Found problems: 623
Prove that for an arbitrary pair of vectors $f$ and $g$ in the space the inequality
\[af^2 + bfg +cg^2 \geq 0\]
holds if and only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
\[a \geq 0, \quad c \geq 0, \quad 4ac \geq b^2.\]
The coordinate of $ P$ at time $ t$, moving on a plane, is expressed by $ x = f(t) = \cos 2t + t\sin 2t,\ y = g(t) = \sin 2t - t\cos 2t$.
(1) Find the acceleration vector $ \overrightarrow{\alpha}$ of $ P$ at time $ t$ .
(2) Let $ L$ denote the line passing through the point $ P$ for the time $ t%Error. "neqo" is a bad command.
$, which is parallel to the acceleration vector $ \overrightarrow{\alpha}$ at the time. Prove that $ L$ always touches to the unit circle with center the origin, then find the point of tangency $ Q$.
(3) Prove that $ f(t)$ decreases in the interval $ 0\leq t \leqq \frac {\pi}{2}$.
(4) When $ t$ varies in the range $ \frac {\pi}{4}\leq t\leq \frac {\pi}{2}$, find the area $ S$ of the figure formed by moving the line segment $ PQ$.
Given a prime number $p$ and let $\overline{v_1},\overline{v_2},\dotsc ,\overline{v_n}$ be $n$ distinct vectors of length $p$ with integer coordinates in an $\mathbb{R}^3$ Cartesian coordinate system. Suppose that for any $1\leqslant j<k\leqslant n$, there exists an integer $0<\ell <p$ such that all three coordinates of $\overline{v_j} -\ell \cdot \overline{v_k} $ is divisible by $p$. Prove that $n\leqslant 6$.
Let $(x_j,y_j)$, $1\le j\le 2n$, be $2n$ points on the half-circle in the upper half-plane. Suppose $\sum_{j=1}^{2n}x_j$ is an odd integer. Prove that $\displaystyle{\sum_{j=1}^{2n}y_j \ge 1}$.
Let $C_1$ and $C_2$ be two concentric circles in the plane with radii $R$ and $3R$ respectively. Show that the orthocenter of any triangle inscribed in circle $C_1$ lies in the interior of circle $C_2$. Conversely, show that every point in the interior of $C_2$ is the orthocenter of some triangle inscribed in $C_1$.
Let $S$ be the unit circle with center $O$ and let $P_1, P_2,\ldots, P_n$ be points of $S$ such that the sum of vectors $v_i=\stackrel{\longrightarrow}{OP_i}$ is the zero vector. Prove that the inequality $\sum_{i=1}^n XP_i \geq n$ holds for every point $X$.
Let $ Z_1,\,Z_2\dots,\,Z_n$ be $ d$-dimensional independent random (column) vectors with standard normal distribution, $ n \minus{} 1 > d$. Furthermore let
\[ \overline Z \equal{} \frac {1}{n}\sum_{i \equal{} 1}^n Z_i,\quad S_n \equal{} \frac {1}{n \minus{} 1}\sum_{i \equal{} 1}^n(Z_i \minus{} \overline Z)(Z_i \minus{} \overline Z)^\top\]
be the sample mean and corrected empirical covariance matrix. Consider the standardized samples $ Y_i \equal{} S_n^{ \minus{} 1/2}(Z_i \minus{} \overline Z)$, $ i \equal{} 1,2,\dots,n$. Show that
\[ \frac {E|Y_1 \minus{} Y_2|}{E|Z_1 \minus{} Z_2|} > 1,\]
and that the ratio does not depend on $ d$, only on $ n$.
Let
\[ p(x,y) \equal{} a_0 \plus{} a_1x \plus{} a_2y \plus{} a_3x^2 \plus{} a_4xy \plus{} a_5y^2 \plus{} a_6x^3 \plus{} a_7x^2y \plus{} a_8xy^2 \plus{} a_9y^3.
