[u]Round 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] This year, the Mathathon consists of $7$ rounds, each with $3$ problems. Another math test, Aspartaime, consists of $3$ rounds, each with $5$ problems. How many more problems are on the Mathathon than on Aspartaime? [b]p2.[/b] Let the solutions to $x^3 + 7x^2 - 242x - 2016 = 0 $be $a, b$, and $c$. Find $a^2 + b^2 + c^2$. (You might find it helpful to know that the roots are all rational.) [b]p3.[/b] For triangle $ABC$, you are given $AB = 8$ and $\angle A = 30^o$ . You are told that $BC$ will be chosen from amongst the integers from $1$ to $10$, inclusive, each with equal probability. What is the probability that once the side length $BC$ is chosen there is exactly one possible triangle $ABC$? [u]Round 2 [/u] [b]p4.[/b] It’s raining! You want to keep your cat warm and dry, so you want to put socks, rain boots, and plastic bags on your cat’s four paws. Note that for each paw, you must put the sock on before the boot, and the boot before the plastic bag. Also, the items on one paw do not affect the items you can put on another paw. How many different orders are there for you to put all twelve items of rain footwear on your cat? [b]p5.[/b] Let $a$ be the square root of the least positive multiple of $2016$ that is a square. Let $b$ be the cube root of the least positive multiple of $2016$ that is a cube. What is $ a - b$? [b]p6.[/b] Hypersomnia Cookies sells cookies in boxes of $6, 9$ or $10$. You can only buy cookies in whole boxes. What is the largest number of cookies you cannot exactly buy? (For example, you couldn’t buy $8$ cookies.) [u]Round 3 [/u] [b]p7.[/b] There is a store that sells each of the $26$ letters. All letters of the same type cost the same amount (i.e. any ‘a’ costs the same as any other ‘a’), but different letters may or may not cost different amounts. For example, the cost of spelling “trade” is the same as the cost of spelling “tread,” even though the cost of using a ‘t’ may be different from the cost of an ‘r.’ If the letters to spell out $1$ cost $\$1001$, the letters to spell out $2$ cost $\$1010$, and the letters to spell out $11$ cost $\$2015$, how much do the letters to spell out $12$ cost? [b]p8.[/b] There is a square $ABCD$ with a point $P$ inside. Given that $PA = 6$, $PB = 9$, $PC = 8$. Calculate $PD$. [b]p9.[/b] How many ordered pairs of positive integers $(x, y)$ are solutions to $x^2 - y^2 = 2016$? [u]Round 4 [/u] [b]p10.[/b] Given a triangle with side lengths $5, 6$ and $7$, calculate the sum of the three heights of the triangle. [b]p11. [/b]There are $6$ people in a room. Each person simultaneously points at a random person in the room that is not him/herself. What is the probability that each person is pointing at someone who is pointing back to them? [b]p12.[/b] Find all $x$ such that $\sum_{i=0}^{\infty} ix^i =\frac34$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 5-7 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h2782837p24446063]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $S$ be a nonempty set of positive integers. We say that a positive integer $n$ is [i]clean[/i] if it has a unique representation as a sum of an odd number of distinct elements from $S$. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers that are not clean.

Write the sum $\sum_{i=0}^{n}{\frac{(-1)^i\cdot\binom{n}{i}}{i^3 +9i^2 +26i +24}}$ as the ratio of two explicitly defined polynomials with integer coefficients.

Let \[ S_1 \equal{} \{ (x,y)\ | \ \log_{10} (1 \plus{} x^2 \plus{} y^2)\le 1 \plus{} \log_{10}(x \plus{} y)\} \]and \[ S_2 \equal{} \{ (x,y)\ | \ \log_{10} (2 \plus{} x^2 \plus{} y^2)\le 2 \plus{} \log_{10}(x \plus{} y)\}. \]What is the ratio of the area of $ S_2$ to the area of $ S_1$? $ \textbf{(A) } 98\qquad \textbf{(B) } 99\qquad \textbf{(C) } 100\qquad \textbf{(D) } 101\qquad \textbf{(E) } 102$

There is a set of 1000 switches, each of which has four positions, called $A, B, C,$ and $D.$ When the position of any switch changes, it is only from $A$ to $B,$ from $B$ to $C,$ from $C$ to $D,$ or from $D$ to $A.$ Initially each switch is in position $A.$ The switches are labeled with the 1000 different integers $2^x3^y5^z,$ where $x, y,$ and $z$ take on the values $0, 1, \ldots, 9.$ At step $i$ of a 1000-step process, the $i$th switch is advanced one step, and so are all the other switches whose labels divide the label on the $i$th switch. After step 1000 has been completed, how many switches will be in position $A$?

$ABCD$ is a tetrahedron with $\angle BAC = \angle ACD$ and $\angle ABD = \angle BDC$. Show that $AB = CD$.

Find the maximum length of a broken line on the surface of a unit cube, such that its links are the cube’s edges and diagonals of faces, the line does not intersect itself and passes no more than once through any vertex of the cube, and its endpoints are in two opposite vertices of the cube.

Determine all positive real numbers $x$ for which $$\left [x\right ]+\left [\sqrt{1996x}\right ]=1996$$ is verified Clarification:The brackets indicate the integer part of the number they enclose.

