Determine all triples \( (a, b, c) \) of positive integers such that: \[ a + b + c = abc. \]

For every positive integer $n$, let $f(n)$, $g(n)$ be the minimal positive integers such that \[1+\frac{1}{1!}+\frac{1}{2!}+\dots +\frac{1}{n!}=\frac{f(n)}{g(n)}.\] Determine whether there exists a positive integer $n$ for which $g(n)>n^{0.999n}$.

Can you find five prime numbers $p, q, r, s, t$ such that $p^3+q^3+r^3+s^3 =t^3$?

[b]p1.[/b] Find the number of zeroes at the end of $20^{17}$. [b]p2.[/b] Express $\frac{1}{\sqrt{20} +\sqrt{17}}$ in simplest radical form. [b]p3.[/b] John draws a square $ABCD$. On side $AB$ he draws point $P$ so that $\frac{BP}{PA}=\frac{1}{20}$ and on side $BC$ he draws point $Q$ such that $\frac{BQ}{QC}=\frac{1}{17}$ . What is the ratio of the area of $\vartriangle PBQ$ to the area of $ABCD$? [b]p4.[/b] Alfred, Bill, Clara, David, and Emily are sitting in a row of five seats at a movie theater. Alfred and Bill don’t want to sit next to each other, and David and Emily have to sit next to each other. How many arrangements can they sit in that satisfy these constraints? [b]p5.[/b] Alex is playing a game with an unfair coin which has a $\frac15$ chance of flipping heads and a $\frac45$ chance of flipping tails. He flips the coin three times and wins if he flipped at least one head and one tail. What is the probability that Alex wins? [b]p6.[/b] Positive two-digit number $\overline{ab}$ has $8$ divisors. Find the number of divisors of the four-digit number $\overline{abab}$. [b]p7.[/b] Call a positive integer $n$ diagonal if the number of diagonals of a convex $n$-gon is a multiple of the number of sides. Find the number of diagonal positive integers less than or equal to $2017$. [b]p8.[/b] There are $4$ houses on a street, with $2$ on each side, and each house can be colored one of 5 different colors. Find the number of ways that the houses can be painted such that no two houses on the same side of the street are the same color and not all the houses are different colors. [b]p9.[/b] Compute $$|2017 -|2016| -|2015-| ... |3-|2-1|| ...||||.$$ [b]p10.[/b] Given points $A,B$ in the coordinate plane, let $A \oplus B$ be the unique point $C$ such that $\overline{AC}$ is parallel to the $x$-axis and $\overline{BC}$ is parallel to the $y$-axis. Find the point $(x, y)$ such that $((x, y) \oplus (0, 1)) \oplus (1,0) = (2016,2017) \oplus (x, y)$. [b]p11.[/b] In the following subtraction problem, different letters represent different nonzero digits. $\begin{tabular}{ccccc} & M & A & T & H \\ - & & H & A & M \\ \hline & & L & M & T \\ \end{tabular}$ How many ways can the letters be assigned values to satisfy the subtraction problem? [b]p12.[/b] If $m$ and $n$ are integers such that $17n +20m = 2017$, then what is the minimum possible value of $|m-n|$? [b]p13. [/b]Let $f(x)=x^4-3x^3+2x^2+7x-9$. For some complex numbers $a,b,c,d$, it is true that $f (x) = (x^2+ax+b)(x^2+cx +d)$ for all complex numbers $x$. Find $\frac{a}{b}+ \frac{c}{d}$. [b]p14.[/b] A positive integer is called an imposter if it can be expressed in the form $2^a +2^b$ where $a,b$ are non-negative integers and $a \ne b$. How many almost positive integers less than $2017$ are imposters? [b]p15.[/b] Evaluate the infinite sum $$\sum^{\infty}_{n=1} \frac{n(n +1)}{2^{n+1}}=\frac12 +\frac34+\frac68+\frac{10}{16}+\frac{15}{32}+...$$ [b]p16.[/b] Each face of a regular tetrahedron is colored either red, green, or blue, each with probability $\frac13$ . What is the probability that the tetrahedron can be placed with one face down on a table such that each of the three visible faces are either all the same color or all different colors? [b]p17.[/b] Let $(k,\sqrt{k})$ be the point on the graph of $y=\sqrt{x}$ that is closest to the point $(2017,0)$. Find $k$. [b]p18.[/b] Alice is going to place $2016$ rooks on a $2016 \times 2016$ chessboard where both the rows and columns are labelled $1$ to $2016$; the rooks are placed so that no two rooks are in the same row or the same column. The value of a square is the sum of its row number and column number. The score of an arrangement of rooks is the sumof the values of all the occupied squares. Find the average score over all valid configurations. [b]p19.[/b] Let $f (n)$ be a function defined recursively across the natural numbers such that $f (1) = 1$ and $f (n) = n^{f (n-1)}$. Find the sum of all positive divisors less than or equal to $15$ of the number $f (7)-1$. [b]p20.[/b] Find the number of ordered pairs of positive integers $(m,n)$ that satisfy $$gcd \,(m,n)+ lcm \,(m,n) = 2017.$$ [b]p21.[/b] Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a triangle. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $AB$ and let $P$ be the projection of $A$ onto $BC$. If $AB = 20$, and $BC = MC = 17$, compute $BP$. [b]p22.[/b] For positive integers $n$, define the odd parent function, denoted $op(n)$, to be the greatest positive odd divisor of $n$. For example, $op(4) = 1$, $op(5) = 5$, and $op(6) =3$. Find $\sum^{256}_{i=1}op(i).$ [b]p23.[/b] Suppose $\vartriangle ABC$ has sidelengths $AB = 20$ and $AC = 17$. Let $X$ be a point inside $\vartriangle ABC$ such that $BX \perp CX$ and $AX \perp BC$. If $|BX^4 -CX^4|= 2017$, the compute the length of side $BC$. [b]p24.[/b] How many ways can some squares be colored black in a $6 \times 6$ grid of squares such that each row and each column contain exactly two colored squares? Rotations and reflections of the same coloring are considered distinct. [b]p25.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral with $AB = BC = 2$, $AD = 4$, and $\angle ABC = 120^o$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $BD$. If $\angle AMC = 90^o$, find the length of segment $CD$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $G$ be a graph on $n\geq 6$ vertices and every vertex is of degree at least 3. If $C_{1}, C_{2}, \dots, C_{k}$ are all the cycles in $G$, determine all possible values of $\gcd(|C_{1}|, |C_{2}|, \dots, |C_{k}|)$ where $|C|$ denotes the number of vertices in the cycle $C$.

