x^2 +100x +101.$$ Find the value of $$\prod^{100}_{j=1} (r^2_j+1) = (r^2_1 +1)(r^2_2 +1)...(r^2_{100} +1).$$ [b]p32.[/b] Let $BT$ be the diameter of a circle $\omega_1$, and $AT$ be a tangent of $\omega_1$. Line $AB$ intersects $\omega_1$ at $C$, and $\vartriangle ACT$ has circumcircle $\omega_2$. Points $P$ and $S$ exist such that $PA$ and $PC$ are tangent to $\omega_2$ and $SB = BT = 20$. Given that $AT = 15$, the length of $PS$ can be written as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ , where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are positive integers, $b$ is squarefree, and $gcd(a,b) = 1$. Find $a +b +c$. [b]p33.[/b] There are a hundred students in math team. Each pair of students are either mutually friends or mutually enemies. It is given that if any three students are chosen, then they are not all mutually friends. The maximum possible number of ways to choose four students such that it is possible to label them $A, B, C$, and $D$ such that $A$ and $B$ are friends, $B$ and $C$ are friends, $C$ and $D$ are friends, and D and A are friends can be expressed as $n^4$. Find $n$. [u]Round 12[/u] [b]p34.[/b] Let $\{p_i\}$ be the prime numbers, such that $p_1 = 2, p_2 = 3, p_3 = 5, ...$ For each $i$ , let $q_i$ be the nearest perfect square to $p_i$ . Estimate $\sum^{2021}_{i=1}|p_i=q_i |$. If the correct answer is $A$ and your answer is $E$, your score will be $\left \lfloor 30 \cdot \max - \left(0,1-5 \cdot \left| \log_{10} \frac{A}{E} \right| \right)\right \rfloor.$ [b]p35.[/b] Estimate the number of digits of $(2021!)^{2021}$. If the correct answer is $A$ and your answer is $E$, your score will be $\left \lfloor 15 \cdot \max \left(0,2- \cdot \left| \log_{10} \frac{A}{E} \right| \right) \right \rfloor.$ [b]p36.[/b] Pick a positive integer between$ 1$ and $1000$, inclusive. If your answer is $E$ and a quarter of the mean of all the responses to this problem is $A$, your score will be $$ \lfloor \max \left(0,30- |A-E|, 2-|E-1000| \right) \rfloor.$$ Note that if you pick $1000$, you will automatically get $2$ points. PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 1-4 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3166489p28814241]here [/url] and 5-8 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3166494p28814284]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $N$ be the orthocentre of triangle $ABC$ (i .e. the point where the altitudes meet). Prove that the circumscribed circles of triangles $ABN, ACN$ and $BCN$ each have equal radius.

A real symmetric $2018\times 2018$ matrix $A=(a_{ij})$ satisfies $|a_{ij}-2018|\leq 1$ for every $1\leq i,j\leq 2018$. Denote the largest eigenvalue of $A$ by $\lambda(A)$. Find maximum and minumum value of $\lambda(A)$.

Two integers $n, k$ satisfies $n \ge 2$ and $k \ge \frac{5}{2}n-1$. Prove that whichever $k$ lattice points with $x$ and $y$ coordinate no less than $1$ and no more than $n$ we pick, there must be a circle passing through at least four of these points.

Show that one can color all the points of a plane using only two colors such that no line segment has all points of the same color.

Let $p = 1+\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2^2}+\frac{1}{2^3}+\frac{1}{2^4}+\frac{1}{2^5}. $ For nonnegative reals $x, y,z$ satisfying $(x-1)^2 + (y-1)^2 + (z-1)^2 = 27,$ find the maximum value of $x^p + y^p + z^p.$

Let $w_1, w_2$ be non-intersecting, congruent circles with centers $O_1, O_2$ and let $P$ be in the exterior of both of them. The tangents from $P$ to $w_1$ meet $w_1$ at $A_1, B_1$ and define $A_2, B_2$ similarly. If lines $A_1B_1, A_2B_2$ meet at $Q$ show that the midpoint of $PQ$ is equidistant from $O_1, O_2$.

Let $ABCD$ be a rectangle and denote by $M$ and $N$ the midpoints of $AD$ and $BC$ respectively. The point $P$ is on $(CD$ such that $D\in (CP)$, and $PM$ intersects $AC$ in $Q$. Prove that $m(\angle{MNQ})=m(\angle{MNP})$.

Consider a hexagon with vertices labeled $M$, $M$, $A$, $T$, $H$, $S$ in that order. Clayton starts at the $M$ adjacent to $M$ and $A$, and writes the letter down. Each second, Clayton moves to an adjacent vertex, each with probability $\frac{1}{2}$, and writes down the corresponding letter. Clayton stops moving when the string he's written down contains the letters $M, A, T$, and $H$ in that order, not necessarily consecutively (for example, one valid string might be $MAMMSHTH$.) What is the expected length of the string Clayton wrote? [i]Proposed by Andrew Milas and Andrew Wu[/i]

Find the smallest real number $A$, such that there are two different triangles, with integer sidelengths and so that the area of each be $A$.

