For some integer n the equation $x^2 + y^2 + z^2 -xy -yz - zx = n$ has an integer solution $x, y, z$. Prove that the equation$ x^2 + y^2 - xy = n$ also has an integer solution $x, y$. Alexandr Yuran

Prove that the number $2^9 +2^{99}$ is divisible by $100$.

Suppose that $ p$ is a prime number. Prove that for each $ k$, there exists an $ n$ such that: \[ \left(\begin{array}{c}n\\ \hline p\end{array}\right)\equal{}\left(\begin{array}{c}n\plus{}k\\ \hline p\end{array}\right)\]

Determine if there exist positive integer pairs $(m,n)$, such that (i) the greatest common divisor of m and $n$ is $1$, and $m \le 2007$, (ii) for any $k=1,2,..., 2007$, $\big[\frac{nk}{m}\big]=\big[\sqrt2 k\big]$ . (Here $[x]$ stands for the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.)

Prove that from any set of seven natural numbers (not necessarily consecutive) one can choose three, the sum of which is divisible by three.

Georg writes a positive integer $a$ on a blackboard. As long as there is a number on the blackboard, he does the following each day: $\bullet$ If the last digit in the number on the blackboard is less than or equal to $5$, he erases that last digit. (If there is only this digit, the blackboard thus becomes empty.) $\bullet$ Otherwise he erases the entire number and writes $9$ times the number. Can Georg choose $a$ in such a way that the blackboard never becomes empty?

Prove that there exist many natural numbers n so that both roots of the quadratic equation $x^2+(2-3n^2)x+(n^2-1)^2=0$ are perfect squares. S. Kuzmich

Find all pairs $ (x, y)$ of integers such that $ x^3 \minus{} y^3 \equal{} 2xy \plus{} 8$.

Find the number of ordered triplets $(a,b,c)$ of positive integers such that $abc=2008$ (the product of $a$, $b$, and $c$ is $2008$).

Given a positive prime number $p$. Prove that there exist a positive integer $\alpha$ such that $p|\alpha(\alpha-1)+3$, if and only if there exist a positive integer $\beta$ such that $p|\beta(\beta-1)+25$.

Find all ordered pairs of integers $x,y$ such that $$xy(x^2y^2 - 12xy- 12x- 12y+2) = (2x + 2y)^2.$$ [i]Proposed by Henry Jiang[/i]

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 $\tfrac{S}{n}.$

Find all integers $x$ for which $2x^2-x-36$ is the square of a prime number.

Determine all pairs $(x, y)$ of integers such that \[(19a+b)^{18}+(a+b)^{18}+(19b+a)^{18}\] is a nonzero perfect square.

A group of $ 12 $ pirates agree to divide a treasure chest of gold coins among themselves as follows. The $ k^\text{th} $ pirate to take a share takes $ \frac{k}{12} $ of the coins that remain in the chest. The number of coins initially in the chest is the smallest number for which this arrangement will allow each pirate to receive a positive whole number of coins. How many coins does the $ 12^{\text{th}} $ pirate receive? $ \textbf{(A)} \ 720 \qquad \textbf{(B)} \ 1296 \qquad \textbf{(C)} \ 1728 \qquad \textbf{(D)} \ 1925 \qquad \textbf{(E)} \ 3850 $

Find all triples $(x,y,z)$ of positive integers such that $(x+1)^{y+1}+1=(x+2)^{z+1}$.

Rational numbers $a, b$ are such that $a+b$ and $a^2+b^2$ are integers. Prove that $a, b$ are integers.

Prove that for every positive integer $t$ there is a unique permutation $a_0, a_1, \ldots , a_{t-1}$ of $0, 1, \ldots , t-1$ such that, for every $0 \leq i \leq t-1$, the binomial coefficient $\binom{t+i}{2a_i}$ is odd and $2a_i \neq t+i$.