The numbers $p, 4p^2 + 1,$ and $6p^2 + 1$ are primes. Determine $p.$

[b]p1.[/b] Find all real solutions of the system $$x^5 + y^5 = 1$$ $$x^6 + y^6 = 1$$ [b]p2.[/b] The centers of three circles of the radius $R$ are located in the vertexes of equilateral triangle. The length of the sides of the triangle is $a$ and $\frac{a}{2}< R < a$. Find the distances between the intersection points of the circles, which are outside of the triangle. [b]p3.[/b] Prove that no positive integer power of $2$ ends with four equal digits. [b]p4.[/b] A circle is divided in $10$ sectors. $90$ coins are located in these sectors, $9$ coins in each sector. At every move you can move a coin from a sector to one of two neighbor sectors. (Two sectors are called neighbor if they are adjoined along a segment.) Is it possible to move all coins into one sector in exactly$ 2004$ moves? [b]p5.[/b] Inside a convex polygon several points are arbitrary chosen. Is it possible to divide the polygon into smaller convex polygons such that every one contains exactly one given point? Justify your answer. [b]p6.[/b] A troll tried to spoil a white and red $8\times 8$ chessboard. The area of every square of the chessboard is one square foot. He randomly painted $1.5\%$ of the area of every square with black ink. A grasshopper jumped on the spoiled chessboard. The length of the jump of the grasshopper is exactly one foot and at every jump only one point of the chessboard is touched. Is it possible for the grasshopper to visit every square of the chessboard without touching any black point? Justify your answer. PS. You should use hide for answers.

Determine the number of pairs $(a, b)$, where $1 \le a \le b \le 100$ are positive integers, so that $\frac{a^3+b^3}{a^2+b^2}$ is an integer.

Alina knows how to twist a periodic decimal fraction in the following way: she finds the minimum preperiod of the fraction, then takes the number that makes up the period and rearranges the last one in it digit to the beginning of the number. For example, from the fraction, $0.123(56708)$ she will get $0.123(85670)$. What fraction will Alina get from fraction $\frac{503}{2022}$ ?

