Prove that for every natural number \( n>2 \) there exists an integer \( k \) that can be written as the sum of \( i \) positive perfect squares, for every \( i \) between \( 2 \) and \( n \).

Let $n,m,r$ be positive integers such that $n>m$ and both $n^2+r, m^2+r$ are powers of $2$. Show that $n>\frac{2m^2}{r}$.

Prove that the equation \[\frac{4}{n}=\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}+\frac{1}{z}\] has infinitly many natural solutions

The numbers $1$ to $1024$ are written one per square on a $32 \times 32$ board, so that the first row is $1, 2, ... , 32$, the second row is $33, 34, ... , 64$ and so on. Then the board is divided into four $16 \times 16$ boards and the position of these boards is moved round clockwise, so that $AB$ goes to $DA$ $DC \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, \, CB$ then each of the $16 \times 16 $ boards is divided into four equal $8 \times 8$ parts and each of these is moved around in the same way (within the $ 16 \times 16$ board). Then each of the $8 \times 8$ boards is divided into four $4 \times 4$ parts and these are moved around, then each $4 \times 4$ board is divided into $2 \times 2$ parts which are moved around, and finally the squares of each $2 \times 2$ part are moved around. What numbers end up on the main diagonal (from the top left to bottom right)?

A sequence $a_1,a_2,\ldots ,a_n,\ldots$ of natural numbers is defined by the rule \[a_{n+1}=a_n+b_n\ (n=1,2,\ldots)\] where $b_n$ is the last digit of $a_n$. Prove that such a sequence contains infinitely many powers of $2$ if and only if $a_1$ is not divisible by $5$.

$P(x)$ is polynomial with degree $n>5$ and integer coefficients have $n$ different integer roots. Prove that $P(x)+3$ have $n$ different real roots.

[u]Round 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] Alice and Bob played $25$ games of rock-paper-scissors. Alice played rock $12$ times, scissors $6$ times, and paper $7$ times. Bob played rock $13$ times, scissors $9$ times, and paper $3$ times. If there were no ties, who won the most games? (Remember, in each game each player picks one of rock, paper, or scissors. Rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and paper beats rock. If they choose the same object, the result is a tie.) [b]p2.[/b] On the planet Vulcan there are eight big volcanoes and six small volcanoes. Big volcanoes erupt every three years and small volcanoes erupt every two years. In the past five years, there were $30$ eruptions. How many volcanoes could erupt this year? [b]p3.[/b] A tangle is a sequence of digits constructed by picking a number $N\ge 0$ and writing the integers from $0$ to $N$ in some order, with no spaces. For example, $010123459876$ is a tangle with $N = 10$. A palindromic sequence reads the same forward or backward, such as $878$ or $6226$. The shortest palindromic tangle is $0$. How long is the second-shortest palindromic tangle? [b]p4.[/b] Balls numbered $1$ to $N$ have been randomly arranged in a long input tube that feeds into the upper left square of an $8 \times 8$ board. An empty exit tube leads out of the lower right square of the board. Your goal is to arrange the balls in order from $1$ to $N$ in the exit tube. As a move, you may 1. move the next ball in line from the input tube into the upper left square of the board, 2. move a ball already on the board to an adjacent square to its right or below, or 3. move a ball from the lower right square into the exit tube. No square may ever hold more than one ball. What is the largest number $N$ for which you can achieve your goal, no matter how the balls are initially arranged? You can see the order of the balls in the input tube before you start. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/8/bbce92750b01052db82d58b96584a36fb5ca5b.png[/img] [b]p5.[/b] A $2018 \times 2018$ board is covered by non-overlapping $2 \times 1$ dominoes, with each domino covering two squares of the board. From a given square, a robot takes one step to the other square of the domino it is on and then takes one more step in the same direction. Could the robot continue moving this way forever without falling off the board? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/9/c/da86ca4ff0300eca8e625dff891ed1769d44a8.png[/img] [u]Round 2[/u] [b]p6.[/b] Seventeen teams participated in a soccer tournament where a win is worth $1$ point, a tie is worth $0$ points, and a loss is worth $-1$ point. Each team played each other team exactly once. At least $\frac34$ of all games ended in a tie. Show that there must be two teams with the same number of points at the end of the tournament. [b]p7.[/b] The city of Old Haven is known for having a large number of secret societies. Any person may be a member of multiple societies. A secret society is called influential if its membership includes at least half the population of Old Haven. Today, there are $2018$ influential secret societies. Show that it is possible to form a council of at most $11$ people such that each influential secret society has at least one member on the council. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Find all functions $f : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ such that $f(a) + f(b) \mid af(a) - bf(b)$, for all $a, b \in \mathbb{N}$. (Here, $\mathbb{N}$ is a set of positive integers.) [i]Proposed by Vukašin Pantelić[/i]

Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that $(n!)^{n+2015}$ divides $(n^{2})!$.

