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2005 MOP Homework, 7

Let $n$ be a natural number and $f_1$, $f_2$, ..., $f_n$ be polynomials with integers coeffcients. Show that there exists a polynomial $g(x)$ which can be factored (with at least two terms of degree at least $1$) over the integers such that $f_i(x)+g(x)$ cannot be factored (with at least two terms of degree at least $1$ over the integers for every $i$.

2004 Iran Team Selection Test, 6

$p$ is a polynomial with integer coefficients and for every natural $n$ we have $p(n)>n$. $x_k $ is a sequence that: $x_1=1, x_{i+1}=p(x_i)$ for every $N$ one of $x_i$ is divisible by $N.$ Prove that $p(x)=x+1$

2017 ITAMO, 2

Let $n\geq 2$ be an integer. Consider the solutions of the system $$\begin{cases} n=a+b-c \\ n=a^2+b^2-c^2 \end{cases}$$ where $a,b,c$ are integers. Show that there is at least one solution and that the solutions are finitely many.

2025 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 16

Tags: guts
The [i]Cantor set[/i] is defined as the set of real numbers $x$ such that $0 \le x < 1$ and the digit $1$ does not appear in the base-$3$ expansion of $x.$ Two numbers are uniformly and independently selected at random from the Cantor set. Compute the expected value of their difference. (Formally, one can pick a number $x$ uniformly at random from the Cantor set by first picking a real number $y$ uniformly at random from the interval $[0, 1)$, writing it out in binary, reading its digits as if they were in base-$3,$ and setting $x$ to $2$ times the result.)

2003 Romania National Olympiad, 3

For every positive integer $ n$ consider \[ A_n\equal{}\sqrt{49n^2\plus{}0,35n}. \] (a) Find the first three digits after decimal point of $ A_1$. (b) Prove that the first three digits after decimal point of $ A_n$ and $ A_1$ are the same, for every $ n$.

Ukrainian From Tasks to Tasks - geometry, 2013.4

The trapezoid is composed of three conguent right isosceles triangles as shown in the figure. It is necessary to cut it into $4$ equal parts. How to do it? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/f/e/87b07ae823190f26b70bfa22824679a829e649.png[/img]

2023 Kyiv City MO Round 1, Problem 3

Tags: geometry
A [i]hedgehog[/i] is a circle without its boundaries. The diameter of the hedgehog is the diameter of the corresponding circle. We say that the hedgehog sits at the at the point where the center of the circle is located. We are given a triangle with sides $a, b, c$, with hedgehogs sitting at its vertices. It is known that inside the triangle there is a point from which you can reach any side of the triangle by walking along a straight line without hitting any hedgehog. What is the largest possible sum of the diameters of these hedgehogs? [i]Proposed by Oleksiy Masalitin[/i]

2018-2019 SDML (High School), 14

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A square array of dots with $7$ rows and $7$ columns is given. Each dot is colored either blue or red. Whenever two dots of the same color are adjacent in the same row or column, they are joined by a line segment of the same color as the dots. If they are adjacent but of difference colors, they are then joined by a purple line segment. There are $20$ red line segments and $19$ blue line segments. Find the positive difference between the maximum and minimum number of red dots. [asy] size(4cm); for (int i = 0; i <= 7; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j <= 7; ++j) { dot((i,j)); } } [/asy] $ \mathrm{(A) \ } 4 \qquad \mathrm{(B) \ } 5 \qquad \mathrm {(C) \ } 6 \qquad \mathrm{(D) \ } 7 \qquad \mathrm{(E) \ } 8$

Estonia Open Senior - geometry, 2003.1.2

Four rays spread out from point $O$ in a $3$-dimensional space in a way that the angle between every two rays is $a$. Find $\cos a$.

India EGMO 2024 TST, 2

Tags: floor , algebra , summation
Given that $a_1, a_2, \dots, a_{10}$ are positive real numbers, determine the smallest possible value of \[\sum \limits_{i = 1}^{10} \left\lfloor \frac{7a_i}{a_i+a_{i+1}}\right\rfloor\] where we define $a_{11} = a_1$. [i]Proposed by Sutanay Bhattacharya[/i]

2022 Nigerian Senior MO Round 2, Problem 1

Find all integer solutions of the equation $xy+5x-3y=27$.

