Define the sequence $(a_n)_{n=1}^\infty$ of positive integers by $a_1=1$ and the condition that $a_{n+1}$ is the least integer such that \[\mathrm{lcm}(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_{n+1})>\mathrm{lcm}(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n)\mbox{.}\] Determine the set of elements of $(a_n)$.

Given $2018 \times 4$ grids and tint them with red and blue. So that each row and each column has the same number of red and blue grids, respectively. Suppose there're $M$ ways to tint the grids with the mentioned requirement. Determine $M \pmod {2018}$.

[b]6.1 [/b] The bindery had 92 sheets of white paper and $135$ sheets of colored paper. It took a sheet of white paper to bind each book. and a sheet of colored paper. After binding several books of white Paper turned out to be half as much as the colored one. How many books were bound? [b]6.2[/b] Prove that if you multiply all the integers from $1$ to $1965$, you get the number, the last whose non-zero digit is even. [b]6.3[/b] The front tires of a car wear out after $25,000$ kilometers, and the rear tires after $15,000$ kilometers of travel. When should you swap tires so that they wear out at the same time? [b]6.4[/b] A rectangle $19$ cm $\times 65$ cm is divided by straight lines parallel to its sides into squares with side 1 cm. How many parts will this rectangle be divided into if you also draw a diagonal in it? [b]6.5[/b] Find the dividend, divisor and quotient in the example: [center][img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/e/de053e7e11e712305a89d3b9e78ac0901dc775.png[/img] [/center] [b]6.6[/b] Odd numbers from $1$ to $49$ are written out in table form $$\,\,\,1\,\,\,\,\,\, 3\,\,\,\,\,\, 5\,\,\,\,\,\, 7\,\,\,\,\,\, 9$$ $$11\,\,\, 13\,\,\, 15\,\,\, 17\,\,\, 19$$ $$21\,\,\, 23\,\,\, 25\,\,\, 27\,\,\, 29$$ $$31\,\,\, 33\,\,\, 35\,\,\, 37\,\,\, 39$$ $$41\,\,\, 43\,\,\, 45\,\,\, 47\,\,\, 49$$ $5$ numbers are selected, any two of which are not on the same line or in one column. What is their sum? PS. You should use hide for answers.Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3988081_1965_leningrad_math_olympiad]here[/url].

Find three different positive integers whose sum is minimum than meet the condition that the sum of each pair of them is a perfect square.

A square $ 600 \times 600$ divided into figures of $4$ cells of the forms in the figure: In the figures of the first two types in shaded cells The number $ 2 ^ k $ is written, where $ k $ is the number of the column in which this cell. Prove that the sum of all the numbers written is divisible by $9$.

Prove that for any integer $n \ge 3$, the least common multiple of the numbers $1,2, ... ,n$ is greater than $2^{n-1}$.

Prove that there exists an integer $n$, $n\geq 2002$, and $n$ distinct positive integers $a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_n$ such that the number $N= a_1^2a_2^2\cdots a_n^2 - 4(a_1^2+a_2^2+\cdots + a_n^2) $ is a perfect square.

A positive integer is called special if its digits can be arranged to form an integer divisible by $4$. How many of the integers from $1$ to $2018$ are special?

