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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
rrusczyk   1573
N 5 hours ago by SmartGroot
I write today to announce my retirement as CEO from Art of Problem Solving. When I founded AoPS 22 years ago, I never imagined that we would reach so many students and families, or that we would find so many channels through which we discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. I am very proud of all we have accomplished and I’m thankful for the many supporters who provided inspiration and encouragement along the way. I'm particularly grateful to all of the wonderful members of the AoPS Community!

I’m delighted to introduce our new leaders - Ben Kornell and Andrew Sutherland. Ben has extensive experience in education and edtech prior to joining AoPS as my successor as CEO, including starting like I did as a classroom teacher. He has a deep understanding of the value of our work because he’s an AoPS parent! Meanwhile, Andrew and I have common roots as founders of education companies; he launched Quizlet at age 15! His journey from founder to MIT to technology and product leader as our Chief Product Officer traces a pathway many of our students will follow in the years to come.

Thank you again for your support for Art of Problem Solving and we look forward to working with millions more wonderful problem solvers in the years to come.

And special thanks to all of the amazing AoPS team members who have helped build AoPS. We’ve come a long way from here:IMAGE
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Mar 24, 2025
SmartGroot
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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
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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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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
cyclic ineq not tight
RainbowNeos   1
N 36 minutes ago by lbh_qys
Source: own
Given $n\geq 3$ and $x_i\geq 0, 1\leq i\leq n$ with sum $1$. Show that
\[\sum_{i=1}^n \min\{{x_i^2, x_{i+1}}\}\leq \frac{1}{2}.\]where $x_{n+1}=x_1$.
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RainbowNeos
Yesterday at 2:24 PM
lbh_qys
36 minutes ago
Something nice
KhuongTrang   22
N 37 minutes ago by KhuongTrang
Source: own
Problem. Given $a,b,c$ be non-negative real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca=1.$ Prove that

$$\sqrt{a+1}+\sqrt{b+1}+\sqrt{c+1}\le 1+2\sqrt{a+b+c+abc}.$$
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+1 w
KhuongTrang
Nov 1, 2023
KhuongTrang
37 minutes ago
Inspired by 2011 USAMO
sqing   0
40 minutes ago
Source: Own
Let $ a, b,c >0 $ and $ a^2+b^2+c^2+(a+b+c)^2\leq4. $ Prove that
$$\frac{a(bc+1)}{(b+c)^2}+  \frac{b(ca+1)}{(c+a)^2}+  \frac{c(ab+1)}{(a+b)^2} \geq \sqrt 3$$
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sqing
40 minutes ago
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Stronger than USAMO 2001
mudok   35
N 43 minutes ago by KhuongTrang
Source: own
$a,b,c$ are non-negative reals such that \[ a^2+b^2+c^2+abc=4\]

Prove that \[ab+bc+ca-\frac{a+b+c-1}{2}\cdot abc\le 2\]

