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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
rrusczyk   1571
N Mar 26, 2025 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
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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
March is the month for State MATHCOUNTS competitions! Kudos to everyone who participated in their local chapter competitions and best of luck to all going to State! Join us on March 11th for a Math Jam devoted to our favorite Chapter competition problems! Are you interested in training for MATHCOUNTS? Be sure to check out our AMC 8/MATHCOUNTS Basics and Advanced courses.

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Do you have plans this summer? There are so many options to fit your schedule and goals whether attending a summer camp or taking online classes, it can be a great break from the routine of the school year. Check out our summer courses at AoPS Online, or if you want a math or language arts class that doesn’t have homework, but is an enriching summer experience, our AoPS Virtual Campus summer camps may be just the ticket! We are expanding our locations for our AoPS Academies across the country with 15 locations so far and new campuses opening in Saratoga CA, Johns Creek GA, and the Upper West Side NY. Check out this page for summer camp information.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the following events:
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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
v_Enhance
Apr 5, 2023
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
Colored Pencils for Math Competitions
Owinner   17
N 9 minutes ago by lord_of_the_rook
I've heard using colored pencils is really useful for geometry problems. Is this only for very hard problems, or can it be used in MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8/10? An example problem would be much appreciated.
17 replies
Owinner
Mar 29, 2025
lord_of_the_rook
9 minutes ago
2021 ELMO Problem 1
reaganchoi   68
N 31 minutes ago by blueprimes
In $\triangle ABC$, points $P$ and $Q$ lie on sides $AB$ and $AC$, respectively, such that the circumcircle of $\triangle APQ$ is tangent to $BC$ at $D$. Let $E$ lie on side $BC$ such that $BD = EC$. Line $DP$ intersects the circumcircle of $\triangle CDQ$ again at $X$, and line $DQ$ intersects the circumcircle of $\triangle BDP$ again at $Y$. Prove that $D$, $E$, $X$, and $Y$ are concyclic.
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reaganchoi
Jun 24, 2021
blueprimes
31 minutes ago
USA Canada math camp
Bread10   42
N 35 minutes ago by akliu
How difficult is it to get into USA Canada math camp? What should be expected from an accepted applicant in terms of the qualifying quiz, essays and other awards or math context?
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Bread10
Mar 2, 2025
akliu
35 minutes ago
Mop Qual stuff
HopefullyMcNats2025   59
N 36 minutes ago by sadas123
How good of an award/ achievement is making MOP, I adore comp math but am scared if I dedicate all my time to it I won’t get in a good college such as MIT or Harvard
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HopefullyMcNats2025
Sunday at 11:23 PM
sadas123
36 minutes ago
mdk2013
Sunday at 7:10 PM
fake123
an hour ago
Hard Combi Geo
AbbyWong   1
N an hour ago by AbbyWong
Source: Unknown
A (possibly non-convex) planar polygon P is good if no two sides of P are parallel.
For any good polygon P, we may take any three sides of P and extend them into lines. These lines
intersect to form a triangle. Such a triangle is called a peritriangle of P. Let f(P) denote the minimal
number of peritriangles of P whose union completely cover P.
For each positive integer n, find all possible values of f(P) as P ranges over all good n-gons.
1 reply
AbbyWong
Sunday at 11:03 PM
AbbyWong
an hour ago
minimum sum
miiirz30   5
N an hour ago by megarnie
Source: 2025 Euler Olympiad, Round 1
Find the minimum value of $m + n$, where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers satisfying:

$2023 \vert m + 2025n$
$2025 \vert m + 2023n$

Proposed by Prudencio Guerrero Fernández
5 replies
miiirz30
Yesterday at 6:19 PM
megarnie
an hour ago
Seven rays on a plane
miiirz30   1
N an hour ago by NicoN9
Source: 2025 Euler Olympiad, Round 1
There are seven rays emanating from a point $A$ on a plane, such that the angle between the two consecutive rays is $30 ^{\circ}$. A point $A_1$ is located on the first ray. The projection of $A_1$ onto the second ray is denoted as $A_2$. Similarly, the projection of $A_2$ onto the third ray is $A_3$, and this process continues until the projection of $A_6$ onto the seventh ray is $A_7$. Find the ratio $\frac{A_7A}{A_1A}$.

