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If $a$, $b$ and $c$ are real numbers such that $ab = 31$, $ac = 13$, and $bc = 5$, compute the product of all possible values of $abc$.
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Show that there are positive real numbers $a_0, a_1, \dots, a_n$ such that for each choice of signs the polynomial $$\pm a_nx^n\pm a_{n-1}x^{n-1} \pm \dots \pm a_1x \pm a_0$$ has $n$ distinct real roots. (Proposed by Stephan Neupert, TUM, München)
Given complex numbers $x,y,z$, with $|x|^2+|y|^2+|z|^2=1$. Prove that: $$|x^3+y^3+z^3-3xyz| \le 1$$
p1. $A$ is a set of numbers. The set $A$ is closed to subtraction, meaning that the result of subtracting two numbers in $A$ will be returns a number in $A$ as well. If it is known that two members of $A$ are $4$ and $9$, show that: a. $0\in A$ b. $13 \in A$ c. $74 \in A$ d. Next, list all the members of the set $A$ . p2. $(2, 0, 4, 1)$ is one of the solutions/answers of $x_1+x_2+x_3+x_4=7$. If all solutions belong on the set of not negative integers , specify as many possible solutions/answers from $x_1+x_2+x_3+x_4=7$ p3. Adi is an employee at a textile company on duty save data. One time Adi was asked by the company leadership to prepare data on production increases over five periods. After searched by Adi only found four data on the increase, namely $4\%$, $9\%$, $7\%$, and $5\%$. One more data, namely the $5$th data, was not found. Investigate increase of 5th data production, if Adi only remembers that the arithmetic mean and median of the five data are the same. p4. Find all pairs of integers $(x,y)$ that satisfy the system of the following equations: $$\left\{\begin{array}{l} x(y+1)=y^2-1 \\ y(x+1)=x^2-1 \end{array} \right. $$ p5. Given the following image. $ABCD$ is square, and $E$ is any point outside the square $ABCD$. Investigate whether the relationship $AE^2 + CE^2 = BE^2 +DE^2$ holds in the picture below. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/5/a339b0e4df8407f97a4df9d7e1aa47283553c1.png[/img]
[i]25 problems for 30 minutes[/i] [b]p1.[/b] Alisha has $6$ cupcakes and Tyrone has $10$ brownies. Tyrone gives some of his brownies to Alisha so that she has three times as many desserts as Tyrone. How many desserts did Tyrone give to Alisha? [b]p2.[/b] Bisky adds one to her favorite number. She then divides the result by $2$, and gets $56$. What is her favorite number? [b]p3.[/b] What is the maximum number of points at which a circle and a square can intersect? [b]p4.[/b] An integer $N$ leaves a remainder of 66 when divided by $120$. Find the remainder when $N$ is divided by $24$. [b]p5.[/b] $7$ people are chosen to run for student council. How many ways are there to pick $1$ president, $1$ vice president, and $1$ secretary? [b]p6.[/b] Anya, Beth, Chloe, and Dmitri are all close friends, and like to make group chats to talk. How many group chats can be made if Dmitri, the gossip, must always be in the group chat and Anya is never included in them? Group chats must have more than one person. [b]p7.[/b] There exists a telephone pole of height $24$ feet. From the top of this pole, there are two wires reaching the ground in opposite directions, with one wire $25$ feet, and the other wire 40 feet. What is the distance (in feet) between the places where the wires hit the ground? [b]p8.[/b] Tarik is dressing up for a job-interview. He can wear a chill, business, or casual outfit. If he wears a chill oufit, he must wear a t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops. He has eight of the first, seven of the second, and three of the third. If he wears a business outfit, he must wear a blazer, a tie, and khakis; he has two of the first, six of the second, and five of the third; finally, he can also choose the casual style, for which he has three hoodies, nine jeans, and two pairs of sneakers. How many different combinations are there for his interview? [b]p9.[/b] If a non-degenerate triangle has sides $11$ and $13$, what is the sum of all possibilities for the third side length, given that the third side has integral length? [b]p10.[/b] An unknown disease is spreading fast. For every person who has the this illness, it is spread on to $3$ new people each day. If Mary is the only person with this illness at the start of Monday, how many people will have contracted the illness at the end of Thursday? [b]p11.[/b] Gob the giant takes a walk around the equator on Mars, completing one lap around Mars. If Gob’s head is $\frac{13}{\pi}$ meters above his feet, how much farther (in meters) did his head travel than his feet? [b]p12.[/b] $2022$ leaves a remainder of $2$, $6$, $9$, and $7$ when divided by $4$, $7$, $11$, and $13$ respectively. What is the next positive integer which has the same remainders to these divisors? [b]p13.