(Leo Moser) Show that the Diophantine equation \[\frac{1}{x_{1}}+\frac{1}{x_{2}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{x_{n}}+\frac{1}{x_{1}x_{2}\cdots x_{n}}= 1\] has at least one solution for every positive integers $n$.

Prove that for every integer power of 2, there exists a multiple of it with all digits (in decimal expression) not zero.

Determine all functions $f$ defined on the set of all positive integers and taking non-negative integer values, satisfying the three conditions: [list] [*] $(i)$ $f(n) \neq 0$ for at least one $n$; [*] $(ii)$ $f(x y)=f(x)+f(y)$ for every positive integers $x$ and $y$; [*] $(iii)$ there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $f(k)=f(n-k)$ for all $k<n$. [/list]

Find a positive integrer number $n$ such that, if yor put a number $2$ on the left and a number $1$ on the right, the new number is equal to $33n$.

Consider the function $f_k:\mathbb{Z}^{+}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}^{+}$ satisfying \[f_k(x)=x+k\varphi(x)\] where $\varphi(x)$ is Euler's totient function, that is, the number of positive integers up to $x$ coprime to $x$. We define a sequence $a_1,a_2,...,a_{10}$ with [list] [*] $a_1=c$, and [*] $a_n=f_k(a_{n-1}) \text{ }\forall \text{ } 2\le n\le 10$ [/list] Is it possible to choose the initial value $c\ne 1$ such that each term is a multiple of the previous, if (a) $k=2025$ ? (b) $k=2065$ ? [i]Proposed by chorn[/i]

There are pairs of square numbers with the following two properties: (1) Their decimal representations have the same number of digits, with the first digit starting is different from $0$ . (2) If one appends the second to the decimal representation of the first, the decimal representation results another square number. Example: $16$ and $81$; $1681 = 41^2$. Prove that there are infinitely many pairs of squares with these properties.

Let $p>13$ be a prime of the form $2q+1$, where $q$ is prime. Find the number of ordered pairs of integers $(m,n)$ such that $0\le m<n<p-1$ and \[3^m+(-12)^m\equiv 3^n+(-12)^n\pmod{p}.\] [i]Alex Zhu.[/i] [hide="Note"]The original version asked for the number of solutions to $2^m+3^m\equiv 2^n+3^n\pmod{p}$ (still $0\le m<n<p-1$), where $p$ is a Fermat prime.[/hide]

Consider the triangular numbers $T_n = \frac{n(n+1)}{2} , n \in \mathbb N$. [list][b](a)[/b] If $a_n$ is the last digit of $T_n$, show that the sequence $(a_n)$ is periodic and find its basic period. [b](b)[/b] If $s_n$ is the sum of the first $n$ terms of the sequence $(T_n)$, prove that for every $n \geq 3$ there is at least one perfect square between $s_{n-1} and $s_n$.[/list]

