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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 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
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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
[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
USAMO Grading
AdityaDwivedi   1
N an hour ago by cowstalker
Hello,

I was wondering how USAMO grading works. For one of my solutions, I kinda generalized a part of my solution cause I assumed that the reader would be able to follow but idk if it’ll drop my score from a 7 to a 5 or 6. So how much detail to I rlly need to include to get full points?
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AdityaDwivedi
2 hours ago
cowstalker
an hour ago
Red Mop Chances
imagien_bad   31
N an hour ago by hashbrown2009
What are my chances of making red mop with a 35 on jmo?
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imagien_bad
Yesterday at 8:27 PM
hashbrown2009
an hour ago
funny title placeholder
pikapika007   54
N an hour ago by Gedagedigedagedago-
Source: USAJMO 2025/6
Let $S$ be a set of integers with the following properties:
[list]
[*] $\{ 1, 2, \dots, 2025 \} \subseteq S$.
[*] If $a, b \in S$ and $\gcd(a, b) = 1$, then $ab \in S$.
[*] If for some $s \in S$, $s + 1$ is composite, then all positive divisors of $s + 1$ are in $S$.
[/list]
Prove that $S$ contains all positive integers.
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pikapika007
Mar 21, 2025
Gedagedigedagedago-
an hour ago
Scary Binomial Coefficient Sum
EpicBird08   37
N an hour ago by atdaotlohbh
Source: USAMO 2025/5
Determine, with proof, all positive integers $k$ such that $$\frac{1}{n+1} \sum_{i=0}^n \binom{n}{i}^k$$is an integer for every positive integer $n.$
37 replies
EpicBird08
Mar 21, 2025
atdaotlohbh
an hour ago
Interesting problem
deraxenrovalo   0
2 hours ago
Given $\triangle$$ABC$ with circumcenter $O$$.\;$Let $P$ be an arbitrary point on $(BOC)$ such that $P$ is outside $(ABC)$$.\;$Let $Q$ be an arbitrary point on $(ABC)$$.\;$$AB$ cuts $(ACP)$ again at $E$ and $AC$ cuts $(ABP)$ again at $F$$.\;$The intersection of $BF$ and $CE$ is $R$$.\;$Let $X$ and $Y$ be the intersection of $EF$ with $(PQC)$ and $(PQR)$ respectively such that $X$, $Y$, $P$ are pairwise distinct.
Show that : $(APX)$, $(BPY)$, $(QPE)$ are coaxial circles

