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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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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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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!


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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NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
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AHZOLFAGHARI   17
N 3 minutes ago by ariopro1387
Source: Iran Second Round 2015 - Problem 3 Day 1
Consider a triangle $ABC$ . The points $D,E$ are on sides $AB,AC$ such that $BDEC$ is a cyclic quadrilateral. Let $P$ be the intersection of $BE$ and $CD$. $H$ is a point on $AC$ such that $\angle PHA = 90^{\circ}$. Let $M,N$ be the midpoints of $AP,BC$. Prove that: $ ACD \sim MNH $.
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InterLoop   0
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Source: EGMO 2025/2
An infinite increasing sequence $a_1 < a_2 < a_3 < \dots$ of positive integers is called central if for every positive integer $n$, the arithmetic mean of the first $a_n$ terms of the sequence is equal to $a_n$.

Show that there exists an infinite sequence $b_1$, $b_2$, $b_3$, $\dots$ of positive integers such that for every central sequence $a_1$, $a_2$, $a_3$, $\dots$, there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ with $a_n = b_n$.
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CrazyInMath   0
15 minutes ago
Source: EGMO 2025/3
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle. Points $B, D, E$, and $C$ lie on a line in this order and satisfy $BD = DE = EC$. Let $M$ and $N$ be the midpoints of $AD$ and $AE$, respectively. Suppose triangle $ADE$ is acute, and let $H$ be its orthocentre. Points $P$ and $Q$ lie on lines $BM$ and $CN$, respectively, such that $D, H, M,$ and $P$ are concyclic and pairwise different, and $E, H, N,$ and $Q$ are concyclic and pairwise different. Prove that $P, Q, N,$ and $M$ are concyclic.
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InterLoop   0
18 minutes ago
Source: EGMO 2025/1
For a positive integer $N$, let $c_1 < c_2 < \dots < c_n$ be all the positive integers smaller than $N$ that are coprime to $N$. Find all $N \ge 3$ such that
$$\gcd(N, c_i + c_{i+1}) \neq 1$$for all $1 \le i \le n - 1$.
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A problem with non-negative a,b,c
KhuongTrang   3
N 24 minutes ago by KhuongTrang
Source: own
Problem. Let $a,b,c$ be non-negative real variables with $ab+bc+ca\neq 0.$ Prove that$$\color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{8a^{2}+\left(b-c\right)^{2}}{\left(b+c\right)^{2}}}+\sqrt{\frac{8b^{2}+\left(c-a\right)^{2}}{\left(c+a\right)^{2}}}+\sqrt{\frac{8c^{2}+\left(a-b\right)^{2}}{\left(a+b\right)^{2}}}\ge \sqrt{\frac{18(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2})}{ab+bc+ca}}.}$$Equality holds iff $(a,b,c)\sim(t,t,t)$ or $(a,b,c)\sim(t,t,0)$ where $t>0.$
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JetFire008   52
N 26 minutes ago by Anto0110
I will post a question and someone has to answer it. Then they have to post a question and someone else will answer it and so on. We can only post questions related to Number Theory and each problem should be more difficult than the previous. Let's start!

Question 1
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MithsApprentice   81
N 29 minutes ago by LeYohan
Source: USAMO 1993
Let $\, ABCD \,$ be a convex quadrilateral such that diagonals $\, AC \,$ and $\, BD \,$ intersect at right angles, and let $\, E \,$ be their intersection. Prove that the reflections of $\, E \,$ across $\, AB, \, BC, \, CD, \, DA \,$ are concyclic.
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sqing   0
34 minutes ago
Source: Own
Let $ a,b,c,d>0 $ and $ a(b^2+c^2)\geq 4bcd.$ Prove that$$ (a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2)(\frac{1}{a^2}+\frac{1}{b^2}+\frac{1}{c^2}+\frac{1}{d^2})\geq\frac{84}{4}$$Let $ a,b,c,d>0 $ and $ a(b^2+c^2)\geq 3bcd.$ Prove that$$ (a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2)(\frac{1}{a^2}+\frac{1}{b^2}+\frac{1}{c^2}+\frac{1}{d^2})\geq\frac{625}{36}$$
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N an hour ago by sqing
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adityaguharoy   1
N an hour ago by Mathzeus1024
If in some triangle $\triangle ABC$ we are given :
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N an hour ago by NicoN9
Source: 2025 CJMO P2
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sqing   6
N an hour ago by sqing
Source: Own
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sqing
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BR1F1SZ   2
N an hour ago by NicoN9
Source: 2025 CJMO P1
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adityaguharoy   1
N 2 hours ago by Mathzeus1024
Source: Own .. probably own
Show or refute :
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IMO 2018 Problem 1
juckter   168
N Apr 4, 2025 by Trasher_Cheeser12321
Let $\Gamma$ be the circumcircle of acute triangle $ABC$. Points $D$ and $E$ are on segments $AB$ and $AC$ respectively such that $AD = AE$. The perpendicular bisectors of $BD$ and $CE$ intersect minor arcs $AB$ and $AC$ of $\Gamma$ at points $F$ and $G$ respectively. Prove that lines $DE$ and $FG$ are either parallel or they are the same line.

