You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

As shown below, there is a $40\times30$ paper with a filled $10\times5$ rectangle inside of it. We want to cut out the filled rectangle from the paper using four straight cuts. Each straight cut is a straight line that divides the paper into two pieces, and we keep the piece containing the filled rectangle. The goal is to minimize the total length of the straight cuts. How to achieve this goal, and what is that minimized length? Show the correct cuts and write the final answer. There is no need to prove the answer.

Answer: $65$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

In the given figure, $ABCD$ is a parallelogram. We know that $\angle D = 60^\circ$, $AD = 2$ and $AB = \sqrt3 + 1$. Point $M$ is the midpoint of $AD$. Segment $CK$ is the angle bisector of $C$. Find the angle $CKB$.

Answer: $75^\circ$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The cells of a $8 \times 8$ table are initially white. Alice and Bob play a game. First Alice paints $n$ of the fields in red. Then Bob chooses $4$ rows and $4$ columns from the table and paints all fields in them in black. Alice wins if there is at least one red field left. Find the least value of $n$ such that Alice can win the game no matter how Bob plays.

Answer: $13$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

We call a number greater than $25$, [i] semi-prime[/i] if it is the sum of some two different prime numbers. What is the greatest number of consecutive natural numbers that can be [i]semi-prime[/i]?

Answer: $5$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The following construction is used for training astronauts:
A circle $C_2$ of radius $2R$ rolls along the inside of another, fixed circle $C_1$ of radius $nR$, where $n$ is an integer greater than $2$. The astronaut is fastened to a third circle $C_3$ of radius $R$ which rolls along the inside of circle $C_2$ in such a way that the touching point of the circles $C_2$ and $C_3$ remains at maximum distance from the touching point of the circles $C_1$ and $C_2$ at all times. How many revolutions (relative to the ground) does the astronaut perform together with the circle $C_3$ while the circle $C_2$ completes one full lap around the inside of circle $C_1$?

Answer: $n - 1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A 0-1 sequence of length $2^k$ is given. Alice can pick a member from the sequence, and reveal it (its place and its value) to Bob. Find the largest number $s$ for which Bob can always pick $s$ members of the sequence, and guess all their values correctly.

Alice and Bob can discuss a strategy before the game with the aim of maximizing the number of correct guesses of Bob. The only information Bob has is the length of the sequence and the member of the sequence picked by Alice.

Answer: $k+1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $ f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $ such that
\[ f( xf(x) + 2y) = f(x^2)+f(y)+x+y-1 \]
holds for all $ x, y \in \mathbb{R}$.

Answer: $f(x) = x + 1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all positive integers $a,b$ such that $b^{619}$ divides $a^{1000}+1$ and $a^{619}$ divides $b^{1000}+1$.

Answer: $(1, 1)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all pairs of distinct rational numbers $(a,b)$ such that $a^a=b^b$.

Answer: $\left(\left(\frac{u}{v}\right)^{\frac{u}{v-u}}, \left(\frac{u}{v}\right)^{\frac{v}{v-u}}\right)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all prime numbers $a,b,c$ and positive integers $k$ satisfying the equation \[a^2+b^2+16c^2 = 9k^2 + 1.\]

Answer: $(3, 3, 2, 3), (3, 37, 3, 13), (37, 3, 3, 13), (3, 17, 3, 7), (17, 3, 3, 7)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

$M$ is the midpoint of the side $AB$ in an equilateral triangle $\triangle ABC.$ The point $D$ on the side $BC$ is such that $BD : DC = 3 : 1.$ On the line passing through $C$ and parallel to $MD$ there is a point $T$ inside the triangle $\triangle ABC$ such that $\angle CTA = 150.$ Find the $\angle MT D.$
[i](K. Ivanov )[/i]

Answer: $120^\circ$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Define the polynomials $P_0, P_1, P_2 \cdots$ by:
\[ P_0(x)=x^3+213x^2-67x-2000 \]
\[ P_n(x)=P_{n-1}(x-n), n \in N \]
Find the coefficient of $x$ in $P_{21}(x)$.

Answer: $61610$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(x)f(y)+f(x+y)=xy$ for all real numbers $x$ and $y$.

Answer: $f(x) = x - 1 \text{ or } f(x) = -x - 1.$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Turbo the snail plays a game on a board with $2024$ rows and $2023$ columns. There are hidden monsters in $2022$ of the cells. Initially, Turbo does not know where any of the monsters are, but he knows that there is exactly one monster in each row except the first row and the last row, and that each column contains at most one monster.

Turbo makes a series of attempts to go from the first row to the last row. On each attempt, he chooses to start on any cell in the first row, then repeatedly moves to an adjacent cell sharing a common side. (He is allowed to return to a previously visited cell.) If he reaches a cell with a monster, his attempt ends and he is transported back to the first row to start a new attempt. The monsters do not move, and Turbo remembers whether or not each cell he has visited contains a monster. If he reaches any cell in the last row, his attempt ends and the game is over.

Determine the minimum value of $n$ for which Turbo has a strategy that guarantees reaching the last row on the $n$-th attempt or earlier, regardless of the locations of the monsters.

