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Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) 2025
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N 5 hours ago by techb
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We are excited to announce that registration is now open for Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) 2025!

This year, we will welcome 800 competitors from across the nation to participate in person on Stanford’s campus. The tournament will be held April 11-12, 2025, and registration is open to all high-school students from the United States. This year, we are extending registration to high school teams (strongly preferred), established local mathematical organizations, and individuals; please refer to our website for specific policies. Whether you’re an experienced math wizard, a puzzle hunt enthusiast, or someone looking to meet new friends, SMT has something to offer everyone!

Register here today! We’ll be accepting applications until March 2, 2025.

For those unable to travel, in middle school, or not from the United States, we encourage you to instead register for SMT 2025 Online, which will be held on April 13, 2025. Registration for SMT 2025 Online will open mid-February.

For more information visit our website! Please email us at stanford.math.tournament@gmail.com with any questions or reply to this thread below. We can’t wait to meet you all in April!

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A challenging sum
Polymethical_   1
N Today at 4:16 AM by Polymethical_
I tried to integrate series of log(1-x) / x
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BadAtCompetitionMath21420   1
N Today at 4:10 AM by elizhang101412
Let the polynomial $P(x) = x^3-x^2+px-q$ have real roots and real coefficients with $q>0$. What is the maximum value of $p+q$?

This is a problem I made for my math competition, and I wanted to see if someone would double-check my work (No Mike allowed):

solution
Is this solution good?
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Shreyasharma   5
N Today at 2:20 AM by jacosheebay
Is this a valid solution for the following problem (St. Petersburg 1996):

Find all positive integers $n$ such that,

$$ 3^{n-1} + 5^{n-1} | 3^n + 5^n$$
Solution
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2016 Sets
NormanWho   111
N Yesterday at 11:59 PM by Amkan2022
Source: 2016 USAJMO 4
Find, with proof, the least integer $N$ such that if any $2016$ elements are removed from the set ${1, 2,...,N}$, one can still find $2016$ distinct numbers among the remaining elements with sum $N$.
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hi guys, i'm about to be an incoming freshman, does anyone have recommendations for classes to take next year and camps this summer? i am sure that i can aime qual but not jmo qual yet. ty
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2021 SMT Guts Round 5 p17-20 - Stanford Math Tournament
parmenides51   7
N Yesterday at 8:05 PM by Rombo
p17. Let the roots of the polynomial $f(x) = 3x^3 + 2x^2 + x + 8 = 0$ be $p, q$, and $r$. What is the sum $\frac{1}{p} +\frac{1}{q} +\frac{1}{r}$ ?


p18. Two students are playing a game. They take a deck of five cards numbered $1$ through $5$, shuffle them, and then place them in a stack facedown, turning over the top card next to the stack. They then take turns either drawing the card at the top of the stack into their hand, showing the drawn card to the other player, or drawing the card that is faceup, replacing it with the card on the top of the pile. This is repeated until all cards are drawn, and the player with the largest sum for their cards wins. What is the probability that the player who goes second wins, assuming optimal play?


p19. Compute the sum of all primes $p$ such that $2^p + p^2$ is also prime.


p20. In how many ways can one color the $8$ vertices of an octagon each red, black, and white, such that no two adjacent sides are the same color?


PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected here.
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2024 Mock AIME 1 ** p15 (cheaters' trap) - 128 | n^{\sigma (n)} - \sigma(n^n)
parmenides51   6
N Yesterday at 7:32 PM by NamelyOrange
Let $N$ be the number of positive integers $n$ such that $n$ divides $2024^{2024}$ and $128$ divides
$$n^{\sigma (n)} - \sigma(n^n)$$where $\sigma (n)$ denotes the number of positive integers that divide $n$, including $1$ and $n$. Find the remainder when $N$ is divided by $1000$.
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N Yesterday at 6:01 PM by Ecrin_eren
There are 18 teams in a football league. Each team plays against every other team twice in a season—once at home and once away. A win gives 3 points, a draw gives 1 point, and a loss gives 0 points. One team became the champion by earning more points than every other team. What is the minimum number of points this team could have?

