(B.Frenkin) Does a convex quadrilateral without parallel sidelines exist such that it can be divided into four congruent triangles?

A 2 meter long bookshelf is filled end-to-end with 46 books. Some of the books are 3 centimeters thick while all the others are 5 centimeters thick. Find the number of books on the shelf that are 3 centimeters thick.

Luke the frog has a standard deck of $52$ cards shuffled uniformly at random placed face down on a table. The deck contains four aces and four kings (no card is both an ace and a king). He now begins to flip over the cards one by one, leaving a card face up once he has flipped it over. He continues until the set of cards he has flipped over contains at least one ace and at least one king, at which point he stops. What is the expected value of the number of cards he flips over?

let $(a_{n})$ be an arbitrary sequence of positive numbers. Show that $$\limsup_{n\to \infty} \left(\frac{a_1 +a_{n+1}}{a_{n}}\right)^{n} \geq e.$$

Prove that for $n>1$ and real numbers $a_0,a_1,\dots, a_n,k$ with $a_1=a_{n-1}=0$, \[|a_0|-|a_n|\leq \sum_{i=0}^{n-2}|a_i-ka_{i+1}-a_{i+2}|.\]

[color=darkred]Let $ m,n\in \mathbb{N}$, $ n\ge 2$ and numbers $ a_i > 0$, $ i \equal{} \overline{1,n}$, such that $ \sum a_i \equal{} 1$. Prove that $ \small{\dfrac{a_1^{2 \minus{} m} \plus{} a_2 \plus{} ... \plus{} a_{n \minus{} 1}}{1 \minus{} a_1} \plus{} \dfrac{a_2^{2 \minus{} m} \plus{} a_3 \plus{} ... \plus{} a_n}{1 \minus{} a_1} \plus{} ... \plus{} \dfrac{a_n^{2 \minus{} m} \plus{} a_1 \plus{} ... \plus{} a_{n \minus{} 2}}{1 \minus{} a_1}\ge n \plus{} \dfrac{n^m \minus{} n}{n \minus{} 1}}$[/color]

a) Factorize $A= x^4+y^4+z^4-2x^2y^2-2y^2z^2-2z^2x^2$ b) Prove that there are no integers $x,y,z$ such that $x^4+y^4+z^4-2x^2y^2-2y^2z^2-2z^2x^2=2000 $

Answer wither (i) or (ii): (i) Let $V, V_1 , V_2$ and $V_3$ denote four vertices of a cube such that $V_1 , V_2 , V_3 $ are adjacent to $V.$ Project the cube orthogonally on a plane of which the points are marked with complex numbers. Let the projection of $V$ fall in the origin and the projections of $V_1 , V_2 , V_3 $ in points marked with the complex numbers $z_1 , z_2 , z_3$, respectively. Show that $z_{1}^{2} +z_{2}^{2} +z_{3}^{2}=0.$ (ii) Let $(a_{ij})$ be a matrix such that $$|a_{ii}| > |a_{i1}| + |a_{i2}|+\ldots +|a_{i i-1}|+ |a_{i i+1}| +\ldots +|a_{in}|$$ for all $i.$ Show that the determinant is not equal to $0.$

Complex numbers $z_1,z_2$ satisfy that $|z_1|=2,|z_2|=3,3z_1-2z_2=\frac{3}{2}-\text{i}$, then $z_1\cdot z_2=$________.

Joshua rolls two dice and records the product of the numbers face up. The probability that this product is composite can be expressed as $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m+n$. [i]Proposed by Nathan Xiong[/i]

Let $ P$ be a point on the diagonal $ BD$ of a rectangle $ ABCD$, $ F$ be the projection of $ P$ on $ BC$, and $ H \not\equal{} B$ be the point on $ BC$ such that $ BF\equal{}FH$. If lines $ PC$ and $ AH$ intersect at $ Q$, prove that the areas of triangles $ APQ$ and $ CHQ$ are equal.

A $1\times 1\times 1$ cube is placed on an $8\times 8$ chessboard so that its bottom face coincides with a square of the chessboard. The cube rolls over a bottom edge so that the adjacent face now lands on the chessboard. In this way, the cube rolls around the chessboard, landing on each square at least once. Is it possible that a particular face of the cube never lands on the chessboard?

The incircle of a triangle $A_0B_0C_0$ touches the sides $B_0C_0,C_0A_0,A_0B_0$ at the points $A,B,C$ respectively, and the incircle of the triangle $ABC$ with incenter $ I$ touches the sides $BC,CA, AB$ at the points $A_1, B_1,C_1$, respectively. Let $\sigma(ABC)$ and $\sigma(A_1B_1C)$ be the areas of the triangles $ABC$ and $A_1B_1C$ respectively. Show that if $\sigma(ABC) = 2 \sigma(A_1B_1C)$ , then the lines $AA_0, BB_0,IC_1$ pass through a common point .

