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Let $A$ be Abelian group of order $p^4$, where $p$ is a prime number, and which has a subgroup $N$ with order $p$ such that $A/N\approx\mathbb{Z}/p^3\mathbb{Z}$. Find all $A$ expect isomorphic.
Source: 1976 Euclid Part A Problem 9 ----- A circle has an inscribed triangle whose sides are $5\sqrt{3}$, $10\sqrt{3}$, and $15$. The measure of the angle subtended at the centre of the circle by the shortest side is $\textbf{(A) } 30 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 45 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 60 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 90 \qquad \textbf{(E) } \text{none of these}$
The world famous infinite hotel with infinitely many floors (where the floors and the rooms on each floor are numbered with the positive integers) is full of guests: each room is occupied by exactly one guest. The manager of the hotel wants to carpet the corridor on each floor, and an infinite set of carpets of finite length (numbered with the positive integers) was obtained. Every guest marked an infinite number of carpets that they liked. Luckily, any two guests living on a different floor share only a finite number of carpets that they both like. Prove that the carpets can be distributed among the floors in a way that for every guest there are only finitely many carpets they like that are placed on floors different from the one where the guest is. [i]Proposed by András Imolay, Budapest[/i]
Let $n$ points be given inside a rectangle $R$ such that no two of them lie on a line parallel to one of the sides of $R$. The rectangle $R$ is to be dissected into smaller rectangles with sides parallel to the sides of $R$ in such a way that none of these rectangles contains any of the given points in its interior. Prove that we have to dissect $R$ into at least $n + 1$ smaller rectangles. [i]Proposed by Serbia[/i]
Determine the last two digits of the number $2^5 + 2^{5^{2}} + 2^{5^{3}} +... + 2^{5^{1991}}$ , written in decimal notation.
Jesse and Tjeerd are playing a game. Jesse has access to $n\ge 2$ stones. There are two boxes: in the black box there is room for half of the stones (rounded down) and in the white box there is room for half of the stones (rounded up). Jesse and Tjeerd take turns, with Jesse starting. Jesse grabs in his turn, always one new stone, writes a positive real number on the stone and places put him in one of the boxes that isn't full yet. Tjeerd sees all these numbers on the stones in the boxes and on his turn may move any stone from one box to the other box if it is not yet full, but he may also choose to do nothing. The game stops when both boxes are full. If then the total value of the stones in the black box is greater than the total value of the stones in the white box, Jesse wins; otherwise win Tjeerd. For every $n \ge 2$, determine who can definitely win (and give a corresponding winning strategy).
The points $(0, 0)$, $(a, 5)$, and $(b, 11)$ are the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Find $ab$.
There are $4950$ ants. Assume that, for any three ants $A, B$ and $C$, if the ant $A$ is the boss of the ant $B$, and the ant $B$ is the boss of the ant $C$ then the ant $A$ is also the boss of the ant $C$. We want to divide the ants into $n$ groups so that in any group, either any two ants have the boss relationship or any two ants do not have the boss relationship. Find the smallest of $n$ we can always do in any case.
Prove that for all positive, entirely rational numbers $a$ and $b$ always holds $$\frac{a + b}{2} \ge \sqrt[a+b]{a^b \cdot b^a}.$$ When does the equal sign hold?
Find $\lim_{n\to\infty} n\int_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{1}{(1+\cos x)^n}dx\ (n=1,\ 2,\ \cdots).$
Viorel participates in a mathematics competition with 50 problems. For each problem he answers correctly, he earns 4 points, and for each problem he answers incorrectly, he loses 1 point. If Viorel answered every problem and has 65 points, how many problems did he solve correctly?
Nine pawns forming a $3$ by $3$ square are placed in the lower left hand corner of an $8$ by $8$ chessboard. Any pawn may jump over another one standing next to it into a free square, i .e. may be reflected symmetrically with respect to a neighb our's centre (jumps may be horizontal , vertical or diagonal) . It is required to rearrange the nine pawns in another corner of the chessboard (in another $3$ by $3$ square) by means of such jumps. Can the pawns be thus re-arranged in the (a) upper left hand corner? (b) upper right hand corner? (J . E . Briskin)
A rectangular box $\mathcal{P}$ has distinct edge lengths $a, b,$ and $c$. The sum of the lengths of all $12$ edges of $\mathcal{P}$ is $13$, the sum of the areas of all $6$ faces of $\mathcal{P}$ is $\frac{11}{2}$, and the volume of $\mathcal{P}$ is $\frac{1}{2}$. What is the length of the longest interior diagonal connecting two vertices of $\mathcal{P}$? $\textbf{(A)}~2\qquad\textbf{(B)}~\frac{3}{8}\qquad\textbf{(C)}~\frac{9}{8}\qquad\textbf{(D)}~\frac{9}{4}\qquad\textbf{(E)}~\frac{3}{2}$
Consider all pairs of points $(a,b,c)$ and $(d,e, f )$ in the $3$-D coordinate system with $ad +be +c f = -2023$. What is the least positive integer that can be the distance between such a pair of points? [i]Proposed by William Hua[/i]
The sequence $\{a_{n}\}_{n \ge 1}$ is defined by \[a_{1}=1, \; a_{n+1}=2a_{n}+\sqrt{3a_{n}^{2}+1}.\] Show that $a_{n}$ is an integer for every $n$.
