Found problems: 1239
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Show that there is a prime $p$ and a sequence $\left(a_k\right)_{k\ge1}$ of positive integers such that the sequence $\left(p+na_k\right)_{k\ge1}$ consists of distinct primes.
We consider the real sequence ($x_n$) defined by $x_0=0, x_1=1$ and $x_{n+2}=3x_{n+1}-2 x_{n}$ for $n=0,1,2,...$
We define the sequence ($y_n$) by $y_n=x^2_n+2^{n+2}$ for every nonnegative integer $n$.
Prove that for every $n>0, y_n$ is the square of an odd integer.
[b]1.[/b] Let $a_{v} $ and $b_{v} $, ${v= 1,2,\dots,n} $, be real numbers such that
$a_{1}\geq a_{2} \geq a_{3}\geq\dots\geq a_{n}> 0 $ and
$b_{1}\geq a_{1}, b_{1}b_{2}\geq a_{1}a_{2},\dots,b_{1}b_{2}\dots b_{n}\geq a_{1}a_{2}\dots a_{n} $
Show that $b_{1}+b_{2}+\dots+b_{n}\geq a_{1}+a_{2}+\dots+a_{n} $ [b](S. 4)[/b]
Let $(a_n)_{n\geq 1}$ be a sequence of positive real numbers with the property that
$$(a_{n+1})^2 + a_na_{n+2} \leq a_n + a_{n+2}$$
for all positive integers $n$. Show that $a_{2022}\leq 1$.
A sequence of natural numbers is constructed by listing the first $4$, then skipping one, listing the next $5$, skipping $2$, listing $6$, skipping $3$, and, on the $n$th iteration, listing $n+3$ and skipping $n$. The sequence begins $1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,13$. What is the $500,000$th number in the sequence?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 996,506\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 996507\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 996508\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 996509\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 996510 $
Some positive integers, sum of which is $23$, are written in sequential form. Neither one of the terms nor the sum of some consecutive terms in the sequence is equal to $3$.
[b]a) [/b]Is it possible that the sequence contains exactly $11$ terms?
[b]b)[/b]Is it possible that the sequence contains exactly $12$ terms?
Any positive integer $n$ can be written in the form $n = 2^b(2c+1)$. We call $2c+1$ the[i] odd part[/i] of $n$. Given an odd integer $n > 0$, define the sequence $ a_0, a_1, a_2, ...$ as follows: $a_0 = 2^n-1, a_{k+1} $ is the [i]odd part[/i] of $3a_k+1$. Find $a_n$.
Given a sequence $\{a_n\}$ of real numbers such that $|a_{k+m} - a_k - a_m| \leq 1$ for all positive integers $k$ and $m$, prove that, for all positive integers $p$ and $q$, \[|\frac{a_p}{p} - \frac{a_q}{q}| < \frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q}.\]
Consider $k$ positive integers $a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k$ satisfying $1\le a_1<a_2<\ldots<a_k\le n$ and $\operatorname{lcm}(a_i,a_j)\le n$ for any $i,j$. Prove that
$$k\le2\lfloor\sqrt n\rfloor.$$
All possible sequences of numbers $-1$ and $+1$ of length $100$ are considered. For each of them, the square of the sum of the terms is calculated. Find the arithmetic average of the resulting values.
Let $n$ be a positive integer, and consider a sequence $a_1 , a_2 , \dotsc , a_n $ of positive integers. Extend it periodically to an infinite sequence $a_1 , a_2 , \dotsc $ by defining $a_{n+i} = a_i $ for all $i \ge 1$. If \[a_1 \le a_2 \le \dots \le a_n \le a_1 +n \] and \[a_{a_i } \le n+i-1 \quad\text{for}\quad i=1,2,\dotsc, n, \] prove that \[a_1 + \dots +a_n \le n^2. \]
The numerical sequence $\{x_n\}$ satisfies the condition $$x_{n+1}=|x_n|-x_{n-1}$$ for all $n > 1$. Prove that the sequence is periodic with period $9$, i.e. for any $n > 1$ we have $x_n = x_{n+9}$.
(M Kontsevich, Moscow)
A sequence of real numbers $ a_{0},\ a_{1},\ a_{2},\dots$ is defined by the formula
\[ a_{i \plus{} 1} \equal{} \left\lfloor a_{i}\right\rfloor\cdot \left\langle a_{i}\right\rangle\qquad\text{for}\quad i\geq 0;
\]here $a_0$ is an arbitrary real number, $\lfloor a_i\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer not exceeding $a_i$, and $\left\langle a_i\right\rangle=a_i-\lfloor a_i\rfloor$. Prove that $a_i=a_{i+2}$ for $i$ sufficiently large.
[i]Proposed by Harmel Nestra, Estionia[/i]
A sequence of real numbers $a_0, a_1, . . .$ is said to be good if the following three conditions hold.
(i) The value of $a_0$ is a positive integer.
(ii) For each non-negative integer $i$ we have $a_{i+1} = 2a_i + 1 $ or $a_{i+1} =\frac{a_i}{a_i + 2} $
(iii) There exists a positive integer $k$ such that $a_k = 2014$.
Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that there exists a good sequence $a_0, a_1, . . .$ of real numbers with the property that $a_n = 2014$.
[i]Proposed by Wang Wei Hua, Hong Kong[/i]