[b]p1.[/b] If Bob takes $6$ hours to build $4$ houses, how many hours will he take to build $ 12$ houses? [b]p2.[/b] Compute the value of $\frac12+ \frac16+ \frac{1}{12} + \frac{1}{20}$. [b]p3.[/b] Given a line $2x + 5y = 170$, find the sum of its $x$- and $y$-intercepts. [b]p4.[/b] In some future year, BmMT will be held on Saturday, November $19$th. In that year, what day of the week will April Fool’s Day (April $1$st) be? [b]p5.[/b] We distribute $78$ penguins among $10$ people in such a way that no person has the same number of penguins and each person has at least one penguin. If Mr. Popper (one of the $10$ people) wants to take as many penguins as possible, what is the largest number of penguins that Mr. Popper can take? [b]p6.[/b] A letter is randomly chosen from the eleven letters of the word MATHEMATICS. What is the probability that this letter has a vertical axis of symmetry? [b]p7. [/b]Alice, Bob, Cara, David, Eve, Fred, and Grace are sitting in a row. Alice and Bob like to pass notes to each other. However, anyone sitting between Alice and Bob can read the notes they pass. How many ways are there for the students to sit if Eve wants to be able to read Alice and Bob’s notes, assuming reflections are distinct? [b]p8.[/b] The pages of a book are consecutively numbered from $1$ through $480$. How many times does the digit $8$ appear in this numbering? [b]p9.[/b] A student draws a flower by drawing a regular hexagon and then constructing semicircular petals on each side of the hexagon. If the hexagon has side length $2$, what is the area of the flower? [b]p10.[/b] There are two non-consecutive positive integers $a, b$ such that $a^2 - b^2 = 291$. Find $a$ and $b$. [b]p11.[/b] Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle. Let $P, Q, R$ be the midpoints of the sides $BC$, $CA$ and $AB$ respectively. Suppose the area of triangle $PQR$ is $1$. Among the $6$ points $A, B, C, P, Q, R$, how many distinct triangles with area $1$ have vertices from that set of $6$ points? [b]p12.[/b] A positive integer is said to be binary-emulating if its base three representation consists of only $0$s and $1$s. Determine the sum of the first $15$ binary-emulating numbers. [b]p13.[/b] Professor $X$ can choose to assign homework problems from a set of problems labeled $ 1$ to $30$, inclusive. No two problems in his assignment can share a common divisor greater than $ 1$. What is the maximum number of problems that Professor $X$ can assign? [b]p14.[/b] Trapezoid $ABCD$ has legs (non-parallel sides) $BC$ and $DA$ of length $5$ and $6$ respectively, and there exists a point $X$ on $CD$ such that $\angle XBC = \angle XAD = \angle AXB = 90^o$ . Find the area of trapezoid $ABCD$. [b]p15.[/b] Alice and Bob play a game of Berkeley Ball, in which the first person to win four rounds is the winner. No round can end in a draw. How many distinct games can be played in which Alice is the winner? (Two games are said to be identical if either player wins/loses rounds in the same order in both games.) [b]p16.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle and M be the midpoint of $BC$. If $AB = AM = 5$ and $BC = 12$, what is the area of triangle $ABC$? [b]p17. [/b] A positive integer $n$ is called good if it can be written as $5x+ 8y = n$ for positive integers $x, y$. Given that $42$, $43$, $44$, $45$ and $46$ are good, what is the largest n that is not good? [b]p18.[/b] Below is a $ 7 \times 7$ square with each of its unit squares labeled $1$ to $49$ in order. We call a square contained in the figure [i]good [/i] if the sum of the numbers inside it is odd. For example, the entire square is [i]good [/i] because it has an odd sum of $1225$. Determine the number of [i]good [/i] squares in the figure. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 [hide][img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/9/2/1039c3319ae1eab7102433694acc20fb995ebb.png[/hide] [b]p19.[/b] A circle of integer radius $ r$ has a chord $PQ$ of length $8$. There is a point $X$ on chord $PQ$ such that $\overline{PX} = 2$ and $\overline{XQ} = 6$. Call a chord $AB$ euphonic if it contains $X$ and both $\overline{AX}$ and $\overline{XB}$ are integers. What is the minimal possible integer $ r$ such that there exist $6$ euphonic chords for $X$? [b]p20.[/b] On planet [i]Silly-Math[/i], two individuals may play a game where they write the number $324000$ on a whiteboard and take turns dividing the number by prime powers – numbers of the form $p^k$ for some prime $p$ and positive integer $k$. Divisions are only legal if the resulting number is an integer. The last player to make a move wins. Determine what number the first player should select to divide $324000$ by in order to ensure a win. PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

