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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 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
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
Social Club with 2k+1 Members
v_Enhance   24
N 5 minutes ago by mathwiz_1207
Source: USA December TST for IMO 2013, Problem 1
A social club has $2k+1$ members, each of whom is fluent in the same $k$ languages. Any pair of members always talk to each other in only one language. Suppose that there were no three members such that they use only one language among them. Let $A$ be the number of three-member subsets such that the three distinct pairs among them use different languages. Find the maximum possible value of $A$.
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v_Enhance
Jul 30, 2013
mathwiz_1207
5 minutes ago
A strong inequality problem
hn111009   1
N 10 minutes ago by Tung-CHL
Source: Somewhere
Let $a,b,c$ be the positive number satisfied $a^2+b^2+c^2=3.$ Find the minimum of $$P=\dfrac{a^2}{b+c}+\dfrac{b^2}{c+a}+\dfrac{c^2}{a+b}+\dfrac{3abc}{2(ab+bc+ca)}.$$
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hn111009
Today at 2:02 AM
Tung-CHL
10 minutes ago
Altitude configuration with two touching circles
Tintarn   3
N 11 minutes ago by NumberzAndStuff
Source: Austrian MO 2024, Final Round P2
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with $AB>AC$. Let $D,E,F$ denote the feet of its altitudes on $BC,AC$ and $AB$, respectively. Let $S$ denote the intersection of lines $EF$ and $BC$. Prove that the circumcircles $k_1$ and $k_2$ of the two triangles $AEF$ and $DES$ touch in $E$.

(Karl Czakler)
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Tintarn
Jun 1, 2024
NumberzAndStuff
11 minutes ago
IMO Shortlist 2009 - Problem G3
April   48
N 18 minutes ago by Markas
Let $ABC$ be a triangle. The incircle of $ABC$ touches the sides $AB$ and $AC$ at the points $Z$ and $Y$, respectively. Let $G$ be the point where the lines $BY$ and $CZ$ meet, and let $R$ and $S$ be points such that the two quadrilaterals $BCYR$ and $BCSZ$ are parallelogram.
Prove that $GR=GS$.

Proposed by Hossein Karke Abadi, Iran
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April
Jul 5, 2010
Markas
18 minutes ago
Show that (DEN) passes through the midpoint of BC
v_Enhance   24
N 19 minutes ago by Markas
Source: Sharygin First Round 2013, Problem 21
Chords $BC$ and $DE$ of circle $\omega$ meet at point $A$. The line through $D$ parallel to $BC$ meets $\omega$ again at $F$, and $FA$ meets $\omega$ again at $T$. Let $M = ET \cap BC$ and let $N$ be the reflection of $A$ over $M$. Show that $(DEN)$ passes through the midpoint of $BC$.
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v_Enhance
Apr 7, 2013
Markas
19 minutes ago
2020 EGMO P5: P is the incentre of CDE
alifenix-   49
N 20 minutes ago by Markas
Source: 2020 EGMO P5
Consider the triangle $ABC$ with $\angle BCA > 90^{\circ}$. The circumcircle $\Gamma$ of $ABC$ has radius $R$. There is a point $P$ in the interior of the line segment $AB$ such that $PB = PC$ and the length of $PA$ is $R$. The perpendicular bisector of $PB$ intersects $\Gamma$ at the points $D$ and $E$.

Prove $P$ is the incentre of triangle $CDE$.
49 replies
alifenix-
Apr 18, 2020
Markas
20 minutes ago
The reflection of AD intersect (ABC) lies on (AEF)
alifenix-   61
N 20 minutes ago by Markas
Source: USA TST for EGMO 2020, Problem 4
Let $ABC$ be a triangle. Distinct points $D$, $E$, $F$ lie on sides $BC$, $AC$, and $AB$, respectively, such that quadrilaterals $ABDE$ and $ACDF$ are cyclic. Line $AD$ meets the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$ again at $P$. Let $Q$ denote the reflection of $P$ across $BC$. Show that $Q$ lies on the circumcircle of $\triangle AEF$.