USAMO 2001
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mudok
Oct 18, 2012
KhuongTrang
43 minutes ago
Send me your problem.
B1t   0
43 minutes ago
Does anyone have a non-famous hard problem (Category C or N is great) with a Mohs rating of 35M( harder than average imo p2) or higher? If you do, please send me the problem via private message along with the solution. I will propose it for the Olympiad. Please do not post it here.
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B1t
43 minutes ago
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Inspired by 2011 USAMO
sqing   0
an hour ago
Source: Own
Let $ a, b >0 $ and $a^2+b^2+(a+b+1)^2\leq3. $ Prove that
$$ \frac{a }{b+1 }+  \frac{b }{a+1}+  \frac{ab+1}{(a+b)^2} \geq 3$$
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sqing
an hour ago
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integral points
jhz   3
N an hour ago by flower417477
Source: 2025 CTST P17
Prove: there exist integer $x_1,x_2,\cdots x_{10},y_1,y_2,\cdots y_{10}$ satisfying the following conditions:
$(1)$ $|x_i|,|y_i|\le 10^{10} $ for all $1\le i \le 10$
$(2)$ Define the set \[S = \left\{ \left( \sum_{i=1}^{10} a_i x_i, \sum_{i=1}^{10} a_i y_i \right) : a_1, a_2, \cdots, a_{10} \in \{0, 1\} \right\},\]then \(|S| = 1024\)and any rectangular strip of width 1 covers at most two points of S.
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jhz
Yesterday at 1:14 AM
flower417477
an hour ago
Complex number inequalities
jhz   2
N an hour ago by flower417477
Source: 2025 CTST P18
Find the smallest real number $M$ such that there exist four complex numbers $a,b,c,d$ with $|a|=|b|=|c|=|d|=1$, and for any complex number $z$, if $|z| = 1$, then\[|az^3+bz^2+cz+d|\le M.\]
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jhz
Yesterday at 12:28 AM
flower417477
an hour ago
2025 Caucasus MO Seniors P1
BR1F1SZ   4
N an hour ago by jasperE3
Source: Caucasus MO
For given positive integers $a$ and $b$, let us consider the equation$$a + \gcd(b, x) = b + \gcd(a, x).$$[list=a]
[*]For $a = 20$ and $b = 25$, find the least positive integer $x$ satisfying this equation.
[*]Prove that for any positive integers $a$ and $b$, there exist infinitely many positive integers $x$ satisfying this equation.
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(Here, $\gcd(m, n)$ denotes the greatest common divisor of positive integers $m$ and $n$.)
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BR1F1SZ
Yesterday at 12:37 AM
jasperE3
an hour ago
SOLVE-3 tasks
Kastriot   2
N an hour ago by sqing
1.Find all pairs of $(a,b)$ which are set of natural numbers and for that $\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{a}{1+b}$ to be a natural number too.

2.Let $a,b,c$ are set of positiv real numbers and $a+b+c=3$.Then prove $\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{b}+\sqrt{c}\geq ab+bc+ca$.

3..Let $a,b,c$ are set of positiv real numbers and $a^2+b^2+c^2+(a+b+c)^2\leq4$.Then prove $\frac{ab+1}{(a+b)^2}+\frac{bc+1}{(b+c)^2}+\frac{ca+1}{(c+a)^2}\geq3$.
2 replies
Kastriot
Jan 15, 2013
sqing
an hour ago
Elements of set
shobber   12
N an hour ago by Maximilian113
Source: APMO 1998
Let $F$ be the set of all $n$-tuples $(A_1, \ldots, A_n)$ such that each $A_{i}$ is a subset of $\{1, 2, \ldots, 1998\}$. Let $|A|$ denote the number of elements of the set $A$. Find
\[ \sum_{(A_1, \ldots, A_n)\in F} |A_1\cup A_2\cup \cdots \cup A_n|  \]
12 replies
shobber
Mar 17, 2006
Maximilian113
an hour ago
Inequalities
sqing   5
N 2 hours ago by anduran
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 $ and $a+b+c=1$. Prove that
$$a(b+c+ 5bc +1)\leq\frac{676}{675}$$$$a(b+c+6bc +1)\leq\frac{245}{243}$$
5 replies
sqing
Yesterday at 11:34 AM
anduran
2 hours ago
Inequalities
sqing   8
N 2 hours ago by sqing
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 $ and $a+b+c=1$. Prove that
$$a^2+b^2+ ab +21abc\leq\frac{512}{441}$$Equality holds when $a=b=\frac{38}{21},c=\frac{5}{214}.$
$$a^2+b^2+ ab +19abc\leq\frac{10648}{9747}$$Equality holds when $a=b=\frac{22}{57},c=\frac{13}{57}.$
$$a^2+b^2+ ab +22abc\leq\frac{15625}{13068}$$Equality holds when $a=b=\frac{25}{66},c=\frac{8}{33}.$
8 replies
sqing
Yesterday at 3:07 AM
sqing
2 hours ago
functions false or true
Math2030   3
N 3 hours ago by jasperE3
find all functions f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R} that satisfy the functional equation:


f(x^2 f(x) + f(y)) = (f(x))^3 + f(y), \quad \forall x, y \in \mathbb{R}
3 replies
Math2030
Tuesday at 3:05 PM
jasperE3
3 hours ago
SMT 2023 Team
peace09   20
N Mar 25, 2025 by lpieleanu
In the spirit of parmenides51, I guess.

