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0,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 1. Find all prime numbers $p$ for which there exist positive integers $x, y$ and $z$ such that the number

$$
x^{p}+y^{p}+z^{p}-x-y-z
$$

is a product of exactly three distinct prime numbers.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Let $A=x^{p}+y^{p}+z^{p}-x-y-z$. For $p=2$, we take $x=y=4$ and $z=3$. Then $A=30=2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5$. For $p=3$ we can take $x=3$ and $y=2$ and $z=1$. Then again $A=30=2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5$. For $p=5$ we can take $x=2$ and $y=1$ and $z=1$. Again $A=30=2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5$.

Assume now that $p \geqslant 7$. Working modulo 2 and modulo 3 we see that $A$ is divisible by both 2 and 3. Moreover, by Fermat's Little Theorem, we have

$$
x^{p}+y^{p}+z^{p}-x-y-z \equiv x+y+z-x-y-z=0 \bmod p \text {. }
$$

Therefore, by the given condition, we have to solve the equation

$$
x^{p}+y^{p}+z^{p}-x-y-z=6 p
$$

If one of the numbers $x, y$ and $z$ is bigger than or equal to 2 , let's say $x \geqslant 2$, then

$$
6 p \geqslant x^{p}-x=x\left(x^{p-1}-1\right) \geqslant 2\left(2^{p-1}-1\right)=2^{p}-2
$$

It is easy to check by induction that $2^{n}-2>6 n$ for all natural numbers $n \geqslant 6$. This contradiction shows that there are no more values of $p$ which satisfy the required property.

Remark. There are a couple of other ways to prove that $2^{p}-2>6 p$ for $p \geqslant 7$. For example, we can use the Binomial Theorem as follows:

$$
2^{p}-2 \geqslant 1+p+\frac{p(p-1)}{2}+\frac{p(p-1)(p-2)}{6}-2 \geqslant 1+p+3 p+5 p-2>6 p
$$

We can also use Bernoulli's Inequality as follows:

$$
2^{p}-2=8(1+1)^{p-3}-2 \geqslant 8(1+(p-3))-2=8 p-18>6 p
$$

The last inequality is true for $p \geqslant 11$. For $p=7$ we can see directly that $2^{p}-2>6 p$.

One can also use calculus to show that $f(x)=2^{x}-6 x$ is increasing for $x \geqslant 5$.
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1,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 3. Triangle $A B C$ is such that $A B<A C$. The perpendicular bisector of side $B C$ intersects lines $A B$ and $A C$ at points $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Let $H$ be the orthocentre of triangle $A B C$, and let $M$ and $N$ be the midpoints of segments $B C$ and $P Q$, respectively. Prove that lines $H M$ and $A N$ meet on the circumcircle of $A B C$.
 Assistant: 
Solution. We have

$$
\angle A P Q=\angle B P M=90^{\circ}-\angle M B P=90^{\circ}-\angle C B A=\angle H C B
$$

and

$$
\angle A Q P=\angle M Q C=90^{\circ}-\angle Q C M=90^{\circ}-\angle A C B=\angle C B H
$$

From these two equalities, we see that the triangles $A P Q$ and $H C B$ are similar. Moreover, since $M$ and $N$ are the midpoints of the segments $B C$ and $P Q$ respectively, then the triangles $A Q N$ and $H B M$ are also similar. Therefore, we have $\angle A N Q=\angle H M B$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_fe2687448771fc19bd4eg-4.jpg?height=883&width=545&top_left_y=865&top_left_x=779)

Let $L$ be the intersection of $A N$ and $H M$. We have

$$
\angle M L N=180^{\circ}-\angle L N M-\angle N M L=180^{\circ}-\angle L M B-\angle N M L=180^{\circ}-\angle N M B=90^{\circ} .
$$

Now let $D$ be the point on the circumcircle of $A B C$ diametrically oposite to $A$. It is known that $D$ is also the relfection of point $H$ over the point $M$. Therefore, we have that $D$ belongs on $M H$ and that $\angle D L A=\angle M L A=\angle M L N=90^{\circ}$. But, as $D A$ is the diameter of the circumcirle of $A B C$, the condition that $\angle D L A=90^{\circ}$ is enough to conclude that $L$ belongs on the circumcircle of $A B C$.

Remark. There is a spiral similarity mapping $A Q P$ to $H B C$. Since the similarity maps $A N$ to $H M$, it also maps $A H$ to $N M$, and since these two lines are parallel, the centre of the similarity is $L=A N \cap H M$. Since the similarity maps $B C$ to $Q P$, its centre belongs on the circumcircle of $B C X$, where $X=B Q \cap P C$. But $X$ is the reflection of $A$ on $Q M$ and so it must belong on the circumcircle of $A B C$. Hence so must $L$.

Remark. Students have also submitted correct proofs using radical axes, harmonic quadruples, coordinate geometry and complex numbers.
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2,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 1. A trapezoid $A B C D(A B \| C D, A B>C D)$ is circumscribed. The incircle of the triangle $A B C$ touches the lines $A B$ and $A C$ at the points $M$ and $N$, respectively. Prove that the incenter of the trapezoid $A B C D$ lies on the line $M N$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_bc5716af31e6d23d397cg-1.jpg?height=437&width=643&top_left_y=752&top_left_x=661)

 Assistant: ## Solution.

Version 1. Let $I$ be the incenter of triangle $A B C$ and $R$ be the common point of the lines $B I$ and $M N$. Since

$$
m(\widehat{A N M})=90^{\circ}-\frac{1}{2} m(\widehat{M A N}) \quad \text { and } \quad m(\widehat{B I C})=90^{\circ}+\frac{1}{2} m(\widehat{M A N})
$$

the quadrilateral $I R N C$ is cyclic.

It follows that $m(\widehat{B R C})=90^{\circ}$ and therefore

$$
m(\widehat{B C R})=90^{\circ}-m(\widehat{C B R})=90^{\circ}-\frac{1}{2}\left(180^{\circ}-m(\widehat{B C D})\right)=\frac{1}{2} m(\widehat{B C D})
$$

So, $(C R$ is the angle bisector of $\widehat{D C B}$ and $R$ is the incenter of the trapezoid.

Version 2. If $R$ is the incentre of the trapezoid $A B C D$, then $B, I$ and $R$ are collinear,

and $m(\widehat{B R C})=90^{\circ}$.

The quadrilateral $I R N C$ is cyclic.

Then $m(\widehat{M N C})=90^{\circ}+\frac{1}{2} \cdot m(\widehat{B A C})$

and $m(\widehat{R N C})=m(\widehat{B I C})=90^{\circ}+\frac{1}{2} \cdot m(\widehat{B A C})$,
so that $m(\widehat{M N C})=m(\widehat{R N C})$ and the points $M, R$ and $N$ are collinear.

Version 3. If $R$ is the incentre of the trapezoid $A B C D$, let $M^{\prime} \in(A B)$ and $N^{\prime} \in(A C)$ be the unique points, such that $R \in M^{\prime} N^{\prime}$ and $\left(A M^{\prime}\right) \equiv\left(A N^{\prime}\right)$.

Let $S$ be the intersection point of $C R$ and $A B$. Then $C R=R S$.

Consider $K \in A C$ such that $S K \| M^{\prime} N^{\prime}$. Then $N^{\prime}$ is the midpoint of $(C K)$.

We deduce

$$
A N^{\prime}=\frac{A K+A C}{2}=\frac{A S+A C}{2}=\frac{A B-B S+A C}{2}=\frac{A B+A C-B C}{2}=A N
$$

We conclude that $N=N^{\prime}$, hence $M=M^{\prime}$, and $R, M, N$ are collinear.
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3,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Let $a, b$ and $c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that

$$
\frac{8}{(a+b)^{2}+4 a b c}+\frac{8}{(b+c)^{2}+4 a b c}+\frac{8}{(c+a)^{2}+4 a b c}+a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq \frac{8}{a+3}+\frac{8}{b+3}+\frac{8}{c+3}
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution. Since $2 a b \leq a^{2}+b^{2}$, it follows that $(a+b)^{2} \leq 2\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)$

and $4 a b c \leq 2 c\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)$, for any positive reals $a, b, c$.

Adding these inequalities, we find

$$
(a+b)^{2}+4 a b c \leq 2\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)(c+1)
$$

so that

$$
\frac{8}{(a+b)^{2}+4 a b c} \geq \frac{4}{\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)(c+1)}
$$

Using the AM-GM inequality, we have

$$
\frac{4}{\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)(c+1)}+\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}}{2} \geq 2 \sqrt{\frac{2}{c+1}}=\frac{4}{\sqrt{2(c+1)}}
$$

respectively

$$
\frac{c+3}{8}=\frac{(c+1)+2}{8} \geq \frac{\sqrt{2(c+1)}}{4}
$$

We conclude that

$$
\frac{4}{\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)(c+1)}+\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}}{2} \geq \frac{8}{c+3}
$$

and finally

$$
\frac{8}{(a+b)^{2}+4 a b c}+\frac{8}{(a+c)^{2}+4 a b c}+\frac{8}{(b+c)^{2}+4 a b c}+a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq \frac{8}{a+3}+\frac{8}{b+3}+\frac{8}{c+3}
$$
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4,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Let $n$ three-digit numbers satisfy the following properties:

(1) No number contains the digit 0 .

(2) The sum of the digits of each number is 9 .

(3) The units digits of any two numbers are different.

(4) The tens digits of any two numbers are different.

(5) The hundreds digits of any two numbers are different.

Find the largest possible value of $n$.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Let $S$ denote the set of three-digit numbers that have digit sum equal to 9 and no digit equal to 0 . We will first find the cardinality of $S$. We start from the number 111 and each element of $S$ can be obtained from 111 by a string of 6 A's (which means that we add 1 to the current digit) and $2 G$ 's (which means go to the next digit). Then for example 324 can be obtained from 111 by the string AAGAGAAA. There are in total

$$
\frac{8!}{6!\cdot 2!}=28
$$

such words, so $S$ contains 28 numbers. Now, from the conditions (3), (4), (5), if $\overline{a b c}$ is in $T$ then each of the other numbers of the form $\overline{* c}$ cannot be in $T$, neither $\overline{* *}$ can be, nor $\overline{a * *}$. Since there are $a+b-2$ numbers of the first category, $a+c-2$ from the second and $b+c-2$ from the third one. In these three categories there are

$$
(a+b-2)+(b+c-2)+(c+a-2)=2(a+b+c)-6=2 \cdot 9-6=12
$$

distinct numbers that cannot be in $T$ if $\overline{a b c}$ is in $T$. So, if $T$ has $n$ numbers, then $12 n$ are the forbidden ones that are in $S$, but each number from $S$ can be a forbidden number no more than three times, once for each of its digits, so

$$
n+\frac{12 n}{3} \leq 28 \Longleftrightarrow n \leq \frac{28}{5}
$$

and since $n$ is an integer, we get $n \leq 5$. A possible example for $n=5$ is

$$
T=\{144,252,315,423,531\}
$$

Comment by PSC. It is classical to compute the cardinality of $S$ and this can be done in many ways. In general, the number of solutions of the equation

$$
x_{1}+x_{2}+\cdots+x_{k}=n
$$

in positive integers, where the order of $x_{i}$ matters, is well known that equals to $\binom{n-1}{k-1}$. In our case, we want to count the number of positive solutions to $a+b+c=9$. By the above, this equals to $\binom{9-1}{3-1}=28$. Using the general result above, we can also find that there are $a+b-2$ numbers of the form $\overline{* c}$.
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5,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 4. Let $A B C$ be an acute triangle, $A^{\prime}, B^{\prime}$ and $C^{\prime}$ be the reflections of the vertices $A, B$ and $C$ with respect to $B C, C A$, and $A B$, respectively, and let the circumcircles of triangles $A B B^{\prime}$ and $A C C^{\prime}$ meet again at $A_{1}$. Points $B_{1}$ and $C_{1}$ are defined similarly. Prove that the lines $A A_{1}, B B_{1}$ and $C C_{1}$ have a common point.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Let $O_{1}, O_{2}$ and $O$ be the circumcenters of triangles $A B B^{\prime}, A C C^{\prime}$ and $A B C$ respectively. As $A B$ is the perpendicular bisector of the line segment $C C^{\prime}, O_{2}$ is the intersection of the perpendicular bisector of $A C$ with $A B$. Similarly, $O_{1}$ is the intersection of the perpendicular bisector of $A B$ with $A C$. It follows that $O$ is the orthocenter of triangle $A O_{1} O_{2}$. This means that $A O$ is perpendicular to $O_{1} O_{2}$. On the other hand, the segment $A A_{1}$ is the common chord of the two circles, thus it is perpendicular to $O_{1} O_{2}$. As a result, $A A_{1}$ passes through $O$. Similarly, $B B_{1}$ and $C C_{1}$ pass through $O$, so the three lines are concurrent at $O$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_9020024f2910a9287423g-4.jpg?height=897&width=1087&top_left_y=820&top_left_x=497)

Comment by PSC. We present here a different approach.

We first prove that $A_{1}, B$ and $C^{\prime}$ are collinear. Indeed, since $\angle B A B^{\prime}=\angle C A C^{\prime}=2 \angle B A C$, then from the circles $\left(A B B^{\prime}\right),\left(A C C^{\prime}\right)$ we get

$$
\angle A A_{1} B=\frac{\angle B A_{1} B^{\prime}}{2}=\frac{180^{\circ}-\angle B A B^{\prime}}{2}=90^{\circ}-\angle B A C=\angle A A_{1} C^{\prime}
$$

It follows that

$$
\angle A_{1} A C=\angle A_{1} C^{\prime} C=\angle B C^{\prime} C=90^{\circ}-\angle A B C
$$

On the other hand, if $O$ is the circumcenter of $A B C$, then

$$
\angle O A C=90^{\circ}-\angle A B C \text {. }
$$

From (1) and (2) we conclude that $A_{1}, A$ and $O$ are collinear. Similarly, $B B_{1}$ and $C C_{1}$ pass through $O$, so the three lines are concurrent in $O$.

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6,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: # Problem 1 

Let $a, b$ and $c$ be positive real numbers such that $a+b+c=1$. Prove that

$$
\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{b}+\frac{c}{a}+\frac{a}{c}+6 \geq 2 \sqrt{2}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1-a}{a}}+\sqrt{\frac{1-b}{b}}+\sqrt{\frac{1-c}{c}}\right)
$$

When does equality hold?

 Assistant: ## Solution

Replacing $1-a, 1-b, 1-c$ with $b+c, c+a, a+b$ respectively on the right hand side, the given inequality becomes

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_0ffcf6c39e8d83d98455g-1.jpg?height=148&width=993&top_left_y=1268&top_left_x=497)

and equivalently

$$
\left(\frac{b+c}{a}-2 \sqrt{2} \sqrt{\frac{b+c}{a}}+2\right)+\left(\frac{c+a}{b}-2 \sqrt{2} \sqrt{\frac{c+a}{b}}+2\right)+\left(\frac{a+b}{c}-2 \sqrt{2} \sqrt{\frac{a+b}{c}}+2\right) \geq 0
$$

which can be written as

$$
\left(\sqrt{\frac{b+c}{a}}-\sqrt{2}\right)^{2}+\left(\sqrt{\frac{c+a}{b}}-\sqrt{2}\right)^{2}+\left(\sqrt{\frac{a+b}{c}}-\sqrt{2}\right)^{2} \geq 0
$$

which is true.