[b]p1.[/b] $17.5\%$ of what number is $4.5\%$ of $28000$? [b]p2.[/b] Let $x$ and $y$ be two randomly selected real numbers between $-4$ and $4$. The probability that $(x - 1)(y - 1)$ is positive can be written in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m + n$. [b]p3.[/b] In the $xy$-plane, Mallen is at $(-12, 7)$ and Anthony is at $(3,-14)$. Mallen runs in a straight line towards Anthony, and stops when she has traveled $\frac23$ of the distance to Anthony. What is the sum of the $x$ and $y$ coordinates of the point that Mallen stops at? [b]p4.[/b] What are the last two digits of the sum of the first $2021$ positive integers? [b]p5.[/b] A bag has $19$ blue and $11$ red balls. Druv draws balls from the bag one at a time, without replacement. The probability that the $8$th ball he draws is red can be written in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m + n$. [b]p6.[/b] How many terms are in the arithmetic sequence $3$, $11$, $...$, $779$? [b]p7.[/b] Ochama has $21$ socks and $4$ drawers. She puts all of the socks into drawers randomly, making sure there is at least $1$ sock in each drawer. If $x$ is the maximum number of socks in a single drawer, what is the difference between the maximum and minimum possible values of $x$? [b]p8.[/b] What is the least positive integer $n$ such that $\sqrt{n + 1} - \sqrt{n} < \frac{1}{20}$? [b]p9.[/b] Triangle $\vartriangle ABC$ is an obtuse triangle such that $\angle ABC > 90^o$, $AB = 10$, $BC = 9$, and the area of $\vartriangle ABC$ is $36$. Compute the length of $AC$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/c/b648d0d60c186d01493fcb4e21b5260c46606e.png[/img] [b]p10.[/b] If $x + y - xy = 4$, and $x$ and $y$ are integers, compute the sum of all possible values of$ x + y$. [b]p11.[/b] What is the largest number of circles of radius $1$ that can be drawn inside a circle of radius $2$ such that no two circles of radius $1$ overlap? [b]p12.[/b] $22.5\%$ of a positive integer $N$ is a positive integer ending in $7$. Compute the smallest possible value of $N$. [b]p13.[/b] Alice and Bob are comparing their ages. Alice recognizes that in five years, Bob's age will be twice her age. She chuckles, recalling that five years ago, Bob's age was four times her age. How old will Alice be in five years? [b]p14.[/b] Say there is $1$ rabbit on day $1$. After each day, the rabbit population doubles, and then a rabbit dies. How many rabbits are there on day $5$? [b]15.[/b] Ajit draws a picture of a regular $63$-sided polygon, a regular $91$-sided polygon, and a regular $105$-sided polygon. What is the maximum number of lines of symmetry Ajit's picture can have? [b]p16.[/b] Grace, a problem-writer, writes $9$ out of $15$ questions on a test. A tester randomly selects $3$ of the $15$ questions, without replacement, to solve. The probability that all $3$ of the questions were written by Grace can be written in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m + n$. [b]p17.[/b] Compute the number of anagrams of the letters in $BMMTBMMT$ with no two $M$'s adjacent. [b]p18.[/b] From a $15$ inch by $15$ inch square piece of paper, Ava cuts out a heart such that the heart is a square with two semicircles attached, and the arcs of the semicircles are tangent to the edges of the piece of paper, as shown in the below diagram. The area (in square inches) of the remaining pieces of paper, after the heart is cut out and removed, can be written in the form $a-b\pi$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. Compute $a + b$. [b]p19.[/b] Bayus has $2021$ marbles in a bag. He wants to place them one by one into $9$ different buckets numbered $1$ through $9$. He starts by putting the first marble in bucket $1$, the second marble in bucket $2$, the third marble in bucket $3$, etc. After placing a marble in bucket $9$, he starts back from bucket $1$ again and repeats the process. In which bucket will Bayus place the last marble in the bag? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/9/8/4c6b1bd07367101233385b3ffebc5e0abba596.png[/img] [b]p20.[/b] What is the remainder when $1^5 + 2^5 + 3^5 +...+ 2021^5$ is divided by $5$? PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Prove that for any positive integers $k$ and $N$, \[\left(\frac{1}{N}\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}(\omega (n))^k\right)^{\frac{1}{k}}\leq k+\sum\limits_{q\leq N}\frac{1}{q},\] where $\sum\limits_{q\leq N}\frac{1}{q}$ is the summation over of prime powers $q\leq N$ (including $q=1$). Note: For integer $n>1$, $\omega (n)$ denotes number of distinct prime factors of $n$, and $\omega (1)=0$.

The natural numbers $a$ and $b$ satisfy the inequalities $a > b > 1$ . It is also known that the equation $\frac{a^x - 1}{a - 1}=\frac{b^y - 1}{b - 1}$ has at least two solutions in natural numbers, when $x > 1$ and $y > 1$. Prove that the numbers $a$ and $b$ are coprime (their greatest common divisor is $1$).

Find all integers $x$ and prime numbers $p$ satisfying $x^8 + 2^{2^x+2} = p$.

Timi was born in $1999$. Ever since her birth how many times has it happened that you could write that day’s date using only the digits $0$, $1$ and $2$? For example, $2022.02.21$. is such a date.

$a$ and $b$ are given positive integers. Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $n^b+1$ doesn't divide $a^n+1$.

Let $p$ and $q$ be prime numbers. Prove that if $pq(p+1)(q+1)+1$ is a perfect square, then $pq + 1$ is also a perfect square.

Find all natural numbers $n$ for which the sum of digits of $5^n$ equals $2^n$.