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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Apr 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
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
Tango course
oVlad   1
N 12 minutes ago by kokcio
Source: Romania EGMO TST 2019 Day 1 P4
Six boys and six girls are participating at a tango course. They meet every evening for three weeks (a total of 21 times). Each evening, at least one boy-girl pair is selected to dance in front of the others. At the end of the three weeks, every boy-girl pair has been selected at least once. Prove that there exists a person who has been selected on at least 5 distinct evenings.

Note: a person can be selected twice on the same evening.
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kokcio
12 minutes ago
Easy Number Theory
math_comb01   36
N 15 minutes ago by anudeep
Source: INMO 2024/3
Let $p$ be an odd prime and $a,b,c$ be integers so that the integers $$a^{2023}+b^{2023},\quad b^{2024}+c^{2024},\quad a^{2025}+c^{2025}$$are divisible by $p$.
Prove that $p$ divides each of $a,b,c$.
$\quad$
Proposed by Navilarekallu Tejaswi
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math_comb01
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anudeep
15 minutes ago
A cyclic inequality
KhuongTrang   0
27 minutes ago
Source: own-CRUX
IMAGE
https://cms.math.ca/.../uploads/2025/04/Wholeissue_51_4.pdf
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KhuongTrang
27 minutes ago
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Prove excircle is tangent to circumcircle
sarjinius   7
N 29 minutes ago by markam
Source: Philippine Mathematical Olympiad 2025 P4
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with incenter $I$, and let $D$ be a point on side $BC$. Points $X$ and $Y$ are chosen on lines $BI$ and $CI$ respectively such that $DXIY$ is a parallelogram. Points $E$ and $F$ are chosen on side $BC$ such that $AX$ and $AY$ are the angle bisectors of angles $\angle BAE$ and $\angle CAF$ respectively. Let $\omega$ be the circle tangent to segment $EF$, the extension of $AE$ past $E$, and the extension of $AF$ past $F$. Prove that $\omega$ is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$.
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sarjinius
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markam
29 minutes ago
Distinct Integers with Divisibility Condition
tastymath75025   15
N 29 minutes ago by cursed_tangent1434
Source: 2017 ELMO Shortlist N3
For each integer $C>1$ decide whether there exist pairwise distinct positive integers $a_1,a_2,a_3,...$ such that for every $k\ge 1$, $a_{k+1}^k$ divides $C^ka_1a_2...a_k$.

Proposed by Daniel Liu
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tastymath75025
Jul 3, 2017
cursed_tangent1434
29 minutes ago
hard problem
Cobedangiu   4
N an hour ago by Cobedangiu
Let $a,b,c>0$ and $a+b+c=3$. Prove that:
$\dfrac{4}{a+b}+\dfrac{4}{b+c}+\dfrac{4}{c+a} \le \dfrac{1}{a}+\dfrac{1}{b}+\dfrac{1}{c}+3$
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Cobedangiu
3 hours ago
Cobedangiu
an hour ago
An easy FE
oVlad   1
N an hour ago by pco
Source: Romania EGMO TST 2017 Day 1 P3
Determine all functions $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ such that \[f(xy-1)+f(x)f(y)=2xy-1,\]for any real numbers $x{}$ and $y{}.$
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oVlad
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pco
an hour ago
Fractions and reciprocals
adihaya   34
N an hour ago by de-Kirschbaum
Source: 2013 BAMO-8 #4
For a positive integer $n>2$, consider the $n-1$ fractions $$\dfrac21, \dfrac32, \cdots, \dfrac{n}{n-1}$$The product of these fractions equals $n$, but if you reciprocate (i.e. turn upside down) some of the fractions, the product will change. Can you make the product equal 1? Find all values of $n$ for which this is possible and prove that you have found them all.
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adihaya
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de-Kirschbaum
an hour ago
GCD Functional Equation
pinetree1   60
N an hour ago by cursed_tangent1434
Source: USA TSTST 2019 Problem 7
Let $f: \mathbb Z\to \{1, 2, \dots, 10^{100}\}$ be a function satisfying
$$\gcd(f(x), f(y)) = \gcd(f(x), x-y)$$for all integers $x$ and $y$. Show that there exist positive integers $m$ and $n$ such that $f(x) = \gcd(m+x, n)$ for all integers $x$.

