Found problems: 521
2004 India IMO Training Camp, 3
An integer $n$ is said to be [i]good[/i] if $|n|$ is not the square of an integer. Determine all integers $m$ with the following property: $m$ can be represented, in infinitely many ways, as a sum of three distinct good integers whose product is the square of an odd integer.
[i]Proposed by Hojoo Lee, Korea[/i]
2016 Costa Rica - Final Round, A2
The initial number of inhabitants of a city of more than $150$ inhabitants is a perfect square. With an increase of $1000$ inhabitants it becomes a perfect square plus a unit. After from another increase of $1000$ inhabitants it is again a perfect square. Determine the quantity of inhabitants that are initially in the city.
2025 Israel National Olympiad (Gillis), P3
Bart wrote the digit "$1$" $2024$ times in a row. Then, Lisa wrote an additional $2024$ digits to the right of the digits Bart wrote, such that the resulting number is a square of an integer. Find all possibilities for the digits Lisa wrote.
1998 Belarus Team Selection Test, 3
a) Let $f(x,y) = x^3 + (3y^2+1)x^2 + (3y^4 - y^2 + 4 y - 1)x + (y^6-y^4 + 2y^3)$. Prove that if for some positive integers $a, b$ the number $f(a, b)$ is a cube of an integer then $f(a, b)$ is also a square of an integer.
b) Are there infinitely many pairs of positive integers $(a, b)$ for which $f(a, b)$ is a square but not a cube ?
1980 Spain Mathematical Olympiad, 6
Prove that if the product of four consecutive natural numbers is added one unit, the result is a perfect square.
V Soros Olympiad 1998 - 99 (Russia), 9.8
Find all natural numbers whose decimal notation consists of different digits of the same parity and which are perfect squares.
2009 Regional Olympiad of Mexico Center Zone, 4
Let $N = 2 \: \: \underbrace {99… 9} _{n \,\,\text {times}} \: \: 82 \: \: \underbrace {00… 0} _{n \,\, \text {times} } \: \: 29$. Prove that $N$ can be written as the sum of the squares of $3$ consecutive natural numbers.
2010 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 10.7
Are there three pairwise distinct non-zero integers whose sum is zero and whose sum of thirteenth powers is the square of some natural number?
2017 Bosnia And Herzegovina - Regional Olympiad, 2
Prove that numbers $1,2,...,16$ can be divided in sequence such that sum of any two neighboring numbers is perfect square
2019 Saudi Arabia Pre-TST + Training Tests, 2.1
Suppose that $a, b, c,d$ are pairwise distinct positive integers such that $a+b = c+d = p$ for some odd prime $p > 3$ . Prove that $abcd$ is not a perfect square.
1979 IMO Longlists, 66
Find all natural numbers $n$ for which $2^8 +2^{11} +2^n$ is a perfect square.
2021 Polish Junior MO First Round, 1
Is there a six-digit number where every two consecutive digits make up a certain number two-digit number that is the square of an integer? Justify your answer.
2018 Saudi Arabia IMO TST, 3
Two sets of positive integers $A, B$ are called [i]connected [/i] if they are not empty and for all $a \in A, b \in B$, number $ab + 1$ is a perfect square.
i) Given $A =\{1, 2,3, 4\}$. Prove that there does not exist any set $B$ such that $A, B$ are connected.
ii) Suppose that $A, B$ are connected with $|A|,|B| \ge 2$. For any $a_1 > a_2 \in A$ and $b_1 > b_2 \in B$, prove that $a_1b_1 > 13a_2b_2$.
2000 Singapore Team Selection Test, 2
Find all prime numbers $p$ such that $5^p + 12^p$ is a perfect square
2004 Mexico National Olympiad, 1
Find all the prime number $p, q$ and r with $p < q < r$, such that $25pq + r = 2004$ and $pqr + 1 $ is a perfect square.
2014 Junior Balkan Team Selection Tests - Moldova, 5
Show that for any natural number $n$, the number $A = [\frac{n + 3}{4}] + [ \frac{n + 5}{4} ] + [\frac{n}{2} ] +n^2 + 3n + 3$ is a perfect square. ($[x]$ denotes the integer part of the real number x.)
