Found problems: 15460
1969 IMO Longlists, 13
$(CZS 2)$ Let $p$ be a prime odd number. Is it possible to find $p-1$ natural numbers $n + 1, n + 2, . . . , n + p -1$ such that the sum of the squares of these numbers is divisible by the sum of these numbers?
2009 Baltic Way, 17
Find the largest integer $n$ for which there exist $n$ different integers such that none of them are divisible by either of $7,11$ or $13$, but the sum of any two of them is divisible by at least one of $7,11$ and $13$.
2025 Turkey EGMO TST, 3
For a positive integer $n$, let $S_n$ be the set of positive integers that do not exceed $n$ and are coprime to $n$. Define $f(n)$ as the smallest positive integer that allows $S_n$ to be partitioned into $f(n)$ disjoint subsets, each forming an arithmetic progression.
Prove that there exist infinitely many pairs $(a, b)$ satisfying $a, b > 2025$, $a \mid b$, and $f(a) \nmid f(b)$.
2017 District Olympiad, 1
[b]a)[/b] Let $ m,n,p\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0} $ such that $ m>n $ and $ \sqrt{m} -\sqrt n=p. $ Prove that $ m $ and $ n $ are perfect squares.
[b]b)[/b] Find the numbers of four digits $ \overline{abcd} $ that satisfy the equation:
$$ \sqrt {\overline{abcd} } -\sqrt{\overline{acd}} =\overline{bb} . $$
2020 Baltic Way, 19
Denote by $d(n)$ the number of positive divisors of a positive integer $n$.
Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $\left\lfloor\sqrt{3}\cdot d(n)\right\rfloor$ divides $n$.
2020 Malaysia IMONST 1, Primary
International Mathematical Olympiad National Selection Test
Malaysia 2020 Round 1 Primary
Time: 2.5 hours [hide=Rules]
$\bullet$ For each problem you have to submit the answer only. The answer to each problem is a non-negative integer.
$\bullet$ No mark is deducted for a wrong answer.
$\bullet$ The maximum number of points is (1 + 2 + 3 + 4) x 5 = 50 points.[/hide]
[b]Part A[/b] (1 point each)
p1. Annie asks his brother four questions, "What is $20$ plus $20$? What is $20$ minus $20$? What is $20$ times $20$? What is $20$ divided by $20$?". His brother adds the answers to these four questions, and then takes the (positive) square root of the result. What number does he get?
p2. A broken watch moves slower than a regular watch. In every $7$ hours, the broken watch lags behind a regular watch by $10$ minutes. In one week, how many hours does the broken watch lags behind a regular watch?
p3. Given a square $ABCD$. A point $P$ is chosen outside the square so that triangle $BCP$ is equilateral. Find $\angle APC$, in degrees.
p4. Hussein throws 4 dice simultaneously, and then adds the number of dots facing up on all $4$ dice. How many possible sums can Hussein get?
Note: For example, he can get sum $14$, by throwing $4$, $6$, $3$, and $ 1$. Assume these are regular dice, with $1$ to $6$ dots on the faces.
p5. Mrs. Sheila says, "I have $5$ children. They were born one by one every $3$ years. The age of my oldest child is $7$ times the age of my youngest child." What is the age of her third child?
[b]Part B [/b](2 points each)
p6. The number $N$ is the smallest positive integer with the sum of its digits equal to $2020$. What is the first (leftmost) digit of $N$?
p7. At a food stall, the price of $16$ banana fritters is $k$ RM , and the price of $k$ banana fritters is $ 1$ RM . What is the price of one banana fritter, in sen?
Note: $1$ RM is equal to $100$ sen.
p8. Given a trapezium $ABCD$ with $AD \parallel$ to $BC$, and $\angle A = \angle B = 90^o$. It is known that the area of the trapezium is 3 times the area of $\vartriangle ABD$. Find$$\frac{area \,\, of \,\, \vartriangle ABC}{area \,\, of \,\, \vartriangle ABD}.$$
p9. Each $\vartriangle$ symbol in the expression below can be substituted either with $+$ or $-$:$$\vartriangle 1 \vartriangle 2 \vartriangle 3 \vartriangle 4.$$How many possible values are there for the resulting arithmetic expression?
Note: One possible value is $-2$, which equals $-1 - 2 - 3 + 4$.
p10. How many $3$-digit numbers have its sum of digits equal to $4$?
[b]Part C[/b] (3 points each)
p11. Find the value of$$+1 + 2 + 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 +... - 2020$$where the sign alternates between $+$ and $-$ after every three numbers.
p12. If Natalie cuts a round pizza with $4$ straight cuts, what is the maximum number of pieces that she can get?