The equality holds if and only if

$$
\frac{b+c}{a}=\frac{c+a}{b}=\frac{a+b}{c}
$$

which together with the given condition $a+b+c=1$ gives $a=b=c=\frac{1}{3}$.

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7,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## Problem 2

Let the circles $k_{1}$ and $k_{2}$ intersect at two distinct points $A$ and $B$, and let $t$ be a common tangent of $k_{1}$ and $k_{2}$, that touches $k_{1}$ and $k_{2}$ at $M$ and $N$, respectively. If $t \perp A M$ and $M N=2 A M$, evaluate $\angle N M B$.

 Assistant: ## Solution 1

Let $P$ be the symmetric of $A$ with respect to $M$ (Figure 1). Then $A M=M P$ and $t \perp A P$, hence the triangle $A P N$ is isosceles with $A P$ as its base, so $\angle N A P=\angle N P A$. We have $\angle B A P=\angle B A M=\angle B M N$ and $\angle B A N=\angle B N M$.

Thus we have

$$
180^{\circ}-\angle N B M=\angle B N M+\angle B M N=\angle B A N+\angle B A P=\angle N A P=\angle N P A
$$

so the quadrangle $M B N P$ is cyclic (since the points $B$ and $P$ lie on different sides of $M N$ ). Hence $\angle A P B=\angle M P B=\angle M N B$ and the triangles $A P B$ and $M N B$ are congruent ( $M N=2 A M=A M+M P=A P$ ). From that we get $A B=M B$, i.e. the triangle $A M B$ is isosceles, and since $t$ is tangent to $k_{1}$ and perpendicular to $A M$, the centre of $k_{1}$ is on $A M$, hence $A M B$ is a right-angled triangle. From the last two statements we infer $\angle A M B=45^{\circ}$, and so $\angle N M B=90^{\circ}-\angle A M B=45^{\circ}$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_0ffcf6c39e8d83d98455g-2.jpg?height=423&width=809&top_left_y=1162&top_left_x=632)

Figure 1

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8,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## Problem 3

On a board there are $n$ nails each two connected by a string. Each string is colored in one of $n$ given distinct colors. For each three distinct colors, there exist three nails connected with strings in these three colors. Can $n$ be
a) 6 ?
b) 7 ?
 Assistant: 
Solution. (a) The answer is no.

Suppose it is possible. Consider some color, say blue. Each blue string is the side of 4 triangles formed with vertices on the given points. As there exist $\binom{5}{2}=\frac{5 \cdot 4}{2}=10$ pairs of colors other than blue, and for any such pair of colors together with the blue color there exists a triangle with strings in these colors, we conclude that there exist at least 3 blue strings (otherwise the number of triangles with a blue string as a side would be at most $2 \cdot 4=8$, a contradiction). The same is true for any color, so altogether there exist at least $6 \cdot 3=18$ strings, while we have just $\binom{6}{2}=\frac{6 \cdot 5}{2}=15$ of them.

(b) The answer is yes

Put the nails at the vertices of a regular 7-gon and color each one of its sides in a different color. Now color each diagonal in the color of the unique side parallel to it. It can be checked directly that each triple of colors appears in some triangle (because of symmetry, it is enough to check only the triples containing the first color).

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_0ffcf6c39e8d83d98455g-3.jpg?height=794&width=780&top_left_y=1322&top_left_x=638)

Remark. The argument in (a) can be applied to any even n. The argument in (b) can be applied to any odd $n=2 k+1$ as follows: first number the nails as $0,1,2 \ldots, 2 k$ and similarly number the colors as $0,1,2 \ldots, 2 k$. Then connect nail $x$ with nail $y$ by a string of color $x+y(\bmod n)$. For each triple of colors $(p, q, r)$ there are vertices $x, y, z$ connected by these three colors. Indeed, we need to solve $(\bmod n)$ the system

$$
(*)(x+y \equiv p, x+z \equiv q, y+z \equiv r)
$$

Adding all three, we get $2(x+y+z) \equiv p+q+r$ and multiplying by $k+1$ we get $x+y+z \equiv(k+1)(p+q+r)$. We can now find $x, y, z$ from the identities $(*)$.

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9,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 3. Let $A B C$ be an acute scalene triangle with circumcenter $O$. Let $D$ be the foot of the altitude from $A$ to the side $B C$. The lines $B C$ and $A O$ intersect at $E$. Let $s$ be the line through $E$ perpendicular to $A O$. The line $s$ intersects $A B$ and $A C$ at $K$ and $L$, respectively. Denote by $\omega$ the circumcircle of triangle $A K L$. Line $A D$ intersects $\omega$ again at $X$.

Prove that $\omega$ and the circumcircles of triangles $A B C$ and $D E X$ have a common point.

 Assistant: ## Solution.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_59a54a44649abed37d52g-3.jpg?height=821&width=853&top_left_y=798&top_left_x=598)

Let us denote angles of triangle $A B C$ with $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ in a standard way. By basic anglechasing we have

$$
\angle B A D=90^{\circ}-\beta=\angle O A C \text { and } \angle C A D=\angle B A O=90^{\circ}-\gamma
$$

Using the fact that lines $A E$ and $A X$ are isogonal with respect to $\angle K A L$ we can conclude that $X$ is an $A$-antipode on $\omega$. (This fact can be purely angle-chased: we have

$$
\angle K A X+\angle A X K=\angle K A X+\angle A L K=90^{\circ}-\beta+\beta=90^{\circ}
$$

which implies $\angle A K X=90^{\circ}$ ). Now let $F$ be the projection of $X$ on the line $A E$. Using that $A X$ is a diameter of $\omega$ and $\angle E D X=90^{\circ}$ it's clear that $F$ is the intersection point of $\omega$ and the circumcircle of triangle $D E X$. Now it suffices to show that $A B F C$ is cyclic. We have $\angle K L F=\angle K A F=90^{\circ}-\gamma$ and from $\angle F E L=90^{\circ}$ we have that $\angle E F L=\gamma=\angle E C L$ so quadrilateral $E F C L$ is cyclic. Next, we have

$$
\angle A F C=\angle E F C=180^{\circ}-\angle E L C=\angle E L A=\beta
$$

(where last equality holds because of $\angle A E L=90^{\circ}$ and $\angle E A L=90^{\circ}-\beta$ ).

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_59a54a44649abed37d52g-4.jpg?height=834&width=857&top_left_y=369&top_left_x=596)
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10,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 4. Let $M$ be a subset of the set of 2021 integers $\{1,2,3, \ldots, 2021\}$ such that for any three elements (not necessarily distinct) $a, b, c$ of $M$ we have $|a+b-c|>10$. Determine the largest possible number of elements of $M$.
 Assistant: 
Solution. The set $M=\{1016,1017, \ldots, 2021\}$ has 1006 elements and satisfies the required property, since $a, b, c \in M$ implies that $a+b-c \geqslant 1016+1016-2021=11$. We will show that this is optimal.

Suppose $M$ satisfies the condition in the problem. Let $k$ be the minimal element of $M$. Then $k=|k+k-k|>10 \Rightarrow k \geqslant 11$. Note also that for every $m$, the integers $m, m+k-10$ cannot both belong to $M$, since $k+m-(m+k-10)=10$.

Claim 1: $M$ contains at most $k-10$ out of any $2 k-20$ consecutive integers.

Proof: We can partition the set $\{m, m+1, \ldots, m+2 k-21\}$ into $k-10$ pairs as follows:

$$
\{m, m+k-10\},\{m+1, m+k-9\}, \ldots,\{m+k-11, m+2 k-21\}
$$

It remains to note that $M$ can contain at most one element of each pair.

Claim 2: $M$ contains at most $[(t+k-10) / 2]$ out of any $t$ consecutive integers.

Proof: Write $t=q(2 k-20)+r$ with $r \in\{0,1,2 \ldots, 2 k-21\}$. From the set of the first $q(2 k-20)$ integers, by Claim 1 at most $q(k-10)$ can belong to $M$. Also by claim 1, it follows that from the last $r$ integers, at $\operatorname{most} \min \{r, k-10\}$ can belong to $M$.

Thus,

- If $r \leqslant k-10$, then at most

$$
q(k-10)+r=\frac{t+r}{2} \leqslant \frac{t+k-10}{2} \text { integers belong to } M
$$

- If $r>k-10$, then at most

$$
q(k-10)+k-10=\frac{t-r+2(k-10)}{2} \leqslant \frac{t+k-10}{2} \text { integers belong to } M
$$

By Claim 2, the number of elements of $M$ amongst $k+1, k+2, \ldots, 2021$ is at most

$$
\left[\frac{(2021-k)+(k-10)}{2}\right]=1005
$$

Since amongst $\{1,2, \ldots, k\}$ only $k$ belongs to $M$, we conclude that $M$ has at most 1006 elements as claimed.

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11,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 1. Find all distinct prime numbers $p, q$ and $r$ such that

$$
3 p^{4}-5 q^{4}-4 r^{2}=26
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution. First notice that if both primes $q$ and $r$ differ from 3 , then $q^{2} \equiv r^{2} \equiv 1(\bmod 3)$, hence the left hand side of the given equation is congruent to zero modulo 3 , which is impossible since 26 is not divisible by 3 . Thus, $q=3$ or $r=3$. We consider two cases.

Case 1. $q=3$.

The equation reduces to $3 p^{4}-4 r^{2}=431$

If $p \neq 5, \quad$ by Fermat's little theorem, $\quad p^{4} \equiv 1(\bmod 5)$, which yields $3-4 r^{2} \equiv 1(\bmod 5), \quad$ or equivalently, $\quad r^{2}+2 \equiv 0(\bmod 5)$. The last congruence is impossible in view of the fact that a residue of a square of a positive integer belongs to the set $\{0,1,4\}$. Therefore $p=5$ and $r=19$.

Case 2. $r=3$.

The equation becomes $3 p^{4}-5 q^{4}=62$

Obviously $p \neq 5$. Hence, Fermat's little theorem gives $p^{4} \equiv 1(\bmod 5)$. But then $5 q^{4} \equiv 1(\bmod 5)$, which is impossible .

Hence, the only solution of the given equation is $p=5, q=3, r=19$.
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12,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Consider an acute triangle $A B C$ with area S. Let $C D \perp A B \quad(D \in A B)$, $D M \perp A C \quad(M \in A C)$ and $\quad D N \perp B C \quad(N \in B C)$. Denote by $H_{1}$ and $H_{2}$ the orthocentres of the triangles $M N C$ and $M N D$ respectively. Find the area of the quadrilateral $\mathrm{AH}_{1} \mathrm{BH}_{2}$ in terms of $S$.
 Assistant: 
Solution 1. Let $O, P, K, R$ and $T$ be the mid-points of the segments $C D, M N$, $C N, C H_{1}$ and $M H_{1}$, respectively. From $\triangle M N C$ we have that $\overline{P K}=\frac{1}{2} \overline{M C}$ and $P K \| M C$. Analogously, from $\Delta M H_{1} C$ we have that $\overline{T R}=\frac{1}{2} \overline{M C}$ and $T R \| M C$. Consequently, $\overline{P K}=\overline{T R}$ and $P K \| T R$. Also $O K \| D N \quad$ (from

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_e8f9a14accde81c04529g-2.jpg?height=657&width=834&top_left_y=554&top_left_x=994)

$\triangle C D N$ ) and since $D N \perp B C$ and $M H_{1} \perp B C$, it follows that $T H_{1} \| O K$. Since $O$ is the circumcenter of $\triangle C M N, O P \perp M N$. Thus, $C H_{1} \perp M N$ implies $O P \| C H_{1}$. We conclude $\triangle T R H_{1} \cong \triangle K P O \quad$ (they have parallel sides and $\overline{T R}=\overline{P K}$ ), hence $\overline{R H_{1}}=\overline{P O}$, i.e. $\overline{C H_{1}}=2 \overline{P O}$ and $C H_{1} \| P O$.

Analogously, $\overline{D H_{2}}=2 \overline{P O} \quad$ and $\quad D H_{2} \| P O$. From $\quad \overline{C H_{1}}=2 \overline{P O}=\overline{D H_{2}} \quad$ and $C H_{1}\|P O\| D H_{2}$ the quadrilateral $C H_{1} H_{2} D$ is a parallelogram, thus $\overline{H_{1} H_{2}}=\overline{C D}$ and $H_{1} H_{2} \| C D$. Therefore the area of the quadrilateral $A H_{1} B H_{2}$ is $\frac{\overline{A B} \cdot \overline{H_{1} H_{2}}}{2}=\frac{\overline{A B} \cdot \overline{C D}}{2}=S$.
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13,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 3. Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that $a b c=1$. Prove that

$$
\left(a+\frac{1}{b}\right)^{2}+\left(b+\frac{1}{c}\right)^{2}+\left(c+\frac{1}{a}\right)^{2} \geq 3(a+b+c+1)
$$

When does equality hold?
 Assistant: 
Solution 1. By using AM-GM $\left(x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2} \geq x y+y z+z x\right)$ we have

$$
\begin{aligned}
\left(a+\frac{1}{b}\right)^{2}+\left(b+\frac{1}{c}\right)^{2}+\left(c+\frac{1}{a}\right)^{2} & \geq\left(a+\frac{1}{b}\right)\left(b+\frac{1}{c}\right)+\left(b+\frac{1}{c}\right)\left(c+\frac{1}{a}\right)+\left(c+\frac{1}{a}\right)\left(a+\frac{1}{b}\right) \\
& =\left(a b+1+\frac{a}{c}+a\right)+\left(b c+1+\frac{b}{a}+b\right)+\left(c a+1+\frac{c}{b}+c\right) \\
& =a b+b c+c a+\frac{a}{c}+\frac{c}{b}+\frac{b}{a}+3+a+b+c
\end{aligned}
$$

Notice that by AM-GM we have $a b+\frac{b}{a} \geq 2 b, b c+\frac{c}{b} \geq 2 c$, and $c a+\frac{a}{c} \geq 2 a$.

Thus ,

$\left(a+\frac{1}{b}\right)^{2}+\left(b+\frac{1}{c}\right)^{2}+\left(c+\frac{1}{a}\right)^{2} \geq\left(a b+\frac{b}{a}\right)+\left(b c+\frac{c}{b}\right)+\left(c a+\frac{a}{c}\right)+3+a+b+c \geq 3(a+b+c+1)$.

