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May 1, 2025
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[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
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Given coprime positive integers , call all positive integers that cannot be written as (where are non-negative integers) bad, and define to be the sum of all bad numbers raised to the power of . Prove that there exists a positive integer , such that for any as described, divides .
Let be an acute triangle with orthocenter , and let be a point on the side , lying strictly between and . The points and are the feet of the altitudes from and , respectively. Denote by is the circumcircle of , and let be the point on such that is a diameter of . Analogously, denote by the circumcircle of triangle , and let be the point such that is a diameter of . Prove that and are collinear.
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Find all function ,such that the inequality holds for all positive reals and for every positive real , there exist positive reals , such that the equality holds.
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N3 hours ago
by MathLuis
Source: IMO 2021 P6
Let be an integer, a finite set of integers (not necessarily positive) and subsets of . Suppose that, for every , the sum of the elements of is . Prove that contains at least elements.
ones are written in a circle. Petya and Vasya take turns making moves each. In each move, Petya chooses 9 consecutive numbers and decreases each by . Vasya chooses consecutive numbers and increases each by . They alternate turns, starting with Petya. Prove that Vasya can act in such a way that after each of his moves, there are always at least five positive numbers, regardless of how Petya plays.
ones are written in a circle. Petya and Vasya take turns making moves each. In each move, Petya chooses 9 consecutive numbers and decreases each by . Vasya chooses consecutive numbers and increases each by . They alternate turns, starting with Petya. Prove that Vasya can act in such a way that after each of his moves, there are always at least five positive numbers, regardless of how Petya plays.
This post has been edited 2 times. Last edited by egxa, Apr 18, 2025, 5:20 PM
Vasya pays attention only to the ten special positions .
Let be the numbers at those special positions.
Whenever Petya plays, either:
he changes exactly one of by for some ,
to which Vasya should respond by changing both and by ;
or
he misses all ten special numbers,
in which case Vasya could play anywhere, but let's say that he also misses all ten special numbers.
Thus in each round of two moves, a pair of special numbers changes by or , and so is the form after rounds. At least one of those two numbers is positive.
Since there are five special pairs, that's at least five positive numbers in total