[u]Set 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] Find $1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11$. [b]p2.[/b] Find $1 \cdot 11 + 2 \cdot 10 + 3 \cdot 9 + 4 \cdot 8 + 5 \cdot 7 + 6 \cdot 6$. [b]p3.[/b] Let $\frac{1}{1\cdot 2} +\frac{1}{2\cdot 3} +\frac{1}{3\cdot 4} +\frac{1}{4\cdot 5} +\frac{1}{5\cdot 6} +\frac{1}{6\cdot 7} +\frac{1}{7\cdot 8} +\frac{1}{8\cdot 9} +\frac{1}{9\cdot 10} +\frac{1}{10\cdot 11} =\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers that share no prime divisors. Find $m + n$. [u]Set 2[/u] [b]p4.[/b] Define $0! = 1$ and let $n! = n \cdot (n - 1)!$ for all positive integers $n$. Find the value of $(2! + 0!)(1! + 8!)$. [b]p5.[/b] Rachel’s favorite number is a positive integer $n$. She gives Justin three clues about it: $\bullet$ $n$ is prime. $\bullet$ $n^2 - 5n + 6 \ne 0$. $\bullet$ $n$ is a divisor of $252$. What is Rachel’s favorite number? [b]p6.[/b] Shen eats eleven blueberries on Monday. Each day after that, he eats five more blueberries than the day before. For example, Shen eats sixteen blueberries on Tuesday. How many blueberries has Shen eaten in total before he eats on the subsequent Monday? [u]Set 3[/u] [b]p7.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ satisfies $AB = 7$, $BC = 12$, and $CA = 13$. If the area of $ABC$ can be expressed in the form $m\sqrt{n}$, where $n$ is not divisible by the square of a prime, then determine $m + n$. [b]p8.[/b] Sebastian is playing the game Split! on a coordinate plane. He begins the game with one token at $(0, 0)$. For each move, he is allowed to select a token on any point $(x, y)$ and take it off the plane, replacing it with two tokens, one at $(x + 1, y)$, and one at $(x, y + 1)$. At the end of the game, for a token on $(a, b)$, it is assigned a score $\frac{1}{2^{a+b}}$ . These scores are summed for his total score. Determine the highest total score Sebastian can get in $100$ moves. [b]p9.[/b] Find the number of positive integers $n$ satisfying the following two properties: $\bullet$ $n$ has either four or five digits, where leading zeros are not permitted, $\bullet$ The sum of the digits of $n$ is a multiple of $3$. [u]Set 4[/u] [b]p10.[/b] [i]A unit square rotated $45^o$ about a vertex, Sweeps the area for Farmer Khiem’s pen. If $n$ is the space the pigs can roam, Determine the floor of $100n$.[/i] If $n$ is the area a unit square sweeps out when rotated 4$5$ degrees about a vertex, determine $\lfloor 100n \rfloor$. Here $\lfloor x \rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/b/1/129efd0dbd56dc0b4fb742ac80eaf2447e106d.png[/img] [b]p11.[/b][i] Michael is planting four trees, In a grid, three rows of three, If two trees are close, Then both are bulldozed, So how many ways can it be?[/i] In a three by three grid of squares, determine the number of ways to select four squares such that no two share a side. [b]p12.[/b] [i]Three sixty-seven Are the last three digits of $n$ cubed. What is $n$?[/i] If the last three digits of $n^3$ are $367$ for a positive integer $n$ less than $1000$, determine $n$. [u]Set 5[/u] [b]p13.[/b] Determine $\sqrt[4]{97 + 56\sqrt{3}} + \sqrt[4]{97 - 56\sqrt{3}}$. [b]p14. [/b]Triangle $\vartriangle ABC$ is inscribed in a circle $\omega$ of radius $12$ so that $\angle B = 68^o$ and $\angle C = 64^o$ . The perpendicular from $A$ to $BC$ intersects $\omega$ at $D$, and the angle bisector of $\angle B$ intersects $\omega$ at $E$. What is the value of $DE^2$? [b]p15.[/b] Determine the sum of all positive integers $n$ such that $4n^4 + 1$ is prime. [u]Set 6[/u] [b]p16.[/b] Suppose that $p, q, r$ are primes such that $pqr = 11(p + q + r)$ such that $p\ge q \ge r$. Determine the sum of all possible values of $p$. [b]p17.[/b] Let the operation $\oplus$ satisfy $a \oplus b =\frac{1}{1/a+1/b}$ . Suppose $$N = (...((2 \oplus 2) \oplus 2) \oplus ... 2),$$ where there are $2018$ instances of $\oplus$ . If $N$ can be expressed in the form $m/n$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers, then determine $m + n$. [b]p18.[/b] What is the remainder when $\frac{2018^{1001} - 1}{2017}$ is divided by $2017$? PS. You had better use hide for answers. Last sets have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h2777307p24369763]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