[u]Round 5 [/u] [b]p13.[/b] Circles $\omega_1$, $\omega_2$, and $\omega_3$ have radii $8$, $5$, and $5$, respectively, and each is externally tangent to the other two. Circle $\omega_4$ is internally tangent to $\omega_1$, $\omega_2$, and $\omega_3$, and circle $\omega_5$ is externally tangent to the same three circles. Find the product of the radii of $\omega_4$ and $\omega_5$. [b]p14.[/b] Pythagoras has a regular pentagon with area $1$. He connects each pair of non-adjacent vertices with a line segment, which divides the pentagon into ten triangular regions and one pentagonal region. He colors in all of the obtuse triangles. He then repeats this process using the smaller pentagon. If he continues this process an infinite number of times, what is the total area that he colors in? Please rationalize the denominator of your answer. p15. Maisy arranges $61$ ordinary yellow tennis balls and $3$ special purple tennis balls into a $4 \times 4 \times 4$ cube. (All tennis balls are the same size.) If she chooses the tennis balls’ positions in the cube randomly, what is the probability that no two purple tennis balls are touching? [u]Round 6 [/u] [b]p16.[/b] Points $A, B, C$, and $D$ lie on a line (in that order), and $\vartriangle BCE$ is isosceles with $\overline{BE} = \overline{CE}$. Furthermore, $F$ lies on $\overline{BE}$ and $G$ lies on $\overline{CE}$ such that $\vartriangle BFD$ and $\vartriangle CGA$ are both congruent to $\vartriangle BCE$. Let $H$ be the intersection of $\overline{DF}$ and $\overline{AG}$, and let $I$ be the intersection of $\overline{BE}$ and $\overline{AG}$. If $m \angle BCE = arcsin \left( \frac{12}{13} \right)$, what is $\frac{\overline{HI}}{\overline{FI}}$ ? [b]p17.[/b] Three states are said to form a tri-state area if each state borders the other two. What is the maximum possible number of tri-state areas in a country with fifty states? Note that states must be contiguous and that states touching only at “corners” do not count as bordering. [b]p18.[/b] Let $a, b, c, d$, and $e$ be integers satisfying $$2(\sqrt[3]{2})^2 + \sqrt[3]{2}a + 2b + (\sqrt[3]{2})^2c +\sqrt[3]{2}d + e = 0$$ and $$25\sqrt5 i + 25a - 5\sqrt5 ib - 5c + \sqrt5 id + e = 0$$ where $i =\sqrt{-1}$. Find $|a + b + c + d + e|$. [u]Round 7[/u] [b]p19.[/b] What is the greatest number of regions that $100$ ellipses can divide the plane into? Include the unbounded region. [b]p20.[/b] All of the faces of the convex polyhedron $P$ are congruent isosceles (but NOT equilateral) triangles that meet in such a way that each vertex of the polyhedron is the meeting point of either ten base angles of the faces or three vertex angles of the faces. (An isosceles triangle has two base angles and one vertex angle.) Find the sum of the numbers of faces, edges, and vertices of $P$. [b]p21.[/b] Find the number of ordered $2018$-tuples of integers $(x_1, x_2, .... x_{2018})$, where each integer is between $-2018^2$ and $2018^2$ (inclusive), satisfying $$6(1x_1 + 2x_2 +...· + 2018x_{2018})^2 \ge (2018)(2019)(4037)(x^2_1 + x^2_2 + ... + x^2_{2018}).$$ PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 1-4 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h2784936p24472982]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

A pyramid of non-negative integers is constructed as follows (a) The first row consists of only $0$, (b) The second row consists of $1$ and $1$, (c) The $n^{th}$ (for $n > 2$) is an array of $n$ integers among which the left most and right most elements are equal to $n - 1$ and the interior numbers are equal to the sum of two adjacent numbers from the $(n - 1)^{th}$ row (see Figure). Let $S_n$ be the sum of numbers in row $n^{th}$. Determine the remainder when dividing $S_{2018}$ by $2018$: A. $2$ B. $4$ C. $6$ D. $11$ E. $17$

Let be a nonnegative integer $ n $ and three real numbers $ a,b,c $ satisfying $$ a^n+c=b^n+a=c^n+b=a+b+c. $$ Show that $ a=b=c. $ [i]Gheorghe Iurea[/i]

Prove that does not exist positive integers $a$, $b$ and $k$ such that $4abk-a-b$ is a perfect square.

Consider and odd prime $p$. For each $i$ at $\{1, 2,..., p-1\}$, let $r_i$ be the rest of $i^p$ when it is divided by $p^2$. Find the sum: $r_1 + r_2 + ... + r_{p-1}$

Let $a,b,c$ be distinct positive integers and let $r,s,t$ be positive integers such that: $ab+1=r^2,ac+1=s^2,bc+1=t^2$ Prove that it is not possible that all three fractions$ \frac{rt}{s}, \frac{rs}{t}, \frac{st}{r}$ are integers.

Does there exist a positive integer $n>10^{100}$, such that $n^2$ and $(n+1)^2$ satisfy the following property: every digit occurs equal number of times in the decimal representations of each number?