Proposed by Silouanos Brazitikos, Evangelos Psychas and Michael Sarantis, Greece
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juckter
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Trasher_Cheeser12321
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Let $\Gamma$ be the circumcircle of acute triangle $ABC$. Points $D$ and $E$ are on segments $AB$ and $AC$ respectively such that $AD = AE$. The perpendicular bisectors of $BD$ and $CE$ intersect minor arcs $AB$ and $AC$ of $\Gamma$ at points $F$ and $G$ respectively. Prove that lines $DE$ and $FG$ are either parallel or they are the same line.

Proposed by Silouanos Brazitikos, Evangelos Psychas and Michael Sarantis, Greece
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The coincides WLOG if $AB<AC$ and $B=D$
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"Prove that lines $DE$ and $FG$ are either parallel or they coincide."

Prove that they are either parallel or not parallel...?
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jdevine wrote:
"Prove that lines $DE$ and $FG$ are either parallel or they coincide."

Prove that they are either parallel or not parallel...?

No, coincide = they are the same line.
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Oh... xD thanks.
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novus677 wrote:
Answer appears to be hi from geogebra observations...

This app has some bugs. Not working good always
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novus677 wrote:
Answer appears to be hi from geogebra observations...

You can also observe from the question...
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Complex bash!! ;)
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Just what I'm doing right now. :)
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Obviously, we have to show that $GF$ is perpendicular to internal bisector of $BAC$

Let $F_1,G_1$ be points on smaller arc $BC$ chosen so that $BF_1 = CG_1 = AD = AE$. Than we easily see that proection of $F$ onto the line $AB$ divides line $F_1-B-A$ onto two equal parts. That means that $F$ is the midpoint of arc $ABF_1$ (Archimed Lemma). Simialrly $G$ is the midpoint of arc $ACG_1$. The left is angle chasing
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Just some sketch then :)
Extends $FD$ to cut the circumcircle at $X$ , also $GE$ to cut the circumcircle at $Y$
Then we can angle chasing to get that $X,Y,D,E$ are cyclic (of course with center $A$)
Then, $DE$ is anti-parallel to $XY$
and of course $XY$ is anti parallel to $GF$ (since $X,Y,F,G$ are also cyclics)
hence $DE // FG$ :)
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Note that it suffices to prove that \(\angle AFD = \angle AGE\) Given \(AD = AE\). Which follows from sine rule in \(\Delta AFB, \Delta AGC\) :)
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Let $G'$ be the point on $\Gamma$ such that $FG'\parallel DE$ and let $E'$ be the point such that $G'E' = G'C$. It suffices to prove that $E'=E$.

Let $FG'$ intersects $AB, AC$ at $P, Q$. Notice that $AP=AQ$ so $\angle FDP = \angle FBA = \angle AG'Q$ and $\angle AQG' = \angle DPF$. Thus $\triangle DPF\sim\triangle G'QA$. Similarly, $\triangle E'QG'\sim\triangle FPA$. Thus,
$$DP\cdot AQ = PF\cdot G'Q = E'Q\cdot AQ$$so $DP=E'Q\implies AD=AE'\implies E=E'$ as desired.
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Choose points $Y, Z$ on arc $BC$ such that $AD = BY = CZ$. Then we have $FBY$ and $FDA$ congruent, so $F$ is the midpoint of arc $AY$. Since $BC$ and $YZ$ are parallel, $FG$ is parallel to the external bisector of $A$, so done.
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Let the two bisectors be cut at $K$ and $L \equiv FK \cap BD, M \equiv EC \cap GK$. Let $I$ be the incenter of the triangle $ABC$. Then, we obviously have $AI \perp DE$. Let $T \equiv AI \cap DE$. So, $ATLF$ is cyclic, so $\angle LAT=\angle LFT=\angle LFG \Rightarrow \angle KFG=\dfrac{\angle A}{2}$, similarly $\angle FGK=\dfrac{\angle A}{2}$. So, if $P \equiv EG \cap DB$, we have $\angle APG=90-\dfrac{\angle A}{2}=\angle ADE \Rightarrow DE \parallel FG$, done.

(Oviously, when $B \equiv D$, the lines coincide.)
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