The Sixteenth IMO Erfurt–Berlin, DR Germany, July 4–17, 1974

3.16 The Sixteenth IMO Erfurt–Berlin, DR Germany, July 4–17, 1974

3.16.1 Contest Problems

First Day (July 8)

1. Alice, Betty, and Carol took the same series of examinations. There was one grade of A, one grade of B, and one grade of C for each examination, where

A , B,C are different positive integers. The final test scores were

If Betty placed first in the arithmetic examination, who placed second in the spelling examination?

2. Let △ABC be a triangle. Prove that there exists a point D on the side AB such that CD is the geometric mean of AD and BD if and only if

sin A sin B ≤ sin .

3. Prove that there does not exist a natural number n for which the number

2n ∑ +1

2 3k

k =0 2k +1

is divisible by 5. Second Day (July 9)

4. Consider a partition of an 8 × 8 chessboard into p rectangles whose interiors are disjoint such that each rectangle contains an equal number of white and black

cells. Assume that a 1 <a 2 < ··· < a p , where a i denotes the number of white cells in the ith rectangle. Find the maximal p for which such a partition is possible and for that p determine all possible corresponding sequences a 1 ,a 2 ,...,a p .

5. If a , b, c, d are arbitrary positive real numbers, find all possible values of

a +b+d a +b+c b +c+d a +c+d

6. Let P (x) be a polynomial with integer coefficients. If n(P) is the number of (distinct) integers k such that P 2 (k) = 1, prove that n(P) − deg(P) ≤ 2, where deg (P) denotes the degree of the polynomial P.

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3.16.2 Longlisted Problems

1. (BGR 1) (SL74-11).

2. (BGR 2) Let {u n } be the Fibonacci sequence, i.e., u 0 = 0, u 1 = 1, u n =u n −1 + u n −2 for n > 1. Prove that there exist infinitely many prime numbers p that divide u p −1 .

3. (BGR 3) Let ABCD be an arbitrary quadrilateral. Let squares ABB 1 A 2 , BCC 1 B 2 , CDD 1 C 2 , DAA 1 D 2 be constructed in the exterior of the quadrilateral. Further- more, let AA 1 PA 2 and CC 1 QC 2 be parallelograms. For any arbitrary point P in the interior of ABCD, parallelograms RASC and RPT Q are constructed. Prove that these two parallelograms have two vertices in common.

4. (BGR 4) Let K a ,K b ,K c with centers O a ,O b ,O c be the excircles of a triangle ABC , touching the interiors of the sides BC ,CA, AB at points T a ,T b ,T c respec- tively. Prove that the lines O a T a ,O b T b ,O c T c are concurrent in a point P for which PO a = PO b = PO c = 2R holds, where R denotes the circumradius of ABC. Also prove that the circumcenter O of ABC is the midpoint of the segment PJ, where J is the incenter of ABC.

5. (BGR 5) A straight cone is given inside a rectangular parallelepiped B, with the apex at one of the vertices, say T , of the parallelepiped, and the base touching the three faces opposite to T . Its axis lies at the long diagonal through T . If V 1

and V 2 are the volumes of the cone and the parallelepiped respectively, prove that

6. (CUB 1) Prove that the product of two natural numbers with their sum cannot

be the third power of a natural number.

7. (CUB 2) Let p be a prime number and n a natural number. Prove that the product

1 2n −1

p n 2 i ∏ =1; 2∤i

((p − 1)i)!

pi

is a natural number that is not divisible by p.

8. (CUB 3) (SL74-9).

9. (CZS 1) Solve the following system of linear equations with unknown x 1 ,...,x n

(n ≥ 2) and parameters c 1 ,...,c n :

2x 1 −x 2 =c 1 ; −x 1 +2x 2 −x 3 =c 2 ;

−x 2 +2x 3 −x 4 =c 3 ; ...

... −x n −2 +2x n −1 −x n =c n −1 ; −x n −1 +2x n =c n .

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10. (CZS 2) A regular octagon P is given whose incircle k has diameter 1. About k is circumscribed a regular 16-gon, which is also inscribed in P, cutting from P eight isosceles triangles. To the octagon P, three of these triangles are added so that exactly two of them are adjacent and no two of them are opposite to each other. Every 11-gon so obtained is said to be P ′ . Prove the following statement: Given a finite set M of points lying in P such that every two points of this set have a distance not exceeding 1, one of the 11-gons P ′ contains all of M.

11. (CZS 3) Given a line p and a triangle △ in the plane, construct an equilateral triangle one of whose vertices lies on the line p, while the other two halve the perimeter of △.

