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1983 Spain Mathematical Olympiad, 8

In $1960$, the oldest of three brothers has an age that is the sum of the of his younger siblings. A few years later, the sum of the ages of two of brothers is double that of the other. A number of years have now passed since $1960$, which is equal to two thirds of the sum of the ages that the three brothers were at that year, and one of them has reached $21$ years. What is the age of each of the others two?

2023 Indonesia TST, 1

A number is called [i]Norwegian[/i] if it has three distinct positive divisors whose sum is equal to $2022$. Determine the smallest Norwegian number. (Note: The total number of positive divisors of a Norwegian number is allowed to be larger than $3$.)

1986 Iran MO (2nd round), 3

Find the smallest positive integer for which when we move the last right digit of the number to the left, the remaining number be $\frac 32$ times of the original number.

1940 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 056

How many zeros does $100!$ have at its end in the usual decimal representation?

2010 Olympic Revenge, 1

Prove that the number of ordered triples $(x, y, z)$ such that $(x+y+z)^2 \equiv axyz \mod{p}$, where $gcd(a, p) = 1$ and $p$ is prime is $p^2 + 1$.

2001 Moldova National Olympiad, Problem 8

Prove that every positive integer $k$ can be written as $k=\frac{mn+1}{m+n}$, where $m,n$ are positive integers.

2021 Kyiv City MO Round 1, 7.3

Petryk factored the number $10^6 = 1000000$ as a product of $7$ distinct positive integers. Among all such factorings, find the one in which the largest of these $7$ factors is the smallest possible. [i]Proposed by Bogdan Rublov[/i]

1953 Polish MO Finals, 4

Prove that if $ n $ is a natural number, then equality holds $$(\sqrt{2}- 1)^n = \sqrt{m} - \sqrt{m-1}$$ where $m$ is a natural number.

2012 All-Russian Olympiad, 3

Initially, ten consecutive natural numbers are written on the board. In one turn, you may pick any two numbers from the board (call them $a$ and $b$) and replace them with the numbers $a^2-2011b^2$ and $ab$. After several turns, there were no initial numbers left on the board. Could there, at this point, be again, ten consecutive natural numbers?

Mid-Michigan MO, Grades 7-9, 2007

[b]p1.[/b] The Evergreen School booked buses for a field trip. Altogether, $138$ people went to West Lake, while $115$ people went to East Lake. The buses all had the same number of seats and every bus has more than one seat. All seats were occupied and everybody had a seat. How many seats were on each bus? [b]p2.[/b] In New Scotland there are three kinds of coins: $1$ cent, $6$ cent, and $36$ cent coins. Josh has $99$ of the $36$-cent coins (and no other coins). He is allowed to exchange a $36$ cent coin for $6$ coins of $6$ cents, and to exchange a $6$ cent coin for $6$ coins of $1$ cent. Is it possible that after several exchanges Josh will have $500$ coins? [b]p3.[/b] Find all solutions $a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h$ if these letters represent distinct digits and the following multiplication is correct: $\begin{tabular}{ccccc} & & a & b & c \\ + & & & d & e \\ \hline & f & a & g & c \\ x & b & b & h & \\ \hline f & f & e & g & c \\ \end{tabular}$ [b]p4.[/b] Is it possible to find a rectangle of perimeter $10$ m and cut it in rectangles (as many as you want) so that the sum of the perimeters is $500$ m? [b]p5.[/b] The picture shows a maze with chambers (shown as circles) and passageways (shown as segments). A cat located in chamber $C$ tries to catch a mouse that was originally in the chamber $M$. The cat makes the first move, moving from chamber $C$ to one of the neighboring chambers. Then the mouse moves, then the cat, and so forth. At each step, the cat and the mouse can move to any neighboring chamber or not move at all. The cat catches the mouse by moving into the chamber currently occupied by the mouse. Can the cat get the mouse? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/9/9/25f61e1499ff1cfeea591cb436d33eb2cdd682.png[/img] PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Math Hour Olympiad, Grades 8-10, 2011

[u]Round 1 [/u] [b]p1. [/b]Twelve people, some are knights and some are knaves, are sitting around a table. Knaves always lie and knights always tell the truth. At some point they start up a conversation. The first person says, “There are no knights around this table.” The second says, “There is at most one knight at this table.” The third – “There are at most two knights at the table.” And so on until the 12th says, “There are at most eleven knights at the table.” How many knights are at the table? Justify your answer. [b]p2.[/b] Show that in the sequence $10017$, $100117$, $1001117$, $...$ all numbers are divisible by $53$. [b]p3.[/b] Harry and Draco have three wands: a bamboo wand, a willow wand, and a cherry wand, all of the same length. They must perform a spell wherein they take turns picking a wand and breaking it into three parts – first Harry, then Draco, then Harry again. But in order for the spell to work, Harry has to make sure it is possible to form three triangles out of the pieces of the wands, where each triangle has a piece from each wand. How should he break the wands to ensure the success of the spell? [b]p4.[/b] A $2\times 2\times 2$ cube has $4$ equal squares on each face. The squares that share a side are called neighbors (thus, each square has $4$ neighbors – see picture). Is it possible to write an integer in each square in such a way that the sum of each number with its $4$ neighbors is equal to $13$? If yes, show how. If no, explain why not. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/8/4/0f7457f40be40398dee806d125ba26780f9d3a.png[/img] [b]p5.[/b] Two girls are playing a game. The first player writes the letters $A$ or $B$ in a row, left to right, adding one letter on her turn. The second player switches any two letters after each move by the first player (the letters do not have to be adjacent), or does nothing, which also counts as a move. The game is over when each player has made $2011$ moves. Can the second player plan her moves so that the resulting letters form a palindrome? (A palindrome is a sequence that reads the same forward and backwards, e.g. $AABABAA$.) [u]Round 2 [/u] [b]p6.[/b] A red square is placed on a table. $2010$ white squares, each the same size as the red square, are then placed on the table in such a way that the red square is fully covered and the sides of every white square are parallel to the sides of the red square. Is it always possible to remove one of the white squares so the red square remains completely covered? [b]p7.[/b] A computer starts with a given positive integer to which it randomly adds either $54$ or $77$ every second and prints the resulting sum after each addition. For example, if the computer is given the number $1$, then a possible output could be: $1$, $55$, $109$, $186$, $…$ Show that after finitely many seconds the computer will print a number whose last two digits are the same. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2019 Latvia Baltic Way TST, 14