[i]

Answer: $3$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A configuration of $4027$ points in the plane is called Colombian if it consists of $2013$ red points and $2014$ blue points, and no three of the points of the configuration are collinear. By drawing some lines, the plane is divided into several regions. An arrangement of lines is good for a Colombian configuration if the following two conditions are satisfied:

i) No line passes through any point of the configuration.

ii) No region contains points of both colors.

Find the least value of $k$ such that for any Colombian configuration of $4027$ points, there is a good arrangement of $k$ lines.

Answer: $2013$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all positive integers $a$, $b$, $c$, and $p$, where $p$ is a prime number, such that

$73p^2 + 6 = 9a^2 + 17b^2 + 17c^2$.

Answer: $(2, 1, 4, 1) \text{ and } (2, 1, 1, 4)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Fiona has a deck of cards labelled $1$ to $n$, laid out in a row on the table in order from $1$ to $n$ from left to right. Her goal is to arrange them in a single pile, through a series of steps of the following form:

[list]

 [*]If at some stage the cards are in $m$ piles, she chooses $1\leq k<m$ and arranges the cards into $k$ piles by picking up pile $k+1$ and putting it on pile $1$; picking up pile $k+2$ and putting it on pile $2$; and so on, working from left to right and cycling back through as necessary.
[/list]
She repeats the process until the cards are in a single pile, and then stops. So for example, if $n=7$ and she chooses $k=3$ at the first step she would have the following three piles:

$
\begin{matrix}
7 & \  &\  \\
4 & 5 & 6 \\
1 &2 & 3 \\
\hline
\end{matrix} $

If she then chooses $k=1$ at the second stop, she finishes with the cards in a single pile with cards ordered $6352741$ from top to bottom.

How many different final piles can Fiona end up with?

Answer: $2^{n-2}$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all prime numbers $p$ such that there exists a unique $a \in \mathbb{Z}_p$ for which $a^3 - 3a + 1 = 0.$

Answer: $3$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

What is the smallest value that the sum of the digits of the number $3n^2+n+1,$ $n\in\mathbb{N}$ can take?

Answer: $3$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The numbers $1, 2, 3, \dots, 1024$ are written on a blackboard. They are divided into pairs. Then each pair is wiped off the board and non-negative difference of its numbers is written on the board instead. $512$ numbers obtained in this way are divided into pairs and so on. One number remains on the blackboard after ten such operations. Determine all its possible values.

Answer: $0, 2, 4, 6, \ldots, 1022$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all integers $n$, $n \ge 1$, such that $n \cdot 2^{n+1}+1$ is a perfect square.

Answer: $3$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Two isosceles triangles with sidelengths $x,x,a$ and $x,x,b$ ($a \neq b$) have equal areas. Find $x$.

Answer: $\frac{\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}}{2}$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ such that \[ f( xf(x) + f(y) ) = f^2(x) + y \] for all $x,y\in \mathbb R$.

Answer: $f(x) = x \text{ or } f(x) = -x$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f: R \to R$ such that, for any $x, y \in R$:
$f\left( f\left( x \right)-y \right)\cdot f\left( x+f\left( y \right) \right)={{x}^{2}}-{{y}^{2}}$

Answer: $f(x) = x$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

What is the maximum number of colours that can be used to paint an $8 \times 8$ chessboard so that every square is painted in a single colour, and is adjacent , horizontally, vertically but not diagonally, to at least two other squares of its own colour?

(A Shapovalov)

Answer: $16$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $n$ be a positive integer. A child builds a wall along a line with $n$ identical cubes. He lays the first cube on the line and at each subsequent step, he lays the next cube either on the ground or on the top of another cube, so that it has a common face with the previous one. How many such distinct walls exist?

Answer: $2^{n-1}$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $\mathbb{R}$ be the set of real numbers. Determine all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that, for any real numbers $x$ and $y$, \[ f(f(x)f(y)) + f(x+y) = f(xy). \]

[i]

Answer: $f(x) = 0f(x) = 1 - xf(x) = x - 1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $a,b,c,d$ be real numbers such that $a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2=1$. Determine the minimum value of $(a-b)(b-c)(c-d)(d-a)$ and determine all values of $(a,b,c,d)$ such that the minimum value is achived.

Answer: $-\frac{1}{8}$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A new website registered $2000$ people. Each of them invited $1000$ other registered people to be their friends. Two people are considered to be friends if and only if they have invited each other. What is the minimum number of pairs of friends on this website?

Answer: $1000$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

If $a$ , $b$ are integers and $s=a^3+b^3-60ab(a+b)\geq 2012$ , find the least possible value of $s$.

Answer: $2015$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all pairs $(x,y)$ of nonnegative integers that satisfy \[x^3y+x+y=xy+2xy^2.\]

Answer: $(0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 2)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

How many integers $n>1$ are there such that $n$ divides $x^{13}-x$ for every positive integer $x$?