[b]two variable ploynomial[/b] $P(x,y)$ is a two variable polynomial with real coefficients. degree of a monomial means sum of the powers of $x$ and $y$ in it. we denote by $Q(x,y)$ sum of monomials with the most degree in $P(x,y)$. (for example if $P(x,y)=3x^4y-2x^2y^3+5xy^2+x-5$ then $Q(x,y)=3x^4y-2x^2y^3$.) suppose that there are real numbers $x_1$,$y_1$,$x_2$ and $y_2$ such that $Q(x_1,y_1)>0$ , $Q(x_2,y_2)<0$ prove that the set $\{(x,y)|P(x,y)=0\}$ is not bounded. (we call a set $S$ of plane bounded if there exist positive number $M$ such that the distance of elements of $S$ from the origin is less than $M$.) time allowed for this question was 1 hour.

When $p = \sum_{k=1}^{6} k \ln{k}$, the number $e^p$ is an integer. What is the largest power of $2$ that is a factor of $e^p$? ${\textbf{(A)}\ 2^{12}\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 2^{14}\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 2^{16}\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 2^{18}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 2^{20} $

In an isosceles triangle, we drew one of the angle bisectors. At least one of the resulting two smaller ones triangles is similar to the original. What can be the leg of the original triangle if the length of its base is $1$ unit?

Let $ABC$ to be an acute triangle. Also, let $K$ and $L$ to be the two intersections of the perpendicular from $B$ with respect to side $AC$ with the circle of diameter $AC$, with $K$ closer to $B$ than $L$. Analogously, $X$ and $Y$ are the two intersections of the perpendicular from $C$ with respect to side $AB$ with the circle of diamter $AB$, with $X$ closer to $C$ than $Y$. Prove that the intersection of $XL$ and $KY$ lies on $BC$.

On the football training there was $n$ footballers - forwards and goalkeepers. They made $k$ goals. Prove that main trainer can give for every footballer squad number from $1$ to $n$ such, that for every goal the difference between squad number of forward and squad number of goalkeeper is more than $n-k$. [i](S. Berlov)[/i]

Given a sequence $\{a_n\}$ of real numbers such that $|a_{k+m} - a_k - a_m| \leq 1$ for all positive integers $k$ and $m$, prove that, for all positive integers $p$ and $q$, \[|\frac{a_p}{p} - \frac{a_q}{q}| < \frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q}.\]

Concider two sequences $x_n=an+b$, $y_n=cn+d$ where $a,b,c,d$ are natural numbers and $gcd(a,b)=gcd(c,d)=1$, prove that there exist infinite $n$ such that $x_n$, $y_n$ are both square-free. [i]Proposed by Siavash Rahimi Shateranloo, Matin Yadollahi[/i] [b]Rated 3[/b]

Let $V$ be a subspace of the vector space $\mathbb{R}^{2 \times 2}$ of $2$-by-$2$ real matrices. We call $V$ nice if for any linearly independent $A, B \in V$, $AB \neq BA$. Find the maximum dimension of a nice subspace of $\mathbb{R}^{2 \times 2}$.

Prove the following statement: If $r_1$ and $r_2$ are real numbers whose quotient is irrational, then any real number $x$ can be approximated arbitrarily well by the numbers of the form $\ z_{k_1,k_2} = k_1r_1 + k_2r_2$ integers, i.e. for every number $x$ and every positive real number $p$ two integers $k_1$ and $k_2$ can be found so that $|x - (k_1r_1 + k_2r_2)| < p$ holds.

Let $P(x)$ be the unique polynomial of degree at most $2020$ satisfying $P(k^2)=k$ for $k=0,1,2,\dots,2020$. Compute $P(2021^2)$. [i]Proposed by Milan Haiman.[/i]

Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram with $\angle ABC=120^\circ$, $AB=16$ and $BC=10$. Extend $\overline{CD}$ through $D$ to $E$ so that $DE=4$. If $\overline{BE}$ intersects $\overline{AD}$ at $F$, then $FD$ is closest to $\textbf{(A) }1\qquad \textbf{(B) }2\qquad \textbf{(C) }3\qquad \textbf{(D) }4\qquad \textbf{(E) }5$ [asy] size(200); defaultpen(linewidth(0.8)); pair A=origin,B=(16,0),C=(26,10*sqrt(3)),D=(10,10*sqrt(3)),E=(0,10*sqrt(3)); draw(A--B--C--E--B--A--D); label("$A$",A,S); label("$B$",B,S); label("$C$",C,N); label("$D$",D,N); label("$E$",E,N); label("$F$",extension(A,D,B,E),W); label("$4$",(D+E)/2,N); label("$16$",(8,0),S); label("$10$",(B+C)/2,SE); [/asy]

For which pair $(a,b)$, there is no positive real pair $(x,y)$ satisfying $x+2y < a$ and $xy > b$ ? $\textbf{(A)}\ \left (\frac{15}{7}, \frac{4}{7}\right ) \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \left (\frac{18}{11}, \frac{1}{3}\right ) \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \left (\frac{5}{7}, \frac{1}{16}\right ) \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \left (\frac{6}{7}, \frac{1}{11}\right ) \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None}$

There are $14$ boys in a class. Each boy is asked how many other boys in the class have his first name, and how many have his last name. It turns out that each number from $0$ to $6$ occurs among the answers. Prove that there are two boys in the class with the same first name and the same last name.