Let $a\in\left[ \tfrac{1}{2},\ \tfrac{3}{2}\right]$ be a real number. Sequences $(u_n),\ (v_n)$ are defined as follows: $$u_n=\frac{3}{2^{n+1}}\cdot (-1)^{\lfloor2^{n+1}a\rfloor},\ v_n=\frac{3}{2^{n+1}}\cdot (-1)^{n+\lfloor 2^{n+1}a\rfloor}.$$ a. Prove that $${{({{u}_{0}}+{{u}_{1}}+\cdots +{{u}_{2018}})}^{2}}+{{({{v}_{0}}+{{v}_{1}}+\cdots +{{v}_{2018}})}^{2}}\le 72{{a}^{2}}-48a+10+\frac{2}{{{4}^{2019}}}.$$ b. Find all values of $a$ in the equality case.
Prove that if $a$ is an integer relatively prime with $35$ then $(a^4 - 1)(a^4 + 15a^2 + 1) \equiv 0$ mod $35$.
Let $a,b,c$ be rational numbers such that $a+b+c$ and $a^2+b^2+c^2$ are [b]equal[/b] integers. Prove that the number $abc$ can be written as the ratio of a perfect cube and a perfect square which are relatively prime.
The diagram show $28$ lattice points, each one unit from its nearest neighbors. Segment $AB$ meets segment $CD$ at $E$. Find the length of segment $AE$. [asy] path seg1, seg2; seg1=(6,0)--(0,3); seg2=(2,0)--(4,2); dot((0,0)); dot((1,0)); fill(circle((2,0),0.1),black); dot((3,0)); dot((4,0)); dot((5,0)); fill(circle((6,0),0.1),black); dot((0,1)); dot((1,1)); dot((2,1)); dot((3,1)); dot((4,1)); dot((5,1)); dot((6,1)); dot((0,2)); dot((1,2)); dot((2,2)); dot((3,2)); fill(circle((4,2),0.1),black); dot((5,2)); dot((6,2)); fill(circle((0,3),0.1),black); dot((1,3)); dot((2,3)); dot((3,3)); dot((4,3)); dot((5,3)); dot((6,3)); draw(seg1); draw(seg2); pair [] x=intersectionpoints(seg1,seg2); fill(circle(x[0],0.1),black); label("$A$",(0,3),NW); label("$B$",(6,0),SE); label("$C$",(4,2),NE); label("$D$",(2,0),S); label("$E$",x[0],N);[/asy] $\text{(A)}\ \frac{4\sqrt5}{3}\qquad\text{(B)}\ \frac{5\sqrt5}{3}\qquad\text{(C)}\ \frac{12\sqrt5}{7}\qquad\text{(D)}\ 2\sqrt5 \qquad\text{(E)}\ \frac{5\sqrt{65}}{9}$
Consider any graph with $50$ vertices and $225$ edges. We say that a triplet of its (mutually distinct) vertices is [i]connected[/i] if the three vertices determine at least two edges. Determine the smallest and the largest possible number of connected triples. [i](Jan Mazak, Josef Tkadlec)[/i]
[b]p1.[/b] If $A = 0$, $B = 1$, $C = 2$, $...$, $Z = 25$, then what is the sum of $A + B + M+ C$? [b]p2.[/b] Eric is playing Tetris against Bryan. If Eric wins one-fifth of the games he plays and he plays $15$ games, find the expected number of games Eric will win. [b]p3.[/b] What is the sum of the measures of the exterior angles of a regular $2023$-gon in degrees? [b]p4.[/b] If $N$ is a base $10$ digit of $90N3$, what value of $N$ makes this number divisible by $477$? [b]p5.[/b] What is the rightmost non-zero digit of the decimal expansion of $\frac{1}{2^{2023}}$ ? [b]p6.[/b] if graphs of $y = \frac54 x + m$ and $y = \frac32 x + n$ intersect at $(16, 27)$, what is the value of $m + n$? [b]p7.[/b] Bryan is hitting the alphabet keys on his keyboard at random. If the probability he spells out ABMC at least once after hitting $6$ keys is $\frac{a}{b^c}$ , for positive integers $a$, $b$, $c$ where $b$, $c$ are both as small as possible, find $a+b+c$. Note that the letters ABMC must be adjacent for it to count: AEBMCC should not be considered as correctly spelling out ABMC. [b]p8.[/b] It takes a Daniel twenty minutes to change a light bulb. It takes a Raymond thirty minutes to change a light bulb. It takes a Bryan forty-five minutes to change a light bulb. In the time that it takes two Daniels, three Raymonds, and one and a half Bryans to change $42$ light bulbs, how many light bulbs could half a Raymond change? Assume half a person can work half as productively as a whole person. [b]p9.[/b] Find the value of $5a + 4b + 3c + 2d + e$ given $a, b, c, d, e$ are real numbers satisfying the following equations: $$a^2 = 2e + 23$$ $$b^2 = 10a - 34$$ $$c^2 = 8b - 23$$ $$d^2 = 6c - 14$$ $$e^2 = 4d - 7.$$ [b]p10.[/b] How many integers between $1$ and $1000$ contain exactly two $1$’s when written in base $2$? [b]p11.