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jlacosta
Mar 2, 2025
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Reflections
junlongsun   5
N 23 minutes ago by junlongsun
2024 State S25:
A beetle starts at the point with coordinates (8, 5), travels to a point on the line
y = 2, then to some point on the line y = x, and then finally travels to the point
with coordinates (5, 4). One possible path that the beetle might follow is shown.
What is the length of the shortest possible path
that the beetle could take? Express your answer
in simplest radical form

I've heard people talking about reflecting over y=x and y=2, how does that work?
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junlongsun
2 hours ago
junlongsun
23 minutes ago
Geometric problem
Notsurefornoworever   0
43 minutes ago
Let ABC be a right triangle with a right angle BCA. Let CD be the altitude from vertex C to AB. Prove that the distances from the point D to the legs is proportional to the lengths of the legs.
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Notsurefornoworever
43 minutes ago
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Sequence interesting problem
vickyricky   10
N an hour ago by kamatadu
Let $ a_{0} =1$ and $ b_{0} =1$ . Define $a_{n} , b_{n} $ for $ n\ge 1$ as $a_{n}=a_{n-1}+2b_{n-1} $ , $b_{n}=a_{n-1}+b_{n-1} $ . Prove that $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{a_n}{b_n}$ exists and find it's value .
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vickyricky
Jun 6, 2020
kamatadu
an hour ago
Very nice Darboux epsilon-delta
CatalinBordea   1
N an hour ago by QQQ43
Source: Romanian National Olympiad 2000, Grade XI, Problem 4
Let $ f:\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} $ be a function that satisfies the conditions:
$ \text{(i)}\quad \lim_{x\to\infty} (f\circ f) (x) =\infty =-\lim_{x\to -\infty} (f\circ f) (x) $
$ \text{(ii)}\quad f $ has Darboux’s property

a) Prove that the limits of $ f $ at $ \pm\infty $ exist.
b) Is possible for the limits from a) to be finite?
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CatalinBordea
Oct 2, 2018
QQQ43
an hour ago
k mathcounts advice pls
muuheng   3
N an hour ago by aoh11
hi i have around 9 days until my state round competition, and my chapter score was 32. My state isn't that competitive, so i think the cutoff for nats last year was like 31, and i scored second in my chapter but i'm from a less competitive chapter. I think tenth place this year for the most competitive chapter in my state got 34? (as well as 11th thru maybe 20th place). So can anyone whose like orz give me like advice on how to lock in 9 days so maybe i can make it to state top 10 or maybe even nationals (i'm only hoping for top 10 but any help is appreciated :love: ). also anyone wanna guess my state for fun. and maybe if you've taken the state yet tell me how it went pretty pls
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muuheng
Today at 5:45 AM
aoh11
an hour ago
My MATHCOUNTS journey + I need advice
nitride   22
N an hour ago by aoh11
So I don't really care if I dox myself but I went to one of the single worst chapters in all of Florida, the Indian river chapter(even the runner of mathcounts states was sayin we would lose to osprey in states). I don't exactly know what my score is, but all I know is that I got 1st place sprint and chapter but then sold CD. If I had to guess, my score was around the 30-37 range. I also mocked at around a 70 on amc 10. My questions are:
1.
What are my chances of me getting nats qual
2.
Should I study the day before the competition
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nitride
Today at 1:36 AM
aoh11
an hour ago
Most Evil and Brutal Integral Ever Officially Proposed for an Integration Bee
Silver08   3
N 2 hours ago by Silver08
Source: UK University Integration Bee 2024-2025 Round 2 Relay (Singapore)
Compute: \[ \int_{1}^{2}e^{x( x+\sqrt{x^2-1} )}dx \]
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Silver08
Mar 6, 2025
Silver08
2 hours ago
IMC 2018 P4
ThE-dArK-lOrD   17
N 4 hours ago by sangsidhya
Source: IMC 2018 P4
Find all differentiable functions $f:(0,\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ such that
$$f(b)-f(a)=(b-a)f’(\sqrt{ab}) \qquad \text{for all}\qquad a,b>0.$$
Proposed by Orif Ibrogimov, National University of Uzbekistan
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ThE-dArK-lOrD
Jul 24, 2018
sangsidhya
4 hours ago
f(x)=x-xe^(-1/x)
Sayan   6
N 4 hours ago by kamatadu
Source: ISI (BS) 2006 #6
(a) Let $f(x)=x-xe^{-\frac1x}, \ \ x>0$. Show that $f(x)$ is an increasing function on $(0,\infty)$, and $\lim_{x\to\infty} f(x)=1$.