1994 IMO Shortlist, 7

A wobbly number is a positive integer whose digits are alternately zero and non-zero with the last digit non-zero (for example, 201). Find all positive integers which do not divide any wobbly number.

1998 Slovenia National Olympiad, Problem 4

On every square of a chessboard, there are as many grains as shown on the picture. Starting from an arbitrary square, a knight starts a journey over the chessboard. After every move it eats up all the grains from the square it arrived to, but when it leaves, the same number of grains is put back on the square. After some time the knight returns to its initial square. Prove that the total number of grains the knight has eaten up during the journey is divisible by $3$. [img]https://services.artofproblemsolving.com/download.php?id=YXR0YWNobWVudHMvZC8xL2IwOGZlODYxMDg1MWMwMWUwMjFkOGJkMWQ2MjA4YzIzZmQ5YTc5LnBuZw==&rn=U2NyZWVuIFNob3QgMjAyMS0wNC0yOCBhdCA3LjIzLjA3IEFNLnBuZw==[/img]

2014 Balkan MO Shortlist, A6

Tags: sequence , algebra
$\boxed{A6}$The sequence $a_0,a_1,...$ is defined by the initial conditions $a_0=1,a_1=6$ and the recursion $a_{n+1}=4a_n-a_{n-1}+2$ for $n>1.$Prove that $a_{2^k-1}$ has at least three prime factors for every positive integer $k>3.$

2021 Science ON grade X, 3

Consider a real number $a$ that satisfies $a=(a-1)^3$. Prove that there exists an integer $N$ that satisfies $$|a^{2021}-N|<2^{-1000}.$$ [i] (Vlad Robu) [/i]

2013 India Regional Mathematical Olympiad, 4

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Let $x$ be a non-zero real numbers such that $x^4+\frac{1}{x^4}$ and $x^5+\frac{1}{x^5}$ are both rational numbers. Prove that $x+\frac{1}{x}$ is a rational number.

1997 National High School Mathematics League, 14

Tags: hyperbola , conic
Two branches of the hyperbola $xy=1$ are $C_1,C_2$ ($C_1$ in Quadrant I, $C_2$ in Quadrant III). Three apexes of regular triangle $PQR$ are on the hyperbola. [b](a)[/b] $P,Q,R$ cannot be on the same branch. [b](b)[/b] $P(-1,-1)$ is a point on $C_2$, if $Q,R$ are on $C_1$, find their coordinates.

2020 MBMT, 24

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Nashan randomly chooses $6$ positive integers $a, b, c, d, e, f$. Find the probability that $2^a+2^b+2^c+2^d+2^e+2^f$ is divisible by $5$. [i]Proposed by Bradley Guo[/i]

2021 Dutch IMO TST, 2

Let $ABC $be a right triangle with $\angle C = 90^o$ and let $D$ be the foot of the altitude from $C$. Let $E$ be the centroid of triangle $ACD$ and let $F$ be the centroid of triangle $BCD$. The point $P$ satisfies $\angle CEP = 90^o$ and $|CP| = |AP|$, while point $Q$ satisfies $\angle CFQ = 90^o$ and $|CQ| = |BQ|$. Prove that $PQ$ passes through the centroid of triangle $ABC$.

2006 Kyiv Mathematical Festival, 3

Tags: inequalities
See all the problems from 5-th Kyiv math festival [url=http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=506789#p506789]here[/url] Let $x,y>0$ and $xy\ge1.$ Prove that $x^3+y^3+4xy\ge x^2+y^2+x+y+2.$ Let $x,y>0$ and $xy\ge1.$ Prove that $2(x^3+y^3+xy+x+y)\ge5(x^2+y^2).$

2018 Online Math Open Problems, 12

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Three non-collinear lattice points $A,B,C$ lie on the plane $1+3x+5y+7z=0$. The minimal possible area of triangle $ABC$ can be expressed as $\frac{\sqrt{m}}{n}$ where $m,n$ are positive integers such that there does not exists a prime $p$ dividing $n$ with $p^2$ dividing $m$. Compute $100m+n$. [i]Proposed by Yannick Yao[/i]