What is the remainder when $7^{2024}+7^{2025}+7^{2026}$ is divided by $19$? $ \textbf{(A) }0 \qquad \textbf{(B) }1 \qquad \textbf{(C) }7 \qquad \textbf{(D) }11 \qquad \textbf{(E) }18 \qquad $

The diagonals $AC$ and $BD$ of a convex quarilateral $ABCD$ are orthogonal. Let $M,N,R,S$ be the midpoints of the sides $AB,BC,CD$ and $DA$ respectively, and let $W,X,Y,Z$ be the projections of the points $M,N,R$ and $S$ on the lines $CD,DA,AB$ and $BC$, respectively. Prove that the points $M,N,R,S,W,X,Y$ and $Z$ lie on a circle.

Find all polynomials $P$ with integer coefficients, for which there exists a number $N$, such that for every natural number $n \geq N$, all prime divisors of $n+2^{\lfloor \sqrt{n} \rfloor}$ are also divisors of $P(n)$.

A positive integer $n > 1$ is juicy if its divisors $d_1 < d_2 < \dots < d_k$ satisfy $d_i - d_{i-1} \mid n$ for all $2 \leq i \leq k$. Find all squarefree juicy integers.

Is it possible to assign every integral point $(x,y)$ of the plane a positive integer $a_{x,y}$ such that for every two integers $i$ and $j$ the following equality holds $$a_{i,j}=\gcd(a_{i-1,j},a_{i+1,j})+\gcd(a_{i,j-1},a_{i,j+1})$$ [i]M. Shutro[/i]

A domino is a rectangle whose length is twice its width. Any square can be divided into seven dominoes, for example as shown in the figure below. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/7/6/c055d8d2f6b7c24d38ded7305446721e193203.png[/img] a) Show that you can divide a square into $n$ dominoes for all $n \ge 5$. b) Show that you cannot divide a square into three or four dominoes.

How many positive integers $ N$ less than $ 1000$ are there such that the equation $ x^{\lfloor x\rfloor} \equal{} N$ has a solution for $ x$? (The notation $ \lfloor x\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to $ x$.)

Let $p=4k+1$ be a prime and let $|x| \leq \frac{p-1}{2}$ such that $\binom{2k}{k}\equiv x \pmod p$. Show that $|x| \leq 2\sqrt{p}$.

Let $p, q, r$ be positive real numbers, not all equal, such that some two of the equations \begin{eqnarray*} px^2 + 2qx + r &=& 0 \\ qx^2 + 2rx + p &=& 0 \\ rx^2 + 2px + q &=& 0 . \\ \end{eqnarray*} have a common root, say $\alpha$. Prove that $a)$ $\alpha$ is real and negative; $b)$ the remaining third quadratic equation has non-real roots.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle where $|AB| = |AC|$. Points $P$ and $Q$ are different from the vertices of the triangle and lie on the sides $AB$ and $AC$, respectively. Prove that the circumcircle of the triangle $APQ$ passes through the circumcenter of $ABC$ if and only if $|AP| = |CQ|$.

Find all triples $(l, m, n)$ of distinct positive integers satisfying \[{\gcd(l, m)}^{2}= l+m, \;{\gcd(m, n)}^{2}= m+n, \; \text{and}\;\;{\gcd(n, l)}^{2}= n+l.\]

Let it \(C,D > 0\). We call a function \(f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) [i]pretty[/i] if \(f\) is a \(C^2\)-class, \(|x^3f(x)| \leq C\) and \(|xf''(x)| \leq D\). [list='i'] [*] Show that if \(f\) is pretty, then, given \(\epsilon \geq 0\), there is a \(x_0 \geq 0\) such that for every \(x\) with \(|x| \geq x_0\), we have \(|x^2f'(x)| < \sqrt{2CD}+\epsilon\). [*] Show that if \(0 < E < \sqrt{2CD}\) then there is a pretty function \(f\) such that for every \(x_0 \geq 0\) there is a \(x > x_0\) such that \(|x^2f'(x)| > E\). [/list]

Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that we have $f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y) + f(xy)$ for all $ x,y\in \mathbb{R}$

An acute-angled $ABC \ (AB<AC)$ is inscribed into a circle $\omega$. Let $M$ be the centroid of $ABC$, and let $AH$ be an altitude of this triangle. A ray $MH$ meets $\omega$ at $A'$. Prove that the circumcircle of the triangle $A'HB$ is tangent to $AB$. [i](A.I. Golovanov , A.Yakubov)[/i]

The points $K$ and $L$ on the side $BC$ of a triangle $\triangle{ABC}$ are such that $\widehat{BAK}=\widehat{CAL}=90^\circ$. Prove that the midpoint of the altitude drawn from $A$, the midpoint of $KL$ and the circumcentre of $\triangle{ABC}$ are collinear. [i](A. Akopyan, S. Boev, P. Kozhevnikov)[/i]

Let $p>5$ be a prime number. Show that $p-4$ cannot be the fourth power of a prime number.

Assume $x_1,x_2,..,x_5$ are positive numbers such that $x_1 < x_2$ and $x_3,x_4, x_5$ are all greater than $x_2$. Prove that if $a > 0$, then $$\frac{1}{(x_1 +x_3)^a}+ \frac{1}{(x_2 +x_4)^a}+ \frac{1}{(x_2 +x_5)^a} <\frac{1}{(x_1 +x_2)^a}+ \frac{1}{(x_2 +x_3)^a}+ \frac{1}{(x_4 +x_5)^a}$$