(b) Using part (a) or otherwise, draw graphs of $y=x-1, y=x, y=x+1$, and $y=xe^{-\frac{1}{|x|}}$ for $-\infty<x<\infty$ using the same $X$ and $Y$ axes.
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Sayan
Jun 2, 2012
kamatadu
4 hours ago
Square of a rational matrix of dimension 2
loup blanc   7
N Today at 11:53 AM by ysharifi
The following exercise was posted -two months ago- on the Website StackExchange; cf.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5006488/image-of-the-squaring-function-on-mathcalm-2-mathbbq
There was no solution on Stack.

-Statement of the exercise-
We consider the matrix function $f:X\in M_2(\mathbb{Q})\mapsto X^2\in M_2(\mathbb{Q})$.
Find the image of $f$.
In other words, give a method to decide whether a given matrix has or does not have at least a square root
in $M_2(\mathbb{Q})$; if the answer is yes, then give a method to calculate at least one of its roots.
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loup blanc
Feb 17, 2025
ysharifi
Today at 11:53 AM
find the isomorphism
nguyenalex   10
N Today at 11:38 AM by Royrik123456
I have the following exercise:

Let $E$ be an algebraic extension of $K$, and let $F$ be an algebraic closure of $K$ containing $E$. Prove that if $\sigma : E \to F$ is an embedding such that $\sigma(c) = c$ for all $c \in K$, then $\sigma$ extends to an automorphism of $F$.

My attempt:

Theorem (*): Suppose that $E$ is an algebraic extension of the field $K$, $F$ is an algebraically closed field, and $\sigma: K \to F$ is an embedding. Then, there exists an embedding $\tau: E \to F$ that extends $\sigma$. Moreover, if $E$ is an algebraic closure of $K$ and $F$ is an algebraic extension of $\sigma(K)$, then $\tau$ is an isomorphism.

Back to our main problem:

Since $K \subset E$ and $F$ is an algebraic extension of $K$, it follows that $F$ is an algebraic extension of $E$. Assume that there exists an embedding $\sigma : E \to F$ such that $\sigma(c) = c$ for all $c \in K$. By Theorem (*), there exists an embedding $\tau : F \to F$ that extends $\sigma$. Since $F$ is algebraically closed, $\tau(F)$ is also an algebraically closed field.

Furthermore, because $\sigma(c) = c$ for all $c \in K$ and $\tau$ is an extension of $\sigma$, we have
$$K = \sigma(K) \subset K \subset \sigma(E) \subset \tau(F) \subset F.$$
This implies that $F$ is an algebraic extension of $\tau(F)$. We conclude that $F = \tau(F)$, meaning that $\tau$ is an automorphism. (Finished!!)