12. (CZS 4) A circle K with radius r, a point D on K, and a convex angle with vertex S and rays a and b are given in the plane. Construct a parallelogram ABCD such that A and B lie on a and b respectively, SA + SB = r, and C lies on K.

13. (FIN 1) Prove that 2 147 − 1 is divisible by 343.

14. (FIN 2) Let n and k be natural numbers and a 1 ,a 2 ,...,a n positive real numbers satisfying a 1 +a 2 + ··· + a n = 1. Prove that

15. (FIN 3) (SL74-10).

16. (UNK 1) A pack of 2n cards contains n different pairs of cards. Each pair con- sists of two identical cards, either of which is called the twin of the other. A game is played between two players A and B. A third person called the dealer shuffles the pack and deals the cards one by one face upward onto the table. One of the players, called the receiver, takes the card dealt, provided he does not have already its twin. If he does already have the twin, his opponent takes the dealt card and becomes the receiver. A is initially the receiver and takes the first card dealt. The player who first obtains a complete set of n different cards wins the game. What fraction of all possible arrangements of the pack lead to A winning? Prove the correctness of your answer.

17. (UNK 2) Show that there exists a set S of 15 distinct circles on the surface of a sphere, all having the same radius and such that 5 touch exactly 5 others, 5 touch exactly 4 others, and 5 touch exactly 3 others.

18. (UNK 3) (SL74-5).

19. (UNK 4) (Alternative to UNK 2) Prove that there exists, for n ≥ 4, a set S of 3n equal circles in space that can be partitioned into three subsets s 5 ,s 4 , and s 3 , each containing n circles, such that each circle in s r touches exactly r circles in S .

20. (NLD 1) For which natural numbers n do there exist n natural numbers a i (1 ≤ i

≤ n) such that ∑ n

i =1 a −2 i = 1?

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21. (NLD 2) Let M be a nonempty subset of Z + such that for every element x in M, √ the numbers 4x and [ x ] also belong to M. Prove that M = Z + .

22. (NLD 3) (SL74-8).

23. (POL 1) (SL74-2).

24. (POL 2) (SL74-7).

25. (POL 3) Let f : R → R be of the form f (x) = x + ε sin x , where 0 < | ε | ≤ 1. Define for any x ∈ R,

x n = f ◦ ··· ◦ f (x). | {z } n times

Show that for every x ∈ R there exists an integer k such that lim n →∞ x n =k π .

26. (POL 4) Let g (k) be the number of partitions of a k-element set M, i.e., the number of families {A 1 ,A 2 ,...,A s } of nonempty subsets of M such that A i ∩

A j S n = /0 for i 6= j and i =1 A i = M. Prove that

n n ≤ g(2n) ≤ (2n) 2n for every n.

27. (ROU 1) Let C 1 and C 2 be circles in the same plane, P 1 and P 2 arbitrary points on C 1 and C 2 respectively, and Q the midpoint of segment P 1 P 2 . Find the locus

of points Q as P 1 and P 2 go through all possible positions.

Alternative version. Let C 1 ,C 2 ,C 3 be three circles in the same plane. Find the locus of the centroid of triangle P 1 P 2 P 3 as P 1 ,P 2 , and P 3 go through all possible

positions on C 1 ,C 2 , and C 3 respectively.

28. (ROU 2) Let M be a finite set and P = {M 1 ,M 2 ,...,M k } a partition of M (i.e., S k

i =1 M i = M, M i 6= /0, M i ∩M j = /0 for all i, j ∈ {1,2,...,k}, i 6= j). We define the following elementary operation on P:

Choose i , j ∈ {1,2,...,k}, such that i 6= j and M i has a elements and M j has b elements such that a ≥ b. Then take b elements from M i and place them into M j , i.e., M j becomes the union of itself unifies and a b-element subset of M i , while the same subset is subtracted from M i (if a = b, M i is thus removed from the partition).

Let a finite set M be given. Prove that the property “for every partition P of M there exists a sequence P =P 1 ,P 2 ,...,P r such that P i +1 is obtained from P i by an elementary operation and P r = {M}” is equivalent to “the number of elements of M is a power of 2.”

29. (ROU 3) Let A , B,C, D be points in space. If for every point M on the segment AB the sum

area(AMC)+area(CMD)+area(DMB)

is constant show that the points A , B,C, D lie in the same plane.

30. (ROU 4) (SL74-6).