$a,b,c$ - different natural numbers. Can we build quadratic polynomial $P(x)=kx^2+lx+m$, with $k,l,m$ are integer, $k>0$ that for some integer points it get values $a^3,b^3,c^3$ ?

[b]p1.[/b] If $A = 0$, $B = 1$, $C = 2$, $...$, $Z = 25$, then what is the sum of $A + B + M+ C$? [b]p2.[/b] Eric is playing Tetris against Bryan. If Eric wins one-fifth of the games he plays and he plays $15$ games, find the expected number of games Eric will win. [b]p3.[/b] What is the sum of the measures of the exterior angles of a regular $2023$-gon in degrees? [b]p4.[/b] If $N$ is a base $10$ digit of $90N3$, what value of $N$ makes this number divisible by $477$? [b]p5.[/b] What is the rightmost non-zero digit of the decimal expansion of $\frac{1}{2^{2023}}$ ? [b]p6.[/b] if graphs of $y = \frac54 x + m$ and $y = \frac32 x + n$ intersect at $(16, 27)$, what is the value of $m + n$? [b]p7.[/b] Bryan is hitting the alphabet keys on his keyboard at random. If the probability he spells out ABMC at least once after hitting $6$ keys is $\frac{a}{b^c}$ , for positive integers $a$, $b$, $c$ where $b$, $c$ are both as small as possible, find $a+b+c$. Note that the letters ABMC must be adjacent for it to count: AEBMCC should not be considered as correctly spelling out ABMC. [b]p8.[/b] It takes a Daniel twenty minutes to change a light bulb. It takes a Raymond thirty minutes to change a light bulb. It takes a Bryan forty-five minutes to change a light bulb. In the time that it takes two Daniels, three Raymonds, and one and a half Bryans to change $42$ light bulbs, how many light bulbs could half a Raymond change? Assume half a person can work half as productively as a whole person. [b]p9.[/b] Find the value of $5a + 4b + 3c + 2d + e$ given $a, b, c, d, e$ are real numbers satisfying the following equations: $$a^2 = 2e + 23$$ $$b^2 = 10a - 34$$ $$c^2 = 8b - 23$$ $$d^2 = 6c - 14$$ $$e^2 = 4d - 7.$$ [b]p10.[/b] How many integers between $1$ and $1000$ contain exactly two $1$’s when written in base $2$? [b]p11.[/b] Joe has lost his $2$ sets of keys. However, he knows that he placed his keys in one of his $12$ mailboxes, each labeled with a different positive integer from $1$ to $12$. Joe plans on opening the $2$ mailbox labeled $1$ to see if any of his keys are there. However, a strong gust of wind blows by, opening mailboxes $11$ and $12$, revealing that they are empty. If Joe decides to open one of the mailboxes labeled $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$ , or $10$, the probability that he finds at least one of his sets of keys can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$, where a and b are relatively prime positive integers. Find the sum $a + b$. Note that a single mailbox can contain $0$, $1$, or $2$ sets of keys, and the mailboxes his sets of keys were placed in are determined independently at random. [b]p12.[/b] As we all know, the top scientists have recently proved that the Earth is a flat disc. Bob is standing on Earth. If he takes the shortest path to the edge, he will fall off after walking $1$ meter. If he instead turns $90$ degrees away from the shortest path and walks towards the edge, he will fall off after $3$ meters. Compute the radius of the Earth. [b]p13.[/b] There are $999$ numbers that are repeating decimals of the form $0.abcabcabc...$ . The sum of all of the numbers of this form that do not have a $1$ or $2$ in their decimal representation can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for relatively prime positive integers $a$, $b$. Find $a + b$. [b]p14.[/b] An ant is crawling along the edges of a sugar cube. Every second, it travels along an edge to another adjacent vertex randomly, interested in the sugar it notices. Unfortunately, the cube is about to be added to some scalding coffee! In $10$ seconds, it must return to its initial vertex, so it can get off and escape. If the probability the ant will avoid a tragic doom can be expressed as $\frac{a}{3^{10}}$ , where $a$ is a positive integer, find $a$. Clarification: The ant needs to be on its initial vertex in exactly $10$ seconds, no more or less. [b]p15.[/b] Raymond’s new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Collector’s book arrived in the mail! The book’s pages measure $4\sqrt3$ inches by $12$ inches, and are bound on the longer side. If Raymond keeps one corner in the same plane as the book, what is the total area one of the corners can travel without ripping the page? If the desired area in square inches is $a\pi+b\sqrt{c}$ where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are integers and $c$ is squarefree, find $a + b + c$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $k$ be a positive integer congruent to $1$ modulo $4$ which is not a perfect square and let $a=\frac{1+\sqrt{k}}{2}$. Show that $\{\left \lfloor{a^2n}\right \rfloor-\left \lfloor{a\left \lfloor{an}\right \rfloor}\right \rfloor : n \in \mathbb{N}_{>0}\}=\{1 , 2 , \ldots ,\left \lfloor{a}\right \rfloor\}$.