Let choose $F = A$ be the field of algebraic numbers, $K=\mathbb{Q}$. Consider the embedding $\sigma: \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2}) \to \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2}) \subset A$ defined by
$$
a + b\sqrt{2} \mapsto a - b\sqrt{2}.
$$Then, according to the exercise above, $\sigma$ extends to an isomorphism
$$
\bar{\sigma}: A \to A.
$$How should we interpret $\bar{\sigma}$?
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nguyenalex
Yesterday at 3:58 PM
Royrik123456
Today at 11:38 AM
Generating functions and recursions smelling from 1000 km
Assassino9931   12
N Today at 11:22 AM by sangsidhya
Source: IMC 2022 Day 1 Problem 3
Let $p$ be a prime number. A flea is staying at point $0$ of the real line. At each minute,
the flea has three possibilities: to stay at its position, or to move by $1$ to the left or to the right.
After $p-1$ minutes, it wants to be at $0$ again. Denote by $f(p)$ the number of its strategies to do this
(for example, $f(3) = 3$: it may either stay at $0$ for the entire time, or go to the left and then to the
right, or go to the right and then to the left). Find $f(p)$ modulo $p$.
12 replies
Assassino9931
Aug 5, 2022
sangsidhya
Today at 11:22 AM
ISI 2018 #3
integrated_JRC   34
N Today at 7:08 AM by anudeep
Source: ISI 2018 B.Stat / B.Math Entrance Exam
Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function such that for all $x\in\mathbb{R}$ and for all $t\geqslant 0$, $$f(x)=f(e^tx)$$Show that $f$ is a constant function.
34 replies
integrated_JRC
May 13, 2018
anudeep
Today at 7:08 AM
Integration Bee Kaizo
Calcul8er   40
N Today at 7:07 AM by Figaro
Hey integration fans. I decided to collate some of my favourite and most evil integrals I've written into one big integration bee problem set. I've been entering integration bees since 2017 and I've been really getting hands on with the writing side of things over the last couple of years. I hope you'll enjoy!
40 replies
Calcul8er
Mar 2, 2025
Figaro
Today at 7:07 AM
which course should I take
GlitchyBoy   14
N Today at 4:05 AM by Leeoz
Hello AOPS community,
Should I take the Mathcounts/AMC8 Advanced course over the summer or the AMC 10 Intermediate course?
I'm a 7th grader who is aiming for DHR AMC 8 and AIME qual next year as well as nats mathcounts, but sillies a lot on some stuff.
Scores:
6th grade (2023-2024 year)
Mathcounts Chapter: 33 (21/12)
Mathcounts State: 19 (11/8)
AMC 8: 12 (idk how this happened)
didn't take AMC 10
7th grade (2024-2025 year, so right now)
Mathcounts Chapter: 28 (36 w/o sillies)
Mathcounts State: a score higher than my chapter score (I cant reveal exact until April)
AMC 8: 16 (the problems were randomized cuz online)
AMC 10A: 42 (guessed too much)
AMC 10B: 58.5 (:facepalm:)
In practice AMC 8's I consistently get around 20-22, and on mock AMC 10's I get around 9-12 problems correct (so about low-mid 80s). In mock state Mathcounts I get 26-28s. Several people in my state have said I have a free nats qual next year due to all the competition graduating, but I am aiming for 34+ on state next year for insurance and to see how far I can go. I also hope to get DHR AMC 8 in 2026 and AIME, but not sure whether to take the AMC 8 advanced or AMC 10 course. Should I retake AMC 8 advanced (i took it last summer) to get really good basics or take AMC 10 course, and will the AMC 10 course help me get DHR amc8?
Thank you for your help, its greatly appreciated
please respond I'm begging.
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GlitchyBoy
Mar 10, 2025
Leeoz
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Hello AOPS community,
Should I take the Mathcounts/AMC8 Advanced course over the summer or the AMC 10 Intermediate course?
I'm a 7th grader who is aiming for DHR AMC 8 and AIME qual next year as well as nats mathcounts, but sillies a lot on some stuff.
Scores:
6th grade (2023-2024 year)
Mathcounts Chapter: 33 (21/12)
Mathcounts State: 19 (11/8)
AMC 8: 12 (idk how this happened)
didn't take AMC 10
7th grade (2024-2025 year, so right now)
Mathcounts Chapter: 28 (36 w/o sillies)
Mathcounts State: a score higher than my chapter score (I cant reveal exact until April)
AMC 8: 16 (the problems were randomized cuz online)
AMC 10A: 42 (guessed too much)
AMC 10B: 58.5 (:facepalm:)
In practice AMC 8's I consistently get around 20-22, and on mock AMC 10's I get around 9-12 problems correct (so about low-mid 80s). In mock state Mathcounts I get 26-28s. Several people in my state have said I have a free nats qual next year due to all the competition graduating, but I am aiming for 34+ on state next year for insurance and to see how far I can go. I also hope to get DHR AMC 8 in 2026 and AIME, but not sure whether to take the AMC 8 advanced or AMC 10 course. Should I retake AMC 8 advanced (i took it last summer) to get really good basics or take AMC 10 course, and will the AMC 10 course help me get DHR amc8?
Thank you for your help, its greatly appreciated
please respond I'm begging.
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GlitchyBoy wrote:
Hello AOPS community,
Should I take the Mathcounts/AMC8 Advanced course over the summer or the AMC 10 Intermediate course?
I'm a 7th grader who is aiming for DHR AMC 8 and AIME qual next year as well as nats mathcounts, but sillies a lot on some stuff.
Scores:
6th grade (2023-2024 year)
Mathcounts Chapter: 33 (21/12)
Mathcounts State: 19 (11/8)
AMC 8: 12 (idk how this happened)
didn't take AMC 10
7th grade (2024-2025 year, so right now)
Mathcounts Chapter: 28 (36 w/o sillies)
Mathcounts State: a score higher than my chapter score (I cant reveal exact until April)
AMC 8: 16 (the problems were randomized cuz online)
AMC 10A: 42 (guessed too much)
AMC 10B: 58.5 (:facepalm:)
In practice AMC 8's I consistently get around 20-22, and on mock AMC 10's I get around 9-12 problems correct (so about low-mid 80s). In mock state Mathcounts I get 26-28s. Several people in my state have said I have a free nats qual next year due to all the competition graduating, but I am aiming for 34+ on state next year for insurance and to see how far I can go. I also hope to get DHR AMC 8 in 2026 and AIME, but not sure whether to take the AMC 8 advanced or AMC 10 course. Should I retake AMC 8 advanced (i took it last summer) to get really good basics or take AMC 10 course, and will the AMC 10 course help me get DHR amc8?
Thank you for your help, its greatly appreciated
please respond I'm begging.

