Found problems: 560
When the IMO is over and students want to relax, they all do the same thing:
download movies from the internet. There is a positive number of rooms with internet
routers at the hotel, and each student wants to download a positive number of bits. The
load of a room is defined as the total number of bits to be downloaded from that room.
Nobody likes slow internet, and in particular each student has a displeasure equal to the
product of her number of bits and the load of her room. The misery of the group is
defined as the sum of the students’ displeasures.
Right after the contest, students gather in the hotel lobby to decide who goes to which
room. After much discussion they reach a balanced configuration: one for which no student
can decrease her displeasure by unilaterally moving to another room. The misery
of the group is computed to be $M_1$, and right when they seemed satisfied, Gugu arrived
with a serendipitous smile and proposed another configuration that achieved misery $M_2$.
What is the maximum value of $M_1/M_2$ taken over all inputs to this problem?
[i]Proposed by Victor Reis (proglote), Brazil.[/i]
Given an $n \times n$ ($n \ge 3$) square table with one of the following unit vectors $\uparrow, \downarrow, \leftarrow, \rightarrow$ in any its cell (the vectors are parallel to the sides and the middles of them coincide with the centers of the cells). Per move a beetle creeps from one cell to another in accordance with the vector’s direction. If the beetle starts from any cell, then it comes back to this cell after some number of moves. The vectors are directed so that they do not allow the beetle to leave the table.
Is it possible that the sum of all vectors at any row (except for the first one and the last one) is equal to the vector that is parallel to this row, and the sum of all vectors at any column (except for the first one and the last one) is equal to the vector that is parallel to this column ?
(D. Dudko)
Assume that the bisecting plane of the dihedral angle at edge $AB$ of the tetrahedron $ABCD$ meets the edge $CD$ at point $E$. Denote by $S_1, S_2, S_3$, respectively the areas of the triangles $ABC, ABE$, and $ABD$. Prove that no tetrahedron exists for which $S_1, S_2, S_3$ (in this order) form an arithmetic or geometric progression.
Let $ P_1,P_2,P_3,P_4$ be points on the unit sphere. Prove that $ \sum_{i\neq j}\frac1{|P_i\minus{}P_j|}$ takes its minimum value if and only if these four points are vertices of a regular pyramid.
Find all vectors of $n$ real numbers $(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)$ such that
\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ccc} x_1 & = & \dfrac 1{x_2} + \dfrac 1{x_3} + \cdots + \dfrac 1{x_n } \\ x_2 & = & \dfrac 1{x_1} + \dfrac 1{x_3} + \cdots + \dfrac 1{x_n} \\ \ & \cdots & \ \\ x_n & = & \dfrac 1{x_1} + \dfrac 1{x_2} + \cdots + \dfrac 1{x_{n-1}} \end{array} \right. \]
[i]Mircea Becheanu[/i]
We are given a lattice and two pebbles $A$ and $B$ that are placed at two lattice points. At each step we are allowed to relocate one of the pebbles to another lattice point with the condition that the distance between pebbles is preserved. Is it possible after finite number of steps to switch positions of the pebbles?
Let $ S(t)$ be the area of the traingle $ OAB$ with $ O(0,\ 0,\ 0),\ A(2,\ 2,\ 1),\ B(t,\ 1,\ 1 \plus{} t)$.
Evaluate $ \int_1^ e S(t)^2\ln t\ dt$.
At a certain mathematical conference, every pair of mathematicians are either friends or strangers. At mealtime, every participant eats in one of two large dining rooms. Each mathematician insists upon eating in a room which contains an even number of his or her friends. Prove that the number of ways that the mathematicians may be split between the two rooms is a power of two (i.e., is of the form $ 2^k$ for some positive integer $ k$).
Consider the cube with the vertices at the points $(\pm 1, \pm 1, \pm 1)$. Let $V_1,...,V_{95}$ be arbitrary points within this cube. Denote $v_i = \overrightarrow{OV_i}$, where $O = (0,0,0)$ is the origin. Consider the $2^{95}$ vectors of the form $s_1v_1 + s_2v_2 +...+ s_{95}v_{95}$, where $s_i = \pm 1$.
(a) If $d = 48$, prove that among these vectors there is a vector $w = (a, b, c)$ such that $a^2 + b^2 + c^2 \le 48$.
(b) Find a smaller $d$ (the smaller, the better) with the same property.
Let a quardilateral $ABCD$ with $AB=AD$ and $\widehat B=\widehat D=90$.
At $CD$ we take point $E$ and at $BC$ we take point $Z$ such that
$AE\bot DZ$. Prove that $AZ\bot BE$
Let $\{x\}$ be a sequence of positive reals $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n$, defined by: $x_1 = 1, x_2 = 9, x_3=9, x_4=1$. And for $n \geq 1$ we have:
\[x_{n+4} = \sqrt[4]{x_{n} \cdot x_{n+1} \cdot x_{n+2} \cdot x_{n+3}}.\]
Show that this sequence has a finite limit. Determine this limit.
A country has $n$ cities, labelled $1,2,3,\dots,n$. It wants to build exactly $n-1$ roads between certain pairs of cities so that every city is reachable from every other city via some sequence of roads. However, it is not permitted to put roads between pairs of cities that have labels differing by exactly $1$, and it is also not permitted to put a road between cities $1$ and $n$. Let $T_n$ be the total number of possible ways to build these roads.