The coordinates of the vertices of isosceles trapezoid $ABCD$ are all integers, with $A=(20,100)$ and $D=(21,107).$ The trapezoid has no horizontal or vertical sides, and $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{CD}$ are the only parallel sides. The sum o f the absolute values of all possible slopes for $\overline{AB}$ is $m/n,$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$

Determine all rational numbers $ r$ such that all solutions of the equation: $ rx^2\plus{}(r\plus{}1)x\plus{}(r\minus{}1)\equal{}0$ are integers.

Find all prime numbers $p$ and all positive integers $n$, such that $n^8 - n^2 = p^5 + p^2$

Let $p_1, p_2, \ldots, p_{25}$ are primes which don’t exceed 2004. Find the largest integer $T$ such that every positive integer $\leq T$ can be expressed as sums of distinct divisors of $(p_1\cdot p_2 \cdot \ldots \cdot p_{25})^{2004}.$

[b](a)[/b] Prove that $\frac{1}{n+1} \cdot \binom{2n}{n}$ is an integer for $n \geq 0.$ [b](b)[/b] Given a positive integer $k$, determine the smallest integer $C_k$ with the property that $\frac{C_k}{n+k+1} \cdot \binom{2n}{n}$ is an integer for all $n \geq k.$

Prove that $\tau ((n+1)!) \leq 2 \tau (n!)$ for all positive integers $n$.

Seven positive integers are written on a piece of paper. No matter which five numbers one chooses, each of the remaining two numbers divides the sum of the five chosen numbers. How many distinct numbers can there be among the seven?

a) Factorize $xy - x - y + 1$. b) Prove that if integers $a$ and $b$ satisfy $ |a + b| > |1 + ab|$, then $ab = 0$.

Find all positive integers $x>1, y$ and primes $p,q$ such that $p^{x}=2^{y}+q^{x}$

Define sequence $\{a_n\}$: $a_1$ is any positive integer, and for any positive integer $n\ge 1$, $a_{n+1}$ is the smallest positive integer coprime to $\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i$ and not equal to $a_1,\ldots, a_n$. Prove that every positive integer appears in the sequence $\{a_n\}$.

Find all the positive integers $n$ with the property: there exists an integer $k > 2$ and the positive rational numbers $a_1, a_2, ..., a_k$ such that $a_1 + a_2 + .. + a_k = a_1a_2 . . . a_k = n$.

Let $a_1,\ldots , a_{p-2}{}$ be nonzero residues modulo an odd prime $p{}$. For every $d\mid p - 1$ there are at least $\lfloor(p - 2)/d\rfloor$ indices $i{}$ for which $p{}$ does not divide $a_i^d-1$. Prove that the product of some of $a_1,\ldots , a_{p-2}$ gives the remainder two modulo $p{}$.

For positive integers $ n$, define $ A(n)$ to be $ \frac {(2n)!}{(n!)^{2}}$. Determine the sets of positive integers $ n$ for which (a) $ A(n)$ is an even number, (b) $ A(n)$ is a multiple of $ 4$.

We shall call an integer n [i]cute [/i] if it can be written in the form $n = a^2 + b^3 + c^3 + d^5$, where $a, b, c$ and $d$ are integers. a) Determine if the number $2020$ is cute. b) Find all cute integers

Find all the positive primes $p$ for which there exist integers $m,n$ satisfying : $p=m^2+n^2$ and $m^3+n^3-4$ is divisible by $p$.

