ka May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.
Are you interested in working towards MATHCOUNTS and don’t know where to start? We have you covered! If you have taken Prealgebra, then you are ready for MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics. Already aiming for State or National MATHCOUNTS and harder AMC 8 problems? Then our MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced course is for you.
Summer camps are starting next month at the Virtual Campus in math and language arts that are 2 - to 4 - weeks in duration. Spaces are still available - don’t miss your chance to have an enriching summer experience. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!
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[list][*]May 9th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, Casework 2: Overwhelming Evidence — A Text Adventure, a game where participants will work together to navigate the map, solve puzzles, and win! All are welcome.
[*]May 19th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, What's Next After Beast Academy?, designed for students finishing Beast Academy and ready for Prealgebra 1.
[*]May 20th, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 1 Math Jam, Problems 1 to 4, join the Canada/USA Mathcamp staff for this exciting Math Jam, where they discuss solutions to Problems 1 to 4 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz!
[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
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Concurrency of tangent touchpoint lines on thales circles
MathMystic330
2 minutes ago
Source: 2024 Macedonian Team Selection Test P4
Let be an acute scalene triangle. Denote by the circle with diameter , and let be the contact points of the tangents from to , chosen so that and lie on opposite sides of and and lie on opposite sides of . Similarly, let be the circle with diameter , with tangents from touching at , and the circle with diameter , with tangents from touching at .
Prove that the lines are concurrent.
Source: Regional Stage of ARO 2025 10.10; also Kvant 2025 no. 3 M2837
On the graphic of the function were selected pairwise distinct points, abscissas of which are integer numbers from the segment . Prove that it is possible to choose six different selected points ,,,,, such that areas of triangles and are equals. A. Tereshin
Source: Al-Khwarizmi International Junior Olympiad 2025 P3
On a circle are arranged baskets, each containing at least one candy. The total number of candies is . Asad and Sevinch make moves alternatingly, with Asad going first. On one move, Asad takes all the candies from consecutive non-empty baskets, while Sevinch takes all the candies from a single non-empty basket that has at least one empty neighboring basket. Prove that Asad can take overall at least candies, regardless of the initial distribution of candies and Sevinch's actions.
Source: Al-Khwarizmi International Junior Olympiad 2025 P1
Determine the largest integer for which the following statement holds: there exists at least one triple of integers such that and all triples of real numbers, satisfying the equations, are such that are integers.
Concurrency from symmetric points on the sides of a triangle
MathMystic330
6 minutes ago
Source: 2024 Macedonian Team Selection Test P3
Let be a triangle. On side take points and such that
on side take points and such that and on side take points and such that Let and
Prove that the lines are concurrent.
Source: Al-Khwarizmi International Junior Olympiad 2025 P2
Let be a convex quadrilateral with The line through , parallel to , intersects the external angle bisector of at point . Prove that the angles ,,,, can be divided into two groups, so that the angles in each group have a sum of .
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There are cards on a table, flipped face down. Madina knows that on each card a single number is written and that the numbers are different integers from to . In a move, Madina is allowed to choose any cards, and she is told a number that is written on one of the chosen cards, but not which specific card it is on. After several moves, Madina must determine the written numbers on as many cards as possible. What is the maximum number of cards Madina can ensure to determine?
Geometric inequality with 2 orthocenters and midpoint of the side
NO_SQUARES0
9 minutes ago
Source: Regional Stage of ARO 2025 10.5; also Kvant 2025 no. 3 M2836
The heights and of the acute-angled triangle intersect at point , the heights of the triangle intersect at point , point is the midpoint of side . Prove that . A. Kuznetsov
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Product of 2 sums in set is always less or equal to 0
NO_SQUARES0
19 minutes ago
Source: Regional Stage of ARO 2025 9.7 = Kvant 2025 no. 3 M2834
Let's call a set of numbers lucky if it cannot be divided into two nonempty groups so that the product of the sum of the numbers in one group and the sum of the numbers in the other is positive. The teacher wrote several integers on the blackboard. Prove that the children can add another integer to the existing ones so that the resulting set is lucky. A. Kuznetsov
Taking antipode on isosceles triangle's circumcenter
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N29 minutes ago
by Sadigly
Source: Azerbaijan Al-Khwarizmi IJMO TST 2025
In isosceles triangle, the condition is satisfied. Point is taken on the circumcircle of such that .A line parallel to which passes from intersects and respectively at and .Show that circumcircle of passes from circumcenter of .
is an acute angle triangle such that and . Let's denote by the center of the circumscribed circle of the triangle and the intersection of altitudes of this triangle. Line intersects in point and in point . Find the value of the ration .
is an acute angle triangle such that and . Let's denote by the center of the circumscribed circle of the triangle and the intersection of altitudes of this triangle. Line intersects in point and in point . Find the value of the ration .
Is not hard to prove with angle relations that is equlilateral. Now the nine point centre lies on the bisector of . Because if are the middle points of and the nine point centre, the quadrilateral is concyclic ,So are symmetric points about the bisector of , So
To answer Obel1x's first question: (since is an altitude) (since is inscribed in the circle with center ) (since is isoceles since )
This is true in any triangle
For the second question:
Lemma: Let be the perpendicular from to . In any triangle,
Proof: Extend to meet the circumcircle at , then draw . since it's inscribed in a semicircle, so , and since . Now we have , and . Thus, , so is a parallelogram, so .
Now for the question. Let be the perpendicular from to . Then so is a right triangle, so . Thus, since and , so .
Denote the second intersection of the line ( is incenter) with the circumcircle of . Since obtain that the points , , belong to the circle and the quadrilateral is a rhombus, a.s.o.
Kinda classic Claim 1: Proof: Notice that and so is cyclic and so by simple angle chasing we get that Claim 2: Proof: and Claim 3: Proof:
From the claims we get that
Thus the result