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b+c <=a/sin(A/2)
lgx57   4
N Yesterday at 4:27 PM by cosinesine
Prove that: In $\triangle ABC$,$b+c \le \dfrac{a}{\sin \frac{A}{2}}$
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parmenides51   11
N Yesterday at 3:16 PM by MATHS_ENTUSIAST
In a triangle $ABC, X$ and $Y$ are points on the segments $AB$ and $AC$, respectively, such that $AX : XB = 1 : 2$ and $AY :YC = 2:1$. If the area of triangle $AXY$ is $10$, then what is the area of triangle $ABC$?
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Graphs and Trig
Math1331Math   7
N Yesterday at 2:43 PM by BlackOctopus23
The graph of the function $f(x)=\sin^{-1}(2\sin{x})$ consists of the union of disjoint pieces. Compute the distance between the endpoints of any one piece
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If $a\cos A+b\sin A=m,$ and $a\sin A-b\cos A=n,$ then find the value of $a^2 +b^
Vulch   1
N Yesterday at 9:22 AM by Captainscrubz
If $a\cos A+b\sin A=m,$ and $a\sin A-b\cos A=n,$ then find the value of $a^2 +b^2.$
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usamOOK geometry
KevinYang2.71   106
N May 9, 2025 by jasperE3
Source: USAMO 2025/4, USAJMO 2025/5
Let $H$ be the orthocenter of acute triangle $ABC$, let $F$ be the foot of the altitude from $C$ to $AB$, and let $P$ be the reflection of $H$ across $BC$. Suppose that the circumcircle of triangle $AFP$ intersects line $BC$ at two distinct points $X$ and $Y$. Prove that $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$.
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usamOOK geometry
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We need to prove that $C$ is the Y-dumpty point for triangle $FPY$. This is obvious because $\triangle CPY \sim \triangle CYF$. Now, as we know the y-dumpty point is midpoint of $XY$, the problem is solved. $\blacksquare$
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There are many pretty cool synthetic solutions, but unfortunately, I didn’t bother to try them while solving this problem... Instead, this problem reminded me of USAMO 2014 P5 due to the naming of the points and the reflection of the orthocenter. So, just like Evan did, I complex bashed it!

Here, I present a purely complex bashing solution.

[asy]
size(250);
defaultpen(linewidth(0.6)+fontsize(11));
pair A = (0,9), B = (-3,0), C = (7,0), H = orthocenter(A,B,C), D = foot(A,B,C), P = 2*D - H, F = foot(C,A,B), Xx = 3*C-2*B;
path circ = circumcircle(A,F,P);
pair[] oops = intersectionpoints(circ, Xx--B);
pair X = oops[0], Y = oops[1];
draw(A--B--C--cycle, rgb(0,0,0));
draw(C--F^^A--P, rgb(0,0,0));
draw(circ,rgb(0,0,0));
draw(circumcircle(A,B,C),rgb(0,0,0));
draw(F--X--P--C--Y,rgb(0,0,0));
dot("$A$",A,N,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$B$",B,SW,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$C$",C,SE,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$D$",D,NE,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$F$",F,NW,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$X$",X,SW,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$Y$",Y,SE,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$P$",P,S,linewidth(3.3));
dot("$H$",H,NE,linewidth(3.3));
[/asy]

Take $(ABC)$ as the unit circle as usual. We get that $$\boxed{F=\frac{1}2(a+b+c+-\frac{ab}c)} \ \text{and} \ \boxed{P=-\frac{bc}a}$$Since $X \in BC$, we get that $b+c=x+\overline{x}bc$. But, once $AFXP$ is cyclic, we compute $$\frac{x-a}{x-p} \div \frac{f-a}{f-p} \in \mathbb{R}$$$$\iff \omega= \frac{(x-a)(ac(a+b+c)-a^2b+2bc^2)}{(ax+bc)(c-a)(b+c)} \in \mathbb{R}$$$$\iff \omega = \overline{\omega} = \frac{(\overline{x} - \frac{1}a)(\frac{ab+bc+ca}{a^2bc^2} - \frac{1}{a^2b} + \frac{2}{bc^2})}{(\frac{\overline{x}}a+\frac{1}{bc})(\frac{a-c}{ac})(\frac{b+c}{bc})}$$But, if above we multiply by $bc$ the first factor and by $a^2bc^2$ the second while in the denominator we multiply by $abc$ the first, by $ac$ the second and by $bc$ the third, we´ll get that $$\omega=\frac{(bc\overline{x}- \frac{bc}a)(ab+bc+ca-c^2+2a^2)}{bc\overline{x}+a)(a-c)(b+c)}=\frac{(x-a)(ac(a+b+c)-a^2b+2bc^2)}{(ax+bc)(c-a)(b+c)}$$where we replace $\overline{x}$ by what we get at the equation of line and get $$\frac{(x-a)(ac(a+b+c)+b(2c^2-a^2))}{ax+bc}=\frac{(b+c-x-\frac{bc}a)(ab+bc+ca-c^2+2a^2)}{-(a+b+c-x)}$$$$\iff (ax+bc)(b+c-\frac{bc}a-x)(ab+bc+ca-c^2+2a^2)+(x-a)(a+b+c-x)(ac(a+b+c)+b(2c^2-a^2))=0$$At this point, I got really frustrated, wondering how in the world I would compute the value of $x$. So, I took my exam, and as I always do when I’m out of ideas, I reread the statement. Then, at that exact moment, I realized that this polynomial would give me not only the value of $x$ but also $y$, and since what I want to prove is that $c=\frac{x+y}2$, everything became clearer!

