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2023 Iberoamerican, 1

Let $n$ be a positive integer. The following $35$ multiplication are performed: $$1 \cdot n, 2 \cdot n, \dots, 35 \cdot n.$$ Show that in at least one of these results the digit $7$ appears at least once.

2016 International Zhautykov Olympiad, 2

$a_1,a_2,...,a_{100}$ are permutation of $1,2,...,100$. $S_1=a_1, S_2=a_1+a_2,...,S_{100}=a_1+a_2+...+a_{100}$Find the maximum number of perfect squares from $S_i$

2009 Greece National Olympiad, 1

Find all positive integers $n$ such that the number \[A=\sqrt{\frac{9n-1}{n+7}}\] is rational.

PEN E Problems, 24

Let $p_{n}$ again denote the $n$th prime number. Show that the infinite series \[\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}\frac{1}{p_{n}}\] diverges.

2017 Dutch BxMO TST, 2

Let define a function $f: \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ such that : $i)$$f(p)=1$ for all prime numbers $p$. $ii)$$f(xy)=xf(y)+yf(x)$ for all positive integers $x,y$ find the smallest $n \geq 2016$ such that $f(n)=n$

2015 LMT, Individual

[b]p1.[/b] What is $\sqrt[2015]{2^01^5}$? [b]p2.[/b] What is the ratio of the area of square $ABCD$ to the area of square $ACEF$? [b]p3.[/b] $2015$ in binary is $11111011111$, which is a palindrome. What is the last year which also had this property? [b]p4.[/b] What is the next number in the following geometric series: $1020100$, $10303010$, $104060401$? [b]p5.[/b] A circle has radius $A$ and area $r$. If $A = r^2\pi$, then what is the diameter, $C$, of the circle? [b]p6.[/b] If $$O + N + E = 1$$ $$T + H + R + E + E = 3$$ $$N + I + N + E = 9$$ $$T + E + N = 10$$ $$T + H + I + R + T + E + E + N = 13$$ Then what is the value of $O$? [b]p7.[/b] By shifting the initial digit, which is $6$, of the positive integer $N$ to the end (for example, $65$ becomes $56$), we obtain a number equal to $\frac{N}{4}$ . What is the smallest such $N$? [b]p8.[/b] What is $\sqrt[3]{\frac{2015!(2013!)+2014!(2012!)}{2013!(2012!)}}$ ? [b]p9.[/b] How many permutations of the digits of $1234$ are divisible by $11$? [b]p10.[/b] If you choose $4$ cards from a normal $52$ card deck (with replacement), what is the probability that you will get exactly one of each suit (there are $4$ suits)? [b]p11.[/b] If $LMT$ is an equilateral triangle, and $MATH$ is a square, such that point $A$ is in the triangle, then what is $HL/AL$? [b]p12.[/b] If $$\begin{tabular}{cccccccc} & & & & & L & H & S\\ + & & & & H & I & G & H \\ + & & S & C & H & O & O & L \\ \hline = & & S & O & C & O & O & L \\ \end{tabular}$$ and $\{M, A, T,H, S, L,O, G, I,C\} = \{0, 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9\} $, then what is the ordered pair $(M + A +T + H, [T + e + A +M])$ where $e$ is $2.718...$and $[n]$ is the greatest integer less than or equal to $n$ ? [b]p13.[/b] There are $5$ marbles in a bag. One is red, one is blue, one is green, one is yellow, and the last is white. There are $4$ people who take turns reaching into the bag and drawing out a marble without replacement. If the marble they draw out is green, they get to draw another marble out of the bag. What is the probability that the $3$rd person to draw a marble gets the white marble? [b]p14.[/b] Let a "palindromic product" be a product of numbers which is written the same when written back to front, including the multiplication signs. For example, $234 * 545 * 432$, $2 * 2 *2 *2$, and $14 * 41$ are palindromic products whereas $2 *14 * 4 * 12$, $567 * 567$, and $2* 2 * 3* 3 *2$ are not. 2015 can be written as a "palindromic product" in two ways, namely $13 * 5 * 31$ and $31 * 5 * 13$. How many ways can you write $2016$ as a palindromic product without using 1 as a factor? [b]p15.[/b] Let a sequence be defined as $S_n = S_{n-1} + 2S_{n-2}$, and $S_1 = 3$ and $S_2 = 4$. What is $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{S_n}{3^n}$ ? [b]p16.[/b] Put the numbers $0-9$ in some order so that every $2$-digit substring creates a number which is either a multiple of $7$, or a power of $2$. [b]p17.[/b] Evaluate $\dfrac{8+ \dfrac{8+ \dfrac{8+...}{3+...}}{3+ \dfrac{8+...}{3+...}}}{3+\dfrac{8+ \dfrac{8+...}{3+...}}{ 3+ \dfrac{8+...}{3+...}}}$, assuming that it is a positive real number. [b]p18.[/b] $4$ non-overlapping triangles, each of area $A$, are placed in a unit circle. What is the maximum value of $A$? [b]p19.[/b] What is the sum of the reciprocals of all the (positive integer) factors of $120$ (including $1$ and $120$ itself). [b]p20.[/b] How many ways can you choose $3$ distinct elements of $\{1, 2, 3,...,4000\}$ to make an increasing arithmetic series? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2011 Costa Rica - Final Round, 2

Find the biggest positive integer $n$ such that $n$ is $167$ times the amount of it's positive divisors.