(a) For all odd $n$, prove that $T_n$ is divisible by $n$.
(b) For all even $n$, prove that $T_n$ is divisible by $n/2$.
A line that passes through the origin intersects both the line $x=1$ and the line $y=1+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}x$. The three lines create an equilateral triangle. What is the perimeter of the triangle?
$ \textbf{(A) }2\sqrt{6}\qquad\textbf{(B) }2+2\sqrt{3}\qquad\textbf{(C) }6\qquad\textbf{(D) }3+2\sqrt{3}\qquad\textbf{(E) }6+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3} $
Let $P$ and $P^{\prime }$ be two parallelograms with equal area, and let their sidelengths be $a,$ $b$ and $a^{\prime },$ $b^{\prime }.$ Assume that $a^{\prime }\leq a\leq b\leq b^{\prime },$ and moreover, it is possible to place the segment $b^{\prime }$ such that it completely lies in the interior of the parallelogram $P.$
Show that the parallelogram $P$ can be partitioned into four polygons such that these four polygons can be composed again to form the parallelogram $%
P^{\prime }.$
Suppose from $(m+2)\times(n+2)$ rectangle we cut $4$, $1\times1$ corners. Now on first and last row first and last columns we write $2(m+n)$ real numbers. Prove we can fill the interior $m\times n$ rectangle with real numbers that every number is average of it's $4$ neighbors.
Given a cube with edges of length 1, $e$ the midpoint of $[bc]$, and $m$ midpoint of the face $cdc_1d_1$, as on the figure.
Find the area of intersection of the cube with the plane through the points $a,m,e$.
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The points $S(i, j)$ with integer Cartesian coordinates $0 < i \leq n, 0 < j \leq m, m \leq n$, form a lattice. Find the number of:
[b](a)[/b] rectangles with vertices on the lattice and sides parallel to the coordinate axes;
[b](b)[/b] squares with vertices on the lattice and sides parallel to the coordinate axes;
[b](c)[/b] squares in total, with vertices on the lattice.
Square $ABCD$ has side length $68$. Let $E$ be the midpoint of segment $\overline{CD}$, and let $F$ be the point on segment $\overline{AB}$ a distance $17$ from point $A$. Point $G$ is on segment $\overline{EF}$ so that $\overline{EF}$ is perpendicular to segment $\overline{GD}$. The length of segment $\overline{BG}$ can be written as $m\sqrt{n}$ where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers, and $n$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $m+n$.
Do there exist polynomials $a(x)$, $b(x)$, $c(y)$, $d(y)$ such that \[1 + xy + x^2y^2= a(x)c(y) + b(x)d(y)\] holds identically?
Let $G$ be a group, with operation $*$. Suppose that
(i) $G$ is a subset of $\mathbb{R}^3$ (but $*$ need not be related to addition of vectors);
(ii) For each $\mathbf{a},\mathbf{b}\in G,$ either $\mathbf{a}\times\mathbf{b}=\mathbf{a}*\mathbf{b}$ or $\mathbf{a}\times\mathbf{b}=\mathbf{0}$ (or both), where $\times$ is the usual cross product in $\mathbb{R}^3.$
Prove that $\mathbf{a}\times\mathbf{b}=\mathbf{0}$ for all $\mathbf{a},\mathbf{b}\in G.$
On the sides $ AB,BC,CD,DA $ of the parallelogram $ ABCD, $ consider the points $ M,N,P, $ respectively, $ Q, $ such that $ \overrightarrow{MN} +\overrightarrow{QP} =\overrightarrow{AC} . $ Show that $ \overrightarrow{PN} +\overrightarrow{QM} = \overrightarrow{DB} . $
Some points with the integer coordinates are marked on the coordinate plane. Given a set of nonzero vectors. It is known, that if you apply the beginnings of those vectors to the arbitrary marked point, than there will be more marked ends of the vectors, than not marked. Prove that there is infinite number of marked points.
Let $ABCD$ and $A'B'C'D'$ be two arbitrary squares in the plane that are oriented in the same direction. Prove that the quadrilateral formed by the midpoints of $AA',BB',CC',DD'$ is a square.
Let $ \Delta ABC$ be a triangle with $M$ the middle of the side $[BC]$.
On the line $BC$, to the left and to the right of the point $M,$ at the same distance from $M,$ let us consider $d_1$ and $d_2,$ which are perpendicular to the line BC.
The perpendicular line from $M$ to $AB$ intersects $d_1$ in $P,$ and the perpendicular line from $M$ to $AC$ intersects $d_2$ in $Q.$
Prove that \[AM\perp PQ.\]
[b]Author: Marin Bancoș
Regional Mathematical Contest GRIGORE MOISIL, Romania, Baia Mare, 2012, 9th grade[/b]
Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $V$ be a $(2n-1)$-dimensional vector space over the two-element field. Prove that for arbitrary vectors $v_1,\dots,v_{4n-1} \in V,$ there exists a sequence $1\leq i_1<\dots<i_{2n}\leq 4n-1$ of indices such that $v_{i_1}+\dots+v_{i_{2n}}=0.$