Driving along a highway, Megan noticed that her odometer showed $15951$ (miles). This number is a palindrome—it reads the same forward and backward. Then $2$ hours later, the odometer displayed the next higher palindrome. What was her average speed, in miles per hour, during this $2$-hour period? $\textbf{(A) }50 \qquad \textbf{(B) }55 \qquad \textbf{(C) }60\qquad \textbf{(D) }65\qquad\textbf{(E) }70$

In a $ 4 \times 4 $ grid of sixteen unit squares, exactly $8$ are shaded so that each shaded square shares an edge with exactly one other shaded square. How many ways can this be done?

[b]a)[/b] Calculate $ \int_{0}^1 x\sin\left( \pi x^2\right) dx. $ [b]b)[/b] Calculate $ \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1} k\int_{\frac{k}{n}}^{\frac{k+1}{n}} \sin\left(\pi x^2\right) dx. $ [i]Florin Stănescu[/i]

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with centroid $T$. Denote by $M$ the midpoint of $BC$. Let $D$ be a point on the ray opposite to the ray $BA$ such that $AB = BD$. Similarly, let $E$ be a point on the ray opposite to the ray $CA$ such that $AC = CE$. The segments $T D$ and $T E$ intersect the side $BC$ in $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Show that the points $P, Q$ and $M$ split the segment $BC$ into four parts of equal length.

Dave arrives at an airport which has twelve gates arranged in a straight line with exactly $ 100$ feet between adjacent gates. His departure gate is assigned at random. After waiting at that gate, Dave is told the departure gate has been changed to a different gate, again at random. Let the probability that Dave walks $ 400$ feet or less to the new gate be a fraction $ \frac{m}{n}$, where $ m$ and $ n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $ m\plus{}n$.

What is the smallest perfect square that ends in $9009$?

Let $\mathbf{P}_1,\mathbf{P}_2$ be convex polygons with perimeters $o_1,o_2,$ respectively. Show that if $\mathbf P_1\subseteq\mathbf P_2,$ then $o_1\le o_2.$

Consider the numbers arranged in the following way: \[\begin{array}{ccccccc} 1 & 3 & 6 & 10 & 15 & 21 & \cdots \\ 2 & 5 & 9 & 14 & 20 & \cdots & \cdots \\ 4 & 8 & 13 & 19 & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots \\ 7 & 12 & 18 & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots \\ 11 & 17 & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots \\ 16 & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots & \cdots \\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \ddots \end{array}\] Find the row number and the column number in which the the number $20096$ occurs.

How many four-digit positive integers have at least one digit that is a 2 or a 3? $ \textbf{(A) } 2439 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 4096 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 4903 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 4904 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 5416$

Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle such that $AB+BC=4AC$. Let $D$ in $AC$ such that $BD$ is angle bisector of $\angle ABC$. In the segment $BD$, points $P$ and $Q$ are marked such that $BP=2DQ$. The perpendicular line to $BD$, passing by $Q$, cuts the segments $AB$ and $BC$ in $X$ and $Y$, respectively. Let $L$ be the parallel line to $AC$ passing by $P$. The point $B$ is in a different half-plane(with respect to the line $L$) of the points $X$ and $Y$. An ant starts a run in the point $X$, goes to a point in the line $AC$, after that goes to a point in the line $L$, returns to a point in the line $AC$ and finishes in the point $Y$. Prove that the least length of the ant's run is equal to $4XY$.

Given a sequence of numbers $ 13, 25, 43, \ldots $ whose $ n $-th term is defined by the formula $$a_n =3(n^2 + n) + 7$$ Prove that this sequence has the following properties: 1) Of every five consecutive terms of the sequence, exactly one is divisible by $ 5 $, 2( No term of the sequence is the cube of an integer.