p1. We call a time on a $12$ hour digital clock nice if the sum of the minutes digits is equal to the hour. For example, $10:55$, $3:12$ and $5:05$ are nice times. How many nice times occur during the course of one day? (We do not consider times of the form $00:\text{XX}$.)

p2. Along Stanford’s University Avenue are $2023$ palm trees which are either red, green, or blue. Let the positive integers $R$, $G$, $B$ be the number of red, green, and blue palm trees respectively. Given that
\[R^3+2B+G=12345,\]compute $R$.

p3. $5$ integers are each selected uniformly at random from the range $1$ to $5$ inclusive and put into a set $S$. Each integer is selected independently of the others. What is the expected value of the minimum element of $S$?

p4. Cornelius chooses three complex numbers $a,b,c$ uniformly at random from the complex unit circle. Given that real parts of $a\cdot\overline{c}$ and $b\cdot\overline{c}$ are $\tfrac{1}{10}$, compute the expected value of the real part of $a\cdot\overline{b}$.

p5. A computer virus starts off infecting a single device. Every second an infected computer has a $7/30$ chance to stay infected and not do anything else, a $7/15$ chance to infect a new computer, and a $1/6$ chance to infect two new computers. Otherwise (a $2/15$ chance), the virus gets exterminated, but other copies of it on other computers are unaffected. Compute the probability that a single infected computer produces an infinite chain of infections.

p6. In the language of Blah, there is a unique word for every integer between $0$ and $98$ inclusive. A team of students has an unordered list of these $99$ words, but do not know what integer each word corresponds to. However, the team is given access to a machine that, given two, not necessarily distinct, words in Blah, outputs the word in Blah corresponding to the sum modulo $99$ of their corresponding integers. What is the minimum $N$ such that the team can narrow down the possible translations of "$1$" to a list of $N$ Blah words, using the machine as many times as they want?

p7. Compute
\[\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2\right)^{-t}}.\]
p8. What is the area that is swept out by a regular hexagon of side length $1$ as it rotates $30^\circ$ about its center?

p9. Let $A$ be the the area enclosed by the relation
\[x^2+y^2\le2023.\]Let $B$ be the area enclosed by the relation
\[x^{2n}+y^{2n}\le\left(A\cdot\frac{7}{16\pi}\right)^{n/2}.\]Compute the limit of $B$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$.

p10. Let $\mathcal{S}=\{1,6,10,\dots\}$ be the set of positive integers which are the product of an even number of distinct primes, including $1$. Let $\mathcal{T}=\{2,3,\dots,\}$ be the set of positive integers which are the product of an odd number of distinct primes. Compute
\[\sum_{n\in\mathcal{S}}\left\lfloor\frac{2023}{n}\right\rfloor-\sum_{n\in\mathcal{T}}\left\lfloor\frac{2023}{n}\right\rfloor.\]
p11. Define the Fibonacci sequence by $F_0=0$, $F_1=1$, and $F_i=F_{i-1}+F_{i-2}$ for $i\ge2$. Compute
\[\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{F_{F_{n+1}+1}}{F_{F_n}\cdot F_{F_{n-1}-1}}.\]
p12. Let $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$ be points in the plane with integer coordinates such that no three of them are collinear, and where the distances $AB$, $AC$, $AD$, $BC$, $BD$, and $CD$ are all integers. Compute the smallest possible length of a side of a convex quadrilateral formed by such points.

p13. Suppose the real roots of $p(x)=x^9+16x^8+60x^7+1920x^2+2048x+512$ are $r_1,r_2,\dots,r_k$ (roots
may be repeated). Compute
\[\sum_{i=1}^k\frac{1}{2-r_i}.\]
p14. A teacher stands at $(0,10)$ and has some students, where there is exactly one student at each integer position in the following triangle:
[center]IMAGE[/center]
Here, the circle denotes the teacher at $(0,10)$ and the triangle extends until and includes the column $(21,y)$. A teacher can see a student $(i,j)$ if there is no student in the direct line of sight between the teacher and the position $(i,j)$. Compute the number of students the teacher can see (assume that each student has no width—that is, each student is a point).

p15. Suppose we have a right triangle $\triangle ABC$ where $A$ is the right angle and lengths $AB=AC=2$. Suppose we have points $D$, $E$, and $F$ on $AB$, $AC$, and $BC$ respectively with $DE\perp EF$. What is the minimum possible length of $DF$?
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Y by sixoneeight, parmenides51
In the spirit of parmenides51, I guess.

