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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
v_Enhance
Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
D1015 : A strange EF for polynomials
Dattier   4
N 33 minutes ago by Dattier
Source: les dattes à Dattier
Find all $P \in \mathbb R[x,y]$ with $P \not\in \mathbb R[x] \cup \mathbb R[y]$ and $\forall g,f$ homeomorphismes of $\mathbb R$, $P(f,g)$ is an homoemorphisme too.
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Dattier
Mar 16, 2025
Dattier
33 minutes ago
Elegant inequality
SunnyEvan   4
N 38 minutes ago by SunnyEvan
Source: proposed by Zhenping An
Let $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ be non-negative real numbers such that
\[2a+2b+2c+2d+ab+bc+cd+da+3=abcd.\]prove that : \[\sqrt[4]{abc}+\sqrt[4]{bcd}+\sqrt[4]{cda}+\sqrt[4]{dab}\le\sqrt[4]{27(1+a)(1+b)(1+c)(1+d)}.\]
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SunnyEvan
Yesterday at 11:32 AM
SunnyEvan
38 minutes ago
mohs of each oly
cowstalker   13
N 40 minutes ago by blueprimes
what are the general concencus for the mohs of each of the problems on usajmo and usamo
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cowstalker
Today at 1:20 AM
blueprimes
40 minutes ago
Cyclic ine
m4thbl3nd3r   8
N an hour ago by m4thbl3nd3r
Let $a,b,c>0$ such that $a+b+c=3$. Prove that $$a^3b+b^3c+c^3a+9abc\le 12$$May everyone not to upload solutions on this problem anymore until May 15/2025, this is an active problem on Mathematical Reflection! (Thank you Victoria_Discalceata1)
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m4thbl3nd3r
Yesterday at 3:17 PM
m4thbl3nd3r
an hour ago
Interesting inequality
sqing   8
N an hour ago by SunnyEvan
Source: Own
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0,(ab+c)(ac+b)\neq 0 $ and $ a+b+c=3 . $ Prove that
$$ \frac{1}{ab+kc}+\frac{1}{ac+kb} \geq\frac{4}{3k} $$Where $ k\geq 3. $
$$ \frac{1}{ab+2c}+\frac{1}{ac+2b} \geq\frac{16}{25} $$$$ \frac{1}{ab+3c}+\frac{1}{ac+3b} \geq\frac{4}{9} $$$$ \frac{1}{ab+4c}+\frac{1}{ac+4b} \geq\frac{1}{3} $$

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sqing
Today at 3:42 AM
SunnyEvan
an hour ago
Triangle in a square
fortenforge   22
N an hour ago by JetFire008
Source: AMC 12A 2013 Problem 1
Square $ ABCD $ has side length $ 10 $. Point $ E $ is on $ \overline{BC} $, and the area of $ \bigtriangleup ABE $ is $ 40 $. What is $ BE $?

$\textbf{(A)} \ 4 \qquad \textbf{(B)} \ 5 \qquad \textbf{(C)} \ 6 \qquad \textbf{(D)} \ 7 \qquad \textbf{(E)} \ 8 \qquad $

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fortenforge
Feb 6, 2013
JetFire008
an hour ago
Kvant 898 NT
Anto0110   3
N an hour ago by L13832
Source: Kvant 898
Find all odd integers \(0 < a < b < c < d\) such that
\[
ad = bc, \quad a + d = 2^k, \quad b + c = 2^m
\]for some positive integers \(k\) and \(m\).
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Jul 27, 2024
L13832
an hour ago
Gangster's paradise
GreekIdiot   0
an hour ago
Source: older isl
Ten gangsters are standing in a field. The distance between each pair of gangsters is different. When the clock strikes, each gangster shoots the nearest gangster dead. What is the largest number of gangsters that can survive?
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GreekIdiot
an hour ago
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Obsolete NT
GreekIdiot   0
an hour ago
Source: older isl
Find all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ greater than $1$, such that, if $gcd(a,b)=1$, then $a \equiv b \: mod \: n \iff ab \equiv 1 \: mod \: n$
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GreekIdiot
an hour ago
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D1010 : How it is possible ?
Dattier   13
N an hour ago by Dattier
Source: les dattes à Dattier
Is it true that$$\forall n \in \mathbb N^*, (24^n \times B \mod A) \mod 2 = 0 $$?