IMAGE

Proposed by Giorgi Arabidze, Georgia
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miiirz30
Yesterday at 6:39 PM
NicoN9
an hour ago
n-variable product of kth powers [Taiwan 2014 Quizzes]
v_Enhance   18
N 2 hours ago by Marcus_Zhang
Let $a_i > 0$ for $i=1,2,\dots,n$ and suppose $a_1 + a_2 + \dots + a_n = 1$. Prove that for any positive integer $k$,
\[ \left( a_1^k + \frac{1}{a_1^k} \right) \left( a_2^k + \frac{1}{a_2^k} \right) \dots \left( a_n^k + \frac{1}{a_n^k} \right) \ge \left( n^k + \frac{1}{n^k} \right)^n. \]
18 replies
v_Enhance
Jul 18, 2014
Marcus_Zhang
2 hours ago
Impossible to search, classic graph problem
AshAuktober   1
N 2 hours ago by Filipjack
Source: Classic
Prove that any graph $G=(V,E)$ with $|V|=|E|-1$ has at least two cycles in it.
1 reply
AshAuktober
Sunday at 5:19 PM
Filipjack
2 hours ago
The Tetrahedral Space Partition
jannatiar   4
N 3 hours ago by sami1618
Source: 2025 AlborzMO Day 2 P3
Is it possible to partition three-dimensional space into tetrahedra (not necessarily regular) such that there exists a plane that intersects the edges of each tetrahedron at exactly 4 or 0 points?

Proposed by Arvin Taheri
4 replies
jannatiar
Mar 9, 2025
sami1618
3 hours ago
digit sum of squares
miiirz30   2
N 3 hours ago by megarnie
Source: 2025 Euler Olympiad, Round 1
Let $s(n)$ be the final value obtained after repeatedly summing the digits of $n$ until a single-digit number is reached. (For example: $s(187) = 7$, because the digit sum of $187$ is $16$ and the digit sum of $16$ is $7$). Evaluate the sum:
$$ s(1^2) + s(2^2) + s(3^2) + \ldots + s(2025^2)$$
Proposed by Lia Chitishvili, Georgia
2 replies
miiirz30
Yesterday at 6:50 PM
megarnie
3 hours ago
My problem
hacbachvothuong   5
N 3 hours ago by ektorasmiliotis
Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca=3$. Prove that:
$\frac{a^2}{a^2+b+c}+\frac{b^2}{b^2+c+a}+\frac{c^2}{c^2+a+b}\ge1$
5 replies
hacbachvothuong
Mar 29, 2025
ektorasmiliotis
3 hours ago
Infinite primes dividing polynomial sequence
L567   5
N 4 hours ago by ihategeo_1969
Source: STEMS Mathematics 2023 Category B P1
Suppose $f$ is a nonconstant polynomial with integer coefficients with the following property:
[list]
[*]$f(0)$ and $f(1)$ are both odd.
[*]Define a sequence of integers with $a_k = f(1)f(2) \cdots f(k)+1$
[/list]
Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers dividing at least one element of the sequence.

Proposed by Sayandeep Shee
5 replies
L567
Jan 8, 2023
ihategeo_1969
4 hours ago
A lot of integer lengths: JMO #6 or USAMO Problem 4
BarbieRocks   80
N Mar 28, 2025 by Maximilian113
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $\angle A = 90^{\circ}$. Points $D$ and $E$ lie on sides $AC$ and $AB$, respectively, such that $\angle ABD = \angle DBC$ and $\angle ACE = \angle ECB$. Segments $BD$ and $CE$ meet at $I$. Determine whether or not it is possible for segments $AB$, $AC$, $BI$, $ID$, $CI$, $IE$ to all have integer lengths.
80 replies
BarbieRocks
Apr 29, 2010
Maximilian113
Mar 28, 2025
A lot of integer lengths: JMO #6 or USAMO Problem 4
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Note that $\angle BIC=135^{\circ}$. Thus, $\cos \angle BIC = -\frac{\sqrt2}{2}$. LoC on $\triangle BIC$ now gives $$BI^2+CI^2-BI\cdot CI \cdot\sqrt2 = AB^2+AC^2,$$a contradiction.
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Taco12 wrote:
Note that $\angle BIC=135^{\circ}$. Thus, $\cos \angle BIC = -\frac{\sqrt2}{2}$. LoC on $\triangle BIC$ now gives $$BI^2+CI^2-BI\cdot CI \cdot\sqrt2 = AB^2+AC^2,$$a contradiction.