Let $f$ and $g$ be two nonzero polynomials with integer coefficients and $\deg f>\deg g$. Suppose that for infinitely many primes $p$ the polynomial $pf+g$ has a rational root. Prove that $f$ has a rational root.

Let p be a prime and $f: Z_p \to C$ a complex valued function defined on a cyclic group of order p. Define the Fourier transform of f by the formula: $$\hat f (k) = \sum_{l = 0}^{p-1} f (l) e^{i2\pi kl / p}\qquad(k \in Z_p)$$ Show that if the combined number of zeros of f and $\hat f$ is at least p, then f is identically zero. related: [url]https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c7h22594[/url]

The two squares shown share the same center $O$ and have sides of length 1. The length of $\overline{AB}$ is $43/99$ and the area of octagon $ABCDEFGH$ is $m/n,$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$ [asy] real alpha = 25; pair W=dir(225), X=dir(315), Y=dir(45), Z=dir(135), O=origin; pair w=dir(alpha)*W, x=dir(alpha)*X, y=dir(alpha)*Y, z=dir(alpha)*Z; draw(W--X--Y--Z--cycle^^w--x--y--z--cycle); pair A=intersectionpoint(Y--Z, y--z), C=intersectionpoint(Y--X, y--x), E=intersectionpoint(W--X, w--x), G=intersectionpoint(W--Z, w--z), B=intersectionpoint(Y--Z, y--x), D=intersectionpoint(Y--X, w--x), F=intersectionpoint(W--X, w--z), H=intersectionpoint(W--Z, y--z); dot(O); label("$O$", O, SE); label("$A$", A, dir(O--A)); label("$B$", B, dir(O--B)); label("$C$", C, dir(O--C)); label("$D$", D, dir(O--D)); label("$E$", E, dir(O--E)); label("$F$", F, dir(O--F)); label("$G$", G, dir(O--G)); label("$H$", H, dir(O--H));[/asy]

The digits of the $17$-digit number are rearranged in the reverse order. Prove that at list one digit of the sum of the new and the initial number is even.

Given a set $M$ of $1985$ distinct positive integers, none of which has a prime divisor greater than $23$, prove that $M$ contains a subset of $4$ elements whose product is the $4$th power of an integer.

The first $510$ positive integers are written on a blackboard: $1, 2, 3, ..., 510$. An [i]operation [/i] consists of of erasing two numbers whose sum is a prime number. What is the maximum number of operations in a row what can be done? Show how it is accomplished and explain why it can be done in no more operations.