A=1728400904217815186787639216753921417860004366580219212750904
024377969478249664644267971025952530803647043121025959018172048
336953969062151534282052863307398281681465366665810775710867856
720572225880311472925624694183944650261079955759251769111321319
421445397848518597584590900951222557860592579005088853698315463
815905425095325508106272375728975

B=2275643401548081847207782760491442295266487354750527085289354
965376765188468052271190172787064418854789322484305145310707614
546573398182642923893780527037224143380886260467760991228567577
953725945090125797351518670892779468968705801340068681556238850
340398780828104506916965606659768601942798676554332768254089685
307970609932846902
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Dattier
Mar 10, 2025
Dattier
an hour ago
Olympiad question
slimshady360   4
N an hour ago by sqing
Let a,b,c be positive real numbers such that a + b+c = 3abc. Prove that
a2 +b2 +c2 +3 ≥2(ab+bc+ca)
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slimshady360
4 hours ago
sqing
an hour ago
Turbo the Snail
GreekIdiot   2
N an hour ago by GreekIdiot
Let $n$ be a positive integer. There are $n$ circles drawn on a chalkboard such that any two circles intersect at $2$ distinct points and no $3$ circles pass through the same point. Turbo the snail slides along the circles in the following manner, leaving snail goo behind. Initially he moves on one of the circles in clockwise direction. He keeps sliding along until he reaches an intersection with another circle. Then, he continues his journey on this new circle and also changes the direction he is moving in. We define a snail orbit to be the covering of the whole surface of a circle with turbo's goo, and specifically only a single layer of it. Prove that for every odd $n$ there exists at least one configuration of $n$ circles with a single snail orbit, and find all $n$ such that there is exactly one of the aforementioned configuration type.
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GreekIdiot
4 hours ago
GreekIdiot
an hour ago
2021 AMC10A Problem 1
Professor-Mom   54
N 2 hours ago by Pengu14
What is the value of $$(2^2-2) - (3^2-3) + (4^2-4)?$$
$\textbf{(A) } 1 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 2 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 5 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 8 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 12$
54 replies
Professor-Mom
Feb 5, 2021
Pengu14
2 hours ago
combo j3 :blobheart:
rhydon516   22
N 2 hours ago by blueprimes
Source: USAJMO 2025/3
Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers, and let $\mathcal R$ be a $2m\times 2n$ grid of unit squares.

A domino is a $1\times2$ or $2\times1$ rectangle. A subset $S$ of grid squares in $\mathcal R$ is domino-tileable if dominoes can be placed to cover every square of $S$ exactly once with no domino extending outside of $S$. Note: The empty set is domino tileable.

An up-right path is a path from the lower-left corner of $\mathcal R$ to the upper-right corner of $\mathcal R$ formed by exactly $2m+2n$ edges of the grid squares.

Determine, with proof, in terms of $m$ and $n$, the number of up-right paths that divide $\mathcal R$ into two domino-tileable subsets.
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rhydon516
Mar 20, 2025
blueprimes
2 hours ago
2025 USA(J)MO Cutoff Predictions
KevinChen_Yay   100
N Yesterday at 11:09 PM by imagien_bad
What do y'all think JMO winner and MOP cuts will be?

(Also, to satisfy the USAMO takers; what about the bronze, silver, gold, green mop, blue mop, black mop?)
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KevinChen_Yay
Mar 21, 2025
imagien_bad
Yesterday at 11:09 PM
2025 USA(J)MO Cutoff Predictions
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BS2012 wrote:
what even is jmo winner
isnt it just top honors and honors

jmo winner = honors
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btw getting correct answer for p3 should be 1 partial right?