Define a positive integer $n$ to be [i]almost-cubic [/i] if it becomes a perfect cube upon concatenating the digit $5$. For example, $12$ is almost-cubic because $125 = 5^3$. Find the remainder when the sum of all almost-cubic $n < 10^8$ is divided by $1000$.

We'll call a positive integer "almost prime", if it is not divisible by any prime from the interval $[3,19]$. We'll call a number "very non-prime", if it has at least 2 primes from interval $[3,19]$ dividing it. What is the greatest amount of almost prime numbers can be selected, such that the sum of any two of them is a very non-prime number? [I]Proposed by S. Berlov, S. Ivanov[/i]

Given positive integers $a,b,c,d$ such that $a\mid c^d$ and $b\mid d^c$. Prove that \[ ab\mid (cd)^{max(a,b)} \]

[b]p1.[/b] Let $a$ be an integer. How many fractions $\frac{a}{100}$ are greater than $\frac17$ and less than $\frac13$ ?. [b]p2.[/b] Justin Bieber invited Justin Timberlake and Justin Shan to eat sushi. There were $5$ different kinds of fish, $3$ different rice colors, and $11$ different sauces. Justin Shan insisted on a spicy sauce. If the probability of a sushi combination that pleased Justin Shan is $6/11$, then how many non-spicy sauces were there? [b]p3.[/b] A palindrome is any number that reads the same forward and backward (for example, $99$ and $50505$ are palindromes but $2020$ is not). Find the sum of all three-digit palindromes whose tens digit is $5$. [b]p4.[/b] Isaac is given an online quiz for his chemistry class in which he gets multiple tries. The quiz has $64$ multiple choice questions with $4$ choices each. For each of his previous attempts, the computer displays Isaac's answer to that question and whether it was correct or not. Given that Isaac is too lazy to actually read the questions, the maximum number of times he needs to attempt the quiz to guarantee a $100\%$ can be expressed as $2^{2^k}$. Find $k$. [b]p5.[/b] Consider a three-way Venn Diagram composed of three circles of radius $1$. The area of the entire Venn Diagram is of the form $\frac{a}{b}\pi +\sqrt{c}$ for positive integers $a$, $b$, $c$ where $a$, $b$ are relatively prime. Find $a+b+c$. (Each of the circles passes through the center of the other two circles) [b]p6.[/b] The sum of two four-digit numbers is $11044$. None of the digits are repeated and none of the digits are $0$s. Eight of the digits from $1-9$ are represented in these two numbers. Which one is not? [b]p7.[/b] Al wants to buy cookies. He can buy cookies in packs of $13$, $15$, or $17$. What is the maximum number of cookies he can not buy if he must buy a whole number of packs of each size? [b]p8.[/b] Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a right triangle with base $AB = 2$ and hypotenuse $AC = 4$ and let $AD$ be a median of $\vartriangle ABC$. Now, let $BE$ be an altitude in $\vartriangle ABD$ and let $DF$ be an altitude in $\vartriangle ADC$. The quantity $(BE)^2 - (DF)^2$ can be expressed as a common fraction $\frac{a}{b}$ in lowest terms. Find $a + b$. [b]p9.[/b] Let $P(x)$ be a monic cubic polynomial with roots $r$, $s$, $t$, where $t$ is real. Suppose that $r + s + 2t = 8$, $2rs + rt + st = 12$ and $rst = 9$. Find $|P(2)|$. [b]p10.[/b] Let S be the set $\{1, 2,..., 21\}$. How many $11$-element subsets $T$ of $S$ are there such that there does not exist two distinct elements of $T$ such that one divides the other? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

A [i]complete [/i] number is a $9$ digit number that contains each of the digits $1$ to $9$ exactly once. The [i]difference [/i] number of a number $N$ is the number you get by taking the differences of consecutive digits in $N$ and then stringing these digits together. For instance, the [i]difference [/i] number of $25143$ is equal to $3431$. The [i]complete [/i] number $124356879$ has the additional property that its [i]difference [/i] number, $12121212$, consists of digits alternating between $1$ and $2$. Determine all $a$ with $3 \le a \le 9$ for which there exists a [i]complete [/i] number $N$ with the additional property that the digits of its [i]difference[/i] number alternate between $1 $ and $a$.