2010 Dutch Mathematical Olympiad, 3
Consider a triangle $XYZ$ and a point $O$ in its interior. Three lines through $O$ are drawn, parallel to the respective sides of the triangle. The intersections with the sides of the triangle determine six line segments from $O$ to the sides of the triangle. The lengths of these segments are integer numbers $a, b, c, d, e$ and $f$ (see figure).
Prove that the product $a \cdot b \cdot c\cdot d \cdot e \cdot f$ is a perfect square.
[asy]
unitsize(1 cm);
pair A, B, C, D, E, F, O, X, Y, Z;
X = (1,4);
Y = (0,0);
Z = (5,1.5);
O = (1.8,2.2);
A = extension(O, O + Z - X, X, Y);
B = extension(O, O + Y - Z, X, Y);
C = extension(O, O + X - Y, Y, Z);
D = extension(O, O + Z - X, Y, Z);
E = extension(O, O + Y - Z, Z, X);
F = extension(O, O + X - Y, Z, X);
draw(X--Y--Z--cycle);
draw(A--D);
draw(B--E);
draw(C--F);
dot("$A$", A, NW);
dot("$B$", B, NW);
dot("$C$", C, SE);
dot("$D$", D, SE);
dot("$E$", E, NE);
dot("$F$", F, NE);
dot("$O$", O, S);
dot("$X$", X, N);
dot("$Y$", Y, SW);
dot("$Z$", Z, dir(0));
label("$a$", (A + O)/2, SW);
label("$b$", (B + O)/2, SE);
label("$c$", (C + O)/2, SE);
label("$d$", (D + O)/2, SW);
label("$e$", (E + O)/2, SE);
label("$f$", (F + O)/2, NW);
[/asy]
2016 Bosnia and Herzegovina Junior BMO TST, 1
Prove that it is not possible that numbers $(n+1)\cdot 2^n$ and $(n+3)\cdot 2^{n+2}$ are perfect squares, where $n$ is positive integer.
1969 Kurschak Competition, 1
Show that if $2 + 2\sqrt{28n^2 + 1}$ is an integer, then it is a square (for $n$ an integer).
2024 OMpD, 4
Let \(a_0, a_1, a_2, \dots\) be an infinite sequence of positive integers with the following properties:
- \(a_0\) is a given positive integer;
- For each integer \(n \geq 1\), \(a_n\) is the smallest integer greater than \(a_{n-1}\) such that \(a_n + a_{n-1}\) is a perfect square.
For example, if \(a_0 = 3\), then \(a_1 = 6\), \(a_2 = 10\), \(a_3 = 15\), and so on.
(a) Let \(T\) be the set of numbers of the form \(a_k - a_l\), with \(k \geq l \geq 0\) integers.
Prove that, regardless of the value of \(a_0\), the number of positive integers not in \(T\) is finite.
(b) Calculate, as a function of \(a_0\), the number of positive integers that are not in \(T\).
2020 Germany Team Selection Test, 3
Let $a$ and $b$ be two positive integers. Prove that the integer
\[a^2+\left\lceil\frac{4a^2}b\right\rceil\]
is not a square. (Here $\lceil z\rceil$ denotes the least integer greater than or equal to $z$.)
[i]Russia[/i]
2020 Malaysia IMONST 1, 14
A perfect square ends with the same two digits. How many possible values
of this digit are there?
2021 Denmark MO - Mohr Contest, 3
Georg investigates which integers are expressible in the form $$\pm 1^2 \pm 2^2 \pm 3^2 \pm \dots \pm n^2.$$
For example, the number $3$ can be expressed as $ -1^2 + 2^2$, and the number $-13$ can be expressed as
$+1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 - 4^2 + 5^2 - 6^2$. Are all integers expressible in this form?
2012 Danube Mathematical Competition, 1
a) Exist $a, b, c, \in N$, such that the numbers $ab+1,bc+1$ and $ca+1$ are simultaneously even perfect squares ?
b) Show that there is an infinity of natural numbers (distinct two by two) $a, b, c$ and $d$, so that the numbers $ab+1,bc+1, cd+1$ and $da+1$ are simultaneously perfect squares.
2023 Regional Olympiad of Mexico West, 4
Prove that you can pick $15$ distinct positive integers between $1$ and $2023$, such that each one of them and the sum between some of them is never a perfect square, nor a perfect cube or any other greater perfect power.