hint
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deraxenrovalo
2 hours ago
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Vieta Jumping Unsolved(Reposted)
Eagle116   0
2 hours ago
Source: MONT, Vieta Jumping part
The question is:
Let $x_1$, $x_2$, $\dots$, $x_n$ be $n$ integers. If $k>n$ is an integer, prove that the only solution to
$$x_1^2 + x_2^2 + \dots + x_n^2 = kx_1x_2\dots x_n $$is is $x_1 = x_2 = \dots = x_n = 0$.
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Eagle116
2 hours ago
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Geometry with parallel lines.
falantrng   32
N 2 hours ago by endless_abyss
Source: RMM 2018,D1 P1
Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral an let $P$ be a point on the side $AB.$ The diagonals $AC$ meets the segments $DP$ at $Q.$ The line through $P$ parallel to $CD$ mmets the extension of the side $CB$ beyond $B$ at $K.$ The line through $Q$ parallel to $BD$ meets the extension of the side $CB$ beyond $B$ at $L.$ Prove that the circumcircles of the triangles $BKP$ and $CLQ$ are tangent .
32 replies
falantrng
Feb 24, 2018
endless_abyss
2 hours ago
sum divides n-th moment
navi_09220114   1
N 2 hours ago by ja.
Source: Own. Malaysian IMO TST 2025 P9
Given four distinct positive integers $a<b<c<d$ such that $\gcd(a,b,c,d)=1$, find the maximum possible number of integers $1\le n\le 2025$ such that $$a+b+c+d\mid a^n+b^n+c^n+d^n$$
Proposed by Ivan Chan Kai Chin
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navi_09220114
Yesterday at 1:07 PM
ja.
2 hours ago
Find all functions
Jackson0423   0
2 hours ago
Find all functions F:R->R such that
1/(F(F(x))-F(x))=F(x)
I know x+1/x works..
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Jackson0423
2 hours ago
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2x+1 is a perfect square but the following x+1 integers are not.
Sumgato   7
N 2 hours ago by Davut1102
Source: Spain Mathematical Olympiad 2018 P1
Find all positive integers $x$ such that $2x+1$ is a perfect square but none of the integers $2x+2, 2x+3, \ldots, 3x+2$ are perfect squares.
7 replies
Sumgato
Mar 17, 2018
Davut1102
2 hours ago
Prove that P1(x), P2(x) ,... Pn(x) = k has no root
truongphatt2668   2
N 2 hours ago by truongphatt2668
Let $n \in \mathbb{N}^*$ and $P_1(x),P_2(x), \ldots P_n(x) \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ such that $\mathrm{deg} P_i = 2, \forall i = \overline{1,n}$. Prove that exists many $k \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every equation: $P_i(x) = k, \forall i = \overline{1,n}$ has no real roots
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truongphatt2668
Today at 2:26 AM
truongphatt2668
2 hours ago
Geo: incircle, escircle, isotomic conjugate
XAN4   1
N 3 hours ago by deraxenrovalo
Source: Own
For $\triangle{ABC}$, Its incircle $\odot I$ and $A-$escircle $\odot I_A$ are tangent to $BC$ at $D$ and $E$ respectively. $AI$ intersects line $BC$ at $J$. Line $AD$ intersects $\odot I$ at $F$, and line $AE$ intersects $\odot I_A$ at $G$. Line $FG$ intersects $BC$ at $H$. Prove that $BJ=CH$.
1 reply
XAN4
Mar 19, 2025
deraxenrovalo
3 hours ago
special sets
ChubbyTomato426   0
3 hours ago
Let $n$ be a positive integer. A subset $\{a, b, c, d\} \subseteq \{1, 2, . . . , 4n\}$ with four distinct elements is special if there exists a rearrangement $(x, y, z, w)$ of $(a, b, c, d)$ such that $xy -zw = 1$. Prove that the set $\{1, 2, . . . , 4n \}$ cannot be partitioned into $n$ special disjoint sets.
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ChubbyTomato426
3 hours ago
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2, 4, 5-Nim
cjquines0   2
N 3 hours ago by Mathdreams
Source: Philippines MO 2016/4
Two players, \(A\) (first player) and \(B\), take alternate turns in playing a game using 2016 chips as follows: the player whose turn it is, must remove \(s\) chips from the remaining pile of chips, where \(s \in \{ 2,4,5 \}\). No one can skip a turn. The player who at some point is unable to make a move (cannot remove chips from the pile) loses the game. Who among the two players can force a win on this game?
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cjquines0
Jan 21, 2017
Mathdreams
3 hours ago
0 on jmo
Rong0625   43
N 3 hours ago by Nioronean
How many people actually get a flat 0/42 on jmo? I took it for the first time this year and I had never done oly math before so I really only had 2 weeks to figure it out since I didn’t think I would qual. I went in not expecting much but I didn’t think I wouldn’t be able to get ANYTHING. So I’m pretty sure I got 0/42 (unless i get pity points for writing incorrect solutions). Is that bad, am I sped, and should I be embarrassed? Or do other people actually also get 0?
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Rong0625
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Nioronean
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0 on jmo
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How many people actually get a flat 0/42 on jmo? I took it for the first time this year and I had never done oly math before so I really only had 2 weeks to figure it out since I didn’t think I would qual. I went in not expecting much but I didn’t think I wouldn’t be able to get ANYTHING. So I’m pretty sure I got 0/42 (unless i get pity points for writing incorrect solutions). Is that bad, am I sped, and should I be embarrassed? Or do other people actually also get 0?
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Last year, 20 people out of 261 got 0.
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Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible
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How many people actually get a flat 0/42 on jmo? I took it for the first time this year and I had never done oly math before so I really only had 2 weeks to figure it out since I didn’t think I would qual. I went in not expecting much but I didn’t think I wouldn’t be able to get ANYTHING. So I’m pretty sure I got 0/42 (unless i get pity points for writing incorrect solutions). Is that bad, am I sped, and should I be embarrassed? Or do other people actually also get 0?

