Found problems: 396
2011 AMC 10, 11
There are $52$ people in a room. What is the largest value of $n$ such that the statement "At least $n$ people in this room have birthdays falling in the same month" is always true?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 2 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 3 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 4 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 5 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 12 $
2012 India Regional Mathematical Olympiad, 6
A computer program generated $175$ positive integers at random, none of which had a prime divisor grater than $10.$ Prove that there are three numbers among them whose product is the cube of an integer.
1989 IMO Longlists, 53
Let $ \alpha$ be the positive root of the equation $ x^2 \minus{} 1989x \minus{} 1 \equal{} 0.$ Prove that there exist infinitely many natural numbers $ n$ that satisfy the equation:
\[ \lfloor \alpha n \plus{} 1989 \alpha \lfloor \alpha n \rfloor \rfloor \equal{} 1989n \plus{} \left( 1989^2 \plus{} 1 \right) \lfloor \alpha n \rfloor.\]
2012 Indonesia TST, 4
Determine all natural numbers $n$ such that for each natural number $a$ relatively prime with $n$ and $a \le 1 + \left\lfloor \sqrt{n} \right\rfloor$ there exists some integer $x$ with $a \equiv x^2 \mod n$.
Remark: "Natural numbers" is the set of positive integers.
2009 China Western Mathematical Olympiad, 3
A total of $n$ people compete in a mathematical match which contains $15$ problems where $n>12$. For each problem, $1$ point is given for a right answer and $0$ is given for a wrong answer. Analysing each possible situation, we find that if the sum of points every group of $12$ people get is no less than $36$, then there are at least $3$ people that got the right answer of a certain problem, among the $n$ people. Find the least possible $n$.
2005 Romania Team Selection Test, 2
Let $n\geq 1$ be an integer and let $X$ be a set of $n^2+1$ positive integers such that in any subset of $X$ with $n+1$ elements there exist two elements $x\neq y$ such that $x\mid y$. Prove that there exists a subset $\{x_1,x_2,\ldots, x_{n+1} \} \in X$ such that $x_i \mid x_{i+1}$ for all $i=1,2,\ldots, n$.
1999 IberoAmerican, 3
Let $P_1,P_2,\dots,P_n$ be $n$ distinct points over a line in the plane ($n\geq2$). Consider all the circumferences with diameters $P_iP_j$ ($1\leq{i,j}\leq{n}$) and they are painted with $k$ given colors. Lets call this configuration a ($n,k$)-cloud.
For each positive integer $k$, find all the positive integers $n$ such that every possible ($n,k$)-cloud has two mutually exterior tangent circumferences of the same color.
2007 Iran Team Selection Test, 2
Let $A$ be the largest subset of $\{1,\dots,n\}$ such that for each $x\in A$, $x$ divides at most one other element in $A$. Prove that \[\frac{2n}3\leq |A|\leq \left\lceil \frac{3n}4\right\rceil. \]
PEN P Problems, 42
Prove that for each positive integer $K$ there exist infinitely many even positive integers which can be written in more than $K$ ways as the sum of two odd primes.
1973 IMO Longlists, 6
Let $P_i (x_i, y_i)$ (with $i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5$) be five points with integer coordinates, no three collinear. Show that among all triangles with vertices at these points, at least three have integer areas.
2022 Brazil Team Selection Test, 1
Let $n\ge 3$ be a fixed integer. There are $m\ge n+1$ beads on a circular necklace. You wish to paint the beads using $n$ colors, such that among any $n+1$ consecutive beads every color appears at least once. Find the largest value of $m$ for which this task is $\emph{not}$ possible.
[i]Carl Schildkraut, USA[/i]
PEN O Problems, 57
Prove that every selection of $1325$ integers from $M=\{1, 2, \cdots, 1987 \}$ must contain some three numbers $\{a, b, c\}$ which are pairwise relatively prime, but that it can be avoided if only $1324$ integers are selected.
2006 Romania National Olympiad, 2
A square of side $n$ is formed from $n^2$ unit squares, each colored in red, yellow or green. Find minimal $n$, such that for each coloring, there exists a line and a column with at least 3 unit squares of the same color (on the same line or column).
2010 Romanian Master of Mathematics, 6
Given a polynomial $f(x)$ with rational coefficients, of degree $d \ge 2$, we define the sequence of sets $f^0(\mathbb{Q}), f^1(\mathbb{Q}), \ldots$ as $f^0(\mathbb{Q})=\mathbb{Q}$, $f^{n+1}(\mathbb{Q})=f(f^{n}(\mathbb{Q}))$ for $n\ge 0$. (Given a set $S$, we write $f(S)$ for the set $\{f(x)\mid x\in S\})$.
Let $f^{\omega}(\mathbb{Q})=\bigcap_{n=0}^{\infty} f^n(\mathbb{Q})$ be the set of numbers that are in all of the sets $f^n(\mathbb{Q})$, $n\geq 0$. Prove that $f^{\omega}(\mathbb{Q})$ is a finite set.
