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Let $n>1$ be a positive integer. Claire writes $n$ distinct positive real numbers $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ in a row on a blackboard. In a $\textit{move},$ William can erase a number $x$ and replace it with either $\tfrac{1}{x}$ or $x+1$ at the same location. His goal is to perform a sequence of moves such that after he is done, the number are strictly increasing from left to right.
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Call a positive rational number $r$ a friendly number if there exists a positive rational number $s \neq r$ such that $r^r = s^s$. Find, with proof, the second smallest friendly number.
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These are my collection problem from my country.

Day 1 (270 mins)
1. Suppose that $\triangle ABC$ is an acute triangle, $P$ and $Q$ lie on $BC$ such that $\angle PAB = \angle ACQ$ and $\angle PBA = \angle CAQ$. Point $M$ and $N$ lie outside $\triangle ABC$ which $P$ and $Q$ bisect $AM$ and $AN$ respectively, Lines $BM$ intersect $CN$ at $S$. Show that
$$\frac{AP}{BP}=\frac{CS}{BS}$$
2. Find all polynomial $P(x)$ such that
$$xP(x-2021)=(x-2021^{2021})P(x)$$for all real number $x$.

3. Let $\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ be set of positive integers. Find all function $f : \mathbb{Z}_{>0} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{>0} $ such that
$$f(2m+2n)=f(m)^{2021}f(n)^{2021}$$for all $m,n \in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$

4. Find all positive integers $a,b$ such that $((a+1)^b-a, (a+1)^{b+3}-a)>1$

5. Let $a,b,c,d$ be real numbers. If $a+b+c+d=4$ then find the minimum value of
$$K = \frac{a}{\sqrt[3]{8+b-d}} + \frac{b}{\sqrt[3]{8+c-a}} + \frac{c}{\sqrt[3]{8+d-b}} + \frac{d}{\sqrt[3]{8+a-c}}$$
6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- 1 doctor cures exactly 100 patients, and
- for any two patients, exactly 11 doctors cure both of them
Find the value of $d$.


Day 2 (270 minutes)
1. Let $\Gamma$ be the circumcircle of quadrilateral $ABCD$, $AC$ intersects $BD$ at $S$. $F$ is a midpoint of an arc $AB$ (another side from $C$ and $D$) such that $DF$ and $CF$ intersect $AB$ at $R$ and $T$ respectively. Show that
$$\frac{AR \cdot BD}{RB \cdot DS} = \frac{BT \cdot AC}{TA \cdot CS}$$
2. Let $P(x), Q(x)$ and $R(x)$ be polynomial satisfy the following equation
$$P(x^{2021})+xQ(x^{2021}) = (1+x+x^2+...+x^{2021})R(x^{2021})$$Find the value of $P(1)+Q(1)+R(1)$

3. Find all function $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, $f(0)=1$ and satisfy the equation
$$2f(x+y)=f(x)f(2021-y)+f(y)f(2021-x)$$for all reals $x,y$

4. Let $f(x)=x^3+17$. Prove that
for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and $n\geq 2$, There exists $x \in \mathbb{N}$ which $3^n \mid f(x)$ and $3^{n+1} \not| f(x)$

5. Let $x,y,z \geq 0$ and $xy+yz+zx > 0$. Prove that
$$\frac{1}{x^2+y^2}+\frac{1}{y^2+z^2}+\frac{1}{z^2+x^2}+\frac{1}{x^2+y^2+z^2} \geq \frac{12}{(x+y+z)^2}$$
6. There are 2564 numbers (It is year 2021 but in Thailand we use 2564). Each number has possible prime divisor(s) only 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29 and 31. Prove that there exists 2 numbers selected from those 2564 numbers such that its product is perfect square.
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These are my collection problem from my country.

Day 1 (270 mins)
1. Suppose that $\triangle ABC$ is an acute triangle, $P$ and $Q$ lie on $BC$ such that $\angle PAB = \angle ACQ$ and $\angle PBA = \angle CAQ$. Point $M$ and $N$ lie outside $\triangle ABC$ which $P$ and $Q$ bisect $AM$ and $AN$ respectively, Lines $BM$ intersect $CN$ at $S$. Show that
$$\frac{AP}{BP}=\frac{CS}{BS}$$
2. Find all polynomial $P(x)$ such that
$$xP(x-2021)=(x-2021^{2021})P(x)$$for all real number $x$.