Answer: $31$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $\,{\mathbb{R}}\,$ denote the set of all real numbers. Find all functions $\,f: {\mathbb{R}}\rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\,$ such that \[ f\left( x^{2}+f(y)\right) =y+\left( f(x)\right) ^{2}\hspace{0.2in}\text{for all}\,x,y\in \mathbb{R}. \]

Answer: $f(x) = x$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A set of positive integers is called [i]fragrant[/i] if it contains at least two elements and each of its elements has a prime factor in common with at least one of the other elements.  Let $P(n)=n^2+n+1$.  What is the least possible positive integer value of $b$ such that there exists a non-negative integer $a$ for which the set $$\{P(a+1),P(a+2),\ldots,P(a+b)\}$$ is fragrant?

Answer: $6$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A magician has one hundred cards numbered 1 to 100. He puts them into three boxes, a red one, a white one and a blue one, so that each box contains at least one card. A member of the audience draws two cards from two different boxes and announces the sum of numbers on those cards. Given this information, the magician locates the box from which no card has been drawn.

How many ways are there to put the cards in the three boxes so that the trick works?

Answer: $12$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f$ from the reals to the reals such that \[ \left(f(x)+f(z)\right)\left(f(y)+f(t)\right)=f(xy-zt)+f(xt+yz)  \] for all real $x,y,z,t$.

Answer: $f(x) = 0, \quad f(x) = \frac{1}{2}, \quad f(x) = x^2.$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

For each integer $a_0 > 1$, define the sequence $a_0, a_1, a_2, \ldots$ for $n \geq 0$ as
$$a_{n+1} =
\begin{cases}
\sqrt{a_n} & \text{if } \sqrt{a_n} \text{ is an integer,} \\
a_n + 3 & \text{otherwise.}
\end{cases}
$$
Determine all values of $a_0$ such that there exists a number $A$ such that $a_n = A$ for infinitely many values of $n$.

[i]

Answer: $3 \mid a_0$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The function $f(n)$ is defined on the positive integers and takes non-negative integer values. $f(2)=0,f(3)>0,f(9999)=3333$ and for all $m,n:$ \[ f(m+n)-f(m)-f(n)=0 \text{ or } 1. \] Determine $f(1982)$.

Answer: $660$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f$ defined on the non-negative reals and taking non-negative real values such that: $f(2)=0,f(x)\ne0$ for $0\le x<2$, and $f(xf(y))f(y)=f(x+y)$ for all $x,y$.

Answer:
$f(x) = \begin{cases}
\frac{2}{2 - x}, & 0 \leq x < 2, \\
0, & x \geq 2.
\end{cases}$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

We call a positive integer $N$ [i]contagious[/i] if there are $1000$ consecutive non-negative integers such that the sum of all their digits is $N$. Find all contagious positive integers.

Answer: $\{13500, 13501, 13502, \ldots\}$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ which satisfy the following equality for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$ \[f(x)f(y)-f(x-1)-f(y+1)=f(xy)+2x-2y-4.\][i]

Answer: $f(x) = x^2 + 1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Esmeralda has created a special knight to play on quadrilateral boards that are identical to chessboards. If a knight is in a square then it can move to another square by moving 1 square in one direction and 3 squares in a perpendicular direction (which is a diagonal of a $2\times4$ rectangle instead of $2\times3$ like in chess). In this movement, it doesn't land on the squares between the beginning square and the final square it lands on.

A trip of the length $n$ of the knight is a sequence of $n$ squares $C1, C2, ..., Cn$ which are all distinct such that the knight starts at the $C1$ square and for each $i$ from $1$ to $n-1$ it can use the movement described before to go from the $Ci$ square to the $C(i+1)$.

Determine the greatest $N \in \mathbb{N}$ such that there exists a path of the knight with length $N$ on a $5\times5$ board.

Answer: $12$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all pairs of positive integers $m,n\geq3$ for which there exist infinitely many positive integers $a$ such that \[ \frac{a^m+a-1}{a^n+a^2-1}  \] is itself an integer.

[i]Laurentiu Panaitopol, Romania[/i]

Answer: $(5, 3)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The triangle $ABC$ is isosceles with $AB=AC$, and $\angle{BAC}<60^{\circ}$. The points $D$ and $E$ are chosen on the side $AC$ such that, $EB=ED$, and $\angle{ABD}\equiv\angle{CBE}$. Denote by $O$ the intersection point between the internal bisectors of the angles $\angle{BDC}$ and $\angle{ACB}$. Compute $\angle{COD}$.

Answer: $120^\circ$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that
$$f(xy) = f(x)f(y) + f(f(x + y))$$
holds for all $x, y \in \mathbb{R}$.

Answer: $f(x) = 0 \text{ and } f(x) = x - 1.$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Determine all positive integers relatively prime to all the terms of the infinite sequence \[ a_n=2^n+3^n+6^n -1,\ n\geq 1. \]

Answer: $1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A [i]site[/i] is any point $(x, y)$ in the plane such that $x$ and $y$ are both positive integers less than or equal to 20.

Initially, each of the 400 sites is unoccupied. Amy and Ben take turns placing stones with Amy going first. On her turn, Amy places a new red stone on an unoccupied site such that the distance between any two sites occupied by red stones is not equal to $\sqrt{5}$. On his turn, Ben places a new blue stone on any unoccupied site. (A site occupied by a blue stone is allowed to be at any distance from any other occupied site.) They stop as soon as a player cannot place a stone.

