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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
March is the month for State MATHCOUNTS competitions! Kudos to everyone who participated in their local chapter competitions and best of luck to all going to State! Join us on March 11th for a Math Jam devoted to our favorite Chapter competition problems! Are you interested in training for MATHCOUNTS? Be sure to check out our AMC 8/MATHCOUNTS Basics and Advanced courses.

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Do you have plans this summer? There are so many options to fit your schedule and goals whether attending a summer camp or taking online classes, it can be a great break from the routine of the school year. Check out our summer courses at AoPS Online, or if you want a math or language arts class that doesn’t have homework, but is an enriching summer experience, our AoPS Virtual Campus summer camps may be just the ticket! We are expanding our locations for our AoPS Academies across the country with 15 locations so far and new campuses opening in Saratoga CA, Johns Creek GA, and the Upper West Side NY. Check out this page for summer camp information.

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[list][*]March 5th (Wednesday), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, HCSSiM Math Jam 2025. Amber Verser, Assistant Director of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, will host an information session about HCSSiM, a summer program for high school students.
[*]March 6th (Thursday), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Free Webinar on Math Competitions from elementary through high school. Join us for an enlightening session that demystifies the world of math competitions and helps you make informed decisions about your contest journey.
[*]March 11th (Tuesday), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, 2025 MATHCOUNTS Chapter Discussion MATH JAM. AoPS instructors will discuss some of their favorite problems from the MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition. All are welcome!
[*]March 13th (Thursday), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Free Webinar about Summer Camps at the Virtual Campus. Transform your summer into an unforgettable learning adventure! From elementary through high school, we offer dynamic summer camps featuring topics in mathematics, language arts, and competition preparation - all designed to fit your schedule and ignite your passion for learning.[/list]
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jlacosta
Mar 2, 2025
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k i Peer-to-Peer Programs Forum
jwelsh   157
N Dec 11, 2023 by cw357
Many of our AoPS Community members share their knowledge with their peers in a variety of ways, ranging from creating mock contests to creating real contests to writing handouts to hosting sessions as part of our partnership with schoolhouse.world.

To facilitate students in these efforts, we have created a new Peer-to-Peer Programs forum. With the creation of this forum, we are starting a new process for those of you who want to advertise your efforts. These advertisements and ensuing discussions have been cluttering up some of the forums that were meant for other purposes, so we’re gathering these topics in one place. This also allows students to find new peer-to-peer learning opportunities without having to poke around all the other forums.

To announce your program, or to invite others to work with you on it, here’s what to do:

1) Post a new topic in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum. This will be the discussion thread for your program.

2) Post a single brief post in this thread that links the discussion thread of your program in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum.

Please note that we’ll move or delete any future advertisement posts that are outside the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum, as well as any posts in this topic that are not brief announcements of new opportunities. In particular, this topic should not be used to discuss specific programs; those discussions should occur in topics in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum.

Your post in this thread should have what you're sharing (class, session, tutoring, handout, math or coding game/other program) and a link to the thread in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum, which should have more information (like where to find what you're sharing).
157 replies
jwelsh
Mar 15, 2021
cw357
Dec 11, 2023
k i C&P posting recs by mods
v_Enhance   0
Jun 12, 2020
The purpose of this post is to lay out a few suggestions about what kind of posts work well for the C&P forum. Except in a few cases these are mostly meant to be "suggestions based on historical trends" rather than firm hard rules; we may eventually replace this with an actual list of firm rules but that requires admin approval :) That said, if you post something in the "discouraged" category, you should not be totally surprised if it gets locked; they are discouraged exactly because past experience shows they tend to go badly.
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1. Program discussion: Allowed
If you have questions about specific camps or programs (e.g. which classes are good at X camp?), these questions fit well here. Many camps/programs have specific sub-forums too but we understand a lot of them are not active.
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2. Results discussion: Allowed
You can make threads about e.g. how you did on contests (including AMC), though on AMC day when there is a lot of discussion. Moderators and administrators may do a lot of thread-merging / forum-wrangling to keep things in one place.
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3. Reposting solutions or questions to past AMC/AIME/USAMO problems: Allowed
This forum contains a post for nearly every problem from AMC8, AMC10, AMC12, AIME, USAJMO, USAMO (and these links give you an index of all these posts). It is always permitted to post a full solution to any problem in its own thread (linked above), regardless of how old the problem is, and even if this solution is similar to one that has already been posted. We encourage this type of posting because it is helpful for the user to explain their solution in full to an audience, and for future users who want to see multiple approaches to a problem or even just the frequency distribution of common approaches. We do ask for some explanation; if you just post "the answer is (B); ez" then you are not adding anything useful.

