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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Yesterday at 3:18 PM
Spring is in full swing and summer is right around the corner, what are your plans? At AoPS Online our schedule has new classes starting now through July, so be sure to keep your skills sharp and be prepared for the Fall school year! Check out the schedule of upcoming classes below.

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Looking for summer camps in math and language arts? Be sure to check out the video-based summer camps offered at the Virtual Campus that are 2- to 4-weeks in duration. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!

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[*]April 22nd (Webinar), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Competitive Programming at AoPS (USACO).[/list]
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Yesterday at 3:18 PM
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Predicted AMC 8 Scores
megahertz13   138
N 2 minutes ago by KF329
$\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c}Username & Grade & AMC8 Score \\ \hline
megahertz13 & 5 & 23 \\
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megahertz13
Jan 25, 2024
KF329
2 minutes ago
Geometry problem
Raul_S_Baz   1
N 4 hours ago by sunken rock
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Raul_S_Baz
Yesterday at 8:49 PM
sunken rock
4 hours ago
Question about USAMO, self esteem, and college
xHypotenuse   15
N 4 hours ago by xHypotenuse
Hello everyone. I know this question may sound ridiculous/neagtive but I really want to know how the rest of the community thinks on this issue. Please excuse this yap session and feel free to ignore this post if it doesn't make sense, I don't think I really have a sane mind these days and something has gotten into my head.

I want your advice on what I should do in this situation. It has been my dream to make usamo since ~second semester of 9th grade and I started grinding from that time on. Last year, I qualified for the aime and got a 5. This year I really wanted to qualify for the olympiad and studied really hard. I spent my entire summer working on counting and probability, the subject I suck at the most. And yet, on amc 12, I fumbled hard. I usually mocked ~120-130s on amc 10s but on amc 12 this year, I got really mediocre scores ~100. So I had no chance of making usamo.

So during winter of 2024-2025 I kinda gave up on aime studying and I was like "hey, if I can't get into usamo, maybe ill qualify for usapho." Since I was pretty good at physics at that time. So I spended my winter hard grinding for f=ma and guess what? The test had stupid and ridiculous questions and I only got an 11. What really sucks is that even with the stupid amount of cheaters in f=ma, if I changed all of my "D" guesses to "C," then I would have qualified. Since I solved 10 actually and guessed the rest. Absolutely unfair that only 1 of my guesses were correct.

And also since I didn't study for aime, I ended up being super rusty and so I only got a 7. Solved 9 tho. (I usually can consistently solve 10+ on aimes).

And now here's my senior year and ofc I want to apply to a prestigious college. But it feels stupid that I don't have any usamo or usapho titles like the people I know do. I think I will have good essays primarily due to a varied amount of life experiences but like, I don't feel like I will contribute much to the college without being some prestigious olympiad qualifier. So this led to me having a self esteem issue.

This also led me to the question: should I study one last year so that I can get into usamo in my senior year, or is there no point? Since like, colleges don't care about whatever the hell you do in your senior year, and also, it seems just 'weird' to be grinding math contests while the rest of the people from my school are playing around, etc. So this time around I've really been having an internal crisis between my self esteem (since getting into usamo will raise my self esteem a lot) and college/senior choices.

I know this may seem like a dumb question to some and you are free to completely ignore the post. That's fine. I just really want advice for what I should do in this situation and it would really help bring my life quality up

Thanks,
hypotenuse
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xHypotenuse
Today at 2:03 AM
xHypotenuse
4 hours ago
Prove that
abduqahhor_math   5
N 5 hours ago by krancky22
n^2+3n+5 is not divided to 121
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abduqahhor_math
Mar 31, 2025
krancky22
5 hours ago
ez problem
Noname23   3
N 5 hours ago by KevinKV01
Find $x$
$7 + \sqrt7 + 2\sqrt{x + 4} + \sqrt{7x + 28} + \sqrt{14x + 7} + \sqrt{2x^2 + 9x + 4} - \sqrt{2x + 1} = 0$
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Noname23
Apr 1, 2025
KevinKV01
5 hours ago
Solve the equetion
yt12   5
N 5 hours ago by KevinKV01
Solve the equetion:$\sin 2x+\tan x=2$
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yt12
Mar 31, 2025
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5 hours ago
Inequalities
sqing   2
N 5 hours ago by sqing
Let $ a,b> 0 $ and $ a^2+ b^2+a+b= 2 . $ Prove that
$$ \frac{a^5}{a^5+ b^3}+ \frac{b^5}{b^5+ a^3}\leq 1$$
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sqing
5 hours ago
sqing
5 hours ago
Real variables inequality
JK1603JK   1
N 6 hours ago by lbh_qys
Let a,b,c\in R then prove that \frac{15}{2}\cdot\frac{a^2+b^2+c^2}{(a+b+c)^2}+\frac{ab}{a^2+b^2}+\frac{bc}{b^2+c^2}+\frac{ca}{c^2+a^2}\ge 4
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JK1603JK
Today at 12:31 AM
lbh_qys
6 hours ago
Inequalities
sqing   14
N 6 hours ago by sqing
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 $ and $a+b+c=1$. Prove that$$a^3b+b^3c+c^3a+\frac{473}{256}abc\le\frac{27}{256}$$Equality holds when $ a=b=c=\frac{1}{3} $ or $ a=0,b=\frac{3}{4},c=\frac{1}{4} $ or $ a=\frac{1}{4} ,b=0,c=\frac{3}{4} $
or $ a=\frac{3}{4} ,b=\frac{1}{4},c=0. $
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sqing
Mar 22, 2025
sqing
6 hours ago
INTEGIRLS Spring Competition on 4/20!!!
integirls.bayarea   0
6 hours ago
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[center]INTEGIRLS Bay Area Spring Competition![/center]