\]Suppose that
\begin{align*}p(0,0) &\equal{} p(1,0) \equal{} p( \minus{} 1,0) \equal{} p(0,1) \equal{} p(0, \minus{} 1) \\&\equal{} p(1,1) \equal{} p(1, \minus{} 1) \equal{} p(2,2) \equal{} 0.\end{align*}
There is a point $ \left(\tfrac {a}{c},\tfrac {b}{c}\right)$ for which $ p\left(\tfrac {a}{c},\tfrac {b}{c}\right) \equal{} 0$ for all such polynomials, where $ a$, $ b$, and $ c$ are positive integers, $ a$ and $ c$ are relatively prime, and $ c > 1$. Find $ a \plus{} b \plus{} c$.
Let $H{}$ be the orthocenter of the triangle $ABC{}$ and $X{}$ be the midpoint of the side $BC.$ The perpendicular at $H{}$ to $HX{}$ intersects the sides $(AB)$ and $(AC)$ at $Y{}$ and $Z{}$ respectively. Let $O{}$ be the circumcenter of $ABC{}$ and $O'$ be the circumcenter of $BHC.$ [list=a]
[*]Prove that $HY=HZ.$
[*]Prove that $\overrightarrow{AY}+\overrightarrow{AZ}=2\overrightarrow{OO'}.$
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Let $p$ be a prime and let $M$ be an $n\times m$ matrix with integer entries such that $Mv\not\equiv 0\pmod{p}$ for any column vector $v\neq 0$ whose entries are $0$ are $1$. Show that there exists a row vector $x$ with integer entries such that no entry of $xM$ is $0\pmod{p}$.
(translated by L. Erdős)
In the triangle $ABC$ let $D,E$ and $F$ be the mid-points of the three sides, $X,Y$ and $Z$ the feet of the three altitudes, $H$ the orthocenter, and $P,Q$ and $R$ the mid-points of the line segment joining $H$ to the three vertices. Show that the nine points $D,E,F,P,Q,R,X,Y,Z$ lie on a circle.
The diagonals of the cyclic quadrilateral $ ABCD$ are intersecting at the point $ E$.
$ K$ and $ M$ are the midpoints of $ AB$ and $ CD$, respectively. Let the points $ L$ on $ BC$ and $ N$ on $ AD$ s.t.
$ EL\perp BC$ and $ EN\perp AD$.Prove that $ KM\perp LN$.
Let $A$ be a $3\times 3$ real matrix such that the vectors $Au$ and $u$ are orthogonal for
every column vector $u\in \mathbb{R}^{3}$. Prove that:
a) $A^{T}=-A$.
b) there exists a vector $v \in \mathbb{R}^{3}$ such that $Au=v\times u$ for every $u\in \mathbb{R}^{3}$,
where $v \times u$ denotes the vector product in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$.
Let $A_1,A_2,\ldots,A_{2017}$ be the vertices of a regular polygon with $2017$ sides.Prove that there exists a point $P$ in the plane of the polygon such that the vector
$$\sum_{k=1}^{2017}k\frac{\overrightarrow{PA}_k}{\left\lVert\overrightarrow{PA}_k\right\rVert^5}$$
is the zero vector.
(The notation $\left\lVert\overrightarrow{XY}\right\rVert$ represents the length of the vector $\overrightarrow{XY}$.)
Let $\triangle ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle, with circumcenter $O$, circumradius $R$ and orthocenter $H$. Let $A_1$ be a point on $BC$ such that $A_1H+A_1O=R$. Define $B_1$ and $C_1$ similarly.
If $\overrightarrow{AA_1} + \overrightarrow{BB_1} + \overrightarrow{CC_1} = \overrightarrow{0}$, prove that $\triangle ABC$ is equilateral.
Let $A$ be an $m\times n$ matrix with rational entries. Suppose that there are at least $m+n$ distinct prime numbers among the absolute values of the entries of $A.$ Show that the rank of $A$ is at least $2.$
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle, and let $M$ and $N$ be two points on the line $AC$ such that the vectors $MN$ and $AC$ are identical. Let $X$ be the orthogonal projection of $M$ on $BC$, and let $Y$ be the orthogonal projection of $N$ on $AB$. Finally, let $H$ be the orthocenter of triangle $ABC$.
Show that the points $B$, $X$, $H$, $Y$ lie on one circle.
