Found problems: 85335
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is $ 8$ miles southwest of downtown St. Paul and $ 10$ miles southeast of downtown Minneapolis. Which of the following is closest to the number of miles between downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 13\qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 14\qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 15\qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 16\qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 17$
Let $ ABCD$ be a chordal/cyclic quadrilateral. Consider points $ P,Q$ on $ AB$ and $ R,S$ on $ CD$ with
\[ \overline{AP}: \overline{PB} \equal{} \overline{CS}: \overline{SD}, \quad \overline{AQ}: \overline{QB} \equal{} \overline{CR}: \overline{RD}.\]
How to choose $ P,Q,R,S$ such that $ \overline{PR} \cdot \overline{AB} \plus{} \overline{QS} \cdot \overline{CD}$ is minimal?
Find all real-valued functions $f$ defined on pairs of real numbers, having the following property: for all real numbers $a, b, c$, the median of $f(a,b), f(b,c), f(c,a)$ equals the median of $a, b, c$.
(The [i]median[/i] of three real numbers, not necessarily distinct, is the number that is in the middle when the three numbers are arranged in nondecreasing order.)
What is the smallest number $n$ such that you can choose $n$ distinct odd integers $a_1, a_2,..., a_n$, none of them $1$, with $\frac{1}{a_1}+ \frac{1}{a_2}+ ...+ \frac{1}{a_n}= 1$?
A finite set of [i]axis parallel [/i]cubes in space has the property of each point of the room is located in a maximum of M different cubes. Show that you can divide the amount of cubes in $8 (M - 1) + 1$ subsets (or less) with the property that the cubes in each subset lacks common points. (An axis parallel cube is a cube whose edges are parallel to the coordinate axes.)
Find all continuous functions $f:[0,1]\to [0,1]$ for which there exists a positive integer $n$ such that $f^{n}(x)=x$ for $x \in [0,1]$ where $f^{0} (x)=x$ and $f^{k+1}=f(f^{k}(x))$ for every positive integer $k$.
Find all the integral solutions of the equation $\left( 1+\frac{1}{x}\right)^{x+1}=\left( 1+\frac{1}{1999}\right)^{1999}$
([b]4[/b]) Let $ f(x) \equal{} \sin^6\left(\frac {x}{4}\right) \plus{} \cos^6\left(\frac {x}{4}\right)$ for all real numbers $ x$. Determine $ f^{(2008)}(0)$ (i.e., $ f$ differentiated $ 2008$ times and then evaluated at $ x \equal{} 0$).
Let $a$ and $b$ be integers such that the remainder of dividing $a$ by $17$ is equal to the remainder of dividing $b$ by $19$, and the remainder of dividing $a$ by $19$ is equal to the remainder of dividing $b$ by $17$. Determine the possible values of the remainder of $a + b$ when divided by $323$.
A cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ is given. Point $K_1, K_2$ lie on the segment $AB$, points $L_1, L_2$ on the segment $BC$, points $M_1, M_2$ on the segment $CD$ and points $N_1, N_2$ on the segment $DA$. Moreover, points $K_1, K_2, L_1, L_2, M_1, M_2, N_1, N_2$ lie on a circle $\omega$ in that order. Denote by $a, b, c, d$ the lengths of the arcs $N_2K_1, K_2L_1, L_2M_1, M
_2N_1$ of the circle $\omega$ not containing points $K_2, L_2, M_2, N_2$, respectively. Prove that
\begin{align*}
a+c=b+d.
\end{align*}
For a finite set $A$ of positive integers, a partition of $A$ into two disjoint nonempty subsets $A_1$ and $A_2$ is $\textit{good}$ if the least common multiple of the elements in $A_1$ is equal to the greatest common divisor of the elements in $A_2$. Determine the minimum value of $n$ such that there exists a set of $n$ positive integers with exactly $2015$ good partitions.
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Prove that \[\frac{1}{3}+\cdots+\frac{1}{2n+1}\] is not an integer.
