Olympiad problems

2007 Purple Comet Problems, 4

Tags:

Terry drove along a scenic road using $9$ gallons of gasoline. Then Terry went onto the freeway and used $17$ gallons of gasoline. Assuming that Terry gets $6.5$ miles per gallon better gas mileage on the freeway than on the scenic road, and Terry’s average gas mileage for the entire trip was $30$ miles per gallon, find the number of miles Terry drove.

1986 Federal Competition For Advanced Students, P2, 3

Find all possible values of $ x_0$ and $ x_1$ such that the sequence defined by: $ x_{n\plus{}1}\equal{}\frac{x_{n\minus{}1} x_n}{3x_{n\minus{}1}\minus{}2x_n}$ for $ n \ge 1$ contains infinitely many natural numbers.

2011 Belarus Team Selection Test, 1

Tags: algebra , functional equation , trigonometry , functional

Find all real $a$ such that there exists a function $f: R \to R$ satisfying the equation $f(\sin x )+ a f(\cos x) = \cos 2x$ for all real $x$. I.Voronovich

2005 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 73

Tags: calculus , integration , trigonometry , vector , function , derivative , calculus computations

Find the minimum value of $\int_0^{\pi} (a\sin x+b\sin 2x+c\sin 3x-x)^2\ dx$

2003 Denmark MO - Mohr Contest, 4

Tags: geometry , max , circles

Georg and his mother love pizza. They buy a pizza shaped as an equilateral triangle. Georg demands to be allowed to divide the pizza by a straight cut and then make the first choice. The mother accepts this reluctantly, but she wants to choose a point of the pizza through which the cut must pass. Determine the largest fraction of the pizza which the mother is certain to get by this procedure.

2016 Nigerian Senior MO Round 2, Problem 10

Tags: algebra , logarithm

Positive numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfy $xy=2^{15}$ and $\log_2{x} \cdot \log_2{y} = 60$. Find $\sqrt[3]{(\log_2{x})^3+(\log_2{y})^3}$

1966 IMO Longlists, 13

Tags: n-variable inequality , inequalities

Let $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$ be positive real numbers. Prove the inequality \[\binom n2 \sum_{i<j} \frac{1}{a_ia_j} \geq 4 \left( \sum_{i<j} \frac{1}{a_i+a_j} \right)^2\]

2007 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 9.4

Tags: geometry

Two triangles have equal longest sides and equal smallest angles. A new triangle is constructed, such that its sides are the sum of the longest sides, the sum of the shortest sides, and the sum of the middle sides of the initial triangles. Prove that the area of the new triangle is at least twice as much as the sum of the areas of the initial ones.

1967 AMC 12/AHSME, 2

Tags:

An equivalent of the expression $\left(\frac{x^2+1}{x}\right)\left(\frac{y^2+1}{y}\right)+\left(\frac{x^2-1}{y}\right)\left(\frac{y^2-1}{x}\right)$, $xy \not= 0$, is: $ \text{(A)}\ 1\qquad\text{(B)}\ 2xy\qquad\text{(C)}\ 2x^2y^2+2\qquad\text{(D)}\ 2xy+\frac{2}{xy}\qquad\text{(E)}\ \frac{2x}{y}+\frac{2y}{x} $

Russian TST 2017, P2

Tags: euler line , geometry

Let $D$ be the foot of perpendicular from $A$ to the Euler line (the line passing through the circumcentre and the orthocentre) of an acute scalene triangle $ABC$. A circle $\omega$ with centre $S$ passes through $A$ and $D$, and it intersects sides $AB$ and $AC$ at $X$ and $Y$ respectively. Let $P$ be the foot of altitude from $A$ to $BC$, and let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$. Prove that the circumcentre of triangle $XSY$ is equidistant from $P$ and $M$.

PEN A Problems, 79

Tags: divisibility theory

Determine all pairs of integers $(a, b)$ such that \[\frac{a^{2}}{2ab^{2}-b^{3}+1}\] is a positive integer.

2011 Armenian Republican Olympiads, Problem 2

Tags: geometry , hexagon , rhombus

Let a hexagone with a diameter $D$ be given and let $d>\frac D 2.$ On each side of the hexagon one constructs a isosceles triangle with two equal sides of length $d$. Prove that the sum of the areas of those isoscele triangles is greater than the area of a rhombus with side lengths $d$ and a diagonal of length $D$. (The diameter of a polygon is the maximum of the lengths of all its sides and diagonals.)

2007 Junior Balkan Team Selection Tests - Romania, 1

Tags: analytic geometry , geometry , rectangle , combinatorics

Consider an 8x8 board divided in 64 unit squares. We call [i]diagonal[/i] in this board a set of 8 squares with the property that on each of the rows and the columns of the board there is exactly one square of the [i]diagonal[/i]. Some of the squares of this board are coloured such that in every [i]diagonal[/i] there are exactly two coloured squares. Prove that there exist two rows or two columns whose squares are all coloured.