You are also encouraged to post questions about a specific problem in the specific thread for that problem, or about previous user's solutions. It's almost always better to use the existing thread than to start a new one, to keep all the discussion in one place easily searchable for future visitors.
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4. Advice posts: Allowed, but read below first
You can use this forum to ask for advice about how to prepare for math competitions in general. But you should be aware that this question has been asked many many times. Before making a post, you are encouraged to look at the following:
[list]
[*] Stop looking for the right training: A generic post about advice that keeps getting stickied :)
[*] There is an enormous list of links on the Wiki of books / problems / etc for all levels.
[/list]
When you do post, we really encourage you to be as specific as possible in your question. Tell us about your background, what you've tried already, etc.

Actually, the absolute best way to get a helpful response is to take a few examples of problems that you tried to solve but couldn't, and explain what you tried on them / why you couldn't solve them. Here is a great example of a specific question.
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5. Publicity: use P2P forum instead
See https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2489297_peertopeer_programs_forum.
Some exceptions have been allowed in the past, but these require approval from administrators. (I am not totally sure what the criteria is. I am not an administrator.)
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6. Mock contests: use Mock Contests forum instead
Mock contests should be posted in the dedicated forum instead:
https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c594864_aops_mock_contests
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7. AMC procedural questions: suggest to contact the AMC HQ instead
If you have a question like "how do I submit a change of venue form for the AIME" or "why is my name not on the qualifiers list even though I have a 300 index", you would be better off calling or emailing the AMC program to ask, they are the ones who can help you :)
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8. Discussion of random math problems: suggest to use MSM/HSM/HSO instead
If you are discussing a specific math problem that isn't from the AMC/AIME/USAMO, it's better to post these in Middle School Math, High School Math, High School Olympiads instead.
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9. Politics: suggest to use Round Table instead
There are important conversations to be had about things like gender diversity in math contests, etc., for sure. However, from experience we think that C&P is historically not a good place to have these conversations, as they go off the rails very quickly. We encourage you to use the Round Table instead, where it is much more clear that all posts need to be serious.
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10. MAA complaints: discouraged
We don't want to pretend that the MAA is perfect or that we agree with everything they do. However, we chose to discourage this sort of behavior because in practice most of the comments we see are not useful and some are frankly offensive.
[list] [*] If you just want to blow off steam, do it on your blog instead.
[*] When you have criticism, it should be reasoned, well-thought and constructive. What we mean by this is, for example, when the AOIME was announced, there was great outrage about potential cheating. Well, do you really think that this is something the organizers didn't think about too? Simply posting that "people will cheat and steal my USAMOO qualification, the MAA are idiots!" is not helpful as it is not bringing any new information to the table.
[*] Even if you do have reasoned, well-thought, constructive criticism, we think it is actually better to email it the MAA instead, rather than post it here. Experience shows that even polite, well-meaning suggestions posted in C&P are often derailed by less mature users who insist on complaining about everything.
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11. Memes and joke posts: discouraged
It's fine to make jokes or lighthearted posts every so often. But it should be done with discretion. Ideally, jokes should be done within a longer post that has other content. For example, in my response to one user's question about olympiad combinatorics, I used a silly picture of Sogiita Gunha, but it was done within a context of a much longer post where it was meant to actually make a point.

