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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
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Sep 9, 2019
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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!


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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
x^3+y^3 is prime
jl_   0
a few seconds ago
Source: Malaysia IMONST 2 2023 (Primary) P3
Find all pairs of positive integers $(x,y)$, so that the number $x^3+y^3$ is a prime.
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jl_
a few seconds ago
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EGMO magic square
Lukaluce   16
N a minute ago by zRevenant
Source: EGMO 2025 P6
In each cell of a $2025 \times 2025$ board, a nonnegative real number is written in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row is equal to $1$, and the sum of the numbers in each column is equal to $1$. Define $r_i$ to be the largest value in row $i$, and let $R = r_1 + r_2 + ... + r_{2025}$. Similarly, define $c_i$ to be the largest value in column $i$, and let $C = c_1 + c_2 + ... + c_{2025}$.
What is the largest possible value of $\frac{R}{C}$?

Proposed by Paulius Aleknavičius, Lithuania
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Lukaluce
Apr 14, 2025
zRevenant
a minute ago
A colouring game on a rectangular frame
Tintarn   1
N 9 minutes ago by pi_quadrat_sechstel
Source: Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik 2025, Round 1 - Problem 4
For integers $m,n \ge 3$ we consider a $m \times n$ rectangular frame, consisting of the $2m+2n-4$ boundary squares of a $m \times n$ rectangle.

Renate and Erhard play the following game on this frame, with Renate to start the game. In a move, a player colours a rectangular area consisting of a single or several white squares. If there are any more white squares, they have to form a connected region. The player who moves last wins the game.

Determine all pairs $(m,n)$ for which Renate has a winning strategy.
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Mar 17, 2025
pi_quadrat_sechstel
9 minutes ago
Sum and product of 5 numbers
jl_   0
14 minutes ago
Source: Malaysia IMONST 2 2023 (Primary) P2
Ivan bought $50$ cats consisting of five different breeds. He records the number of cats of each breed and after multiplying these five numbers he obtains the number $100000$. How many cats of each breed does he have?
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jl_
14 minutes ago
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Prove that sum of 1^3+...+n^3 is a square
jl_   0
15 minutes ago
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Prove that for all positive integers $n$, $1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 +\dots+n^3$ is a perfect square.
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jl_
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Why is the old one deleted?
EeEeRUT   14
N 20 minutes ago by zRevenant
Source: EGMO 2025 P1
For a positive integer $N$, let $c_1 < c_2 < \cdots < c_m$ be all positive integers smaller than $N$ that are coprime to $N$. Find all $N \geqslant 3$ such that $$\gcd( N, c_i + c_{i+1}) \neq 1$$for all $1 \leqslant i \leqslant m-1$

Here $\gcd(a, b)$ is the largest positive integer that divides both $a$ and $b$. Integers $a$ and $b$ are coprime if $\gcd(a, b) = 1$.

Proposed by Paulius Aleknavičius, Lithuania
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EeEeRUT
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20 minutes ago
Turbo's en route to visit each cell of the board
Lukaluce   21
N 27 minutes ago by zRevenant
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Let $n > 1$ be an integer. In a configuration of an $n \times n$ board, each of the $n^2$ cells contains an arrow, either pointing up, down, left, or right. Given a starting configuration, Turbo the snail starts in one of the cells of the board and travels from cell to cell. In each move, Turbo moves one square unit in the direction indicated by the arrow in her cell (possibly leaving the board). After each move, the arrows in all of the cells rotate $90^{\circ}$ counterclockwise. We call a cell good if, starting from that cell, Turbo visits each cell of the board exactly once, without leaving the board, and returns to her initial cell at the end. Determine, in terms of $n$, the maximum number of good cells over all possible starting configurations.

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Lukaluce
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\frac{1}{5-2a}
Havu   0
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Let $a,b,c \ge \frac{1}{2}$ and $a^2+b^2+c^2=3$. Find minimum:
\[P=\frac{1}{5-2a}+\frac{1}{5-2b}+\frac{1}{5-2c}.\]
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interesting function equation (fe) in IR
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find all function F: IR->IR such that $$ xf(f(y)) + yf(f(x)) = f(xf(y)) + f(xy) $$
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Classical looking graph
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In a school there are $n$ classes and $k$ student. We know that in this school every two students have attended exactly in one common class. Also due to smallness of school each class has less than $k$ students. If $k-1$ is not a perfect square, prove that there exist a student that has attended in at least $\sqrt k$ classes.

