$w(x)$ is a polynomial with integer coefficients. Let $p_n$ be the sum of the digits of the number $w(n)$. Show that some value must occur infinitely often in the sequence $p_1, p_2, p_3, ...$ .

Prove that among any nine divisors of $30^{2010}$ there are two whose product is a perfect square.

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 $2a_i \neq t+i$.

[hide=D stands for Dedekind, Z stands for Zermelo]they had two problem sets under those two names[/hide] [u]Set 4[/u] [b]D16.[/b] The cooking club at Blair creates $14$ croissants and $21$ danishes. Daniel chooses pastries randomly, stopping when he gets at least one croissant and at least two danishes. How many pastries must he choose to guarantee that he has one croissant and two danishes? [b]D17.[/b] Each digit in a $3$ digit integer is either $1, 2$, or $4$ with equal probability. What is the probability that the hundreds digit is greater than the sum of the tens digit and the ones digit? [b]D18 / Z11.[/b] How many two digit numbers are there such that the product of their digits is prime? [b]D19 / Z9.[/b] In the coordinate plane, a point is selected in the rectangle defined by $-6 \le x \le 4$ and $-2 \le y \le 8$. What is the largest possible distance between the point and the origin, $(0, 0)$? [b]D20 / Z10.[/b] The sum of two numbers is $6$ and the sum of their squares is $32$. Find the product of the two numbers. [u]Set 5[/u] [b]D21 / Z12.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ has area $4$ and $\overline{AB} = 4$. What is the maximum possible value of $\angle ACB$? [b]D22 / Z13.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be an iscoceles trapezoid with $AB = CD$ and M be the midpoint of $AD$. If $\vartriangle ABM$ and $\vartriangle MCD$ are equilateral, and $BC = 4$, find the area of trapezoid $ABCD$. [b]D23 / Z14.[/b] Let $x$ and $y$ be positive real numbers that satisfy $(x^2 + y^2)^2 = y^2$. Find the maximum possible value of $x$. [b]D24 / Z17.[/b] In parallelogram $ABCD$, $\angle A \cdot \angle C - \angle B \cdot \angle D = 720^o$ where all angles are in degrees. Find the value of $\angle C$. [b]D25.[/b] The number $12ab9876543$ is divisible by $101$, where $a, b$ represent digits between $0$ and $9$. What is $10a + b$? [u]Set 6[/u] [b]D26 / Z26.[/b] For every person who wrote a problem that appeared on the final MBMT tests, take the number of problems they wrote, and then take that number’s factorial, and finally multiply all these together to get $n$. Estimate the greatest integer $a$ such that $2^a$ evenly divides $n$. [b]D27 / Z27.[/b] Circles of radius $5$ are centered at each corner of a square with side length $6$. If a random point $P$ is chosen randomly inside the square, what is the probability that $P$ lies within all four circles? [b]D28 / Z28.[/b] Mr. Rose’s evil cousin, Mr. Caulem, has teaches a class of three hundred bees. Every week, he tries to disrupt Mr. Rose’s $4$th period by sending three of his bee students to fly around and make human students panic. Unfortunately, no pair of bees can fly together twice, as then Mr. Rose will become suspicious and trace them back to Mr. Caulem. What’s the largest number of weeks Mr. Caulem can disrupt Mr. Rose’s class? [b]D29 / Z29. [/b]Two blind brothers Beard and Bored are driving their tractors in the middle of a field facing north, and both are $10$ meters west from a roast turkey. Beard, can turn exactly $0.7^o$ and Bored can turn exactly $0.2^o$ degrees. Driving at a consistent $2$ meters per second, they drive straight until they notice the smell of the turkey getting farther away, and then turn right and repeat until they get to the turkey. Suppose Beard gets to the Turkey in about $818.5$ seconds. Estimate the amount of time it will take Bored. [b]D30 / Z30.[/b] Let a be the probability that $4$ randomly chosen positive integers have no common divisor except for $1$. Estimate $300a$. Note that the integers $1, 2, 3, 4$ have no common divisor except for $1$. Remark. This problem is asking you to find $300 \lim_{n\to \infty} a_n$, if $a_n$ is defined to be the probability that $4$ randomly chosen integers from $\{1, 2, ..., n\}$ have greatest common divisor $1$. PS. You should use hide for answers. D.1-15 / Z.1-8 problems have been collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2916240p26045561]here [/url]and Z.15-25 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2916258p26045774]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Let $p(x) = 3x^2 + 1$. Compute the largest prime divisor of $p(100) - p(3)$