The equality holds if and only if $a=b=c=1$.
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14,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Let $A B C$ be an acute triangle such that $A H=H D$, where $H$ is the orthocenter of $A B C$ and $D \in B C$ is the foot of the altitude from the vertex $A$. Let $\ell$ denote the line through $H$ which is tangent to the circumcircle of the triangle $B H C$. Let $S$ and $T$ be the intersection points of $\ell$ with $A B$ and $A C$, respectively. Denote the midpoints of $B H$ and $C H$ by $M$ and $N$, respectively. Prove that the lines $S M$ and $T N$ are parallel.
 Assistant: 
Solution 1. In order to prove that $S M$ and $T N$ are parallel, it suffices to prove that both of them are perpendicular to $S T$. Due to symmetry, we will provide a detailed proof of $S M \perp S T$, whereas the proof of $T N \perp S T$ is analogous. In this solution we will use the following notation: $\angle B A C=\alpha, \angle A B C=\beta, \angle A C B=\gamma$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_6dbeb2bed8a94e31d91eg-3.jpg?height=1047&width=1489&top_left_y=913&top_left_x=318)

We first observe that, due to the tangency condition, we have

$$
\angle S H B=\angle H C B=90^{\circ}-\beta
$$

Combining the above with

$$
\angle S B H=\angle A B H=90^{\circ}-\alpha
$$

we get

$$
\angle B S H=180^{\circ}-\left(90^{\circ}-\beta\right)-\left(90^{\circ}-\alpha\right)=\alpha+\beta=180^{\circ}-\gamma
$$

from which it follows that $\angle A S T=\gamma$.

Since $A H=H D, H$ is the midpoint of $A D$. If $K$ denotes the midpoint of $A B$, we have that $K H$ and $B C$ are parallel. Since $M$ is the midpoint of $B H$, the lines $K M$ and $A D$ are parallel, from which it follows that $K M$ is perpendicular to $B C$. As $K H$ and $B C$ are parallel, we have that $K M$ is perpendicular to $K H$ so $\angle M K H=90^{\circ}$. Using the parallel lines $K H$ and $B C$ we also have

$$
\angle K H M=\angle K H B=\angle H B C
$$

Now,

$$
\angle H M K=90^{\circ}-\angle K H M=90^{\circ}-\angle H B C=90^{\circ}-\left(90^{\circ}-\gamma\right)=\gamma=\angle A S T=\angle K S H
$$

so the quadrilateral $M S K H$ is cyclic, which implies that $\angle M S H=\angle M K H=90^{\circ}$. In other words, the lines $S M$ and $S T$ are perpendicular, which completes our proof.
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15,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 4. We call an even positive integer $n$ nice if the set $\{1,2, \ldots, n\}$ can be partitioned into $\frac{n}{2}$ two-element subsets, such that the sum of the elements in each subset is a power of 3 . For example, 6 is nice, because the set $\{1,2,3,4,5,6\}$ can be partitioned into subsets $\{1,2\},\{3,6\},\{4,5\}$. Find the number of nice positive integers which are smaller than $3^{2022}$.
 Assistant: 
Solution. For a nice number $n$ and a given partition of the set $\{1,2, \ldots, n\}$ into twoelement subsets such that the sum of the elements in each subset is a power of 3 , we say that $a, b \in\{1,2, \ldots, n\}$ are paired if both of them belong to the same subset.

Let $x$ be a nice number and $k$ be a (unique) non-negative integer such that $3^{k} \leq x3^{k}
$$

implies that $s>k$. From these we conclude that $s$ must be equal to $k+1$, so $x+y=3^{k+1}$. The last equation, combined with $x>y$, implies that $x>\frac{3^{k+1}}{2}$.

Similarly as above, we can conclude that each number $z$ from the closed interval $\left[3^{k+1}-x, x\right]$ is paired with $3^{k+1}-z$. Namely, for any such $z$, the larger of the numbers $z$ and $3^{k+1}-z$ is greater than $\frac{3^{k+1}}{2}$ which is greater than $3^{k}$, so the numbers $z$ and $3^{k+1}-z$ must necessarily be in the same subset. In other words, each number from the interval $\left[3^{k+1}-x, x\right]$ is paired with another number from this interval. Note that this implies that all numbers smaller than $3^{k+1}-x$ are paired among themselves, so the number $3^{k+1}-x-1$ is either nice or equals zero. Also, the number $3^{k}$ must be paired with $2 \cdot 3^{k}$, so $x \geq 2 \cdot 3^{k}$.

Finally, we prove by induction that $a_{n}=2^{n}-1$, where $a_{n}$ is the number of nice positive integers smaller than $3^{n}$. For $n=1$, the claim is obviously true, because 2 is the only nice positive integer smaller than 3 . Now, assume that $a_{n}=2^{n}-1$ for some positive integer $n$. We will prove that $a_{n+1}=2^{n+1}-1$. To prove this, first observe that the number of nice positive integers between $2 \cdot 3^{n}$ and $3^{n+1}$ is exactly $a_{n+1}-a_{n}$. Next, observe that $3^{n+1}-1$ is nice. For every nice number $2 \cdot 3^{n} \leq x<3^{n+1}-1$, the number $3^{n+1}-x-1$ is also nice and is strictly smaller than $3^{n}$. Also, for every positive integer $y<3^{n}$, obviously there is a unique number $x$ such that $2 \cdot 3^{n} \leq x<3^{n+1}-1$ and $3^{n+1}-x-1=y$. Thus,

$$
a_{n+1}-a_{n}=a_{n}+1 \Leftrightarrow a_{n+1}=2 a_{n}+1=2\left(2^{n}-1\right)+1=2^{n+1}-1
$$

completing the proof.

In summary, there are $2^{2022}-1$ nice positive integers smaller than $3^{2022}$.

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16,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## Problem 1.

Find all pairs $(a, b)$ of positive integers such that $a!+b$ and $b!+a$ are both powers of 5 .
 Assistant: 
Solution. The condition is symmetric so we can assume that $b \leq a$.

The first case is when $a=b$. In this case, $a!+a=5^{m}$ for some positive integer $m$. We can rewrite this as $a \cdot((a-1)!+1)=5^{m}$. This means that $a=5^{k}$ for some integer $k \geq 0$. It is clear that $k$ cannot be 0 . If $k \geq 2$, then $(a-1)!+1=5^{l}$ for some $l \geq 1$, but $a-1=5^{k}-1>5$, so $5 \mid(a-1)$ !, which is not possible because $5 \mid(a-1)!+1$. This means that $k=1$ and $a=5$. In this case, $5!+5=125$, which gives us the solution $(5,5)$.

Let us now assume that $1 \leq b5$, so $5 \mid a$ !. However, $5 \mid 5^{y}=a!+1$, which leads to a contradiction. We conclude that $x=1$ and $a=4$. From here $a!+b=25$ and $b!+a=5$, so we get two more solutions: $(1,4)$ and $(4,1)$.

Now we focus on the case $1b$. Because $b \mid 5^{x}$ and $b>1$, we have $b=5^{z}$ for $z \geq 1$. If $z \geq 2$, then $5b=5$, which gives us $a \geq 10$. However, this would mean that $25|a!, 5| b$ and $25 \nmid b$, which is not possible, because $a!+b=5^{x}$ and $25 \mid 5^{x}$.

We conclude that the only solutions are $(1,4),(4,1)$ and $(5,5)$.

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17,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## Problem 3.

Alice and Bob play the following game on a $100 \times 100$ grid, taking turns, with Alice starting first. Initially the grid is empty. At their turn, they choose an integer from 1 to $100^{2}$ that is not written yet in any of the cells and choose an empty cell, and place it in the chosen cell. When there is no empty cell left, Alice computes the sum of the numbers in each row, and her score is the maximum of these 100 sums. Bob computes the sum of the numbers in each column, and his score is the maximum of these 100 sums. Alice wins if her score is greater than Bob's score, Bob wins if his score is greater than Alice's score, otherwise no one wins.

Find if one of the players has a winning strategy, and if so which player has a winning strategy.
 Assistant: 
Solution. We denote by $(i, j)$ the cell in the $i$-th line and in the $j$-th column for every $1 \leq i, j \leq n$. Bob associates the following pair of cells : $(i, 2 k+1),(i, 2 k+2)$ for $1 \leq i \leq 100$ and $0 \leq k \leq 49$ except for $(i, k)=(100,0)$ and $(100,1)$, and the pairs $(100,1),(100,3)$ and $(100,2),(100,4)$.

Each time Alice writes the number $j$ in one of the cell, Bob writes the number $100^{2}+1-j$ in the other cell of the pair.

One can prove by induction that after each of Bob's turn, for each pair of cell, either there is a number written in each of the cell of the pair, or in neither of them. And that if a number $j$ is written, $100^{2}+1-j$ is also written. Thus Bob can always apply the previous strategy (since $j=100^{2}+1-j$ is impossible).

At the end, every line has sum $\left(100^{2}+1\right) \times 50$.

Assume by contradiction that Alice can stop Bob from winning if he applies this strategy. Let $c_{j}$ be the sum of the number in the $j$-th column for $1 \leq j \leq 100$ : then $c_{j} \leq 50\left(100^{2}+1\right)$. Note that :

$$
100 \times 50\left(100^{2}+1\right) \geq c_{1}+\cdots+c_{100}=1+\cdots+100^{2}=\frac{100^{2}\left(100^{2}+1\right)}{2}=100 \times 50\left(100^{2}+1\right)
$$

Thus we have equality in the previous inequality : $c_{1}=\cdots=c_{100}=50\left(100^{2}+1\right)$. But if $a$ is the number written in the case $(100,1)$ and $b$ the number written in the case $(100,2)$, then $c_{1}-b+c_{2}-c=99\left(100^{2}+1\right)$. Thus $b+c=100\left(100^{2}+1\right)-99\left(100^{2}+1\right)=100^{2}+1$ : by hypothesis $c$ is also written in the cell $(100,3)$ which is a contradiction.

Thus Bob has a winning strategy

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18,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## Problem 4.

Let $A B C$ be an acute triangle with circumcenter $O$. Let $D$ be the foot of the altitude from $A$ to $B C$ and let $M$ be the midpoint of $O D$. The points $O_{b}$ and $O_{c}$ are the circumcenters of triangles $A O C$ and $A O B$, respectively. If $A O=A D$, prove that the points $A, O_{b}, M$ and $O_{c}$ are concyclic.

 Assistant: ## Solution.

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Note that $A B=A C$ cannot hold since $A O=A D$ would imply that $O$ is the midpoint of $B C$, which is not possible for an acute triangle. So we may assume without loss of generality that $A B90^{\circ}$ so that $O_{c}$ is in the interior of triangle $A O B$ and $O_{b}$ in external to the triangles $A O C$ (the other cases are analogous and if $\angle A O B=90^{\circ}$ or $\angle A O C=90^{\circ}$, then $M_{b} \equiv O_{b}$ or $M_{c} \equiv O_{c}$ and we are automatically done). We have

$$
\angle M_{c} M_{b} O_{b}=90^{\circ}+\angle A M_{b} M_{c}=90^{\circ}+\angle A C B
$$

as well as (since $O_{c} O_{b}$ is a perpendicular bisector of $A O$ and hence bisects $\angle A O_{C} O$ )

$$
\angle M_{c} O_{c} O_{b}=180^{\circ}-\angle O O_{c} O_{b}=90^{\circ}+\frac{\angle A O_{c} M_{c}}{2}
$$

$$
=90^{\circ}+\frac{\angle A O_{c} B}{4}=90^{\circ}+\frac{\angle A O B}{2}=90^{\circ}+\angle A C B
$$

and therefore $O_{b} M_{b} O_{c} M_{c}$ is cyclic, as desired.

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19,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Let $\triangle A B C$ be a right-angled triangle with $\angle B A C=90^{\circ}$ and let $E$ be the foot of the perpendicular from $A$ on $B C$. Let $Z \neq A$ be a point on the line $A B$ with $A B=B Z$. Let (c) be the circumcircle of the triangle $\triangle A E Z$. Let $D$ be the second point of intersection of $(c)$ with $Z C$ and let $F$ be the antidiametric point of $D$ with respect to (c). Let $P$ be the point of intersection of the lines $F E$ and $C Z$. If the tangent to (c) at $Z$ meets $P A$ at $T$, prove that the points $T, E, B, Z$ are concyclic.
 Assistant: 
Solution. We will first show that $P A$ is tangent to $(c)$ at $A$.

Since $E, D, Z, A$ are concyclic, then $\angle E D C=\angle E A Z=\angle E A B$. Since also the triangles $\triangle A B C$ and $\triangle E B A$ are similar, then $\angle E A B=\angle B C A$, therefore $\angle E D C=\angle B C A$.

Since $\angle F E D=90^{\circ}$, then $\angle P E D=90^{\circ}$ and so

$$
\angle E P D=90^{\circ}-\angle E D C=90^{\circ}-\angle B C A=\angle E A C
$$

Therefore the points $E, A, C, P$ are concyclic. It follows that $\angle C P A=90^{\circ}$ and therefore the triangle $\angle P A Z$ is right-angled. Since also $B$ is the midpoint of $A Z$, then $P B=A B=B Z$ and so $\angle Z P B=$ $\angle P Z B$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_aa04e63f5bdef252b2edg-2.jpg?height=1215&width=1016&top_left_y=1008&top_left_x=530)

Furthermore, $\angle E P D=\angle E A C=\angle C B A=\angle E B A$ from which it follows that the points $P, E, B, Z$ are also concyclic.

Now observe that

$$
\angle P A E=\angle P C E=\angle Z P B-\angle P B E=\angle P Z B-\angle P Z E=\angle E Z B
$$

Therefore $P A$ is tangent to $(c)$ at $A$ as claimed.

It now follows that $T A=T Z$. Therefore

$$
\begin{aligned}
\angle P T Z & =180^{\circ}-2(\angle T A B)=180^{\circ}-2(\angle P A E+\angle E A B)=180^{\circ}-2(\angle E C P+\angle A C B) \\
& =180^{\circ}-2\left(90^{\circ}-\angle P Z B\right)=2(\angle P Z B)=\angle P Z B+\angle B P Z=\angle P B A .
\end{aligned}
$$

Thus $T, P, B, Z$ are concyclic, and since $P, E, B, Z$ are also concyclic then $T, E, B, Z$ are concyclic as required.
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20,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Let $x, y, z$ be positive integers such that $x \neq y \neq z \neq x$. Prove that

$$
(x+y+z)(x y+y z+z x-2) \geq 9 x y z
$$

When does the equality hold?
 Assistant: 
Solution. Since $x, y, z$ are distinct positive integers, the required inequality is symmetric and WLOG we can suppose that $x \geq y+1 \geq z+2$. We consider 2 possible cases:

Case 1. $y \geq z+2$. Since $x \geq y+1 \geq z+3$ it follows that

$$
(x-y)^{2} \geq 1, \quad(y-z)^{2} \geq 4, \quad(x-z)^{2} \geq 9
$$

which are equivalent to

$$
x^{2}+y^{2} \geq 2 x y+1, \quad y^{2}+z^{2} \geq 2 y z+4, \quad x^{2}+z^{2} \geq 2 x z+9
$$

or otherwise

$$
z x^{2}+z y^{2} \geq 2 x y z+z, \quad x y^{2}+x z^{2} \geq 2 x y z+4 x, \quad y x^{2}+y z^{2} \geq 2 x y z+9 y
$$

Adding up the last three inequalities we have

$$
x y(x+y)+y z(y+z)+z x(z+x) \geq 6 x y z+4 x+9 y+z
$$

which implies that $(x+y+z)(x y+y z+z x-2) \geq 9 x y z+2 x+7 y-z$.

Since $x \geq z+3$ it follows that $2 x+7 y-z \geq 0$ and our inequality follows.