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Checking a summand property for integers sufficiently large.
DinDean   3
N an hour ago by DinDean
For any fixed integer $m\geqslant 2$, prove that there exists a positive integer $f(m)$, such that for any integer $n\geqslant f(m)$, $n$ can be expressed by a sum of positive integers $a_i$'s as
\[n=a_1+a_2+\dots+a_m,\]where $a_1\mid a_2$, $a_2\mid a_3$, $\dots$, $a_{m-1}\mid a_m$ and $1\leqslant a_1<a_2<\dots<a_m$.
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Interesting inequalities
sqing   2
N an hour ago by lbh_qys
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Let $ a,b> 0 $ and $ a+b\leq  2ab . $ Prove that
$$\frac{ 9a^2- ab +9b^2 }{ a^2(1+b^4)}\leq\frac{17 }{2}$$$$\frac{a- ab+b }{ a^2(1+b^4)}\leq\frac{1 }{2}$$$$\frac{2a- 3ab+2b }{ a^2(1+b^4)}\leq\frac{1 }{2}$$
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sqing
an hour ago
lbh_qys
an hour ago
Set: {f(r,r):r in S}=S
Sayan   7
N an hour ago by kamatadu
Source: ISI (BS) 2007 #6
Let $S=\{1,2,\cdots ,n\}$ where $n$ is an odd integer. Let $f$ be a function defined on $\{(i,j): i\in S, j \in S\}$ taking values in $S$ such that
(i) $f(s,r)=f(r,s)$ for all $r,s \in S$
(ii) $\{f(r,s): s\in S\}=S$ for all $r\in S$

Show that $\{f(r,r): r\in S\}=S$
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Sayan
Apr 11, 2012
kamatadu
an hour ago
26 or 30 coins in a circle
NO_SQUARES   0
an hour ago
Source: Kvant 2025 no. 2 M2833
There are a) $26$; b) $30$ identical-looking coins in a circle. It is known that exactly two of them are fake. Real coins weigh the same, fake ones too, but they are lighter than the real ones. How can you determine in three weighings on a cup scale without weights whether there are fake coins lying nearby or not??
Proposed by A. Gribalko
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NO_SQUARES
an hour ago
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4 orthocenters form a rectangle
Valentin Vornicu   5
N Feb 16, 2020 by Why-
Source: Balkan MO 2002, problem 3
Two circles with different radii intersect in two points $A$ and $B$. Let the common tangents of the two circles be $MN$ and $ST$ such that $M,S$ lie on the first circle, and $N,T$ on the second. Prove that the orthocenters of the triangles $AMN$, $AST$, $BMN$ and $BST$ are the four vertices of a rectangle.
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Valentin Vornicu
Apr 24, 2006
Why-
Feb 16, 2020
4 orthocenters form a rectangle
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Two circles with different radii intersect in two points $A$ and $B$. Let the common tangents of the two circles be $MN$ and $ST$ such that $M,S$ lie on the first circle, and $N,T$ on the second. Prove that the orthocenters of the triangles $AMN$, $AST$, $BMN$ and $BST$ are the four vertices of a rectangle.
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The common (external) tangents MN, ST meet at the external homothety center X of the given circles $(P_1),\ (P_2)$ on their center line $P_1P_2.$ Let the line XA meet the circles $(P_1),\ (P_2)$ again at $A_1,\ A_2.$ The triangles $\triangle AMS \sim \triangle A_2NT$ are centrally similar with the similarity center X, hence, $\angle NA_2T = \angle MAS,$ $\angle NAT + \angle MAS = 180^\circ,$ and $\angle MAN + \angle SAT = 180^\circ.$ The radical axis AB of the circles $(P_1),\ (P_2)$ meets the segments MN, ST of the common tangents at their midpoints $A_0,\ B_0.$ Translate the triangle $\triangle AMN$ by the distance $A_0B_0$ and reflect it in the radical axis AB to obtain an oppositely congruent triangle $\triangle A'TS,$ such that $AA' = A_0B_0.$ Since $\angle TA'S = \angle MAN,$ we have $\angle TA'S + \angle SAT = 180^\circ$ and the quadrilateral ASA'T is cyclic with a circumcircle (O) and one diagonal $AA' = A_0B_0.$ Let $H_1',\ H_2$ be the orthocenters of the triangles $\triangle A'TS,\ \triangle AST,$ respectively. The common circumcircle (O') of the triangles $\triangle H_1'TS,\ \triangle H_2ST$ is the reflection of the circumcircle (O) in the line ST. Since the circles $(O') \cong (O)$ are congruent and $A'H_1' \parallel O'O \parallel AH_2$ (all perprendicular to ST), we have $A'H_1' = O'O = AH_2.$ Thus $A'AH_2H_1'$ is a parallelogram, $H_2H_1' \parallel AA'$ and $H_2H_1' = A'A = A_0B_0.$ Transforming the triangle $\triangle A'TS$ back to the oppositely triangle $\triangle AMN,$ the orthocenter $H_1$ of the triangle $\triangle AMN$ is a reflection of the orthocenter $H_2$ of the triangle $\triangle AST$ in the radical axis AB. Since the triangles $\triangle BST,\ \triangle BMN$ are reflections of the triangles $\triangle AMN,\ \triangle AST$ in the center line $P_1P_2,$ respectively, the orthocenters $H_4,\ H_3$ of the triangles $\triangle BST,\ \triangle BMN$ are reflections of the ortocenters $H_1, H_2$ of the triangles $\triangle AMN,\ \triangle AST$ in the center line $P_1P_2,$ respectively. Consequently, $H_1H_2H_3H_4$ is a rectangle with the midlines $AB,\ P_1P_2.$
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I think it's time to post a solution to this very easy but nice problem.
Just to get things straight, I'm assuming $S$ and $M$ are in one circle, and $T$ and $N$ are in the other.
So let the orthocentres of $SAT, MAN, SBT, MBN$ be $U,V,X,W$. Considering symmetry about the line joining the centre of the two circles, the pairs $U,W$ and $V,X$ are symmetric about this line, so our figure is an iscoceles trapezoid. I claim now that the midpoint of $VW$ is the midpoint of $AB$, which would solve our problem because then by symmetry, the points $U,V,X,W$ will have the same distance from the symmetry line, and since it's already an iscoceles trapezoid that forces it into a rectangle. It thus suffices to prove $AV$ is parellel to, and equal in length, to $BW$. They are parallel since using definition of orthocentre they are both perpendicular to $MN$, and they are equal in length can be seen since $<MBN+<MAN = 180$ using Alternate Segment Theorem a few times, so using definition of orthocentre the quadrilaterals $MVBN$ and $MAWN$ are concyclic, so consider the circumcircles of $MBN$ and $MAN$. Indeed, consider shifting the first until it meets the second, using parallel shift. It's easy to see this distance is equal to both $AV$ and $BW$, so that finished off the proof.
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See that $(AMN),(BMN)$ are reflection of each other in $MN$. So the distances of their centres from $MN$ are equal, and hence $AH_1=BH_2$ where $H_1,H_2$ are resp orthocentres of $AMN,BMN$. Hence $AH_1BH_2$ is a parallelogram. Also $H_3H_4$ would be a reflection of $H_1H_2$ wrt perp bisector of $AB$. Hence it is easy to see $H_1H_2H_3H_4$ is a rectangle.
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kapilpavase wrote:
See that $(AMN),(BMN)$ are reflection of each other in $MN$. So the distances of their centres from $MN$ are equal, and hence $AH_1=BH_2$ where $H_1,H_2$ are resp orthocentres of $AMN,BMN$. Hence $AH_1BH_2$ is a parallelogram. Also $H_3H_4$ would be a reflection of $H_1H_2$ wrt perp bisector of $AB$. Hence it is easy to see $H_1H_2H_3H_4$ is a rectangle.

