Let $\gamma,\Gamma$ be two concentric circles with radii $r,R$ with $r<R$. Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral inscribed in $\gamma$. If $\overrightarrow{AB}$ denotes the Ray starting from $A$ and extending indefinitely in $B's$ direction then Let $\overrightarrow{AB}, \overrightarrow{BC}, \overrightarrow{CD} , \overrightarrow{DA}$ meet $\Gamma$ at the points $C_1,D_1,A_1,B_1$ respectively. Prove that \[\frac{[A_1B_1C_1D_1]}{[ABCD]} \ge \frac{R^2}{r^2}\] where $[.]$ denotes area.

Find all non-negative integers $m,n,p,q$ such that \[ p^mq^n = (p+q)^2 +1 . \]

Find all functions $f: \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ such that $\boxed{1} \ f(1) = 1$ $\boxed{2} \ f(m+n)(f(m)-f(n)) = f(m-n)(f(m)+f(n)) \ \forall \ m,n \in \mathbb{Z}$

Prove that the following statement is true for two natural nos. $m,n$ if and only $v(m) = v(n)$ where $v(k)$ is the highest power of $2$ dividing $k$. $\exists$ a set $A$ of positive integers such that $(i)$ $x,y \in \mathbb{N}, |x-y| = m \implies x \in A $ or $y \in A$ $(ii)$ $x,y \in \mathbb{N}, |x-y| = n \implies x \not\in A $ or $y \not\in A$

A point $P$ lies on the internal angle bisector of $\angle BAC$ of a triangle $\triangle ABC$. Point $D$ is the midpoint of $BC$ and $PD$ meets the external angle bisector of $\angle BAC$ at point $E$. If $F$ is the point such that $PAEF$ is a rectangle then prove that $PF$ bisects $\angle BFC$ internally or externally.

Let $a,b,c$ denote the sides of a triangle and $[ABC]$ the area of the triangle as usual. $(a)$ If $6[ABC] = 2a^2+bc$, determine $A,B,C$. $(b)$ For all triangles, prove that $3a^2+3b^2 - c^2 \ge 4 \sqrt{3} [ABC]$.

A polynomial $P (x)$ with real coefficients and of degree $n \ge 3$ has $n$ real roots $x_1 <x_2 < \cdots < x_n$ such that \[x_2 - x_1 < x_3 - x_2 < \cdots < x_n - x_{n-1} \] Prove that the maximum value of $|P (x)|$ on the interval $[x_1 , x_n ]$ is attained in the interval $[x_{n-1} , x_n ]$.

Call a triple $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers a nice triple if $a, b, c$ forms a non-decreasing arithmetic progression, $gcd(b, a) = gcd(b, c) = 1$ and the product $abc$ is a perfect square. Prove that given a nice triple, there exists some other nice triple having at least one element common with the given triple.

In a quadrilateral $ABCD$, we have $\angle DAB = 110^{\circ} , \angle ABC = 50^{\circ}$ and $\angle BCD = 70^{\circ}$ . Let $ M, N$ be the mid-points of $AB$ and $CD$ respectively. Suppose $P$ is a point on the segment $M N$ such that $\frac{AM}{CN} = \frac{MP}{PN}$ and $AP = CP$ . Find $\angle AP C$.

How many ordered triples $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers are there such that none of $a, b, c$ exceeds $2010$ and each of $a, b, c$ divides $a + b + c$?

For any positive real numbers $a, b, c$, prove that \[\sum_{cyclic} \frac{(b + c)(a^4 - b^2 c^2 )}{ab + 2bc + ca} \ge 0\]

In a family there are four children of different ages, each age being a positive integer not less than $2$ and not greater than $16$. A year ago the square of the age of the eldest child was equal to the sum of the squares of the ages of the remaining children. One year from now the sum of the squares of the youngest and the oldest will be equal to the sum of the squares of the other two. How old is each child?

In a circle with centre at $O$ and diameter $AB$, two chords $BD$ and $AC$ intersect at $E$. $F$ is a point on $AB$ such that $EF \perp AB$. $FC$ intersects $BD$ in $G$. If $DE = 5$ and $EG =3$, determine $BG$.

Find all natural numbers $n$ such that the number $n(n+1)(n+2)(n+3)$ has exactly three different prime divisors.

Five distinct points $A, B, C, D$ and $E$ lie in this order on a circle of radius $r$ and satisfy $AC = BD = CE = r$. Prove that the orthocentres of the triangles $ACD, BCD$ and $BCE$ are the vertices of a right-angled triangle.

Let $a, b, c$ be integers such that \[\frac ab+\frac bc+\frac ca= 3\] Prove that $abc$ is a cube of an integer.

Students have taken a test paper in each of $n \ge 3$ subjects. It is known that in any subject exactly three students got the best score, and for any two subjects exactly one student got the best scores in both subjects. Find the smallest $n$ for which the above conditions imply that exactly one student got the best score in each of the $n$ subjects.

Does there exist a function $f : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that for every $n \ge 2$, \[f (f (n - 1)) = f (n + 1) - f (n)?\]

Let $A, B, C, D$ be four distinct points in the plane such that the length of the six line segments $AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD$ form a $2$-element set ${a, b}$. If $a > b$, determine all the possible values of $\frac ab$.

Let $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$ be real numbers lying in $[-1, 1]$ such that $a_1 + a_2 + \cdots + a_n = 0$. Prove that there is a $k \in \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ such that $|a_1 + 2a_2 + 3a_3 + \cdots + k a_k | \le \frac{2k+1}4$ .