p1. We call a time on a $12$ hour digital clock nice if the sum of the minutes digits is equal to the hour. For example, $10:55$, $3:12$ and $5:05$ are nice times. How many nice times occur during the course of one day? (We do not consider times of the form $00:\text{XX}$.)

p2. Along Stanford’s University Avenue are $2023$ palm trees which are either red, green, or blue. Let the positive integers $R$, $G$, $B$ be the number of red, green, and blue palm trees respectively. Given that
\[R^3+2B+G=12345,\]compute $R$.

p3. $5$ integers are each selected uniformly at random from the range $1$ to $5$ inclusive and put into a set $S$. Each integer is selected independently of the others. What is the expected value of the minimum element of $S$?

p4. Cornelius chooses three complex numbers $a,b,c$ uniformly at random from the complex unit circle. Given that real parts of $a\cdot\overline{c}$ and $b\cdot\overline{c}$ are $\tfrac{1}{10}$, compute the expected value of the real part of $a\cdot\overline{b}$.

p5. A computer virus starts off infecting a single device. Every second an infected computer has a $7/30$ chance to stay infected and not do anything else, a $7/15$ chance to infect a new computer, and a $1/6$ chance to infect two new computers. Otherwise (a $2/15$ chance), the virus gets exterminated, but other copies of it on other computers are unaffected. Compute the probability that a single infected computer produces an infinite chain of infections.

p6. In the language of Blah, there is a unique word for every integer between $0$ and $98$ inclusive. A team of students has an unordered list of these $99$ words, but do not know what integer each word corresponds to. However, the team is given access to a machine that, given two, not necessarily distinct, words in Blah, outputs the word in Blah corresponding to the sum modulo $99$ of their corresponding integers. What is the minimum $N$ such that the team can narrow down the possible translations of "$1$" to a list of $N$ Blah words, using the machine as many times as they want?

p7. Compute
\[\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2\right)^{-t}}.\]
p8. What is the area that is swept out by a regular hexagon of side length $1$ as it rotates $30^\circ$ about its center?

p9. Let $A$ be the the area enclosed by the relation
\[x^2+y^2\le2023.\]Let $B$ be the area enclosed by the relation
\[x^{2n}+y^{2n}\le\left(A\cdot\frac{7}{16\pi}\right)^{n/2}.\]Compute the limit of $B$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$.

p10. Let $\mathcal{S}=\{1,6,10,\dots\}$ be the set of positive integers which are the product of an even number of distinct primes, including $1$. Let $\mathcal{T}=\{2,3,\dots,\}$ be the set of positive integers which are the product of an odd number of distinct primes. Compute
\[\sum_{n\in\mathcal{S}}\left\lfloor\frac{2023}{n}\right\rfloor-\sum_{n\in\mathcal{T}}\left\lfloor\frac{2023}{n}\right\rfloor.\]
p11. Define the Fibonacci sequence by $F_0=0$, $F_1=1$, and $F_i=F_{i-1}+F_{i-2}$ for $i\ge2$. Compute
\[\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{F_{F_{n+1}+1}}{F_{F_n}\cdot F_{F_{n-1}-1}}.\]
p12. Let $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$ be points in the plane with integer coordinates such that no three of them are collinear, and where the distances $AB$, $AC$, $AD$, $BC$, $BD$, and $CD$ are all integers. Compute the smallest possible length of a side of a convex quadrilateral formed by such points.

p13. Suppose the real roots of $p(x)=x^9+16x^8+60x^7+1920x^2+2048x+512$ are $r_1,r_2,\dots,r_k$ (roots
may be repeated). Compute
\[\sum_{i=1}^k\frac{1}{2-r_i}.\]
p14. A teacher stands at $(0,10)$ and has some students, where there is exactly one student at each integer position in the following triangle:
https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/2/0cddcedf318d7b53bd33bd14353ece9614ec44.png
Here, the circle denotes the teacher at $(0,10)$ and the triangle extends until and includes the column $(21,y)$. A teacher can see a student $(i,j)$ if there is no student in the direct line of sight between the teacher and the position $(i,j)$. Compute the number of students the teacher can see (assume that each student has no width—that is, each student is a point).

p15. Suppose we have a right triangle $\triangle ABC$ where $A$ is the right angle and lengths $AB=AC=2$. Suppose we have points $D$, $E$, and $F$ on $AB$, $AC$, and $BC$ respectively with $DE\perp EF$. What is the minimum possible length of $DF$?
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Removing from my feed; if you need me to edit something, please PM me.