2013 JBMO Shortlist, 5

Solve in positive integers: $\frac{1}{x^2}+\frac{y}{xz}+\frac{1}{z^2}=\frac{1}{2013}$ .

2002 Belarusian National Olympiad, 5

Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers which cannot be presented in the form $x_1^3+x_2^5+x_3^7+x_4^9+x_5^{11}$ where $x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4,x_5$ are positive integers. (V. Bernik)

2011 Dutch BxMO TST, 4

Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer. Let $a$ be the greatest positive integer such that $2^a | 5^n - 3^n$. Let $b$ be the greatest positive integer such that $2^b \le n$. Prove that $a \le b + 3$.

2006 Austrian-Polish Competition, 4

A positive integer $d$ is called [i]nice[/i] iff for all positive integers $x,y$ hold: $d$ divides $(x+y)^{5}-x^{5}-y^{5}$ iff $d$ divides $(x+y)^{7}-x^{7}-y^{7}$ . a) Is 29 nice? b) Is 2006 nice? c) Prove that infinitely many nice numbers exist.

2021 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament., 5

Let $n$ be the product of the first $10$ primes, and let $$S=\sum_{xy\mid n} \varphi(x) \cdot y,$$ where $\varphi(x)$ denotes the number of positive integers less than or equal to $x$ that are relatively prime to $x$, and the sum is taken over ordered pairs $(x, y)$ of positive integers for which $xy$ divides $n$. Compute $\tfrac{S}{n}.$

2014 Moldova Team Selection Test, 4

Define $p(n)$ to be th product of all non-zero digits of $n$. For instance $p(5)=5$, $p(27)=14$, $p(101)=1$ and so on. Find the greatest prime divisor of the following expression: \[p(1)+p(2)+p(3)+...+p(999).\]

1952 Miklós Schweitzer, 3

Prove:If $ a\equal{}p_1^{\alpha_1}p_2^{\alpha_2}\cdots p_{n}^{\alpha_n}$ is a perfect number, then $ 2<\prod_{i\equal{}1}^n\frac{p_i}{p_i\minus{}1}<4$ ; if moreover, $ a$ is odd, then the upper bound $ 4$ may be reduced to $ 2\sqrt[3]{2}$.

2006 Mid-Michigan MO, 7-9

[b]p1.[/b] Find all solutions $a, b, c, d, e, f$ if it is known that they represent distinct digits and satisfy the following: $\begin{tabular}{ccccc} & a & b & c & a \\ + & & d & d & e \\ & & & d & e \\ \hline d & f & f & d & d \\ \end{tabular}$ [b]p2.[/b] Explain whether it possible that the sum of two squares of positive whole numbers has all digits equal to $1$: $$n^2 + m^2 = 111...111$$ [b]p3. [/b]Two players play the following game on an $8 \times 8$ chessboard. The first player can put a rook on an arbitrary square. Then the second player can put another rook on a free square that is not controlled by the first rook. Then the first player can put a new rook on a free square that is not controlled by the rooks on the board. Then the second player can do the same, etc. A player who cannot put a new rook on the board loses the game. Who has a winning strategy? [b]p4.[/b] Show that the difference $9^{2008} - 7^{2008}$ is divisible by $10$. [b]p5.[/b] Is it possible to find distict positive whole numbers $a, b, c, d, e$ such that $$\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}+\frac{1}{d}+\frac{1}{e}= 1?$$ PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2022 MOAA, 14

Find the greatest prime number $p$ for which there exists a prime number $q$ such that $p$ divides $4^q + 1$ and $q$ divides $4^p + 1$.

2018 Singapore MO Open, 3

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Show that there exists an integer $m$ such that \[ 2018m^2+20182017m+2017 \] is divisible by $2^n$.

2017 IMO Shortlist, N8

Let $p$ be an odd prime number and $\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ be the set of positive integers. Suppose that a function $f:\mathbb{Z}_{>0}\times\mathbb{Z}_{>0}\to\{0,1\}$ satisfies the following properties: [list] [*] $f(1,1)=0$. [*] $f(a,b)+f(b,a)=1$ for any pair of relatively prime positive integers $(a,b)$ not both equal to 1; [*] $f(a+b,b)=f(a,b)$ for any pair of relatively prime positive integers $(a,b)$. [/list] Prove that $$\sum_{n=1}^{p-1}f(n^2,p) \geqslant \sqrt{2p}-2.$$

1992 IMO Longlists, 60

Does there exist a set $ M$ with the following properties? [i](i)[/i] The set $ M$ consists of 1992 natural numbers. [i](ii)[/i] Every element in $ M$ and the sum of any number of elements have the form $ m^k$ $ (m, k \in \mathbb{N}, k \geq 2).$

2016 CMIMC, 10

Let $f:\mathbb{N}\mapsto\mathbb{R}$ be the function \[f(n)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty\dfrac{1}{\operatorname{lcm}(k,n)^2}.\] It is well-known that $f(1)=\tfrac{\pi^2}6$. What is the smallest positive integer $m$ such that $m\cdot f(10)$ is the square of a rational multiple of $\pi$?

