2012 IMO Problems
Problems of the 53st IMO 2012 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Contents
Day 1
Problem 1.
Given triangle ABC the point is the centre of the excircle opposite the vertex
.
This excircle is tangent to the side
at
, and to the lines
and
at
and
, respectively.
The lines
and
meet at
, and the lines
and
meet at
. Let
be the point of
intersection of the lines
and
, and let
be the point of intersection of the lines
and
.
Prove that
is the midpoint of
.
(The excircle of
opposite the vertex
is the circle that is tangent to the line segment
,
to the ray
beyond
, and to the ray
beyond
.)
Author: Evangelos Psychas, Greece
Problem 2.
Let be positive real numbers that satisfy
. Prove that
Author: Angelo di Pasquale, Australia
Problem 3.
The liar’s guessing game is a game played between two players and
. The rules of the game depend on two positive integers
and
which are known to both players. At the start of the game A chooses integers
and
with
. Player
keeps
secret, and truthfully tells
to player
. Player
now tries to obtain information about
by asking player
questions as follows: each question consists of
specifying an arbitrary set
of positive integers (possibly one specified in some previous question), and asking
whether
belongs to
. Player
may ask as many such questions as he wishes. After each question, player
must immediately answer it with yes or no, but is allowed to lie as many times as she wants; the only restriction is
that, among any
consecutive answers, at least one answer must be truthful. After
has asked as many questions as he wants, he must specify a set
of at most
positive integers. If
belongs to
, then
wins; otherwise, he loses. Prove that:
- If
, then
can guarantee a win.
- For all sufficiently large
, there exists an integer
such that
cannot guarantee a win.
Author: David Arthur, Canada
Day 2
Problem 4.
Find all functions such that, for all integers
,
,
that satisfy
, the following equality holds:
(Here
denotes the set of integers.)
Author: Liam Baker, South Africa
Problem 5.
Let be a triangle with
, and let
be the foot of the altitude from
. Let
be a point in the interior of the segment
. Let K be the point on the segment
such that
. Similarly, let
be the point on the segment
such that
. Let
be the point of intersection of
and
.
Show that
.
Author: Josef Tkadlec, Czech Republic
Problem 6.
Find all positive integers n for which there exist non-negative integers ,
,
,
such that
Author: Dušan Djukić, Serbia
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