On the other hand, there are many threads which consist largely of posts whose only content is an attached meme with the word "MAA" in it. When done in excess like this, the jokes reflect poorly on the community, so we explicitly discourage them.
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12. Questions that no one can answer: discouraged
Examples of this: "will MIT ask for AOIME scores?", "what will the AIME 2021 cutoffs be (asked in 2020)", etc. Basically, if you ask a question on this forum, it's better if the question is something that a user can plausibly answer :)
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13. Blind speculation: discouraged
Along these lines, if you do see a question that you don't have an answer to, we discourage "blindly guessing" as it leads to spreading of baseless rumors. For example, if you see some user posting "why are there fewer qualifiers than usual this year?", you should not reply "the MAA must have been worried about online cheating so they took fewer people!!". Was sich überhaupt sagen lässt, lässt sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
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14. Discussion of cheating: strongly discouraged
If you have evidence or reasonable suspicion of cheating, please report this to your Competition Manager or to the AMC HQ; these forums cannot help you.
Otherwise, please avoid public discussion of cheating. That is: no discussion of methods of cheating, no speculation about how cheating affects cutoffs, and so on --- it is not helpful to anyone, and it creates a sour atmosphere. A longer explanation is given in Seriously, please stop discussing how to cheat.
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15. Cutoff jokes: never allowed
Whenever the cutoffs for any major contest are released, it is very obvious when they are official. In the past, this has been achieved by the numbers being posted on the official AMC website (here) or through a post from the AMCDirector account.

You must never post fake cutoffs, even as a joke. You should also refrain from posting cutoffs that you've heard of via email, etc., because it is better to wait for the obvious official announcement. A longer explanation is given in A Treatise on Cutoff Trolling.
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16. Meanness: never allowed
Being mean is worse than being immature and unproductive. If another user does something which you think is inappropriate, use the Report button to bring the post to moderator attention, or if you really must reply, do so in a way that is tactful and constructive rather than inflammatory.
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Finally, we remind you all to sit back and enjoy the problems. :D

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(EDIT 2024-09-13: AoPS has asked to me to add the following item.)

Advertising paid program or service: never allowed

Per the AoPS Terms of Service (rule 5h), general advertisements are not allowed.

While we do allow advertisements of official contests (at the MAA and MATHCOUNTS level) and those run by college students with at least one successful year, any and all advertisements of a paid service or program is not allowed and will be deleted.
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v_Enhance
Jun 12, 2020
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k i Stop looking for the "right" training
v_Enhance   50
N Oct 16, 2017 by blawho12
Source: Contest advice
EDIT 2019-02-01: https://blog.evanchen.cc/2019/01/31/math-contest-platitudes-v3/ is the updated version of this.

EDIT 2021-06-09: see also https://web.evanchen.cc/faq-contest.html.

Original 2013 post
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v_Enhance
Feb 15, 2013
blawho12
Oct 16, 2017
<QBC =<PCB if BM = CN, <PMC = <MAB, <QNB = < NAC
parmenides51   1
N 6 minutes ago by dotscom26
Source: 2005 Estonia IMO Training Test p2
On the side BC of triangle $ABC$, the points $M$ and $N$ are taken such that the point $M$ lies between the points $B$ and $N$, and $| BM | = | CN |$. On segments $AN$ and $AM$, points $P$ and $Q$ are taken so that $\angle PMC = \angle  MAB$ and $\angle QNB = \angle NAC$. Prove that $\angle QBC = \angle PCB$.
1 reply
parmenides51
Sep 24, 2020
dotscom26
6 minutes ago
Bosnia and Herzegovina EGMO TST 2017 Problem 2
gobathegreat   2
N 18 minutes ago by anvarbek0813
Source: Bosnia and Herzegovina EGMO Team Selection Test 2017
It is given triangle $ABC$ and points $P$ and $Q$ on sides $AB$ and $AC$, respectively, such that $PQ\mid\mid BC$. Let $X$ and $Y$ be intersection points of lines $BQ$ and $CP$ with circumcircle $k$ of triangle $APQ$, and $D$ and $E$ intersection points of lines $AX$ and $AY$ with side $BC$. If $2\cdot DE=BC$, prove that circle $k$ contains intersection point of angle bisector of $\angle BAC$ with $BC$
2 replies
gobathegreat
Sep 19, 2018
anvarbek0813
18 minutes ago
Another NT FE
nukelauncher   58
N 29 minutes ago by andrewthenerd
Source: ISL 2019 N4
Find all functions $f:\mathbb Z_{>0}\to \mathbb Z_{>0}$ such that $a+f(b)$ divides $a^2+bf(a)$ for all positive integers $a$ and $b$ with $a+b>2019$.
58 replies
nukelauncher
Sep 22, 2020
andrewthenerd
29 minutes ago
Easiest Functional Equation
NCbutAN   7
N 31 minutes ago by InftyByond
Source: Random book
Find all functions $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ such that $$f(yf(x)+f(xy))=(x+f(x))f(y)$$Follows for all reals $x,y$.
7 replies
NCbutAN
Mar 2, 2025
InftyByond
31 minutes ago
Tennessee Math Tournament (TMT) Online 2025
TennesseeMathTournament   27
N 5 hours ago by sadas123
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce a new competition, the Tennessee Math Tournament, created by the Tennessee Math Coalition! Anyone can participate in the virtual competition for free.