Ankan Bhattacharya
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pinetree1
Jun 25, 2019
cursed_tangent1434
an hour ago
Inequality
giangtruong13   3
N an hour ago by KhuongTrang
Let $a,b,c >0$ such that: $a^2+b^2+c^2=3$. Prove that: $$\frac{b^2}{a}+\frac{c^2}{b}+\frac{a^2}{c}+abc \geq 4$$
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giangtruong13
Today at 8:01 AM
KhuongTrang
an hour ago
Easy geo
oVlad   3
N an hour ago by Primeniyazidayi
Source: Romania EGMO TST 2019 Day 1 P1
A line through the vertex $A{}$ of the triangle $ABC{}$ which doesn't coincide with $AB{}$ or $AC{}$ intersectes the altitudes from $B{}$ and $C{}$ at $D{}$ and $E{}$ respectively. Let $F{}$ be the reflection of $D{}$ in $AB{}$ and $G{}$ be the reflection of $E{}$ in $AC{}.$ Prove that the circles $ABF{}$ and $ACG{}$ are tangent.
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oVlad
3 hours ago
Primeniyazidayi
an hour ago
abc(a+b+c)=3, show that prod(a+b)>=8 [Indian RMO 2012(b) Q4]
Potla   28
N an hour ago by mihaig
Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers such that $abc(a+b+c)=3.$ Prove that we have
\[(a+b)(b+c)(c+a)\geq 8.\]
Also determine the case of equality.
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Potla
Dec 2, 2012
mihaig
an hour ago
NT with repeating decimal digits
oVlad   1
N an hour ago by kokcio
Source: Romania EGMO TST 2019 Day 1 P2
Determine the digits $0\leqslant c\leqslant 9$ such that for any positive integer $k{}$ there exists a positive integer $n$ such that the last $k{}$ digits of $n^9$ are equal to $c{}.$
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oVlad
3 hours ago
kokcio
an hour ago
Inequalities make a comeback
MS_Kekas   2
N an hour ago by ZeroHero
Source: Kyiv City MO 2025 Round 1, Problem 11.5
Determine the largest possible constant \( C \) such that for any positive real numbers \( x, y, z \), which are the sides of a triangle, the following inequality holds:
\[
\frac{xy}{x^2 + y^2 + xz} + \frac{yz}{y^2 + z^2 + yx} + \frac{zx}{z^2 + x^2 + zy} \geq C.
\]
Proposed by Vadym Solomka
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MS_Kekas
Jan 20, 2025
ZeroHero
an hour ago
triangle geometry
adam.romanov   1
N Jan 12, 2016 by kuanyshmaths
Source: Poland Olympiad 1998
In triangle $ABC$, the angle $\angle BCA$ is obtuse and $\angle BAC = 2\angle ABC\,.$ The line through $B$ and perpendicular to $BC$ intersects line $AC$ in $D$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $AB$. Prove that $\angle AMC=\angle BMD$.

source : http://cage.ugent.be/~hvernaev/Olympiade/PMO982.pdf
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adam.romanov
Jan 11, 2016
kuanyshmaths
Jan 12, 2016
triangle geometry
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In triangle $ABC$, the angle $\angle BCA$ is obtuse and $\angle BAC = 2\angle ABC\,.$ The line through $B$ and perpendicular to $BC$ intersects line $AC$ in $D$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $AB$. Prove that $\angle AMC=\angle BMD$.

source : http://cage.ugent.be/~hvernaev/Olympiade/PMO982.pdf
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Let perpendicular from $M$ to $AB$ intersects $AD$ at point $P$. Then $AP=BP$ and $\angle PBC=\angle ABC$. Therefore $BC$ is bisector of triangle $ABP$. So $(A,P;C,D)$ is harmonic. And $\angle AMP=90$, consequently $MP$ is bisector of triangle $CMD$. Hence
$\angle AMC= 90-\angle CMP=90-\angle PMD=\angle BMD$.
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