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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
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Sep 9, 2019
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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
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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.
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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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Someone please evaluate this ratio inside the log for any given n(I feel the sum doesn't have any nice closed form).
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lyukhson   31
N 16 minutes ago by Maximilian113
Source: IMO Shortlist 2013, Combinatorics #3
A crazy physicist discovered a new kind of particle wich he called an imon, after some of them mysteriously appeared in his lab. Some pairs of imons in the lab can be entangled, and each imon can participate in many entanglement relations. The physicist has found a way to perform the following two kinds of operations with these particles, one operation at a time.
(i) If some imon is entangled with an odd number of other imons in the lab, then the physicist can destroy it.
(ii) At any moment, he may double the whole family of imons in the lab by creating a copy $I'$ of each imon $I$. During this procedure, the two copies $I'$ and $J'$ become entangled if and only if the original imons $I$ and $J$ are entangled, and each copy $I'$ becomes entangled with its original imon $I$; no other entanglements occur or disappear at this moment.

Prove that the physicist may apply a sequence of such operations resulting in a family of imons, no two of which are entangled.
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Every day, after work, the kidnapped people can walk in the park and talk with each other. However, when three members of three different parties start talking with each other, the wizard reconverts them to the fourth party (there are no conversations with $4$ or more people involved).

a) Find out whether it is possible that, after some time, all of the kidnapped people belong to the same party. If the answer is yes, determine to which party they will belong.
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IMO 2014 Problem 4
ipaper   169
N 3 hours ago by YaoAOPS
Let $P$ and $Q$ be on segment $BC$ of an acute triangle $ABC$ such that $\angle PAB=\angle BCA$ and $\angle CAQ=\angle ABC$. Let $M$ and $N$ be the points on $AP$ and $AQ$, respectively, such that $P$ is the midpoint of $AM$ and $Q$ is the midpoint of $AN$. Prove that the intersection of $BM$ and $CN$ is on the circumference of triangle $ABC$.

Proposed by Giorgi Arabidze, Georgia.
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Tangents forms triangle with two times less area
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FE solution too simple?
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Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that the equality $$f(f(x)+y) = f(x^2-y)+4f(x)y$$holds for all pairs of real numbers $(x,y)$.

My solution

I feel like my solution is too simple. Is there something I did wrong or something I missed?
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interesting function equation (fe) in IR
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find all function F: IR->IR such that $$ xf(f(y)) + yf(f(x)) = f(xf(y)) + f(xy) $$
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Midpoint of base in isosceles triangle [<APM + <BPC = 180°]
warut_suk   22
N Jul 26, 2024 by Grasshopper-
Source: Poland National Olympiad 2000, Day 1, Problem 2
Let a triangle $ABC$ satisfy $AC = BC$; in other words, let $ABC$ be an isosceles triangle with base $AB$. Let $P$ be a point inside the triangle $ABC$ such that $\angle PAB = \angle PBC$. Denote by $M$ the midpoint of the segment $AB$. Show that $\angle APM + \angle BPC = 180^{\circ}$.
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warut_suk
Jan 25, 2005
Grasshopper-
Jul 26, 2024
Midpoint of base in isosceles triangle [<APM + <BPC = 180°]
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Let a triangle $ABC$ satisfy $AC = BC$; in other words, let $ABC$ be an isosceles triangle with base $AB$. Let $P$ be a point inside the triangle $ABC$ such that $\angle PAB = \angle PBC$. Denote by $M$ the midpoint of the segment $AB$. Show that $\angle APM + \angle BPC = 180^{\circ}$.
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By an angle chase, we can see that $P$ moves on a circle tangent in $A,B$ to $CA,CB$ respectively. Let $Q$ be the second intersection of $CP$ with this circle. $PAQB$ is a harmonic cyclic quadrilateral, so, if $C'$ is the intersection between the tangent at $P$ to the circle and $AB$, we find $(PA,PB;PQ,PC')=-1$, meaning that $PQ$ is the symmedian of $PAB$, which is precisely what we want.

I was in a hurry while writing this, but I'll clarify if needed.
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Rewriting your problem with different notations:

Let ABC be an isosceles triangle with AB = AC. Let P be a point inside the triangle ABC such that < PBC = < PCA. Let M be the midpoint of the segment BC. Prove that < BPM + < APC = 180°.

Now, this problem was solved in posts #8 and #9 of http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=18258 (see the Lemma in post #8), with the only difference being that an additional assumption was used, namely the assumption that < PCB = < PBA; but this assumption is actually unnecessary, since it follows from the other assumptions of the problem (namely, since the triangle ABC is isosceles with AB = AC, we have < ACB = < ABC, and since < PBC = < PCA, we have < PCB = < ACB - < PCA = < ABC - < PBC = < PBA, so that < PCB = < PBA comes out as a consequence of the other assumptions of the problem).