To justify the existence of this post, here's the solution to 7, the most immature problem I've seen in a while:*
\begin{align*}
\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2\right)^{-t}}&=\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{1}{k^2}\right)^{-t}}\\
&=\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\frac{\pi^2}{6}\right)^{-t}}\\
&=\sqrt{6\cdot\frac{1}{\frac{\pi^2}{6}}}=\sqrt{\frac{36}{\pi^2}}=\boxed{\frac{6}{\pi}}.
\end{align*}
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For p5: Suppose that $p$ is the probability that the virus dies out eventually from 1 computer. Then, if there are $n$ computers, then it is $p^n$ since the different chains starting from different computers are essentially independent. Thus, $$p=\frac{7}{30}p+\frac{7}{15}p^2+\frac{1}{6}p^3+\frac{2}{15}.$$The roots of this are $$p=-4, p=1/5, p=1.$$The first solution obviously does not make sense. Thus, either $p=1/5$ (which would give answer 4/5) or $p=1$ meaning that the virus is guaranteed to die out eventually (giving answer 0).

In the test I put down 4/5 (which was the correct answer) since I thought that they wouldn't make it 0, but how are we sure that the virus doesn't die eventually with probability 1? After all, the process never ends, and it's always possible that it dies at any moment? And $p=1$ does actually satisfy the states equation.
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For p9, we see that $A$ is the area of a circle with radius $\sqrt{2023}$ so $A = 2023\pi$. We also see that $B$ is the area of the square with side length $2\left(A\cdot \frac{7}{16\pi}\right)^{\frac14}$ so its area is $\boxed{119}$
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For P2, $R+B+G=2023$ so $R^3-R+B=10322$ and $R<23$
$R=21, B=1082, G=920$
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Relatively straightforward p14. Note that finding all the see-able students above the midline $y > 10$ is equivalent to finding all the fractions with numerator $n \in [1, 20]$ and denominator $m \in [1,21]$ such that $\dfrac{n}{m}$ is irreducible. Clearly this is true iff $gcd(n, m) = 1$. There are \[\sum_{k=2}^{21} \phi(k) = 139\]valid $(n,m)$. We then multiply this number by $2 $ to account for $y < 10$ and add $1 $ to count the student at $(1, 10)$. The answer is $2 \cdot 139 + 1 = \boxed{279}$.
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For P1, we notice that every minute time except $00, 49, 58, $and $59$ has a sum of digits between $1$ and $12.$ Hence, the answer is $(60-4) \cdot 2 = \boxed{112}.$
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For P2, we can bound values of $R.$ From simple bounding noting how the RHS and the LHS changes, we see that $21 \leq R \leq 23.$ From basic substition and algebra, we find that $R=\boxed{21}$ is a solution.
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ap246 wrote:
For p9, we see that $A$ is the area of a circle with radius $\sqrt{2023}$ so $A = 2023\pi$. We also see that $B$ is the area of the square with side length $2\left(A\cdot \frac{7}{16\pi}\right)^{\frac14}$ so its area is $\boxed{119}$

How did you know the equation was a square?
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P6: think the answer is $\phi(99) = 60$. Let $k$ be an integer mod 99.

Note that if $\gcd(99, k) \neq 1$, then it is impossible for $1$ to be assigned the word that is actually assigned to $k$. This is because the words assigned to the integers $k, 2k, \cdots, 99k$ mod 99 must be distinct, which isn't true if $k$ is not coprime with $99$ (as otherwise there would be repeats of the word assigned to $0$).