2023 CMIMC Team, 3

Tags: team , number theory , relatively prime

Find the number of ordered triples of positive integers $(a,b,c),$ where $1 \leq a,b,c \leq 10,$ with the property that $\gcd(a,b), \gcd(a,c),$ and $\gcd(b,c)$ are all pairwise relatively prime. [i]Proposed by Kyle Lee[/i]

2014 Singapore Senior Math Olympiad, 23

Tags:

Let $n$ be a positive integer, and let $x=\frac{\sqrt{n+2}-\sqrt{n}}{\sqrt{n+2}+\sqrt{n}}$ and $y=\frac{\sqrt{n+2}+\sqrt{n}}{\sqrt{n+2}-\sqrt{n}}$. It is given that $14x^2+26xy+14y^2=2014$. Find the value of $n$.

2017 AMC 10, 15

Tags: probability

Chloé chooses a real number uniformly at random from the interval $[0, 2017]$. Independently, Laurent chooses a real number uniformly at random from the interval $[0,4034]$. What is the probability that Laurent's number is greater than Chloé's number? $\textbf{(A)}~\frac12 \qquad \textbf{(B)}~\frac23 \qquad \textbf{(C)}~\frac34 \qquad \textbf{(D)}~\frac56\qquad \textbf{(E)}~\frac78$

2021 China Girls Math Olympiad, 6

Tags: inequalities , subset

Given a finite set $S$, $P(S)$ denotes the set of all the subsets of $S$. For any $f:P(S)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ ,prove the following inequality:$$\sum_{A\in P(S)}\sum_{B\in P(S)}f(A)f(B)2^{\left| A\cap B \right|}\geq 0.$$

III Soros Olympiad 1996 - 97 (Russia), 10.1

Tags: trigonometry , algebra

Find the smallest natural number $n$ for which the equality $\sin n^o= \sin (1997n)^o$ holds.

2001 Romania National Olympiad, 2

Tags: superior algebra

Let $A$ be a finite ring. Show that there exists two natural numbers $m,p$ where $m> p\ge 1$, such that $a^m=a^p$ for all $a\in A$.

2007 Tournament Of Towns, 4

Tags: combinatorics

Each cell of a $29 \times 29$ table contains one of the integers $1, 2, 3, \ldots , 29$, and each of these integers appears $29$ times. The sum of all the numbers above the main diagonal is equal to three times the sum of all the numbers below this diagonal. Determine the number in the central cell of the table.

2011 AMC 10, 11

Tags: ratio , geometry

Square $EFGH$ has one vertex on each side of square $ABCD$. Point $E$ is on $\overline{AB}$ with $AE=7\cdot EB$. What is the ratio of the area of $EFGH$ to the area of $ABCD$? $\textbf{(A)}\,\frac{49}{64} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\,\frac{25}{32} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\,\frac78 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\,\frac{5\sqrt{2}}{8} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\,\frac{\sqrt{14}}{4} $

2009 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 5

Tags: geometry , rhombus , collinear , circumcenter

Rhombus $CKLN$ is inscribed into triangle $ABC$ in such way that point $L$ lies on side $AB$, point $N$ lies on side $AC$, point $K$ lies on side $BC$. $O_1, O_2$ and $O$ are the circumcenters of triangles $ACL, BCL$ and $ABC$ respectively. Let $P$ be the common point of circles $ANL$ and $BKL$, distinct from $L$. Prove that points $O_1, O_2, O$ and $P$ are concyclic. (D.Prokopenko)

1974 IMO Longlists, 27

Tags: geometry

Let $C_1$ and $C_2$ be circles in the same plane, $P_1$ and $P_2$ arbitrary points on $C_1$ and $C_2$ respectively, and $Q$ the midpoint of segment $P_1P_2.$ Find the locus of points $Q$ as $P_1$ and $P_2$ go through all possible positions. [i]Alternative version[/i]. Let $C_1, C_2, C_3$ be three circles in the same plane. Find the locus of the centroid of triangle $P_1P_2P_3$ as $P_1, P_2,$ and $P_3$ go through all possible positions on $C_1, C_2$, and $C_3$ respectively.

2004 Iran MO (3rd Round), 19

Tags: euler , number theory

Find all integer solutions of $ p^3\equal{}p^2\plus{}q^2\plus{}r^2$ where $ p,q,r$ are primes.

2010 Contests, 3

Tags: modular arithmetic , relatively prime , number theory

Prove that for every given positive integer $n$, there exists a prime $p$ and an integer $m$ such that $(a)$ $p \equiv 5 \pmod 6$ $(b)$ $p \nmid n$ $(c)$ $n \equiv m^3 \pmod p$