2016 BMT Spring, 1

What is the sum of all positive integers less than $30$ divisible by $2, 3$, or $5$?

1950 Polish MO Finals, 6

Prove that if a natural number $n$ is greater than $4$ and is not a prime number, then the produxt of the consecutive natural numbers from $1$ to $n-1$ is divisible by $ n$.

2021 MMATHS, Mixer Round

[b]p1.[/b] Prair takes some set $S$ of positive integers, and for each pair of integers she computes the positive difference between them. Listing down all the numbers she computed, she notices that every integer from $1$ to $10$ is on her list! What is the smallest possible value of $|S|$, the number of elements in her set $S$? [b]p2.[/b] Jake has $2021$ balls that he wants to separate into some number of bags, such that if he wants any number of balls, he can just pick up some bags and take all the balls out of them. What is the least number of bags Jake needs? [b]p3.[/b] Claire has stolen Cat’s scooter once again! She is currently at (0; 0) in the coordinate plane, and wants to ride to $(2, 2)$, but she doesn’t know how to get there. So each second, she rides one unit in the positive $x$ or $y$-direction, each with probability $\frac12$ . If the probability that she makes it to $(2, 2)$ during her ride can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for positive integers $a, b$ with $gcd(a, b) = 1$, then find $a + b$. [b]p4.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ with $AB = BC = 6$ and $\angle ABC = 120^o$ is rotated about $A$, and suppose that the images of points $B$ and $C$ under this rotation are $B'$ and $C'$, respectively. Suppose that $A$, $B'$ and $C$ are collinear in that order. If the area of triangle $B'CC'$ can be expressed as $a - b\sqrt{c}$ for positive integers $a, b, c$ with csquarefree, find $a + b + c$. [b]p5.[/b] Find the sum of all possible values of $a + b + c + d$ if $a, b, c, $d are positive integers satisfying $$ab + cd = 100,$$ $$ac + bd = 500.$$ [b]p6.[/b] Alex lives in Chutes and Ladders land, which is set in the coordinate plane. Each step they take brings them one unit to the right or one unit up. However, there’s a chute-ladder between points $(1, 2)$ and $(2, 0)$ and a chute-ladder between points $(1, 3)$ and $(4, 0)$, whenever Alex visits an endpoint on a chute-ladder, they immediately appear at the other endpoint of that chute-ladder! How many ways are there for Alex to go from $(0, 0)$ to $(4, 4)$? [b]p7.[/b] There are $8$ identical cubes that each belong to $8$ different people. Each person randomly picks a cube. The probability that exactly $3$ people picked their own cube can be written as $\frac{a}{b}$ , where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers with $gcd(a, b) = 1$. Find $a + b$. [b]p8.[/b] Suppose that $p(R) = Rx^2 + 4x$ for all $R$. There exist finitely many integer values of $R$ such that $p(R)$ intersects the graph of $x^3 + 2021x^2 + 2x + 1$ at some point $(j, k)$ for integers $j$ and $k$. Find the sum of all possible values of $R$. [b]p9.[/b] Let $a, b, c$ be the roots of the polynomial $x^3 - 20x^2 + 22$. Find $\frac{bc}{a^2} +\frac{ac}{b^2} +\frac{ab}{c^2}$. [b]p10.[/b] In any finite grid of squares, some shaded and some not, for each unshaded square, record the number of shaded squares horizontally or vertically adjacent to it, this grid’s score is the sum of all numbers recorded this way. Deyuan shades each square in a blank $n \times n$ grid with probability $k$; he notices that the expected value of the score of the resulting grid is equal to $k$, too! Given that $k > 0.9999$, find the minimum possible value of $n$. [b]p11.[/b] Find the sum of all $x$ from $2$ to $1000$ inclusive such that $$\prod^x_{n=2} \log_{n^n}(n + 1)^{n+2}$$ is an integer. [b]p12.[/b] Let triangle $ABC$ with incenter $I$ and circumcircle $\Gamma$ satisfy $AB = 6\sqrt3$, $BC = 14$, and $CA = 22$. Construct points $P$ and $Q$ on rays $BA$ and $CA$ such that $BP = CQ = 14$. Lines $PI$ and $QI$ meet the tangents from $B$ and $C$ to $\Gamma$, respectively, at points $X$ and $Y$ . If $XY$ can be expressed as $a\sqrt{b}-c$ for positive integers $a, b, c$ with $c$ squarefree, find $a + b + c$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2014 Contests, 2

Determine the minimum possible amount of distinct prime divisors of $19^{4n}+4$, for a positive integer $n$.

2012 May Olympiad, 2

We call S $(n)$ the sum of the digits of the integer $n$. For example, $S (327)=3+2+7=12$. Find the value of $$A=S(1)-S(2)+S(3)-S(4)+...+S(2011)-S(2012).$$ ($A$ has $2012$ terms).