Find all the positive integers $p$ with the property that the sum of the first $p$ positive integers is a four-digit positive integer whose decomposition into prime factors is of the form $2^m3^n(m + n)$, where $m, n \in N^*$.

[b]p1.[/b] Calculate $A \cdot B +M \cdot C$, where $A = 1$, $B = 2$, $C = 3$, $M = 13$. [b]p2.[/b] What is the remainder of $\frac{2022\cdot2023}{10}$ ? [b]p3.[/b] Daniel and Bryan are rolling fair $7$-sided dice. If the probability that the sum of the numbers that Daniel and Bryan roll is greater than $11$ can be represented as the fraction $\frac{a}{b}$ where $a$, $b$ are relatively prime positive integers, what is $a + b$? [b]p4.[/b] Billy can swim the breaststroke at $25$ meters per minute, the butterfly at $30$ meters per minute, and the front crawl at $40$ meters per minute. One day, he swam without stopping or slowing down, swimming $1130$ meters. If he swam the butterfly for twice as long as the breaststroke, plus one additional minute, and the front crawl for three times as long as the butterfly, minus eight minutes, for how many minutes did he swim? [b]p5.[/b] Elon Musk is walking around the circumference of Mars trying to find aliens. If the radius of Mars is $3396.2$ km and Elon Musk is $73$ inches tall, the difference in distance traveled between the top of his head and the bottom of his feet in inches can be expressed as $a\pi$ for an integer $a$. Find $a$. ($1$ yard is exactly $0.9144$ meters). [b]p6.[/b] Lukas is picking balls out of his five baskets labeled $1$,$2$,$3$,$4$,$5$. Each basket has $27$ balls, each labeled with the number of its respective basket. What is the least number of times Lukas must take one ball out of a random basket to guarantee that he has chosen at least $5$ balls labeled ”$1$”? If there are no balls in a chosen basket, Lukas will choose another random basket. [b]p7.[/b] Given $35_a = 42_b$, where positive integers $a$, $b$ are bases, find the minimum possible value of the sum $a + b$ in base $10$. [b]p8.[/b] Jason is playing golf. If he misses a shot, he has a $50$ percent chance of slamming his club into the ground. If a club is slammed into the ground, there is an $80$ percent chance that it breaks. Jason has a $40$ percent chance of hitting each shot. Given Jason must successfully hit five shots to win a prize, what is the expected number of clubs Jason will break before he wins a prize? [b]p9.[/b] Circle $O$ with radius $1$ is rolling around the inside of a rectangle with side lengths $5$ and $6$. Given the total area swept out by the circle can be represented as $a + b\pi$ for positive integers $a$, $b$ find $a + b$. [b]p10.[/b] Quadrilateral $ABCD$ has $\angle ABC = 90^o$, $\angle ADC = 120^o$, $AB = 5$, $BC = 18$, and $CD = 3$. Find $AD$. [b]p11.[/b] Raymond is eating huge burgers. He has been trained in the art of burger consumption, so he can eat one every minute. There are $100$ burgers to start with. However, at the end of every $20$ minutes, one of Raymond’s friends comes over and starts making burgers. Raymond starts with $1$ friend. If each of his friends makes $1$ burger every $20$ minutes, after how long in minutes will there be $0$ burgers left for the first time? [b]p12.[/b] Find the number of pairs of positive integers $(a, b)$ and $b\le a \le 2022$ such that $a\cdot lcm(a, b) = b \cdot gcd(a, b)^2$. [b]p13.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ has sides $AB = 6$, $BC = 10$, and $CA = 14$. If a point $D$ is placed on the opposite side of $AC$ from $B$ such that $\vartriangle ADC$ is equilateral, find the length of $BD$. [b]p14.[/b] If the product of all real solutions to the equation $(x-1)(x-2)(x-4)(x-5)(x-7)(x-8) = -x^2+9x-64$ can be written as $\frac{a-b\sqrt{c}}{d}$ for positive integers $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ where $gcd(a, b, d) = 1$ and $c$ is squarefree, compute $a + b + c + d$. [b]p15.[/b] Joe has a calculator with the keys $1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,+,-$. However, Joe is blind. If he presses $4$ keys at random, and the expected value of the result can be written as $\frac{x}{11^4}$ , compute the last $3$ digits of $x$ when $x$ divided by $1000$. (If there are consecutive signs, they are interpreted as the sign obtained when multiplying the two signs values together, e.g $3$,$+$,$-$,$-$, $2$ would return $3 + (-(-(2))) = 3 + 2 = 5$. Also, if a sign is pressed last, it is ignored.) PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