The testing window is from March 22nd to April 5th, 2025. Virtual competitors may participate in the competition at any time during that window.

The virtual competition consists of three rounds: Individual, Bullet, and Team. The Individual Round is 60 minutes long and consists of 30 questions (AMC 10 level). The Bullet Round is 20 minutes long and consists of 80 questions (Mathcounts Chapter level). The Team Round is 30 minutes long and consists of 16 questions (AIME level). Virtual competitors may compete in teams of four, or choose to not participate in the team round.

To register and see more information, click here!

If you have any questions, please email connect@tnmathcoalition.org or reply to this thread!
27 replies
TennesseeMathTournament
Mar 9, 2025
sadas123
5 hours ago
OTIS Mock AIME 2025 airs Dec 19th
v_Enhance   38
N Today at 1:32 AM by smileapple
Source: https://web.evanchen.cc/mockaime.html
Satisfactory. Keep cooking.
IMAGE

Problems are posted at https://web.evanchen.cc/mockaime.html#current now!

Like last year, we're running the OTIS Mock AIME 2025 again, except this time there will actually be both a I and a II because we had enough problems to pull it off. However, the two versions will feel quite different from each other:

[list]
[*] The OTIS Mock AIME I is going to be tough. It will definitely be harder than the actual AIME, by perhaps 2 to 4 problems. But more tangibly, it will also have significant artistic license. Problems will freely assume IMO-style background throughout the test, and intentionally stretch the boundary of what constitutes an “AIME problem”.
[*] The OTIS Mock AIME II is meant to be more practically useful. It will adhere more closely to the difficulty and style of the real AIME. There will inevitably still be some more IMO-flavored problems, but they’ll appear later in the ordering.
[/list]
Like last time, all 30 problems are set by current and past OTIS students.

Details are written out at https://web.evanchen.cc/mockaime.html, but to highlight important info:
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[*] Free, obviously. Anyone can participate.
[*]Both tests will release sometime Dec 19th. You can do either/both.
[*]If you'd like to submit for scoring, you should do so by January 20th at 23:59 Pacific time (same deadline for both). Please hold off on public spoilers before then.
[*]Solutions, statistics, and maybe some high scores will be published shortly after that.
[/list]
Feel free to post questions, hype comments, etc. in this thread.
38 replies
v_Enhance
Dec 6, 2024
smileapple
Today at 1:32 AM
How to get better at AMC 10
Dream9   6
N Today at 1:31 AM by sadas123
I'm nearly in high school now but only average like 75 on AMC 10 sadly. I want to get better so I'm doing like the first 11 questions of previous AMC 10's almost every day because I also did previous years for AMC 8. Is there any specific way to get better scores and understand more difficult problems past AMC 8? I have almost no trouble with AMC 8 problem given enough time (like 23-24 right with enough time).
6 replies
Dream9
Yesterday at 1:17 AM
sadas123
Today at 1:31 AM
An FE. Who woulda thunk it?
nikenissan   112
N Today at 1:04 AM by Marcus_Zhang
Source: 2021 USAJMO Problem 1
Let $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of positive integers. Find all functions $f : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that for positive integers $a$ and $b,$ \[f(a^2 + b^2) = f(a)f(b) \text{ and } f(a^2) = f(a)^2.\]
112 replies
nikenissan
Apr 15, 2021
Marcus_Zhang
Today at 1:04 AM
AIME score for college apps
Happyllamaalways   56
N Yesterday at 4:45 PM by Countmath1
What good colleges do I have a chance of getting into with an 11 on AIME? (Any chances for Princeton)