Let $m$ be a positive integer and $p$ be a prime, such that $m^2 - 2$ is divisible by $p$. Suppose that there exists positive integer $a$ such that $a^2+m-2$ is divisible by $p$. Prove that there exists positive integer $b$ such that $b^2- m -2$ is divisible by $p$.

2021 LMT Spring, A21 B22

A Haiku is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five. In how many ways Can you add three integers Summing seventeen? Order matters here. For example, eight, three, six Is not eight, six, three. All nonnegative, Do not need to be distinct. What is your answer? [i]Proposed by Derek Gao[/i]

2019 Purple Comet Problems, 19

Find the remainder when $\prod_{n=3}^{33}2n^4 - 25n^3 + 33n^2$ is divided by $2019$.

2003 CHKMO, 4

Let $p$ be a prime number such that $p\equiv 1\pmod{4}$. Determine $\sum_{k=1}^{\frac{p-1}{2}}\left \lbrace \frac{k^2}{p} \right \rbrace$, where $\{x\}=x-[x]$.

1990 IMO Longlists, 37

An eccentric mathematician has a ladder with $ n$ rungs that he always ascends and descends in the following way: When he ascends, each step he takes covers $ a$ rungs of the ladder, and when he descends, each step he takes covers $ b$ rungs of the ladder, where $ a$ and $ b$ are fixed positive integers. By a sequence of ascending and descending steps he can climb from ground level to the top rung of the ladder and come back down to ground level again. Find, with proof, the minimum value of $ n,$ expressed in terms of $ a$ and $ b.$

2020 Kazakhstan National Olympiad, 1

Find all pairs $ (m, n) $ of natural numbers such that $ n ^ 4 \ | \ 2m ^ 5 - 1 $ and $ m ^ 4 \ | \ 2n ^ 5 + 1 $.

2019 Taiwan APMO Preliminary Test, P5

Find the minimum positive integer $n$ such that for any set $A$ with $n$ positive intergers has $15$ elements which sum is divisible by $15$.

2016 CHMMC (Fall), 1

Let $a_n$ be the $n$th positive integer such that when $n$ is written in base $3$, the sum of the digits of $n$ is divisible by $3$. For example, $a_1 = 5$ because $5 = 12_3$. Compute $a_{2016}$.

1940 Eotvos Mathematical Competition, 2

Let $m$ and $n$ be distinct positive integers. Prove that $2^{2^m} + 1$ and $2^{2^n} + 1$ have no common divisor greater than $1$.

2014 Brazil National Olympiad, 2

Find all integers $n$, $n>1$, with the following property: for all $k$, $0\le k < n$, there exists a multiple of $n$ whose digits sum leaves a remainder of $k$ when divided by $n$.

Mid-Michigan MO, Grades 10-12, 2013

[b]p1.[/b] A function $f$ defined on the set of positive numbers satisfies the equality $$f(xy) = f(x) + f(y), x, y > 0.$$ Find $f(2007)$ if $f\left( \frac{1}{2007} \right) = 1$. [b]p2.[/b] The plane is painted in two colors. Show that there is an isosceles right triangle with all vertices of the same color. [b]p3.[/b] Show that the number of ways to cut a $2n \times 2n$ square into $1\times 2$ dominoes is divisible by $2$. [b]p4.[/b] Two mirrors form an angle. A beam of light falls on one mirror. Prove that the beam is reflected only finitely many times (even if the angle between mirrors is very small). [b]p5.[/b] A sequence is given by the recurrence relation $a_{n+1} = (s(a_n))^2 +1$, where $s(x)$ is the sum of the digits of the positive integer $x$. Prove that starting from some moment the sequence is periodic. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2019 Belarus Team Selection Test, 2.3

$1019$ stones are placed into two non-empty boxes. Each second Alex chooses a box with an even amount of stones and shifts half of these stones into another box. Prove that for each $k$, $1\le k\le1018$, at some moment there will be a box with exactly $k$ stones. [i](O. Izhboldin)[/i]

2022 Saudi Arabia BMO + EGMO TST, 2.2

Find all positive integers $n$ that have precisely $\sqrt{n + 1}$ natural divisors.

1993 Abels Math Contest (Norwegian MO), 3

The Fermat-numbers are defined by $F_n = 2^{2^n}+1$ for $n\in N$. (a) Prove that $F_n = F_{n-1}F_{n-2}....F_1F_0 +2$ for $n > 0$. (b) Prove that any two different Fermat numbers are coprime