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $AB = 20$, $BC = 21$, and $AC = 29$. Let D be a point on $AC$ such that $\angle ABD = 45^o$. If the length of $AD$ can be represented as $\frac{a}{b}$ , what is $a + b$? [b]p14.[/b] Find the number of primes less than $100$ such that when $1$ is added to the prime, the resulting number has $3$ divisors. [b]p15.[/b] What is the coefficient of the term $a^4z^3$ in the expanded form of $(z - 2a)^7$? [b]p16.[/b] Let $\ell$ and $m$ be lines with slopes $-2$, $1$ respectively. Compute $|s_1 \cdot s_2|$ if $s_1$, $s_2$ represent the slopes of the two distinct angle bisectors of $\ell$ and $m$. [b]p17.[/b] R1D2, Lord Byron, and Ryon are creatures from various planets. They are collecting monkeys for King Avanish, who only understands octal (base $8$). R1D2 only understands binary (base $2$), Lord Byron only understands quarternary (base $4$), and Ryon only understands decimal (base $10$). R1D2 says he has $101010101$ monkeys and adds his monkey to the pile. Lord Byron says he has $3231$ monkeys and adds them to the pile. Ryon says he has $576$ monkeys and adds them to the pile. If King Avanish says he has $x$ monkeys, what is the value of $x$? [b]p18.[/b] A quadrilateral is defined by the origin, $(3, 0)$, $(0, 10)$, and the vertex of the graph of $y = x^2 -8x+22$. What is the area of this quadrilateral? [b]p19.[/b] There is a sphere-container, filled to the brim with fruit punch, of diameter $6$. The contents of this container are poured into a rectangular prism container, again filled to the brim, of dimensions $2\pi$ by $4$ by $3$. However, there is an excess amount in the original container. If all the excess drink is poured into conical containers with diameter $4$ and height $3$, how many containers will be used? [b]p20.[/b] Brian is shooting arrows at a target, made of concurrent circles of radius $1$, $2$, $3$, and $4$. He gets $10$ points for hitting the innermost circle, $8$ for hitting between the smallest and second smallest circles, $5$ for between the second and third smallest circles, $2$ points for between the third smallest and outermost circle, and no points for missing the target. Assume for each shot he takes, there is a $20\%$ chance Brian will miss the target, but otherwise the chances of hitting each target are proportional to the area of the region. The chance that after three shots, Brian will have scored $15$ points can be expressed as $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m, n$. Find $m + n$. [b]p21.[/b] What is the largest possible integer value of $n$ such that $\frac{2n^3+n^2+7n-15}{2n+1}$ is an integer? [b]p22.[/b] Let $f(x, y) = x^3 + x^2y + xy^2 + y^3$. Compute $f(0, 2) + f(1, 3) +... f(9, 11).$ [b]p23.[/b] Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a triangle. Let $AM$ be a median from $A$. Let the perpendicular bisector of segment $\overline{AM}$ meet $AB$ and $AC$ at $D$, $E$ respectively. Given that $AE = 7$, $ME = MC$, and $BDEC$ is cyclic, then compute $AM^2$. [b]p24.[/b] Compute the number of ordered triples of positive integers $(a, b, c)$ such that $a \le 10$, $b \le 11$, $c \le 12$ and $a > b - 1$ and $b > c - 1$. [b]p25.[/b] For a positive integer $n$, denote by $\sigma (n)$ the the sum of the positive integer divisors of $n$. Given that $n + \sigma (n)$ is odd, how many possible values of $n$ are there from $1$ to $2022$, inclusive? PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].
The triangle $ABC$ is given. Let $P_1$ and $P_2$ be points on the side $AB$ such that $P_2$ lies on the segment $BP_1$ and $AP_1 = BP_2$. Similarly, $Q_1$ and $Q_2$ are points on the side $BC$ such that $Q_2$ lies on the segment $BQ_1$ and $BQ_1 = CQ_2$. The segments $P_1Q_2$ and $P_2Q_1$ intersect at the point $R{}$, and the circles $P_1P_2R$ and $Q_1Q_2R$ intersect a second time at the point $S{}$ lying inside the triangle $P_1Q_1R$. Let $M{}$ be the midpoint of the segment $AC$. Prove that the angles $P_1RS$ and $Q_1RM$ are equal.
A finite number of stones are [i]good[/i] when the weight of each of these stones is less than the total weight of the rest. It is known that arbitrary $n-1$ of the given $n$ stones is [i]good[/i]. Prove that it is possible to choose a [i]good[/i] triple from these stones.
Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral with $AB=CD$. Let $R,S$ be midpoints of sides $AD,BC$ respectively. Consider rays $AU, DV$ parallel with ray $RS$ and all of them point in the same direction. Show that $\angle BAU=\angle CDV$.
Charles has two six-sided dice. One of the dice is fair, and the other die is biased so that it comes up six with probability $\tfrac23,$ and each of the other five sides has probability $\tfrac{1}{15}.$ Charles chooses one of the two dice at random and rolls it three times. Given that the first two rolls are both sixes, the probability that the third roll will also be a six is $\tfrac{p}{q},$ where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $p+q$.
