In the following figure, the largest square is divided into two squares and three rectangles, as shown: The area of each smaller square is equal to $a$ and the area of each small rectangle is equal to $b$. If $a+b=24$ and the root square of $a$ is a natural number, find all possible values for the area of the largest square.
1996 Cono Sur Olympiad
Day 1
Consider a sequence of real numbers defined by: $a_{n + 1} = a_n + \frac{1}{a_n}$ for $n = 0, 1, 2, ...$ Prove that, for any positive real number $a_0$, is true that $a_{1996}$ is greater than $63$.
A shop sells bottles with this capacity: $1L, 2L, 3L,..., 1996L$, the prices of bottles satifies this $2$ conditions: $1$. Two bottles have the same price, if and only if, your capacities satifies $m - n = 1000$ $2$. The price of bottle $m$($1001>m>0$) is $1996 - m$ dollars. Find all pair(s) $m$ and $n$ such that: a) $m + n = 1000$ b) the cost is smallest possible!!! c) with the pair, the shop can measure $k$ liters, with $0<k<1996$(for all $k$ integer) Note: The operations to measure are: i) To fill or empty any one of two bottles ii)Pass water of a bottle for other bottle We can measure $k$ liters when the capacity of one bottle plus the capacity of other bottle is equal to $k$
Day 2
The sequence $0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,....,1$ where have $1$ number zero and $1995$ numbers one. If we choose two or more numbers in this sequence(but not the all $1996$ numbers) and substitute one number by arithmetic mean of the numbers selected, we obtain a new sequence with $1996$ numbers!!! Show that, we can repeat this operation until we have all $1996$ numbers are equal Note: It's not necessary to choose the same quantity of numbers in each operation!!!
We want to cover totally a square(side is equal to $k$ integer and $k>1$) with this rectangles: $1$ rectangle ($1\times 1$), $2$ rectangles ($2\times 1$), $4$ rectangles ($3\times 1$),...., $2^n$ rectangles ($n + 1 \times 1$), such that the rectangles can't overlap and don't exceed the limits of square. Find all $k$, such that this is possible and for each $k$ found you have to draw a solution
Find all integers $n \leq 3$ such that there is a set $S_n$ formed by $n$ points of the plane that satisfy the following two conditions: Any three points are not collinear. No point is found inside the circle whose diameter has ends at any two points of $S_n$. NOTE: The points on the circumference are not considered to be inside the circle.