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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

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k i Zero tolerance
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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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Inequality, tougher than it looks
tom-nowy   2
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Prove that for $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$
$$ 2(a^2+1)(b^2+1) \geq 3(a+b). $$Is there an elegant way to prove this?
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Inequalities
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Let $a,b,c> 0$ and $\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}=1.$ Prove that
$$ (1-abc) (1-a)(1-b)(1-c) \ge 208 $$$$ (1+abc) (1-a)(1-b)(1-c) \le -224 $$$$(1+a^2b^2c^2) (1-a)(1-b)(1-c) \le -5840 $$
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Purple Comet High School Math Meet 2024 P1
franklin2013   0
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Joe ate one half of a fifth of a pizza. Gale ate one third of a quarter of that pizza. The difference in the amounts that the two ate was $\frac{1}{n}$ of the pizza, where $n$ is a positive integer. Find $n$.
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Stylish Numbers
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A positive even integer $n$ is called stylish if the set $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ can be partitioned into $\frac{n}{2}$ pairs such that the sum of the elements in each pair is a power of $3$. For example, $6$ is stylish because the set $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\}$ can be partitioned as $\{1,2\}, \{3,6\}, \{4,5\}$, with sums $3$, $9$, and $9$ respectively. Determine the number of stylish numbers less than $3^{2025}$.
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Integer roots preserved under linear function of polynomial
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Source: USEMO 2019/2
Let $\mathbb{Z}[x]$ denote the set of single-variable polynomials in $x$ with integer coefficients. Find all functions $\theta : \mathbb{Z}[x] \to \mathbb{Z}[x]$ (i.e. functions taking polynomials to polynomials)
such that
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[*] for any polynomials $p, q \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$, $\theta(p + q) = \theta(p) + \theta(q)$;
[*] for any polynomial $p \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$, $p$ has an integer root if and only if $\theta(p)$ does.
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Carl Schildkraut
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BMO 2024 SL A3
MuradSafarli   5
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A3.
Find all triples \((a, b, c)\) of positive real numbers that satisfy the system:
\[ \begin{aligned} 11bc - 36b - 15c &= abc \\ 12ca - 10c - 28a &= abc \\ 13ab - 21a - 6b &= abc. \end{aligned} \]
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Cool functional equation
Rayanelba   4
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Source: Own
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{Z}_{>0}\to \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ that verify the following equation for all $x,y\in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$:
$max(f^{f(y)}(x),f^{f(y)}(y))|min(x,y)$
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af(a)+bf(b)+2ab=x^2 for all natural a, b - show that f(a)=a
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Source: Iran TST 2011 - Day 4 - Problem 3
Suppose that $f : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ is a function for which the expression $af(a)+bf(b)+2ab$ for all $a,b \in \mathbb{N}$ is always a perfect square. Prove that $f(a)=a$ for all $a \in \mathbb{N}$.
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Very easy NT
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Prove that there exists no natural number $n>1$ such that $n \mid 2^n-1$.
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Another quadrilateral in a circle
v_Enhance   110
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Source: APMO 2013, Problem 5
Let $ABCD$ be a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle $\omega$, and let $P$ be a point on the extension of $AC$ such that $PB$ and $PD$ are tangent to $\omega$. The tangent at $C$ intersects $PD$ at $Q$ and the line $AD$ at $R$. Let $E$ be the second point of intersection between $AQ$ and $\omega$. Prove that $B$, $E$, $R$ are collinear.
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Rectangle EFGH in incircle, prove that QIM = 90
v_Enhance   64
N 3 hours ago by lpieleanu
Source: Taiwan 2014 TST1, Problem 3
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with incenter $I$, and suppose the incircle is tangent to $CA$ and $AB$ at $E$ and $F$. Denote by $G$ and $H$ the reflections of $E$ and $F$ over $I$. Let $Q$ be the intersection of $BC$ with $GH$, and let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$. Prove that $IQ$ and $IM$ are perpendicular.
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Queue geo
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Let $ABC$ be an acute scalene triangle with circumcenter $O$. Let $Y, Z$ be the feet of the altitudes from $B, C$ to $AC, AB$ respectively. Let $D$ be the midpoint of $BC$. Let $\omega_1$ be the circle with diameter $AD$. Let $Q\neq A$ be the intersection of $(ABC)$ and $\omega$. Let $H$ be the orthocenter of $ABC$. Let $K$ be the intersection of $AQ$ and $BC$. Let $l_1,l_2$ be the lines through $Q$ tangent to $\omega,(AYZ)$ respectively. Let $I$ be the intersection of $l_1$ and $KH$. Let $P$ be the intersection of $l_2$ and $YZ$. Let $l$ be the line through $I$ parallel to $HD$ and let $O'$ be the reflection of $O$ across $l$. Prove that $O'P$ is tangent to $(KPQ)$.
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Functional Geometry
GreekIdiot   2
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Source: BMO 2024 SL G7
Let $f: \pi \to \mathbb R$ be a function from the Euclidean plane to the real numbers such that $f(A)+f(B)+f(C)=f(O)+f(G)+f(H)$ for any acute triangle $\Delta ABC$ with circumcenter $O$, centroid $G$ and orthocenter $H$. Prove that $f$ is constant.
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Right-angled triangle if circumcentre is on circle
liberator   78
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Source: IMO 2013 Problem 3
Let the excircle of triangle $ABC$ opposite the vertex $A$ be tangent to the side $BC$ at the point $A_1$. Define the points $B_1$ on $CA$ and $C_1$ on $AB$ analogously, using the excircles opposite $B$ and $C$, respectively. Suppose that the circumcentre of triangle $A_1B_1C_1$ lies on the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$. Prove that triangle $ABC$ is right-angled.

Proposed by Alexander A. Polyansky, Russia
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incircle trisects median, of perimeter 28 (2019 Alberta HS MC R2 p5)
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Find the lengths of the sides of $\vartriangle ABC$ of perimeter $28$, if one of its median is divided by its inscribed circle in three equal parts.
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$\triangle ABC\ :\ AB=13,BC=10,CA=5$ and $A(0,0),B(13,0),C(\frac{47}{13},\frac{12\sqrt{14}}{13})$.

Incenter $D(4,\frac{3\sqrt{14}}{7})$, midpoint $M(\frac{108}{13},\frac{6\sqrt{14}}{13})$ of $BC$.
Three equal parts of $2\sqrt{2}$ on the median $AM$.
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