Found problems: 594
2001 Estonia Team Selection Test, 4
Consider all products by $2, 4, 6, ..., 2000$ of the elements of the set $A =\left\{\frac12, \frac13, \frac14,...,\frac{1}{2000},\frac{1}{2001}\right\}$ . Find the sum of all these products.
2018 CHMMC (Fall), 3
Compute
$$\sum^{\infty}_{n=1} \left( \frac{1}{n^2 + 3n} - \frac{1}{n^2 + 3n + 2}\right)$$
ICMC 3, 2
Find integers \(a\) and \(b\) such that
\[a^b=3^0\binom{2020}{0}-3^1\binom{2020}{2}+3^2\binom{2020}{4}-\cdots+3^{1010}\binom{2020}{2020}.\]
[i]proposed by the ICMC Problem Committee[/i]
1978 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 3
For every positive integer $n$, define the remainder sum $r(n)$ as the sum of the remainders upon division of $n$ by each of the numbers $1$ through $n$. Prove that $r(2^{k}-1) =r(2^{k})$ for every $k\geq 1.$
2014 AIME Problems, 7
Let $f(x) = (x^2+3x+2)^{\cos(\pi x)}$. Find the sum of all positive integers $n$ for which \[\left| \sum_{k=1}^n \log_{10} f(k) \right| = 1.\]
2004 Switzerland Team Selection Test, 10
In an acute-angled triangle $ABC$ the altitudes $AU,BV,CW$ intersect at $H$.
Points $X,Y,Z$, different from $H$, are taken on segments $AU,BV$, and $CW$, respectively.
(a) Prove that if $X,Y,Z$ and $H$ lie on a circle, then the sum of the areas of triangles $ABZ, AYC, XBC$ equals the area of $ABC$.
(b) Prove the converse of (a).
2007 Postal Coaching, 1
Let $P$ be a point on the circumcircle of a square $ABCD$. Find all integers $n > 0$ such that the sum $$S_n(P) = |PA|^n + |PB|^n + |PC|^n + |PD|^n$$ is constant with respect to the point $P$.
1991 Tournament Of Towns, (296) 3
The numbers $x_1,x_2,x_3, ..., x_n$ satisfy the two conditions
$$\sum^n_{i=1}x_i=0 \,\, , \,\,\,\,\sum^n_{i=1}x_i^2=1$$
Prove that there are two numbers among them whose product is no greater than $- 1/n$.
(Stolov, Kharkov)
2012 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad, 5
Inside the circle with center $O$, points $A$ and $B$ are marked so that $OA = OB$. Draw a point $M$ on the circle from which the sum of the distances to points $A$ and $B$ is the smallest among all possible.
1983 Tournament Of Towns, (045) 2
Find all natural numbers $k$ which can be represented as the sum of two relatively prime numbers not equal to $1$.
2016 Saudi Arabia GMO TST, 1
Let $S = x + y +z$ where $x, y, z$ are three nonzero real numbers satisfying the following system of inequalities:
$$xyz > 1$$
$$x + y + z >\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}+\frac{1}{z}$$
Prove that $S$ can take on any real values when $x, y, z$ vary
1993 Spain Mathematical Olympiad, 2
In the arithmetic triangle below each number (apart from those in the first row) is the sum of the two numbers immediately above.
$0 \, 1\, 2\, 3 \,4\, ... \,1991 \,1992\, 1993$
$\,\,1\, 3\, 5 \,7\, ......\,\,\,\,3983 \,3985$
$\,\,\,4 \,8 \,12\, .......... \,\,\,7968$
·······································
Prove that the bottom number is a multiple of $1993$.
2012 BAMO, 2
Answer the following two questions and justify your answers:
(a) What is the last digit of the sum $1^{2012}+2^{2012}+3^{2012}+4^{2012}+5^{2012}$?
(b) What is the last digit of the sum $1^{2012}+2^{2012}+3^{2012}+4^{2012}+...+2011^{2012}+2012^{2012}$?