Case 2. $y=z+1$. Since $x \geq y+1=z+2$ it follows that $x \geq z+2$, and replacing $y=z+1$ in the required inequality we have to prove

$$
(x+z+1+z)(x(z+1)+(z+1) z+z x-2) \geq 9 x(z+1) z
$$

which is equivalent to

$$
(x+2 z+1)\left(z^{2}+2 z x+z+x-2\right)-9 x(z+1) z \geq 0
$$

Doing easy algebraic manipulations, this is equivalent to prove

$$
(x-z-2)(x-z+1)(2 z+1) \geq 0
$$

which is satisfied since $x \geq z+2$.

The equality is achieved only in the Case 2 for $x=z+2$, so we have equality when $(x, y, z)=$ $(k+2, k+1, k)$ and all the permutations for any positive integer $k$.
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21,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 3. Let $A B C$ be an acute triangle such that $A B \neq A C$, with circumcircle $\Gamma$ and circumcenter $O$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $B C$ and $D$ be a point on $\Gamma$ such that $A D \perp B C$. Let $T$ be a point such that $B D C T$ is a parallelogram and $Q$ a point on the same side of $B C$ as $A$ such that

$$
\angle B Q M=\angle B C A \quad \text { and } \quad \angle C Q M=\angle C B A
$$

Let the line $A O$ intersect $\Gamma$ at $E,(E \neq A)$ and let the circumcircle of $\triangle E T Q$ intersect $\Gamma$ at point $X \neq E$. Prove that the points $A, M$, and $X$ are collinear.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Let $X^{\prime}$ be symmetric point to $Q$ in line $B C$. Now since $\angle C B A=\angle C Q M=\angle C X^{\prime} M$, $\angle B C A=\angle B Q M=\angle B X^{\prime} M$, we have

$$
\angle B X^{\prime} C=\angle B X^{\prime} M+\angle C X^{\prime} M=\angle C B A+\angle B C A=180^{\circ}-\angle B A C
$$

we have that $X^{\prime} \in \Gamma$. Now since $\angle A X^{\prime} B=\angle A C B=\angle M X^{\prime} B$ we have that $A, M, X^{\prime}$ are collinear. Note that since

$$
\angle D C B=\angle D A B=90^{\circ}-\angle A B C=\angle O A C=\angle E A C
$$

we get that $D B C E$ is an isosceles trapezoid.

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Since $B D C T$ is a parallelogram we have $M T=M D$, with $M, D, T$ being collinear, $B D=C T$, and since $B D E C$ is an isosceles trapezoid we have $B D=C E$ and $M E=M D$. Since

$$
\angle B T C=\angle B D C=\angle B E D, \quad C E=B D=C T \quad \text { and } \quad M E=M T
$$

we have that $E$ and $T$ are symmetric with respect to the line $B C$. Now since $Q$ and $X^{\prime}$ are symmetric with respect to the line $B C$ as well, this means that $Q X^{\prime} E T$ is an isosceles trapezoid which means that $Q, X^{\prime}, E, T$ are concyclic. Since $X^{\prime} \in \Gamma$ this means that $X \equiv X^{\prime}$ and therefore $A, M, X$ are collinear.
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22,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 2. Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that $a+b+c=3$. Find the minimum value of the expression

$$
A=\frac{2-a^{3}}{a}+\frac{2-b^{3}}{b}+\frac{2-c^{3}}{c}
$$

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_f56efd4e6fb711c0f78eg-2.jpg?height=348&width=477&top_left_y=109&top_left_x=241)

$19^{\text {th }}$ Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad June 24-29, 2015, Belgrade, Serbia

 Assistant: ## Solution:

We can rewrite $A$ as follows:

$$
\begin{aligned}
& A=\frac{2-a^{3}}{a}+\frac{2-b^{3}}{b}+\frac{2-c^{3}}{c}=2\left(\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}\right)-a^{2}-b^{2}-c^{2}= \\
& 2\left(\frac{a b+b c+c a}{a b c}\right)-\left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right)=2\left(\frac{a b+b c+c a}{a b c}\right)-\left((a+b+c)^{2}-2(a b+b c+c a)\right)= \\
& 2\left(\frac{a b+b c+c a}{a b c}\right)-(9-2(a b+b c+c a))=2\left(\frac{a b+b c+c a}{a b c}\right)+2(a b+b c+c a)-9= \\
& 2(a b+b c+c a)\left(\frac{1}{a b c}+1\right)-9
\end{aligned}
$$

Recall now the well-known inequality $(x+y+z)^{2} \geq 3(x y+y z+z x)$ and set $x=a b, y=b c, z=c a$, to obtain $(a b+b c+c a)^{2} \geq 3 a b c(a+b+c)=9 a b c$, where we have used $a+b+c=3$. By taking the square roots on both sides of the last one we obtain:

$$
a b+b c+c a \geq 3 \sqrt{a b c}
$$

Also by using AM-GM inequality we get that

$$
\frac{1}{a b c}+1 \geq 2 \sqrt{\frac{1}{a b c}}
$$

Multiplication of (1) and (2) gives:

$$
(a b+b c+c a)\left(\frac{1}{a b c}+1\right) \geq 3 \sqrt{a b c} \cdot 2 \sqrt{\frac{1}{a b c}}=6
$$

So $A \geq 2 \cdot 6-9=3$ and the equality holds if and only if $a=b=c=1$, so the minimum value is 3.
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23,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem 3. Let $\triangle A B C$ be an acute triangle. The lines $l_{1}, l_{2}$ are perpendicular to $A B$ at the points $A, B$ respectively. The perpendicular lines from the midpoint $M$ of $A B$ to the sides of the triangle $A C, B C$ intersect the lines $l_{1}, l_{2}$ at the points $E, F$, respectively. If $D$ is the intersection point of $E F$ and $M C$, prove that

$$
\angle A D B=\angle E M F
$$

 Assistant: ## Solution:

Let $H, G$ be the points of intersection of $M E, M F$ with $A C, B C$ respectively. From the similarity of triangles $\triangle M H A$ and $\triangle M A E$ we get $\frac{M H}{M A}=\frac{M A}{M E}$, thus

$$
M A^{2}=M H \cdot M E
$$

Similarly, from the similarity of triangles $\triangle M B G$ and $\triangle M F B$ we get $\frac{M B}{M F}=\frac{M G}{M B}$, thus

$$
M B^{2}=M F \cdot M G
$$

Since $M A=M B$, from (1), (2), we conclude that the points $E, H, G, F$ are concyclic.
![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_f56efd4e6fb711c0f78eg-3.jpg?height=1040&width=1220&top_left_y=110&top_left_x=226)

Therefore, we get that $\angle F E H=\angle F E M=\angle H G M$. Also, the quadrilateral $C H M G$ is cyclic, so $\angle C M H=\angle H G C$. We have

$$
\angle F E H+\angle C M H=\angle H G M+\angle H G C=90^{\circ}
$$

thus $C M \perp E F$. Now, from the cyclic quadrilaterals $F D M B$ and $E A M D$, we get that $\angle D F M=\angle D B M$ and $\angle D E M=\angle D A M$. Therefore, the triangles $\triangle E M F$ and $\triangle A D B$ are similar, so $\angle A D B=\angle E M F$.

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24,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A1. Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that $a+b+c+a b+b c+c a+a b c=7$. Prove that

$$
\sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}+2}+\sqrt{b^{2}+c^{2}+2}+\sqrt{c^{2}+a^{2}+2} \geq 6
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution. First we see that $x^{2}+y^{2}+1 \geq x y+x+y$. Indeed, this is equivalent to

$$
(x-y)^{2}+(x-1)^{2}+(y-1)^{2} \geq 0
$$

Therefore

$$
\begin{aligned}
& \sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}+2}+\sqrt{b^{2}+c^{2}+2}+\sqrt{c^{2}+a^{2}+2} \\
\geq & \sqrt{a b+a+b+1}+\sqrt{b c+b+c+1}+\sqrt{c a+c+a+1} \\
= & \sqrt{(a+1)(b+1)}+\sqrt{(b+1)(a+1)}+\sqrt{(c+1)(a+1)}
\end{aligned}
$$

It follows from the AM-GM inequality that

$$
\begin{aligned}
& \sqrt{(a+1)(b+1)}+\sqrt{(b+1)(a+1)}+\sqrt{(c+1)(a+1)} \\
\geq & 3 \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{(a+1)(b+1)} \cdot \sqrt{(b+1)(a+1)} \cdot \sqrt{(c+1)(a+1)}} \\
= & 3 \sqrt[3]{(a+1)(b+1)(c+1)}
\end{aligned}
$$

On the other hand, the given condition is equivalent to $(a+1)(b+1)(c+1)=8$ and we get the desired inequality.

Obviously, equality is attained if and only if $a=b=c=1$.

Remark. The condition of positivity of $a, b, c$ is superfluous and the equality $\cdots=7$ can be replaced by the inequality $\cdots \geq 7$. Indeed, the above proof and the triangle inequality imply that

$$
\begin{aligned}
\sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}+2}+\sqrt{b^{2}+c^{2}+2}+\sqrt{c^{2}+a^{2}+2} & \geq 3 \sqrt[3]{(|a|+1)(|b|+1)(|c|+1)} \\
& \geq 3 \sqrt[3]{|a+1| \cdot|b+1| \cdot|c+1|} \geq 6
\end{aligned}
$$
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25,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A4. Let $x, y, z$ be three distinct positive integers. Prove that

$$
(x+y+z)(x y+y z+z x-2) \geq 9 x y z
$$

When does the equality hold?
 Assistant: 
Solution. Since $x, y, z$ are distinct positive integers, the required inequality is symmetric and WLOG we can suppose that $x \geq y+1 \geq z+2$. We consider 2 possible cases:

Case 1. $y \geq z+2$. Since $x \geq y+1 \geq z+3$ it follows that

$$
(x-y)^{2} \geq 1, \quad(y-z)^{2} \geq 4, \quad(x-z)^{2} \geq 9
$$

which are equivalent to

$$
x^{2}+y^{2} \geq 2 x y+1, \quad y^{2}+z^{2} \geq 2 y z+4, \quad x^{2}+z^{2} \geq 2 x z+9
$$

or otherwise

$$
z x^{2}+z y^{2} \geq 2 x y z+z, \quad x y^{2}+x z^{2} \geq 2 x y z+4 x, \quad y x^{2}+y z^{2} \geq 2 x y z+9 y
$$

Adding up the last three inequalities we have

$$
x y(x+y)+y z(y+z)+z x(z+x) \geq 6 x y z+4 x+9 y+z
$$

which implies that $(x+y+z)(x y+y z+z x-2) \geq 9 x y z+2 x+7 y-z$.

Since $x \geq z+3$ it follows that $2 x+7 y-z \geq 0$ and our inequality follows.

Case 2. $y=z+1$. Since $x \geq y+1=z+2$ it follows that $x \geq z+2$, and replacing $y=z+1$ in the required inequality we have to prove

$$
(x+z+1+z)(x(z+1)+(z+1) z+z x-2) \geq 9 x(z+1) z
$$

which is equivalent to

$$
(x+2 z+1)\left(z^{2}+2 z x+z+x-2\right)-9 x(z+1) z \geq 0
$$

Doing easy algebraic manipulations, this is equivalent to prove

$$
(x-z-2)(x-z+1)(2 z+1) \geq 0
$$

which is satisfied since $x \geq z+2$.

The equality is achieved only in the Case 2 for $x=z+2$, so we have equality when $(x, y, z)=$ $(k+2, k+1, k)$ and all the permutations for any positive integer $k$.

## Combinatorics
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26,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
C1. Consider a regular $2 n+1$-gon $P$ in the plane, where $n$ is a positive integer. We say that a point $S$ on one of the sides of $P$ can be seen from a point $E$ that is external to $P$, if the line segment $S E$ contains no other points that lie on the sides of $P$ except $S$. We want to color the sides of $P$ in 3 colors, such that every side is colored in exactly one color, and each color must be used at least once. Moreover, from every point in the plane external to $P$, at most 2 different colors on $P$ can be seen (ignore the vertices of $P$, we consider them colorless). Find the largest positive integer for which such a coloring is possible.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Answer: $n=1$ is clearly a solution, we can just color each side of the equilateral triangle in a different color, and the conditions are satisfied. We prove there is no larger $n$ that fulfills the requirements.

Lemma 1. Given a regular $2 n+1$-gon in the plane, and a sequence of $n+1$ consecutive sides $s_{1}, s_{2}, \ldots, s_{n+1}$ there is an external point $Q$ in the plane, such that the color of each $s_{i}$ can be seen from $Q$, for $i=1,2, \ldots, n+1$.

Proof. It is obvious that for a semi-circle $S$, there is a point $R$ in the plane far enough on the perpendicular bisector of the diameter of $S$ such that almost the entire semi-circle can be seen from $R$.

Now, it is clear that looking at the circumscribed circle around the $2 n+1$-gon, there is a semi-circle $S$ such that each $s_{i}$ either has both endpoints on it, or has an endpoint that is on the semi-circle, and is not on the semicircle's end. So, take $Q$ to be a point in the plane from which almost all of $S$ can be seen, clearly, the color of each $s_{i}$ can be seen from $Q$. $\diamond$ Take $n \geq 2$, denote the sides $a_{1}, a_{2}, \ldots, a_{2 n+1}$ in that order, and suppose we have a coloring that satisfies the condition of the problem. Let's call the 3 colors red, green and blue. We must have 2 adjacent sides of different colors, say $a_{1}$ is red and $a_{2}$ is green. Then, by Lemma 1 :

(i) We cannot have a blue side among $a_{1}, a_{2}, \ldots, a_{n+1}$.
(ii) We cannot have a blue side among $a_{2}, a_{1}, a_{2 n+1}, \ldots, a_{n+3}$.

We are required to have at least one blue side, and according to 1 ) and 2), that can only be $a_{n+2}$, so $a_{n+2}$ is blue. Now, applying Lemma 1 on the sequence of sides $a_{2}, a_{3}, \ldots, a_{n+2}$ we get that $a_{2}, a_{3}, \ldots, a_{n+1}$ are all green. Applying Lemma 1 on the sequence of sides $a_{1}, a_{2 n+1}, a_{2 n}, \ldots, a_{n+2}$ we get that $a_{2 n+1}, a_{2 n}, \ldots, a_{n+3}$ are all red.

Therefore $a_{n+1}, a_{n+2}$ and $a_{n+3}$ are all of different colors, and for $n \geq 2$ they can all be seen from the same point according to Lemma 1 , so we have a contradiction.
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27,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
C3. We have two piles with 2000 and 2017 coins respectively. Ann and Bob take alternate turns making the following moves: The player whose turn is to move picks a pile with at least two coins, removes from that pile $t$ coins for some $2 \leqslant t \leqslant 4$, and adds to the other pile 1 coin. The players can choose a different $t$ at each turn, and the player who cannot make a move loses. If Ann plays first determine which player has a winning strategy.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Denote the number of coins in the two piles by $X$ and $Y$. We say that the pair $(X, Y)$ is losing if the player who begins the game loses and that the pair $(X, Y)$ is winning otherwise. We shall prove that $(X, Y)$ is loosing if $X-Y \equiv 0,1,7 \bmod 8$, and winning if $X-Y \equiv 2,3,4,5,6 \bmod 8$.

