In an acute triangle $AB$ the heights $ BE$ and $CF$ intersect at the orthocenter $H$, and $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$. The line $EF$ intersects the lines $MH$ and $BC$ at the points $P$ and $T$ , respectively. $AP$ intersects the cirumcscribed circle of $\vartriangle ABC$ for second time at the point $Q$ . Prove that $\angle AQT= 90^o$. (Fedir Yudin)

Determine all pairs of integers $(a, b)$ that solve the equation $a^3 + b^3 + 3ab = 1$.

If $0<a<1,x^2+y=0$, prove that $\log_a(a^x+a^y)\leq\log_a2+\frac{1}{8}$.

Trapezoid $ABCD$ with bases $AB$ and $CD$ is inscribed in a circle. Prove that the quadrilateral formed by orthogonal projections of any point of this circle onto lines $AC, BC, AD$ and $BD$ is inscribed.

In a half-ball of radius $3$ is inscribed a cylinder with base lying on the base plane of the half-ball, and another such cylinder with equal volume. If the base-radius of the first cylinder is $\sqrt3$, what is the base-radius of the other one?

Show that if $(a_n)$ is an infinite sequence of distinct positive integers, neither of which contains digit $0$ in the decimal expansion, then $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{a_n}< 29.$$

The set $C$ of all complex numbers $z$ satisfying $(z +1)^2 = az$ for some $a \in [-10,3]$ is the union of two curves intersecting at a single point in the complex plane. If the sum of the lengths of these two curves is $\ell,$ find $\lfloor \ell \rfloor.$

A wizard thinks of a number from $1$ to $n$. You can ask the wizard any number of yes/no questions about the number. The wizard must answer all those questions, but not necessarily in the respective order. What is the least number of questions that must be asked in order to know what the number is for sure. (In terms of $n$.) Fresh translation.

Mrs. Walter gave an exam in a mathematics class of five students. She entered the scores in random order into a spreadsheet, which recalculated the class average after each score was entered. Mrs. Walter noticed that after each score was entered, the average was always an integer. The scores (listed in ascending order) were $ 71$, $ 76$, $ 80$, $ 82$, and $ 91$. What was the last score Mrs. Walter entered? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 71 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 76 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 80 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 82 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 91$

Let $A$ be the area of the triangle with sides of length $25, 25$, and $30$. Let $B$ be the area of the triangle with sides of length $25, 25,$ and $40$. What is the relationship between $A$ and $B$? $ \textbf{(A)} A = \dfrac9{16}B \qquad\textbf{(B)} A = \dfrac34B \qquad\textbf{(C)} A=B \qquad\textbf{(D)} A = \dfrac43B \\ \\ \textbf{(E)}A = \dfrac{16}9B $

Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle and let $P$ be a point in its interior. Let the lines $AP$, $BP$, $CP$ meet the sides $BC$, $CA$, $AB$ at the points $A_1$, $B_1$, $C_1$, respectively. Prove that $A_1B_1 \cdot B_1C_1 \cdot C_1A_1 \ge A_1B \cdot B_1C \cdot C_1A$.

Half the cells of a $2m \times n$ board are colored black and the other half are colored white. The cells at the opposite ends of the main diagonal are different colors. The center of each black cell is connected to the center of every other black cell by a straight line segment, and similarly for the white cells. Show that we can place an arrow on each segment so that it becomes a vector and the vectors sum to zero.

Let $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, ... be an infinite sequence of real numbers satisfying the equation $a_n=\left|a_{n+1}-a_{n+2}\right|$ for all $n\geq 0$, where $a_0$ and $a_1$ are two different positive reals. Can this sequence $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, ... be bounded? [i]Proposed by Mihai Bălună, Romania[/i]

Kelvin the frog is on the bottom-left lily pad of a $3 \times 3$ grid of lily pads, and his home is at the top right lily pad. He can only jump between two lily pads which are horizontally or vertically adjacent. Compute the number of ways to remove $4$ of the lily pads so that the bottom-left and top-right lily pads both remain, but Kelvin cannot get home.

For certain real constants $ p, q, r$, we are given a system of equations $$\begin{cases} a^2 + b + c = p \\ a + b^2 + c = q \\ a + b + c^2 = r \end{cases}$$ What is the maximum number of solutions of real triplets $(a, b, c)$ across all possible $p, q, r$? Give an example of the $p$, $q$, $r$ that achieves this maximum.

Given a $\triangle ABC$ with circumcenter $O$ and orthocenter $H(O\ne H)$. Denote the midpoints of $BC, AC$ as $D, E$ and let $D', E'$ be the reflections of $D, E$ w.r.t. point $H$, respectively. If lines $AD'$ and $BE'$ meet at $K$, compute $\frac{KO}{KH}$.

Side of an equilatreal triangle has the length $n\in\mathbb{N}.$ Each side is divided in $ n $ equal segments by division points. A line parallel with the third side of the triangle is drawn through the division points of every two sides. Let $c_n$ be the number of all rhombuses with sidelength $1$ inside the initial triangle. Prove that the greatest solution $ n $ of the inequation $c_n<2009$ is a prime number.