Find the greatest $K$ such that Amy can ensure that she places at least $K$ red stones, no matter how Ben places his blue stones.

[i]

Answer: $100$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $ ABC$ be a triangle with $ AB \equal{} AC$ . The angle bisectors of $ \angle C AB$ and $ \angle AB C$ meet the sides $ B C$ and $ C A$ at $ D$ and $ E$ , respectively. Let $ K$ be the incentre of triangle $ ADC$. Suppose that $ \angle B E K \equal{} 45^\circ$ . Find all possible values of $ \angle C AB$ .

[i]Jan Vonk, Belgium, Peter Vandendriessche, Belgium and Hojoo Lee, Korea [/i]

Answer: $60^\circ \text{ and } 90^\circ$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

$100$ numbers $1$, $1/2$, $1/3$, $...$, $1/100$ are written on the blackboard. One may delete two arbitrary numbers $a$ and $b$ among them and replace them by the number $a + b + ab$. After $99$ such operations only one number is left. What is this final number?

(D. Fomin, Leningrad)

Answer: $101$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all integers $m$ and $n$ such that the fifth power of $m$ minus the fifth power of $n$ is equal to $16mn$.

Answer: $(m, n) = (0, 0) \text{ and } (m, n) = (-2, 2)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

An $8\times8$ array consists of the numbers $1,2,...,64$.  Consecutive numbers are adjacent along a row or a column.  What is the minimum value of the sum of the numbers along the diagonal?

Answer: $88$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

There are $100$ piles of $400$ stones each. At every move, Pete chooses two piles, removes one stone from each of them, and is awarded the number of points, equal to the non- negative difference between the numbers of stones in two new piles. Pete has to remove all stones. What is the greatest total score Pete can get, if his initial score is $0$?

(Maxim Didin)

Answer: $3920000$


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Let $n$ be a positive integer. A sequence of $n$ positive integers (not necessarily distinct) is called [b]full[/b] if it satisfies the following condition: for each positive integer $k\geq2$, if the number $k$ appears in the sequence then so does the number $k-1$, and moreover the first occurrence of $k-1$ comes before the last occurrence of $k$. For each $n$, how many full sequences are there ?

Answer: $n!$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

For any positive integer $n$, we define the integer $P(n)$ by :

$P(n)=n(n+1)(2n+1)(3n+1)...(16n+1)$.

Find the greatest common divisor of the integers $P(1)$, $P(2)$, $P(3),...,P(2016)$.

Answer: $510510$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $ S \equal{} \{1,2,3,\cdots ,280\}$. Find the smallest integer $ n$ such that each $ n$-element subset of $ S$ contains five numbers which are pairwise relatively prime.

Answer: $217$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all triples $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers such that $a^3 + b^3 + c^3 = (abc)^2$.

Answer: $(3, 2, 1), (3, 1, 2), (2, 3, 1), (2, 1, 3), (1, 3, 2), (1, 2, 3)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

At a meeting of $ 12k$ people, each person exchanges greetings with exactly $ 3k\plus{}6$ others. For any two people, the number who exchange greetings with both is the same. How many people are at the meeting?

Answer: $36$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Compute the number of words $w$ that satisfy the following three properties.

1. $w$ consists of $n$ letters from the alphabet $\{a,b,c,d\}.$

2. $w$ contains an even number of $a$'s

3. $w$ contains an even number of $b$'s.

For example, for $n=2$ there are $6$ such words: $aa, bb, cc, dd, cd, dc.$

Answer: $2^{n-1}(2^{n-1} + 1)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The equation
$$(x-1)(x-2)\cdots(x-2016)=(x-1)(x-2)\cdots (x-2016)$$
is written on the board, with $2016$ linear factors on each side. What is the least possible value of $k$ for which it is possible to erase exactly $k$ of these $4032$ linear factors so that at least one factor remains on each side and the resulting equation has no real solutions?

Answer: $2016$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Lucy starts by writing $s$ integer-valued $2022$-tuples on a blackboard. After doing that, she can take any two (not necessarily distinct) tuples $\mathbf{v}=(v_1,\ldots,v_{2022})$ and $\mathbf{w}=(w_1,\ldots,w_{2022})$ that she has already written, and apply one of the following operations to obtain a new tuple:
\begin{align*}
\mathbf{v}+\mathbf{w}&=(v_1+w_1,\ldots,v_{2022}+w_{2022}) \\
\mathbf{v} \lor \mathbf{w}&=(\max(v_1,w_1),\ldots,\max(v_{2022},w_{2022}))
\end{align*}
and then write this tuple on the blackboard.

It turns out that, in this way, Lucy can write any integer-valued $2022$-tuple on the blackboard after finitely many steps. What is the smallest possible number $s$ of tuples that she initially wrote?

Answer: $3$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

A $\pm 1$-[i]sequence[/i] is a sequence of $2022$ numbers $a_1, \ldots, a_{2022},$ each equal to either $+1$ or $-1$. Determine the largest $C$ so that, for any $\pm 1$-sequence, there exists an integer $k$ and indices $1 \le t_1 < \ldots < t_k \le 2022$ so that $t_{i+1} - t_i \le 2$ for all $i$, and $$\left| \sum_{i = 1}^{k} a_{t_i} \right| \ge C.$$

Answer: $506$


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Determine all integers $ k\ge 2$ such that for all pairs $ (m$, $ n)$ of different positive integers not greater than $ k$, the number $ n^{n\minus{}1}\minus{}m^{m\minus{}1}$ is not divisible by $ k$.