Lemma 1. If we have a winning pair $(X, Y)$ then we can always play in such a way that the other player is then faced with a losing pair.

Proof of Lemma 1. Assume $X \geq Y$ and write $X=Y+8 k+\ell$ for some non-negative integer $k$ and some $\ell \in\{2,3,4,5,6\}$. If $\ell=2,3,4$ then we remove two coins from the first pile and add one coin to the second pile. If $\ell=5,6$ then we remove four coins from the first pile and add one coin to the second pile. In each case we then obtain loosing pair

Lemma 2. If we are faced with a losing distribution then either we cannot play, or, however we play, the other player is faced with a winning distribution.

Proof of Lemma 2. Without loss of generality we may assume that we remove $k$ coins from the first pile. The following table show the new difference for all possible values of $k$ and all possible differences $X-Y$. So however we move, the other player will be faced with a winning distribution.

| $k \backslash X-Y$ | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |

Since initially the coin difference is 1 mod 8 , by Lemmas 1 and 2 Bob has a winning strategy: He can play so that he is always faced with a winning distribution while Ann is always faced with a losing distribution. So Bob cannot lose. On the other hand the game finishes after at most 4017 moves, so Ann has to lose.

## Geometry
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28,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G1. Given a parallelogram $A B C D$. The line perpendicular to $A C$ passing through $C$ and the line perpendicular to $B D$ passing through $A$ intersect at point $P$. The circle centered at point $P$ and radius $P C$ intersects the line $B C$ at point $X,(X \neq C)$ and the line $D C$ at point $Y$, $(Y \neq C)$. Prove that the line $A X$ passes through the point $Y$.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Denote the feet of the perpendiculars from $P$ to the lines $B C$ and $D C$ by $M$ and $N$ respectively and let $O=A C \cap B D$. Since the points $O, M$ and $N$ are midpoints of $C A, C X$ and $C Y$ respectively it suffices to prove that $M, N$ and $O$ are collinear. According to Menelaus's theorem for $\triangle B C D$ and points $M, N$ and $O$ we have to prove that

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_7db2aacb858e7f253ee0g-11.jpg?height=575&width=616&top_left_y=905&top_left_x=1226)

$$
\frac{B M}{M C} \cdot \frac{C N}{N D} \cdot \frac{D O}{O B}=1
$$

Since $D O=O B$ the above simplifies to $\frac{B M}{C M}=\frac{D N}{C N}$. It follows from $B M=B C+C M$ and $D N=D C-C N=A B-C N$ that the last equality is equivalent to:

$$
\frac{B C}{C M}+2=\frac{A B}{C N}
$$

Denote by $S$ the foot of the perpendicular from $B$ to $A C$. Since $\Varangle B C S=\Varangle C P M=\varphi$ and $\Varangle B A C=\Varangle A C D=\Varangle C P N=\psi$ we conclude that $\triangle C B S \sim \triangle P C M$ and $\triangle A B S \sim \triangle P C N$. Therefore

$$
\frac{C M}{B S}=\frac{C P}{B C} \text { and } \frac{C N}{B S}=\frac{C P}{A B}
$$

and thus,

$$
C M=\frac{C P . B S}{B C} \text { and } C N=\frac{C P . B S}{A B}
$$

Now equality (1) becomes $A B^{2}-B C^{2}=2 C P . B S$. It follows from

$$
A B^{2}-B C^{2}=A S^{2}-C S^{2}=(A S-C S)(A S+C S)=2 O S . A C
$$

that

$$
D C^{2}-B C^{2}=2 C P \cdot B S \Longleftrightarrow 2 O S \cdot A C=2 C P . B S \Longleftrightarrow O S \cdot A C=C P \cdot B S .
$$

Since $\Varangle A C P=\Varangle B S O=90^{\circ}$ and $\Varangle C A P=\Varangle S B O$ we conclude that $\triangle A C P \sim \triangle B S O$. This implies $O S . A C=C P . B S$, which completes the proof.
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29,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
Problem G4. Let $A B C$ be a scalene triangle with circumcircle $\Gamma$ and circumcenter $O$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $B C$ and $D$ be a point on $\Gamma$ such that $A D \perp B C$. Let $T$ be a point such that $B D C T$ is a parallelogram and $Q$ a point on the same side of $B C$ as $A$ such that

$$
\Varangle B Q M=\Varangle B C A \quad \text { and } \quad \Varangle C Q M=\Varangle C B A
$$

Let $A O$ intersect $\Gamma$ again at $E$ and let the circumcircle of $E T Q$ intersect $\Gamma$ at point $X \neq E$. Prove that the points $A, M$, and $X$ are collinear.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Let $X^{\prime}$ be symmetric point to $Q$ in line $B C$. Now since $\Varangle C B A=\Varangle C Q M=$ $\Varangle C X^{\prime} M, \Varangle B C A=\Varangle B Q M=\Varangle B X^{\prime} M$, we have

$$
\Varangle B X^{\prime} C=\Varangle B X^{\prime} M+\Varangle C X^{\prime} M=\Varangle C B A+\Varangle B C A=180^{\circ}-\Varangle B A C
$$

we have that $X^{\prime} \in \Gamma$. Now since $\Varangle A X^{\prime} B=\Varangle A C B=\Varangle M X^{\prime} B$ we have that $A, M, X^{\prime}$ are collinear. Note that since

$$
\Varangle D C B=\Varangle D A B=90^{\circ}-\Varangle A B C=\Varangle O A C=\Varangle E A C
$$

we get that $D B C E$ is an isosceles trapezoid.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_7db2aacb858e7f253ee0g-18.jpg?height=772&width=727&top_left_y=1625&top_left_x=669)

Since $B D C T$ is a parallelogram we have $M T=M D$, with $M, D, T$ being collinear, $B D=C T$, and since $B D E C$ is an isosceles trapezoid we have $B D=C E$ and $M E=M D$. Since

$$
\Varangle B T C=\Varangle B D C=\Varangle B E D, \quad C E=B D=C T \quad \text { and } \quad M E=M T
$$

we have that $E$ and $T$ are symmetric with respect to the line $B C$. Now since $Q$ and $X^{\prime}$ are symmetric with respect to the line $B C$ as well, this means that $Q X^{\prime} E T$ is an isosceles trapezoid which means that $Q, X^{\prime}, E, T$ are concyclic. Since $X^{\prime} \in \Gamma$ this means that $X \equiv X^{\prime}$ and therefore $A, M, X$ are collinear.
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30,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
NT1. Determine all sets of six consecutive positive integers such that the product of two of them, added to the the product of other two of them is equal to the product of the remaining two numbers.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Exactly two of the six numbers are multiples of 3 and these two need to be multiplied together, otherwise two of the three terms of the equality are multiples of 3 but the third one is not.

Let $n$ and $n+3$ denote these multiples of 3 . Two of the four remaining numbers give remainder 1 when divided by 3 , while the other two give remainder 2 , so the two other products are either

$\equiv 1 \cdot 1=1(\bmod 3)$ and $\equiv 2 \cdot 2 \equiv 1(\bmod 3)$, or they are both $\equiv 1 \cdot 2 \equiv 2(\bmod 3)$. In conclusion, the term $n(n+3)$ needs to be on the right hand side of the equality.

Looking at parity, three of the numbers are odd, and three are even. One of $n$ and $n+3$ is odd, the other even, so exactly two of the other numbers are odd. As $n(n+3)$ is even, the two remaining odd numbers need to appear in different terms.

We distinguish the following cases:

I. The numbers are $n-2, n-1, n, n+1, n+2, n+3$.

The product of the two numbers on the RHS needs to be larger than $n(n+3)$. The only possibility is $(n-2)(n-1)+n(n+3)=(n+1)(n+2)$ which leads to $n=3$. Indeed, $1 \cdot 2+3 \cdot 6=4 \cdot 5$

II. The numbers are $n-1, n, n+1, n+2, n+3, n+4$.

As $(n+4)(n-1)+n(n+3)=(n+1)(n+2)$ has no solutions, $n+4$ needs to be on the RHS, multiplied with a number having a different parity, so $n-1$ or $n+1$.

$(n+2)(n-1)+n(n+3)=(n+1)(n+4)$ leads to $n=3$. Indeed, $2 \cdot 5+3 \cdot 6=4 \cdot 7$. $(n+2)(n+1)+n(n+3)=(n-1)(n+4)$ has no solution.

III. The numbers are $n, n+1, n+2, n+3, n+4, n+5$.

We need to consider the following situations:

$(n+1)(n+2)+n(n+3)=(n+4)(n+5)$ which leads to $n=6$; indeed $7 \cdot 8+6 \cdot 9=10 \cdot 11$;

$(n+2)(n+5)+n(n+3)=(n+1)(n+4)$ obviously without solutions, and

$(n+1)(n+4)+n(n+3)=(n+2)(n+5)$ which leads to $n=2$ (not a multiple of 3 ).

In conclusion, the problem has three solutions:

$$
1 \cdot 2+3 \cdot 6=4 \cdot 5, \quad 2 \cdot 5+3 \cdot 6=4 \cdot 7, \quad \text { and } \quad 7 \cdot 8+6 \cdot 9=10 \cdot 11
$$
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31,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
NT3. Find all pairs of positive integers $(x, y)$ such that $2^{x}+3^{y}$ is a perfect square.
 Assistant: 
Solution. In order for the expression $2^{x}+3^{y}$ to be a perfect square, a positive integer $t$ such that $2^{x}+3^{y}=t^{2}$ should exist.

Case 1. If $x$ is even, then there exists a positive integer $z$ such that $x=2 z$. Then

$$
\left(t-2^{z}\right)\left(t+2^{z}\right)=3^{y}
$$

Since $t+2^{z}-\left(t-2^{z}\right)=2^{z+1}$, which implies $g c d\left(t-2^{z}, t+2^{z}\right) \mid 2^{z+1}$, it follows that $\operatorname{gcd}\left(t-2^{z}, t+\right.$ $\left.2^{z}\right)=1$, hence $t-2^{z}=1$ and $t+2^{z}=3^{y}$, so we have $2^{z+1}+1=3^{y}$.

For $z=1$ we have $5=3^{y}$ which clearly have no solution. For $z \geq 2$ we have (modulo 4) that $y$ is even. Let $y=2 k$. Then $2^{z+1}=\left(3^{k}-1\right)\left(3^{k}+1\right)$ which is possible only when $3^{k}-1=2$, i.e. $k=1, y=2$, which implies that $t=5$. So the pair $(4,2)$ is a solution to our problem. Case 2. If $y$ is even, then there exists a positive integer $w$ such that $y=2 w$, and

$$
\left(t-3^{w}\right)\left(t+3^{w}\right)=2^{x}
$$

Since $t+3^{w}-\left(t-3^{w}\right)=2 \cdot 3^{w}$, we have $\operatorname{gcd}\left(t-2^{z}, t+2^{z}\right) \mid 2 \cdot 3^{w}$, which means that $g c d(t-$ $\left.3^{w}, t+3^{w}\right)=2$. Hence $t-3^{w}=2$ and $t+3^{w}=2^{x-1}$. So we have

$$
2 \cdot 3^{w}+2=2^{x-1} \Rightarrow 3^{w}+1=2^{x-2}
$$

Here we see modulo 3 that $x-2$ is even. Let $x-2=2 m$, then $3^{w}=\left(2^{m}-1\right)\left(2^{m}+1\right)$, whence $m=1$ since $\operatorname{gcd}\left(2^{m}-1,2^{m}+1\right)=1$. So we arrive again to the solution $(4,2)$.

Case 3. Let $x$ and $y$ be odd. For $x \geq 3$ we have $2^{x}+3^{y} \equiv 3(\bmod 4)$ while $t^{2} \equiv 0,1(\bmod 4)$, a contradiction. For $x=1$ we have $2+3^{y}=t^{2}$. For $y \geq 2$ we have $2+3^{y} \equiv 2(\bmod 9)$ while $t^{2} \equiv 0,1,4,7(\bmod 9)$. For $y=1$ we have $5=2+3=t^{2}$ clearly this doesn't have solution. Note. The proposer's solution used Zsigmondy's theorem in the final steps of cases 1 and 2 .
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32,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
NT5. Find all positive integers $n$ such that there exists a prime number $p$, such that

$$
p^{n}-(p-1)^{n}
$$

is a power of 3 .

Note. A power of 3 is a number of the form $3^{a}$ where $a$ is a positive integer.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Suppose that the positive integer $n$ is such that

$$
p^{n}-(p-1)^{n}=3^{a}
$$

for some prime $p$ and positive integer $a$.

If $p=2$, then $2^{n}-1=3^{a}$ by $(1)$, whence $(-1)^{n}-1 \equiv 0(\bmod 3)$, so $n$ should be even. Setting $n=2 s$ we obtain $\left(2^{s}-1\right)\left(2^{s}+1\right)=3^{a}$. It follows that $2^{s}-1$ and $2^{s}+1$ are both powers of 3 , but since they are both odd, they are co-prime, and we have $2^{s}-1=1$, i.e. $s=1$ and $n=2$. If $p=3$, then (1) gives $3 \mid 2^{n}$, which is impossible.

Let $p \geq 5$. Then it follows from (1) that we can not have $3 \mid p-1$. This means that $2^{n}-1 \equiv 0$ $(\bmod 3)$, so $n$ should be even, and let $n=2 k$. Then

$$
p^{2 k}-(p-1)^{2 k}=3^{a} \Longleftrightarrow\left(p^{k}-(p-1)^{k}\right)\left(p^{k}+(p-1)^{k}\right)=3^{a}
$$

If $d=\left(p^{k}-(p-1)^{k}, p^{k}+(p-1)^{k}\right)$, then $d \mid 2 p^{k}$. However, both numbers are powers of 3 , so $d=1$ and $p^{k}-(p-1)^{k}=1, p^{k}+(p-1)^{k}=3^{a}$.

If $k=1$, then $n=2$ and we can take $p=5$. For $k \geq 2$ we have $1=p^{k}-(p-1)^{k} \geq p^{2}-(p-1)^{2}$ (this inequality is equivalent to $p^{2}\left(p^{k-2}-1\right) \geq(p-1)^{2}\left((p-1)^{k-2}-1\right)$, which is obviously true). Then $1 \geq p^{2}-(p-1)^{2}=2 p-1 \geq 9$, which is absurd.

It follows that the only solution is $n=2$.