Also idk if this has weight but I had the highest AIME score in my school.
56 replies
Happyllamaalways
Mar 13, 2025
Countmath1
Yesterday at 4:45 PM
MIT Beaverworks Summer Institute
PowerOfPi_09   0
Yesterday at 4:30 PM
Hi! I was wondering if anyone here has completed this program, and if so, which track did you choose? Do rising juniors have a chance, or is it mainly rising seniors that they accept? Also, how long did it take you to complete the prerequisites?
Thanks!
0 replies
PowerOfPi_09
Yesterday at 4:30 PM
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k HOT TAKE: MIT SHOULD NOT RELEASE THEIR DECISIONS ON PI DAY
alcumusftwgrind   8
N Yesterday at 10:13 AM by maxamc
rant lol

Imagine a poor senior waiting for their MIT decisions just to have their hopes CRUSHED on 3/14 and they can't even celebrate pi day...

and even worse, this year's pi day is special because this year is a very special number...

8 replies
alcumusftwgrind
Yesterday at 2:11 AM
maxamc
Yesterday at 10:13 AM
rows are DERANGED and a SOCOURGE to usajmo .
GrantStar   26
N Yesterday at 6:00 AM by joshualiu315
Source: USAJMO 2024/4
Let $n \geq 3$ be an integer. Rowan and Colin play a game on an $n \times n$ grid of squares, where each square is colored either red or blue. Rowan is allowed to permute the rows of the grid and Colin is allowed to permute the columns. A grid coloring is orderly if: [list] [*]no matter how Rowan permutes the rows of the coloring, Colin can then permute the columns to restore the original grid coloring; and [*]no matter how Colin permutes the columns of the coloring, Rowan can then permute the rows to restore the original grid coloring. [/list] In terms of $n$, how many orderly colorings are there?

Proposed by Alec Sun
26 replies
GrantStar
Mar 21, 2024
joshualiu315
Yesterday at 6:00 AM
Geo equals ABsurdly proBEMatic
ihatemath123   73
N Yesterday at 5:38 AM by joshualiu315
Source: 2024 USAMO Problem 5, JMO Problem 6
Point $D$ is selected inside acute $\triangle ABC$ so that $\angle DAC = \angle ACB$ and $\angle BDC = 90^{\circ} + \angle BAC$. Point $E$ is chosen on ray $BD$ so that $AE = EC$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$.

Show that line $AB$ is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle $BEM$.

Proposed by Anton Trygub
73 replies
ihatemath123
Mar 21, 2024
joshualiu315
Yesterday at 5:38 AM
average FE
KevinYang2.71   74
N Yesterday at 4:55 AM by joshualiu315
Source: USAJMO 2024/5
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ that satisfy
\[
f(x^2-y)+2yf(x)=f(f(x))+f(y)
\]for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$.

Proposed by Carl Schildkraut
74 replies
KevinYang2.71
Mar 21, 2024
joshualiu315
Yesterday at 4:55 AM
Yet another classical inequality
Valentin Vornicu   43
N Dec 7, 2019 by sqing
Source: Balkan MO 2006, Problem 1
Let $ a,b,c>0$ be real numbers. Prove that
\[ \frac 1{a(1+b)}+\frac 1{b(1+c)}+\frac 1{c(1+a)}\geq \frac 3{ 1+abc}. \]
Greece

EDIT BY DARIJ:

Please use this topic to discuss the sources and history of the above inequality,
and use http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=161059 to discuss the inequality itself (i. e. different proofs and generalizations).
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Valentin Vornicu
Apr 29, 2006
sqing
Dec 7, 2019
Yet another classical inequality
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Source: Balkan MO 2006, Problem 1
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Let $ a,b,c>0$ be real numbers. Prove that
\[ \frac 1{a(1+b)}+\frac 1{b(1+c)}+\frac 1{c(1+a)}\geq \frac 3{ 1+abc}. \]
Greece