1994 North Macedonia National Olympiad, 3
a) Let $ x_1, x_2, ..., x_n $ ($ n> 2 $) be negative real numbers and $ x_1 + x_2 + ... + x_n = m. $
Determine the maximum value of the sum
$ S = x_1x_2 + x_1x_3 + \dots + x_1x_n + x_2x_3 + x_2x_4 + \dots + x_2x_n + \dots + x_ {n-1} x_n. $
b) Let $ x_1, x_2, ..., x_n $ ($ n> 2 $) be nonnegative natural numbers and $ x_1 + x_2 + ... + x_n = m. $
Determine the maximum value of the sum
$ S = x_1x_2 + x_1x_3 + \dots + x_1x_n + x_2x_3 + x_2x_4 + \dots + x_2x_n + \dots + x_ {n-1} x_n. $
1998 Tuymaada Olympiad, 7
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.
1999 Croatia National Olympiad, Problem 3
Let $(a_n)$ be defined by $a_1=a_2=1$ and $a_n=a_{n-1}+a_{n-2}$ for $n>2$. Compute the sum $\frac{a_1}2+\frac{a_2}{2^2}+\frac{a_3}{2^3}+\ldots$.
1984 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 380
$n$ real numbers are written in increasing order in a line. The same numbers are written in the second line below in unknown order. The third line contains the sums of the pairs of numbers above from two previous lines. It comes out, that the third line is arranged in increasing order. Prove that the second line coincides with the first one.
2014 Contests, 4
The numbers from $1$ to $64$ must be written on the small squares of a chessboard, with a different number in each small square. Consider the $112$ numbers you can make by adding the numbers in two small squares which have a common edge. Is it possible to write the numbers in the squares so that these $112$ sums are all different?
2021-IMOC, A9
For a given positive integer $n,$ find
$$\sum_{k=0}^{n} \left(\frac{\binom{n}{k} \cdot (-1)^k}{(n+1-k)^2} - \frac{(-1)^n}{(k+1)(n+1)}\right).$$
2018 Junior Balkan Team Selection Tests - Romania, 1
Determine the positive integers $n \ge 3$ such that, for every integer $m \ge 0$, there exist integers $a_1, a_2,..., a_n$ such that $a_1 + a_2 +...+ a_n = 0$ and $a_1a_2 + a_2a_3 + ...+a_{n-1}a_n + a_na_1 = -m$
Alexandru Mihalcu
2013 Kyiv Mathematical Festival, 2
For which positive integers $n \ge 2$ it is possible to represent the number $n^2$ as a sum of several distinct positive integers not exceeding $2n$?
2019 Saudi Arabia JBMO TST, 1
Let $a, b$ and $c$ be positive real numbers such that $a + b + c = 1$. Prove that
$$\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{b}+\frac{c}{a}+\frac{a}{c} \ge 2\sqrt2 \left( \sqrt{\frac{1-a}{a}}+\sqrt{\frac{1-b}{b}}+\sqrt{\frac{1-c}{c}}\right)$$
1985 Austrian-Polish Competition, 3
In a convex quadrilateral of area $1$, the sum of the lengths of all sides and diagonals is not less than $4+\sqrt 8$. Prove this.
2009 Danube Mathematical Competition, 5
Let $\sigma, \tau$ be two permutations of the quantity $\{1, 2,. . . , n\}$.
Prove that there is a function $f: \{1, 2,. . . , n\} \to \{-1, 1\}$ such that for any $1 \le i \le j \le n$,
we have $\left|\sum_{k=i}^{j} f(\sigma (k)) \right| \le 2$ and $\left|\sum_{k=i}^{j} f(\tau (k))\right| \le 2$
2004 Junior Tuymaada Olympiad, 2
For which natural $ n \geq 3 $ numbers from 1 to $ n $ can be arranged by a circle so that each number does not exceed $60$ % of the sum of its two neighbors?