In an acute triangle $ABC$, an arbitrary point $P$ is chosen on the altitude $AH$. The points $E$ and $F$ are the midpoints of $AC$ and $AB$, respectively. The perpendiculars from $E$ on $CP$ and from $F$ on $BP$ intersect at the point $K$. Show that $KB = KC$.

In some club, each member is on two commissions. Furthermore, it is known that two any commissions always have exactly one member in common. Knowing there are five commissions. How many members does the club have?

A particle moves in $3$-space according to the equations: $$ \frac{dx}{dt} =yz,\; \frac{dy}{dt} =xz,\; \frac{dz}{dt}= xy.$$ Show that: (a) If two of $x(0), y(0), z(0)$ equal $0,$ then the particle never moves. (b) If $x(0)=y(0)=1, z(0)=0,$ then the solution is $$ x(t)= \sec t ,\; y(t) =\sec t ,\; z(t)= \tan t;$$ whereas if $x(0)=y(0)=1, z(0)=-1,$ then $$ x(t) =\frac{1}{t+1} ,\; y(t)=\frac{1}{t+1}, z(t)=- \frac{1}{t+1}.$$ (c) If at least two of the values $x(0), y(0), z(0)$ are different from zero, then either the particle moves to infinity at some finite time in the future, or it came from infinity at some finite time in the past (a point $(x, y, z)$ in $3$-space "moves to infinity" if its distance from the origin approaches infinity).

Evaluate $\int_{\frac{\pi}{4}}^{\frac{\pi}{3}} \frac{(2\sin \theta +1)\cos ^ 3 \theta}{(\sin ^ 2 \theta +1)^2}d\theta .$ [i]Proposed by kunny[/i]

The headteacher wants to hire a certain number of new teachers in addition to existing teachers. If he hired an additional $10$ teachers, the number of school students would be reduced number per teacher by $5$. However, if the headmaster hired $20$ new teachers, the number of students per teacher would be reduced by $8$. How many students and how many there are teachers in this school? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/8/c0157ff43fd3d92138c87556a0fca2414e8a3f.png[/img]

Consider the set $\mathcal{F}$ of functions $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ (where $\mathbb{N}$ is the set of non-negative integers) having the property that \[f(a^2-b^2)=f(a)^2-f(b)^2,\ \text{for all }a,b\in\mathbb{N},\ a\ge b.\] a) Determine the set $\{f(1)\mid f\in\mathcal{F}\}$. b) Prove that $\mathcal{F}$ has exactly two elements. [i]Nelu Chichirim[/i]

Let $(a_{n})$ be the sequence defined by $a_{0}=1,a_{n+1}=\sum_{k=0}^{n}\dfrac{a_k}{n-k+2}$. Find the limit \[\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sum_{k=0}^{n}\dfrac{a_{k}}{2^{k}},\] if it exists.

Compute the radius of the largest circle that fits entirely within a unit cube.

Let $a,b,c,d$ be real numbers satisfying \[abcd=1\quad \text{and}\quad a+\frac1a+b+\frac1b+c+\frac1c+d+\frac1d=0.\] Prove that at least one of the numbers $ab$, $ac$, $ad$ equals $-1$.

Let be a number $ n\ge 2, $ a binary funcion $ b:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}_2, $ and $ \frac{n^3+5n}{6} $ consecutive integers. Show that among these consecutive integers there are $ n $ of them, namely, $ b_1,b_2,\ldots ,b_n, $ that have the properties: $ \text{(i)} b\left( b_1\right) =b\left( b_2\right) =\cdots =b\left( b_n\right) $ $ \text{(ii)} 1\le b_2-b_1\le b_3-b_2\le \cdots\le b_n-b_{n-1} $

Let $N$ be a natural number and $x_1, \ldots , x_n$ further natural numbers less than $N$ and such that the least common multiple of any two of these $n$ numbers is greater than $N$. Prove that the sum of the reciprocals of these $n$ numbers is always less than $2$: $\sum^n_{i=1} \frac{1}{x_i} < 2.$

A point $M$ inside triangle $ABC$ is such that $AM=AB/2$ and $CM=BC/2$. Points $C_0$ and $A_0$ lying on $AB$ and $CB$ respectively are such that $BC_0:AC_0 = BA_0:CA_0 = 3$. Prove that the distances from $M$ to $C_0$ and $A_0$ are equal.