EDIT BY DARIJ:

Please use this topic to discuss the sources and history of the above inequality,
and use http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=161059 to discuss the inequality itself (i. e. different proofs and generalizations).
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See this http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=161059

and I have no comments . How some people give a problem very-very-well-known in a big contest as BMO
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yeah, like functional eqaution which was twice on BMO?
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Now I know, where I saw this nice method...
What a pity, it's just the same problem ;/

[Moderator edit: The "nice method" referred to here is Mzdanovicz's solution in http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=161059 .]
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I can't believe they give this problem at a BMO. It's just so incredibly well known :huh:
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Valentin Vornicu
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Arne wrote:
I can't believe they give this problem at a BMO. It's just so incredibly well known :huh:
It was problem 1. I assume they knew it was kind of known but they put it there to be the easy problem in the competition ... :?
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What makes it even worse is the fact that this is VERY hard for people who've never seen it before.

It's just unfair!
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That can be said of 30% of the IMC problems...
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Valentin Vornicu
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Arne wrote:
What makes it even worse is the fact that this is VERY hard for people who've never seen it before.

It's just unfair!
Yeah, that can also be said about usage of ISL problems in TSTs around the world, given that some of the students might know some of the problems ahead ... :?

I belive we got very close to that point where almost all problems are known, and those which aren't are sent to the IMO :D
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Arne wrote:
What makes it even worse is the fact that this is VERY hard for people who've never seen it before.

It's just unfair!

I can NOT believe that. Why don't they hire some inequality experts from Mathlinks? :lol: ;)
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I guess all team leaders knew this problem. Why didn't they stop it from being selected? :(
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pvthuan
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That can tell us something about Balkan Olympiad. In the IMO, this way is forbidden.
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Is not this problem from Old and new inequalities?
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Might be, although the problem is quite old.

I think the BMO is making a joke of itself this way...
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Arne wrote:
Might be, although the problem is quite old.

I think the BMO is making a joke of itself this way...
I got feeling long time ago, that competition among only a few countries, like BMO ,has been a joke ever since.
However,reasons like making a friends and visiting beutiful parts of Mediteranian make it sufficient to keep it going every year. :)
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I think when the same question in the BMO appeared twice in different years, eyebrows must have been raised.

This question appeared last year on the UK Correspondence Course and I assume it therefore a well publicised inequality.

Still I guess these regional Olympiads should also be about making friends and meeting new people. If it were just about the questions, then why isn't the whole thing done in two days?
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Of course, but I just can't believe the problem committee cannot find any better or new questions.
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Maybe... *starts writing the plot of a new detective novell*

this question just got proposed

all team leaders knew that their students knew the question

but none knew it was well-known to the other countries too

so they let is pass :diablo: :D
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Valentin Vornicu wrote:
Let $a,b,c>0$ be real numbers. Prove that \[ \frac 1{a(1+b)} + \frac 1{b(1+c)} + \frac 1{c(1+a)} \geq \frac 3 { 1+abc}.  \]

This problem appeared some years ago in Crux Mathematicorum. It was proposed by Mohammed Aassila.
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Might be, it appeared like everywhere. I'm sure you can find at least 10 threads on this forum about this problem.
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I have this inequality in my book on Inequalities(written by Skombris and me, in Greek). As source we give there << Komal 1993 >> , so it was known before Aassila sent it to CRUX , vol 1998. This nice solution, sent by Silouan , is to be found there, too(by a chinese).Of course the solution was discused in ML very wide.

My opinion is that the problem should not be proposed in the BMO 2006 , although very good. problem. Competition problems must be original( this is very difficult) or clever and nice variations of nice problems.

Babis
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Guys if you want to know,this problem even was proposed on Armenian National Olimpiad 1996 :lol: ,I think they have found most pupular ineq. in the world(my be after AM-GM :D ) and proposed it for BMO :oops: .
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stergiu wrote:
I have this inequality in my book on Inequalities(written by Skombris and me, in Greek). As source we give there << Komal 1993 >> , so it was known before Aassila sent it to CRUX , vol 1998. This nice solution, sent by Silouan , is to be found there, too(by a chinese).Of course the solution was discused in ML very wide.

