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Found problems: 133

1970 IMO Longlists, 18

Find all positive integers $n$ such that the set $\{n,n+1,n+2,n+3,n+4,n+5\}$ can be partitioned into two subsets so that the product of the numbers in each subset is equal.

1987 IMO Longlists, 56

For any integer $r \geq 1$, determine the smallest integer $h(r) \geq 1$ such that for any partition of the set $\{1, 2, \cdots, h(r)\}$ into $r$ classes, there are integers $a \geq 0 \ ; 1 \leq x \leq y$, such that $a + x, a + y, a + x + y$ belong to the same class. [i]Proposed by Romania[/i]

1999 Tournament Of Towns, 4

Is it possible to divide the integers from $1$ to $100$ inclusive into $50$ pairs such that for $1\le k\le 50$, the difference between the two numbers in the $k$-th pair is $k$? (V Proizvolov)

2008 Germany Team Selection Test, 1

Let $ A_0 \equal{} (a_1,\dots,a_n)$ be a finite sequence of real numbers. For each $ k\geq 0$, from the sequence $ A_k \equal{} (x_1,\dots,x_k)$ we construct a new sequence $ A_{k \plus{} 1}$ in the following way. 1. We choose a partition $ \{1,\dots,n\} \equal{} I\cup J$, where $ I$ and $ J$ are two disjoint sets, such that the expression \[ \left|\sum_{i\in I}x_i \minus{} \sum_{j\in J}x_j\right| \] attains the smallest value. (We allow $ I$ or $ J$ to be empty; in this case the corresponding sum is 0.) If there are several such partitions, one is chosen arbitrarily. 2. We set $ A_{k \plus{} 1} \equal{} (y_1,\dots,y_n)$ where $ y_i \equal{} x_i \plus{} 1$ if $ i\in I$, and $ y_i \equal{} x_i \minus{} 1$ if $ i\in J$. Prove that for some $ k$, the sequence $ A_k$ contains an element $ x$ such that $ |x|\geq\frac n2$. [i]Author: Omid Hatami, Iran[/i]

1983 Austrian-Polish Competition, 4

The set $N$ has been partitioned into two sets A and $B$. Show that for every $n \in N$ there exist distinct integers $a, b > n$ such that $a, b, a + b$ either all belong to $A$ or all belong to $B$.

1978 IMO, 3

Let $0<f(1)<f(2)<f(3)<\ldots$ a sequence with all its terms positive$.$ The $n-th$ positive integer which doesn't belong to the sequence is $f(f(n))+1.$ Find $f(240).$

2021 Germany Team Selection Test, 1

In a regular 100-gon, 41 vertices are colored black and the remaining 59 vertices are colored white. Prove that there exist 24 convex quadrilaterals $Q_{1}, \ldots, Q_{24}$ whose corners are vertices of the 100-gon, so that [list] [*] the quadrilaterals $Q_{1}, \ldots, Q_{24}$ are pairwise disjoint, and [*] every quadrilateral $Q_{i}$ has three corners of one color and one corner of the other color. [/list]

2003 Gheorghe Vranceanu, 4

Prove that among any $ 16 $ numbers smaller than $ 101 $ there are four of them that have the property that the sum of two of them is equal to the sum of the other two.

2000 Belarus Team Selection Test, 8.3

Prove that the set of positive integers cannot be partitioned into three nonempty subsets such that, for any two integers $x,y$ taken from two different subsets, the number $x^2-xy+y^2$ belongs to the third subset.

1995 Romania Team Selection Test, 2

A cube is partitioned into finitely many rectangular parallelepipeds with the edges parallel to the edges of the cube. Prove that if the sum of the volumes of the circumspheres of these parallelepipeds equals the volume of the circumscribed sphere of the cube, then all the parallelepipeds are cubes.

2008 Indonesia TST, 4

There are $15$ people, including Petruk, Gareng, and Bagong, which will be partitioned into $6$ groups, randomly, that consists of $3, 3, 3, 2, 2$, and $2$ people (orders are ignored). Determine the probability that Petruk, Gareng, and Bagong are in a group.

2024 Brazil National Olympiad, 2

A partition of a set \( A \) is a family of non-empty subsets of \( A \), such that any two distinct subsets in the family are disjoint, and the union of all subsets equals \( A \). We say that a partition of a set of integers \( B \) is [i]separated[/i] if each subset in the partition does [b]not[/b] contain consecutive integers. Prove that, for every positive integer \( n \), the number of partitions of the set \( \{1, 2, \dots, n\} \) is equal to the number of separated partitions of the set \( \{1, 2, \dots, n+1\} \). For example, \( \{\{1,3\}, \{2\}\} \) is a separated partition of the set \( \{1,2,3\} \). On the other hand, \( \{\{1,2\}, \{3\}\} \) is a partition of the same set, but it is not separated since \( \{1,2\} \) contains consecutive integers.

2020 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Qualification, 2

Given a set $S$, of integers, an [i]optimal partition[/i] of S into sets T, U is a partition which minimizes the value $|t - u|$, where $t$ and $u$ are the sum of the elements of $T$ and U respectively. Let $P$ be a set of distinct positive integers such that the sum of the elements of $P$ is $2k$ for a positive integer $k$, and no subset of $P$ sums to $k$. Either show that there exists such a $P$ with at least $2020$ different optimal partitions, or show that such a $P$ does not exist.

