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, do not answer with "
is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "
is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Hint
to 
be positive integers such that 
and 
Determine the value of 
is on point 
such that 
and 
and 
is a point on 
such that 
and 
Given that 
calculate 
given that 
Hint
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be real numbers such that 
Find 
are on circle 
such that 
and 
Determine the path length from 
to 
formed by segment 
and arc 
such that the expression 
is also an integer.
such that 
is a multiple of 
and 
are real numbers such that 
and 
Calculate 
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How many sequences 
are possible such that 
is the only point with equal coordinates?
The probability that at least two people choose the same number can be written as 
Find 
on the positive integers using the rule that for 
For all prime , 
and for all other 
Find the smallest possible value of such that 
can be written as the sum of two distinct, non-negative integer powers of 
be the set of positive integers of such that 
for some other positive integer 
Find the only three-digit value of in 
be a positive integer and let be the integer that is formed by removing the first three digits from 
Find the value of with least value such that 
be real numbers satisfying the equations 
Find the sum of all distinct values of 
.
be a cyclic quadrilateral. Let 
, , 
be the feet of the perpendiculars from 
to the lines 
, 
, , respectively. Show that 
if and only if the bisectors of 
and 
are concurrent with 
.
be reals such that 
. Prove that
and an integer 
which 
.Prove that 
isn't divisible by 
. Let and 
be the feet of the altitudes from to and from 
to respectively.
and 
as the reflections of across lines and , respectively. Let 
be the circumcircle of 
. Denote by the second intersection of line 
with , and by the intersection of ray 
with .
is the circumcenter of , prove that , , and are collinear if and only if quadrilateral 
can be inscribed within a circle.
be a triangle. A circle passing through and intersects segments and at and , respectively. Lines and 
intersect at 
, while lines 
and 
intersect at . Prove that 
if and only if 
.
be real numbers such that 
Prove that
of positive integers satisfying the following two conditions:
, if 
is in , then so are 
and 
; and contains an integer 
such that 
is not divisible by 
.
and 
are drawn in triangle . A point is marked on the segment so that 
It turned out that 
. Find the measure of the angle .
. has equation 
with 
.
has equation 
with 
.
and 
.
.
, then 
.
, i.e. 
is external bisector of 
, making 
external bisector of 
Doing this, we get that 
Now, we can solve this by factoring. By using RRT, we get that 
is a factor. Upon division, we get 
is the factored form. Now, we know that our only positive solutions are 
so our values of 
Summing these gives our answer of 
in or something like that idk my friend explained it pretty wonkily idk if he even solved it right but anyhow we press on. Transformations suck.
Furthermore, note that 
Thus, the answer is just 
so 
Cross multiplying and solving this quadratic, we get that our solution is 
Thus, 
We know from 
that 
so substituting this gives us 
Now, plugging this in to 
and 
gives us 
Solving these equations gives us 
Thus, by Vieta's, the sum of the roots is 
thus by median properties (the 2:1 ratio split thingy), we know that 
(For reference, I missed this part in-contest) Now, we can calculate 
and thus 
Now, by Pythagorean theorem, we know that the altitude from 
so our area is just 
Thus, simplifying and substituting 
we get that 
Simple guess and check gives us 
as our solutions. My dumb self forgot the former solution. Thus, 
giving us 
as our sum.
we get that 
Now if we try finding 
we will realize that 
this 
pattern continues until we once again reach 
thus 
Now return to the problem statement; 
but each inner function will just become 
hence the answer is 
Thus, simplifying, we get that 
or that 
Plugging this in to the first equation, we get that 
so this means that 
Now, 
thus 
and so by Special Right Triangles we do NOT in fact get 
but rather 
.
to be an integer. Plugging in factors of 
we see that there are 
integers that work.
Plugging in numbers gives us 
as our smallest value.
Furthermore, 
so 
meaning that 
.
and thus 
giving us 
Furthermore, we know that 
so our answer is just 
in the summation. Essentially, we have 
.
In other words, we want to find 
.
.
in such a polynomial is 
.
,
.
.
,
.
,
and divide by 
.
and 
in our sum, subtract by 
.
term look kind of weird? Well, we actually notice 
,
.
,
,
is our answer!
,
and 
.
,
,
.
,
for when 
terms! Anyways, the answer is 
.
so our coefficient is just 
Thus, our answer is just 
.
etc.
we get that it is 
Thus, we note that for an integer 
Since 
we know that all values of 
satisfy our conditions. Thus, our answer is just 
is our solution. For these Pell Equations, all solutions are of the form 
for 
Thus, we plug in 
giving us 
as our answer.
and let 
be our three-digit number that we remove. Thus, we can write 
By our condition, we know that 
or that 
Furthermore, we know that 
does not work, so we try 
We know that 
by the fact that it must be divisible by a 
Noting that 
doesn't work, we try 
or that 
This, miraculously, works, and thus our value of 
and 
Prove that 
and 
.
Prove that
such that 
.
