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Show that for all positive real numbers $a, b, c$, we have that $$\frac{a+b+c}{3}-\sqrt[3]{abc} \leq \max\{(\sqrt{a}-\sqrt{b})^2, (\sqrt{b}-\sqrt{c})^2, (\sqrt{c}-\sqrt{a})^2\}$$
In a garden there is an $L$-shaped fence, see figure. You also have at your disposal two finished straight fence sections that are $13$ m and $14$ m long respectively. From point $A$ you want to delimit a part of the garden with an area of at least $200$ m$^2$ . Is it possible to do this?
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Let $ {{a} _ {1}}, {{a} _ {2}}, \ldots, {{a} _ {n}} $ be permutation of numbers $ 1,2, \ldots, n $, where $ n \geq 2 $.
Find the maximum value of the sum $$ S (n) = | {{a} _ {1}} - {{a} _ {2}} | + | {{a} _ {2}} - {{a} _ {3}} | + \cdots + | {{a} _ {n-1}} - {{a} _ {n}} |. $$
Let $M$ be the midpoint of a given segment $BC$. Point $A$ is chosen to maximize $\angle ABC$ while subject to the condition that $\angle MAC = 20^o$ . What is the ratio $BC/BA$ ?
Consider the function $f : N \to N$ given by
(i) $f(1) = 1$,
(ii) $f(2n) = f(n)$ for any $n \in N$,
(iii) $f(2n+1) = f(2n)+1$ for any $n \in N$.
(a) Find the maximum value of $f(n)$ for $1 \le n \le 1995$;
(b) Find all values of $f$ on this interval.
Find positive reals $a, b, c$ which maximizes the value of $abc$ subject to the constraint that $b(a^2 + 2) + c(a + 2) = 12$.
There are $300$ participants to a mathematics competition. After the competition some of the contestants play some games of chess. Each two contestants play at most one game against each other. There are no three contestants, such that each of them plays against each other. Determine the maximum value of $n$ for which it is possible to satisfy the following conditions at the same time: each contestant plays at most $n$ games of chess, and for each $m$ with $1 \le m \le n$, there is a contestant playing exactly $m$ games of chess.
There are $2n + 1$ tickets, each with a unique positive integer as the ticket number. It is known that the sum of all ticket numbers is more than $2330$, but the sum of any $n$ ticket numbers is at most $1165$. What is the maximum value of $n$?
Let $a, b$ be two real numbers that satisfy $a^3 + b^3 = 8-6ab$.
Find the maximum value and the minimum value that $a + b$ can take.
Inside the parallelogram $ABCD$ is a point $X$. Make a line that passes through point $X$ and divides the parallelogram into two parts whose areas differ from each other the most.
For a given integer $n \ge 2$, find the maximum possible value of $V_n = \sin x_1 \cos x_2 +\sin x_2 \cos x_3 +...+\sin x_n \cos x_1$, where $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$ are real numbers.
Let $x,y,z$ be real numbers from the interval $[0,1]$. Determine the maximum value of expression $$W=y\cdot \sqrt{1-x}+z\cdot\sqrt{1-y}+x\cdot\sqrt{1-z}$$
Show that for any real $x\in[0,1]$ the inequality \[\frac{(1-x)x^2}{(1+x)^3}<\frac{1}{25}\]
holds.
In a certain language there are $n$ letters. A sequence of letters is a word, if there are no two equal letters between two other equal letters. Find the number of words of the maximum length.
Determine all $4$-tuples $(a,b, c, d)$ of positive real numbers satisfying $a + b +c + d = 1$ and
$\max (\frac{a^2}{b},\frac{b^2}{a}) \cdot \max (\frac{c^2}{d},\frac{d^2}{c}) = (\min (a + b, c + d))^4$
The product of $10$ natural numbers is equal to $10^{10}$. What is the largest possible sum of these numbers?
For each integer $n > 3$ find all quadruples $(n_1,n_2,n_3,n_4)$ of positive integers with $n_1 +n_2 +n_3 +n_4 = n$ which maximize the expression $$\frac{n!}{n_1!n_2!n_3!n_4!}2^{ {n_1 \choose 2}+{n_2 \choose 2}+{n_3 \choose 2}+{n_4 \choose 2}+n_1n_2+n_2n_3+n_3n_4}$$
Let $x, y, z$ be positive real numbers whose sum is $2012$. Find the maximum value of $$ \frac{(x^2 + y^2 + z^2)(x^3 + y^3 + z^3)}{(x^4 + y^4 + z^4)}$$
Let $a, b,c$ be positive real numbers satisfying the condition $$(x + y + z) \left( \frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y} + \frac{1}{z}\right)= 10$$ Find the greatest value and the least value of
$$T = (x^2 + y^2 + z^2) \left(\frac{1}{x^2} + \frac{1}{y^2} + \frac{1}{z^2}\right)$$
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Suppose that integers are given $m <n $. Consider a spreadsheet of size $n \times n $, whose cells arbitrarily record all integers from $1 $ to ${{n} ^ {2}} $. Each row of the table is colored in yellow $m$ the largest elements. Similarly, the blue colors the $m$ of the largest elements in each column. Find the smallest number of cells that are colored yellow and blue at a time
Given a real number $c$ and an integer $m, m \ge 2$. Real numbers $x_1, x_2,... , x_m$ satisfy the conditions $x_1 + x_2 +...+ x_m = 0$ and $\frac{x^2_1 + x^2_2 + ...+ x^2_m}{m}= c$. Find max $(x_1, x_2,..., x_m)$ if it is known to be as small as possible.
Find the largest natural number $n$ that divides $a^{25} -a$ for all integers $a$.
On a circumference of a unit radius, take points $A$ and $B$ such that section $AB$ has length one. $C$ can be any point on the longer arc of the circle between $A$ and $B$. How do we take $C$ to make the perimeter of the triangle $ABC$ as large as possible?
A group of $n$ people play a board game with the following rules:
1) In each round of the game exactly $3$ people play
2) The game ends after exactly $n$ rounds
3) Every pair of players has played together at least at one round
Find the largest possible value of $n$
The feet of the altitudes in the triangle $ABC$ are $A', B', C'$. Find the angles of $A'B'C'$ in terms of the angles $A, B, C$. Show that the largest angle in $A'B'C'$ is at least as big as the largest angle in $ABC$. When is it equal?