We have $ n \geq 2$ lamps $ L_{1}, . . . ,L_{n}$ in a row, each of them being either on or off. Every second we simultaneously modify the state of each lamp as follows: if the lamp $ L_{i}$ and its neighbours (only one neighbour for $ i \equal{} 1$ or $ i \equal{} n$, two neighbours for other $ i$) are in the same state, then $ L_{i}$ is switched off; – otherwise, $ L_{i}$ is switched on. Initially all the lamps are off except the leftmost one which is on. $ (a)$ Prove that there are infinitely many integers $ n$ for which all the lamps will eventually be off. $ (b)$ Prove that there are infinitely many integers $ n$ for which the lamps will never be all off.

[b]4.[/b] Find all positive integers $\alpha , \beta (\alpha >1)$ and all prime numbers $p, q, r$ which satisfy the equation $p^{\alpha}= q^{\beta}+r^{\alpha}$ ($\alpha , \beta , p, q, r$ need not necessarily be different). [b](N. 12)[/b]

Find the largest constant $c>0$ such that for every positive integer $n\ge 2$, there always exist a positive divisor $d$ of $n$ such that $$d\le \sqrt{n}\hspace{0.5cm} \text{and} \hspace{0.5cm} \tau(d)\ge c\sqrt{\tau(n)}$$ where $\tau(n)$ is the number of divisors of $n$. [i]Proposed by Mohd. Suhaimi Ramly[/i]

Iris has an infinite chessboard, in which an $8\times 8$ subboard is marked as Sacred. In order to preserve the Sanctity of this chessboard, her friend Rosabel wishes to place some indistinguishable Holy Knights on the chessboard (not necessarily within the Sacred subboard) such that: [list] [*] No two Holy Knights occupy the same square; [*] Each Holy Knight attacks at least one Sacred square; [*] Each Sacred square is attacked by exactly one Holy Knight. [/list] In how many ways can Rosabel protect the Sanctity of Iris' chessboard? (A Holy Knight works in the same way as a knight piece in chess, that is, it attacks any square that is two squares away in one direction and one square away in a perpendicular direction. Note that a Holy Knight does \emph{not} attack the square it is on.) [i]Proposed by Yannick Yao[/i]

An infinitely long slab of glass is rotated. A light ray is pointed at the slab such that the ray is kept horizontal. If $\theta$ is the angle the slab makes with the vertical axis, then $\theta$ is changing as per the function \[ \theta(t) = t^2, \]where $\theta$ is in radians. Let the $\emph{glassious ray}$ be the ray that represents the path of the refracted light in the glass, as shown in the figure. Let $\alpha$ be the angle the glassious ray makes with the horizontal. When $\theta=30^\circ$, what is the rate of change of $\alpha$, with respect to time? Express your answer in radians per second (rad/s) to 3 significant figures. Assume the index of refraction of glass to be $1.50$. Note: the second figure shows the incoming ray and the glassious ray in cyan. [asy] fill((6,-2-sqrt(3))--(3, -2)--(3+4/sqrt(3),2)--(6+4/sqrt(3),2-sqrt(3))--cycle, gray(0.7)); draw((3+2/sqrt(3),0)--(10,0),linetype("4 4")+grey); draw((0,0)--(3+2/sqrt(3),0)); draw((3+2/sqrt(3), 0)--(7+2/sqrt(3), -1)); arrow((6.5+2/sqrt(3), -7/8), dir(180-14.04), 9); draw((3,-2)--(3,2), linetype("4 4")); draw((6,-2-sqrt(3))--(3,-2)--(3+2/sqrt(3),0)--(3+4/sqrt(3), 2)--(6+4/sqrt(3), 2-sqrt(3))); draw(anglemark((3+2/sqrt(3),0),(3,-2),(3,0),15)); label("$\theta$", (3.2, -1.6), N, fontsize(8)); label("$\alpha$", (6, -0.2), fontsize(8)); [/asy] [asy] fill((6,-2-sqrt(3))--(3, -2)--(3+4/sqrt(3),2)--(6+4/sqrt(3),2-sqrt(3))--cycle, gray(0.7)); draw((3+2/sqrt(3),0)--(10,0),linetype("4 4")+grey); draw((0,0)--(3+2/sqrt(3),0), cyan); draw((3+2/sqrt(3), 0)--(7+2/sqrt(3), -1), cyan); arrow((6.5+2/sqrt(3), -7/8), dir(180-14.04), 9, cyan); draw((3,-2)--(3,2), linetype("4 4")); draw((6,-2-sqrt(3))--(3,-2)--(3+2/sqrt(3),0)--(3+4/sqrt(3), 2)--(6+4/sqrt(3), 2-sqrt(3))); draw(anglemark((3+2/sqrt(3),0),(3,-2),(3,0),15)); label("$\theta$", (3.2, -1.6), N, fontsize(8)); label("$\alpha$", (6, -0.2), fontsize(8)); [/asy] [i]Problem proposed by Ahaan Rungta[/i]