$(a)$ Let $x, y$ be integers, not both zero. Find the minimum possible value of $|5x^2 + 11xy - 5y^2|$. $(b)$ Find all positive real numbers $t$ such that $\frac{9t}{10}=\frac{[t]}{t - [t]}$.

Show that there is no integer $ a$ such that $ a^2 \minus{} 3a \minus{} 19$ is divisible by $ 289$.

Find in explicit form all ordered pairs of positive integers $(m, n)$ such that $mn-1$ divides $m^2 + n^2$.

[b]p1.[/b] For $25$ bagels they paid as many rubles as the number of bagels you can buy with a ruble. How much does one bagel cost? [b]p2.[/b] Cut the square into the figure into$ 4$ parts of the same shape and size so that each part contains exactly one shaded square. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/2/14f0d435b063bcbc55d3dbdb0a24545af1defb.png[/img] [b]p3.[/b] The numerator and denominator of the fraction are positive numbers. The numerator is increased by $1$, and the denominator is increased by $10$. Can this increase the fraction? [b]p4.[/b] The brother left the house $5$ minutes later than his sister, following her, but walked one and a half times faster than her. How many minutes after leaving will the brother catch up with his sister? [b]p5.[/b] Three apples are worth more than five pears. Can five apples be cheaper than seven pears? Can seven apples be cheaper than thirteen pears? (All apples cost the same, all pears too.) [b]p6.[/b] Give an example of a natural number divisible by $6$ and having exactly $15$ different natural divisors (counting $1$ and the number itself). [b]p7.[/b] In a round dance, $30$ children stand in a circle. Every girl's right neighbor is a boy. Half of the boys have a boy on their right, and all the other boys have a girl on their right. How many boys and girls are there in a round dance? [b]p8.[/b] A sheet of paper was bent in half in a straight line and pierced with a needle in two places, and then unfolded and got $4$ holes. The positions of three of them are marked in figure Where might the fourth hole be? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/c/8/53b14ddbac4d588827291b27c40e3f59eabc24.png[/img] [b]p9 [/b] The numbers 1$, 2, 3, 4, 5, _, 2000$ are written in a row. First, third, fifth, etc. crossed out in order. Of the remaining $1000 $ numbers, the first, third, fifth, etc. are again crossed out. They do this until one number remains. What is this number? [b]p10.[/b] On the number axis there lives a grasshopper who can jump $1$ and $4$ to the right and left. Can he get from point $1$ to point $2$ of the numerical axis in $1996$ jumps if he must not get to points with coordinates divisible by $4$ (points $0$, $\pm 4$, $\pm 8$ etc.)? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2416727_soros_olympiad_in_mathematics]here.[/url]

Among the numbers $ 11n \plus{} 10^{10}$, where $ 1 \le n \le 10^{10}$ is an integer, how many are squares?

Prove that $n^2 + 3n + 5$ is not divisible by $121$ for any positive integer $n$.

Show that there do not exist natural numbers $a_1, a_2, \dots, a_{2018}$ such that the numbers \[ (a_1)^{2018}+a_2, (a_2)^{2018}+a_3, \dots, (a_{2018})^{2018}+a_1 \] are all powers of $5$ [i]Proposed by Tejaswi Navilarekallu[/i]

For two non-negative integers $i, j$, create a new integer $i \# j$ defined as the following: Express the two numbers in base $2$, and compare each digit. If their $k$th digit is the same, then the $k$th digit of $i \# j$ is $0$. If their $k$th digit is different, then the $k$th digit of $i \# j$ is $1$(of course we are talking in base $2$). For instance, $3 \# 5=6$. Show that for arbitrary positive integer $n$, the number can be expressed with finite operations of $\#$s and integers of the form $2^k-1$.