Answer: $2 \text{ and } 3$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Sir Alex plays the following game on a row of 9 cells. Initially, all cells are empty. In each move, Sir Alex is allowed to perform exactly one of the following two operations:
[list=1]
[*] Choose any number of the form $2^j$, where $j$ is a non-negative integer, and put it into an empty cell.
[*] Choose two (not necessarily adjacent) cells with the same number in them; denote that number by $2^j$. Replace the number in one of the cells with $2^{j+1}$ and erase the number in the other cell.
[/list]
At the end of the game, one cell contains $2^n$, where $n$ is a given positive integer, while the other cells are empty. Determine the maximum number of moves that Sir Alex could have made, in terms of $n$.

[i]

Answer: $2 \sum_{i=0}^{8} \binom{n}{i} - 1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

$2020$ positive integers are written in one line. Each of them starting with the third is divisible by previous and by the sum of two previous numbers. What is the smallest value the last number can take?

A. Gribalko

Answer: $2019!$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

The sequence $\{a_n\}_{n\geq 0}$ of real numbers satisfies the relation:
\[ a_{m+n} + a_{m-n} - m + n -1 = \frac12 (a_{2m} + a_{2n})  \]
for all non-negative integers $m$ and $n$, $m \ge n$. If $a_1 = 3$ find $a_{2004}$.

Answer: $4018021$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Originally, every square of $8 \times 8$ chessboard contains a rook. One by one, rooks which attack an odd number of others are removed. Find the maximal number of rooks that can be removed. (A rook attacks another rook if they are on the same row or column and there are no other rooks between them.)

Answer: $59$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

There is an integer $n > 1$. There are $n^2$ stations on a slope of a mountain, all at different altitudes. Each of two cable car companies, $A$ and $B$, operates $k$ cable cars; each cable car provides a transfer from one of the stations to a higher one (with no intermediate stops). The $k$ cable cars of $A$ have $k$ different starting points and $k$ different finishing points, and a cable car which starts higher also finishes higher. The same conditions hold for $B$. We say that two stations are linked by a company if one can start from the lower station and reach the higher one by using one or more cars of that company (no other movements between stations are allowed). Determine the smallest positive integer $k$ for which one can guarantee that there are two stations that are linked by both companies.

[i]

Answer: $n^2 - n + 1$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

We denote by $\mathbb{R}^\plus{}$ the set of all positive real numbers.

Find all functions $f: \mathbb R^ \plus{} \rightarrow\mathbb R^ \plus{}$ which have the property:
\[f(x)f(y)\equal{}2f(x\plus{}yf(x))\]
for all positive real numbers $x$ and $y$.

[i]

Answer: $f(x) = 2$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(0)\neq 0$ and for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$,
    \[ f(x+y)^2 = 2f(x)f(y) + \max \left\{ f(x^2+y^2), f(x^2)+f(y^2) \right\}. \]

Answer: $f(x) = -1 \text{ and } f(x) = x - 1.$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all functions $ f: (0, \infty) \mapsto (0, \infty)$ (so $ f$ is a function from the positive real numbers) such that
\[ \frac {\left( f(w) \right)^2 \plus{} \left( f(x) \right)^2}{f(y^2) \plus{} f(z^2) } \equal{} \frac {w^2 \plus{} x^2}{y^2 \plus{} z^2}
\]
for all positive real numbers $ w,x,y,z,$ satisfying $ wx \equal{} yz.$

[i]Author: Hojoo Lee, South Korea[/i]

Answer: $f(x) = x \text{ or } f(x) = \frac{1}{x}$


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Find the smallest integer $n$ such that each subset of $\{1,2,\ldots, 2004\}$ with $n$ elements has two distinct elements $a$ and $b$ for which $a^2-b^2$ is a multiple of $2004$.

Answer: $1003$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all positive integers $n$ such that:
\[ \dfrac{n^3+3}{n^2+7} \]
is a positive integer.

Answer: $2 \text{ and } 5$


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Let $ f(n)$ be a function defined on the set of all positive integers and having its values in the same set. Suppose that $ f(f(n) \plus{} f(m)) \equal{} m \plus{} n$ for all positive integers $ n,m.$ Find the possible value for $ f(1988).$

Answer: $1988$


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Determine all positive integers $M$ such that the sequence $a_0, a_1, a_2, \cdots$ defined by \[ a_0 = M + \frac{1}{2}   \qquad  \textrm{and} \qquad    a_{k+1} = a_k\lfloor a_k \rfloor   \quad \textrm{for} \, k = 0, 1, 2, \cdots \] contains at least one integer term.