My opinion is that the problem should not be proposed in the BMO 2006 , although very good. problem. Competition problems must be original( this is very difficult) or clever and nice variations of nice problems.

Babis

Dear Babis Stergiou,

I have your book, and it unfortunately contains several imprecisions. The inequality appeared later on in Komal (but not in 1993). This inequality was first proposed by the Russian mathematician D. P. Mavlo in the Bulgarian journal Mathematica (number 4, 1987). A little later, it was published in Kvant (problem M1136, number 11-12, 1988). It was also a problem given at the training of the USA IMO team in 1993, and also was used in the training of the South African IMO team in 1994,....etc..etc
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Guys i wish to see if this solution is correct and tell me as soon as possible please
thank you
Let $\frac{1}{a(b+1)}+\frac{1}{b(c+1)}+\frac{1}{c(a+1)}\geq x$ where x is the best real .

Let $a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)\geq y$ where y is the best contsnt .

By multipliing these we have and using B-C-S
$[\frac{1}{a(b+1)}+\frac{1}{b(c+1)}+\frac{1}{c(a+1)}][a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)]\geq xy\geq 9$

From Cauchy -AM-GM we have $a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)\geq 6\sqrt{abc}$

so $y=6\sqrt{abc}$ and so $6x\sqrt{abc}\geq 9$ and so

$x\geq\frac{3}{2\sqrt{abc}}\geq\frac{3}{abc+1}$
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actually the problem appears also in the book "mathematical miniatures" by T.Andreescu

The rules were broken since the moment when the leaders allowed two problems from the same country!

(If you want more check the 4th problem)
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To: Albanian Eagle

The Leaders do not know the origin of the problems. This is a rule of IMO too. The proposing countries are revealed after the final selsction. In this BMO there was a real danger of having three problems proposed by the same country since the only Combinatorics problem was proposed by Greece! The Problem finally was eliminated with the intervention of the Selection Committee for exactly this reason. I got all this on the grapevine. I was not there!
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Dear albanian eagle
1 congratulations
2 which problem is written in this book that you mention cause i have it ?
3 could you please see and think what i've written above and answer to me as soon as possible?
thank you
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I'm quite sure that this inequality was proposed by Sotiris Louridas. What I do not understand is the fact that why inequalities are proposed by someone at BMO and JBMO and by someone at IMO??? :?
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Wrong. The real author told me that he started from another known inequality and then transformed it by a to 1/a, b to 1/b and c to 1/c and arrived to this (known) inequality! The Problem Selection Committee and the Jury detected it after the Competition! (the problem was being used in training at MIT).
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Michel ,

:) thank you for your nice information.You re better informed. I will use the history of the problem in the future.It is sure now that my source was not the older. I think , I have seen Bulgarian Olympiads 1987 and the name Mavlo is known to me.He must have proposed an ieq. problem in Bulgarian olympiad. Any way , probably - as Dulac said - the greek proposer created the same problem trying to create a new problem. This hapens often. If Louridas is the proposer(Lupu wrote this) , then I'm sure that he gave it as a new problem - in his opinion. He never likes - is a friend - to propose discussed proplems in competitions.
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Louridas is definitely not the author of the problem! The perpetrator is well-known to the Greek Math Competitions scene.
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DuLac wrote:
Source: Deep throat
lol @ hidden message in post #33 :D
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Also by eding 3/1+abc to both parts of the inequality and regrouping by AM-GM you can found the solution
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HELLO GUYS HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY SOLUTION THAT I VE WRITTEN ABOVE? PLEASE SEE IF IT IS CORRECT AND SEN ME A PERSONAL MESSAGE OK? THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING
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Please do not shout.

Your proves looks not entirely rigorous to me, although it might be easy to fix (no time to investigate).