[/b] Joe has lost his $2$ sets of keys. However, he knows that he placed his keys in one of his $12$ mailboxes, each labeled with a different positive integer from $1$ to $12$. Joe plans on opening the $2$ mailbox labeled $1$ to see if any of his keys are there. However, a strong gust of wind blows by, opening mailboxes $11$ and $12$, revealing that they are empty. If Joe decides to open one of the mailboxes labeled $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $8$, $9$ , or $10$, the probability that he finds at least one of his sets of keys can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$, where a and b are relatively prime positive integers. Find the sum $a + b$. Note that a single mailbox can contain $0$, $1$, or $2$ sets of keys, and the mailboxes his sets of keys were placed in are determined independently at random. [b]p12.[/b] As we all know, the top scientists have recently proved that the Earth is a flat disc. Bob is standing on Earth. If he takes the shortest path to the edge, he will fall off after walking $1$ meter. If he instead turns $90$ degrees away from the shortest path and walks towards the edge, he will fall off after $3$ meters. Compute the radius of the Earth. [b]p13.[/b] There are $999$ numbers that are repeating decimals of the form $0.abcabcabc...$ . The sum of all of the numbers of this form that do not have a $1$ or $2$ in their decimal representation can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for relatively prime positive integers $a$, $b$. Find $a + b$. [b]p14.[/b] An ant is crawling along the edges of a sugar cube. Every second, it travels along an edge to another adjacent vertex randomly, interested in the sugar it notices. Unfortunately, the cube is about to be added to some scalding coffee! In $10$ seconds, it must return to its initial vertex, so it can get off and escape. If the probability the ant will avoid a tragic doom can be expressed as $\frac{a}{3^{10}}$ , where $a$ is a positive integer, find $a$. Clarification: The ant needs to be on its initial vertex in exactly $10$ seconds, no more or less. [b]p15.[/b] Raymond’s new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Collector’s book arrived in the mail! The book’s pages measure $4\sqrt3$ inches by $12$ inches, and are bound on the longer side. If Raymond keeps one corner in the same plane as the book, what is the total area one of the corners can travel without ripping the page? If the desired area in square inches is $a\pi+b\sqrt{c}$ where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are integers and $c$ is squarefree, find $a + b + c$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].
Let $0<p<1$ be given. Initially, we have $n$ coins, all of which have probability $p$ of landing on heads, and probability $1-p$ of landing on tails (the results of the tosses are independent of each other). In each round, we toss our coins and remove those that result in heads. We keep repeating this until all our coins are removed. Let $k_n$ denote the expected number of rounds that are needed to get rid of all the coins. Prove that there exists $c>0$ for which the following inequality holds for all $n>0$ \[c\bigg(1+\frac{1}{2}+\cdots+\frac{1}{n}\bigg)<k_n<1+c\bigg(1+\frac{1}{2}+\cdots+\frac{1}{n}\bigg).\]
You are given some equilateral triangles and squares, all with side length 1, and asked to form convex $n$ sided polygons using these pieces. If both types must be used, what are the possible values of $n$, assuming that there is sufficient supply of the pieces?
Does there exist a polynomial $P(x)$ with integral coefficients such that $P(1+\sqrt 3) = 2+\sqrt 3$ and $P(3+\sqrt 5) = 3+\sqrt 5 $? [i]Proposed by Alexander S. Golovanov, Russia[/i]
The sequence of positive integers $a_1$, $a_2$,$...$ is such that for each $n = 1$,$2$, $...$ the quadratic equation $$a_{n+2}x^2 + a_{n+1}x+ a_n = 0$$ has a real root. Can the sequence consist of (a) $10 $ terms, (b) an infinite number of terms? (A Shapovalov)