Tbh I expected I was gonna get a 0 to cuz I was more focused on MathCounts and saving oly prep for after nats. Although I did prolly end up with like a 7-8/42, I went into day 2 looked at the test and immediately thought I was gonna get a 0 cuz I had I think in all JMO prep I had ever done to that point, done 2 JMO questions. 2023 p1 and 2024 p1. Luckily I managed to suck out all my brain info and finish up my #4 proof in the last 3 minutes. I also in somewhat of a way terribly "sillied" p1 and solved the wrong problem :skull: polynomials instead of functions. But, you'll be fine, a 0 is quite common and we hopefully got next year dw, so just be happy and proud you qualified to JMO cuz that's what matters!
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Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible

j4 was pretty doable along with j2, j1 was hard though
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Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible

j1 was hard, but j4 was quite easy. at least >100 people swept day 2
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vincentwant wrote:
Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible

j4 was pretty doable along with j2, j1 was hard though

J1 was way easier than J2
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this year getting a 0 will probably be very common given there weren't many problems very accessible to people without olympiad training unlike last year which had p1 and p4 on jmo

@below, ok thats true p5 is very accessible but since its not a 1/4 not many beginners may give it a serious try
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eg4334 wrote:
this year getting a 0 will probably be very common given there weren't many problems very accessible to people without olympiad training unlike last year which had p1 and p4 on jmo

cmon even aime quals know what power of a point is (or coordbashing) for p5. anyone who jmo qualed legitimately should be able to solve
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eg4334 wrote:
this year getting a 0 will probably be very common given there weren't many problems very accessible to people without olympiad training unlike last year which had p1 and p4 on jmo

cmon even aime quals know what power of a point is (or coordbashing) for p5. anyone who jmo qualed legitimately should be able to solve

oopsie :blush:

but seriously, no one "should be able to solve" anything. maybe they didn't spend enough time on j5, or they had a bad day, or (for all those geo antimains out there) they just aren't very good at geometry (yes, this includes coordbash). neither is it productive to shame people in such an elitist tone for anything.
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eg4334 wrote:
this year getting a 0 will probably be very common given there weren't many problems very accessible to people without olympiad training unlike last year which had p1 and p4 on jmo

cmon even aime quals know what power of a point is (or coordbashing) for p5. anyone who jmo qualed legitimately should be able to solve

what if
the person is cursed with illegitimacy

what if they not only qualified illegitimately
but they were born illegitimately
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eg4334 wrote:
this year getting a 0 will probably be very common given there weren't many problems very accessible to people without olympiad training unlike last year which had p1 and p4 on jmo

cmon even aime quals know what power of a point is (or coordbashing) for p5. anyone who jmo qualed legitimately should be able to solve

