Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2015 Problem T-3

There are nn students standing in line in positions 11 to nn. While the teacher looks away, some students change their positions. When the teacher looks back, they are standing in line again. If a student who was initially in position ii is now in position jj, we say the student moved for ij|i - j| steps. Determine the maximal sum of steps of all students that they can achieve.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2015 Problem T-5

Let ABCABC be an acute triangle with AB>ACAB > AC. Prove that there exists a point DD with the following property: whenever two distinct points XX and YY lie in the interior of ABCABC such that the points BB, CC, XX, and YY lie on a circle and AXBACB=CYACBA\angle AXB - \angle ACB = \angle CYA - \angle CBA holds, the line XYXY passes through DD.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2015 Problem T-6

Let II be the incentre of triangle ABCABC with AB>ACAB > AC and let the line AIAI intersect the side BCBC at DD. Suppose that point PP lies on the segment BCBC and satisfies PI=PDPI = PD. Further, let JJ be the point obtained by reflecting II over the perpendicular bisector of BCBC, and let QQ be the other intersection of the circumcircles of the triangles ABCABC and APDAPD. Prove that BAQ=CAJ\angle BAQ = \angle CAJ.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem I-1

Let n2n \geq 2 be an integer and x1,x2,,xnx_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n be real numbers satisfying

(a) xj>1x_j > -1 for j=1,2,,nj = 1, 2, \ldots, n and

(b) x1+x2++xn=nx_1 + x_2 + \cdots + x_n = n.

Prove the inequality j=1n11+xjj=1nxj1+xj2\sum_{j=1}^n \frac{1}{1 + x_j} \geq \sum_{j=1}^n \frac{x_j}{1 + x_j^2}

and determine when equality holds.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem I-2

There are n3n \geq 3 positive integers written on a blackboard. A move consists of choosing three numbers a,b,ca, b, c on the blackboard such that they are the sides of a non-degenerate non-equilateral triangle and replacing them by a+bca + b - c, b+cab + c - a and c+abc + a - b.

Show that an infinite sequence of moves cannot exist.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem I-3

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle with BAC>45°\measuredangle BAC > 45° and with circumcentre OO. The point PP lies in its interior such that the points A,P,O,BA, P, O, B lie on a circle and BPBP is perpendicular to CPCP. The point QQ lies on the segment BPBP such that AQAQ is parallel to POPO.

Prove that QCB=PCO\measuredangle QCB = \measuredangle PCO.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem T-3

A tract of land in the shape of an 8×88 \times 8 square, whose sides are oriented north-south and east-west, consists of 6464 smaller 1×11 \times 1 square plots. There can be at most one house on each of the individual plots. A house can only occupy a single 1×11 \times 1 square plot.

A house is said to be blocked from sunlight if there are three houses on the plots immediately to its east, west and south.

What is the maximum number of houses that can simultaneously exist, such that none of them is blocked from sunlight?

Remark: By definition, houses on the east, west and south borders are never blocked from sunlight.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem T-4

A class of high school students wrote a test. Every question was graded as either 11 point for a correct answer or 00 points otherwise. It is known that each question was answered correctly by at least one student and the students did not all achieve the same total score.

Prove that there was a question on the test with the following property: The students who answered the question correctly got a higher average test score than those who did not.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem T-5

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle with ABACAB \neq AC, and let OO be its circumcentre. The line AOAO intersects the circumcircle ω\omega of ABCABC a second time in point DD, and the line BCBC in point EE. The circumcircle of CDECDE intersects the line CACA a second time in point PP. The line PEPE intersects the line ABAB in point QQ. The line through OO parallel to PEPE intersects the altitude of the triangle ABCABC that passes through AA in point FF.

Prove that FP=FQFP = FQ.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem T-6

Let ABCABC be a triangle with ABACAB \neq AC. The points K,L,MK, L, M are the midpoints of the sides BC,CA,ABBC, CA, AB, respectively. The inscribed circle of ABCABC with centre II touches the side BCBC at point DD. The line gg, which passes through the midpoint of segment IDID and is perpendicular to IKIK, intersects the line LMLM at point PP.

Prove that PIA=90\measuredangle PIA = 90^{\circ}.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2016 Problem T-8

We consider the equation a2+b2+c2+n=abca^2 + b^2 + c^2 + n = abc, where a,b,ca, b, c are positive integers.

Prove:

(a) There are no solutions (a,b,c)(a,b,c) for n=2017n = 2017.

(b) For n=2016n = 2016, aa must be divisible by 33 for every solution (a,b,c)(a, b, c).