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33,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A2. Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers such that abc $=1$. Show that

$$
\frac{1}{a^{3}+b c}+\frac{1}{b^{3}+c a}+\frac{1}{c^{3}+a b} \leq \frac{(a b+b c+c a)^{2}}{6}
$$

so
 Assistant: 
Solution. By the AM-GM inequality we have $a^{3}+b c \geq 2 \sqrt{a^{3} b c}=2 \sqrt{a^{2}(a b c)}=2 a$ and

$$
\frac{1}{a^{3}+b c} \leq \frac{1}{2 a}
$$

Similarly; $\frac{1}{b^{3}+c a} \leq \frac{1}{2 b} \cdot \frac{1}{c^{3}+a b} \leq \frac{1}{2 c}$ and then

$$
\frac{1}{a^{3}+b c}+\frac{1}{b^{3}+c a}+\frac{1}{c^{3}+a b} \leq \frac{1}{2 a}+\frac{1}{2 b}+\frac{1}{2 c}=\frac{1}{2} \frac{a b+b c+c a}{a b c} \leq \frac{(a b+b c+c a)^{2}}{6}
$$

Therefore it is enongil to prove $\frac{(a h+b c+c a)^{2}}{6} \leq \frac{(a b+b c+c a)^{2}}{6}$. This mequalits is trivially shomn to be equivalent to $3 \leq a b+b c+c a$ which is true because of the AM-GM inequalit: $3=\sqrt[3]{(a b c)^{2}} \leq a b+b c+c a$.
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34,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A3. Let $a . b$ c ce positue real numbers such that $a+b+c=a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}$. Shou that

$$
\frac{a^{2}}{a^{2}+a b}+\frac{b^{2}}{b^{2}+b c}+\frac{c^{2}}{c^{2}+c a} \geq \frac{a+b+c}{2}
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution. By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality it is

$$
\begin{aligned}
& \left(\frac{a^{2}}{a^{2}+a b}+\frac{b^{2}}{b^{2}+b c}+\frac{c^{2}}{c^{2}+c a}\right)\left(\left(a^{2}+a b\right)+\left(b^{2}+b c\right)+\left(c^{2}+c a\right)\right) \geq(a+b+c)^{2} \\
\Rightarrow & \frac{a^{2}}{a^{2}+a b}+\frac{b^{2}}{b^{2}+b c}+\frac{c^{2}}{c^{2}+c a} \geq \frac{(a+b+c)^{2}}{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+a b+b c+c a}
\end{aligned}
$$

So in is enough to prove $\frac{(a+b+c)^{2}}{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+a b+b c+c a} \geq \frac{a+b+c}{2}$, that is to prove

$$
2(a+b+c) \geq a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+a b+b c+c a
$$

Substituting $a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}$ for $a+b+c$ into the left hand side we wish equivalently to prove

$$
a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq a b+b c+c a
$$

But the $a^{2}+b^{2} \geq 2 a b, b^{2}+c^{2} \geq 2 b c, c^{2}+a^{2} \geq 2 c a$ which by addition imply the desired inequality.
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35,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A4. Solve the following equation for $x, y, z \in \mathbb{N}$

$$
\left(1+\frac{x}{y+z}\right)^{2}+\left(1+\frac{y}{z+x}\right)^{2}+\left(1+\frac{z}{x+y}\right)^{2}=\frac{27}{4}
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution 1. Call $a=1+\frac{x}{y+z}, b=1+\frac{y}{z+x}, c=1+\frac{z}{x+y}$ to get

$$
a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}=\frac{27}{4}
$$

Since it is also true that

$$
\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}=2
$$

the quadratic-harmonic means inequality implies

$$
\frac{3}{2}=\sqrt{\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}}{3}} \geq \frac{3}{\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}}=\frac{3}{2}
$$

So the inequality in the middle holds as an equality, and this happens whenever $a=b=c$, from which $1+\frac{x}{y+z}=1+\frac{y}{z+x}=1+\frac{z}{x+y}$.

But $1+\frac{x}{y+z}=1+\frac{y}{z+x} \Leftrightarrow x^{2}+x z=y^{2}+y z \Leftrightarrow(x-y)(x+y)=z(y-\dot{x})$ and the two sides of this equality will be of different sign, unless $x=y$ in which case both sides become 0 . So $x=y$, and similarly $y=z$, thus $x=y=z$.

Indeed, any triad of equal natural numbers $x=y=z$ is a solution for the given equation, and so these are all its solutions.
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36,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G1. Let $A B C$ be an equilateral triangle, and $P$ a point on the circumcircle of the triangle $A B C$ and distinct from $A, B$ and $C$. If the lines through $P$ and parallel to $B C, C A, A B$ intersect the lines $C A, A B, B C$ at $M, N$ and $Q$ respectively, prove that $M, N$ and $Q$ are collinear.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Without any loss of generality, let $P$ be in the minor arc of the chord $A C$ as in Figure 1. Since $\angle P N A=\angle N P M=60^{\circ}$ and $\angle N A M=\angle P M A=120^{\circ}$, it follows that the points $A, M, P$ and $N$ are concyclic. This yields

$$
\angle N M P=\angle N A P
$$

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_61d3145f18c90bf9f370g-05.jpg?height=663&width=551&top_left_y=933&top_left_x=795)

Figure 1: Exercise G1.

Similarly, since $\angle P M C=\angle M C Q=60^{\circ}$ and $\angle C Q P=60^{\circ}$, it follows that the points $P, M, Q$ and $C$ are concyclic. Thus

$$
\angle P M Q=180^{\circ}-\angle P C Q=180^{\circ}-\angle N A P \stackrel{(2)}{=} 180^{\circ}-\angle N M P .
$$

This implies $\angle P M Q+\angle N M P=180^{\circ}$, which shows that $M, N$ and $Q$ belong to the same line.

1 G2. Let $A B C$ be an isosceles triangle with $A B=A C$. Let also $c(K, K C)$ be a circle tangent to the line $A C$ at point $C$ which it intersects the segment $B C$ again at an interior point $H$. Prove that $H K \perp A B$.
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37,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G4. Let $A B C$ be an acute-angled triangle with circumcircle $\Gamma$, and let $O, H$ be the triangle's circumcenter and orthocenter respectively. Let also $A^{\prime}$ be the point where the angle bisector of angle $B A C$ meets $\Gamma$. If $A^{\prime} H=A H$, find the measure of angle $B A C$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_61d3145f18c90bf9f370g-07.jpg?height=519&width=1042&top_left_y=1756&top_left_x=541)

Figure 4: Exercise G4.
 Assistant: 
Solution. The segment $A A^{\prime}$ bisects $\angle O A H$ : if $\angle B C A=y$ (Figure 4), then $\angle B O A=$ $2 y$, and since $O A=O B$, it is $\angle O A B=\angle O B A=90^{\circ}-y$. Also since $A H \perp B C$, it is
$\angle H A C=90^{\circ}-y=\angle O A B$ and the claim follows.

Since $A . A^{\prime}$ bisects $\angle O A H$ and $A^{\prime} H=A H . O A^{\prime}=O A$, we have that the isosceles triangles $O A A^{\prime}, H A A^{\prime}$ are equal. Thus

$$
A H=O A=R
$$

where $R$ is the circumradius of triangle $A B C$.

Call $\angle A C H=a$ and recall by the law of sines that $A H=2 R^{\prime} \sin a$, where $R^{\prime}$ is the circumradius of triangle $A H C$. Then (4) implies

$$
R=2 R^{\prime} \sin a
$$

But notice that $R=R^{\prime}$ because $\frac{A C}{\sin (A H C)}=2 R^{\prime}, \frac{A C}{\sin (A B C)}=2 R$ and $\sin (A H C)=$ $\sin \left(180^{\circ}-A B C\right)=\sin (A B C)$. So (5) gives $1=2 \sin a$, and $a$ as an acuite angle can only be $30^{\circ}$. Finally, $\angle B A C=90^{\circ}-a=60^{\circ}$.

Remark. The steps in the above proof can be traced backwards making the converse also true, that is: If $\angle B A C=60^{\circ}$ then $A^{\prime} H=A H$.

- G5. Let the circles $k_{1}$ and $k_{2}$ intersect at two distinct points $A$ and $B$, and let $t$ be a common tangent of $k_{1}$ and $k_{2}$ that touches them at $M$ and, $N$ respectively. If $t \perp A M$ and $M N=2 A M$, evaluate $\angle N M B$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_61d3145f18c90bf9f370g-08.jpg?height=540&width=1008&top_left_y=1454&top_left_x=589)

Figure 5: Exercise G5.
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38,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
C1. Along a round table are arranged 11 cards with the names (all distinct) of the 11 members of the $16^{\text {th }}$ JBMO Problem Selection Committee. The distances between each two consecutive cards are equal. Assume that in the first meeting of the Committee none of its 11 members sits in front of the card with his name. Is it possible to rotate the table by some angle so that at the end at least two members of sit in front of the card with their names?
 Assistant: 
Solution. Yes it is: Rotating the table by the angles $\frac{360^{\circ}}{11}, 2 \cdot \frac{360^{\circ}}{11}, 3 \cdot \frac{360^{\circ}}{11}, \ldots, 10 \cdot \frac{360^{\circ}}{11}$, we obtain 10 new positions of the table. By the assumption, it is obvious that every one of the 11 members of the Committee will be seated in front of the card with his name in exactly one of these 10 positions. Then by the Pigeonhole Principle there should exist one among these 10 positions in which at least two of the $11(>10)$ members of the Committee will be placed in their positions, as claimed.
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39,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
C2. $n$ nails nailed on a board are connected by two via a string. Each string is colored in one of $n$ given colors. For any three colors there exist three nails conne.cted by two with strings in these three colors. Can $n$ be: (a) 6, (b) 7?
 Assistant: 
Solution. (a) The answer is no:

Suppose it is possible. Consider some color, say blue. Each blue string is the side of 4 triangles formed with vertices on the given points. As there exist $\binom{5}{2}=\frac{5 \cdot 4}{2}=10$ pairs of colors other than blue, and for any such pair of colors together with the blue color there exists a triangle with strings in these colors, we conclude that there exist at least 3 blue strings (otherwise the number of triangles with a blue string as a side would be at most $2 \cdot 4=8$, a contradiction). The same is true for any color, so altogether there exist at least $6 \cdot 3=18$ strings, while we have just $\binom{6}{2}=\frac{6 \cdot 5}{2}=15$ of them.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_61d3145f18c90bf9f370g-12.jpg?height=519&width=488&top_left_y=1850&top_left_x=835)

Figure 8: Exercise C2.

(b) The answer is yes (Figure 8):

Put the nails at the vertices of a regular 7-gon (Figure 8) and color each one of its sides in a different color. Now color each diagonal in the color of the unique side parallel to it. It can be checked directly that each triple of colors appears in some triangle (because of symmetry, it is enough to check only the triples containing the first color).

Remark. The argument in (a) can be applied to any even $n$. The argument. in (b) can be applied to any odd $n=2 k+1$ as follows: first number the nails as $0,1,2 \ldots, 2 k$ and similarly number the colors as $0,1,2 \ldots, 2 k$. Then connect nail $x$ with nail $y$ by a string of color $x+y(\bmod n)$. For each triple of colors $(p, q, r)$ there are vertices $x, y, z$ connected by these three colors. Indeed, we need to solve (modn.) the system

$$
(*)(x+y \equiv p, x+z \equiv q, y+z \equiv r)
$$

Adding all three, we get $2(x+y+z) \equiv p+q+r$ and multiplying by $k+1$ we get $x+y+z \equiv$ $(k+1)(p+q+r)$. We can now find $x, y, z$ from the identities $(*)$.
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40,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A2. Find the largest possible value of the expression $\left|\sqrt{x^{2}+4 x+8}-\sqrt{x^{2}+8 x+17}\right|$ where $x$ is a real number.
 Assistant: 
Solution. We observe that

$$
\left|\sqrt{x^{2}+4 x+8}-\sqrt{x^{2}+8 x+17}\right|=\left|\sqrt{(x-(-2))^{2}+(0-2)^{2}}-\sqrt{\left.(x-(-4))^{2}+(0-1)^{2}\right)}\right|
$$

is the absolute difference of the distances from the point $P(x, 0)$ in the $x y$-plane to the points $A(-2,2)$ and $B(-4,1)$.

By the Triangle Inequality, $|P A-P B| \leq|A B|$ and the equality occurs exactly when $P$ lies on the line passing through $A$ and $B$, but not between them.

If $P, A, B$ are collinear, then $(x-(-2)) /(0-2)=((-4)-(-2)) /(1-2)$. This gives $x=-6$, and as $-6<-4<-2$,

$$
\left|\sqrt{(-6)^{2}+4(-6)+8}-\sqrt{(-6)^{2}+8(-6)+17}\right|=|\sqrt{20}-\sqrt{5}|=\sqrt{5}
$$

is the largest possible value of the expression.
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41,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
C3. All possible pairs of $n$ apples are weighed and the results are given to us in an arbitrary order. Can we determine the weights of the apples if a. $n=4$, b. $n=5$, c. $n=6$ ?
 Assistant: 
Solution. a. No. Four apples with weights $1,5,7,9$ and with weights $2,4,6,10$ both give the results $6,8,10,12,14,16$ when weighed in pairs.

b. Yes. Let $a \leq b \leq c \leq d \leq e$ be the weights of the apples. As each apple is weighed 4 times, by adding all 10 pairwise weights and dividing the sum by 4 , we obtain $a+b+c+d+e$. Subtracting the smallest and the largest pairwise weights $a+b$ and $d+e$ from this we obtain c. Subtracting $c$ from the second largest pairwise weight $c+e$ we obtain $e$. Subtracting $e$ from the largest pairwise weight $d+e$ we obtain $d$. $a$ and $b$ are similarly determined.

c. Yes. Let $a \leq b \leq c \leq d \leq e \leq f$ be the weights of the apples. As each apple is weighed 5 times, by adding all 15 pairwise weights and dividing the sum by 5 , we obtain $a+b+c+d+e+f$. Subtracting the smallest and the largest pairwise weights $a+b$ and $e+f$ from this we obtain $c+d$.

Subtracting the smallest and the second largest pairwise weights $a+b$ and $d+f$ from $a+b+c+d+e+f$ we obtain $c+e$. Similarly we obtain $b+d$. We use these to obtain $a+f$ and $b+e$.

Now $a+d, a+e, b+c$ are the three smallest among the remaining six pairwise weights. If we add these up, subtract the known weights $c+d$ and $b+e$ form the sum and divide the difference by 2 , we obtain $a$. Then the rest follows.
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42,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G1. Let $A B$ be a diameter of a circle $\omega$ with center $O$ and $O C$ be a radius of $\omega$ which is perpendicular to $A B$. Let $M$ be a point on the line segment $O C$. Let $N$ be the second point of intersection of the line $A M$ with $\omega$, and let $P$ be the point of intersection of the lines tangent to $\omega$ at $N$ and at $B$. Show that the points $M, O, P, N$ are concyclic.
 Assistant: 
Solution. Since the lines $P N$ and $B P$ are tangent to $\omega, N P=P B$ and $O P$ is the bisector of $\angle N O B$. Therefore the lines $O P$ and $N B$ are perpendicular. Since $\angle A N B=90^{\circ}$, it follows that the lines $A N$ and $O P$ are parallel. As $M O$ and $P B$ are also parallel and $A O=O B$, the triangles $A M O$ and $O P B$ are congruent and $M O=P B$. Hence $M O=N P$. Therefore $M O P N$ is an isosceles trapezoid and therefore cyclic. Hence the points $M, O, P, N$ are concyclic.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_66b0df6ec561017d2840g-16.jpg?height=1267&width=1249&top_left_y=779&top_left_x=382)

8.2. $\omega_{1}$ and $\omega_{2}$ are two circles that are externally tangent to each other at the point $M$ and internally tangent to a circle $\omega_{3}$ at the points $K$ and $L$, respectively. Let $A$ and $B$ be the two points where the common tangent line at $M$ to $\omega_{1}$ and $\omega_{2}$ intersects $\omega_{3}$. Show that if $\angle K A B=\angle L A B$ then the line segment $A B$ is a diameter of $\omega_{3}$.
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43,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G3. Let $D$ be a point on the side $B C$ of an acute triangle $A B C$ such that $\angle B A D=\angle C A O$ where $O$ is the center of the circumcircle $\omega$ of the triangle $A B C$. Let $E$ be the second point of intersection of $\omega$ and the line $A D$. Let $M, N, P$ be the midpoints of the line segments $B E, O D, A C$, respectively. Show that $M, N, P$ are collinear.
 Assistant: 
Solution. We will show that $M O P D$ is a parallelogram. From this it follows that $M, N$, $P$ are collinear.