Note: Assume that all the cuts are vertical (perpendicular to the surface of the pizza). She cannot move the pizza pieces until she finishes cutting.
p13. Given a square with area $ A$. A circle lies inside the square, such that the circle touches all sides of the square. Another square with area $ B$ lies inside the circle, such that all its vertices lie on the circle. Find the value of $A/B$.
p14. This sequence lists the perfect squares in increasing order:$$0, 1, 4, 9, 16, ... ,a, 10^8, b, ...$$Determine the value of $b - a$.
p15. Determine the last digit of $5^5 + 6^6 + 7^7 + 8^8 + 9^9$
[b]Part D[/b] (4 points each)
p16. Find the sum of all integers between $-\sqrt{1442}$ and $\sqrt{2020}$.
p17. Three brothers own a painting company called Tiga Abdul Enterprise. They are hired to paint a building.
Wahab says, "I can paint this building in $3$ months if I work alone". Wahib says, "I can paint this building in $2$ months if I work alone". Wahub says, "I can paint this building in $k$ months if I work alone". If they work together, they can finish painting the building in $1$ month only. What is $k$?
p18. Given a rectangle $ABCD$ with a point $P$ inside it. It is known that $PA = 17$, $PB = 15$, and $PC = 6$. What is the length of $PD$?
p19. What is the smallest positive multiple of $225$ that can be written using digits $0$ and $ 1$ only?
p20. Given positive integers $a, b$, and $c$ with $a + b + c = 20$. Determine the number of possible integer values for $\frac{a + b}{c}$.
PS. Problems 6-20 were also used in [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h2675966p23194287]Juniors [/url]as 1-15. Problems 11-20 were also used in Seniors 1-10.
1986 IMO Longlists, 32
Find, with proof, all solutions of the equation $\frac 1x +\frac 2y- \frac 3z = 1$ in positive integers $x, y, z.$
2017 Mid-Michigan MO, 5-6
[b]p1.[/b] Replace $*$’s by an arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) to obtain true equality $$2*0*1*6*7=1.$$
[b]p2.[/b] The interval of length $88$ cm is divided into three unequal parts. The distance between middle points of the left and right parts is $46$ cm. Find the length of the middle part.
[b]p3.[/b] A $5\times 6$ rectangle is drawn on a square grid. Paint some cells of the rectangle in such a way that every $3\times 2$ sub‐rectangle has exactly two cells painted.
[b]p4.[/b] There are $8$ similar coins. $5$ of them are counterfeit. A detector can analyze any set of coins and show if there are counterfeit coins in this set. The detector neither determines which coins nare counterfeit nor how many counterfeit coins are there. How to run the detector twice to find for sure at least one counterfeit coin?
[b]p5.[/b] There is a set of $20$ weights of masses $1, 2, 3,...$ and $20$ grams. Can one divide this set into three groups of equal total masses?
[b]p6.[/b] Replace letters $A,B,C,D,E,F,G$ by the digits $0,1,...,9$ to get true equality $AB+CD=EF * EG$ (different letters correspond to different digits, same letter means the same digit, $AB$, $CD$, $EF$, and $EG$ are two‐digit numbers).
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2010 Cuba MO, 1
The combination to open a safe is a five-digit number. different, randomly selected from $2$ to $9$. To open the box strong, you also need a key that is labeled with the number $410639104$, which is the sum of all combinations that do not open the box. What is the combination that opens the safe?
Maryland University HSMC part II, 1997
[b]p1.[/b] Prove that for every point inside a regular polygon, the average of the distances to the sides equals the radius of the inscribed circle. The distance to a side means the shortest distance from the point to the line obtained by extending the side.
[b]p2.[/b] Suppose we are given positive (not necessarily distinct) integers $a_1, a_2,..., a_{1997}$ . Show that it is possible to choose some numbers from this list such that their sum is a multiple of $1997$.
[b]p3.[/b] You have Blue blocks, Green blocks and Red blocks. Blue blocks and green blocks are $2$ inches thick. Red blocks are $1$ inch thick. In how many ways can you stack the blocks into a vertical column that is exactly $12$ inches high? (For example, for height $3$ there are $5$ ways: RRR, RG, GR, RB, BR.)
[b]p4.[/b] There are $1997$ nonzero real numbers written on the blackboard. An operation consists of choosing any two of these numbers, $a$ and $b$, erasing them, and writing $a+b/2$ and $b-a/2$ instead of them. Prove that if a sequence of such operations is performed, one can never end up with the initial collection of numbers.
[b]p5.[/b] An $m\times n$ checkerboard (m and n are positive integers) is covered by nonoverlapping tiles of sizes $2\times 2$ and $1\times 4$. One $2\times 2$ tile is removed and replaced by a $1\times 4$ tile. Is it possible to rearrange the tiles so that they cover the checkerboard?
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2002 India National Olympiad, 2
Find the smallest positive value taken by $a^3 + b^3 + c^3 - 3abc$ for positive integers $a$, $b$, $c$ .