Alice thinks about a natural number in her mind. Bob tries to find that number by asking him the following 10 questions: [list] [*]Is it divisible by 1? [*]Is it divisible by 2? [*]Is it divisible by 3? [*]... [*]Is it divisible by 9? [*]Is it divisible by 10? [/list] Alice's answer to all questions except one was "yes". When she answers "no", she adds that "the greatest common factor of the number I have in mind and the divisor in the question you asked is 1”. According to this information, to which question did Alice answer "no"?

Let $k$ and $d$ be integers such that $k>1$ and $0\leq d<9$. Prove that there exists some integer $n$ such that the $k$th digit from the right of $2^n$ is $d$. [i](tatari/nightmare)[/i]

Let $a, n \in \mathbb{Z}^{*}_{+}$. $a$ is defined inductively in the base $n$-[i]recursive[/i]. We first write $a$ in the base $n$, e.g., as a sum of terms of the form $k_tn^t$, with $0 \le k_t < n$. For each exponent $t$, we write $t$ in the base $n$-[i]recursive[/i], until all the numbers in the representation are less than $n$. For instance, $1309 = 3^6 + 2.3^5 + 1.3^4 + 1.3^2 + 1.3 + 1$ $ = 3^{2.3} + 2.3^{3+2} + 1.3^{3+1} + 1.3^2 + 1$ Let $x_1 \in \mathbb{Z}$ arbitrary. We define $x_n$ recursively, as following: if $x_{n-1} > 0$, we write $x_{n-1}$ in the base $n$-[i]recursive[/i] and we replace all the numbers $n$ for $n+1$ (even the exponents!), so we obtain the successor of $x_n$. If $x_{n-1} = 0$, then $x_n = 0$. Example: $x_1 = 2^{2^{2} + 2 + 1} + 2^{2+1} + 2 + 1$ $\Rightarrow x_2 = 3^{3^{3} + 3 + 1} + 3^{3+1} + 3$ $\Rightarrow x_3 = 4^{4^{4} + 4 + 1} + 4^{4+1} + 3$ $\Rightarrow x_4 = 5^{5^{5} + 5 + 1} + 5^{5+1} + 2$ $\Rightarrow x_5 = 6^{6^{6} + 6 + 1} + 6^{6+1} + 1$ $\Rightarrow x_6 = 7^{7^{7} + 7 + 1} + 7^{7+1}$ $\Rightarrow x_7 = 8^{8^{8} + 8 + 1} + 7.8^8 + 7.8^7 + 7.8^6 + ... + 7$ $.$ $.$ $.$ Prove that $\exists N : x_N = 0$.

For each positive integer $n$, let $rad(n)$ denote the product of the distinct prime factors of $n$. Show that there exists integers $a,b > 1$ such that $gcd(a,b)=1$ and $$rad(ab(a+b)) < \frac{a+b}{2024^{2024}}$$. For example, $rad(20)=rad(2^2\cdot 5)=2\cdot 5=10$.

We say that a positive integer $n$ is [i]divable [/i] if there exist positive integers $1 < a < b < n$ such that, if the base-$a$ representation of $n$ is $\sum_{i=0}^{k_1} a_ia^i$ , and the base-$b$ representation of $n$ is $\sum_{i=0}^{k_2} b_ib^i$ , then for all positive integers $c > b$, we have that $\sum_{i=0}^{k_2} b_ic^i$ divides $\sum_{i=0}^{k_1} a_ic^i$. Find the number of non-divable $n$ such that $1 \le n \le 100$.

If positive integers $a$ and $b$ have 99 and 101 different positive divisors respectively (including 1 and the number itself), can the product $ab$ have exactly 150 positive divisors?

Let $ \mathcal{R}$ be the region consisting of the set of points in the coordinate plane that satisfy both $ |8 \minus{} x| \plus{} y \le 10$ and $ 3y \minus{} x \ge 15$. When $ \mathcal{R}$ is revolved around the line whose equation is $ 3y \minus{} x \equal{} 15$, the volume of the resulting solid is $ \frac {m\pi}{n\sqrt {p}}$, where $ m$, $ n$, and $ p$ are positive integers, $ m$ and $ n$ are relatively prime, and $ p$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $ m \plus{} n \plus{} p$.

Suppose that the sum of all positive divisors of a natural number $n$, $n$ excluded, plus the number of these divisors is equal to $n$. Prove that $n = 2m^2$ for some integer $m$.