Answer: $M > 1$


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Suppose that $a,b,c,d$ are positive real numbers satisfying $(a+c)(b+d)=ac+bd$. Find the smallest possible value of
$$\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{d}+\frac{d}{a}.$$
[i]Israel[/i]

Answer: $8$


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We say that a set $S$ of integers is [i]rootiful[/i] if, for any positive integer $n$ and any $a_0, a_1, \cdots, a_n \in S$, all integer roots of the polynomial $a_0+a_1x+\cdots+a_nx^n$ are also in $S$. Find all rootiful sets of integers that contain all numbers of the form $2^a - 2^b$ for positive integers $a$ and $b$.

Answer: $\mathbb{Z}$


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Determine all positive integers $n$ for which there exists an integer $m$ such that ${2^{n}-1}$ is a divisor of ${m^{2}+9}$.

Answer: $n = 2^k$


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An [i]animal[/i] with $n$ [i]cells[/i] is a connected figure consisting of $n$ equal-sized cells[1].

A [i]dinosaur[/i] is an animal with at least $2007$ cells. It is said to be [i]primitive[/i] it its cells cannot be partitioned into two or more dinosaurs. Find with proof the maximum number of cells in a primitive dinosaur.

(1) Animals are also called [i]polyominoes[/i]. They can be defined inductively. Two cells are [i]adjacent[/i] if they share a complete edge. A single cell is an animal, and given an animal with $n$ cells, one with $n+1$ cells is obtained by adjoining a new cell by making it adjacent to one or more existing cells.

Answer: $4n-3$


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Let $\mathbb R$ be the set of real numbers. Determine all functions $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ that satisfy the equation\[f(x+f(x+y))+f(xy)=x+f(x+y)+yf(x)\]for all real numbers $x$ and $y$.

[i]

Answer: $f(x) = 2 - x \text{ and } f(x) = x$


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Find the smallest positive real $\alpha$, such that $$\frac{x+y} {2}\geq \alpha\sqrt{xy}+(1 - \alpha)\sqrt{\frac{x^2+y^2}{2}}$$ for all positive reals $x, y$.

Answer: $\frac{1}{2}$


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Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral with $AB = AD$ and $CB = CD$. The bisector of $\angle BDC$ intersects $BC$ at $L$, and $AL$ intersects $BD$ at $M$, and it is known that $BL = BM$. Determine the value of $2\angle BAD + 3\angle BCD$.

Answer: $540^\circ$


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Given any set $A = \{a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4\}$ of four distinct positive integers, we denote the sum $a_1 +a_2 +a_3 +a_4$ by $s_A$. Let $n_A$ denote the number of pairs $(i, j)$ with $1 \leq  i < j \leq 4$ for which $a_i +a_j$ divides $s_A$. Find all sets $A$ of four distinct positive integers which achieve the largest possible value of $n_A$.

[i]

Answer: $\{k, 5k, 7k, 11k\} \text{ and } \{k, 11k, 19k, 29k\}$


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In a math test, there are easy and hard questions. The easy questions worth 3 points and the hard questions worth D points.\\
If all the questions begin to worth 4 points, the total punctuation of the test increases 16 points.\\
Instead, if we exchange the questions scores, scoring D points for the easy questions and 3 for the hard ones, the total punctuation of the test is multiplied by $\frac{3}{2}$.\\
Knowing that the number of easy questions is 9 times bigger the number of hard questions, find the number of questions in this test.

Answer: $20$


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Find all integers $\,a,b,c\,$ with $\,1<a<b<c\,$ such that \[ (a-1)(b-1)(c-1)  \] is a divisor of $abc-1.$

Answer: $(2, 4, 8) \text{ and } (3, 5, 15)$


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Find the roots of the equation  $(x-a)(x-b)=(x-c)(x-d)$, if you know that $a+d=b+c=2015$ and $a \ne c$ (numbers $a, b, c, d$ are not given).

Answer: $\frac{2015}{2}$


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For any integer $n\geq 2$, let $N(n)$ be the maxima number of triples $(a_i, b_i, c_i)$, $i=1, \ldots, N(n)$, consisting of nonnegative integers $a_i$, $b_i$ and $c_i$ such  that the following two conditions are satisfied:
[list][*] $a_i+b_i+c_i=n$ for all $i=1, \ldots, N(n)$,
[*] If $i\neq j$ then $a_i\neq a_j$, $b_i\neq b_j$ and $c_i\neq c_j$[/list]
Determine $N(n)$ for all $n\geq 2$.

[i]

Answer: $\left\lfloor \frac{2n}{3} \right\rfloor + 1$


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Determine all positive integers $ n\geq 2$ that satisfy the following condition: for all $ a$ and $ b$ relatively prime to $ n$ we have \[a \equiv b \pmod n\qquad\text{if and only if}\qquad ab\equiv 1 \pmod n.\]

Answer: $2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24$


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When $4444^{4444}$ is written in decimal notation, the sum of its digits is $ A.$ Let $B$ be the sum of the digits of $A.$ Find the sum of the digits of $ B.$ ($A$ and $B$ are written in decimal notation.)

Answer: $7$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Consider $9$ points in space, no four of which are coplanar. Each pair of points is joined by an edge (that is, a line segment) and each edge is either colored blue or red or left uncolored. Find the smallest value of  $\,n\,$ such that whenever exactly $\,n\,$ edges are colored, the set of colored edges necessarily contains a triangle all of whose edges have the same color.