Probably not since you could just try cases and guess
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peace09 wrote:
but do you really think a 16 on the USAMO (2 easy problems plus greedy answer and construction on U-2) deserves to make it more than a 30 on the JMO (3 easy problems plus subcase on J-3)? (Regarding '24.)

yes! by quite a bit. the jmo ppl with 4 solves MISSED an easy problem, the 16 on amo ppl didnt.
peace09 wrote:
Maybe consider the possibility that other people have half a brain too. You came onto the olympiad scene, what, a couple years ago? Maybe you should be a little hesitant to suggest that the MOP selection team, many whom have probably done this for decades now, don't know better than you. ;)

i can understand why you may i think im just being arrogant, but this is taken from a quote from (evan?) around may 2023 where he says something like "you guys overestimate how much thought is being put into cutoffs - most of it is based on breaking ties.", amongst other quotes which lead me to believe the cutoffs are not being set with best will towards the students. but hey, maybe im wrong.
peace09 wrote:
I guess my main issue was when you said stuff like "actually put thought into..." (which was probably a slip of the tongue anyway) and didn't really offer a concrete / constructive solution.

largely this is based on my perception from the quote above. a solution is to have people actually care about students. lol.
peace09 wrote:
I hope you make -- four solves is pretty tuff --

thanks!
peace09 wrote:
but there's no reason to go on to flame the JMO takers. (Unless you truly do think that J1,4,6 truly are oh so trivial compared to U5 -- but do you really? :nhl:)
dont mean to flame anyone if i did oops. my opinion is that 5+ jmo is not much less than 3+ amo this time, but 4+ jmo being equivalent to 3+ amo should be a cause of outrage.
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Just want to mention that a score of 34 is not usually attained by 4 solves plus partials so it shouldn't be thought of as 4+ but rather a 5-. Also I feel like the only reason people say this test was easy is p6 (which I still think is quite difficult to solve fully).
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a_smart_alecks
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ezpotd wrote:
not a single >15 mohs problem on jmo, if red isnt 5+ then maa needs to delete jmo -> mop pathway, unfair to green students (already shouldve done that after last years 4+ cutoff on a test with 5 easy problems).

honestly my personal view is that if there are no >15 mohs problems on jmo, then red will be +-5, and if red is not +-5, then there was a >15 mohs problem on jmo. it's useless to worry about whether cutoffs are fair or not before the cutoffs are actually out.

i think you do have a point about how green/red balancing, especially since recent advice seems to push underclassmen to take green instead of red.... but that balancing act depends on a lot of subjective decision-making regarding problem difficulty. i personally have trouble thinking of an objective alternative, especially when jmo and amo only share easy problems like this year.

lowk i feel like people would take more kindly to your proposition if you hadn't asked for maa to outright "delete jmo -> mop pathway",,,
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i've heard from unreliable sources that green cutoffs may be close to or even exceed blue cutoffs
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if that's the case i'll be sad
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Reason: emphasis on "unreliable"
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i've heard from unreliable sources that green cutoffs may be close to or even exceed blue cutoffs

if that's the case i'll be sad

lowk I was gonna ask if that was even possible today and was thinking about it. Seems like it is possible then... welp no more AMO in 9th ig
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scannose wrote:
i've heard from unreliable sources that green cutoffs may be close to or even exceed blue cutoffs

if that's the case i'll be sad

wait dont they choose blue ppl first then choose green ppl out of the ppl who didnt make blue
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scannose wrote:
i've heard from unreliable sources that green cutoffs may be close to or even exceed blue cutoffs

if that's the case i'll be sad

wait dont they choose blue ppl first then choose green ppl out of the ppl who didnt make blue

wait is blue exclusive to 11th? Or can younger people make it as well
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i thought it was exclusive to 11th
idk for sure
(im not making it regardless with a 720720 lmao)

ig if that isn't the case i won't be as sad anymore
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dont see why it would be exclusive to 11th
also 100th psot
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blue is not exclusive to 11th
"The next approximately 18 non-graduating USAMO students
The next approximately 12 USAMO students in 9th and 10th grades"
https://web.evanchen.cc/faq-rules.html#CR-7
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What are red mop chances with 35???????
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What are red mop chances with 35???????

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hashbrown2009 wrote:
imagien_bad wrote:
What are red mop chances with 35???????

for JMO?

Yes.
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