2011 AMC 10, 11

There are $52$ people in a room. What is the largest value of $n$ such that the statement "At least $n$ people in this room have birthdays falling in the same month" is always true? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 12 $

MMATHS Mathathon Rounds, 2015

[u]Round 1[/u] [b]p1.[/b] If this mathathon has $7$ rounds of $3$ problems each, how many problems does it have in total? (Not a trick!) [b]p2.[/b] Five people, named $A, B, C, D,$ and $E$, are standing in line. If they randomly rearrange themselves, what’s the probability that nobody is more than one spot away from where they started? [b]p3.[/b] At Barrios’s absurdly priced fish and chip shop, one fish is worth $\$13$, one chip is worth $\$5$. What is the largest integer dollar amount of money a customer can enter with, and not be able to spend it all on fish and chips? [u]Round 2[/u] [b]p4.[/b] If there are $15$ points in $4$-dimensional space, what is the maximum number of hyperplanes that these points determine? [b]p5.[/b] Consider all possible values of $\frac{z_1 - z_2}{z_2 - z_3} \cdot \frac{z_1 - z_4}{z_2 - z_4}$ for any distinct complex numbers $z_1$, $z_2$, $z_3$, and $z_4$. How many complex numbers cannot be achieved? [b]p6.[/b] For each positive integer $n$, let $S(n)$ denote the number of positive integers $k \le n$ such that $gcd(k, n) = gcd(k + 1, n) = 1$. Find $S(2015)$. [u]Round 3 [/u] [b]p7.[/b] Let $P_1$, $P_2$,$...$, $P_{2015}$ be $2015$ distinct points in the plane. For any $i, j \in \{1, 2, ...., 2015\}$, connect $P_i$ and $P_j$ with a line segment if and only if $gcd(i - j, 2015) = 1$. Define a clique to be a set of points such that any two points in the clique are connected with a line segment. Let $\omega$ be the unique positive integer such that there exists a clique with $\omega$ elements and such that there does not exist a clique with $\omega + 1$ elements. Find $\omega$. [b]p8.[/b] A Chinese restaurant has many boxes of food. The manager notices that $\bullet$ He can divide the boxes into groups of $M$ where $M$ is $19$, $20$, or $21$. $\bullet$ There are exactly $3$ integers $x$ less than $16$ such that grouping the boxes into groups of $x$ leaves $3$ boxes left over. Find the smallest possible number of boxes of food. [b]p9.[/b] If $f(x) = x|x| + 2$, then compute $\sum^{1000}_{k=-1000} f^{-1}(f(k) + f(-k) + f^{-1}(k))$. [u]Round 4 [/u] [b]p10.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 13$, $BC = 20$, $CA = 21$. Let $ABDE$, $BCFG$, and $CAHI$ be squares built on sides $AB$, $BC$, and $CA$, respectively such that these squares are outside of $ABC$. Find the area of $DEHIFG$. [b]p11.[/b] What is the sum of all of the distinct prime factors of $7783 = 6^5 + 6 + 1$? [b]p12.[/b] Consider polyhedron $ABCDE$, where $ABCD$ is a regular tetrahedron and $BCDE$ is a regular tetrahedron. An ant starts at point $A$. Every time the ant moves, it walks from its current point to an adjacent point. The ant has an equal probability of moving to each adjacent point. After $6$ moves, what is the probability the ant is back at point $A$? PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 5-7 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h2782011p24434676]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

2015 IFYM, Sozopol, 5

Let $p>3$ be a prime number. Prove that the product of all primitive roots between 1 and $p-1$ is congruent 1 modulo $p$.

2018 Greece Team Selection Test, 2

A triangle $ABC$ is inscribed in a circle $(C)$ .Let $G$ the centroid of $\triangle ABC$ . We draw the altitudes $AD,BE,CF$ of the given triangle .Rays $AG$ and $GD$ meet (C) at $M$ and $N$.Prove that points $ F,E,M,N $ are concyclic.