Answer: $33$


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For a positive integer $n$, let $d(n)$ be the number of all positive divisors of $n$. Find all positive integers $n$ such that $d(n)^3=4n$.

Answer: $2, 128, 2000$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

An acute triangle $ABC$ is inscribed in a circle of radius 1 with centre $O;$ all the angles of $ABC$ are greater than $45^\circ.$
$B_{1}$ is the foot of perpendicular from $B$ to $CO,$ $B_{2}$ is the foot of perpendicular from $B_{1}$ to $AC.$
Similarly, $C_{1}$ is the foot of perpendicular from $C$ to $BO,$ $C_{2}$ is the foot of perpendicular from $C_{1}$ to $AB.$
The lines $B_{1}B_{2}$ and $C_{1}C_{2}$ intersect at $A_{3}.$ The points $B_{3}$ and $C_{3}$ are defined in the same way.
Find the circumradius of triangle $A_{3}B_{3}C_{3}.$

Answer: $\frac{1}{2}$


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Today, Ivan the Confessor prefers continuous functions $f:[0,1]\to\mathbb{R}$ satisfying $f(x)+f(y)\geq |x-y|$ for all pairs $x,y\in [0,1]$. Find the minimum of $\int_0^1 f$ over all preferred functions.

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Answer: $\frac{1}{4}$


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Consider the system \begin{align*}x + y  &= z + u,\\2xy & = zu.\end{align*} Find the greatest value of the real constant $m$ such that $m \leq x/y$ for any positive integer solution $(x,y,z,u)$ of the system, with $x \geq y$.

Answer: $3 + 2\sqrt{2}$


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Let $n>1$ be an integer. For each numbers $(x_1, x_2,\dots, x_n)$ with $x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2+\dots +x_n^2=1$, denote
$m=\min\{|x_i-x_j|, 0<i<j<n+1\}$
Find the maximum value of $m$.

Answer: ${m \leq \sqrt{\frac{12}{n(n-1)(n+1)}}}$


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Let $n \ge 3$ be an integer. What is the largest possible number of interior angles greater than $180^\circ$ in an $n$-gon in the plane, given that the $n$-gon does not intersect itself and all its sides have the same length?

Answer: $0$


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Let $\mathbb{Z}$ be the set of all integers. Find all pairs of integers $(a,b)$ for which there exist functions $f \colon \mathbb{Z}\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ and $g \colon \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ satisfying
\[ f(g(x))=x+a \quad\text{and}\quad g(f(x))=x+b \]
for all integers $x$.

Answer: $\left | a \right |  = \left | b \right |$


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Determine all the pairs $ (p , n )$ of a prime number $ p$ and a positive integer $ n$ for which $ \frac{ n^p + 1 }{p^n + 1} $ is an integer.

Answer: $(p,n)=(p,p),(2,4)$


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For a given positive integer $ k$ denote the square of the sum of its digits by $ f_1(k)$ and let $ f_{n\plus{}1}(k) \equal{} f_1(f_n(k)).$ Determine the value of $ f_{1991}(2^{1990}).$

Answer: $256$


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Find all pairs of natural numbers $ (a, b)$ such that $ 7^a \minus{} 3^b$ divides $ a^4 \plus{} b^2$.

[i]Author: Stephan Wagner, Austria[/i]

Answer: $(2, 4)$


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Let $P$ be a regular $2006$-gon. A diagonal is called [i]good[/i] if its endpoints divide the boundary of $P$ into two parts, each composed of an odd number of sides of $P$. The sides of $P$ are also called [i]good[/i].
Suppose $P$ has been dissected into triangles by $2003$ diagonals, no two of which have a common point in the interior of $P$. Find the maximum number of isosceles triangles having two good sides that could appear in such a configuration.

Answer: $1003$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Let $n>1$ be a positive integer. Ana and Bob play a game with other $n$ people. The group of $n$ people form a circle, and Bob will put either a black hat or a white one on each person's head. Each person can see all the hats except for his own one. They will guess the color of his own hat individually.

Before Bob distribute their hats, Ana gives $n$ people a strategy which is the same for everyone. For example, it could be "guessing the color just on your left" or "if you see an odd number of black hats, then guess black; otherwise, guess white".

Ana wants to maximize the number of people who guesses the right color, and Bob is on the contrary.

Now, suppose Ana and Bob are clever enough, and everyone forms a strategy strictly. How many right guesses can Ana guarantee?

[i]

Answer: $\left\lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \right\rfloor$


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Evaluate
\[\left \lfloor  \ \prod_{n=1}^{1992} \frac{3n+2}{3n+1} \  \right \rfloor\]

Answer: $12$


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Find all ordered pairs of positive integers$ (x, y)$ such that:$$x^3+y^3=x^2+42xy+y^2.$$

Answer: $(7, 1), (1, 7), (22,22)$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all positive integers $a$ and $b$ such that
\[ {a^2+b\over b^2-a}\quad\mbox{and}\quad{b^2+a\over a^2-b} \]
are both integers.