Since $\angle B A D=\angle C A O=90^{\circ}-\angle A B C, D$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $A$ to side $B C$. Since $M$ is the midpoint of the line segment $B E$, we have $B M=M E=M D$ and hence $\angle M D E=\angle M E D=\angle A C B$.

Let the line $M D$ intersect the line $A C$ at $D_{1}$. Since $\angle A D D_{1}=\angle M D E=\angle A C D, M D$ is perpendicular to $A C$. On the other hand, since $O$ is the center of the circumcircle of triangle $A B C$ and $P$ is the midpoint of the side $A C, O P$ is perpendicular to $A C$. Therefore $M D$ and $O P$ are parallel.

Similarly, since $P$ is the midpoint of the side $A C$, we have $A P=P C=D P$ and hence $\angle P D C=\angle A C B$. Let the line $P D$ intersect the line $B E$ at $D_{2}$. Since $\angle B D D_{2}=\angle P D C=$ $\angle A C B=\angle B E D$, we conclude that $P D$ is perpendicular to $B E$. Since $M$ is the midpoint of the line segment $B E, O M$ is perpendicular to $B E$ and hence $O M$ and $P D$ are parallel.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_66b0df6ec561017d2840g-18.jpg?height=1238&width=1335&top_left_y=1217&top_left_x=359)
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44,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G4. Let $I$ be the incenter and $A B$ the shortest side of a triangle $A B C$. The circle with center $I$ and passing through $C$ intersects the ray $A B$ at the point $P$ and the ray $B A$ at the point $Q$. Let $D$ be the point where the excircle of the triangle $A B C$ belonging to angle $A$ touches the side $B C$, and let $E$ be the symmetric of the point $C$ with respect to $D$. Show that the lines $P E$ and $C Q$ are perpendicular.
 Assistant: 
Solution. First we will show that points $P$ and $Q$ are not on the line segment $A B$.

Assume that $Q$ is on the line segment $A B$. Since $C I=Q I$ and $\angle I B Q=\angle I B C$, either the triangles $C B I$ and $Q B I$ are congruent or $\angle I C B+\angle I Q B=180^{\circ}$. In the first case, we have $B C=B Q$ which contradicts $A B$ being the shortest side.

In the second case, we have $\angle I Q A=\angle I C B=\angle I C A$ and the triangles $I A C$ and $I A Q$ are congruent. Hence this time we have $A C=A Q$, contradicting $A B$ being the shortest side.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_66b0df6ec561017d2840g-19.jpg?height=677&width=1058&top_left_y=874&top_left_x=520)

Case 1

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Now we will show that the lines $P E$ and $C Q$ are perpendicular.

Since $\angle I Q B \leq \angle I A B=(\angle C A B) / 2<90^{\circ}$ and $\angle I C B=(\angle A C B) / 2<90^{\circ}$, the triangles $C B I$ and $Q B I$ are congruent. Hence $B C=B Q$ and $\angle C Q P=\angle C Q B=90^{\circ}-(\angle A B C) / 2$. Similarly, we have $A C=A P$ and hence $B P=A C-A B$.

On the other hand, as $D E=C D$ and $C D+A C=u$, where $u$ denotes the semiperimeter of the triangle $A B C$, we have $B E=B C-2(u-A C)=A C-A B$. Therefore $B P=B E$ and $\angle Q P E=(\angle A B C) / 2$.

Hence, $\angle C Q P+\angle Q P E=90^{\circ}$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_66b0df6ec561017d2840g-20.jpg?height=1393&width=1427&top_left_y=773&top_left_x=333)
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45,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G5. A circle passing through the midpoint $M$ of the side $B C$ and the vertex $A$ of a triangle $A B C$ intersects the sides $A B$ and $A C$ for the second time at the points $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Show that if $\angle B A C=60^{\circ}$ then

$$
A P+A Q+P Q<A B+A C+\frac{1}{2} B C
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution. Since the quadrilateral $A P M Q$ is cyclic, we have $\angle P M Q=180^{\circ}-\angle P A Q=$ $180^{\circ}-\angle B A C=120^{\circ}$. Therefore $\angle P M B+\angle Q M C=180^{\circ}-\angle P M Q=60^{\circ}$.

Let the point $B^{\prime}$ be the symmetric of the point $B$ with respect to the line $P M$ and the point $C^{\prime}$ be the symmetric of the point $C$ with respect to the line $Q M$. The triangles $B^{\prime} M P$ and $B M P$ are congruent and the triangles $C^{\prime} M Q$ and $C M Q$ are congruent. Hence $\angle B^{\prime} M C^{\prime}=\angle P M Q-\angle B^{\prime} M P-\angle C^{\prime} M Q=120^{\circ}-\angle B M P-\angle C M Q=120^{\circ}-60^{\circ}=60^{\circ}$. As we also have $B^{\prime} M=B M=C M=C^{\prime} M$, we conclude that the triangle $B^{\prime} M C^{\prime}$ is equilateral and $B^{\prime} C^{\prime}=B C / 2$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_66b0df6ec561017d2840g-21.jpg?height=898&width=1153&top_left_y=978&top_left_x=493)

On the other hand, we have $P B^{\prime}+B^{\prime} C^{\prime}+C^{\prime} Q \geq P Q$ by the Triangle Inequality, and hence $P B+B C / 2+Q C \geq P Q$. This gives the inequality $A B+B C / 2+A C \geq A P+P Q+A Q$.

We get an equality only when the points $B^{\prime}$ and $C^{\prime}$ lie on the line segment $P Q$. If this is the case, then $\angle P Q C+\angle Q P B=2(\angle P Q M+\angle Q P M)=120^{\circ}$ and therefore $\angle A P Q+\angle A Q P=$ $240^{\circ} \neq 120^{\circ}$, a contradiction.
$A B C D$. Let $K$ and $M$ be the points of intersection of the line $P D$ with $Q B$ and $Q A$, respectively, and let $N$ be the point of intersection of the lines $P A$ and $Q B$.

Let $X, Y, Z$ be the midpoints of the line segments $A N, K N, A M$, respectively. Let $\ell_{1}$ be the line passing through $X$ and perpendicular to $M K, \ell_{2}$ be the line passing through $Y$ and perpendicular to $A M, \ell_{3}$ be the line passing through $Z$ and perpendicular to $K N$. Show that $\ell_{1}, \ell_{2}, \ell_{3}$ are concurrent.
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46,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
N1. Find all positive integere on for othich $1^{2}+2^{2}+\cdots+16^{2}+17$ is a perfort square
 Assistant: 
Solution. We bave $1^{3}+2^{5}+\cdots+16^{2}=(1+2+\cdots+16)^{2}=5^{2} \quad 17^{0}$ Herese. $11^{3}+2^{3}+$

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meeger t then $1 T^{\prime}-(1+B)(t-3)$ A. $(1,5) \quad(t-3)=16$ this can coly happen

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Eirornd all ordered triples $(x, y, z)$ of integers satisfying $20^{x}+13^{y}=2013^{z}$.
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47,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
N3. Find all ordered pairs $(a, b)$ of positive integers for which the numbers $\frac{a^{3} b-1}{a+1}$ and $\frac{b^{3} a+1}{b-1}$ are positive integers.
 Assistant: 
Solution. As $a^{3} b-1=b\left(a^{3}+1\right)-(b+1)$ and $a+1 \mid a^{3}+1$, we have $a+1 \mid b+1$.

As $b^{3} a+1=a\left(b^{3}-1\right)+(a+1)$ and $b-1 \mid b^{3}-1$, we have $b-1 \mid a+1$.

So $b-1 \mid b+1$ and hence $b-1 \mid 2$.

- If $b=2$, then $a+1 \mid b+1=3$ gives $a=2$. Hence $(a, b)=(2,2)$ is the only solution in this case.
- If $b=3$, then $a+1 \mid b+1=4$ gives $a=1$ or $a=3$. Hence $(a, b)=(1,3)$ and $(3,3)$ are the only solutions in this case.

To summarize, $(a, b)=(1,3),(2,2)$ and $(3,3)$ are the only solutions.
$\mathbf{N 4}$. A rectangle in the $x y$-plane is called latticed if all its vertices have integer coordinates.

a. Find a latticed rectangle with area 2013 whose sides are not parallel to the axes.

b. Show that if a latticed rectangle has area 2011, then its sides are parallel to the axes.
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48,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
N5. Find all ordered triples $(x, y, z)$ of positive integers satisfying the equation

$$
\frac{1}{x^{2}}+\frac{y}{x z}+\frac{1}{z^{2}}=\frac{1}{2013}
$$
 Assistant: 
Solution. We have $x^{2} z^{2}=2013\left(x^{2}+x y z+z^{2}\right)$. Let $d=\operatorname{gcd}(x, z)$ and $x=d a, z=d b$. Then $a^{2} b^{2} d^{2}=2013\left(a^{2}+a b y+b^{2}\right)$.

As $\operatorname{gcd}(a, b)=1$, we also have $\operatorname{gcd}\left(a^{2}, a^{2}+a b y+b^{2}\right)=1$ and $\operatorname{gcd}\left(b^{2}, a^{2}+a b y+b^{2}\right)=1$. Therefore $a^{2} \mid 2013$ and $b^{2} \mid 2013$. But $2013=3 \cdot 11 \cdot 61$ is squarefree and therefore $a=1=b$.

Now we have $x=z=d$ and $d^{2}=2013(y+2)$. Once again as 2013 is squarefree, we must have $y+2=2013 n^{2}$ where $n$ is a positive integer.

Hence $(x, y, z)=\left(2013 n, 2013 n^{2}-2,2013 n\right)$ where $n$ is a positive integer.
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49,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## A2 ALB

3) If $x^{3}-3 \sqrt{3} x^{2}+9 x-3 \sqrt{3}-64=0$, find the value of $x^{6}-8 x^{5}+13 x^{4}-5 x^{3}+49 x^{2}-137 x+2015$.
 Assistant: 
Solution

$x^{3}-3 \sqrt{3} x^{2}+9 x-3 \sqrt{3}-64=0 \Leftrightarrow(x-\sqrt{3})^{3}=64 \Leftrightarrow(x-\sqrt{3})=4 \Leftrightarrow x-4=\sqrt{3} \Leftrightarrow x^{2}-8 x+16=3 \Leftrightarrow$ $x^{2}-8 x+13=0$

$x^{6}-8 x^{5}+13 x^{4}-5 x^{3}+49 x^{2}-137 x+2015=\left(x^{2}-8 x+13\right)\left(x^{4}-5 x+9\right)+1898=0+1898=1898$

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50,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## G1 MNE

Around the triangle $A B C$ the circle is circumscribed, and at the vertex $C$ tangent $t$ to this circle is drawn. The line $p$ which is parallel to this tangent intersects the lines $B C$ and $A C$ at the points $D$ and $E$, respectively. Prove that the points $A, B, D, E$ belong to the same circle.

 Assistant: ## Solution:

Let $O$ be the center of a circumscribed circle $k$ of the triangle $A B C$, and let $F$ and $G$ be the points of intersection of the line $C O$ with the line $p$ and the circle $k$, respectively (see Figure). From $p \| t$ it follows that $p \perp C O$. Furthermore, $\angle A B C=\angle A G C$, because these angles are peripheral over the same chord. The quadrilateral $A G F E$ has two right angles at the vertices $A$ and $F$, and hence, $\angle A E D+\angle A B D=\angle A E F+\angle A G F=180^{\circ}$. Hence, the quadrilateral $A B D E$ is cyclic, as asserted.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_07a1b610f48bd7c35addg-06.jpg?height=406&width=483&top_left_y=2006&top_left_x=843)

Figure

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51,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## G2 MLD

The point $P$ is outside of the circle $\Omega$. Two tangent lines, passing from the point $P$, touch the circle $\Omega$ at the points $A$ and $B$. The median $A M, M \in(B P)$, intersects the circle $\Omega$ at the point $C$ and the line $P C$ intersects again the circle $\Omega$ at the point $D$. Prove that the lines $A D$ and $B P$ are parallel.

 Assistant: ## Solution:

Since $\angle B A C=\angle B A M=\angle M B C$, we have $\triangle M A B \cong \triangle M B C$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_07a1b610f48bd7c35addg-07.jpg?height=498&width=745&top_left_y=735&top_left_x=625)

We obtain $\frac{M A}{M B}=\frac{M B}{M C}=\frac{A B}{B C}$. The equality $\quad M B=M P$ implies $\frac{M A}{M P}=\frac{M P}{M C}$ and $\angle P M C \equiv \angle P M A$ gives the relation $\triangle P M A \cong \triangle C M P$. It follows that $\angle B P D \equiv \angle M P C \equiv \angle M A P \equiv \angle C A P \equiv \angle C D A \equiv \angle P D A$. So, the lines $A D$ and $B P$ are parallel.