Hi everyone! INTEGIRLS Bay Area is excited to invite you to participate in our eighth biannual, free, virtual math competition. The event is open to all girls or non-binary individuals comfortable with being grouped with girls in middle or high school and will take place on Sunday, April 20th from 9 AM - 1:00 PM (PST).

If you're excited to dive into a day of math, make new friends, and win fun prizes, then we encourage you to sign up here!

**Note that the Bay Area chapter of INTEGIRLS writes their own problems, so you can participate in another INTEGIRLS chapter's Spring Competition as well :thumbup:

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WHO All middle school and high school students who identify as female or non-binary are invited to join our competition! You can sign up with teams of up to 4 people, or choose to be paired with other students at random.

WHAT Our competition will feature individual, team and tiebreaker rounds with problems written by our amazingly talented team, fun games and a social room to meet new people! There will be separate rounds for middle and high school students as well as exciting prizes for our participants.

WHEN The competition will take place on Sunday, April 20th from 9 AM to 1:00 PM (PST).

WHERE We will host the competition over Zoom, so students from all over the world may attend!

WHY Explore exciting math problems, make friends, and most of all, have fun! Through our competition, we hope to inspire a passion for math in more students, and by bringing together girls who love math together, we aim to create a community of future female mathematicians. Math is an amazing subject full of hidden puzzles and strategies, and together, we seek to create an event full of joy where girls bond over the beauty of the subject.

HOW Register for the competition now here!

CONTACT Feel free to email us at bayarea@integirls.org with any questions! Join our community on Discord, and follow us on Instagram at @integirls.bayarea :laugh:
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integirls.bayarea
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Geo Mock #1
Bluesoul   2
N Today at 4:13 AM by jb2015007
Consider the rectangle $ABCD$ with $AB=4$. Point $E$ lies inside the rectangle such that $\triangle{ABE}$ is equilateral. Given that $C,E$ and the midpoint of $AD$ are on the same line, compute the length of $BC$.
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Bluesoul
Apr 1, 2025
jb2015007
Today at 4:13 AM
pinkpig's Problem Collection - Signup
pinkpig   257
N Today at 4:13 AM by Yiyj1
Hello, all AoPS users!

I am very happy to release my Problem Collection. Here is the direct link to the forum for users interested in solving problems.

This problem collection will consist of various competition problems that I find very fun to solve. Some questions will be made by me, while others will be from competitions. There are Geometry, Intermediate Algebra, Precalculus, Number Theory, and Combinatorics questions. You may compete with other users in this forum. So, be competitive and active if you join!
Reviews
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Post \signup to join the fun!

Hope you enjoy the problems! :D
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pinkpig
Aug 16, 2021
Yiyj1
Today at 4:13 AM
Easiest functional equation?
ZETA_in_olympiad   28
N Today at 4:07 AM by jkim0656
Here I want the users to post the functional equations that they think are the easiest. Everyone (including the one who posted the problem) are able to post solutions.
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ZETA_in_olympiad
Mar 19, 2022
jkim0656
Today at 4:07 AM
MOP Cutoffs Out?
Mathandski   28
N Yesterday at 10:36 PM by Yrock
MAA has just emailed a press release announcing the formula they will be using this year to come up with the MOP cutoff that applies to you! Here's the process:

1. Multiply your age by $1434$, let $n$ be the result.

2. Calculate $\varphi(n)$, where $\varphi$ is the Euler's totient theorem, which calculates the number of integers less than $n$ relatively prime to $n$.