Bro this guy is not real. I didn't oly prep at all cuz of mathcounts state prioritizing but got p4 only cuz I spent all 4.5 hours on it. Didn't even consider looking at p5, cuz of it being p5 and I suck at geo, so I was a diagram starer. All that to say, people can most definitely get a 0 and p5 was not that trivial to "no oly prep" people:skull:
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Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible

first part is true second part is anything but true
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vincentwant wrote:
Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible

j1 was hard, but j4 was quite easy. at least >100 people swept day 2

personally i found j4 to be harder
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all of you guys know that im a bum but im pretty sure even i can get a nonzero score on JMO
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i think 0 on jmo is pretty reasonable this year, p1/4 didn't feel very "beginner friendly"
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HOFer
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hellohannah wrote:
i think 0 on jmo is pretty reasonable this year, p1/4 didn't feel very "beginner friendly"

i dont understand the hard part about "coordbashing p5"
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Schintalpati
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HOFer wrote:
hellohannah wrote:
i think 0 on jmo is pretty reasonable this year, p1/4 didn't feel very "beginner friendly"

i dont understand the hard part about "coordbashing p5"

I haven't seen many oly geo problems, so I didn't even consider coordbashing or take time to think to hard on p5 cuz of its place
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HOFer
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Schintalpati wrote:
HOFer wrote:
hellohannah wrote:
i think 0 on jmo is pretty reasonable this year, p1/4 didn't feel very "beginner friendly"

i dont understand the hard part about "coordbashing p5"

I haven't seen many oly geo problems, so I didn't even consider coordbashing or take time to think to hard on p5 cuz of its place

is your first instinct when you see a geo problem that you dont know how to do but looks coordbashable - not coordbashing?
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Schintalpati
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no dawg its not :skull: I didn't even think it looked coordbashable I was more tryna find a homothety synthetic solution but instead became a diagram starer
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Pengu14
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Schintalpati wrote:
no dawg its not :skull: I didn't even think it looked coordbashable I was more tryna find a homothety synthetic solution but instead became a diagram starer

This was me until i remembered i have skissue lol
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hellohannah
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HOFer wrote:
hellohannah wrote:
i think 0 on jmo is pretty reasonable this year, p1/4 didn't feel very "beginner friendly"

i dont understand the hard part about "coordbashing p5"

in contest it didnt look very coord bashable to me... i feel like for someone new to oly they wouldnt really be familiar with coord bashing and it doesn't feel very intuitive on this problem

also it's fairly easy to make a mistake while bashing, and making mistakes while bashing is like 10x more likely if you're new to oly
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KevinChen_Yay
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i feel like the most accessible was p4 but maybe some jmo quals don't know induction idk

p5 def isn't that ez to think of because even experienced ppl don't think of coordbashing when they see geo or even after they tried PoP or smth but failed
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Schintalpati
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KevinChen_Yay wrote:
i feel like the most accessible was p4 but maybe some jmo quals don't know induction idk

p5 def isn't that ez to think of because even experienced ppl don't think of coordbashing when they see geo or even after they tried PoP or smth but failed

bruh was I the only person who didn't even consider induction for p4. Bounding seemed much more straightforward
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llddmmtt1
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KevinChen_Yay wrote:
i feel like the most accessible was p4 but maybe some jmo quals don't know induction idk

p5 def isn't that ez to think of because even experienced ppl don't think of coordbashing when they see geo or even after they tried PoP or smth but failed

haha in 2023 jmo i was so inexperienced that i only knew to coordbash 2023 jmo 2
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hellohannah
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KevinChen_Yay wrote:
i feel like the most accessible was p4 but maybe some jmo quals don't know induction idk

p5 def isn't that ez to think of because even experienced ppl don't think of coordbashing when they see geo or even after they tried PoP or smth but failed

p4 just looks scary tbh

i didn't try it for a while cuz it looked annoying
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KevinChen_Yay
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Schintalpati wrote:
bruh was I the only person who didn't even consider induction for p4. Bounding seemed much more straightforward

yea induction def wasn't that straightforward, but should be clear if ur struggling to find another sol; if u actually solved without induction then that's very orz lol
llddmmtt1 wrote:
haha in 2023 jmo i was so inexperienced that i only knew to coordbash 2023 jmo 2