I guess this is kind of the same solution:
1) Use the same labeling as kapilpavase did in his solution.
2) Let $O_1$ be the center of the first circle and $O_2$ be the center of the second one.

By symmetry, $H_1$ is the reflection of $H_3$ over line $O_1O_2$. Same goes for $H_2$ and $H_3$.
Also by symmetry, $H_1H_4$ = $H_3H_2$. Since $H_1H_3 \perp O_1O_2 \perp H_2H_4$, $H_1H_3 \parallel H_2H_4$. So $H_1H_3H_2H_4$ is a parallelogram and it suffices to show that $H_1H_3 = H_2H_4$.

*This would imply that $H_1H_3 \parallel H_2H_4$ and $H_2H_3 \parallel H_1H_4$, which is sufficient for a rectangle.

Like kapilpavase did, you can note that $H_1A = H_3B \iff H_1H_3AB$ is a parallelogram. Do the same for $ABH_4H_2$. So $H_3H_1 = AB = H_2H_3$. And you're done.
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vsathiam wrote:

By symmetry, $H_1$ is the reflection of $H_3$ over line $O_1O_2$. Same goes for $H_2$ and $H_3$.
Also by symmetry, $H_1H_4$ = $H_3H_2$. Since $H_1H_3 \perp O_1O_2 \perp H_2H_4$, $H_1H_3 \parallel H_2H_4$. So $H_1H_3H_2H_4$ is a parallelogram and it suffices to show that $H_1H_3 = H_2H_4$.

But it can be a trapezoid
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