The [i]tower function of twos[/i] is defined recursively as follows: $ T(1) \equal{} 2$ and $ T(n \plus{} 1) \equal{} 2^{T(n)}$ for $ n\ge1$. Let $ A \equal{} (T(2009))^{T(2009)}$ and $ B \equal{} (T(2009))^A$. What is the largest integer $ k$ such that \[ \underbrace{\log_2\log_2\log_2\ldots\log_2B}_{k\text{ times}} \]is defined? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 2009\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 2010\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 2011\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 2012\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 2013$

Does there exist positive integers $n_1, n_2, \dots, n_{2022}$ such that the number $$ \left( n_1^{2020} + n_2^{2019} \right)\left( n_2^{2020} + n_3^{2019} \right) \cdots \left( n_{2021}^{2020} + n_{2022}^{2019} \right)\left( n_{2022}^{2020} + n_1^{2019} \right) $$ is a power of $11$?

Given triangle $\vartriangle A_1A_2A_3$ and a straight line $\ell$ outside it. The angles between the lines $A_1A_2$ and $A_2A_3, A_1A_2$ and $A_2A_3, A_2A_3$ and $A_3A_1$ are equal to $a_3, a_1$ and $a_2$, respectively. The straight lines are drawn through points $A_1, A_2, A_3$ forming with $\ell$ angles of $\pi -a_1, \pi -a_2, \pi -a_3$, respectively. All angles are counted in the same direction from $\ell$ . Prove that these new lines meet at one point.

Determine all (not necessarily finite) sets $S$ of points in the plane such that given any four distinct points in $S$, there is a circle passing through all four or a line passing through some three. [i]Carl Lian.[/i]

rainbow is the name of a bird. this bird has $n$ colors and it's colors in two consecutive days are not equal. there doesn't exist $4$ days in this bird's life like $i,j,k,l$ such that $i<j<k<l$ and the bird has the same color in days $i$ and $k$ and the same color in days $j$ and $l$ different from the colors it has in days $i$ and $k$. what is the maximum number of days rainbow can live in terms of $n$?

Prove that the group of orientation-preserving symmetries of the cube is isomorphic to $S_4$ (the group of permutations of $\{1,2,3,4\}$).(20 points)

Determine the number of pairs of positive integers $x,y$ such that $x\le y$, $\gcd (x,y)=5!$ and $\text{lcm}(x,y)=50!$.

[i]20 problems for 25 minutes.[/i] [b]p1.[/b] Matt has a twenty dollar bill and buys two items worth $\$7:99$ each. How much change does he receive, in dollars? [b]p2.[/b] The sum of two distinct numbers is equal to the positive difference of the two numbers. What is the product of the two numbers? [b]p3.[/b] Evaluate $$\frac{1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7}{8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14}.$$ [b]p4.[/b] A sphere with radius $r$ has volume $2\pi$. Find the volume of a sphere with diameter $r$. [b]p5.[/b] Yannick ran $100$ meters in $14.22$ seconds. Compute his average speed in meters per second, rounded to the nearest integer. [b]p6.[/b] The mean of the numbers $2, 0, 1, 5,$ and $x$ is an integer. Find the smallest possible positive integer value for $x$. [b]p7.[/b] Let $f(x) =\sqrt{2^2 - x^2}$. Find the value of $f(f(f(f(f(-1)))))$. [b]p8.[/b] Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that $20$ divides $15n$ and $15$ divides $20n$. [b]p9.[/b] A circle is inscribed in equilateral triangle $ABC$. Let $M$ be the point where the circle touches side $AB$ and let $N$ be the second intersection of segment $CM$ and the circle. Compute the ratio $\frac{MN}{CN}$ . [b]p10.[/b] Four boys and four girls line up in a random order. What is the probability that both the first and last person in line is a girl? [b]p11.[/b] Let $k$ be a positive integer. After making $k$ consecutive shots successfully, Andy's overall shooting accuracy increased from $65\%$ to $70\%$. Determine the minimum possible value of $k$. [b]p12.[/b] In square $ABCD$, $M$ is the midpoint of side $CD$. Points $N$ and $P$ are on segments $BC$ and $AB$ respectively such that $ \angle AMN = \angle MNP = 90^o$. Compute the ratio $\frac{AP}{PB}$ . [b]p13.[/b] Meena writes the numbers $1, 2, 3$, and $4$ in some order on a blackboard, such that she cannot swap two numbers and obtain the sequence $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$. How many sequences could she have written? [b]p14.[/b] Find the smallest positive integer $N$ such that $2N$ is a perfect square and $3N$ is a perfect cube. [b]p15.[/b] A polyhedron has $60$ vertices, $150$ edges, and $92$ faces. If all of the faces are either regular pentagons or equilateral triangles, how many of the $92$ faces are pentagons? [b]p16.[/b] All positive integers relatively prime to $2015$ are written in increasing order. Let the twentieth number be $p$. The value of $\frac{2015}{p}-1$ can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ , where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $a + b$. [b]p17.[/b] Five red lines and three blue lines are drawn on a plane. Given that $x$ pairs of lines of the same color intersect and $y$ pairs of lines of different colors intersect, find the maximum possible value of $y - x$. [b]p18.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, where $AC > AB$, $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$ and $D$ is on segment $AC$ such that $DM$ is perpendicular to $BC$. Given that the areas of $MAD$ and $MBD$ are $5$ and $6$, respectively, compute the area of triangle $ABC$. [b]p19.[/b] For how many ordered pairs $(x, y)$ of integers satisfying $0 \le x, y \le 10$ is $(x + y)^2 + (xy - 1)^2$ a prime number? [b]p20.[/b] A solitaire game is played with $8$ red, $9$ green, and $10$ blue cards. Totoro plays each of the cards exactly once in some order, one at a time. When he plays a card of color $c$, he gains a number of points equal to the number of cards that are not of color $c$ in his hand. Find the maximum number of points that he can obtain by the end of the game. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].