If $m$ and $n$ are the roots of $x^2+mx+n=0$, $m\ne0$, $n\ne0$, then the sum of the roots is: $\textbf{(A)}\ -\dfrac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ -1 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \dfrac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{Undetermined} $

Let $AH_A, BH_B, CH_C$ be the altitudes of the triangle $ABC$. Points $A_1$ and $C_1$ are the projections of the point $H_B$ onto the sides $AB$ and $BC$, respectively. $B_1$ is the projection of $B$ onto $H_AH_C$. Prove that the diameter of the circumscribed circle of $\triangle A_1B_1C_1$ is equal to $BH_B$. [i]Proposed by Anton Trygub[/i]

Ababa plays with a word made up of the letters of his name and has set certain rules: If you find an $A$ followed immediately by a $B$, you can substitute $BAA$ for them. If you find two consecutive $B$'s, you can delete them. If you find three consecutive $A$'s, you can delete them. Ababa begins with the word $ABABABAABAAB$. With the above rules, how many letters do you have the shortest word you can come up with? Why can't you come up with one more word shorter?

Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with $AC>CB$ and let $M$ be the midpoint of side $AB$. Denote by $Q$ the midpoint of the big arc $AB$ which cointais $C$ and by $B_1$ the point inside $AC$ such that $BC=CB_1$. $B_1Q$ touches $BC$ in $E$ and $K$ is the intersection of $(BB_1M)$ and $(ABC)$. Prove that $KC$ bissects $B_1E$.

Unit cubes are made into beads by drilling a hole through them along a diagonal. The beads are put on a string in such a way that they can move freely in space under the restriction that the vertices of two neighboring cubes are touching. Let $ A$ be the beginning vertex and $ B$ be the end vertex. Let there be $ p \times q \times r$ cubes on the string $ (p, q, r \geq 1).$ [i](a)[/i] Determine for which values of $ p, q,$ and $ r$ it is possible to build a block with dimensions $ p, q,$ and $ r.$ Give reasons for your answers. [i](b)[/i] The same question as (a) with the extra condition that $ A \equal{} B.$

Let $H{}$ be the orthocenter of the triangle $ABC{}$ and $X{}$ be the midpoint of the side $BC.$ The perpendicular at $H{}$ to $HX{}$ intersects the sides $(AB)$ and $(AC)$ at $Y{}$ and $Z{}$ respectively. Let $O{}$ be the circumcenter of $ABC{}$ and $O'$ be the circumcenter of $BHC.$ [list=a] [*]Prove that $HY=HZ.$ [*]Prove that $\overrightarrow{AY}+\overrightarrow{AZ}=2\overrightarrow{OO'}.$ [/list]

Determine all digits $z$ such that for each integer $k \ge 1$ there exists an integer $n\ge 1$ with the property that the decimal representation of $n^9$ ends with at least $k$ digits $z$. [i](Proposed by Walther Janous)[/i]

Fibonacci sequences is defined as $f_1=1$,$f_2=2$, $f_{n+1}=f_{n}+f_{n-1}$ for $n \ge 2$. a) Prove that every positive integer can be represented as sum of several distinct Fibonacci number. b) A positive integer is called [i]Fib-unique[/i] if the way to represent it as sum of several distinct Fibonacci number is unique. Example: $13$ is not Fib-unique because $13 = 13 = 8 + 5 = 8 + 3 + 2$. Find all Fib-unique.

Suppose $\alpha_i > 0, \beta_i > 0$ for $1 \leq i \leq n, n > 1$ and that \[ \sum^n_{i=1} \alpha_i = \sum^n_{i=1} \beta_i = \pi. \] Prove that \[ \sum^n_{i=1} \frac{\cos(\beta_i)}{\sin(\alpha_i)} \leq \sum^n_{i=1} \cot(\alpha_i). \]

In the interior of an equilateral triangle $ ABC $ a point $ P $ is chosen such that $ PA ^2 = PB ^2 + PC ^2 $. Find the measure of $ \angle BPC $.

Find all natural numbers $n$ the product of whose decimal digits is $n^2-10n-22$.