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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 2025
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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Sep 9, 2019
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k i Zero tolerance
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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.

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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.


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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
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May 4, 2019
PA = QB
zhaoli   8
N 27 minutes ago by pku
Source: China North MO 2005-1
$AB$ is a chord of a circle with center $O$, $M$ is the midpoint of $AB$. A non-diameter chord is drawn through $M$ and intersects the circle at $C$ and $D$. The tangents of the circle from points $C$ and $D$ intersect line $AB$ at $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Prove that $PA$ = $QB$.
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zhaoli
Sep 2, 2005
pku
27 minutes ago
student that has at least 10 friends
parmenides51   2
N 33 minutes ago by AylyGayypow009
Source: 2023 Greece JBMO TST P1
A class has $24$ students. Each group consisting of three of the students meet, and choose one of the other $21$ students, A, to make him a gift. In this case, A considers each member of the group that offered him a gift as being his friend. Prove that there is a student that has at least $10$ friends.
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parmenides51
May 17, 2024
AylyGayypow009
33 minutes ago
Interesting inequality
sealight2107   6
N 42 minutes ago by TNKT
Source: Own
Let $a,b,c>0$ such that $a+b+c=3$. Find the minimum value of:
$Q=\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{a}+\frac{1}{a^3+b^3+abc}+\frac{1}{b^3+c^3+abc}+\frac{1}{c^3+a^3+abc}$
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sealight2107
May 6, 2025
TNKT
42 minutes ago
truncated cone box packing problem
chomk   0
43 minutes ago
box : 48*48*32
truncated cone: upper circle(radius=2), lower circle(radius=8), height=12

how many truncated cones are packed in a box?

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chomk
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Dwarfes and river
RagvaloD   8
N an hour ago by AngryKnot
Source: All Russian Olympiad 2017,Day1,grade 9,P3
There are $100$ dwarfes with weight $1,2,...,100$. They sit on the left riverside. They can not swim, but they have one boat with capacity 100. River has strong river flow, so every dwarf has power only for one passage from right side to left as oarsman. On every passage can be only one oarsman. Can all dwarfes get to right riverside?
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RagvaloD
May 3, 2017
AngryKnot
an hour ago
Hard Inequality
Asilbek777   1
N an hour ago by m4thbl3nd3r
Waits for Solution
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Asilbek777
an hour ago
m4thbl3nd3r
an hour ago
Proving that these are concyclic.
Acrylic3491   1
N an hour ago by Funcshun840
In $\bigtriangleup ABC$, points $P$ and $Q$ are isogonal conjugates. The tangent to $(BPC)$ at $P$ and the tangent to $(BQC)$ at Q, meet at $R$. $AR$ intersects $(ABC)$ at $D$. Prove that points $P$,$Q$, $R$ and $D$ are concyclic.

Any hints on this ?
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Acrylic3491
Today at 9:06 AM
Funcshun840
an hour ago
Concurrent Gergonnians in Pentagon
numbertheorist17   18
N an hour ago by Ilikeminecraft
Source: USA TSTST 2014, Problem 2
Consider a convex pentagon circumscribed about a circle. We name the lines that connect vertices of the pentagon with the opposite points of tangency with the circle gergonnians.
(a) Prove that if four gergonnians are conncurrent, the all five of them are concurrent.
(b) Prove that if there is a triple of gergonnians that are concurrent, then there is another triple of gergonnians that are concurrent.
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numbertheorist17
Jul 16, 2014
Ilikeminecraft
an hour ago
Planes and cities
RagvaloD   11
N an hour ago by AngryKnot
Source: All Russian Olympiad 2017,Day1,grade 9,P1
In country some cities are connected by oneway flights( There are no more then one flight between two cities). City $A$ called "available" for city $B$, if there is flight from $B$ to $A$, maybe with some transfers. It is known, that for every 2 cities $P$ and $Q$ exist city $R$, such that $P$ and $Q$ are available from $R$. Prove, that exist city $A$, such that every city is available for $A$.
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RagvaloD
May 3, 2017
AngryKnot
an hour ago
Hard geometry
Lukariman   4
N an hour ago by Lukariman
Given circle (O) and chord AB with different diameters. The tangents of circle (O) at A and B intersect at point P. On the small arc AB, take point C so that triangle CAB is not isosceles. The lines CA and BP intersect at D, BC and AP intersect at E. Prove that the centers of the circles circumscribing triangles ACE, BCD and OPC are collinear.
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Lukariman
Today at 4:28 AM
Lukariman
an hour ago
[MAIN ROUND STARTS MAY 17] OMMC Year 5
DottedCaculator   53
N 3 hours ago by Craftybutterfly
Hello to all creative problem solvers,

Do you want to work on a fun, untimed team math competition with amazing questions by MOPpers and IMO & EGMO medalists? $\phantom{You lost the game.}$
Do you want to have a chance to win thousands in cash and raffle prizes (no matter your skill level)?