[i]Dan Schwarz, Romania[/i]
2014 NIMO Problems, 4
Prove that there exist integers $a$, $b$, $c$ with $1 \le a < b < c \le 25$ and \[ S(a^6+2014) = S(b^6+2014) = S(c^6+2014) \] where $S(n)$ denotes the sum of the decimal digits of $n$.
[i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]
2015 Kosovo Team Selection Test, 4
Let $P_1,P_2,...,P_{2556}$ be distinct points inside a regular hexagon $ABCDEF$ of side $1$. If any three points from the set $S=\{A,B,C,D,E,F,P_1,P_2...,P_{2556}\}$ aren't collinear, prove that there exists a triangle with area smaller than $\frac{1}{1700}$, with vertices from the set $S$.
2006 Estonia Math Open Senior Contests, 6
Kati cut two equal regular $ n\minus{}gons$ out of paper. To the vertices of both $ n\minus{}gons$, she wrote the numbers 1 to $ n$ in some order. Then she stabbed a needle through the centres of these $ n\minus{}gons$ so that they could be rotated with respect to each other. Kati noticed that there is a position where the numbers at each pair of aligned vertices are different. Prove that the $ n\minus{}gons$ can be rotated to a position where at least two pairs of aligned vertices contain equal numbers.
2004 Manhattan Mathematical Olympiad, 1
Seven line segments, with lengths no greater than $10$ inches, and no shorter than $1$ inch, are given. Show that one can choose three of them to represent the sides of a triangle. Give an example which shows that if only six segments are used, then such a choice may be impossible.
2002 USA Team Selection Test, 4
Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $S$ be a set of $2^n+1$ elements. Let $f$ be a function from the set of two-element subsets of $S$ to $\{0, \dots, 2^{n-1}-1\}$. Assume that for any elements $x, y, z$ of $S$, one of $f(\{x,y\}), f(\{y,z\}), f(\{z, x\})$ is equal to the sum of the other two. Show that there exist $a, b, c$ in $S$ such that $f(\{a,b\}), f(\{b,c\}), f(\{c,a\})$ are all equal to 0.
2013 Putnam, 4
A finite collection of digits $0$ and $1$ is written around a circle. An [i]arc[/i] of length $L\ge 0$ consists of $L$ consecutive digits around the circle. For each arc $w,$ let $Z(w)$ and $N(w)$ denote the number of $0$'s in $w$ and the number of $1$'s in $w,$ respectively. Assume that $|Z(w)-Z(w')|\le 1$ for any two arcs $w,w'$ of the same length. Suppose that some arcs $w_1,\dots,w_k$ have the property that \[Z=\frac1k\sum_{j=1}^kZ(w_j)\text{ and }N=\frac1k\sum_{j=1}^k N(w_j)\] are both integers. Prove that there exists an arc $w$ with $Z(w)=Z$ and $N(w)=N.$
2007 Nicolae Păun, 4
$ 20 $ discs of radius $ 1 $ are bounded by a circle of radius $ 10. $ Show that in the interior of this circle is sufficient space to insert $ 7 $ discs of radius $ \frac{1}{3} $ that doesn't touch any other disc.
[i]Flavian Georgescu[/i]
2012 AIME Problems, 15
There are $n$ mathematicians seated around a circular table with $n$ seats numbered $1,2,3,\cdots,n$ in clockwise order. After a break they again sit around the table. The mathematicians note that there is a positive integer $a$ such that
(1) for each $k$, the mathematician who was seated in seat $k$ before the break is seated in seat $ka$ after the break (where seat $i+n$ is seat $i$);
(2) for every pair of mathematicians, the number of mathematicians sitting between them after the break, counting in both the clockwise and the counterclockwise directions, is different from either of the number of mathematicians sitting between them before the break.
Find the number of possible values of $n$ with $1<n<1000$.
2006 China Team Selection Test, 1
Let $k$ be an odd number that is greater than or equal to $3$. Prove that there exists a $k^{th}$-degree integer-valued polynomial with non-integer-coefficients that has the following properties:
(1) $f(0)=0$ and $f(1)=1$; and.
(2) There exist infinitely many positive integers $n$ so that if the following equation: \[ n= f(x_1)+\cdots+f(x_s), \] has integer solutions $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_s$, then $s \geq 2^k-1$.
2004 France Team Selection Test, 3
Each point of the plane with two integer coordinates is the center of a disk with radius $ \frac {1} {1000}$.
Prove that there exists an equilateral triangle whose vertices belong to distinct disks.
Prove that such a triangle has side-length greater than 96.
2012 Regional Olympiad of Mexico Center Zone, 1
Consider the set:
$A = \{1, 2,..., 100\}$
Prove that if we take $11$ different elements from $A$, there are $x, y$ such that $x \neq y$ and $0 < |\sqrt{x} - \sqrt{y}| < 1$