3. Let $\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ be set of positive integers. Find all function $f : \mathbb{Z}_{>0} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{>0} $ such that
$$f(2m+2n)=f(m)^{2021}f(n)^{2021}$$for all $m,n \in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$

4. Find all positive integers $a,b$ such that $((a+1)^b-a, (a+1)^{b+3}-a)>1$

5. Let $a,b,c,d$ be real numbers. If $a+b+c+d=4$ then find the minimum value of
$$K = \frac{a}{\sqrt[3]{8+b-d}} + \frac{b}{\sqrt[3]{8+c-a}} + \frac{c}{\sqrt[3]{8+d-b}} + \frac{d}{\sqrt[3]{8+a-c}}$$
6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- 1 doctor cures exactly 100 patients, and
- for any two patients, exactly 11 doctors cure both of them
Find the value of $d$.


Day 2 (270 minutes)
1. Let $\Gamma$ be the circumcircle of quadrilateral $ABCD$, $AC$ intersects $BD$ at $S$. $F$ is a midpoint of an arc $AB$ (another side from $C$ and $D$) such that $DF$ and $CF$ intersect $AB$ at $R$ and $T$ respectively. Show that
$$\frac{AR \cdot BD}{RB \cdot DS} = \frac{BT \cdot AC}{TA \cdot CS}$$
2. Let $P(x), Q(x)$ and $R(x)$ be polynomial satisfy the following equation
$$P(x^{2021})+xQ(x^{2021}) = (1+x+x^2+...+x^{2021})R(x^{2021})$$Find the value of $P(1)+Q(1)+R(1)$

3. Find all function $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, $f(0)=1$ and satisfy the equation
$$2f(x+y)=f(x)f(2021-y)+f(y)f(2021-x)$$for all reals $x,y$

4. Let $f(x)=x^3+17$. Prove that
for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and $n\geq 2$, There exists $x \in \mathbb{N}$ which $3^n \mid f(x)$ and $3^{n+1} \not| f(x)$

5. Let $x,y,z \geq 0$ and $xy+yz+zx > 0$. Prove that
$$\frac{1}{x^2+y^2}+\frac{1}{y^2+z^2}+\frac{1}{z^2+x^2}+\frac{1}{x^2+y^2+z^2} \geq \frac{12}{(x+y+z)^2}$$
6. There are 2564 numbers (It is year 2021 but in Thailand we use 2564). Each number has possible prime divisor(s) only 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29 and 31. Prove that there exists 2 numbers selected from those 2564 numbers such that its product is perfect square.
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Day 1 (continue)
2. Find all polynomial $P(x)$ such that
$$xP(x-2021)=(x-2021^{2021})P(x)$$for all real number $x$.

3. Let $\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ be set of positive integers. Find all function $f : \mathbb{Z}_{>0} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{>0} $ such that
$$f(2m+2n)=f(m)^{2021}f(n)^{2021}$$for all $m,n \in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$

4. Find all positive integers $a,b$ such that $((a+1)^b-a, (a+1)^{b+3}-a)>1$

5. Let $a,b,c,d$ be real numbers. If $a+b+c+d=4$ then find the minimum value of
$$K = \frac{a}{\sqrt[3]{8+b-d}} + \frac{b}{\sqrt[3]{8+c-a}} + \frac{c}{\sqrt[3]{8+d-b}} + \frac{d}{\sqrt[3]{8+a-c}}$$
6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- 1 doctor cures 100 patients
- any 2 patients selected from 1000 patients are cured by 11 doctors
Find the value of $d$.
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Is it TMO(Thailand) selection test?
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Yes, I have posted some of those problems before
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The polynomial problem is so nice.
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Solution for 2:
The answer is $P(x)=0$
$$x=0$$$$0\cdot P(-2021)=(-2021^{2021})P(0)\Longrightarrow P(0)=0$$$$ x=2021$$$$2021P(0)=(2021-2021^{2021})P(2021)\Longrightarrow P(2021)=0$$Suppose $$P((n-1)2021)=0$$$$x=2021n$$$$ 2021nP((n-1)2021)=(2021n-2021^{2021})P(2021n)\Longrightarrow \forall n\in \mathbb{N} ; P(2021n)=0$$$P(x)$ has infinitely many roots so $P(x)=0$
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Problem 1:
From IMO 2014/4 we know that $(A,S;B,C) = -1$ also $\triangle ABP \sim \triangle CBA$ thus
$$\frac{AP}{BP} = \frac{AC}{AB} = \frac{CS}{BS}$$
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Solution
Problem 3 : https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c6h2588833p22309376
Problem 4 : https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1h2588846p22309477
Problem 5 : https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1h2590256p22325094