No bary?
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Taco12 wrote:
Note that $\angle BIC=135^{\circ}$. Thus, $\cos \angle BIC = -\frac{\sqrt2}{2}$. LoC on $\triangle BIC$ now gives $$BI^2+CI^2-BI\cdot CI \cdot\sqrt2 = AB^2+AC^2,$$a contradiction.

No bary?

Why am I doing this...

Apply barycentric coordinates on $\triangle ABC$. Note that $a=\sqrt{b^2+c^2}$, so $I=(b^2+c^2:b^3+bc^2:b^2c+c^3)$. Cevian parameterization stuff then gives $D=(b^2+c^2:0:b^2c+c^3), E=(b^2+c^2:b^3+bc^2:0)$. Distance formula now yields a contradiction.
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Mathlover_1
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Can we solve this problem by cartesian coordinates?
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Mathlover_1 wrote:
Can we solve this problem by cartesian coordinates?

Using Cartesian Coordinates when the problem has a incentre and 2 non perpendicular angle bisectors and 4 lines involving these stuff is probably not a good idea, but the messier it gets the more likely it is to be irrational.
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We can say that $I$ must be the incenter of $\triangle{ABC}$. This means that $AI$ bisects $\angle{BAC}$, so $\angle{BAI}=45^{\circ}$. If we use LoC on $\triangle{BAI}$, we find that:
\[AI^2+AB^2-2AB\cdot AI\cos{45}=BI^2.\]
Suppose that all of these lengths are integers. As $\cos{45}=\frac{\sqrt2}{2}$, $BI^2$ is irrational so $BI$ is not integer. This is a contradiction which means that not all of these side lengths can be integers.
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Infinity_Integral
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The cosine rule solution is really nice, but I just set all the lengths to be integer and length bash until I get sqrt2 is rational. This is a very nice Geom question.

Full proof here
https://infinityintegral.substack.com/p/usajmo-2010-contest-review
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just posting my scratch work with lpieleanu, oops i dont wanna do writeup but anyways the thing in diagram is sufficient to understand
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Let FSOC , if possible every given length is an integer . We use the fact that $ AD= \sqrt{bc-mn}$ where $AD$ is the internal angle bisector of $\Delta ABC$(with $D \in BC$) and $BD = m;CD=n$ and $b ,c$ are as usual length of the sides $AC$ and $AB$.(This can be easily proved with help of the stuart's theorem . Then these are some of the required lengths :
$$CE = \sqrt{ab-\frac{abc^2}{(a+b)^2}}$$$$ BD = \sqrt{ac-\frac{acb^2}{(a+c)^2}}$$$$BI = \frac{a+c}{a+b+c} BD $$$$ ID = \frac{b}{a+b+c} BD$$and thus if both $BI$ and $ID$ are integers then so is $BD$.So , $\frac{b}{a+b+c}$ has to be rational and so $(a+b+c)$ has to be rational and so $a$ has to be rational and as $a^2 = b^2+c^2$ so $a$ must be an integer.
Now by the property of pythagorean triplets we write $a , b , c$ in the form $g(r^2+s^2),2grs , g(r^2-s^2)$ where $r , s $ are coprime numbers with different parity .As , $CE$ is integer so $ab(a+b+c)(a+b-c)$ has to be a perfect square dividing the thing by $g^4$ will give us another perfect squarewriting in terms of $r,s$ we get $(r^2+s^2) 8r^2s^2(r+s)^2$ is perfect square and so $(r^2+s^2)2$ is a perfect square but as we have $r^2+s^2$ odd ,hence contradiction and as $CE$ is not an integer so at least one of $CI,IE$ must be a non-integer. $\blacksquare$
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The answer is $\boxed{\text{no}}$. Notice

\[\angle BIC = \angle BAC+ \angle ACE + \angle ABD = 135^\circ.\]
Hence,

\[AB^2+AC^2=BC^2 = BI^2+CI^2+BI \cdot CI \cdot \sqrt{2},\]
a contradiction as $\sqrt{2}$ is irrational.

