Let $f(a)$ be the largest integer less than or equal to the fourth root of " $a$". Calculate $$f(1)+f(2)+...+f(2005).$$

Find all polynomials $P(x)$ of the smallest possible degree with the following properties: (i) The leading coefficient is $200$; (ii) The coefficient at the smallest non-vanishing power is $2$; (iii) The sum of all the coefficients is $4$; (iv) $P(-1) = 0, P(2) = 6, P(3) = 8$.

Let be three complex numbers $ a,b,c $ such that $ |a|=|b|=|c|=1=a^2+b^2+c^2. $ Calculate $ \left| a^{2019} +b^{2019} +c^{2019} \right| . $ [i]Costică Ambrinoc[/i]

Let $a<b$ be five-digit palindromes (without leading zeroes) such that there is no other five-digit palindrome strictly between $a$ and $b$. What are all possible values of $b-a$? (A number is a palindrome if it reads the same forwards and backwards in base $10$.)

Find all values of $a$ such that absolute value of one of the roots of the equation $x^2 + (a - 2)x - 2a^2 + 5a - 3 = 0$ is twice of absolute value of the other root.

Let $P(x)$ be the unique polynomial of minimal degree with the following properties: $P(x)$ has leading coefficient $1,$ $1$ is a root of $P(x) - 1,$ $2$ is a root of $P(x-2),$ $3$ is a root of $P(3x),$ $4$ is a root of $4P(x)$ The roots of $P(x)$ are integers, with one exception. The root that is not an integer can be written in the form $\frac{m}{n}$, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is $m+n$? $\textbf{(A) }41\qquad\textbf{(B) }43\qquad\textbf{(C) }45\qquad\textbf{(D) }47\qquad\textbf{(E) }49$

Find all functions $ f:\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} $ that verify, for any nonzero real number $ x $ the relation $$ xf(x/a)-f(a/x)=b, $$ where $ a\neq 0,b $ are two real numbers. [i]Dan Popescu[/i]

Let $k$ be a natural number such that $k\ge 7$. How many $(x,y)$ such that $0\le x,y<2^k$ satisfy the equation $73^{73^x}\equiv 9^{9^y} \pmod {2^k}$? [i]Proposed by Mahyar Sefidgaran[/i]

Let $ABC$ be a right triangle with $\angle B=90^{\circ}$. Point $D$ lies on the line $CB$ such that $B$ is between $D$ and $C$. Let $E$ be the midpoint of $AD$ and let $F$ be the seconf intersection point of the circumcircle of $\triangle ACD$ and the circumcircle of $\triangle BDE$. Prove that as $D$ varies, the line $EF$ passes through a fixed point.

Prove that for any convex quadrilateral it is always possible to cut out three smaller quadrilaterals similar to the original one with the scale factor equal to 1/2. (The angles of a smaller quadrilateral are equal to the corresponding original angles and the sides are twice smaller then the corresponding sides of the original quadrilateral.)

The faces of a box with integer edge lengths are painted green. The box is partitioned into unit cubes. Find the dimensions of the box if the number of unit cubes with no green face is one third of the total number of cubes.

Let $a$, $b$ $c$ be the natural numbers, such that every digit occurs exactly the same number of times in each of the numbers $a$, $b$, $c$. Is it possible that $a + b + c = 10^{1001}$? Justify your answer.

Consider a standard twelve-hour clock whose hour and minute hands move continuously. Let $m$ be an integer, with $1 \leq m \leq 720$. At precisely $m$ minutes after 12:00, the angle made by the hour hand and minute hand is exactly $1^\circ$. Determine all possible values of $m$.

King Radford of Peiza is hosting a banquet in his palace. The King has an enormous circular table with $2021$ chairs around it. At The King's birthday celebration, he is sitting in his throne (one of the $2021$ chairs) and the other $2020$ chairs are filled with guests, with the shortest guest sitting to the King's left and the remaining guests seated in increasing order of height from there around the table. The King announces that everybody else must get up from their chairs, run around the table, and sit back down in some chair. After doing this, The King notices that the person seated to his left is different from the person who was previously seated to his left. Each other person at the table also notices that the person sitting to their left is different. Find a closed form expression for the number of ways the people could be sitting around the table at the end. You may use the notation $D_{n},$ the number of derangements of a set of size $n$, as part of your expression.