Prove that a prime $p$ is expressible in the form $x^2+3y^2;x,y\in Z$ if and only if it is expressible in the form $ m^2+mn+n^2;m,n \in Z$.Can $p$ be replaced by a natural number $n$?

Let $C_1 , C_2$ be two circles in the plane intersecting at two distinct points. Let $P$ be the midpoint of a variable chord $AB$ of $C_2$ with the property that the circle on $AB$ as diameter meets $C_1$ at a point $T$ such that $P T$ is tangent to $C_1$ . Find the locus of $P$ .

Prove that there exist a set of $2010$ natural numbers such that product of any $1006 $ numbers is divisible by product of remaining $1004$ numbers.

Let $n > 1$ be an integer. A set $S \subseteq \{ 0, 1, 2, \cdots , 4n - 1 \}$ is called ’sparse’ if for any $k \in \{ 0, 1, 2, \cdots , n - 1 \}$ the following two conditions are satisfied: $(a)$ The set $S \cap \{4k - 2, 4k - 1, 4k, 4k + 1, 4k + 2 \}$ has at most two elements; $(b)$ The set $S \cap \{ 4k +1, 4k +2, 4k +3 \}$ has at most one element. Prove that there are exactly $8 \cdot 7^{n-1}$ sparse subsets.

Let $n \in \mathbb N$ and $A_n$ set of all permutations $(a_1, \ldots, a_n)$ of the set $\{1, 2, \ldots , n\}$ for which \[k|2(a_1 + \cdots+ a_k), \text{ for all } 1 \leq k \leq n.\] Find the number of elements of the set $A_n$. Proposed by Vidan Govedarica, Serbia

Let $M$ be an interior point of a $\triangle ABC$ such that $\angle AM B = 150^{\circ} , \angle BM C = 120^{\circ}$. Let $P, Q, R$ be the circumcentres of the $\triangle AM B, \triangle BM C, \triangle CM A$ respectively. Prove that $[P QR] \ge [ABC]$.

In a group of $k$ people, some are acquainted with each other and some are not. Every evening, one person invites all his acquaintances to a party and introduces them to each other(if they have not already acquainted). Suppose that after each person has arranged at least one party, some two people do not know each other. Prove that they do not meet each other in the next party.

For each $n\in \mathbb{N}$, let $S(n)$ be the sum of all numbers in the set $\{ 1, 2, 3, \cdots , n \}$ which are relatively prime to $n$. $(a)$ Show that $2 \cdot S(n)$ is not a perfect square for any $n$. $(b)$ Given positive integers $m, n$, with odd $n$, show that the equation $2 \cdot S(x) = y^n$ has at least one solution $(x, y)$ among positive integers such that $m|x$.

Let $p$ be a prime and $Q(x)$ be a polynomial with integer coefficients such that $Q(0) = 0, \ Q(1) = 1$ and the remainder of $Q(n)$ is either $0$ or $1$ when divided by $p$, for every $n \in \mathbb{N}$. Prove that $Q(x)$ is of degree at least $p - 1$.

Solve the equation for positive integers $m, n$: \[\left \lfloor \frac{m^2}n \right \rfloor + \left \lfloor \frac{n^2}m \right \rfloor = \left \lfloor \frac mn + \frac nm \right \rfloor +mn\]

Does there exist an increasing sequence of positive integers $a_1 , a_2 ,\cdots$ with the following two properties? (i) Every positive integer $n$ can be uniquely expressed in the form $n = a_j - a_i$ , (ii) $\frac{a_k}{k^3}$ is bounded.

Suppose $\triangle ABC$ has circumcircle $\Gamma$, circumcentre $O$ and orthocentre $H$. Parallel lines $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ are drawn through the vertices $A, B, C$, respectively. Let $\alpha ', \beta ', \gamma '$ be the reflections of $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ in the sides $BC, CA, AB$, respectively. $(a)$ Show that $\alpha ', \beta ', \gamma '$ are concurrent if and only if $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ are parallel to the Euler line $OH$. $(b)$ Suppose that $\alpha ', \beta ' , \gamma '$ are concurrent at the point $P$ . Show that $\Gamma$ bisects $OP$ .

Determine the smallest odd integer $n \ge 3$, for which there exist $n$ rational numbers $x_1 , x_2 , . . . , x_n$ with the following properties: $(a)$ \[\sum_{i=1}^{n} x_i =0 , \ \sum_{i=1}^{n} x_i^2 = 1.\] $(b)$ \[x_i \cdot x_j \ge - \frac 1n \ \forall \ 1 \le i,j \le n.\]

$\triangle ABC$ has semiperimeter $s$ and area $F$ . A square $P QRS$ with side length $x$ is inscribed in $ABC$ with $P$ and $Q$ on $BC$, $R$ on $AC$, and $S$ on $AB$. Similarly, $y$ and $z$ are the sides of squares two vertices of which lie on $AC$ and $AB$, respectively. Prove that \[\frac 1x +\frac 1y + \frac 1z \le \frac{s(2+\sqrt3)}{2F}\]

Find the first integer $n > 1$ such that the average of $1^2 , 2^2 ,\cdots, n^2$ is itself a perfect square.

Find all polynomials $P$ with integer coefficients which satisfy the property that, for any relatively prime integers $a$ and $b$, the sequence $\{P (an + b) \}_{n \ge 1}$ contains an infinite number of terms, any two of which are relatively prime.