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megahertz13
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The answer is no.

Note that $$\angle{BIC}=90^\circ+\frac{\angle{A}}{2}=135^\circ.$$Law of Cosines on $\triangle{BIC}$ gives $$BI^2+CI^2+\sqrt{2}\cdot BI\cdot CI=BC^2=AB^2+AC^2\implies \sqrt{2}=\frac{AB^2+AC^2-BI^2+CI^2}{BI\cdot CI}.$$If all of these segments have integer length, the left-hand side would be irrational, while the right-hand side is rational. Therefore, it is impossible for all of these segments to have integer length.
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dumb ahh solution:

The answer is no.

Assume for the sake of contradiction that there exists $\triangle ABC$ such that each of the given segments has integer length. First, note that $\angle IBC + \angle ICB=45^\circ$, so $\angle BIC = \angle DIE = 135^\circ$. Therefore, $\angle BIE = \angle CID = 45^\circ$. Now, $\triangle DIC\sim \triangle IAC$ and $\triangle BIE\sim \triangle BAI$ by AA similarity. We are then able to derive the following equalities:
\begin{align*}
    \frac{BE}{BI}=\frac{BI}{AB}=\frac{EI}{AI}\\
    \frac{CD}{CI}=\frac{DI}{AI}=\frac{CI}{AC}.
\end{align*}Thus, $BE=\frac{BI^2}{AB}$, so $BE$ is rational. Analogously, $CD$, $AE$, and $AD$ are also rational. Also, $AI =\frac{EI\cdot BI}{BE}$, so $AI$ is rational. By the Angle Bisector Theorem, $\frac{BC}{CA}= \frac{BE}{AE}\implies BC=CA\cdot \frac{BE}{AE}$, so $BC$ is also rational. To finish, note that $[ABC] = \frac{bc}2$, so by $A=rs$ we have the inradius $r=\frac{bc}{a+b+c}$ is rational. However, $AI = r\sqrt 2 = \frac{bc}{a+b+c}\cdot \sqrt 2$, which is irrational, a contradiction. Therefore, no such triangle with the given conditions exists. $\blacksquare$
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We claim that the answer is no,
We prove our claim by contradiction,

Assume that $AB,AC,IC,IB$ $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$

Now Let $\angle ABC$ = $2\theta$

Then, $\angle DBC$ = $\theta$

And as $\angle ACB$ = $90^\circ- 2 \theta$

$\angle ECB$ = $45^\circ- \theta$

So, $\angle BIC$ = $180^\circ$ - $\angle ACB$ - $\angle ECB$ = $135^\circ$

Now, by cosine law, we get that

$IB^2 + IC^2-\sqrt{2}\cdot IB\cdot IC$ = $AB^2 + AC^2$

Which implies that if all $AB,AC,IC,IB$ $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$, then $\sqrt{2} \in \mathbb{Z}$, which is absurd.
$\mathbb{QED}$
$\blacksquare$
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Bro, I didn't see the Cosine Law and instead I did Sine Law howw :wallbash_red:

Let $x=AB, y=AC.$ It is well-known that $\angle BIC = 90^\circ + \frac12 \angle A = 135^\circ.$ Therefore by the Sine Law and Half Angle formula $$IB = \sqrt{2} BC \sin \frac{\angle C}{2} = \sqrt{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}(\sqrt{x^2+y^2}-AC)}.$$Therefore if $\sqrt{x^2+y^2} \notin \mathbb Z,$ we have the square root of an integer minus an irrational, which clearly cannot be an integer.

Hence $AB, AC, BC$ are integers. Let $z=BC.$ Then for positive integers $m, n, k$ with $m > n,$ WLOG $x=2mn, y=m^2-n^2, z=m^2+n^2.$ Then $$\sqrt{z^2-xz}, \sqrt{z^2-yz} \in \mathbb Z.$$The first one yields $\sqrt{(m^2+n^2)(m-n)^2} \in \mathbb Z \implies \sqrt{m^2+n^2} \in \mathbb Z,$ but the second one gives $$\sqrt{(m^2+n^2)(2n^2)} \in \mathbb Z \implies \sqrt{2n^2} \in \mathbb Z,$$a contradiction. Hence the answer is no.
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