Let $X$ be a set with $n$ elements, and let $A_{1}$, $A_{2}$, ..., $A_{m}$ be subsets of $X$ such that: 1) $|A_{i}|=3$ for every $i\in\left\{1,2,...,m\right\}$; 2) $|A_{i}\cap A_{j}|\leq 1$ for all $i,j\in\left\{1,2,...,m\right\}$ such that $i \neq j$. Prove that there exists a subset $A$ of $X$ such that $A$ has at least $\left[\sqrt{2n}\right]$ elements, and for every $i\in\left\{1,2,...,m\right\}$, the set $A$ does not contain $A_{i}$. [i]Alternative formulation.[/i] Let $X$ be a finite set with $n$ elements and $A_{1},A_{2},\ldots, A_{m}$ be three-elements subsets of $X$, such that $|A_{i}\cap A_{j}|\leq 1$, for every $i\neq j$. Prove that there exists $A\subseteq X$ with $|A|\geq \lfloor \sqrt{2n}\rfloor$, such that none of $A_{i}$'s is a subset of $A$.

Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral. Let $E,F,G,H$ be points on segments $AB$, $BC$, $CD$, $DA$, respectively, and let $P$ be the intersection of $EG$ and $FH$. Given that quadrilaterals $HAEP$, $EBFP$, $FCGP$, $GDHP$ all have inscribed circles, prove that $ABCD$ also has an inscribed circle. [i]Evan O'Dorney.[/i]

Solve the following equation in the set of integer numbers: \[ x^{2010}-2006=4y^{2009}+4y^{2008}+2007y. \]

An invisible tank is on a $100 \times 100 $ table. A cannon can fire at any $60$ cells of the board after that the tank will move to one of the adjacent cells (by side). Then the progress is repeated. Can the cannon grantee to shoot the tank?

Let $\triangle ABC $ and $\triangle A'B'C'$ are acute triangles.Prove that\[Max\{cotA'(cotB+cotC),cotB'(cotC+cotA),cotC'(cotA+cotB)\}\ge \frac{2}{3}.\]

An ordered quadruple of numbers is called [i]ten-esque[/i] if it is composed of 4 nonnegative integers whose sum is equal to $10$. Ana chooses a ten-esque quadruple $(a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4)$ and Banana tries to guess it. At each stage Banana offers a ten-esque quadtruple $(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4)$ and Ana tells her the value of \[|a_1-x_1|+|a_2-x_2|+|a_3-x_3|+|a_4-x_4|\] How many guesses are needed for Banana to figure out the quadruple Ana chose?

In a country there are $4^9$ schoolchildren living in four cities. At the end of the school year a state examination was held in 9 subjects. It is known that any two students have different marks at least in one subject. However, every two students from the same city got equal marks at least in one subject. Prove that there is a subject such that every two children living in the same city have equal marks in this subject. [i]Fedor Petrov[/i]

Let $ A_1,B_1,C_1 $ be the feet of the heights of an acute triangle $ ABC. $ On the segments $ B_1C_1,C_1A_1,A_1B_1, $ take the points $ X,Y, $ respectively, $ Z, $ such that $$ \left\{\begin{matrix}\frac{C_1X}{XB_1} =\frac{b\cos\angle BCA}{c\cos\angle ABC} \\ \frac{A_1Y}{YC_1} =\frac{c\cos\angle BAC}{a\cos\angle BCA} \\ \frac{B_1Z}{ZA_1} =\frac{a\cos\angle ABC}{b\cos\angle BAC} \end{matrix}\right. . $$ Show that $ AX,BY,CZ, $ are concurrent.

Let $ABCD$ be an isosceles trapezoid such that $AB \parallel CD$ and $\overline{AD}=\overline{BC}, \overline{AB}>\overline{CD}$. Let $E$ be a point such that $\overline{EC}=\overline{AC}$ and $EC \perp BC$, and $\angle ACE<90^{\circ}$. Let $\Gamma$ be a circle with center $D$ and radius $DA$, and $\Omega$ be the circumcircle of triangle $AEB$. Suppose that $\Gamma$ meets $\Omega$ again at $F(\neq A)$, and let $G$ be a point on $\Gamma$ such that $\overline{BF}=\overline{BG}$. Prove that the lines $EG, BD$ meet on $\Omega$.

Circle $c$ passes through vertices $A$ and $B$ of an isosceles triangle $ABC$, whereby line $AC$ is tangent to it. Prove that circle $c$ passes through the circumcenter or the incenter or the orthocenter of triangle $ABC$.

The point $P$ is inside of an equilateral triangle with side length $10$ so that the distance from $P$ to two of the sides are $1$ and $3$. Find the distance from $P$ to the third side.

One morning each member of Angela’s family drank an $ 8$-ounce mixture of coffee with milk. The amounts of coffee and milk varied from cup to cup, but were never zero. Angela drank a quarter of the total amount of milk and a sixth of the total amount of coffee. How many people are in the family? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 5 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 6 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 7$