Let $ABCD$ be an isosceles trapezoid with $\overline{BC}\parallel \overline{AD}$ and $AB=CD$. Points $X$ and $Y$ lie on diagonal $\overline{AC}$ with $X$ between $A$ and $Y$, as shown in the figure. Suppose $\angle AXD = \angle BYC = 90^\circ$, $AX = 3$, $XY = 1$, and $YC = 2$. What is the area of $ABCD?$
[asy]
size(6cm);
usepackage("mathptmx");
import geometry;
void perp(picture pic=currentpicture,
pair O, pair M, pair B, real size=5,
pen p=currentpen, filltype filltype = NoFill){
perpendicularmark(pic, M,unit(unit(O-M)+unit(B-M)),size,p,filltype);
}
pen p=black+linewidth(1),q=black+linewidth(5);
pair C=(0,0),Y=(2,0),X=(3,0),A=(6,0),B=(2,sqrt(5.6)),D=(3,-sqrt(12.6));
draw(A--B--C--D--cycle,p);
draw(A--C,p);
draw(B--Y,p);
draw(D--X,p);
dot(A,q);
dot(B,q);
dot(C,q);
dot(D,q);
dot(X,q);
dot(Y,q);
label("2",C--Y,S);
label("1",Y--X,S);
label("3",X--A,S);
label("$A$",A,E);
label("$B$",B,N);
label("$C$",C,W);
label("$D$",D,S);
label("$Y$",Y,sqrt(2)*NE);
label("$X$",X,N);
perp(B,Y,C,8,p);
perp(A,X,D,8,p);
[/asy]
$\textbf{(A)}\: 15\qquad\textbf{(B)} \: 5\sqrt{11}\qquad\textbf{(C)} \: 3\sqrt{35}\qquad\textbf{(D)} \: 18\qquad\textbf{(E)} \: 7\sqrt{7}$
A positive integer is called special if its digits can be arranged to form an integer divisible by $4$. How many of the integers from $1$ to $2018$ are special?
Find all triples of natural $ (x,y,n)$ satisfying the condition:
\[ \frac {x! \plus{} y!}{n!} \equal{} 3^n
\]
Define $ 0! \equal{} 1$
Let $ ABCDEF$ be a convex hexagon with $ AB \equal{} BC \equal{} CD$ and $ DE \equal{} EF \equal{} FA$, such that $ \angle BCD \equal{} \angle EFA \equal{} \frac {\pi}{3}$. Suppose $ G$ and $ H$ are points in the interior of the hexagon such that $ \angle AGB \equal{} \angle DHE \equal{} \frac {2\pi}{3}$. Prove that $ AG \plus{} GB \plus{} GH \plus{} DH \plus{} HE \geq CF$.
An integer $1$ is written on the blackboard. We are allowed to perform the following operations:to change the number $x$ to $3x+1$ of to $[\frac{x}{2}]$. Prove that we can get all positive integers using this operations.
Three fair six-sided dice are labeled with the numbers $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\},$ $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\},$ and $\{1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9\},$ respectively. All three dice are rolled. The probability that at least two of the dice have the same value is $m/n,$ where $m, n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $100m + n.$
[i]Proposed by Michael Tang[/i]
Prove that there are infinitely many integers can't be written as $$\frac{p^a-p^b}{p^c-p^d}$$, with a,b,c,d are arbitrary integers and p is an arbitrary prime such that the fraction is an integer too.
$SU_2(\mathbb{C})=\left\{\begin{pmatrix} z & w \\ -\bar{w} & \bar{z} \end{pmatrix} : z,w\in\mathbb{C} , z\bar{z}+w\bar{w}=1\right\}$
A and B are 2 elements of the above matrix group and have eigenvalues $e^{i\theta_1}$ , $e^{-i\theta_1}$ and $e^{i\theta_2}$ , $e^{-i\theta_2}$respectively, where $0\leq\theta_i\leq\pi$ . Prove that if AB has eigenvalue $e^{i\theta_3}$ , then $\theta_3$ satisfies the inequality $|\theta_1-\theta_2|\leq\theta_3\leq \min\{\theta_1+\theta_2 , 2\pi-(\theta_1+\theta_2)\}$
We say that a point inside a triangle is good if the lengths of the cevians passing through this point are inversely proportional to the respective side lengths. Find all the triangles for which the number of good points is maximal.
(A.Zaslavsky, B.Frenkin)
Triangle $ABC$ is given. Consider ellipse $ \Omega _1$, passes through $C$ with focuses in $A$ and $B$. Similarly define ellipses $ \Omega _2 , \Omega _3$ with focuses $B,C$ and $C,A$ respectively. Prove, that if all ellipses have common point $D$ then $A,B,C,D$ lies on the circle.
Ellipse with focuses $X,Y$, passes through $Z$- locus of point $T$, such that $XT+YT=XZ+YZ$
Let $n$ be a positive integer, $1<n<2018$. For each $i=1, 2, \ldots ,n$ we define the polynomial $S_i(x)=x^2-2018x+l_i$, where $l_1, l_2, \ldots, l_n$ are distinct positive integers. If the polynomial $S_1(x)+S_2(x)+\cdots+S_n(x)$ has at least an integer root, prove that at least one of the $l_i$ is greater or equal than $2018$.
Prove that for positive integers $x_{1},...,x_{n}$, we have
$\prod_{1\leq i<j\leq n}(j-i)|\prod_{1\leq i<j\leq n}(x_{j}-x_{i})$
In some village there are $1000$ inhabitants. Every day, each of them shares the news they learned yesterday with all their friends. It is known that any news becomes known to all residents of the village. Prove that it is possible to select $90$ residents so that if you tell all of them at the same time some news, then in $10$ days it will become known to all residents of the village.