Let $S$ be the sum of all possible values of $a \cdot c$ such that $$a^3+3ab^2-72ab+432a=4c^3$$ if $a$, $b$, and $c$ are positive integers, $a+b > 11$, $a > b-13$, and $c \le 1000$. Find the sum of all distinct prime factors of $S$. [i]Proposed by Kevin Zhao[/i]
Fernanda decided to decorate a square blanket with a ribbon and buttons, placing a button in the center of each square where the ribbon passes and forming the design indicated in the figure. If Fernanda sews the first button in the shaded square on line $0$, on which line does she sew the $2007$th button? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/9/0c9c85ec6448ee3f6f363c8f4bcdd5209f53f6.png[/img]
For which pair $(A,B)$, \[ x^2+xy+y=A \\ \frac{y}{y-x}=B \] has no real roots? $ \textbf{(A)}\ (1/2,2) \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ (-1,1) \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ (\sqrt 2, \sqrt 2) \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ (1,1/2) \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ (2,2/3) $
Several sets of prime numbers, such as $ \{ 7, 83, 421, 659\}$ use each of the nine nonzero digits exactly once. What is the smallest possible sum such a set of primes could have? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 193\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 207\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 225\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 252\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 447$
Find the angle $BCA$ in the quadrilateral of the figure. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/0/2/974e23be54125cde8610a78254b59685833b5b.png[/img]
The graph $G$ is not $3$-coloured. Prove that $G$ can be divided into two graphs $M$ and $N$ such that $M$ is not $2$-coloured and $N$ is not $1$-coloured. [i]V. Dolnikov[/i]
A circle of radius $10$ is tangent to two adjacent sides of a square and intersects its two remaining sides at the endpoints of a diameter of the circle. Find the side length of the square.
$PQ$ is a diameter of a circle. $PR$ and $QS$ are chords with intersection at $T$. If $\angle PTQ= \theta$, determine the ratio of the area of $\triangle QTP$ to the area of $\triangle SRT$ (i.e. area of $\triangle QTP$/area of $\triangle SRT$) in terms of trigonometric functions of $\theta$
Let $x_{1}$, $x_{2}$, $\ldots$, $x_{n}$ be $n$ real numbers in $\left(\frac{1}{4},\frac{2}{3}\right)$. Find the minimal value of the expression: \[ \log_{\frac 32x_{1}}\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{36x_{2}^{2}}\right)+\log_{\frac 32x_{2}}\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{36x_{3}^{2}}\right)+\cdots+ \log_{\frac 32x_{n}}\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{36x_{1}^{2}}\right). \]
Suppose that a sequence $a_1,a_2,\ldots$ of positive real numbers satisfies \[a_{k+1}\geq\frac{ka_k}{a_k^2+(k-1)}\] for every positive integer $k$. Prove that $a_1+a_2+\ldots+a_n\geq n$ for every $n\geq2$.
It is known that there is a number $S$ such that if $ a+b+c+d = S$ and $\frac{1}{a}+ \frac{1}{b}+ \frac{1}{c}+ \frac{1}{d} = S$ $(a, b, c, d$ are different from zero and one$)$, then $\frac{1}{a- 1} ++ \frac{1}{b- 1} + \frac{1}{c- 1} + \frac{1}{d -1} = S.$ Find $S$.
Can we put intengers $1,2,\cdots,12$ on a circle, number them $a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_{12}$ in order. For any $1\leq i<j\leq12$, $|a_i-a_j|\neq|i-j|$?
Let $P(x)=x+1$ and $Q(x)=x^2+1.$ Consider all sequences $\langle(x_k,y_k)\rangle_{k\in\mathbb{N}}$ such that $(x_1,y_1)=(1,3)$ and $(x_{k+1},y_{k+1})$ is either $(P(x_k), Q(y_k))$ or $(Q(x_k),P(y_k))$ for each $k. $ We say that a positive integer $n$ is nice if $x_n=y_n$ holds in at least one of these sequences. Find all nice numbers.
In a plane, there is an infinite triangular grid consists of equilateral triangles whose lengths of the sides are equal to $ 1$, call the vertices of the triangles the lattice points, call two lattice points are adjacent if the distance between the two points is equal to $ 1;$ A jump game is played by two frogs $ A,B,$ "A jump" is called if the frogs jump from the point which it is lying on to its adjacent point, " A round jump of $ A,B$" is called if first $ A$ jumps and then $ B$ by the following rules: Rule (1): $ A$ jumps once arbitrarily, then $ B$ jumps once in the same direction, or twice in the opposite direction; Rule (2): when $ A,B$ sits on adjacent lattice points, they carry out Rule (1) finishing a round jump, or $ A$ jumps twice continually, keep adjacent with $ B$ every time, and $ B$ rests on previous position; If the original positions of $ A,B$ are adjacent lattice points, determine whether for $ A$ and $ B$,such that the one can exactly land on the original position of the other after a finite round jumps.
Find all primes that can be written both as a sum and as a difference of two primes (note that $ 1$ is not a prime).
Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be a monotonic function and $F:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ given by \[F(x)=\int_0^xf(t)\ \text{d}t.\] Prove that if $F$ has a finite derivative, then $f$ is continuous. [i]Dorin Andrica & Mihai Piticari[/i]