Let $P,Q,R,S$ be the midpoints of the sides $BC,CD,DA,AB$ of a convex quadrilateral, respectively. Prove that
\[4(AP^2+BQ^2+CR^2+DS^2)\le 5(AB^2+BC^2+CD^2+DA^2)\]
Given $X=\{0,a,b,c\}$, let $M(X)=\{f|f: X\to X\}$ denote the set of all functions from $X$ into itself. An addition table on $X$ is given us follows:
$+$ $0$ $a$ $b$ $c$
$0$ $0$ $a$ $b$ $c$
$a$ $a$ $0$ $c$ $b$
$b$ $b$ $c$ $0$ $a$
$c$ $c$ $b$ $a$ $0$
a)If $S=\{f\in M(X)|f(x+y+x)=f(x)+f(y)+f(x)\forall x,y\in X\}$, find $|S|$.
b)If $I=\{f\in M(X)|f(x+x)=f(x)+f(x)\forall x\in X\}$, find $|I|$.
$ABC$ is acute-angled. $D$ s a variable point on the side BC. $O_1$ is the circumcenter of $ABD$, $O_2$ is the circumcenter of $ACD$, and $O$ is the circumcenter of $AO_1O_2$. Find the locus of $O$.
Consider a finite set of vectors in space $\{a_1, a_2, ... , a_n\}$ and the set $E$ of all vectors of the form $x=\sum_{i=1}^{n}{\lambda _i a_i}$, where $\lambda _i \in \mathbb{R}^{+}\cup \{0\}$. Let $F$ be the set consisting of all the vectors in $E$ and vectors parallel to a given plane $P$. Prove that there exists a set of vectors $\{b_1, b_2, ... , b_p\}$ such that $F$ is the set of all vectors $y$ of the form $y=\sum_{i=1}^{p}{\mu _i b_i}$, where $\mu _i \in \mathbb{R}^{+}\cup \{0\}$.
Show that each convex pentagon has a vertex from which the distance to the opposite side of the pentagon is strictly less than the sum of the distances from the two adjacent vertices to the same side.
[i]Note[/i]. If the pentagon is labeled $ ABCDE$, the adjacent vertices of $ A$ are $ B$ and $ E$, the ones of $ B$ are $ A$ and $ C$ etc.
Consider the paper triangle whose vertices are $(0,0), (34,0),$ and $(16,24).$ The vertices of its midpoint triangle are the midpoints of its sides. A triangular pyramid is formed by folding the triangle along the sides of its midpoint triangle. What is the volume of this pyramid?
Let $ a_1$, $ a_2$, ..., $ a_n$ and $ b_1$, $ b_2$, ..., $ b_n$ be $ 2 \cdot n$ real numbers. Prove that the following two statements are equivalent:
[b]i)[/b] For any $ n$ real numbers $ x_1$, $ x_2$, ..., $ x_n$ satisfying $ x_1 \leq x_2 \leq \ldots \leq x_ n$, we have $ \sum^{n}_{k \equal{} 1} a_k \cdot x_k \leq \sum^{n}_{k \equal{} 1} b_k \cdot x_k,$
[b]ii)[/b] We have $ \sum^{s}_{k \equal{} 1} a_k \leq \sum^{s}_{k \equal{} 1} b_k$ for every $ s\in\left\{1,2,...,n\minus{}1\right\}$ and $ \sum^{n}_{k \equal{} 1} a_k \equal{} \sum^{n}_{k \equal{} 1} b_k$.
a) Let $x_1,x_2,x_3,y_1,y_2,y_3\in \mathbb{R}$ and $a_{ij}=\sin(x_i-y_j),\ i,j=\overline{1,3}$ and $A=(a_{ij})\in \mathcal{M}_3$ Prove that $\det A=0$.
b) Let $z_1,z_2,\ldots,z_{2n}\in \mathbb{C}^*,\ n\ge 3$ such that $|z_1|=|z_2|=\ldots=|z_{n+3}|$ and $\arg z_1\ge \arg z_2\ge \ldots\ge \arg(z_{n+3})$. If $b_{ij}=|z_i-z_{j+n}|,\ i,j=\overline{1,n}$ and $B=(b_{ij})\in \mathcal{M}_n$, prove that $\det B=0$.