You define y as the best constant, and you conclude $y=y=6\sqrt{abc}$, which is not a constant.
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MY FRIEND
FISRTLY I DO NO SHOUT I WRITE THIS WAY BECAUSE I AM USED TO
SECONDLY WHAT DOES RIGOROUS MEAN?
THIRDLY I DID NOT SAY THAT WE TRY TO FIND Y AND AFTERWARDS TO FIND THE LEAST POSSIBLE VALUE FOR X WHICH IS GREATER THAN THE NUMBER ASKED IN THE PROBLEM OK?
THANK YOU PLEASE ANSWER TO ME WHEN YOU SEE THAT AND FIND IF THIS IS CORRECT OR WRONG OK?
THANK YOU
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If you ever make another post using capitals only, it will be deleted. :mad:
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Sorry my friend you do not need to bwe so angry :blush: now could you please see my solution and tellme if it is correct ? i have a kind of battle with someone and i have to know from people like you if my solution is correct :D
Thank you
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ambros wrote:
Guys i wish to see if this solution is correct and tell me as soon as possible please
thank you
Let $\frac{1}{a(b+1)}+\frac{1}{b(c+1)}+\frac{1}{c(a+1)}\geq x$ where x is the best real .

Let $a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)\geq y$ where y is the best contsnt .

By multipliing these we have and using B-C-S
$[\frac{1}{a(b+1)}+\frac{1}{b(c+1)}+\frac{1}{c(a+1)}][a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)]\geq xy\geq 9$

From Cauchy -AM-GM we have $a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)\geq 6\sqrt{abc}$

so $y=6\sqrt{abc}$ and so $6x\sqrt{abc}\geq 9$ and so

$x\geq\frac{3}{2\sqrt{abc}}\geq\frac{3}{abc+1}$

I don't think it works. Let $A = \frac{1}{a(b+1)}+\frac{1}{b(c+1)}+\frac{1}{c(a+1)}$ and $B = a(b+1)+b(c+1)+c(a+1)$.

Just because $AB \ge xy$ and $AB \ge 9$ does not imply that $xy \ge 9$. Even if you specify that $x,y$ are the "best" constants, you have $y = 6 \sqrt{abc}$, which is not a constant, so I don't think it holds.
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So now the test for paladin, what if we want to know it for all numbers for which $abc=K$ for a certain constant $K$? ;)

[ because if that's true for all constants K, we have proven the original problem ]
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Peter VDD wrote:
So now the test for paladin, what if we want to know it for all numbers for which $abc=K$ for a certain constant $K$? ;)

[ because if that's true for all constants K, we have proven the original problem ]

Hmm... well we still have to show that $y = 6\sqrt{K}$ would be the best constant, right? Which is equivalent to showing that there is always an equality case on the AM-GM for any $K$. But I don't think this is true, because the AM-GM has equality only when $a = b = c = 1$ so it only works for $K = 1$. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the proof doesn't seem to work.
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Excuse me guys but i want to clarify two things
frist we do not imply xy>=9 we claim it and we search for which x,y is in charge that xy>=9
secondsice y is got form cauchy we know that for each a,b,c $y=6\sqrt{abc}$ so we get that for wach a,b,c $6x\sqrt{abc}\geq 9$ and so on
now that i was clarified could you please resee that and tell me ? thank you for all the time that you spend for this i am obliged
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Let $a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n  (n\ge 3)$ be positive real numbers . Prove that $$\frac{1}{a_1(1+a_2)}+\frac{1}{a_2(1+a_3)}+\cdots+\frac{1}{a_{n-1}(1+ a_n)}+\frac{1}{a_n( 1+a_1)}\geq\frac{n}{1+a_1a_2\cdots  a_n}.$$h
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sqing wrote:
Let $a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n  (n\ge 3)$ be positive real numbers . Prove that $$\frac{1}{a_1(1+a_2)}+\frac{1}{a_2(1+a_3)}+\cdots+\frac{1}{a_{n-1}(1+ a_n)}+\frac{1}{a_n( 1+a_1)}\geq\frac{n}{1+a_1a_2\cdots  a_n}.$$
https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c6h161059p10340314

Let $a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n  (n\ge 3)$ be positive real numbers . Prove that $$\frac{1}{a_1(n-2+a_2)}+\frac{1}{a_2(n-2+a_3)}+\cdots+\frac{1}{a_{n-1}(n-2+ a_n)}+\frac{1}{a_n( n-2+a_1)}\geq\frac{n}{n-2+a_1a_2\cdots  a_n}.$$
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