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52,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G4

CYP

Let $\triangle A B C$ be an acute triangle. The lines $\left(\varepsilon_{1}\right),\left(\varepsilon_{2}\right)$ are perpendicular to $A B$ at the points $A$, $B$, respectively. The perpendicular lines from the midpoint $M$ of $A B$ to the sides of the triangle $A C_{;} B C$ intersect the lines $\left(\varepsilon_{1}\right),\left(\xi_{2}\right)$ at the points $E, F$, respectively. If $I$ is the intersection point of $E F, M C$, prove that

$$
\angle A I B=\angle E M F=\angle C A B+\angle C B A
$$

 Assistant: ## Solution:

Let $H, G$ be the points of intersection of $M E, M F$, with $A C, B C$ respectively. From the similarity of triangles $\triangle M H A$ and $\triangle M A E$ we get

$$
\frac{M H}{M A}=\frac{M A}{M E}
$$

thus, $M A^{2}=M H \cdot M E$

Similarly, from the similarity of triangles $\triangle M B G$ and $\triangle M F B$ we get

$$
\frac{M B}{M F}=\frac{M G}{M B}
$$

thus, $M B^{2}=M F \cdot M G$

Since $M A=M B$, from (1), (2), we have that the points $E, H, G, F$ are concyclic.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_07a1b610f48bd7c35addg-09.jpg?height=710&width=1025&top_left_y=298&top_left_x=298)

Therefore, we get that $\angle F E H=\angle F E M=\angle H G M$. Also, the quadrilateral $C H M G$ is cyclic, so $\angle C M H=\angle H G C$. We have

$$
\angle F E H+\angle C M H=\angle H G M+\angle H G C=90^{\circ}
$$

Thus $C M \perp E F$. Now, from the cyclic quadrilaterals $F I M B$ and EIMA, we get that

$\angle I F M=\angle I B M$ and $\angle I E M=\angle I A M$. Therefore, the triangles $\triangle E M F$ and $\triangle A I B$ are similar, so $\angle A J B=\angle E M F$. Finally

$$
\angle A I B=\angle A I M+\angle M I B=\angle A E M+\angle M F B=\angle C A B+\angle C B A
$$
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53,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
G5 ROU

Let $A B C$ be an acute triangle with $A B \neq A C$. The incircle $\omega$ of the triangle touches the sides $B C, C A$ and $A B$ at $D, E$ and $F$, respectively. The perpendicular line erected at $C$ onto $B C$ meets $E F$ at $M$, and similarly, the perpendicular line erected at $B$ onto $B C$ meets $E F$ at $N$. The line $D M$ meets $\omega$ again in $P$, and the line $D N$ meets $\omega$ again at $Q$. Prove that $D P=D Q$.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_07a1b610f48bd7c35addg-09.jpg?height=583&width=737&top_left_y=1595&top_left_x=607)

 Assistant: ## Solution:

## Proof 1.1.

Let $\{T\}=E F \cap B C$. Applying Menelaus' theorem to the triangle $A B C$ and the transversal line $E-F-T$ we obtain $\frac{T B}{T C} \cdot \frac{E C}{E A} \cdot \frac{F A}{F B}=1$, i.e. $\frac{T B}{T C} \cdot \frac{s-c}{s-a} \cdot \frac{s-a}{s-b}=1$, or $\frac{T B}{T C}=\frac{s-b}{s-c}$, where the notations are the usual ones.

This means that triangles $T B N$ and $T C M$ are similar, therefore $\frac{T B}{T C}=\frac{B N}{C M}$. From the above it follows $\frac{B N}{C M}=\frac{s-b}{s-c}, \frac{B D}{C D}=\frac{s-b}{s-c}$, and $\angle D B N=\angle D C M=90^{\circ}$, which means that triangles $B D N$ and $C D M$ are similar, hence angles $B D N$ and $C D M$ are equal. This leads to the arcs $D Q$ and $D P$ being equal, and finally to $D P=D Q$.

## Proof 1.2.

Let $S$ be the meeting point of the altitude from $A$ with the line $E F$. Lines $B N, A S, C M$ are parallel, therefore triangles $B N F$ and $A S F$ are similar, as are triangles $A S E$ and $C M E$. We obtain $\frac{B N}{A S}=\frac{B F}{F A}$ and $\frac{A S}{C M}=\frac{A E}{E C}$.

Multiplying the two relations, we obtain $\frac{B N}{C M}=\frac{B F}{F A} \cdot \frac{A E}{E C}=\frac{B F}{E C}=\frac{B D}{D C}$ (we have used that $A E=A F, B F=B D$ and $C E=C D)$.

It follows that the right triangles $B D N$ and $C D M$ are similar (SAS), which leads to the same ending as in the first proof.

## NUMBER THEORY
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54,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
NT1 SAU

What is the greatest number of integers that can be selected from a set of 2015 consecutive numbers so that no sum of any two selected numbers is divisible by their difference?

 Assistant: ## Solution:

We take any two chosen numbers. If their difference is 1 , it is clear that their sum is divisible by their difference. If their difference is 2 , they will be of the same parity, and their sum is divisible by their difference. Therefore, the difference between any chosen numbers will be at least 3 . In other words, we can choose at most one number of any three consecutive numbers. This implies that we can choose at most 672 numbers.

Now, we will show that we can choose 672 such numbers from any 2015 consecutive numbers. Suppose that these numbers are $a, a+1, \ldots, a+2014$. If $a$ is divisible by 3 , we can choose $a+1, a+4, \ldots, a+2014$. If $a$ is not divisible by 3 , we can choose $a, a+3, \ldots, a+$ 2013.
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55,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
NT2 BUL

A positive integer is called a repunit, if it is written only by ones. The repunit with $n$ digits will be denoted by $\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{n}$. Prove that:

a) the repunit $\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{n}$ is divisible by 37 if and only if $n$ is divisible by 3 ;

b) there exists a positive integer $k$ such that the repunit $\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{n}$ is divisible by 41 if and only if $n$ is divisible by $k$.

 Assistant: ## Solution:

a) Let $n=3 m+r$, where $m$ and $r$ are non-negative integers and $r<3$.

Denote by $\underbrace{00 \ldots 0}_{p}$ a recording with $p$ zeroes and $\underbrace{a b c a b c \ldots a b c}_{p x a b c c}$ recording with $p$ times $a b c$. We

have: $\quad \underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{n}=\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{3 m+r}=\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{3 m} \cdot \underbrace{00 \ldots 0}_{r}+\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{\tau}=111 \cdot \underbrace{100100 \ldots 100100 \ldots 0}_{(m-1) \times 100}+\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{r}$.

Since $111=37.3$, the numbers $\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{n}$ and $\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{r}$ are equal modulo 37 . On the other hand the numbers 1 and 11 are not divisible by 37 . We conclude that $\underbrace{11 \ldots 1}_{n}$ is divisible by 37 if only if $r=0$, i.e. if and only if $n$ is divisible by 3 .

b) Using the idea from a), we look for a repunit, which is divisible by 41 . Obviously, 1 and 11 are not divisible by 41 , while the residues of 111 and 1111 are 29 and 4 , respectively. We have $11111=41 \cdot 271$. Since 11111 is a repunit with 5 digits, it follows in the same way as in a) that $\underbrace{1}_{11 \ldots 1}$ is divisible by 41 if and only if $n$ is divisible by 5 .

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56,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## NT3 ALB

a) Show that the product of all differences of possible couples of six given positive integers is divisible by 960 (original from Albania).

b) Show that the product of all differences of possible couples of six given positive integers. is divisible by 34560 (modified by problem selecting committee).

 Assistant: ## Solution:

a) Since we have six numbers then at least two of them have a same residue when divided by 3 , so at least one of the differences in our product is divisible by 3 .

Since we have six numbers then at least two of them have a same residuc when divided by 5 , so at least one of the differences in our product is divisible by 5 .

We may have:

a) six numbers with the same parity

b) five numbers with the same parity

c) four numbers with the same parity

d) three numbers with the same parity

There are $C_{6}^{2}=15$ different pairs, so there are 15 different differences in this product.

a) The six numbers have the same parity; then each difference is divisible by 2 , therefore our product is divisible by $2^{15}$.
b) If we have five numbers with the same parity, then the couples that have their difference odd are formed by taking one number from these five numbers, and the second will be the sixth one. Then $C_{5}^{1}=15=5$ differences are odd. So $15-5=10$ differences are even, so product is divisible by $2^{10}$.

c) If we have four numbers with the same parity, then the couples that have their difference odd are formed by taking one number from these four numbers, and the second will be from the two others numbers. Then $2 \cdot C_{4}^{1}=8$ differences are odd. So $15-8=7$ differences are even, so our product is divisible by $2^{7}$.

d) If we have three numbers with the same parity, then the couples that have their difference odd are formed by taking one from each triple. Then $C_{3}^{1} \cdot C_{3}^{1}=9$ differences are odd, therefore $15-9=6$ differences are even, so our product is divisible by $2^{6}$.

Thus, our production is divisible by $2^{6} \cdot 3 \cdot 5=960$.

b) Let $a_{1}, a_{2}, a_{3}, a_{4}, a_{5}, a_{6}$ be these numbers. Since we have six numbers then at least two of them when divided by 5 have the same residue, so at least one of these differences in our product is divisible by 5 .

Since we have six numbers, and we have three possible residues at the division by 3 , then at least three of them replies the residue of previous numbers, so at least three of these differences in our product are divisible by 3 .

Since we have six numbers, and we have two possible residues at the division by 2 , then at least four of them replies the residue of previous numbers, and two of them replies replied residues, so at least six of these differences in our product are divisible by 2 .

Since we have six numbers, and we have four possible residues at the division by 4 , then at least two of them replies the residue of previous numbers, so at least two of these differences in our product are divisible by 4 . That means that two of these differences are divisible by 4 and moreover four of them are divisible by 2 .

Thus, our production is divisible by $2^{4} \cdot 4^{2} \cdot 3^{3} \cdot 5=34560$.
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57,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: ## NT5 MNE

Does there exist positive integers $a, b$ and a prime $p$ such that

$$
a^{3}-b^{3}=4 p^{2} ?
$$

 Assistant: ## Solution:

The given equality may be written as

$$
(a-b)\left(a^{2}+a b+b^{2}\right)=4 p^{2}
$$

Since $a-b3$ and $3^{2} \equiv 0(\bmod 3)$, it follows that the congruence (5) is not satisfied for any odd prime $p$.

If $a-b=4$, then substituting $a=b+4$ in (1) we obtain

$$
3 b^{2}+12 b+16=p^{2}
$$

whence it follows that $b$ is an odd integer such that

$$
3 b^{2} \equiv p^{2}(\bmod 4)
$$

whence since $p^{2} \equiv 1(\bmod 4)$ for each odd prime $p$, we have

$$
3 b^{2} \equiv 1(\bmod 4)
$$

However, since $b^{2} \equiv 1(\bmod 4)$ for each odd integer $b$, it follows that the congruence (6) is not satisfied for any odd integer $b$.

If $a-b=p$, then substituting $a=b+p$ in (1) we obtain

$$
p\left(3 b^{2}+3 b p+p^{2}-4 p\right)=0
$$

i.e.,

(7)

$$
3 b^{2}+3 b p+p^{2}-4 p=0
$$

If $p \geq 5$, then $p^{2}-4 p>0$, and thus (7) cannot be satisfied for any positive integer $b$. If $p=3$, then $(7)$ becomes

$$
3\left(b^{2}+3 b-1\right)=0
$$

which is obviously not satisfied for any positive integer $b$.

Hence, there does not exist positive integers $a, b$ and a prime $p$ such that $a^{3}-b^{3}=4 p^{2}$.

## COMBINATORICS

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58,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
C4

GRE

Let $n \geq 1$ be a positive integer. A square of side length $n$ is divided by lines parallel to each side into $n^{2}$ squares of side length 1 . Find the number of parallelograms which have vertices among the vertices of the $n^{2}$ squares of side length 1 , with both sides smaller or equal to 2 , and which have the area equal to 2 .
 Assistant: 
Solution:

We can divide all these parallelograms into 7 classes (types I-VII), according to Figure.

![](https://cdn.mathpix.com/cropped/2024_06_05_07a1b610f48bd7c35addg-17.jpg?height=632&width=1277&top_left_y=1207&top_left_x=291)

Type 1: There are $n$ ways to choose the strip for the horizontal (shorter) side of the parallelogram, and $(n-1)$ ways to choose the strip (of the width 2 ) for the vertical (longer) side. So there are $n(n-1)$ parallelograms of the type I.

Type II: There are $(n-1)$ ways to choose the strip (of the width 2 ) for the horizontal (longer) side, and $n$ ways to choose the strip for the vertical (shorter) side. So the number of the parallelogram of this type is also $n(n-1)$.

Type III: Each parallelogram of this type is a square inscribed in a unique square $2 \times 2$ of our grid. The number of such squares is $(n-1)^{2}$. So there are $(n-1)^{2}$ parallelograms of type III. For each of the types IV, V, VI, VII, the strip of the width 1 in which the parallelogram is located can be chosen in $n$ ways and for each such choice there are $n-2$ parallelograms located in the chosen strip.

Summing we obtain that the total number of parallelograms is:

$$
2 n(n-1)+(n-1)^{2}+4 n(n-2)=7 n^{2}-12 n+1
$$

(C5) CYP

We have a $5 \times 5$ chessboard and a supply of $\mathrm{L}$-shaped triominoes, i.e. $2 \times 2$ squares with one comer missing. Two players $A$ and $B$ play the following game: A positive integer $k \leq 25$ is chosen. Starting with $A$, the players take alternating turns marking squares of the chessboard until they mark a total of $k$ squares. (In each turn a player has to mark exactly one new square.)

At the end of the process, player $A$ wins if he can cover without overlapping all but at most 2 unmarked squares with $\mathrm{L}$-shaped triominoes, otherwise player $\boldsymbol{B}$ wins. It is not permitted any
marked squares to be covered.

Find the smallest $\boldsymbol{k}$, if it exists, such that player $\boldsymbol{B}$ has a winning strategy.

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59,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A1 Let $a$ be a real positive number such that $a^{3}=6(a+1)$. Prove that the equation $x^{2}+a x+a^{2}-6=0$ has no solution in the set of the real number.

 Assistant: ## Solution

The discriminant of the equation is $\Delta=3\left(8-a^{2}\right)$. If we accept that $\Delta \geq 0$, then $a \leq 2 \sqrt{2}$ and $\frac{1}{a} \geq \frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}$, from where $a^{2} \geq 6+6 \cdot \frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}=6+\frac{6}{a} \geq 6+\frac{3 \sqrt{2}}{2}>8$ (contradiction).
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60,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A2 Prove that $\frac{a^{2}-b c}{2 a^{2}+b c}+\frac{b^{2}-c a}{2 b^{2}+c a}+\frac{c^{2}-a b}{2 c^{2}+a b} \leq 0$ for any real positive numbers $a, b, c$.

 Assistant: ## Solution

The inequality rewrites as $\sum \frac{2 a^{2}+b c-3 b c}{2 a^{2}+b c} \leq 0$, or $3-3 \sum \frac{b c}{2 a^{2}+b c} \leq 0$ in other words $\sum \frac{b c}{2 a^{2}+b c} \geq 1$.

Using Cauchy-Schwarz inequality we have

$$
\sum \frac{b c}{2 a^{2}+b c}=\sum \frac{b^{2} c^{2}}{2 a^{2} b c+b^{2} c^{2}} \geq \frac{\left(\sum b c\right)^{2}}{2 a b c(a+b+c)+\sum b^{2} c^{2}}=1
$$

as claimed.
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61,"A conversation between User and Assistant. The user asks a question, and the Assistant solves it. User: 
A3 Let $A$ be a set of positive integers containing the number 1 and at least one more element. Given that for any two different elements $m, n$ of $A$ the number $\frac{m+1}{(m+1, n+1)}$ is also an element of $A$, prove that $A$ coincides with the set of positive integers.

 Assistant: ## Solution

Let $a>1$ be lowest number in $A \backslash\{1\}$. For $m=a, n=1$ one gets $y=\frac{a+1}{(2, a+1)} \in A$. Since $(2, a+1)$ is either 1 or 2 , then $y=a+1$ or $y=\frac{a+1}{2}$.

But $1<\frac{a+1}{2}<a$, hence $y=a+1$. Applying the given property for $m=a+1, n=a$ one has $\frac{a+2}{(a+2, a+1)}=a+2 \in A$, and inductively $t \in A$ for all integers $t \geq a$.

Furthermore, take $m=2 a-1, n=3 a-1$ (now in $A!$ ); as $(m+1, n+1)=(2 a, 3 a)=a$ one obtains $\frac{2 a}{a}=2 \in A$, so $a=2$, by the definition of $a$.

The conclusion follows immediately.
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