(c) The equation has infinitely many solutions (a,b,c)(a, b, c) for n=2016n = 2016.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem I-1

Let Q+\mathbb{Q}^+ denote the set of all positive rational numbers and let αQ+\alpha \in \mathbb{Q}^+. Determine all functions f ⁣:Q+(α,+)f\colon \mathbb{Q}^{+}\to (\alpha , + \infty) satisfying

f(x+yα)=f(x)+f(y)α,for allx,yQ+.f \left(\frac {x + y}{\alpha}\right) = \frac {f (x) + f (y)}{\alpha}, \quad \text {for all} \, x, y \in \mathbb {Q} ^ {+}.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem I-2

The two figures depicted below consisting of 66 and 1010 unit squares, respectively, are called staircases.

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Consider a 2018×20182018 \times 2018 board consisting of 201822018^2 cells, each being a unit square. Two arbitrary cells were removed from the same row of the board. Prove that the rest of the board cannot be cut (along the cell borders) into staircases (possibly rotated).

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem I-3

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle with AB<ACAB < AC, and let DD be the foot of its altitude from AA. Let RR and QQ be the centroids of the triangles ABDABD and ACDACD, respectively. Let PP be a point on the line segment BCBC such that PDP \neq D and the points P,Q,RP, Q, R and DD are concyclic. Prove that the lines AP,BQAP, BQ and CRCR are concurrent.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem I-4

(a) Prove that for every positive integer mm there exists an integer nmn \geq m such that

n1n2nm=(nm).(*)\left\lfloor \frac {n}{1} \right\rfloor \cdot \left\lfloor \frac {n}{2} \right\rfloor \cdots \left\lfloor \frac {n}{m} \right\rfloor = \binom {n} {m}. \tag{*}

(b) Denote by p(m)p(m) the smallest integer nmn \geq m such that the equation (*) holds. Prove that p(2018)=p(2019)p(2018) = p(2019).

Remark: For a real number xx, we denote by x\lfloor x \rfloor the largest integer not larger than xx.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem T-2

Let P(x)P(x) be a polynomial of degree n2n \geq 2 with rational coefficients such that P(x)P(x) has nn pairwise different real roots forming an arithmetic progression. Prove that among the roots of P(x)P(x) there are two that are also the roots of some polynomial of degree 22 with rational coefficients.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem T-3

A group of pirates had an argument and now each of them holds some other two at gunpoint. All the pirates are called one by one in some order. If the called pirate is still alive, he shoots both pirates he is aiming at (some of whom might already be dead). All shots are immediately lethal. After all the pirates have been called, it turns out that exactly 2828 pirates got killed.

Prove that if the pirates were called in whatever other order, at least 1010 pirates would have been killed anyway.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem T-4

Let nn be a positive integer and u1,u2,,unu_1, u_2, \ldots, u_n be positive integers not larger than 2k2^k, for some integer k3k \geq 3. A representation of a non-negative integer tt is a sequence of non-negative integers a1,a2,,ana_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n such that t=a1u1+a2u2++anun.t = a_1 u_1 + a_2 u_2 + \cdots + a_n u_n.

Prove that if a non-negative integer tt has a representation, then it also has a representation where less than 2k2k of the numbers a1,a2,,ana_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n are non-zero.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem T-5

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle with AB<ACAB < AC, and let DD be the foot of its altitude from AA. Points BB' and CC' lie on the rays ABAB and ACAC, respectively, so that points BB', CC' and DD are collinear and points BB, CC, BB' and CC' lie on one circle with center OO. Prove that if MM is the midpoint of BCBC and HH is the orthocenter of ABCABC, then DHMODHMO is a parallelogram.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem T-6

Let ABCABC be a triangle. The internal bisector of ABC\angle ABC intersects the side ACAC at LL and the circumcircle of triangle ABCABC again at WBW \neq B. Let KK be the perpendicular projection of LL onto AWAW. The circumcircle of triangle BLCBLC intersects line CKCK again at PCP \neq C. Lines BPBP and AWAW meet at point TT. Prove that AW=WTAW = WT.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Problem T-7

Let a1,a2,a3,a_1, a_2, a_3, \ldots be the sequence of positive integers such that a1=1andak+1=ak3+1, for all positive integers k.a_1 = 1 \quad \text{and} \quad a_{k+1} = a_k^3 + 1, \text{ for all positive integers } k.

Prove that for every prime number pp of the form 3+23\ell + 2, where \ell is a non-negative integer, there exists a positive integer nn such that ana_n is divisible by pp.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem I-2

Let n3n \geq 3 be an integer. We say that a vertex AiA_i (1in1 \leq i \leq n) of a convex polygon A1A2AnA_1A_2\ldots A_n is Bohemian if its reflection with respect to the midpoint of the segment Ai1Ai+1A_{i-1}A_{i+1} (with A0=AnA_0 = A_n and An+1=A1A_{n+1} = A_1) lies inside or on the boundary of the polygon A1A2AnA_1A_2\ldots A_n. Determine the smallest possible number of Bohemian vertices a convex nn-gon can have (depending on nn).