[u]Round 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] What is $2 + 22 + 1 + 3 - 31 - 3$? [b]p2.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a rhombus. Given $AB = 5$, $AC = 8$, and $BD = 6$, what is the perimeter of the rhombus? [b]p3.[/b] There are $2$ hats on a table. The first hat has $3$ red marbles and 1 blue marble. The second hat has $2$ red marbles and $4$ blue marbles. Jordan picks one of the hats randomly, and then randomly chooses a marble from that hat. What is the probability that she chooses a blue marble? [u]Round 2[/u] [b]p4.[/b] There are twelve students seated around a circular table. Each of them has a slip of paper that they may choose to pass to either their clockwise or counterclockwise neighbor. After each person has transferred their slip of paper once, the teacher observes that no two students exchanged papers. In how many ways could the students have transferred their slips of paper? [b]p5.[/b] Chad wants to test David's mathematical ability by having him perform a series of arithmetic operations at lightning-speed. He starts with the number of cubic centimeters of silicon in his 3D printer, which is $109$. He has David perform all of the following operations in series each second: $\bullet$ Double the number $\bullet$ Subtract $4$ from the number $\bullet$ Divide the number by $4$ $\bullet$ Subtract $5$ from the number $\bullet$ Double the number $\bullet$ Subtract $4$ from the number Chad instructs David to shout out after three seconds the result of three rounds of calculations. However, David computes too slowly and fails to give an answer in three seconds. What number should David have said to Chad? [b]p6.[/b] Points $D, E$, and $F$ lie on sides $BC$, $CA$, and $AB$ of triangle $ABC$, respectively, such that the following length conditions are true: $CD = AE = BF = 2$ and $BD = CE = AF = 4$. What is the area of triangle $ABC$? [u]Round 3[/u] [b]p7.[/b] In the $2, 3, 5, 7$ game, players count the positive integers, starting with $1$ and increasing, which do not contain the digits $2, 3, 5$, and $7$, and also are not divisible by the numbers $2, 3, 5$, and $7$. What is the fifth number counted? [b]p8.[/b] If A is a real number for which $19 \cdot A = \frac{2014!}{1! \cdot 2! \cdot 2013!}$ , what is $A$? Note: The expression $k!$ denotes the product $k \cdot (k - 1) \cdot ...\cdot 2 \cdot 1$. [b]p9.[/b] What is the smallest number that can be written as both $x^3 + y^2$ and $z^3 + w^2$ for positive integers $x, y, z,$ and $w$ with $x \ne z$? [u]Round 4[/u] [i]Each of the three problems in this round depends on the answer to one of the other problems. There is only one set of correct answers to these problems; however, each problem will be scored independently, regardless of whether the answers to the other problems are correct. In addition, it is given that the answer to each of the following problems is a positive integer less than or equal to the problem number. [/i] [b]p10.[/b] Let $B$ be the answer to problem $11$ and let $C$ be the answer to problem $12$. What is the sum of a side length of a square with perimeter $B$ and a side length of a square with area $C$? [b]p11.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $10$ and let $C$ be the answer to problem $12$. What is $(C - 1)(A + 1) - (C + 1)(A - 1)$? [b]p12.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $10$ and let $B$ be the answer to problem $11$. Let $x$ denote the positive difference between $A$ and $B$. What is the sum of the digits of the positive integer $9x$? PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 5-8 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h2915810p26040675]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Find all integers $a$ such that $\sqrt{\frac{9a+4}{a-6}}$ is rational number