Note that if we expand everything, we get something like $px^2+qx+r=0$, and it's well known that $-\frac{q}p=x+y$, so, we dont need to compute $x$ and $y$, and it´s easy to find $p$ and $q$: $$p=-a(ab+bc+ca-c^2+2a^2)-(ac(a+b+c)+b(2c^2-a^2))\ \ \text{and}$$$$q=-(ab+ac-2bc)((ab+bc+ca)-c^2+2a^2)-(2a+b+c)(ac(a+b+c)+b(2c^2-a^2))$$And, making many cancellations(which took me about 30 minutes and 3 failed attempts), we find $$\boxed{p=-a(2ac+2bc+2a^2)-2bc^2}\ \ \text{and}$$$$\boxed{q=-(4a^2c^2+4a^3c+4bc^2+4abc^2)=2c(-a(2ac+2a^2+2bc)-2bc^2)}$$and hence $-\frac{q}{p}=2c$, thus we´re done! :D
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I'm getting old, but pretty sure this is a simple problem for JMO standards as well. 40 minutes of solve-time.

Solution: Let $X,Y$ be the two intersection of line $BC$ with $\odot(AFP)$. Denote $Q$ to be the reflection of $H$ across $C$ and $D$ denote the foot of $A$ onto $BC$.
[asy]
            import geometry;
            size(9cm);
            defaultpen(fontsize(11pt));

            pair A = dir(115);
            pair B = dir(210);
            pair C = dir(330);
            pair H = orthocenter(A,B,C);
            pair F = extension(C,H,B,A);
            pair D = extension(A,H,B,C);
            pair P = 2*D - H;
            pair Q = 2*C - H;
            pair X = intersectionpoints(line(D,C), circumcircle(A,F,P))[0];
            pair Y = intersectionpoints(line(D,C), circumcircle(A,F,P))[1];


            draw(A--B--C--A, fuchsia);
            draw(circumcircle(A,B,C), red);
            draw(A--P, fuchsia);
            draw(F--Q, fuchsia);
            draw(P--Q, fuchsia);
            draw(C--Y, fuchsia);
            draw(C--P, fuchsia);
            draw(circumcircle(F,A,P), red);
            markscalefactor = 0.01;
            draw(rightanglemark(A,D,C), deepgreen);
            draw(rightanglemark(A,P,Q), deepgreen);

            dot("$A$", A, dir(A));
            dot("$B$", B, dir(B));
            dot("$C$", C, dir(273)*1.5);
            dot("$H$", H, dir(210));
            dot("$F$", F, dir(F));
            dot("$D$", D, dir(D));
            dot("$P$", P, dir(P));
            dot("$Q$", Q, dir(Q));
            dot("$X$", X, dir(X));
            dot("$Y$", Y, dir(Y));
[/asy]
Its well-known that $P$ lies on $\odot(ABC)$. The crux of the problem is to show that $Q$ lies on $\odot(AFP)$. This is a consequence of of the Intersecting Chords Theorem, observe that
\[AD \cdot HD = FH \cdot HC \implies AD \cdot 2HD = FH \cdot 2CH \implies AH \cdot HP = FH \cdot HQ\]which proves the claim. Since $P$ is the reflection of $H$ over $D$, we get
\[\overline{CP} = \overline{CH} = \overline{CQ}\]which means $C$ lies on the perpendicular bisector of the chord $PQ$ in $\odot(AFP)$. This is enough to conclude, since chord $XY$ is parallel to $PQ$, both the chords will share the same perpendicular bisector. This finishes the solution. $\blacksquare$
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Two line problem:
Take reflection of $H$ about $C$ to be $H'$ and construct a perpendicular from $C$ to $\cap$ $AY$ at $N$
it is easy to prove that $H' \in (AFP)$ ,now notice two spiral similar triangles:$HBX$ and $CBN$ ,now we have here: $BH \perp AC$ and $ BC \perp CN$ so so we would have also $XH \perp AY$ and we are done:
As reflect. of $H$ of a point on $BC$ also lies on its circumcircle must be the midpoint.
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Let $D, E$ be the feet of the $A, B$-altitudes. Invert about $A$ swapping $F$ and $B$. Then $P$ maps to the intersection of $EF$ and $AD$, which we will call $Z$. $X$ and $Y$ map to the intersections of $BZ$ with $(AEF)$; call those $X'$ and $Y'$ respectively. Then it suffices to show that $AX'EY'$ is a harmonic quadrilateral. Projecting from $F$ onto line $BZ$, we see that it suffices to show that $(B, Z; X', Y')$ is harmonic. But this is easy as $D$ lies on the polar of $Z$, thus so does $B$ and we finish by La Hire.
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OronSH wrote:
what happened to usamo