3. Multiply your result by $1434$ again because why not, let the result be $m$.

4. Define the Fibonacci sequence $F_0 = 1, F_1 = 1, F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}$ for $n \ge 2$. Let $r$ be the remainder $F_m$ leaves when you divide it by $69$.

5. Let $x$ be your predicted USA(J)MO score.

6. You will be invited if your score is at least $\lfloor \frac{x + \sqrt[r]{r^2} + r \ln(r)}{r} \rfloor$.

7. Note that there may be additional age restrictions for non-high schoolers.

See here for MAA's original news message.

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Edit (4/2/2025): This was an April Fool's post.
Here's the punchline
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Mathandski
Tuesday at 11:02 PM
Yrock
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
Do not discuss 2016 AMC 10B/12B!
DPatrick   2
N Feb 21, 2016 by theorist2
Edited to reflect schedule changes -- see second post below for more details.

The 2016 AMC 10B/12B is on Wednesday, February 17.

In order to protect the integrity of the contests, we have locked the Contests forum for the duration of the contests. You should not discuss ANY aspect of the contests until this forum is reopened (we expect this to be on Sunday morning). This means: don't discuss the contests anywhere on the site, and don't discuss any aspect of the contests, including how well you did, whether you thought it was easy or hard, or anything about the content.

Please join us for the 2016 AMC 10B/12B Math Jam on Monday, February 22 at 7 PM Eastern (4 PM Pacific), where will we discuss problems and solutions from the contests.
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Edited to reflect schedule changes -- see second post below for more details.

The 2016 AMC 10B/12B is on Wednesday, February 17.

In order to protect the integrity of the contests, we have locked the Contests forum for the duration of the contests. You should not discuss ANY aspect of the contests until this forum is reopened (we expect this to be on Sunday morning). This means: don't discuss the contests anywhere on the site, and don't discuss any aspect of the contests, including how well you did, whether you thought it was easy or hard, or anything about the content.

Please join us for the 2016 AMC 10B/12B Math Jam on Monday, February 22 at 7 PM Eastern (4 PM Pacific), where will we discuss problems and solutions from the contests.
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The AMC has just informed us that there are overseas 10B/12B contest administrations happening on Saturday. As such, they've asked us to keep the contests forum locked until those overseas locations have concluded taking the contest.

Please do not discuss any aspect of the contests publicly until Sunday, February 21. We will be unlocking the contests forum on that date.

Also, as a result, the 2016 AMC 10B/12B Math Jam has been rescheduled for Monday, February 22 at 7 PM Eastern (4 PM Pacific).
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The AMC does such a stellar job in so many ways. I hope they can make rules that can be more easily followed, taken at face value, and enforced.

The teachers' manual says that outside the continental US, the contests must be given after 9 AM EST, February 17. I believe that means after 10pm in China and Singapore and after 11pm in Korea and Japan. In eastern Australia, they couldn't start till after 1:00 AM February 18, in New Zealand, after 3:00 AM. The Teachers' Manual also states that if a test center is not able to give the 10B or 12B on the official day, February 17, it may still be given on later dates but will not qualify students for awards or participation in the AIME. In many countries it's extremely difficult to give the exam after 9AM EST and on February 17. In other places, it is impossible.

Would it be reasonable for the AMC to say that in the continental US or 50 states (to exclude south pacific US territories) the AMC 10B could only be administered officially on February 17th and that outside the continental US (or in testing centers with times higher than UTC or GMT) testing centers can only administer the 10B and 12B officially within the 24 hours following 9AM EST (2PM UTC)? This would be a rule that everyone could actually follow, would reduce the risk of the test questions leaking through early administrations in the eastern hemisphere before students take it in the US, and would enable students to discuss the exam after waiting no more than 24 hours.

Why should the AMC or anyone care about students having to wait only 24 or 48 hours, instead of 90 hours, to discuss the exams? First, we all learn best with prompt feedback. Students will be more engaged and learn more from the problems if they can discuss them more promptly. Second, looking at all the thumbs down to the posts above, students and others clearly don't like waiting for more than a day or two to discuss problems they are very excited about. Third, if people are not happy about waiting, some won't, jeopardizing the reliability of late administrations. Fourth, when the AMC says that the exams can only be administered officially on February 17th and then tells everyone to wait 4 days to discuss the exams so that some test centers can administer the exam officially on February 20th, it could undermine the authority of the rules the AMC sets. In this case I'm confident that there were some unusual and unpredictable extenuating circumstances that caused the AMC to not only allow these test centers to officially administer the exams 3 days late but to also call on everyone to not discuss them during this time.

I am deeply grateful for all the hard work the AMC, question writers, contest managers, schools, and students put into making the AMC exams as wonderful as they are. I hope that this can be heard as a humble constructive suggestion rather than as criticism.
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