Proposed by Ankan Bhattacharya
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alifenix-
Jan 27, 2020
Markas
20 minutes ago
JBMO 2013 Problem 2
Igor   44
N 21 minutes ago by Markas
Source: Proposed by Macedonia
Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle with $AB<AC$ and let $O$ be the centre of its circumcircle $\omega$. Let $D$ be a point on the line segment $BC$ such that $\angle BAD = \angle CAO$. Let $E$ be the second point of intersection of $\omega$ and the line $AD$. If $M$, $N$ and $P$ are the midpoints of the line segments $BE$, $OD$ and $AC$, respectively, show that the points $M$, $N$ and $P$ are collinear.
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Igor
Jun 23, 2013
Markas
21 minutes ago
Problem 1: Triangle triviality
ZetaX   134
N 22 minutes ago by Markas
Source: IMO 2006, 1. day
Let $ABC$ be triangle with incenter $I$. A point $P$ in the interior of the triangle satisfies \[\angle PBA+\angle PCA = \angle PBC+\angle PCB.\] Show that $AP \geq AI$, and that equality holds if and only if $P=I$.
134 replies
ZetaX
Jul 12, 2006
Markas
22 minutes ago
Incenter and midpoint geom
sarjinius   90
N 22 minutes ago by Markas
Source: 2024 IMO Problem 4
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB < AC < BC$. Let the incenter and incircle of triangle $ABC$ be $I$ and $\omega$, respectively. Let $X$ be the point on line $BC$ different from $C$ such that the line through $X$ parallel to $AC$ is tangent to $\omega$. Similarly, let $Y$ be the point on line $BC$ different from $B$ such that the line through $Y$ parallel to $AB$ is tangent to $\omega$. Let $AI$ intersect the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$ at $P \ne A$. Let $K$ and $L$ be the midpoints of $AC$ and $AB$, respectively.
Prove that $\angle KIL + \angle YPX = 180^{\circ}$.

Proposed by Dominik Burek, Poland
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sarjinius
Jul 17, 2024
Markas
22 minutes ago
Rest in peace, Geometry!
mathisreaI   85
N 23 minutes ago by Markas
Source: IMO 2022 Problem 4
Let $ABCDE$ be a convex pentagon such that $BC=DE$. Assume that there is a point $T$ inside $ABCDE$ with $TB=TD,TC=TE$ and $\angle ABT = \angle TEA$. Let line $AB$ intersect lines $CD$ and $CT$ at points $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Assume that the points $P,B,A,Q$ occur on their line in that order. Let line $AE$ intersect $CD$ and $DT$ at points $R$ and $S$, respectively. Assume that the points $R,E,A,S$ occur on their line in that order. Prove that the points $P,S,Q,R$ lie on a circle.
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mathisreaI
Jul 13, 2022
Markas
23 minutes ago
Prove DK and BC are perpendicular.
yunxiu   62
N 23 minutes ago by Markas
Source: 2012 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad P1
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with circumcentre $O$. The points $D,E,F$ lie in the interiors of the sides $BC,CA,AB$ respectively, such that $DE$ is perpendicular to $CO$ and $DF$ is perpendicular to $BO$. (By interior we mean, for example, that the point $D$ lies on the line $BC$ and $D$ is between $B$ and $C$ on that line.)
Let $K$ be the circumcentre of triangle $AFE$. Prove that the lines $DK$ and $BC$ are perpendicular.

Netherlands (Merlijn Staps)
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yunxiu
Apr 13, 2012
Markas
23 minutes ago
AT // BC wanted
parmenides51   104
N 24 minutes ago by Markas
Source: IMO 2019 SL G1
Let $ABC$ be a triangle. Circle $\Gamma$ passes through $A$, meets segments $AB$ and $AC$ again at points $D$ and $E$ respectively, and intersects segment $BC$ at $F$ and $G$ such that $F$ lies between $B$ and $G$. The tangent to circle $BDF$ at $F$ and the tangent to circle $CEG$ at $G$ meet at point $T$. Suppose that points $A$ and $T$ are distinct. Prove that line $AT$ is parallel to $BC$.

(Nigeria)
104 replies
parmenides51
Sep 22, 2020
Markas
24 minutes ago
IMO Shortlist 2010 - Problem G1
Amir Hossein   133
N 25 minutes ago by Markas
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with $D, E, F$ the feet of the altitudes lying on $BC, CA, AB$ respectively. One of the intersection points of the line $EF$ and the circumcircle is $P.$ The lines $BP$ and $DF$ meet at point $Q.$ Prove that $AP = AQ.$

Proposed by Christopher Bradley, United Kingdom
133 replies
Amir Hossein
Jul 17, 2011
Markas
25 minutes ago
ALGEBRA INEQUALITY
Tony_stark0094   3
N Apr 23, 2025 by sqing
$a,b,c > 0$ Prove that $$\frac{a^2+bc}{b+c} + \frac{b^2+ac}{a+c} + \frac {c^2 + ab}{a+b} \geq a+b+c$$
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Apr 23, 2025
ALGEBRA INEQUALITY
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$a,b,c > 0$ Prove that $$\frac{a^2+bc}{b+c} + \frac{b^2+ac}{a+c} + \frac {c^2 + ab}{a+b} \geq a+b+c$$
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Share some better sols.
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Add $\sum_{cyc}\tfrac{a(b+c)}{(b+c)} = \sum_{cyc} a$ to both sides to obtain \[\sum_{cyc}\frac{(a+b)(c+a)}{(b+c)} \ge 2(a+b+c).\]Substitute $x = a+b$, $y = b+c$, and $z=c+a$ to turn this into \[\sum_{cyc} \frac{xz}{y} \ge \sum_{cyc} x,\]which is clear by Muirhead.
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