Check out the fifth annual iteration of the

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This is not a local competition; any student 18 or younger anywhere in the world can attend. We have changed some elements of our contest format, so read carefully and thoroughly. Join our Discord or monitor this thread for updates and test releases.

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Test Portal Released. The Main Round of the contest is held. The Main Round consists of 25 questions that each have a numerical answer. Teams will have the entire time interval to work on the questions. They can submit any time during the interval. Teams are free to edit their submissions before the period ends, even after they submit.

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The top placing teams will qualify for this invitational round (5-10 questions). The final round consists of 5-10 proof questions. Teams again will have the entire time interval to work on these questions and can submit their proofs any time during this interval. Teams are free to edit their submissions before the period ends, even after they submit.

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DreamineYT   5
N Today at 4:39 AM by xHypotenuse
Just wanted to ask
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Goals for 2025-2026
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N Today at 3:55 AM by Schintalpati
Please write down your goal/goals for competitions here for 2025-2026.
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HCSSiM results
SurvivingInEnglish   70
N Today at 12:14 AM by math_on_top
Anyone already got results for HCSSiM? Are there any point in sending additional work if I applied on March 19?
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SurvivingInEnglish
Apr 5, 2024
math_on_top
Today at 12:14 AM
-2025 answer extract??
bobthegod78   19
N Apr 20, 2025 by NicoN9
Source: 2025 AIME I P5

There are $8!= 40320$ eight-digit positive integers that use each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 exactly once. Let N be the number of these integers that are divisible by $22$. Find the difference between $N$ and 2025.
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There are $8!= 40320$ eight-digit positive integers that use each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 exactly once. Let N be the number of these integers that are divisible by $22$. Find the difference between $N$ and 2025.
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279 confirmed?
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279 confirmed

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maa got bored of the $N \bmod 1000$ extraction
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MathRook7817 wrote:
279 confirmed?

confirmed
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The sum of the digits in even positions is 18, and we systematically list out all 8 ways of making 18 with four numbers from $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6,7,8\}$ and get $8\cdot2\cdot3!\cdot4!=2344$, which gives us a final answer of $\boxed{279}$
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No way 2304-2025 = 179 costs me the qual :(
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The sum of the digits is 36. If every other digit sums to x, then the remaining digits satisfy $$36-x \equiv x \pmod 11 \implies 18 = x \pmod{11}.$$However, $x = 7 < 1 + 2 + 3 + 4$ same issue wtih $36 - (x = 29) = 7.$ Thus both alternating set of digits sums to $18.$

We determine what the latter alternating set of digits is, the set which contains the ending digit. The other set can be permuted in $4!$ ways.
Note that $2 + 3 + 4 + 8 < 18$, so it is impossible for 3 digits to be in either one of $[1, 4], [5, 8]$ by symmetry. Thus it is split 2-2. We do casework on the mean $m$ of the smaller 2, since the mean of the larger 2 must then symmetricly be $8-m$.

If $m = 1.5$ we have 1 case. $m = 2$ gives 1 case. $m = 2.5$ gives $2$ cases for each pair so $4$ total. $m = 3, 3.5$ both give 1 case. Note that in each case, 2 numbers are even and 2 are odd. So for each of the $8$ cases there are $2 \cdot 3!$ ways to order.

Thus, our answer is $8 \cdot 12 \cdot 24 - 2025 = \boxed{279}$
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2304 - 2025 = 279 confirmed?

Basically the odd place digits have to be equal to the even place digits, and do casework on the last digit
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Assume the number is in the form of $\overline{aebfcgdh}$, we simply want $a+b+c+d-(e+f+g+h)\equiv 0\pmod{11}$ and $h$ is a multiple of 2

Note $a+b+c+d=e+f+g+h$, if $a+b+c+d=S, 36-2S\equiv 0\pmod{11}, S=18, 7$, but $7$ is not achievable since $1+2+3+4>7$

We have such possibilities: $1278, 3456; 1368,2457; 1458, 2367; 1467, 2358$ and you reverse the elements in each pair.

Since we want $h$ be a multiples of 2, there are in total $4!(3!\cdot 2\cdot 4)\cdot 2=48^2$ ways, the answer is then $48^2-45^2=\boxed{279}$
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tf is this idiotic answer extraction
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$2304-2025 = \boxed{079}$

$2304-2025 = \boxed{289}$

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tf is this idiotic answer extraction

This honestly narrowed down my correct answer attempt far more than it should've...
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Consider all pairs of sets $(A,B)$ such that $|A|=4$, $|B|=4$, $A\cap B=\emptyset$, $A\cup B=\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8\}$, $8\in A$, and the sums of $A$ and $B$ differ by a multiple of $11$.

Let there be $p$ such pairs. We claim that $N=576p$.

This is true because there are $4$ even digits we can put at the end. Then, by the divisibility rule for $11$, there are $3!4!$ ways to make $A$ and $B$ take up alternating digits.

$4\cdot 3!4!=576$, so our claim is proven.

