Let $ABC$ be a triangle, let ${A}'$, ${B}'$, ${C}'$ be the orthogonal projections of the vertices $A$ ,$B$ ,$C$ on the lines $BC$, $CA$ and $AB$, respectively, and let $X$ be a point on the line $A{A}'$.Let $\gamma_{B}$ be the circle through $B$ and $X$, centred on the line $BC$, and let $\gamma_{C}$ be the circle through $C$ and $X$, centred on the line $BC$.The circle $\gamma_{B}$ meets the lines $AB$ and $B{B}'$ again at $M$ and ${M}'$, respectively, and the circle $\gamma_{C}$ meets the lines $AC$ and $C{C}'$ again at $N$ and ${N}'$, respectively.Show that the points $M$, ${M}'$, $N$ and ${N}'$ are collinear.

Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer. Show that there exist $n+1$ numbers $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_{n+1} \in \mathbb{Q} \setminus \mathbb{Z}$, so that $\{ x_1^3 \} + \{ x_2^3 \} + \cdots + \{ x_n^3 \}=\{ x_{n+1}^3 \}$, where $\{ x \}$ is the fractionary part of $x$.

Let $A_0A_1A_2$ be a scalene triangle. Find the locus of the centres of the equilateral triangles $X_0X_1X_2$ , such that $A_k$ lies on the line $X_{k+1}X_{k+2}$ for each $k=0,1,2$ (with indices taken modulo $3$).

Let $k$ be a nonzero natural number and $m$ an odd natural number . Prove that there exist a natural number $n$ such that the number $m^n+n^m$ has at least $k$ distinct prime factors.

Let $n$ be an integer greater than $1$ and let $S$ be a finite set containing more than $n+1$ elements.Consider the collection of all sets $A$ of subsets of $S$ satisfying the following two conditions : (a) Each member of $A$ contains at least $n$ elements of $S$. (b) Each element of $S$ is contained in at least $n$ members of $A$. Determine $\max_A \min_B |B|$ , as $B$ runs through all subsets of $A$ whose members cover $S$ , and $A$ runs through the above collection.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle and let $X$,$Y$,$Z$ be interior points on the sides $BC$, $CA$, $AB$, respectively. Show that the magnified image of the triangle $XYZ$ under a homothety of factor $4$ from its centroid covers at least one of the vertices $A$, $B$, $C$.

Let $a$ be a real number in the open interval $(0,1)$. Let $n\geq 2$ be a positive integer and let $f_n\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be defined by $f_n(x) = x+\frac{x^2}{n}$. Show that \[\frac{a(1-a)n^2+2a^2n+a^3}{(1-a)^2n^2+a(2-a)n+a^2}<(f_n \circ\ \cdots\ \circ f_n)(a)<\frac{an+a^2}{(1-a)n+a}\] where there are $n$ functions in the composition.

Determine all positive integers $n$ such that all positive integers less than $n$ and coprime to $n$ are powers of primes.

Let $f$ be the function of the set of positive integers into itself, defined by $f(1) = 1$, $f(2n) = f(n)$ and $f(2n + 1) = f(n) + f(n + 1)$. Show that, for any positive integer $n$, the number of positive odd integers m such that $f(m) = n$ is equal to the number of positive integers less or equal to $n$ and coprime to $n$. [mod: the initial statement said less than $n$, which is wrong.]

Let $ABC$ be an isosceles triangle, $AB = AC$, and let $M$ and $N$ be points on the sides $BC$ and $CA$, respectively, such that $\angle BAM=\angle CNM$. The lines $AB$ and $MN$ meet at $P$. Show that the internal angle bisectors of the angles $BAM$ and $BPM$ meet at a point on the line $BC$.

For every positive integer $n$, let $\sigma(n)$ denote the sum of all positive divisors of $n$ ($1$ and $n$, inclusive). Show that a positive integer $n$, which has at most two distinct prime factors, satisfies the condition $\sigma(n)=2n-2$ if and only if $n=2^k(2^{k+1}+1)$, where $k$ is a non-negative integer and $2^{k+1}+1$ is prime.

Determine the smallest real constant $c$ such that \[\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left ( \frac{1}{k}\sum_{j=1}^{k}x_j \right )^2\leq c\sum_{k=1}^{n}x_k^2\] for all positive integers $n$ and all positive real numbers $x_1,\cdots ,x_n$.

Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $A_n$ respectively $B_n$ be the set of nonnegative integers $k<n$ such that the number of distinct prime factors of $\gcd(n,k)$ is even (respectively odd). Show that $|A_n|=|B_n|$ if $n$ is even and $|A_n|>|B_n|$ if $n$ is odd. Example: $A_{10} = \left\{ 0,1,3,7,9 \right\}$, $B_{10} = \left\{ 2,4,5,6,8 \right\}$.

Let $\triangle ABC$ be an acute triangle of circumcentre $O$. Let the tangents to the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$ in points $B$ and $C$ meet at point $P$. The circle of centre $P$ and radius $PB=PC$ meets the internal angle bisector of $\angle BAC$ inside $\triangle ABC$ at point $S$, and $OS \cap BC = D$. The projections of $S$ on $AC$ and $AB$ respectively are $E$ and $F$. Prove that $AD$, $BE$ and $CF$ are concurrent. Author: Cosmin Pohoata

Let $p$ be an odd prime number. Determine all pairs of polynomials $f$ and $g$ from $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ such that \[f(g(X))=\sum_{k=0}^{p-1} X^k = \Phi_p(X).\]

Let $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and $S_{n}$ the set of all permutations of $\{1,2,3,...,n\}$. For every permutation $\sigma \in S_{n}$ denote $I(\sigma) := \{ i: \sigma (i) \le i \}$. Compute the sum $\sum_ {\sigma \in S_{n}} \frac{1}{|I(\sigma )|} \sum_ {i \in I(\sigma)} (i+ \sigma(i))$.

Let $ABC$ a triangle and $O$ his circumcentre.The lines $OA$ and $BC$ intersect each other at $M$ ; the points $N$ and $P$ are defined in an analogous way.The tangent line in $A$ at the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$ intersect $NP$ in the point $X$ ; the points $Y$ and $Z$ are defined in an analogous way.Prove that the points $X$ , $Y$ and $Z$ are collinear.

Let $m$ be a positive integer and let $A$, respectively $B$, be two alphabets with $m$, respectively $2m$ letters. Let also $n$ be an even integer which is at least $2m$. Let $a_n$ be the number of words of length $n$, formed with letters from $A$, in which appear all the letters from $A$, each an even number of times. Let $b_n$ be the number of words of length $n$, formed with letters from $B$, in which appear all the letters from $B$, each an odd number of times. Compute $\frac{b_n}{a_n}$.

Let $n$ a positive integer and let $f\colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ an increasing function. Find the value of : \[ \max_{0\leq x_1\leq\cdots\leq x_n\leq 1}\sum_{k=1}^{n}f\left ( \left | x_k-\frac{2k-1}{2n} \right | \right )\]