The International Mathematical Olympiad is being organized in Japan, where a folklore belief is that the number $4$ brings bad luck. The opening ceremony takes place at the Grand Theatre where each row has the capacity of $55$ seats. What is the maximum number of contestants that can be seated in a single row with the restriction that no two of them are $4$ seats apart (so that bad luck during the competition is avoided)?

Fix positive integers $k,n$. A candy vending machine has many different colours of candy, where there are $2n$ candies of each colour. A couple of kids each buys from the vending machine $2$ candies of different colours. Given that for any $k+1$ kids there are two kids who have at least one colour of candy in common, find the maximum number of kids.

We examine the following two sequences: The Fibonacci sequence: $F_{0}= 0, F_{1}= 1, F_{n}= F_{n-1}+F_{n-2 }$ for $n \geq 2$; The Lucas sequence: $L_{0}= 2, L_{1}= 1, L_{n}= L_{n-1}+L_{n-2}$ for $n \geq 2$. It is known that for all $n \geq 0$ \[F_{n}=\frac{\alpha^{n}-\beta^{n}}{\sqrt{5}},L_{n}=\alpha^{n}+\beta^{n},\] where $\alpha=\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2},\beta=\frac{1-\sqrt{5}}{2}$. These formulae can be used without proof. Prove that $F_{n-1}F_{n}F_{n+1}L_{n-1}L_{n}L_{n+1}(n \geq 2)$ is not a perfect square.

Given is the equilateral triangle $ABC$ with center $M$. On $CA$ and $CB$ the respective points $D$ and $E$ lie such that $CD = CE$. $F$ is such that $DMFB$ is a parallelogram. Prove that $\vartriangle MEF$ is equilateral.

Integers $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$ satisfy $$1<a_1<a_2<\ldots < a_n < 2a_1.$$ If $m$ is the number of distinct prime factors of $a_1a_2\cdots a_n$, then prove that $$(a_1a_2\cdots a_n)^{m-1}\geq (n!)^m.$$

For some positive integer $n$, a coin will be flipped $n$ times to obtain a sequence of $n$ heads and tails. For each flip of the coin, there is probability $p$ of obtaining a head and probability $1-p$ of obtaining a tail, where $0<p<1$ is a rational number. Kim writes all $2^n$ possible sequences of $n$ heads and tails in two columns, with some sequences in the left column and the remaining sequences in the right column. Kim would like the sequence produced by the coin flips to appear in the left column with probability $1/2$. Determine all pairs $(n,p)$ for which this is possible.

A tetrahedron $ABCD$ is give. A line $\ell$ meets the planes $ABC,BCD,CDA,DAB$ at points $D_0,A_0,B_0,C_0$ respectively. Let $P$ be an arbitrary point not lying on $\ell$ and the planes of the faces, and $A_1,B_1,C_1,D_1$ be the second common points of lines $PA_0,PB_0,PC_0,PD_0$ with the spheres $PBCD,PCDA,PDAB,PABC$ respectively. Prove $P,A_1,B_1,C_1,D_1$ lie on a circle.

A lattice point in the coordinate plane with origin $O$ is called invisible if the segment $OA$ contains a lattice point other than $O,A$. Let $L$ be a positive integer. Show that there exists a square with side length $L$ and sides parallel to the coordinate axes, such that all points in the square are invisible.

A triangle is said to be the Heron triangle if it has integer sides and integer area. In a Heron triangle, the sides a; b; c satisfy the equation b=a(a-c). Prove that the triangle is isosceles.

Show that $3x^5 +5x^3 -8x$ is divisible by $120$ for any integer $x$

$F$* is the multiplicative group of the field $F$. $F$* is of finitely generated. Is it true that $F$* is cyclic? Additional question: (wasn’t at the olympiad) $K$* is the multiplicative group of the field $K$. $L \subseteq $$K$* is a finitely generated subgroup. Is it true that $L$ is cyclic?