1972 IMO Longlists, 20

Let $n_1, n_2$ be positive integers. Consider in a plane $E$ two disjoint sets of points $M_1$ and $M_2$ consisting of $2n_1$ and $2n_2$ points, respectively, and such that no three points of the union $M_1 \cup M_2$ are collinear. Prove that there exists a straightline $g$ with the following property: Each of the two half-planes determined by $g$ on $E$ ($g$ not being included in either) contains exactly half of the points of $M_1$ and exactly half of the points of $M_2.$

2003 Putnam, 6

For a set $S$ of nonnegative integers, let $r_S(n)$ denote the number of ordered pairs $(s_1, s_2)$ such that $s_1 \in S$, $s_2 \in S$, $s_1 \neq s_2$, and $s_1 + s_2 = n$. Is it possible to partition the nonnegative integers into two sets $A$ and $B$ in such a way that $r_A(n) = r_B(n)$ for all $n$?

2020 IMO Shortlist, C2

In a regular 100-gon, 41 vertices are colored black and the remaining 59 vertices are colored white. Prove that there exist 24 convex quadrilaterals $Q_{1}, \ldots, Q_{24}$ whose corners are vertices of the 100-gon, so that [list] [*] the quadrilaterals $Q_{1}, \ldots, Q_{24}$ are pairwise disjoint, and [*] every quadrilateral $Q_{i}$ has three corners of one color and one corner of the other color. [/list]

1978 Romania Team Selection Test, 3

Let $ p $ be a natural number and let two partitions $ \mathcal{A} =\left\{ A_1,A_2,...,A_p\right\} ,\mathcal{B}=\left\{ B_1,B_2,...B_p\right\} $ of a finite set $ \mathcal{M} . $ Knowing that, whenever an element of $ \mathcal{A} $ doesn´t have any elements in common with another of $ \mathcal{B} , $ it holds that the number of elements of these two is greater than $ p, $ prove that $ \big| \mathcal{M}\big|\ge\frac{1}{2}\left( 1+p^2\right) . $ Can equality hold?

1990 IMO Longlists, 20

Could the three-dimensional space be expressed as the union of disjoint circumferences?

2019 Singapore Senior Math Olympiad, 4

Positive integers $m,n,k$ satisfy $1+2+3++...+n=mk$ and $m \ge n$. Show that we can partite $\{1,2,3,...,n \}$ into $k$ subsets (Every element belongs to exact one of these $k$ subsets), such that the sum of elements in each subset is equal to $m$.

2024 Germany Team Selection Test, 3

Let $N$ be a positive integer, and consider an $N \times N$ grid. A [i]right-down path[/i] is a sequence of grid cells such that each cell is either one cell to the right of or one cell below the previous cell in the sequence. A [i]right-up path[/i] is a sequence of grid cells such that each cell is either one cell to the right of or one cell above the previous cell in the sequence. Prove that the cells of the $N \times N$ grid cannot be partitioned into less than $N$ right-down or right-up paths. For example, the following partition of the $5 \times 5$ grid uses $5$ paths. [asy] size(4cm); draw((5,-1)--(0,-1)--(0,-2)--(5,-2)--(5,-3)--(0,-3)--(0,-4)--(5,-4),gray+linewidth(0.5)+miterjoin); draw((1,-5)--(1,0)--(2,0)--(2,-5)--(3,-5)--(3,0)--(4,0)--(4,-5),gray+linewidth(0.5)+miterjoin); draw((0,0)--(5,0)--(5,-5)--(0,-5)--cycle,black+linewidth(2.5)+miterjoin); draw((0,-1)--(3,-1)--(3,-2)--(1,-2)--(1,-4)--(4,-4)--(4,-3)--(2,-3)--(2,-2),black+linewidth(2.5)+miterjoin); draw((3,0)--(3,-1),black+linewidth(2.5)+miterjoin); draw((1,-4)--(1,-5),black+linewidth(2.5)+miterjoin); draw((4,-3)--(4,-1)--(5,-1),black+linewidth(2.5)+miterjoin); [/asy] [i]Proposed by Zixiang Zhou, Canada[/i]

1988 IMO Longlists, 54

Find the least natural number $ n$ such that, if the set $ \{1,2, \ldots, n\}$ is arbitrarily divided into two non-intersecting subsets, then one of the subsets contains 3 distinct numbers such that the product of two of them equals the third.

1978 IMO Shortlist, 5

For every integer $d \geq 1$, let $M_d$ be the set of all positive integers that cannot be written as a sum of an arithmetic progression with difference $d$, having at least two terms and consisting of positive integers. Let $A = M_1$, $B = M_2 \setminus \{2 \}, C = M_3$. Prove that every $c \in C$ may be written in a unique way as $c = ab$ with $a \in A, b \in B.$

2021 Azerbaijan IMO TST, 2

In a regular 100-gon, 41 vertices are colored black and the remaining 59 vertices are colored white. Prove that there exist 24 convex quadrilaterals $Q_{1}, \ldots, Q_{24}$ whose corners are vertices of the 100-gon, so that [list] [*] the quadrilaterals $Q_{1}, \ldots, Q_{24}$ are pairwise disjoint, and [*] every quadrilateral $Q_{i}$ has three corners of one color and one corner of the other color. [/list]

1987 IMO Longlists, 48

Find the number of partitions of the set $\{1, 2, \cdots, n\}$ into three subsets $A_1,A_2,A_3$, some of which may be empty, such that the following conditions are satisfied: $(i)$ After the elements of every subset have been put in ascending order, every two consecutive elements of any subset have different parity. $(ii)$ If $A_1,A_2,A_3$ are all nonempty, then in exactly one of them the minimal number is even . [i]Proposed by Poland.[/i]

1995 IMO Shortlist, 7

Does there exist an integer $ n > 1$ which satisfies the following condition? The set of positive integers can be partitioned into $ n$ nonempty subsets, such that an arbitrary sum of $ n \minus{} 1$ integers, one taken from each of any $ n \minus{} 1$ of the subsets, lies in the remaining subset.