Find all integers $\,a,b,c\,$ with $\,1<a<b<c\,$ such that \[ (a-1)(b-1)(c-1) \] is a divisor of $abc-1.$

[b]p1.[/b] A dog on a $10$ meter long leash is tied to a $10$ meter long, infinitely thin section of fence. What is the minimum area over which the dog will be able to roam freely on the leash, given that we can fix the position of the leash anywhere on the fence? [b]p2.[/b] Suppose that the equation $$\begin{tabular}{cccccc} &\underline{C} &\underline{H} &\underline{M}& \underline{M}& \underline{C}\\ +& &\underline{H}& \underline{M}& \underline{M} & \underline{T}\\ \hline &\underline{P} &\underline{U} &\underline{M} &\underline{A} &\underline{C}\\ \end{tabular}$$ holds true, where each letter represents a single nonnegative digit, and distinct letters represent different digits (so that $\underline{C}\, \underline{H}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ C}$ and $ \underline{P}\, \underline{U}\, \underline{M}\, \underline{A}\, \underline{C}$ are both five digit positive integers, and the number $\underline{H }\, \underline{M}\, \underline{M}\, \underline{T}$ is a four digit positive integer). What is the largest possible value of the five digit positive integer$\underline{C}\, \underline{H}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ M}\, \underline{ C}$ ? [b]p3.[/b] Square $ABCD$ has side length $4$, and $E$ is a point on segment $BC$ such that $CE = 1$. Let $C_1$ be the circle tangent to segments $AB$, $BE$, and $EA$, and $C_2$ be the circle tangent to segments $CD$, $DA$, and $AE$. What is the sum of the radii of circles $C_1$ and $C_2$? [b]p4.[/b] A finite set $S$ of points in the plane is called tri-separable if for every subset $A \subseteq S$ of the points in the given set, we can find a triangle $T$ such that (i) every point of $A$ is inside $T$ , and (ii) every point of $S$ that is not in $A$ is outside$ T$ . What is the smallest positive integer $n$ such that no set of $n$ distinct points is tri-separable? [b]p5.[/b] The unit $100$-dimensional hypercube $H$ is the set of points $(x_1, x_2,..., x_{100})$ in $R^{100}$ such that $x_i \in \{0, 1\}$ for $i = 1$, $2$, $...$, $100$. We say that the center of $H$ is the point $$\left( \frac12,\frac12, ..., \frac12 \right)$$ in $R^{100}$, all of whose coordinates are equal to $1/2$. For any point $P \in R^{100}$ and positive real number $r$, the hypersphere centered at $P$ with radius $r$ is defined to be the set of all points in $R^{100}$ that are a distance $r$ away from $P$. Suppose we place hyperspheres of radius $1/2$ at each of the vertices of the $100$-dimensional unit hypercube $H$. What is the smallest real number $R$, such that a hypersphere of radius $R$ placed at the center of $H$ will intersect the hyperspheres at the corners of $H$? [b]p6.[/b] Greg has a $9\times 9$ grid of unit squares. In each square of the grid, he writes down a single nonzero digit. Let $N$ be the number of ways Greg can write down these digits, so that each of the nine nine-digit numbers formed by the rows of the grid (reading the digits in a row left to right) and each of the nine nine-digit numbers formed by the columns (reading the digits in a column top to bottom) are multiples of $3$. What is the number of positive integer divisors of $N$? [b]p7.[/b] Find the largest positive integer $n$ for which there exists positive integers $x$, $y$, and $z$ satisfying $$n \cdot gcd(x, y, z) = gcd(x + 2y, y + 2z, z + 2x).$$ [b]p8.[/b] Suppose $ABCDEFGH$ is a cube of side length $1$, one of whose faces is the unit square $ABCD$. Point $X$ is the center of square $ABCD$, and $P$ and $Q$ are two other points allowed to range on the surface of cube $ABCDEFHG$. Find the largest possible volume of tetrahedron $AXPQ$. [b]p9.[/b] Deep writes down the numbers $1, 2, 3, ... , 8$ on a blackboard. Each minute after writing down the numbers, he uniformly at random picks some number $m$ written on the blackboard, erases that number from the blackboard, and increases the values of all the other numbers on the blackboard by $m$. After seven minutes, Deep is left with only one number on the black board. What is the expected value of the number Deep ends up with after seven minutes? [b]p10.[/b] Find the number of ordered tuples $(x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4, x_5)$ of positive integers such that $x_k \le 6$ for each index $k = 1$, $2$, $... $,$ 5$, and the sum $$x_1 + x_2 +... + x_5$$ is $1$ more than an integer multiple of $7$. [b]p11.[/b] The equation $$\left( x- \sqrt[3]{13}\right)\left( x- \sqrt[3]{53}\right)\left( x- \sqrt[3]{103}\right)=\frac13$$ has three distinct real solutions $r$, $s$, and $t$ for $x$. Calculate the value of $$r^3 + s^3 + t^3.$$ [b]p12.[/b] Suppose $a$, $b$, and $c$ are real numbers such that $$\frac{ac}{a + b}+\frac{ba}{b + c}+\frac{cb}{c + a}= -9$$ and $$\frac{bc}{a + b}+\frac{ca}{b+c}+\frac{ab}{c + a}= 10.$$ Compute the value of $$\frac{b}{a + b}+\frac{c}{b + c}+\frac{a}{c + a}.$$ [b]p13.[/b] The complex numbers $w$ and $z$ satisfy the equations $|w| = 5$, $|z| = 13$, and $$52w - 20z = 3(4 + 7i).$$ Find the value of the product $wz$. [b]p14.[/b] For $i = 1, 2, 3, 4$, we choose a real number $x_i$ uniformly at random from the closed interval $[0, i]$. What is the probability that $x_1 < x_2 < x_3 < x_4$ ? [b]p15.[/b] The terms of the infinite sequence of rational numbers $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, $...$ satisfy the equation $$a_{n+1} + a_{n-2} = a_na_{n-1}$$ for all integers $n\ge 2$. Moreover, the values of the initial terms of the sequence are $a_0 =\frac52$, $a_1 = 2$ and} $a_2 =\frac52.$ Call a nonnegative integer $m$ lucky if when we write $a_m =\frac{p}{q}$ for some relatively prime positive integers $p$ and $q$, the integer $p + q$ is divisible by $13$. What is the $101^{st}$ smallest lucky number? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Consider the Fibonacci sequence $1$, $1$, $2$, $3$, $5$, $8$, $13$, ... What are the last three digits (from left to right) of the $2020$th term?