(A convex polygon A1A2AnA_1A_2\ldots A_n has nn vertices with all inner angles smaller than 180°180°.)

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem I-3

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle with AC>BCAC > BC and circumcircle ω\omega. Suppose that PP is a point on ω\omega such that AP=ACAP = AC and that PP is an interior point of the shorter arc BCBC of ω\omega. Let QQ be the point of intersection of the lines APAP and BCBC. Furthermore, suppose that RR is a point on ω\omega such that QA=QRQA = QR and that RR is an interior point of the shorter arc ACAC of ω\omega. Finally, let SS be the point of intersection of the line BCBC with the perpendicular bisector of the side ABAB. Prove that the points PP, QQ, RR, and SS are concyclic.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem T-1

Determine the smallest and the greatest possible values of the expression (1a2+1+1b2+1+1c2+1)(a2a2+1+b2b2+1+c2c2+1)\left(\frac{1}{a^2 + 1} + \frac{1}{b^2 + 1} + \frac{1}{c^2 + 1}\right)\left(\frac{a^2}{a^2 + 1} + \frac{b^2}{b^2 + 1} + \frac{c^2}{c^2 + 1}\right) provided aa, bb, and cc are non-negative real numbers satisfying ab+bc+ca=1ab + bc + ca = 1.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem T-3

There are nn boys and nn girls in a school class, where nn is a positive integer. The heights of all the children in this class are distinct. Every girl determines the number of boys that are taller than her, subtracts the number of girls that are taller than her, and writes the result on a piece of paper. Every boy determines the number of girls that are shorter than him, subtracts the number of boys that are shorter than him, and writes the result on a piece of paper. Prove that the numbers written down by the girls are the same as the numbers written down by the boys (up to a permutation).

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem T-4

Prove that every integer from 11 to 20192019 can be represented as an arithmetic expression consisting of up to 1717 symbols 22 and an arbitrary number of additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions and brackets. The 22's may not be used for any other operation, for example to form multi-digit numbers (such as 222222) or powers (such as 222^2).

Valid examples: ((2×2+2)×222)×2=22,(2×2×22)×(2×2+2+2+22)=42.\left((2 \times 2 + 2) \times 2 - \frac{2}{2}\right) \times 2 = 22, \quad (2 \times 2 \times 2 - 2) \times \left(2 \times 2 + \frac{2 + 2 + 2}{2}\right) = 42.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem T-5

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle such that AB<ACAB < AC. Let DD be the point of intersection of the perpendicular bisector of the side BCBC with the side ACAC. Let PP be a point on the shorter arc ACAC of the circumcircle of the triangle ABCABC such that DPBCDP \parallel BC. Finally, let MM be the midpoint of the side ABAB. Prove that APD=MPB\angle APD = \angle MPB.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2019 Problem T-8

Let NN be a positive integer such that the sum of the squares of all positive divisors of NN is equal to the product N(N+3)N(N + 3). Prove that there exist two indices ii and jj such that N=FiFjN = F_i \cdot F_j, where (Fn)n=1(F_n)_{n=1}^{\infty} is the Fibonacci sequence defined by F1=F2=1F_1 = F_2 = 1 and Fn=Fn1+Fn2F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2} for all n3n \geq 3.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2020 Problem I-1

Let N\mathbb{N} be the set of positive integers. Determine all positive integers kk for which there exist functions f ⁣:NNf\colon \mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N} and g ⁣:NNg\colon \mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N} such that gg assumes infinitely many values and such that

fg(n)(n)=f(n)+kf^{g(n)}(n) = f(n) + k

holds for every positive integer nn.

(Remark. Here, fif^i denotes the function ff applied ii times, i.e., fi(j)=f(f(f(f(j))))i timesf^i(j) = \underbrace{f(f(\ldots f(f(j)) \ldots))}_{i \text{ times}}.)

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2020 Problem I-3

Let ABCABC be an acute scalene triangle with circumcircle ω\omega and incenter II. Suppose the orthocenter HH of BICBIC lies inside ω\omega. Let MM be the midpoint of the longer arc BCBC of ω\omega. Let NN be the midpoint of the shorter arc AMAM of ω\omega.

Prove that there exists a circle tangent to ω\omega at NN and tangent to the circumcircles of BHIBHI and CHICHI.

Middle European Mathematical Olympiad 2020 Problem I-4

Find all positive integers nn for which there exist positive integers x1,x2,,xnx_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n such that

1x12+2x22+4x32++2n1xn2=1.\dfrac{1}{x_1^2} + \dfrac{2}{x_2^2} + \dfrac{4}{x_3^2} + \cdots + \dfrac{2^{n-1}}{x_n^2} = 1.