Otherwise, mapping the integer $x$ to the word actually given by $kx$ is also valid (checkable that $1, 2, \cdots, 99$ and $k, 2k, \cdots, 99k$ are "equivalent" under addition mod 99). So all $k$ coprime with $99$ work.
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P15 is wrong the length of DF can tend to 0
Proof: draw infinitely many parallel lines cutting AB and AC perpendiculars of each line will pass through BC so you will get infinitely many F's and you can select one line DE for DF is smaller than DF for another DE. You could have asked correct question by making minimum length to maximum area of the triangle or so. Correct me if I got the question wrong
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For p8 what does it mean by swept out
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p13. Assume the roots of the polynomial $p(x)=x^9+16x^8+60x^7+1920x^2+2048x+512$ are $\alpha_1 ,\alpha_2 ,\alpha_3  \dots \alpha_9$ where roots may be repeated. We have to find the value of $$\sum_{i=1}^9\frac{1}{2-\alpha_i}$$We have to find an equation whose roots are $\frac{1}{2-\alpha_1}, \frac{1}{2-\alpha_2}\dots \frac{1}{2-\alpha_9}$ by transformation of roots we get $$\frac{1}{2-\alpha_1}=t\implies
\boxed{\alpha_1=\frac{2t-1}{t}}$$putting this value in the given equation we get, $$\left(\frac{2t-1}{t}\right)^9+16\left(\frac{2t-1}{t}\right)^8+60\left(\frac{2t-1}{t}\right)^7+1920\left(\frac{2t-1}{t}\right)^2+2048\left(\frac{2t-1}{t}\right)+512$$after calculate we gte the answer as $\frac{5}{4}$
The solution is too lengthy!!!! thats why i cant write the whole solution sorry!!! we only calculate the leading coefficient and the coefficient of $x^8$ and after cancellation we get our answer as $\frac{5}{4}$

Vieta's Relation!!!!!!!!! :love:
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$\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2 = \sum_{k=2}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty \left(\frac{1}{k} \right)^j\right)^2 = \sum_{k=2}^\infty \left( \frac{ \frac{1}{k}}{1-\frac{1}{k}} \right)^2 = \sum_{k=2}^{\infty} \left(\frac{1}{k-1}\right)^2 = \sum_{k=1}^\infty \left( \frac{1}{k}\right)^2 = \frac{\pi^2}{6}$

So $\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2\right)^{-t}}$ becomes $\sqrt{6 \sum_{t=1}^{\infty} \left(1 + \frac{\pi^2}{6}\right)^{-t}} = \sqrt{6 \sum_{t=1}^\infty \left(\frac{1}{1+\frac{\pi^2}{6}}\right)^t} = \sqrt{6 \cdot \frac{6}{\pi^2}} = \frac{6}{\pi}$

I think I might have done something wrong, but this is my answer
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Removing from my feed; if you need me to edit something, please PM me.

To justify the existence of this post, here's the solution to 7, the most immature problem I've seen in a while:*
\begin{align*}
\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2\right)^{-t}}&=\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{1}{k^2}\right)^{-t}}\\
&=\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\frac{\pi^2}{6}\right)^{-t}}\\
&=\sqrt{6\cdot\frac{1}{\frac{\pi^2}{6}}}=\sqrt{\frac{36}{\pi^2}}=\boxed{\frac{6}{\pi}}.
\end{align*}

Ah I missed this; I guess I did do it right and it is a trash problem
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PEACE OH NINE TOOXOR :omighty: :omighty: :omighty: :omighty: :omighty:
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In the spirit of parmenides51, I guess.

p1. We call a time on a $12$ hour digital clock nice if the sum of the minutes digits is equal to the hour. For example, $10:55$, $3:12$ and $5:05$ are nice times. How many nice times occur during the course of one day? (We do not consider times of the form $00:\text{XX}$.)

p2. Along Stanford’s University Avenue are $2023$ palm trees which are either red, green, or blue. Let the positive integers $R$, $G$, $B$ be the number of red, green, and blue palm trees respectively. Given that
\[R^3+2B+G=12345,\]compute $R$.

p3. $5$ integers are each selected uniformly at random from the range $1$ to $5$ inclusive and put into a set $S$. Each integer is selected independently of the others. What is the expected value of the minimum element of $S$?

p4. Cornelius chooses three complex numbers $a,b,c$ uniformly at random from the complex unit circle. Given that real parts of $a\cdot\overline{c}$ and $b\cdot\overline{c}$ are $\tfrac{1}{10}$, compute the expected value of the real part of $a\cdot\overline{b}$.