A binary sequence is constructed as follows. If the sum of the digits of the positive integer $k$ is even, the $k$-th term of the sequence is $0$. Otherwise, it is $1$. Prove that this sequence is not periodic.

Prove that among any $2n+1$ irrational numbers there are $n+1$ numbers such that the sum of any $k$ of them is irrational, for all $k \in \{1,2,3,\ldots, n+1 \}$.

Consider the set $\mathcal{F}$ of functions $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ (where $\mathbb{N}$ is the set of non-negative integers) having the property that \[f(a^2-b^2)=f(a)^2-f(b)^2,\ \text{for all }a,b\in\mathbb{N},\ a\ge b.\] a) Determine the set $\{f(1)\mid f\in\mathcal{F}\}$. b) Prove that $\mathcal{F}$ has exactly two elements. [i]Nelu Chichirim[/i]

Given a positive integer $n$, let $\tau(n)$ denote the number of positive divisors of $n$ and $\varphi(n)$ denote the number of positive integers not exceeding $n$ that are relatively prime to $n$. Find all $n$ for which one of the three numbers $n,\tau(n), \varphi(n)$ is the arithmetic mean of the other two.

Denote $g(k)$ as the greatest odd divisor of $k$. Put $f(k) = \dfrac{k}{2} + \dfrac{k}{g(k)}$ for $k$ even, and $2^{(k+1)/2}$ for $k$ odd. Define the sequence $x_1, x_2, x_3, ...$ by $x_1 = 1$, $x_{n+1} = f(x_n)$. Find $n$ such that $x_n = 800$.

Let $a,b$ be coprime positive integers with $a$ even and $a>b$. Show that there exist infinitely many pairs $(m,n)$ of coprime positive integers such that $m\mid a^{n-1}-b^{n-1}$ and $n\mid a^{m-1}-b^{m-1}$.