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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 2025
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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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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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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ISI UGB 2025 P5
SomeonecoolLovesMaths   1
N 23 minutes ago by Primeniyazidayi
Source: ISI UGB 2025 P5
Let $a,b,c$ be nonzero real numbers such that $a+b+c \neq 0$. Assume that $$\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c} = \frac{1}{a+b+c}$$Show that for any odd integer $k$, $$\frac{1}{a^k} + \frac{1}{b^k} + \frac{1}{c^k} = \frac{1}{a^k+b^k+c^k}.$$
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SomeonecoolLovesMaths
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Primeniyazidayi
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ISI UGB 2025 P7
SomeonecoolLovesMaths   0
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Source: ISI UGB 2025 P7
Consider a ball that moves inside an acute-angled triangle along a straight line, unit it hits the boundary, which is when it changes direction according to the mirror law, just like a ray of light (angle of incidence = angle of reflection). Prove that there exists a triangular periodic path for the ball, as pictured below.

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SomeonecoolLovesMaths
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ISI UGB 2025 P4
SomeonecoolLovesMaths   0
29 minutes ago
Source: ISI UGB 2025 P4
Let $S^1 = \{ z \in \mathbb{C} \mid |z| =1 \}$ be the unit circle in the complex plane. Let $f \colon S^1 \longrightarrow S^2$ be the map given by $f(z) = z^2$. We define $f^{(1)} \colon = f$ and $f^{(k+1)} \colon = f \circ f^{(k)}$ for $k \geq 1$. The smallest positive integer $n$ such that $f^{(n)}(z) = z$ is called the period of $z$. Determine the total number of points in $S^1$ of period $2025$.
(Hint : $2025 = 3^4 \times 5^2$)
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SomeonecoolLovesMaths
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ISI UGB 2025 P8
SomeonecoolLovesMaths   0
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Source: ISI UGB 2025 P8
Let $n \geq 2$ and let $a_1 \leq a_2 \leq \cdots \leq a_n$ be positive integers such that $\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i = \prod_{i=1}^{n} a_i$. Prove that $\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i \leq 2n$ and determine when equality holds.
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SomeonecoolLovesMaths
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ISI UGB 2025 P6
SomeonecoolLovesMaths   0
35 minutes ago
Source: ISI UGB 2025 P6
Let $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of natural numbers, and let $\left( a_i, b_i \right)$, $1 \leq i \leq 9$, be nine distinct tuples in $\mathbb{N} \times \mathbb{N}$. Show that there are three distinct elements in the set $\{ 2^{a_i} 3^{b_i} \colon 1 \leq i \leq 9 \}$ whose product is a perfect cube.
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SomeonecoolLovesMaths
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ISI UGB 2025 P2
SomeonecoolLovesMaths   0
37 minutes ago
Source: ISI UGB 2025 P2
If the interior angles of a triangle $ABC$ satisfy the equality, $$\sin ^2 A + \sin ^2 B + \sin^2 + C = 2 \left( \cos ^2 A + \cos ^2 B + \cos ^2 C \right),$$prove that the triangle must have a right angle.
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Six variables
Nguyenhuyen_AG   1
N an hour ago by TNKT
Let $a,\,b,\,c,\,x,\,y,\,z$ be six positive real numbers. Prove that
$$\frac{a}{b+c} \cdot \frac{y+z}{x} + \frac{b}{c+a} \cdot \frac{z+x}{y} + \frac{c}{a+b} \cdot \frac{x+y}{z} \geqslant 2+\sqrt{\frac{8abc}{(a+b)(b+c)(c+a)}}.$$
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Anything real in this system must be integer
Assassino9931   3
N an hour ago by Sardor_lil
Source: Al-Khwarizmi International Junior Olympiad 2025 P1
Determine the largest integer $c$ for which the following statement holds: there exists at least one triple $(x,y,z)$ of integers such that
\begin{align*} x^2 + 4(y + z) = y^2 + 4(z + x) = z^2 + 4(x + y) = c \end{align*}and all triples $(x,y,z)$ of real numbers, satisfying the equations, are such that $x,y,z$ are integers.