Since this is the AIME, this also immediately means that the answer is in $\{576\cdot4-2025, 576\cdot5-2025\}=\{279, 855\}$.

Since $1+2+\dots+8=36$, we want the sum of $A$ to be $18$ or $29$. Since $29=8+3\cdot 7$, the sum of $A$ must be $18$.

We simply do the cases in an organized way to see that $p=4$, so our answer is $\boxed{279}$.

$8+7+2+1=18$

$8+6+3+1=18$

$8+5+4+1=18$

$8+5+3+2=18$
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Clearly each alternating digit sum must be $\dfrac{1 + 2 + \dots + 8}{2} \equiv 7 \pmod{11}$, so the individual sums of each alternating sequence is either $\{7, 29 \}$ or $\{18, 18 \}$. Only the latter is possible, now we carefully list partitions that sum to $18$ with the given digits:
\[ 9621 \quad 9531 \quad 9432 \quad 8721 \quad 8631 \quad 7631 \quad 7542 \quad 6543 \]There are $8$ partitions. Now the units digit is even so the alternating sum with the units digit has $8 \cdot \dfrac{4!}{2}$ possibilities, and we can arbitrarily permute the other alternating sum $4!$ ways. The requested answer is
\[ \left| 8 \cdot \dfrac{4!}{2} \cdot 4! - 2025 \right| = \left|2304 - 2025 \right| = \boxed{279}. \]
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oh wait i said 1+2+3+...+8 = 28 :skull:
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279 confirmed. Here's my solution:
Notice that if the 8-digit number is divisible by 22, it must have an even unit's digit. Therefore, we can break it up into cases and let the last digit be either 2, 4, 6, or 8. This problem is symmetric so we may assume that once we find the number of cases for one of these numbers, say 2, then we multiply by 4. Now, we just need to find how to positions of the rest of the numbers can there be such that the unit's digit is 2 and the number is divisible by 11. If we remember the divisibility rule for 11, then we can denote the odd numbered positions to be a1, a3, a5, and a7 and the even numbered positions to be a2, a4, and a6. Now, by the divisibility rule, we must have:
(a1 + a3 + a5 + a7) - (a2 + a4 + a6 + 2) which is congruent to 0(mod 11). Therefore, by simplifying, we must have:
a1 - a2 + a3 - a4 + a5 - a6 + a7 to be congruent to 2(mod 11). Now, let's consider a1 + a2 + ... + a7. This is just 1 + 2 + ... + 8 - 2 as we have already used up 2 as our unit's digit. This sum simplifies to 34 which is congruent to 1(mod 11). Therefore, we can say that (a1 + a2 + ... + a7) - 2(a2 + a4 + a6) is congruent to 2(mod 11) which means a2 + a4 + a6 is congruent to 5(mod 11). Notice the least sum this could even have is 1 + 3 + 4 = 8 and the greatest sum of a2 + a4 + a6 is 6 + 7 + 8 = 21. So the only possible number congruent to 5(mod 11) in this range is 16. So now, we just have to count up all the possible sums of 16 using the values 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. We get: $(1, 7, 8), (3, 5, 8), (3, 6 7), and (4, 5, 7)$ counting a total of 4 pairs. Notice now, the arrangement of the odd-positioned numbers doesn't matter so we can say it is 4! or 24 ways. The arrangement of each of these new 4 pairs we have just found is 3! = 6. Thus, for the unit's digit to be 2, we have 24*6*4 possible ways. Since we claimed that this was symmetric over the rest of the even digit unit's digits, we have to multiply this by 4 again. So our total number of ways is 24*6*4*4 = 2304. Thus, the positive difference between N and 2025 is 2304 - 2025 = $\boxed{279}$.
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Bro I almost sillied this problem! I counted 8, 2, 6 also as a pair for my solution above accidentally thought the total number of values for N was 24*6*5*4 = 2880. So I almost put down 855, :rotfl:
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This is just brute force! Let $n=\overline{a_1a_2\dots a_8}$ be the number, and $A=a_1+a_3+a_5+a_7$, and $B=a_2+a_4+a_6+a_8$.

It is well known that $A\equiv B\pmod {11}$, if and only if $11\mid n$. Since $A+B=1+2+\dots +8=36$ and $A, B\ge 1+2+3+4=10$, we easily see that only $A=B=18$ works.

This is the brute force part. The quadruples sum up to $18$, are\[
(1, 2, 7, 8), (1, 3, 6, 8), (1, 4, 5, 8), (1, 4, 6, 7), (2, 3, 5, 8), (2, 3, 6, 7), (2, 4, 5, 7), (3, 4, 5, 6)
\]and their permutations. Each $2$ even, and $2$ odd numbers. Since $a_8$ must be even, for each one above, there are $12$ combinations for $(a_2, a_4 a_6, a_8)$, and $24$ for $(a_1, a_3, a_5, a_7)$. The number of such $n$ are $8\cdot 12\cdot 24=2304$. In particular, the answer is $2304-2025=279$.
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