I would recommend doing intro series and the books from intro to alg a. Imo, they are far more useful than the amc10/amc8/mathcounts prep courses.
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GlitchyBoy wrote:
Hello AOPS community,
Should I take the Mathcounts/AMC8 Advanced course over the summer or the AMC 10 Intermediate course?
I'm a 7th grader who is aiming for DHR AMC 8 and AIME qual next year as well as nats mathcounts, but sillies a lot on some stuff.
Scores:
6th grade (2023-2024 year)
Mathcounts Chapter: 33 (21/12)
Mathcounts State: 19 (11/8)
AMC 8: 12 (idk how this happened)
didn't take AMC 10
7th grade (2024-2025 year, so right now)
Mathcounts Chapter: 28 (36 w/o sillies)
Mathcounts State: a score higher than my chapter score (I cant reveal exact until April)
AMC 8: 16 (the problems were randomized cuz online)
AMC 10A: 42 (guessed too much)
AMC 10B: 58.5 (:facepalm:)
In practice AMC 8's I consistently get around 20-22, and on mock AMC 10's I get around 9-12 problems correct (so about low-mid 80s). In mock state Mathcounts I get 26-28s. Several people in my state have said I have a free nats qual next year due to all the competition graduating, but I am aiming for 34+ on state next year for insurance and to see how far I can go. I also hope to get DHR AMC 8 in 2026 and AIME, but not sure whether to take the AMC 8 advanced or AMC 10 course. Should I retake AMC 8 advanced (i took it last summer) to get really good basics or take AMC 10 course, and will the AMC 10 course help me get DHR amc8?
Thank you for your help, its greatly appreciated
please respond I'm begging.
Mathcounts/AMC 8 Adv is helpful (for AMC 8 13-16 or MC Chapter 25-30), but for HR/DHR and AMC 10 AR and Mathcounts Chapter/State boost I would recommend AMC 10 Problem Series (and maybe AMC 12 series if you're willing to struggle a lot in the class)
(Credentials: AMC 8 HR, MC Chapter 37 (somehow didnt make states in MA Metronorth), AMC 10A: 81, AMC 10B: 94.5)
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dude 37 not making state is just brutal, in our chapter cutoff for state was 29 and the 9th place finisher got a 37.
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so should i take self-paced intro to c&p, and also self-paced intro to algebra b, then an intro to number theory class plus amc10 class?
or is that way too much for one summer
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GlitchyBoy wrote:
Hello AOPS community,
Should I take the Mathcounts/AMC8 Advanced course over the summer or the AMC 10 Intermediate course?
I'm a 7th grader who is aiming for DHR AMC 8 and AIME qual next year as well as nats mathcounts, but sillies a lot on some stuff.
Scores:
6th grade (2023-2024 year)
Mathcounts Chapter: 33 (21/12)
Mathcounts State: 19 (11/8)
AMC 8: 12 (idk how this happened)
didn't take AMC 10
7th grade (2024-2025 year, so right now)
Mathcounts Chapter: 28 (36 w/o sillies)
Mathcounts State: a score higher than my chapter score (I cant reveal exact until April)
AMC 8: 16 (the problems were randomized cuz online)
AMC 10A: 42 (guessed too much)
AMC 10B: 58.5 (:facepalm:)
In practice AMC 8's I consistently get around 20-22, and on mock AMC 10's I get around 9-12 problems correct (so about low-mid 80s). In mock state Mathcounts I get 26-28s. Several people in my state have said I have a free nats qual next year due to all the competition graduating, but I am aiming for 34+ on state next year for insurance and to see how far I can go. I also hope to get DHR AMC 8 in 2026 and AIME, but not sure whether to take the AMC 8 advanced or AMC 10 course. Should I retake AMC 8 advanced (i took it last summer) to get really good basics or take AMC 10 course, and will the AMC 10 course help me get DHR amc8?
Thank you for your help, its greatly appreciated
please respond I'm begging.