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31. (ROU 5) Let y α =∑ n i =1 x α i , where α 6= 0, y > 0, x i > 0 are real numbers, and let λ 6= α

be a real number. Prove that y λ >∑ n i =1 x λ i if α ( λ − α ) > 0, and y λ < ∑ n i =1 x λ i if α ( λ − α ) < 0.

be n real numbers such that 0 <a≤a k ≤ b for k = 1, 2, . . . , n. If

32. (SWE 1) Let a 1 ,a 2 ,...,a n

2 = (a 1 n +a 2 + ··· + a n ), (a+b) prove that m 2

2 ≤ 4ab m 2 1 and find a necessary and sufficient condition for equal- ity.

33. (SWE 2) Let a be a real number such that 0 < a < 1, and let n be a positive integer. Define the sequence a 0 ,a 1 ,a 2 ,...,a n recursively by

for k = 0, 1, . . . , n − 1. Prove that there exists a real number A, depending on a but independent of n,

a 0 = a;

a k +1 =a k + a 2 n k

such that

0 < n(A − a n )<A 3 .

34. (SWE 3) (SL74-3).

35. (SWE 4) If p and q are distinct prime numbers, then there are integers x 0 and y 0 such that 1 = px 0 + qy 0 . Determine the maximum value of b − a, where a and b are positive integers with the following property: If a ≤ t ≤ b, and t is an integer, then there are integers x and y with 0 ≤ x ≤ q − 1 and 0 ≤ y ≤ p − 1 such that

t = px + qy.

36. (SWE 5) Consider infinite diagrams

where all but a finite number of the integers n ij ,i = 0, 1, 2, . . ., j = 0, 1, 2, . . ., are equal to 0. Three elements of a diagram are called adjacent if there are integers

i and j with i ≥ 0 and j ≥ 0 such that the three elements are (i) n ij ,

n i , j+1 , n i , j+2 ,

or

(ii) n ij , n i +1, j , n i +2, j ,

or

(iii) n i +2, j ,n i +1, j+1 ,n i , j+2 . An elementary operation on a diagram is an operation by which three adjacent elements n ij are changed into n ′ ij in such a way that |n ij −n ′ ij | = 1. Two diagrams are called equivalent if one of them can be changed into the other by a finite sequence of elementary operations. How many inequivalent diagrams exist?

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37. (USA 1) Let a, b, and c denote the three sides of a billiard table in the shape of an equilateral triangle. A ball is placed at the midpoint of side a and then propelled toward side b with direction defined by the angle θ . For what values of θ will the ball strike the sides b , c, a in that order?

38. (USA 2) Consider the binomial coefficients n k =

k ! (n−k)! (k = 1, 2, . . . , n − 1). Determine all positive integers n for which n 1 , n 2 ,..., n n −1 are all even numbers.

39. (USA 3) Let n be a positive integer, n ≥ 2, and consider the polynomial equation

−x n −2 − x + 2 = 0.

For each n, determine all complex numbers x that satisfy the equation and have modulus |x| = 1.

40. (USA 4) (SL74-1).

41. (USA 5) Through the circumcenter O of an arbitrary acute-angled triangle, chords A 1 A 2 ,B 1 B 2 ,C 1 C 2 are drawn parallel to the sides BC ,CA, AB of the tri- angle respectively. If R is the radius of the circumcircle, prove that

A 1 O · OA 2 +B 1 O · OB 2 +C 1 O · OC 2 =R 2 .

42. (USS 1) (SL74-12).

43. (USS 2) An (n 2 + n + 1) × (n 2 + n + 1) matrix of zeros and ones is given. If no four ones are vertices of a rectangle, prove that the number of ones does not exceed (n + 1)(n 2 + n + 1).

44. (USS 3) We are given n mass points of equal mass in space. We define a se- quence of points O 1 ,O 2 ,O 3 , . . . as follows: O 1 is an arbitrary point (within the unit distance of at least one of the n points); O 2 is the center of gravity of all the

n given points that are inside the unit sphere centered at O 1 ;O 3 is the center of gravity of all of the n given points that are inside the unit sphere centered at O 2 ; etc. Prove that starting from some m, all points O m ,O m +1 ,O m +2 , . . . coincide.

45. (USS 4) (SL74-4).

46. (USS 5) Outside an arbitrary triangle ABC, triangles ADB and BCE are con- structed such that ∠ADB = ∠BEC = 90 ◦ and ∠DAB = ∠EBC = 30 ◦ . On the segment AC the point F with AF = 3FC is chosen. Prove that

47. (VNM 1) Given two points A , B outside of a given plane P, find the positions of points M in the plane P for which the ratio MA MB takes a minimum or maximum.

