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f(x+f(x)+f(y))=x+f(x+y)
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N 38 minutes ago by jasperE3
Source: FEOO, Shortlist A5
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}^+\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^+$ such that for any positive real numbers $x$ and $y$,
$$f(x+f(x)+f(y))=x+f(x+y)$$Proposed by Athanasios Kontogeorgis, Grecce, and Dorlir Ahmeti, Kosovo
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n-variable inequality
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Source: 2015 IMO Shortlist A1, Original 2015 IMO #5
Suppose that a sequence $a_1,a_2,\ldots$ of positive real numbers satisfies \[a_{k+1}\geq\frac{ka_k}{a_k^2+(k-1)}\]for every positive integer $k$. Prove that $a_1+a_2+\ldots+a_n\geq n$ for every $n\geq2$.
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Euler Line Madness
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Source: TSTST 2015 Problem 2
Let ABC be a scalene triangle. Let $K_a$, $L_a$ and $M_a$ be the respective intersections with BC of the internal angle bisector, external angle bisector, and the median from A. The circumcircle of $AK_aL_a$ intersects $AM_a$ a second time at point $X_a$ different from A. Define $X_b$ and $X_c$ analogously. Prove that the circumcenter of $X_aX_bX_c$ lies on the Euler line of ABC.
(The Euler line of ABC is the line passing through the circumcenter, centroid, and orthocenter of ABC.)

Proposed by Ivan Borsenco
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Own made functional equation
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Find all functions $f:R \rightarrow R$ such that $xf(x^2+2f(y)-yf(x))=f(x)^3-f(y)(f(x^2)-2f(x))$ for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}$
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Geometry with orthocenter config
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Let $ABC$ be a triangle, and let $AD, BE, CF$ be its altitudes. Let $H$ be its orthocenter, and let $O_B$ and $O_C$ be the circumcenters of triangles $AHC$ and $AHB$. Let $G$ be the second intersection of the circumcircles of triangles $FDO_B$ and $EDO_C$. Prove that the lines $DG$, $EF$, and $A$-median of $\triangle ABC$ are concurrent.
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Geometry with orthocenter config
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Let $ABC$ be a triangle, and let $AD, BE, CF$ be its altitudes. Let $H$ be its orthocenter, and let $O_B$ and $O_C$ be the circumcenters of triangles $AHC$ and $AHB$. Let $G$ be the second intersection of the circumcircles of triangles $FDO_B$ and $EDO_C$. Prove that the lines $DG$, $EF$, and $A$-median of $\triangle ABC$ are concurrent.
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Anyone??
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Is anyone solved?

I'm completely solved... >_<
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hello, here is a LONG synthetic solution (my compass is broken so I had to draw the circles by hand), nice problem

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j8zns2jjp5ev3ffp1ghi9/Tralalero-Tralala.pdf?rlkey=w1ebauraed0f416bion4a41y3&st=19a9ed7r&dl=0
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hello, here is a LONG synthetic solution (my compass is broken so I had to draw the circles by hand), nice problem

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j8zns2jjp5ev3ffp1ghi9/Tralalero-Tralala.pdf?rlkey=w1ebauraed0f416bion4a41y3&st=19a9ed7r&dl=0

An absolutely insane solution. How do you come up with a solution like this? I feel like it's impossible for me to solve this problem. Would you mind sharing your motivation or thought process?
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ohhh wrote:
hello, here is a LONG synthetic solution (my compass is broken so I had to draw the circles by hand), nice problem

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j8zns2jjp5ev3ffp1ghi9/Tralalero-Tralala.pdf?rlkey=w1ebauraed0f416bion4a41y3&st=19a9ed7r&dl=0

An absolutely insane solution. How do you come up with a solution like this? I feel like it's impossible for me to solve this problem. Would you mind sharing your motivation or thought process?



I used geogebra heavily, but the detailed motivation (or at least the actual order I came up with the steps) was:

i) We want to prove that the radical axis of circles is $DD'$, where $D' = AM \cap EF$, so it makes sense to take other points on this line $DD'$. An obvious one is the second intersection $T$ of $DD'$ with the nine-point circle. (draw a figure in ggb to understand)

Unfortunately $T$ doesn't help much, but interestingly after drawing some circles we see that $X = EF \cap BC$ belongs to $(ATD)$ (which I don't even use in the solution, but it's what gives us the initial path to simplify the problem).

ii) This is interesting because the problem becomes proving that the radical axes of:

$(ATDX)$, $(N_9)$ and $(DEO_b)$, $(DFO_c)$ coincide, but the centers of the first two don't seem too bad to work with,

the center of $(ATDX)$ is the midpoint of $AX$ and the center of $(N_9)$ is $N_9$. But $N_9$ is the midpoint of $AO_a$! So this begs for a homothety by $A$ with ratio $2$, and the problem would become:

Prove that $XO_a$ is perpendicular to the radical axis $DG$. $(1)$

Okay, we've seen a lot of things and a synthetic solution still seems impossible.

iii) Does it really? Taking the intersection $V$ of $DG$ with $O_aX$ unpretentiously, we see that if $(1)$ were in fact true, then by power of a point $V$ would be in $(EFO_a)$! Since we would have $XE \cdot XF = XD \cdot XM = XV \cdot XO_a$.

So in this we find points that "have" to be in the circles of the problem, from which comes lemma $5$ and the projections that I take in lemma $6$. (From $D$ on the line $O_aX$, $E$ on the line $O_bY$ and $F$ on the line $O_cZ$)

Then the next logical point to take is the second intersection of $VG$ with the circle $(EFO_a)$, and from here comes the claim of lemma $4$, i.e., that this antipode $A_1$ of $O_a$ is in $AO$.

iv) Assuming everything true, after that I realized that it was iff the cyclicity that I prove at the end of the pdf ($RUB_1C_1$ cyclic), which by Reim reduces to proving lemmas $3$ and $6$.

And here the problem was basically over, after working backwards we concluded that it was enough to prove these $7$ almost disjoint lemmas, that is, solve $7$ easier problems (They are easier than the original at least, but I still think some of them are hard)

note:

I explained where lemmas $3$, $4$, $5$ and $6$ come from, and the rest arise by working backwards again, but now in these four lemmas:

Lemma $6$ $\iff$ Lemma $7$

Lemma $3$ $\iff$ Lemma $2$ and Lemma $1$
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