depends on state
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GlitchyBoy
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so should I take intro to c&p, intro to number theory, and intro to algebra b?
will those topics show up often on mathcounts/amc8/10?
and should I take the amc10 course or not?
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GlitchyBoy
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GlitchyBoy wrote:
Hello AOPS community,
Should I take the Mathcounts/AMC8 Advanced course over the summer or the AMC 10 Intermediate course?
I'm a 7th grader who is aiming for DHR AMC 8 and AIME qual next year as well as nats mathcounts, but sillies a lot on some stuff.
Scores:
6th grade (2023-2024 year)
Mathcounts Chapter: 33 (21/12)
Mathcounts State: 19 (11/8)
AMC 8: 12 (idk how this happened)
didn't take AMC 10
7th grade (2024-2025 year, so right now)
Mathcounts Chapter: 28 (37 w/o sillies)
Mathcounts State: a score higher than my chapter score (I cant reveal exact until April)
AMC 8: 16 (the problems were randomized cuz online)
AMC 10A: 42 (guessed too much)
AMC 10B: 58.5 (:facepalm:)
In practice AMC 8's I consistently get around 20-22, and on mock AMC 10's I get around 9-12 problems correct (so about low-mid 80s). In mock state Mathcounts I get 26-28s. Several people in my state have said I have a free nats qual next year due to all the competition graduating, but I am aiming for 34+ on state next year for insurance and to see how far I can go. I also hope to get DHR AMC 8 in 2026 and AIME, but not sure whether to take the AMC 8 advanced or AMC 10 course. Should I retake AMC 8 advanced (i took it last summer) to get really good basics or take AMC 10 course, and will the AMC 10 course help me get DHR amc8?
Thank you for your help, its greatly appreciated
please respond I'm begging.
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sadas123
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I used to get the same scores, but here is the things that I did:

1.) I spammed mathcount state mocks then the questions I got wrong I watched vide or did Alcumus on it.
2.)I always tried to set a goal for my score for the mock test then if I didn't reach it I redid the test and each time I tried to get a higher score, if I couldn't do that then I would just read the solutions and then learn the theorem/topics.
3.)I think that you should learn all of the AMC 10 course first because that will help you, I used Volume 1 of AOPS and along with that I used Math Competition for Middle School which gave me a borderline AIME score but I probably forgot but I think that I got a 118.5 or a 114 or something because it was a long time ago on the A
4.)Spam AMC 10 mocks and then learn the topics behind all of the questions, I would say try to answer 15 questions each test and if you can't do that then watch youtube videos on those topics, if you can do that start to answer first 18 questions/ 20 questions.
5.) Practice 1h-2h a day because I used to practice for 5 hours and it got me nowhere so study less but lock in during that time.
6.)Always make sure to do AMC 8 Final 5 to sharpen your Problem Solving skills.
Mathcounts:
I started the year of getting a 20-30 on school round but then improved all the way to 30-40 to state round:

1.) I did Mathcounts trainer STATE past level 30+
2.) I spammed mocks and did the same strategy as the amcs
3.) At Mathcounts Chapter I horribly failed so make sure not to stress and make silly mistakes
4.) Thats all
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GlitchyBoy
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should i grind mathcounts trainer all the way to nats 46
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Leeoz
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GlitchyBoy wrote:
should i grind mathcounts trainer all the way to nats 46

i tried that, its almost impossible to go past 40 ._.
mc trainer is not that great
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GlitchyBoy
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then what should i do besides amc 10 prep course + int to algebra b + int to c&p
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Leeoz
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mock and past tests and alcumus

i dont use the aops courses tho so idk what they are
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