Answer: $(2,2)(3,3)(1,2)(2,1)(2,3)(3,2)$


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A positive integer $n$ is $inverosimil$ if there exists $n$ integers not necessarily distinct such that the sum and the product of this integers are equal to $n$. How many positive integers less than or equal to $2022$ are $inverosimils$?

Answer: $1010$


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Determine all functions $f : \mathbb{R}^2 \to\mathbb {R}$ for which \[f(A)+f(B)+f(C)+f(D)=0,\]whenever $A,B,C,D$ are the vertices of a square with side-length one.

Answer: $f(x)=0$


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Among a group of 120 people, some pairs are friends. A [i]weak quartet[/i] is a set of four people containing exactly one pair of friends. What is the maximum possible number of weak quartets ?

Answer: $4769280$


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Let $n > 0$ be an integer. We are given a balance and $n$ weights of weight $2^0, 2^1, \cdots, 2^{n-1}$. We are to place each of the $n$ weights on the balance, one after another, in such a way that the right pan is never heavier than the left pan. At each step we choose one of the weights that has not yet been placed on the balance, and place it on either the left pan or the right pan, until all of the weights have been placed.
Determine the number of ways in which this can be done.

[i]

Answer: $(2n-1)!!$


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Let $a$ and $b$ be positive real numbers such that $3a^2 + 2b^2 = 3a + 2b$. Find the minimum value of $A =\sqrt{\frac{a}{b(3a+2)}} + \sqrt{\frac{b}{a(2b+3)}} $

Answer: $\frac{2}{\sqrt{5}}$


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Let $n\ge 2$ be a given integer. Find the greatest value of $N$, for which the following is true: there are infinitely many ways to find $N$ consecutive integers such that none of them has a divisor greater than $1$ that is a perfect $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ power.

Answer: $2^n - 1$


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Let $R^+$ be the set of positive real numbers. Determine all functions $f:R^+$ $\rightarrow$ $R^+$ such that for all positive real numbers $x$ and $y:$
           $$f(x+f(xy))+y=f(x)f(y)+1$$

[i]Ukraine

Answer: $f(x) = x + 1$


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Consider those functions $ f: \mathbb{N} \mapsto \mathbb{N}$ which satisfy the condition
\[ f(m \plus{} n) \geq f(m) \plus{} f(f(n)) \minus{} 1
\]
for all $ m,n \in \mathbb{N}.$ Find all possible values of $ f(2007).$

[i]Author: Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgaria[/i]

Answer: $1, 2, \ldots, 2008$


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The diagonals of parallelogram $ABCD$ intersect at $E$ . The bisectors of $\angle DAE$ and $\angle EBC$ intersect at $F$. Assume $ECFD$ is a parellelogram . Determine the ratio $AB:AD$.

Answer: ${\sqrt{3}}$


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Let $X_r=x^r+y^r+z^r$ with $x,y,z$ real. It is known that if $S_1=0$, \[(*)\quad\frac{S_{m+n}}{m+n}=\frac{S_m}{m}\frac{S_n}{n}\] for $(m,n)=(2,3),(3,2),(2,5)$, or $(5,2)$. Determine [i]all[/i] other pairs of integers $(m,n)$ if any, so that $(*)$ holds for all real numbers $x,y,z$ such that $x+y+z=0$.

Answer: $(2, 3), (3, 2), (2, 5), (5, 2)$


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Let $\mathbf{Z}$ denote the set of all integers. Find all real numbers $c > 0$ such that there exists a labeling of the lattice points $ ( x, y ) \in \mathbf{Z}^2$ with positive integers for which:
[list]
[*] only finitely many distinct labels occur, and
[*] for each label $i$, the distance between any two points labeled $i$ is at least $c^i$.
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[i]

Answer: $c < \sqrt{2}$


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$P, A, B, C,$ and $D$ are five distinct points in space such that $\angle APB = \angle BPC = \angle CPD = \angle DPA = \theta$, where $\theta$ is a given acute angle. Determine the greatest and least values of $\angle APC + \angle BPD$.

Answer: $0^\circ \text{ and } 360^\circ$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Determine the least possible value of $f(1998),$ where $f:\Bbb{N}\to \Bbb{N}$ is a function such that for all $m,n\in {\Bbb N}$,

\[f\left( n^{2}f(m)\right) =m\left( f(n)\right) ^{2}. \]

Answer: $120$


You are a helpful assistant good at solving math problems with step-by-step reasoning. You should first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. Your answer must be in latex format and wrapped in $...$.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> Since $1+1=2$, so the answer is $2$. </think><answer> $2$ </answer>, which means your output should start with <think> and end with </answer>.

Find all pairs $(m,n)$ of nonnegative integers for which \[m^2 + 2 \cdot 3^n = m\left(2^{n+1} - 1\right).\]

[i]

Answer: $(9, 3), (6, 3), (9, 5), (54, 5)$


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Find all prime numbers $ p,q,r$, such that $ \frac{p}{q}\minus{}\frac{4}{r\plus{}1}\equal{}1$

Answer: $(7, 3, 2), (5, 3, 5), (3, 2, 7)$


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Find all odd natural numbers $n$ such that $d(n)$ is the largest divisor of the number $n$ different from $n$.
($d(n)$ is the number of divisors of the number n including $1$ and $n$ ).

Answer: $9$