Still waiting for Problem 6
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Day 2 (270 minutes)
1. Let $\Gamma$ be the circumcircle of quadrilateral $ABCD$, $AC$ intersects $BD$ at $S$. $F$ is a midpoint of an arc $AB$ (another side from $C$ and $D$) such that $DF$ and $CF$ intersect $AB$ at $R$ and $T$ respectively. Show that
$$\frac{AR \cdot BD}{RB \cdot DS} = \frac{BT \cdot AC}{TA \cdot CS}$$
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Day 1 (continue)
2. Find all polynomial $P(x)$ such that
$$xP(x-2021)=(x-2021^{2021})P(x)$$for all real number $x$.
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For $x=0$ we get $P(0)=0$
For $x=2021$we get $P(2021)=0$.
We can continue doing this until $x=2021^{2021}-2021$.
And we have $P(x)=x(x-2021)(x-2*2021)....(x-2021^{2021}+2021)Q(x)$.
Now for the first we have:$Q(x-2021)=Q(x)$
Which means that $Q(x)$ has infinity solution so $Q(x)$ is the constant polynomial.

So all the solution are $P(x)=x(x-2021)(x-2*2021)....(x-2021^{2021}+2021)*C$. where $C$ is a real number.
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6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- 1 doctor cures 100 patients
- each 2 patients are cured by 11 doctors
Find the value of $d$.
The number of doctors which help two patients is $\binom{1000}{2}11$
But every doctor help $\binom{100}{2}$ so the number of doctors is $\binom{1000}{2} *11/ \binom{100}{2}=10*111=1110$


Edit: above with (100.2) i mean $\binom{100}{2}$ but i didn't know how to write it.
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AoPSTheP wrote:

6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- 1 doctor cures 100 patients
- each 2 patients are cured by 11 doctors
Find the value of $d$.
The number of doctors which help two patients is (1000.2)*11.
But every doctor help (100.2) so the number of doctors is (1000.2)*11/ (100.2) =10*111=1110.
Sorry for my bad English, but the real problem doesn't mean like that. Maybe I will change the problem later...
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6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- 1 doctor cures 100 patients
- any 2 patients selected from 1000 patients are cured by 11 doctors
Find the value of $d$.
any 2 patients selected from 1000 patients, actually I mean something like $\binom{1000}{2}$
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Maybe edit and post all of the problem in the first post?
For P6 of Day1, https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1h128012p726183
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Day 2 P2

If we check coefficients at $x^2,x^0,x^1$ then we get that $x|P(x),x|Q(x),x|R(x)$
By infinite descent we get that $P(x)=Q(x)=R(x)=0$
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Day2 P3:
$x=y=0: 2f(0)=f(0)f(2021) \to f(2021)=1$
$y=0: 2f(x)=f(x)f(2021)+f(0)f(2021-x) \to f(x)=f(2021-x)$
$x=y: 2f(2x)=2f(x)f(2021-x)=2f(x)^2 \to f(2x)=f(x^2)$
$y=2021-x: 2f(2021)=f(x)^2+f(2021-x)^2=2f(x)^2 \to f(2x)=f(x^2)=f(2021)=1$