[u]Round 9[/u] [b]p25.[/b] Maisy the Bear is at the origin of the Cartesian Plane. WhenMaisy is on the point $(m,n)$ then it can jump to either $(m,n +1)$ or $(m+1,n)$. Let $L(x, y)$ be the number of pathsMaisy can take to reach the point $(x, y)$. The sum of $L(x, y)$ over all lattice points $(x, y)$ with both coordinates between $0$ and $2020$, inclusive, can be written as ${2k \choose k} - j$ for a minimum positive integer k and corresponding positive integer $j$ . Find $k + j$ . [b]p26.[/b] A circle with center $O$ and radius $2$ and a circle with center $P$ and radius $3$ are externally tangent at $A$. Points $B$ and $C$ are on the circle with center $O$ such that $\vartriangle ABC$ is equilateral. Segment $AB$ extends past B to point $D$ and $AC$ extends past $C$ to point $E$ such that $BD = CE =\sqrt3$. A line through $D$ is tangent to circle $P$ at $F$. The value of $EF^2$ can be expressed as $\frac{a+b\sqrt{c}}{d}$ where $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ are integers, c is squarefree, and $gcd(a,b,d) = 1$. Find $a +b +c +d$. [b]p27.[/b] Find the number of trailing zeroes at the end of $$\sum^{2021}_{i=1}(2021^i -1) = (2021^1 -1)...(2021^{2021}-1).$$ [u]Round 10[/u] [b]p28.[/b] Points $A, B, C, P$, and $D$ lie on circle ω in that order. Let $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at $I$ . Given that $PI = PC = PD$, $\angle DAB = 137^o$, and $\angle ABC = 109^o$, find the measure of $\angle BIC$ in degrees. [b]p29.[/b] Find the sum of all positive integers $n < 2021$ such that when ${d_1,d_2,... ,d_k}$ are the positive integer factors of $n$, then $$\left( \sum^{k}_{i=1}d_i \right) \left( \sum^{k}_{i=1} \frac{1}{d_i} \right)= r^2$$ for some rational number $r$ . [b]p30.[/b] Let $a, b, c, d$ and $e$ be positive real numbers. Define the function $f (x, y) = \frac{x}{y}+\frac{y}{x}$ for all positive real numbers. Given that $f (a,b) = 7$, $f (b,c) = 5$, $f (c,d) = 3$, and $f (d,e) = 2$, find the sum of all possible values of $f (e,a)$. [u]Round 11[/u] [b]p31.[/b] There exist $100$ (not necessarily distinct) complex numbers $r_1, r_2,..., r_{100}$ such that for any positive integer $1 \le k \le 100$, we have that $P(r_k ) = 0$ where the polynomial $P$ is defined as $$P(x) = \sum^{101}_{i=1}i \cdot x^{101-i} = x^{100} +2x^{99} +3x^{98} +...+99x^2 +100x +101.$$ Find the value of $$\prod^{100}_{j=1} (r^2_j+1) = (r^2_1 +1)(r^2_2 +1)...(r^2_{100} +1).$$ [b]p32.[/b] Let $BT$ be the diameter of a circle $\omega_1$, and $AT$ be a tangent of $\omega_1$. Line $AB$ intersects $\omega_1$ at $C$, and $\vartriangle ACT$ has circumcircle $\omega_2$. Points $P$ and $S$ exist such that $PA$ and $PC$ are tangent to $\omega_2$ and $SB = BT = 20$. Given that $AT = 15$, the length of $PS$ can be written as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ , where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are positive integers, $b$ is squarefree, and $gcd(a,b) = 1$. Find $a +b +c$. [b]p33.[/b] There are a hundred students in math team. Each pair of students are either mutually friends or mutually enemies. It is given that if any three students are chosen, then they are not all mutually friends. The maximum possible number of ways to choose four students such that it is possible to label them $A, B, C$, and $D$ such that $A$ and $B$ are friends, $B$ and $C$ are friends, $C$ and $D$ are friends, and D and A are friends can be expressed as $n^4$. Find $n$. [u]Round 12[/u] [b]p34.[/b] Let $\{p_i\}$ be the prime numbers, such that $p_1 = 2, p_2 = 3, p_3 = 5, ...$ For each $i$ , let $q_i$ be the nearest perfect square to $p_i$ . Estimate $\sum^{2021}_{i=1}|p_i=q_i |$. If the correct answer is $A$ and your answer is $E$, your score will be $\left \lfloor 30 \cdot \max - \left(0,1-5 \cdot \left| \log_{10} \frac{A}{E} \right| \right)\right \rfloor.$ [b]p35.[/b] Estimate the number of digits of $(2021!)^{2021}$. If the correct answer is $A$ and your answer is $E$, your score will be $\left \lfloor 15 \cdot \max \left(0,2- \cdot \left| \log_{10} \frac{A}{E} \right| \right) \right \rfloor.$ [b]p36.[/b] Pick a positive integer between$ 1$ and $1000$, inclusive. If your answer is $E$ and a quarter of the mean of all the responses to this problem is $A$, your score will be $$ \lfloor \max \left(0,30- |A-E|, 2-|E-1000| \right) \rfloor.$$ Note that if you pick $1000$, you will automatically get $2$ points. PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 1-4 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3166489p28814241]here [/url] and 5-8 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h3166494p28814284]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].