Marek Maruin, Slovakia
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Assassino9931
May 9, 2025
Sardor_lil
an hour ago
Interesting inequalities
sqing   3
N an hour ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 , (a+k )(b+c)=k+1.$ Prove that
$$\frac{1}{a+1}+\frac{1}{b+1}+\frac{1}{c+1}\geq  \frac{2k-3+2\sqrt{k+1}}{3k-1}$$Where $ k\geq \frac{2}{3}.$
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 , (a+1)(b+c)=2.$ Prove that
$$\frac{1}{a+1}+\frac{1}{b+1}+\frac{1}{c+1}\geq 2\sqrt{2}-1$$Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 , (a+3)(b+c)=4.$ Prove that
$$\frac{1}{a+1}+\frac{1}{b+1}+\frac{1}{c+1}\geq  \frac{7}{4}$$Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 , (3a+2)(b+c)= 5.$ Prove that
$$\frac{1}{a+1}+\frac{1}{b+1}+\frac{1}{c+1}\geq  \frac{2(2\sqrt{15}-5)}{3}$$
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sqing
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sqing
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Interesting inequalities
sqing   1
N an hour ago by sqing
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Let $ a,b>0 $ and $ a+b\leq 1  $ . Prove that
$$\left(\frac{1}{a^3}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{b^3}-1\right)-k\left(\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}\right) \geq 49-2k$$Where $24\geq k\in N^+.$
$$\left(\frac{1}{a^3}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{b^3}-1\right) \geq 49$$$$\left(\frac{1}{a^3}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{b^3}-1\right)-25\left(\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}\right) \geq -\frac{13}{12}$$$$\left(\frac{1}{a^3}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{b^3}-1\right)-26\left(\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}\right) \geq -\frac{10}{3}$$$$\left(\frac{1}{a^3}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{b^3}-1\right)-27\left(\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}\right) \geq -\frac{23}{4}$$
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sqing
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sqing
an hour ago
Goals for 2025-2026
Airbus320-214   2
N 2 hours ago by AshAuktober
Please write down your goal/goals for competitions here for 2025-2026.
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Airbus320-214
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AshAuktober
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MOP Emails Out! (not clickbait)
Mathandski   104
N 2 hours ago by ohiorizzler1434
What an emotional roller coaster the past 34 days have been.

Congrats to all that qualified!
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Mathandski
Apr 22, 2025
ohiorizzler1434
2 hours ago
Past USAMO Medals
sdpandit   2
N 5 hours ago by sdpandit
Does anyone know where to find lists of USAMO medalists from past years? I can find the 2025 list on their website, but they don't seem to keep lists from previous years and I can't find it anywhere else. Thanks!
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sdpandit
May 8, 2025
sdpandit
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Geo is back??
GoodMorning   137
N 6 hours ago by Siddharthmaybe
Source: 2023 USAJMO Problem 2/USAMO Problem 1
In an acute triangle $ABC$, let $M$ be the midpoint of $\overline{BC}$. Let $P$ be the foot of the perpendicular from $C$ to $AM$. Suppose that the circumcircle of triangle $ABP$ intersects line $BC$ at two distinct points $B$ and $Q$. Let $N$ be the midpoint of $\overline{AQ}$. Prove that $NB=NC$.

Proposed by Holden Mui
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GoodMorning
Mar 23, 2023
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6 hours ago
Intro/intermediate books in terms of importance
Aaron_Q   6
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Hey everyone,
what are your opinions on the most critical (NEED to learn) intro/intermediate books?
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Hey everyone,
what are your opinions on the most critical (NEED to learn) intro/intermediate books?
i might be cooked
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for indermediate series, precalculus, Intermediate algebra, and intermediate counting & probability are very helpful. i'm not sure about intro series
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Realistically you don't "need" the books, but they can be a big help.

These are all my opinions btw

I suggest taking "Do I need this?" tests for all of these.

Intro to Algebra- Skippable
You probably won't gain much from this book if you have above a 95% in Algebra 1. However, the distance/rate/time sections are hard to find anywhere else

Intro to Combo- Suggested
there are many concepts in this book that are very miscellaneous are things you won't find, emphasis on choose function and basic counting techniques

Intro to Geometry- Suggested
many chapters are "obvious" if you've taken geometry at school, but many chapters have nice concepts/techniques, especially the challenge sections

Intro to Number Theory- Skip
This book is essentially a waste of time and is an incredibly slow book. Would only recommend if you're struggling in number theory since it is so comprehensive.


Intermediate Algebra- Strongly Recommended
This book has many many concepts that appear in competitions, and I would absolutely do this book. It has a fair share of concepts that you can't find easily and gives you a strong set of problem-solving techniques.

Intermediate Combo- Suggested
Haven't finished, but many of the chapters introduce obscure ideas that are hard to find anywhere else. e.g fibonacci/Lucas numbers, recursion, states, difficult pie problems
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Honestly if you can get 8-12 AIME problems just do OTIS. It’s great.

(Also AoPS counting books are very very very good, I learned a lot from them)
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If you're going for aime qual only
Intro Alg - suggested
Intro Geo - suggested
Intro Combo - suggested
Intro NT - skip

Int Alg - suggested
all the other int books are not that necessary


Now if you are going for a high score on aime, I also suggest doing intro NT, HIGHLY suggest doing Int alg and also suggest doing Int Combo
other than that you should just primarily grind past sets
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Aaron_Q wrote:
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Importance for what end? AIME qualification? Preparation for calculus and science? Brain development and critical thinking?
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Aaron_Q wrote:
Hey everyone,
what are your opinions on the most critical (NEED to learn) intro/intermediate books?
i might be cooked

Importance for what end? AIME qualification? Preparation for calculus and science? Brain development and critical thinking?

mb, I wasn't very clear when I wrote this post
I've already aime qualled and am locking in for jmo next year :D
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