Find all polynomial functions with real coefficients for which $$(x-2)P(x+2)+(x+2)P(x-2)=2xP(x)$$ for all real $x$

Given a positive integer $n$, let $\tau(n)$ denote the number of positive divisors of $n$ and $\varphi(n)$ denote the number of positive integers not exceeding $n$ that are relatively prime to $n$. Find all $n$ for which one of the three numbers $n,\tau(n), \varphi(n)$ is the arithmetic mean of the other two.

If for the real numbers $x, y,z, k$ the following conditions are valid, $x \ne y \ne z \ne x$ and $x^3 +y^3 +k(x^2 +y^2) = y^3 +z^3 +k(y^2 +z^2) = z^3 +x^3 +k(z^2 +x^2) = 2008$, find the product $xyz$.

The diagonals of a convex quadrilateral $ABCD$ intersect in the point $E$. Let $U$ be the circumcenter of the triangle $ABE$ and $H$ be its orthocenter. Similarly, let $V$ be the circumcenter of the triangle $CDE$ and $K$ be its orthocenter. Prove that $E$ lies on the line $UK$ if and only if it lies on the line $VH$.

Let $a,b$ be coprime positive integers with $a$ even and $a>b$. Show that there exist infinitely many pairs $(m,n)$ of coprime positive integers such that $m\mid a^{n-1}-b^{n-1}$ and $n\mid a^{m-1}-b^{m-1}$.

A number is chosen uniformly at random from the set of all positive integers with at least two digits, none of which are repeated. Find the probability that the number is even.

Let $n\ge3$ and $a_1,a_2,...,a_n \in \mathbb{R^{+}}$, such that $\frac{1}{1+a_1^4} + \frac{1}{1+a_2^4} + ... + \frac{1}{1+a_n^4} = 1$. Prove that: $$a_1a_2...a_n \ge (n-1)^{\frac n4}$$

Let $\left ( a_{n} \right )_{n \geq 1}$ be an increasing sequence of positive integers such that $a_1=1$, and for all positive integers $n$, $a_{n+1}\leq 2n$. Prove that for every positive $n$; there exists positive integers $p$ and $q$ such that $n=a_{p}-a_{q}$.

Prove that infinitely many positive integers can be represented as $(a-1)/b + (b-1)/c + (c-1)/a$, where $a$, $b$ and $c$ are pairwise distinct positive integers greater than 1.

Let $p$ be a prime. Suppose the mean of the nonzero quadratic residues mod $p$ is less than $\frac{p}{2}$. Show that the median of the nonzero quadratic residues mod $p$ is less than $\frac{p}{2}$.

There is an integer $n > 1$. There are $n^2$ stations on a slope of a mountain, all at different altitudes. Each of two cable car companies, $A$ and $B$, operates $k$ cable cars; each cable car provides a transfer from one of the stations to a higher one (with no intermediate stops). The $k$ cable cars of $A$ have $k$ different starting points and $k$ different finishing points, and a cable car which starts higher also finishes higher. The same conditions hold for $B$. We say that two stations are linked by a company if one can start from the lower station and reach the higher one by using one or more cars of that company (no other movements between stations are allowed). Determine the smallest positive integer $k$ for which one can guarantee that there are two stations that are linked by both companies. [i]Proposed by Tejaswi Navilarekallu, India[/i]

Find the maximum number $ c$ such that for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ to have \[ \{n \cdot \sqrt{2}\} \geq \frac{c}{n}\] where $ \{n \cdot \sqrt{2}\} \equal{} n \cdot \sqrt{2} \minus{} [n \cdot \sqrt{2}]$ and $ [x]$ is the integer part of $ x.$ Determine for this number $ c,$ all $ n \in \mathbb{N}$ for which $ \{n \cdot \sqrt{2}\} \equal{} \frac{c}{n}.$

Denote $g(k)$ as the greatest odd divisor of $k$. Put $f(k) = \dfrac{k}{2} + \dfrac{k}{g(k)}$ for $k$ even, and $2^{(k+1)/2}$ for $k$ odd. Define the sequence $x_1, x_2, x_3, ...$ by $x_1 = 1$, $x_{n+1} = f(x_n)$. Find $n$ such that $x_n = 800$.