Let $Z$ be the $B$ antipode, then since $AZ\parallel CF$ and $APCZ$ is a cyclic isosceles trapezoid it follows that the midpoint of $CZ$ lies on the perpendicular bisectors of $AF$ and $AP$, thus is the circumcenter which finishes.

cord bash better
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no way LOLLLL

Law of Sines bash gets a 7
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ethan2011 wrote:
OronSH wrote:
what happened to usamo

Let $Z$ be the $B$ antipode, then since $AZ\parallel CF$ and $APCZ$ is a cyclic isosceles trapezoid it follows that the midpoint of $CZ$ lies on the perpendicular bisectors of $AF$ and $AP$, thus is the circumcenter which finishes.

cord bash better

No! Let's appreciate synthetic geometry! I hate coord bash!
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jasperE3
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Let $H$ be the orthocenter of acute triangle $ABC$, let $F$ be the foot of the altitude from $C$ to $AB$, and let $P$ be the reflection of $H$ across $BC$. Suppose that the circumcircle of triangle $AFP$ intersects line $BC$ at two distinct points $X$ and $Y$. Prove that $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$.

guys is this right I dont do geo

WLOG let $A=(0,1)$, $B=(-1,0)$, $C=(c,0)$, let $O$ be the circumcenter of $\triangle AFP$.

Easily calculate:
$H=(0,c)$ ..
$P=(0,-c)$
$F=\left(\frac{c-1}2,\frac{c+1}2\right)$ ..

We claim $O=\left(c,\frac{1-c}2\right)$. .. Not hard to see that it's unique and that it must work because:
\begin{align*}
OA^2&=c^2+\left(\frac{1-c}2-1\right)^2=\frac{5c^2+2c+1}4\\
FO^2&=\left(\frac{c-1}2-c\right)^2+\left(\frac{c+1}2-\frac{1-c}2\right)^2=\frac{5c^2+2c+1}4\\
OP^2&=c^2+\left(\frac{1-c}2+c\right)^2=\frac{5c^2+2c+1}4
\end{align*}Now clearly $OC\perp XY$ since $X,Y$ lie on $BC$, so $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$ since the perpendicular from the center of a circle to any chord bisects the chord.
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My solution uses inversion at A then harmonics though i wasn't in the competition
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super short sol
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jasperE3 wrote:
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You're assuming that $\angle ABC=45^\circ$ with the way you labeled your coordinates, so idt this is right
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BS2012 wrote:
jasperE3 wrote:
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You're assuming that $\angle ABC=45^\circ$ with the way you labeled your coordinates, so idt this is right

I kinda thought you could do a sequence of transformations to move an arbitrary triangle $ABC$ to vertices $(0,1)$, $(-1,0)$, $(c,0)$ and that whether $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$ in this new rectangle is equivalent to the original problem
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jasperE3 wrote:
I kinda thought you could do a sequence of transformations to move an arbitrary triangle $ABC$ to vertices $(0,1)$, $(-1,0)$, $(c,0)$ and that whether $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$ in this new rectangle is equivalent to the original problem

whats the sequence of transformations then
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BS2012 wrote:
jasperE3 wrote:
I kinda thought you could do a sequence of transformations to move an arbitrary triangle $ABC$ to vertices $(0,1)$, $(-1,0)$, $(c,0)$ and that whether $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$ in this new rectangle is equivalent to the original problem

whats the sequence of transformations then

there wasn't one I don't think, solution is incorrect
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