Compute $ax^{2018}+by^{2018}$, given that there exist real $a$, $b$, $x$, and $y$ which satisfy the following four equations: \begin{align*} ax^{2014}+by^{2014}&=6\\ ax^{2015}+by^{2015}&=7\\ ax^{2016}+by^{2016}&=3\\ ax^{2017}+by^{2017}&=50. \end{align*}

Bamicin is initially at $(20, 20)$ in a cartesian plane. Every minute, if Bamicin is at point $P$, Bamicin can move to a lattice point exactly $37$ units from $P$. Determine all lattice points Bamicin can visit.

Let $ a > b > 1, b$ is an odd number, let $ n$ be a positive integer. If $ b^n|a^n\minus{}1,$ then $ a^b > \frac {3^n}{n}.$

Let $n \in \mathbb N$ and $A_n$ set of all permutations $(a_1, \ldots, a_n)$ of the set $\{1, 2, \ldots , n\}$ for which \[k|2(a_1 + \cdots+ a_k), \text{ for all } 1 \leq k \leq n.\] Find the number of elements of the set $A_n$. [i]Proposed by Vidan Govedarica, Serbia[/i]

Let $A', B' , C'$ be the projections of a point $M$ inside a triangle $ABC$ onto the sides $BC, CA, AB$, respectively. Define $p(M ) = \frac{MA'\cdot MB'\cdot MC'}{MA \cdot MB \cdot MC}$ . Find the position of point $M$ that maximizes $p(M )$.

Show that for $n \geq 5$, the integers $1, 2, \ldots n$ can be split into two groups so that the sum of the integers in one group equals the product of the integers in the other group.

Let $D_{1}, D_{2}, . . . , D_{n}$ be rectangular parallelepipeds in space, with edges parallel to the $x, y, z$ axes. For each $D_{i}$, let $x_{i} , y_{i} , z_{i}$ be the lengths of its projections onto the $x, y, z$ axes, respectively. Suppose that for all pairs $D_{i}$ , $D_{j}$, if at least one of $x_{i} < x_{j}$ , $y_{i} < y_{j}$, $z_{i} < z_{j}$ holds, then $x_{i} \leq x_{j}$ , $y_{i} \leq y_{j}$, and $z_{i} < z_{j}$ . If the volume of the region $\bigcup^{n}_{i=1}{D_{i}}$ equals 1997, prove that there is a subset $\{D_{i_{1}}, D_{i_{2}}, . . . , D_{i_{m}}\}$ of the set $\{D_{1}, . . . , D_{n}\}$ such that $(i)$ if $k \not= l $ then $D_{i_{k}} \cap D_{i_{l}} = \emptyset $, and $(ii)$ the volume of $\bigcup^{m}_{k=1}{D_{i_{k}}}$ is at least 73.

Determine all integer $n$ such that a surface of an $n \times n \times n$ grid cube can be pasted in one layer by paper $1 \times 2$ rectangles so that each rectangle has exactly five neighbors (by a line segment). (A.Shapovalov)

A blackboard contains $2018$ instances of the digit $1$ separated by spaces. Georg and his mother play a game where they take turns filling in one of the spaces between the digits with either a $+$ or a $\times$. Georg begins, and the game ends when all spaces have been filled. Georg wins if the value of the expression is even, and his mother wins if it is odd. Which player may prepare a strategy which secures him/her victory?

Let U be the union of a finite number (not necessarily connected and not necessarily disjoint) of closed unit squares lying in the plane. Can the quotient of the perimeter and area of U be arbitrarily large? @below: i think "single" means "connected".

Given a positive integer $n$. Prove the inequality $\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{i(i+1)(i+2)(i+3)(i+4)}<\frac{1}{96}$

Prove that the only morphisms from a finite symmetric group to the multiplicative group of rational numbers are the identity and the signature.

We have $2012$ sticks with integer length, and sum of length is $n$. We need to have sticks with lengths $1,2,....,2012$. For it we can break some sticks ( for example from stick with length $6$ we can get $1$ and $4$). For what minimal $n$ it is always possible?

For any given triangle $A_0B_0C_0$ consider a sequence of triangles constructed as follows: a new triangle $A_1B_1C_1$ (if any) has its sides (in cm) that equal to the angles of $A_0B_0C_0$ (in radians). Then for $\vartriangle A_1B_1C_1$ consider a new triangle $A_2B_2C_2$ (if any) constructed in the similar พay, i.e., $\vartriangle A_2B_2C_2$ has its sides (in cm) that equal to the angles of $A_1B_1C_1$ (in radians), and so on. Determine for which initial triangles $A_0B_0C_0$ the sequence never terminates.

Let two circles be externally tangent at point $C$, with parallel diameters $A_1A_2, B_1B_2$ (i.e. the quadrilateral $A_1B_1B_2A_2$ is a trapezoid with bases $A_1A_2$ and $B_1B_2$ or parallelogram). Circle with the center on the common internal tangent to these two circles, passes through the intersection point of lines $A_1B_2$ and $A_2B_1$ as well intersects those lines at points $M, N$. Prove that the line $MN$ is perpendicular to the parallel diameters $A_1A_2, B_1B_2$. (Yuri Biletsky)