Find all $a$, $b$, $c$ which give the smallest value
2014 Czech-Polish-Slovak Junior Match, 3
Find with all integers $n$ when $|n^3 - 4n^2 + 3n - 35|$ and $|n^2 + 4n + 8|$ are prime numbers.
2024 Saint Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad, 1
In the cells of the $2024\times 2024$ board, integers are arranged so that in any $2 \times 2023$ rectangle (vertical or horizontal) with one cut corner cell that does not go beyond the board, the sum of the numbers is divided by $13$. Prove that the sum of all the numbers on the board is divisible by $13$.
2000 China Second Round Olympiad, 2
Define the sequence $a_1, a_2, \ldots$ and $b_1, b_2, \ldots$ as $a_0=1,a_1=4,a_2=49$ and for $n \geq 0$
$$
\begin{cases}
a_{n+1}=7a_n+6b_n-3, \\
b_{n+1}=8a_n+7b_n-4.
\end{cases}
$$
Prove that for any non-negative integer $n,$ $a_n$ is a perfect square.
2013 China National Olympiad, 2
For any positive integer $n$ and $0 \leqslant i \leqslant n$, denote $C_n^i \equiv c(n,i)\pmod{2}$, where $c(n,i) \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\}$. Define
\[f(n,q) = \sum\limits_{i = 0}^n {c(n,i){q^i}}\]
where $m,n,q$ are positive integers and $q + 1 \ne {2^\alpha }$ for any $\alpha \in \mathbb N$. Prove that if $f(m,q)\left| {f(n,q)} \right.$, then $f(m,r)\left| {f(n,r)} \right.$ for any positive integer $r$.
2025 Korea - Final Round, P6
Positive integers $a, b$ satisfy both of the following conditions.
For a positive integer $m$, if $m^2 \mid ab$, then $m = 1$.
There exist integers $x, y, z, w$ that satisfies the equation $ax^2 + by^2 = z^2 + w^2$ and $z^2 + w^2 > 0$.
Prove that there exist integers $x, y, z, w$ that satisfies the equation $ax^2 + by^2 + n = z^2 + w^2$, for each integer $n$.
2019 Kosovo National Mathematical Olympiad, 5
Find all positive integers $x,y$ such that $2^x+19^y$ is a perfect cube.
2005 India IMO Training Camp, 1
Let $0 <a <b$ be two rational numbers. Let $M$ be a set of positive real numbers with the properties:
(i) $a \in M$ and $b \in M$;
(ii) if $x$ $\in M$ and $y \in M$, then $\sqrt{xy} \in M$.
Let $M^*$denote the set of all irrational numbers in $M$. prove that every $c,d$ such that $a <c <d<b$, $M^*$ contains an element $m$ with property $c<m<d$
2016 Taiwan TST Round 3, 1
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Find the number of odd coefficients of the polynomial $(x^2-x+1)^n$.
2010 Malaysia National Olympiad, 9
Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers such that $2^n+3^m$ is divisible by $5$. Prove that $2^m+3^n$ is divisible by $5$.
The Golden Digits 2024, P3
Let $p$ be a prime number and $\mathcal{A}$ be a finite set of integers, with at least $p^k$ elements. Denote by $N_{\text{even}}$ the number of subsets of $\mathcal{A}$ with even cardinality and sum of elements divisible by $p^k$. Define $N_{\text{odd}}$ similarly. Prove that $N_{\text{even}}\equiv N_{\text{odd}}\bmod{p}.$
2019 Belarusian National Olympiad, 9.1
Is it true that for any nonzero rational numbers $a$ and $b$ one can find integers $m$ and $n$ such that the number $(am+b)^2+(a+nb)^2$ is an integer?
[i](M. Karpuk)[/i]
2014 EGMO, 3
We denote the number of positive divisors of a positive integer $m$ by $d(m)$ and the number of distinct prime divisors of $m$ by $\omega(m)$. Let $k$ be a positive integer. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $\omega(n) = k$ and $d(n)$ does not divide $d(a^2+b^2)$ for any positive integers $a, b$ satisfying $a + b = n$.
2016 Azerbaijan BMO TST, 1
Find all $n$ natural numbers such that for each of them there exist $p , q$ primes such that these terms satisfy.
$1.$ $p+2=q$
$2.$ $2^n+p$ and $2^n+q$ are primes.
2006 India IMO Training Camp, 2
Let $p$ be a prime number and let $X$ be a finite set containing at least $p$ elements. A collection of pairwise mutually disjoint $p$-element subsets of $X$ is called a $p$-family. (In particular, the empty collection is a $p$-family.) Let $A$(respectively, $B$) denote the number of $p$-families having an even (respectively, odd) number of $p$-element subsets of $X$. Prove that $A$ and $B$ differ by a multiple of $p$.