48. (VNM 2) Let a be a number different from zero. For all integers n define S n =

a n +a −n . Prove that if for some integer k both S k and S k +1 are integers, then for each integer n the number S n is an integer.

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49. (VNM 3) Determine an equation of third degree with integral coefficients hav-

ing roots sin π 14 , sin 5 14 π , and sin −3π 14 .

50. (YUG 1) Let m and n be natural numbers with m > n. Prove that

2 2 (m 2 2 (m − n) 2 −n + 1) ≥ 2m − 2mn + 1.

51. (YUG 2) There are n points on a flat piece of paper, any two of them at a distance of at least 2 from each other. An inattentive pupil spills ink on a part of the paper such that the total area of the damaged part equals 3 /2. Prove that there exist two vectors of equal length less than 1 and with their sum having a given direction, such that after a translation by either of these two vectors no points of the given set remain in the damaged area.

52. (YUG 3) A fox stands in the center of the field which has the form of an equilat- eral triangle, and a rabbit stands at one of its vertices. The fox can move through the whole field, while the rabbit can move only along the border of the field. The maximal speeds of the fox and rabbit are equal to u and v, respectively. Prove that:

(a) If 2u > v, the fox can catch the rabbit, no matter how the rabbit moves. (b) If 2u ≤ v, the rabbit can always run away from the fox.

3.16.3 Shortlisted Problems

1. I 1 (USA 4) IMO 1 Alice, Betty, and Carol took the same series of examinations. There was one grade of A, one grade of B, and one grade of C for each examina- tion, where A , B,C are different positive integers. The final test scores were

If Betty placed first in the arithmetic examination, who placed second in the spelling examination?

2. I 2 (POL 1) Prove that the squares with sides 1 /1, 1/2, 1/3, . . . may be put into the square with side 3 /2 in such a way that no two of them have any interior point in common.

3. I 3 (SWE 3) IMO 6 Let P (x) be a polynomial with integer coefficients. If n(P) is the number of (distinct) integers k such that P 2 (k) = 1, prove that

n (P) − deg(P) ≤ 2,

where deg (P) denotes the degree of the polynomial P.

4. I 4 (USS 4) The sum of the squares of five real numbers a 1 ,a 2 ,a 3 ,a 4 ,a 5 equals

1. Prove that the least of the numbers (a i −a j ) 2 , where i , j = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and i 6= j, does not exceed 1 /10.

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be points on the circumference of a given circle S. From the triangle A r B r C r , called △ r , the triangle △ r +1 is obtained by construct- ing the points A r +1 ,B r +1 ,C r +1 on S such that A r +1 A r is parallel to B r C r ,B r +1 B r is parallel to C r A r , and C r +1 C r is parallel to A r B r . Each angle of △ 1 is an integer number of degrees and those integers are not multiples of 45. Prove that at least

5. I 5 (UNK 3) Let A r ,B r ,C r

two of the triangles △ 1 ,△ 2 ,...,△ 15 are congruent.

6. I 6 (ROU 4) IMO 3 Does there exist a natural number n for which the number

2 ∑ 3k

2n +1

k =0 2k +1

is divisible by 5?

7. II 1 (POL 2) Let a i ,b i

be coprime positive integers for i = 1, 2, . . . , k, and m the least common multiple of b 1 ,...,b k . Prove that the greatest common divisor of

1 b 1 ,...,a k b k equals the greatest common divisor of a 1 ,...,a k .

8. II 2 (NLD 3) IMO 5 If a , b, c, d are arbitrary positive real numbers, find all possible values of

a +b+d a +b+c b +c+d a +c+d

9. II 3 (CUB 3) Let x √ , y, z be real numbers each of whose absolute value is different from 1 /

3 such that x + y + z = xyz. Prove that 3x

10. II 4 (FIN 3) IMO 2 Let △ABC be a triangle. Prove that there exists a point D on the side AB such that CD is the geometric mean of AD and BD if and only if √ sin A sin B

≤ sin C

11. II 5 (BGR 1) IMO 4 Consider a partition of an 8 × 8 chessboard into p rectangles whose interiors are disjoint such that each of them has an equal number of white and black cells. Assume that a 1 <a 2 < ··· < a p , where a i denotes the number of white cells in the ith rectangle. Find the maximal p for which such a parti- tion is possible and for that p determine all possible corresponding sequences

a 1 ,a 2 ,...,a p .

12. II 6 (USS 1) In a certain language words are formed using an alphabet of three letters. Some words of two or more letters are not allowed, and any two such dis- tinct words are of different lengths. Prove that one can form a word of arbitrary length that does not contain any nonallowed word.

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