So $f(x)=1$
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6. In a hospital, there are $d$ doctors and $1000$ patients. It is known that,
- $1$ doctor cures exactly $100$ patients, and
- for any two patients, exactly $11$ doctors cure both of them
Find the value of $d$.
For this problem, we use count in two ways.
Let $S=(A,B,C)$ where patients $A$ and $B$ are cured by doctor $C$.
We have $\binom{1000}{2}$ ways of choosing any $2$ patients and each $2$ patients are cured by $11$ doctors
$\Longrightarrow S=\binom{1000}{2}.11=\binom{100}{2}d$ (as $1$ doctor cures $100$ patients).
Therefore, $d=\frac{\binom{1000}{2}.11}{\binom{100}{2}}$.
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Every doctor cures $\binom{100}{2}$ of patients $(A,B)$
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Every doctor cures $\binom{100}{2}$ of patients $(A,B)$
Sorry, my bad.
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3. Let $\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ be set of positive integers. Find all function $f : \mathbb{Z}_{>0} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{>0} $ such that
$$f(2m+2n)=f(m)^{2021}f(n)^{2021}$$for all $m,n \in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$
Let $P(u,v)$ be the assertion of the functional equation.
$P(m,n+p)$ gives $f(2m+2n+2p)=f(m)^{2021}f(n+p)^{2021}$.
$P(m+p,n)$ gives $f(2m+2n+2p)=f(m+p)^{2021}f(n)^{2021}$.
From these two equations, we get:
$f(m)f(n+p)=f(m+p)f(n)$ for every positive integers $m,n,p$.
Replacing $n$ and $p$ gives us:
$f(m+p)f(n)=f(m+n)f(p)(*)$.
Let $m=p \Longrightarrow f(2m)f(n)=f(m+n)f(m)$. Let $m=2n$ gives us:
$f(4n)f(n)=f(3n)f(2n)$.
Again, plug in $(*)$ with $p=3m, n=2m \Longrightarrow f(4m)f(2m)=f(3m)^2$.
$P(m,n) \Longrightarrow f(4m)=f(m)^{4042}$. Therefore, $f(3n)f(2n)=f(n)^{4043}$, for every positive integer $n$.
$f(4m)f(2m)=f(3m)^2 \Longrightarrow f(4m)f(2m)^3=f(3m)^2f(2m)^2 \Longrightarrow f(m)^{4042}f(2m)^3=f(m)^{8086}$.
$\Longrightarrow f(2m)^3=f(m)^{4044} \Longrightarrow f(2m)=f(m)^{1348} \Longrightarrow f(4m)=f(m)^{2696}=f(m)^{4042}$.
Therefore, $f(m)=1$ for every positive integer is the only solution.
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5. Let $a,b,c,d$ be real numbers. If $a+b+c+d=4$ then find the minimum value of
$$K = \frac{a}{\sqrt[3]{8+b-d}} + \frac{b}{\sqrt[3]{8+c-a}} + \frac{c}{\sqrt[3]{8+d-b}} + \frac{d}{\sqrt[3]{8+a-c}}$$
About the Inequality problem, I can not type the solution (as my latex is not good).
But we use $8+b-d+8+8$ is larger than or equal to...
Then From there, we claim that $K$ is larger than or equal to $c(\frac{a}{b-d+h}+\frac{b}{c-a+h}+...)$ where, $c,h$ are constants and you can easily find it by accurate calculations. After this, It's easy because $\frac{a}{b-d+h}=\frac{a^2}{ab-ad+ah}$ and with the inequality
$\frac{a_1^2}{b_1}+\frac{a_2^2}{b_2}+...$ is larger than or equal to $\frac{(a_1+...+a_n)^2}{b_1+...+b_n}$, this one becomes easy.
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Day2 P3:
$x=y=0: 2f(0)=f(0)f(2021) \to f(2021)=1$
$y=0: 2f(x)=f(x)f(2021)+f(0)f(2021-x) \to f(x)=f(2021-x)$
$x=y: 2f(2x)=2f(x)f(2021-x)=2f(x)^2 \to f(2x)=f(x^2)$
$y=2021-x: 2f(2021)=f(x)^2+f(2021-x)^2=2f(x)^2 \to f(2x)=f(x^2)=f(2021)=1$

So $f(x)=1$
Its $\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ so you can not plug in $x=y=0$.
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Day 1, problem 1
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