W i actually did coordbash for 2024 j1 lol (without even trying any other method :skul:)
hellohannah wrote:
p4 just looks scary tbh

i didn't try it for a while cuz it looked annoying

same, it was the second question I attempted after p5
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ethan2011
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vincentwant wrote:
Will probably be higher this year because j1 and j4 were impossible

j4 was not impossible, it's trivial by induction
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drhong
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xTimmyG wrote:
eg4334 wrote:
this year getting a 0 will probably be very common given there weren't many problems very accessible to people without olympiad training unlike last year which had p1 and p4 on jmo

cmon even aime quals know what power of a point is (or coordbashing) for p5. anyone who jmo qualed legitimately should be able to solve

timmy i agree with you on some things, but sometimes i think your a bit too extreme. i think its very possible for someone to legitimately qual and get a 0.
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hgomamogh
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or (for all those antigeo mains out there) they just aren't very good at geometry.

This just doesn't make sense at all. U4/J5 was probably easier using coordinate bashing techniques than synthetic geometry techniques.
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i feel for p5 you couldnt see that OC /perp BC implies the result without at least a little oly experience so a lot of people didnt see the cordbash
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xTimmyG
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LearnMath_105 wrote:
i feel for p5 you couldnt see that OC /perp BC implies the result without at least a little oly experience so a lot of people didnt see the cordbash

literally anyone with above middle school math knowledge knows that. also the problem was just a bit harder than last year j1, considering i've never practiced synthetic (only bash) but i still solved it synthetically in 10 minutes
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sadas123
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xTimmyG wrote:
LearnMath_105 wrote:
i feel for p5 you couldnt see that OC /perp BC implies the result without at least a little oly experience so a lot of people didnt see the cordbash

literally anyone with above middle school math knowledge knows that. also the problem was just a bit harder than last year j1, considering i've never practiced synthetic (only bash) but i still solved it synthetically in 10 minutes

I think that xTimmyG got a perfect on JMO
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xTimmyG
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sadas123 wrote:
I think that xTimmyG got a perfect on JMO

unfortunately i didnt, i just posted my predicted score on my blog. in fact, i haven't heard of anyone who solved all the problems yet
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vincentwant
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xTimmyG wrote:
sadas123 wrote:
I think that xTimmyG got a perfect on JMO

unfortunately i didnt. in fact, i haven't heard of anyone who solved all the problems yet

i almost did but my p6 sol was flawed :(
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sadas123
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xTimmyG wrote:
sadas123 wrote:
I think that xTimmyG got a perfect on JMO

unfortunately i didnt, i just posted my predicted score on my blog. in fact, i haven't heard of anyone who solved all the problems yet

Is it possible for a 6th grader to make USA(J)MO? Do you guys know anyone?
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lpieleanu
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sadas123 wrote:
xTimmyG wrote:
sadas123 wrote:
I think that xTimmyG got a perfect on JMO

unfortunately i didnt, i just posted my predicted score on my blog. in fact, i haven't heard of anyone who solved all the problems yet

Is it possible for a 6th grader to make USA(J)MO? Do you guys know anyone?

A fourth grader has qualified in the past for USAJMO.
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Pengu14
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lpieleanu wrote:
A fourth grader has qualified in the past for USAJMO.

Dotted?
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fake123
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i think luke robitaille
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sadas123
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Pengu14 wrote:
lpieleanu wrote:
A fourth grader has qualified in the past for USAJMO.

Dotted?

Probably......
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elizhang101412
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Pengu14 wrote:
lpieleanu wrote:
A fourth grader has qualified in the past for USAJMO.

Dotted?

no
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sadas123
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elizhang101412 wrote:
Pengu14 wrote:
lpieleanu wrote:
A fourth grader has qualified in the past for USAJMO.

Dotted?

no

Then who?
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llddmmtt1
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luke, probably
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Nioronean
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Pengu14 wrote:
Last year, 20 people out of 261 got 0.

I think there were more on Jmo right?
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