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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Apr 2, 2025
Spring is in full swing and summer is right around the corner, what are your plans? At AoPS Online our schedule has new classes starting now through July, so be sure to keep your skills sharp and be prepared for the Fall school year! Check out the schedule of upcoming classes below.

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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
Something nice
KhuongTrang   25
N an hour ago by KhuongTrang
Source: own
Problem. Given $a,b,c$ be non-negative real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca=1.$ Prove that

$$\sqrt{a+1}+\sqrt{b+1}+\sqrt{c+1}\le 1+2\sqrt{a+b+c+abc}.$$
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KhuongTrang
Nov 1, 2023
KhuongTrang
an hour ago
Geometry 7.3 tangent
luciazhu1105   2
N 2 hours ago by Dutchb
I have trouble getting tangents and most things in the chapter, so some help would be appreciated!
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luciazhu1105
Wednesday at 10:11 PM
Dutchb
2 hours ago
interesting inequality
pennypc123456789   3
N 2 hours ago by Quantum-Phantom
Let \( a,b,c \) be real numbers satisfying \( a+b+c = 3 \) . Find the maximum value of
\[P  = \dfrac{a(b+c)}{a^2+2bc+3} + \dfrac{b(a+c) }{b^2+2ca +3 } + \dfrac{c(a+b)}{c^2+2ab+3}.\]
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pennypc123456789
Wednesday at 9:47 AM
Quantum-Phantom
2 hours ago
The daily problem!
Leeoz   97
N 3 hours ago by anduran
Every day, I will try to post a new problem for you all to solve! If you want to post a daily problem, you can! :)

Please hide solutions and answers, hints are fine though! :)

The first problem is:
[quote=March 21st Problem]Alice flips a fair coin until she gets 2 heads in a row, or a tail and then a head. What is the probability that she stopped after 2 heads in a row? Express your answer as a common fraction.[/quote]

Past Problems!
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Leeoz
Mar 21, 2025
anduran
3 hours ago
Old or new
sqing   0
3 hours ago
Source: ZDSX 2025 Q845
Let $   a,b,c>0   $ and $  a^2+b^2+c^2+ abc=4   $ . Prove that $$1\leq \frac{1}{2a+bc }+ \frac{1}{2b+ca }+ \frac{1}{2c+ab }\leq  \frac{1}{\sqrt{abc} }$$
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sqing
3 hours ago
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How many
maxamc   10
N 3 hours ago by valisaxieamc
If 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 3+3=6, 4+4=?

Also prove $3 \nmid 7$.
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maxamc
Wednesday at 3:05 PM
valisaxieamc
3 hours ago
ineq.trig.
wer   15
N 3 hours ago by anduran
If a, b, c are the sides of a triangle, show that: $\frac{a}{b+c}+\frac{b}{c+a}+\frac{c}{a+b}+\frac{r}{R}\le2$
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wer
Jul 5, 2014
anduran
3 hours ago
Website to learn math
hawa   21
N 3 hours ago by jkim0656
Hi, I'm kinda curious what website do yall use to learn math, like i dont find any website thats fun to learn math
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hawa
Apr 9, 2025
jkim0656
3 hours ago
Problem 4 from IMO 1997
iandrei   29
N 3 hours ago by clarkculus
Source: IMO Shortlist 1997, Q4
An $ n \times n$ matrix whose entries come from the set $ S = \{1, 2, \ldots , 2n - 1\}$ is called a silver matrix if, for each $ i = 1, 2, \ldots , n$, the $ i$-th row and the $ i$-th column together contain all elements of $ S$. Show that:

(a) there is no silver matrix for $ n = 1997$;

(b) silver matrices exist for infinitely many values of $ n$.
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iandrei
Jul 28, 2003
clarkculus
3 hours ago
P(x^2)=-P(x)P(x+1)
VIATON   6
N 3 hours ago by Eagle116
Source: original problem: P(x^2)=P(x)P(x+1)
Find all polynomials $P(x)$ such that: $P(x^2)=-P(x)P(x+1)$
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VIATON
Oct 21, 2024
Eagle116
3 hours ago
evan chen??
Captainscrubz   0
3 hours ago
Let point $D$ and $E$ be on sides $AB$ and $AC$ respectively in $\triangle ABC$ such that $BD=BC=CE$. Let $O_1$ be the circumcenter of $\triangle ADE$ and let $S=DC\cap EB$. Prove that $O_1S \perp BC$
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Captainscrubz
3 hours ago
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Problem 4 IMO 2005 (Day 2)
Valentin Vornicu   121
N 3 hours ago by sharknavy75
Determine all positive integers relatively prime to all the terms of the infinite sequence \[ a_n=2^n+3^n+6^n -1,\ n\geq 1. \]
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Valentin Vornicu
Jul 14, 2005
sharknavy75
3 hours ago
Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad 2024- P3
Lukaluce   14
N 3 hours ago by ray66
Source: JBMO 2024
Find all triples of positive integers $(x, y, z)$ that satisfy the equation

$$2020^x + 2^y = 2024^z.$$
Proposed by Ognjen Tešić, Serbia
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Lukaluce
Jun 27, 2024
ray66
3 hours ago
A property of divisors
rightways   12
N 3 hours ago by akliu
Source: Kazakhstan NMO 2016, P1
Prove that one can arrange all positive divisors of any given positive integer around a circle so that for any two neighboring numbers one is divisible by another.
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rightways
Mar 17, 2016
akliu
3 hours ago
Math Competitions
anishka14   8
N Apr 1, 2025 by nmlikesmath
Hi everyone!

So I am currently in grade 6, and if anyone could give any tips for getting high scores in math competition, that would be great!

I haven't been doing so well in AMC 8, and other competitions like Math Kangaroo, etc....

I feel like i'm stuck, so if anyone could give any resources that helped you learn and score better, could you share that with me?

Thank you so much!

( also how much time should i spend on math every day? )
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anishka14
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nmlikesmath
Apr 1, 2025
Math Competitions
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Hi everyone!

So I am currently in grade 6, and if anyone could give any tips for getting high scores in math competition, that would be great!

I haven't been doing so well in AMC 8, and other competitions like Math Kangaroo, etc....

I feel like i'm stuck, so if anyone could give any resources that helped you learn and score better, could you share that with me?

Thank you so much!

( also how much time should i spend on math every day? )
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Just practice problems. A lot of problems. If your stuck then the worst thing to do is not do anything because you don't know what to do(if that makes sense). Just find problems and do them.
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Where could I find practice questions?
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You can find extra problems on Alcumus
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anishka14 wrote:
Where could I find practice questions?

Take past years amc 8s or math kangaroos. That's what I did. Or if you're finished with those, try to do some AOPS community-made mock tests for amc 8.
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iwillregretthisnamelater
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Do you live in the US? Because then you’d be able to go to mathcounts
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anishka14
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No, i'm from Canada
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which pronvince?
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No, i'm from Canada

then i don't think u can do mathcounts sry
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