Let $c$ be a fixed positive integer, and let ${a_n}^{\inf}_{n=1}$ be a sequence of positive integers such that $a_n < a_{n+1} < a_n+c$ for every positive integer $n$. Let $s$ denote the infinite string of digits obtained by writing the terms in the sequence consecutively from left to right, starting from the first term. For every positive integer $k$, let $s_k$ denote the number whose decimal representation is identical to the $k$ most left digits of $s$. Prove that for every positive integer $m$ there exists a positive integer $k$ such that $s_k$ is divisible by $m$.

For which positive integer values of $n$ can the set $\{ 1, 2, 3, \ldots, 4n \}$ be split into $n$ disjoint $4$-element subsets $\{ a,b,c,d \}$ such that in each of these sets $a = \dfrac{b +c +d} {3}$.

Prove that all numbers of the sequence \[ \frac{107811}{3}, \quad \frac{110778111}{3}, \frac{111077781111}{3}, \quad \ldots \] are exact cubes.

Let $p$ be a prime number. Find all polynomials $P$ with integer coefficients with the following properties: $(a)$ $P(x)>x$ for all positive integers $x$. $(b)$ The sequence defined by $p_0:=p$, $p_{n+1}:=P(p_n)$ for all positive integers $n$, satisfies the property that for all positive integers $m$ there exists some $l\geq 0$ such that $m\mid p_l$.

Find all surjective functions $ f: \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ such that for every $ m,n \in \mathbb{N}$ and every prime $ p,$ the number $ f(m + n)$ is divisible by $ p$ if and only if $ f(m) + f(n)$ is divisible by $ p$. [i]Author: Mohsen Jamaali and Nima Ahmadi Pour Anari, Iran[/i]

How many positive integers less than $2022$ contain at least one digit less than $5$ and also at least one digit greater than $4$?

Each of the numbers $a_1,...,a_n$ is equal to $1$ or $-1$. If $a_1a_2 + a_2a_3 + ··· + a_{n-1}a_n + a_na_1 = 0$, proves that $n$ is divisible by $4$.

Zachary tries to simplify the fraction $\frac{2020}{5050}$ by dividing the numerator and denominator by the same integer to get the fraction $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are both positive integers. Find the sum of the (not necessarily distinct) prime factors of the sum of all the possible values of $m +n$

Given a prime $ p = 8k+1 $ for some integer $ k $. Let $ r $ be the remainder when $ \binom{4k}{k} $ is divided by $ p $. Prove that $ \sqrt{r} $ is not an integer. [i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]

The decimal number $13^{101}$ is given. It is instead written as a ternary number. What are the two last digits of this ternary number?

Find all positive integers $abcd=a^{a+b+c+d} - a^{-a+b-c+d} + a$, where $abcd$ is a four-digit number

Prove that for no integer $k \ge 2$, between $10k$ and $10k + 100$ there are more than $23$ prime numbers.

Find all primes $p,q$ such that $p$ divides $30q-1$ and $q$ divides $30p-1$.

Let $n$ be the number of isosceles triangles whose vertices are also the vertices of a regular 2019-gon. Then the remainder when $n$ is divided by 100 [list=1] [*] 15 [*] 25 [*] 35 [*] 65 [/list]

Find all primes $p, q$ and natural numbers $n$ such that: $p(p+1)+q(q+1)=n(n+1)$

Let $n$ be a natural composite number. Prove that there are integers $a_1, a_2,. . . , a_k$ all greater than $ 1$, such that $$a_1 + a_2 +... + a_k = n \left(\frac{1}{a_1}+\frac{1}{a_2}+...+\frac{1}{a_k}\right)$$

Find the smallest positive integer $n$ with the property that in the set $\{70, 71, 72,... 70 + n\}$ you can choose two different numbers whose product is the square of an integer.

At least how many numbers must be deleted from the product $1 \times 2 \times \dots \times 46 \times 47$ in order to make it a perfect square?