Determine the radius of a sphere $S$ that passes through the centroids of each face of a given tetrahedron $T$ inscribed in a unit sphere with center $O$. Also, determine the distance from $O$ to the center of $S$ as a function of the edges of $T.$

For positive integers $a$ and $b$, let $M(a,b) = \tfrac{\text{lcm}(a,b)}{\gcd(a,b)},$ and for each positive integer $n \ge 2,$ define \[x_n = M(1, M(2, M(3, \dots , M(n - 2, M(n - 1, n))\cdots))).\] Compute the number of positive integers $n$ such that $2 \le n \le 2021$ and $5x_n^2 + 5x_{n+1}^2 = 26x_nx_{n+1}.$

Let $x$ and $y$ be two positive real numbers, such that $x + y = 1$. Prove that $$\left(1 +\frac{1}{x}\right)\left(1 +\frac{1}{y}\right) \ge 9$$

Determine $ m > 0$ so that $ x^4 \minus{} (3m\plus{}2)x^2 \plus{} m^2 \equal{} 0$ has four real solutions forming an arithmetic series: i.e., that the solutions may be written $ a, a\plus{}b, a\plus{}2b,$ and $ a\plus{}3b$ for suitable $ a$ and $ b$. A. 1 B. 3 C. 7 D. 12 E. None of these

We call a positive integer [i]good number[/i], if it is divisible by squares of all its prime factors. Show that there are infinitely many pairs of consequtive numbers both are [i]good[/i].

(i) Find a formula for $S_n = -1^2 \times 2 + 2^2 \times 3 - 3^2 \times 4 + 4^2 \times 5 -... + (-l)^n n^2 \times (n + 1)$ in terms of the positive integer $n$. Justify your answer. (As an example, one has $1 + 2 + 3 +...+n = \frac{n(n+1)}{2}$) (ii) Using your formula in (i), find the value of $ -1^2 \times 2 + 2^2 \times 3 - 3^2 \times 4 + 4^2 \times 5 -... + (-l)^{100} 100^2 \times (100 + 1)$

Find the number of positive integers x satisfying the following two conditions: 1. $x<10^{2006}$ 2. $x^{2}-x$ is divisible by $10^{2006}$

Find all positive integers $ n$ for which there exist integers $ a,b,c$ such that $ a\plus{}b\plus{}c\equal{}0$ and the number $ a^{n}\plus{}b^{n}\plus{}c^{n}$ is prime.

In the set of all positive real numbers define the operation $a * b = a^b$ . Find all positive rational numbers for which $a * b = b * a$.

Let $\mathbb{R}^{+}$ be the set of positive real numbers. Find all real numbers $a$ for which there exists a function $f :\mathbb{R}^{+} \to \mathbb{R}^{+}$ such that $3(f(x))^{2}=2f(f(x))+ax^{4}$, for all $x \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$.

Find all positive integers $n$, such that $\sigma(n) =\tau(n) \lceil {\sqrt{n}} \rceil$.

Let $(a_n)_{n=0}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of real numbers defined as follows: [list] [*] $a_0 = 3$, $a_1 = 2$, and $a_2 = 12$; and [*] $2a_{n + 3} - a_{n + 2} - 8a_{n + 1} + 4a_n = 0$ for $n \geq 0$. [/list] Show that $a_n$ is always a strictly positive integer.

Let $Q$ be an $n$-by-$n$ real orthogonal matrix, and let $u\in \mathbb{R}^n$ be a unit column vector (that is, $u^Tu=1$). Let $P=I-2uu^T$, where $I$ is the $n$-by-$n$ identity matrix. Show that if $1$ is not an eigenvalue of $Q$, then $1$ is an eigenvalue of $PQ$.

Given an acute triangle $ABC, H$ is the foot of the altitude drawn from the point $A$ on the line $BC, P$ and $K \ne H$ are arbitrary points on the segments $AH$ and$ BC$ respectively. Segments $AC$ and $BP$ intersect at point $B_1$, lines $AB$ and $CP$ at point $C_1$. Let $X$ and $Y$ be the projections of point $H$ on the lines $KB_1$ and $KC_1$, respectively. Prove that points $A, P, X$ and $Y$ lie on one circle.