Darij
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warut_suk wrote:
Let a triangle $ABC$ satisfy $AC = BC$; in other words, let $ABC$ be an isosceles triangle with base $AB$. Let $P$ be a point inside the triangle $ABC$ such that $\angle PAB = \angle PBC$. Denote by $M$ the midpoint of the segment $AB$. Show that $\angle APM + \angle BPC = 180^{\circ}$.

Take point Q such that APBQ is a parallellogram.

Take point R on AQ such that ACB, APR are similar. (I assume R lies between A and Q, the other case is similar) Then BPRQ is cyclic, and ACP, ABR are similar.

Hence BPQ = BRQ = 180 - ARB = 180 - APC. Hence result.
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$S\in AB\cap CP$, $CA=CB=a$, $AB=b$, $m(\widehat {PCA})=u$, $m(\widehat {PCB})=v$,
$m(\widehat {PAB})=m(\widehat {PBC})=x$, $m(\widehat {PAC})=m(\widehat {PBA})=y$.

$\blacktriangle$ The theorem of Sinus in the triangle $APB\Longrightarrow \frac{PA}{PB}=\frac{\sin y}{\sin x}\ \ (1)$.
$\blacktriangle$ The trigonometrical form of the Menelaus' theorem in
the triangle $ABC$ for the inner point $P\Longrightarrow$
$\sin u\sin^2x=\sin v\sin^2y$ $\Longrightarrow$ $\frac{\sin u}{\sin v}=\left(\frac{\sin y}{\sin x}\right)^2\ \ (2)$.
$\blacktriangle\ \frac{SA}{SB}=\frac{CA}{CB}\cdot \frac{\sin \widehat {ACS}}{\sin \widehat {BCS}}$ $\Longrightarrow$ $\frac{SB}{SC}=\frac{\sin u}{\sin v}\ \ (3).$

From the relations $(1)$, $(2)$, $(3)$ results: $\frac{SA}{SB}=\left(\frac{PA}{PB}\right)^2$, i.e. the ray $[PS$ is
the symmedian from the vertex $P$ in the triangle $APB$, meaning

$\widehat {APM}\equiv \widehat {BPS}\Longrightarrow$ $\boxed {\ m(\widehat {APM})+m(\widehat {BPC})=180^{\circ}\ }.$
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The problem can be generalized as follow (which is well-known)
Let $PAB$ be a triangle and $M$ be the midpoint of $AB$. Suppose $C$ is the intersection of the tangents of the circumcircle at $A$ and $B$. Then $\measuredangle{BPM}= \measuredangle{CPB}$.
[Moderator edit: This is basically the assertion of http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=99571 .]
Back to the problem , it is easy to see that $CA$ and $CB$ are the tangents of $(PAB)$ at $A$ and $B$.
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See http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=55581
http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=43202
where are mentioned the properties of the harmonical quadrilateral.
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Let us see the circumcircle of APB. Let v=<ABC.
Use the center of the circumcircle as origin of coordinate and give the coordinates as:

C (0,1)
M (0, (cos v)^2)
P (cos v*cos u, cos v*sin u)

It is easy to obtain: PM/PC=cos v

So, we can get: BC/PC=AM/PM.
So, <BPC=<APM or <BPC+<APM=180.

When <BPC=<APM, then <AMP=<BCP. So, <BPC=<BMC=90. As a result, <BPC+<APM=180 too.
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P is on circle (U) tangent to BC at B and passing through A(then $ \angle PAB = \angle PBC$). $ \triangle ABC$ is isosceles $ \Longrightarrow$ (U) is also tangent to CA at A, AB is polar of C WRT the circle (U). CP meets (U) at P and again at Q. If P' is a reflection of P in $ CM \perp AB,$ $ P' \in (U)$ and CP' meets (U) again at Q'. PP'Q'Q is isosceles trapezod symmetrical WRT CM, the diagonals PQ', P'Q meet on CM and on the polar AB of C, $ M \equiv PQ' \cap P'Q \Longrightarrow$ $ \angle APM \equiv \angle APQ' = \angle BP'Q = \angle BPQ = 180^\circ - \angle BPC.$
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We have $ \angle PBA=\angle PAC$. Let $ X$ be on $ PM$ such $ PAXB$ is parallogram. Then $ \angle XAB=\angle PAC,\angle XBA=\angle PBC$. Hence $ C,X$ are isogonal points wrt $ \triangle PAB$. Hence $ PC,PX$ is isogonal line $ \triangle PAB$. This imply $ \angle APM+\angle BPC=180$.
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Lemma: Let $ABC$ be a triangle and $\Gamma $ its circumcircle. Let the tangent to $\Gamma $ at $B$ and $C$ intersect at $D$. Then $AD$ coincides with the $A$- symmedian of $\triangle ABC$. The proof can be found here.

