Let $x$ be a variable that can take any positive real value. For certain positive real constants $s$ and $t$, the value of $x^2 + \frac{s}{x}$ is minimized at $x = t$, and the value of $t^2\ln(2 + tx) + \frac{1}{x^2}$ is minimized at $x = s$. Compute the ordered pair $(s, t)$.

There is the number $1$ on the board at the beginning. If the number $a$ is written on the board, then we can also write a natural number $b$ such that $a + b + 1$ is a divisor of $a^2 + b^2 + 1$. Can any positive integer appear on the board after a certain time? Justify your answer.

An uncrossed belt is fitted without slack around two circular pulleys with radii of $14$ inches and $4$ inches. If the distance between the points of contact of the belt with the pulleys is $24$ inches, then the distance between the centers of the pulleys in inches is $\textbf{(A) }24\qquad\textbf{(B) }2\sqrt{119}\qquad\textbf{(C) }25\qquad\textbf{(D) }26\qquad \textbf{(E) }4\sqrt{35}$

Prove that for evey positive integer n, there exits a positive integer k such that $ 2^n | 19^k \minus{} 97$

From a deck of playing cards, four [i]threes[/i], four [i]fours[/i] and four [i]fives[/i] are selected and put down on a table with the main side up. Players $A$ and $B$ alternately take the cards one by one and put them on the pile. Player $A$ begins. A player after whose move the sum of values of the cards on the pile is (a) greater than 34; (b) greater than 37; loses the game. Which player has a winning strategy?

Evaluate \[\int_{\frac {\pi}{12}}^{\frac{\pi}{6}} \frac{\sin x-\cos x-x(\sin x+\cos x)+1}{x^2-x(\sin x+\cos x)+\sin x\cos x}\ dx.\]

For $n\geq k\geq 3$, let $X=\{1,2,...,n\}$ and let $F_{k}$ a the family of $k$-element subsets of $X$, any two of which have at most $k-2$ elements in common. Show that there exists a subset $M_{k}$ of $X$ with at least $[\log_{2}{n}]+1$ elements containing no subset in $F_{k}$.

A square in the coordinate plane has vertices whose $y$-coordinates are $0$, $1$, $4$, and $5$. What is the area of the square? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 16\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 17\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 25\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 26\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 27 $

Let $r$ be a nonzero real number. The values of $z$ which satisfy the equation \[ r^4z^4 + (10r^6-2r^2)z^2-16r^5z+(9r^8+10r^4+1) = 0 \] are plotted on the complex plane (i.e. using the real part of each root as the x-coordinate and the imaginary part as the y-coordinate). Show that the area of the convex quadrilateral with these points as vertices is independent of $r$, and find this area.

Let triangle$ABC(AB<AC)$ with incenter $I$ circumscribed in $\odot O$. Let $M,N$ be midpoint of arc $\widehat{BAC}$ and $\widehat{BC}$, respectively. $D$ lies on $\odot O$ so that $AD//BC$, and $E$ is tangency point of $A$-excircle of $\bigtriangleup ABC$. Point $F$ is in $\bigtriangleup ABC$ so that $FI//BC$ and $\angle BAF=\angle EAC$. Extend $NF$ to meet $\odot O$ at $G$, and extend $AG$ to meet line $IF$ at L. Let line $AF$ and $DI$ meet at $K$. Proof that $ML\bot NK$.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle. Let $K$ be a midpoint of $BC$ and $M$ be a point on the segment $AB$. $L=KM \cap AC$ and $C$ lies on the segment $AC$ between $A$ and $L$. Let $N$ be a midpoint of $ML$. $AN$ cuts circumcircle of $\Delta ABC$ in $S$ and $S \neq N$. Prove that circumcircle of $\Delta KSN$ is tangent to $BC$.

Let $ABCD$ and $ABEF$ be two squares situated in two perpendicular planes and let $O$ be the intersection of the lines $AE$ and $BF$. If $AB=4$ compute: a) the distance from $B$ to the line of intersection between the planes $(DOC)$ and $(DAF)$; b) the distance between the lines $AC$ and $BF$.

$(USS 1)$ Prove that for a natural number $n > 2, (n!)! > n[(n - 1)!]^{n!}.$

The number of solutions of $2^{2x}-3^{2y}=55$, in which $x$ and $y$ are integers, is: ${{ \textbf{(A)}\ 0 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 1\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 2\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 3}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{More than three, but finite} } $

We say that a positive integer is super odd if all of its digits are odd. For example, 1737 is super odd and 3051 is not. Find an even positive integer that cannot be express as a sum of two super odd numbers and explain why it is not possible to express it thus.

A median of an acute-angled triangle dissects it into two triangles. Prove that each of them can be covered by a semidisc congruent to a half of the circumdisc of the initial triangle.

Let be a ring that has the property that all its elements are the product of two idempotent elements of it. Show that: [b]a)[/b] $ 1 $ is the only unit of this ring. [b]b)[/b] this ring is Boolean.

Find all the three-digit numbers such that it equals to the arithmetic mean of the six numbers obtained by rearranging its digits.

Suppose that $a$ and $b$ are positive integers such that $\gcd(a^3 - b^3,(a-b)^3)$ is not divisible by any perfect square except $1.$ Given that $1 \le a-b \le 50,$ compute the number of possible values of $a-b$ across all such $a,b.$

A list of $2018$ numbers is created using the following procedure: the first number is $47$, the second number is $74$, and from there, each number is equal to the number formed by the last two digits of the sum of the two previous numbers:$$47, 74, 21, 95, 16, 11, \dots$$ Bruno squares each of the $2018$ numbers and sums them. Determine the remainder when this sum is divided by $8$.

Al, Betty, and Clara are in the same class of 50 students total, but are not friends with each other. Al is friends with 24 students, Betty is friends with 39, and Clara is friends with 20. What is the greatest number of students that could be friends with all 3 of them?

Let $B = (-1, 0)$ and $C = (1, 0)$ be fixed points on the coordinate plane. A nonempty, bounded subset $S$ of the plane is said to be [i]nice[/i] if $\text{(i)}$ there is a point $T$ in $S$ such that for every point $Q$ in $S$, the segment $TQ$ lies entirely in $S$; and $\text{(ii)}$ for any triangle $P_1P_2P_3$, there exists a unique point $A$ in $S$ and a permutation $\sigma$ of the indices $\{1, 2, 3\}$ for which triangles $ABC$ and $P_{\sigma(1)}P_{\sigma(2)}P_{\sigma(3)}$ are similar. Prove that there exist two distinct nice subsets $S$ and $S'$ of the set $\{(x, y) : x \geq 0, y \geq 0\}$ such that if $A \in S$ and $A' \in S'$ are the unique choices of points in $\text{(ii)}$, then the product $BA \cdot BA'$ is a constant independent of the triangle $P_1P_2P_3$.

Find all positive real numbers $p$ such that $\sqrt{a^2 + pb^2} +\sqrt{b^2 + pa^2} \ge a + b + (p - 1) \sqrt{ab}$ holds for any pair of positive real numbers $a, b$.

Given a cube of unit side. Let $A$ and $B$ be two opposite vertex. Determine the radius of the sphere, with center inside the cube, tangent to the three faces of the cube with common point $A$ and tangent to the three sides with common point $B$.

The vertices $X, Y , Z$ of an equilateral triangle $XYZ$ lie respectively on the sides $BC, CA, AB$ of an acute-angled triangle $ABC.$ Prove that the incenter of triangle $ABC$ lies inside triangle $XYZ.$ [i]Proposed by Nikolay Beluhov, Bulgaria[/i]