p5. A computer virus starts off infecting a single device. Every second an infected computer has a $7/30$ chance to stay infected and not do anything else, a $7/15$ chance to infect a new computer, and a $1/6$ chance to infect two new computers. Otherwise (a $2/15$ chance), the virus gets exterminated, but other copies of it on other computers are unaffected. Compute the probability that a single infected computer produces an infinite chain of infections.

p6. In the language of Blah, there is a unique word for every integer between $0$ and $98$ inclusive. A team of students has an unordered list of these $99$ words, but do not know what integer each word corresponds to. However, the team is given access to a machine that, given two, not necessarily distinct, words in Blah, outputs the word in Blah corresponding to the sum modulo $99$ of their corresponding integers. What is the minimum $N$ such that the team can narrow down the possible translations of "$1$" to a list of $N$ Blah words, using the machine as many times as they want?

p7. Compute
\[\sqrt{6\sum_{t=1}^\infty\left(1+\sum_{k=1}^\infty\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty(1+k)^{-j}\right)^2\right)^{-t}}.\]
p8. What is the area that is swept out by a regular hexagon of side length $1$ as it rotates $30^\circ$ about its center?

p9. Let $A$ be the the area enclosed by the relation
\[x^2+y^2\le2023.\]Let $B$ be the area enclosed by the relation
\[x^{2n}+y^{2n}\le\left(A\cdot\frac{7}{16\pi}\right)^{n/2}.\]Compute the limit of $B$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$.

p10. Let $\mathcal{S}=\{1,6,10,\dots\}$ be the set of positive integers which are the product of an even number of distinct primes, including $1$. Let $\mathcal{T}=\{2,3,\dots,\}$ be the set of positive integers which are the product of an odd number of distinct primes. Compute
\[\sum_{n\in\mathcal{S}}\left\lfloor\frac{2023}{n}\right\rfloor-\sum_{n\in\mathcal{T}}\left\lfloor\frac{2023}{n}\right\rfloor.\]
p11. Define the Fibonacci sequence by $F_0=0$, $F_1=1$, and $F_i=F_{i-1}+F_{i-2}$ for $i\ge2$. Compute
\[\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{F_{F_{n+1}+1}}{F_{F_n}\cdot F_{F_{n-1}-1}}.\]
p12. Let $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$ be points in the plane with integer coordinates such that no three of them are collinear, and where the distances $AB$, $AC$, $AD$, $BC$, $BD$, and $CD$ are all integers. Compute the smallest possible length of a side of a convex quadrilateral formed by such points.

p13. Suppose the real roots of $p(x)=x^9+16x^8+60x^7+1920x^2+2048x+512$ are $r_1,r_2,\dots,r_k$ (roots
may be repeated). Compute
\[\sum_{i=1}^k\frac{1}{2-r_i}.\]
p14. A teacher stands at $(0,10)$ and has some students, where there is exactly one student at each integer position in the following triangle:
https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/2/0cddcedf318d7b53bd33bd14353ece9614ec44.png
Here, the circle denotes the teacher at $(0,10)$ and the triangle extends until and includes the column $(21,y)$. A teacher can see a student $(i,j)$ if there is no student in the direct line of sight between the teacher and the position $(i,j)$. Compute the number of students the teacher can see (assume that each student has no width—that is, each student is a point).

p15. Suppose we have a right triangle $\triangle ABC$ where $A$ is the right angle and lengths $AB=AC=2$. Suppose we have points $D$, $E$, and $F$ on $AB$, $AC$, and $BC$ respectively with $DE\perp EF$. What is the minimum possible length of $DF$?

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Ah I missed this; I guess I did do it right and it is a trash problem

I don't think P7 is soooo bad. It's pretty typical of the type of questions asked on SMT contests. It shows a good understanding of summation notation manipulation and geometric series and it's no worse than P13, which is completely unoriginal, and is better than P9, which is just... weird.
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For p8 what does it mean by swept out

Like the total area it has visited, Like if I translate a square its sidelength to the left, the total area swept out would be the union of all the areas at the positions it has been, which will be s^2 and s^2 sum as 2s^2.
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