Found problems: 4275
One member of an infinite arithmetic sequence in the set of natural numbers is a perfect square. Show that there are infinitely many members of this sequence having this property.
We distribute $n\ge1$ labelled balls among nine persons $A,B,C, \dots , I$. How many ways are there to do this so that $A$ gets the same number of balls as $B,C,D$ and $E$ together?
a) Prove that there are two polynomials in $ \mathbb Z[x]$ with at least one coefficient larger than 1387 such that coefficients of their product is in the set $ \{\minus{}1,0,1\}$.
b) Does there exist a multiple of $ x^2\minus{}3x\plus{}1$ such that all of its coefficient are in the set $ \{\minus{}1,0,1\}$
(a) Is there a polynomial $P(x)$ with real coefficients such that $P\left(\frac1k\right)=\frac{k+2}k$ for all positive integers $k$?
(b) Is there a polynomial $P(x)$ with real coefficients such that $P\left(\frac1k\right)=\frac1{2k+1}$ for all positive integers $k$?
Do there exist two quadratic trinomials $ax^2 +bx+c$ and $(a+1)x^2 +(b + 1)x + (c + 1)$ with integer coeficients, both of which have two integer roots?
[i]N. Agakhanov[/i]
A polynomial with integer coefficients when divided by $x^2-12x+11$ gives the remainder $990x-889$. Prove that the polynomial has no integer roots.
Determine all pairs $(a, b)$ of positive integers for which the equation $x^3 - 17x^2 + ax - b^2 = 0$ has three integer roots (not necessarily different).
Given $P$ a real polynomial with degree greater than $ 1$.
Find all pairs $(f,Q)$ with function $f : R \to R$ and the real polynomial $Q$ satisfying the following two conditions:
i) for all $x, y \in R$, we have $f(P(x) + f(y)) = y + Q(f(x))$.
ii) there exists $x_0 \in R$ such that $f(P(x_0)) = Q(f(x_0))$.
Find the set of all real values of $a$ for which the real polynomial equation $P(x)=x^2-2ax+b=0$ has real roots, given that $P(0)\cdot P(1)\cdot P(2)\neq 0$ and $P(0),P(1),P(2)$ form a geometric progression.
Define the polynomial $f(x) = x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1$. Compute the number of positive integers $n$ less than equal to $2022$ such that $f(n)$ is $1$ more than multiple of $5$.
A polynomial $P (x)$ with real coefficients and of degree $n \ge 3$ has $n$ real roots $x_1 <x_2 < \cdots < x_n$ such that
\[x_2 - x_1 < x_3 - x_2 < \cdots < x_n - x_{n-1} \]
Prove that the maximum value of $|P (x)|$ on the interval $[x_1 , x_n ]$ is attained in the interval $[x_{n-1} , x_n ]$.
Completely factor the polynomial $x^4-x^3-5x^2+3x+6$
The $ n$ roots of a complex coefficient polynomial $ f(z) \equal{} z^n \plus{} a_1z^{n \minus{} 1} \plus{} \cdots \plus{} a_{n \minus{} 1}z \plus{} a_n$ are $ z_1, z_2, \cdots, z_n$. If $ \sum_{k \equal{} 1}^n |a_k|^2 \leq 1$, then prove that $ \sum_{k \equal{} 1}^n |z_k|^2 \leq n$.
Let $P$ be a $10$-degree monic polynomial with roots $r_1, r_2, . . . , r_{10} \ne $ and let $Q$ be a $45$-degree monic polynomial with roots $\frac{1}{r_i}+\frac{1}{r_j}-\frac{1}{r_ir_j}$ where $i < j$ and $i, j \in \{1, ... , 10\}$. If $P(0) = Q(1) = 2$, then $\log_2 (|P(1)|)$ can be written as $a/b$ for relatively prime integers $a, b$. Find $a + b$.
Find all monic polynomials $P(x)$ such that the polynomial $P(x)^2-1$ is divisible by the polynomial $P(x+1)$.
Find all pairs of solutions $(x,y)$:
\[ x^3 + x^2y + xy^2 + y^3 = 8(x^2 + xy + y^2 + 1). \]
$f(x)$ is square polynomial and $a \neq b$ such that $f(a)=b,f(b)=a$. Prove that there is not other pair $(c,d)$ that $f(c)=d,f(d)=c$
Consider the polynomials \begin{align*}P(x) &= (x + \sqrt{2})(x^2 - 2x + 2)\\Q(x) &= (x - \sqrt{2})(x^2 + 2x + 2)\\R(x) &= (x^2 + 2)(x^8 + 16).\end{align*} Find the coefficient of $x^4$ in $P(x)\cdot Q(x)\cdot R(x)$.
Find all polinomials $ P(x)$ with real coefficients, such that
$ P(\sqrt {3}(a \minus{} b)) \plus{} P(\sqrt {3}(b \minus{} c)) \plus{} P(\sqrt {3}(c \minus{} a)) \equal{} P(2a \minus{} b \minus{} c) \plus{} P( \minus{} a \plus{} 2b \minus{} c) \plus{} P( \minus{} a \minus{} b \plus{} 2c)$
for any $ a$,$ b$ and $ c$ real numbers
Find all polynomials $P$ with integer coefficients such that $P (0)\ne 0$ and $$P^n(m)\cdot P^m(n)$$ is a square of an integer for all nonnegative integers $n, m$.
[i]Remark:[/i] For a nonnegative integer $k$ and an integer $n$, $P^k(n)$ is defined as follows: $P^k(n) = n$ if $k = 0$ and $P^k(n)=P(P(^{k-1}(n))$ if $k >0$.
Proposed by Adrian Beker.
Determine whether there exist non-constant polynomials $P(x)$ and $Q(x)$ with real coefficients satisfying
$$P(x)^{10}+P(x)^9 = Q(x)^{21}+Q(x)^{20}.$$
Find all polynomials $P$ with integer coefficients such that wherever $a, b \in N$ and $a+b$ is a square we have $P(a) + P(b)$ is also a square.
Suppose that $a,b$ are two odd positive integers such that $2ab+1 \mid a^2 + b^2 + 1$. Prove that $a=b$.
(15 points)
Find all pairs of positive integers $m,n\geq3$ for which there exist infinitely many positive integers $a$ such that \[ \frac{a^m+a-1}{a^n+a^2-1} \] is itself an integer.
[i]Laurentiu Panaitopol, Romania[/i]
Prove that $\cos{\frac{\pi}{7}}-\cos{\frac{2\pi}{7}}+\cos{\frac{3\pi}{7}}=\frac{1}{2}$