By angle chasing we can show that $AC$ and $BC$ are tangents to the circumcircle of $\triangle PAB$ at points $A$ and $B$ respectively. The tangents $AC$ and $BC$ intersect at $C$. So $PC$ coincides with the $C$- symmedian of $\triangle ABC$. Since $PM$ is the median of $\triangle ABC$, $\angle APM = \angle BPE$. or $\angle APM = 180^{\circ} - \angle BPC$. So $\angle APM +  \angle BPC = 180^{\circ} $.
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Shauryajain123
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A nice problem for symmedians :)
We see that AC and AB are tangents to the circumcircle of $\triangle{APB} \implies CP $ is the symmedian.
Then the rest easily follows from how symmedians are defined
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PCChess
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Since $\triangle ABC$ is isosceles, we know that $\angle PAC=\angle PBA$. Consider $(APB)$. Since $\angle PAB=\angle PBC$ and $\angle PAC=\angle PBA$, lines $AC$ and $BC$ are tangent to $(APB)$. This implies that $PC$ lies on the $P$-symmedian. Let $CP$ intersect $AB$ at point $E$. By the definition of the symmedian, $\angle APM=\angle BPE$. Clearly $\angle BPE+\angle BPC=180^{\circ}$, so $\angle APM + \angle BPC = 180^{\circ}$.
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JustKeepRunning
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Let $CP\cap AB=G$. Then the problem is equivalent to $\angle APM=\angle BPG$, aka. $CG$ is a symmedian in $\triangle APG$. Notice that $CB$ and $CA$ are the tangents to $(APB),$ so we are done.
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Since $\angle CBP=\angle BAP$ and $\angle PAC=\angle PBA,$ $C$ is the intersection of the tangents to $(PAB)$ at $A$ and $B.$ Hence, $\overline{PC}$ is the $P$-symmedian point of triangle $PAB.$ Notice that $$\measuredangle BPC=-\measuredangle(\overline{CP},\overline{PB})=-\angle APM.$$$\square$
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JustKeepRunning
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Nice problem!

It is well known that $P$ is the $A$ humpty point, and so $M_1:=AP\cap BC$ is the midpoint of $BC$. Furthermore, we have that $\angle PCB=\angle PAC=\angle PBA$ and $\angle PAB=\angle PBC$. Hence, we get that $\angle APM+\angle BPC=\angle APM+\angle CPM_1+\angle M_1PB=\angle APM+\angle MPB+\angle BPM_1=180^{\circ},$ where this follows from similar triangles $\triangle PMB$ and $\triangle PM_1C$.

EDIT: oops just realized I already solved this before. At least this is a slightly different/more motivated solution.
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Let $(APB) \cap CP=L$
As well: $CA$ and $CB$ are tangent of $(APB)$
Then: $PQ$ is symedian of $(APB)$
$\implies \angle APM=\angle LPB \implies \angle APM + \angle BPC=180$
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Let $CP$ meet circumcircle of $APB$ at S. Since $\angle PAB = \angle PBC$ then $CB$ is tangent to $APB$ and since $CB = CA$ then $SP$ is symmedian of $ASB$ so $\angle APM = \angle BPS$ and so $\angle APM + \angle BPC = \angle 180$.
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Let $CP \cap AB = D$. The angle condition implies that $AC$ and $AB$ are tangent to the circumcircle of $APB$, then we know that $PD$ is the $P$-symmedian of $APB$, which implies that $\angle TPC = \angle APD = \angle MPB$ thus we have that $\angle BPC = \angle MPT$, which clearly gives us that $\angle APM + \angle BPC = 180$
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Let $\overline{PM'}$ be a symmedian in triangle $BPC$, so it suffices to show that $A$ lies along the symmedian. But this is evident by the tangent intersection definition.
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Let CP intersect AB at N, the circumradius of tri. ACP(center O) and tri. BCP(center O') be r, r' respectively. We have to prove that CP is P -symmedian in tri. APB and to show that we need to prove AN/BN=AP^2/BP^2 ,
We have [tri. APN]/[tri. BPN] = AN/BN = [tri. APC]/[tri. BPC]=(AP × sin<CAP)/(BP × sin<CBP)
by sine rule,
sin<CAP/sin<CBP=r'/r, by angle chasing we will get that tri. OO'P and tri. APB are similar so, r'/r = AP/BP then, we get that AN/BN=AP^2/BP^2
so, PN is P-symmedian in tri. APB. This implies <APM = <BPN; <BPN + <CPB=180°=> <APM + <BPC=180° .
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