Note:?For any geometry problem whose statement begins with an asterisk?, the first page of the solution must be a large, in-scale, clearly labeled diagram. Failure to meet this requirement will result in an automatic 1-point deduction.
Problem 1
Let??be the set of positive integers. A function??satisfies the equationfor all positive integers?. Given this information, determine all possible values of?.
Problem 2
Let??be a cyclic quadrilateral satisfying?. The diagonals of??intersect at?. Let??be a point on side?satisfying?. Show that line??bisects?.
Problem 3
Let??be the set of all positive integers that do not contain the digit??in their base-?representation. Find all polynomials??with nonnegative integer coefficients such that??whenever?.
Day 2
Problem 4
Let??be a nonnegative integer. Determine the number of ways that one can choose??sets?, for integers??with?, such that: for all?, the set??has??elements; and??whenever??and?.
Problem 5
Two rational numbers??and??are written on a blackboard, where??and??are relatively prime positive integers. At any point, Evan may pick two of the numbers??and??written on the board and write either their arithmetic mean??or their harmonic mean??on the board?as?well. Find all pairs??such that Evan can write??on the board in finitely many steps.
Problem 6
Find all polynomials??with real coefficients such thatholds for all nonzero real numbers??satisfying?.
Problem 1
Solution
Let??denote the result when??is applied to???times.??If?, then??and?
?since?.
Therefore,??is injective. It follows that??is also injective.
Lemma 1: If??and?, then?.
Proof:
?which implies??by injectivity of?.
Lemma 2: If?, and??is odd, then?.
Proof:
Let?. Since?,?. So,?.?.
Since?,?
This proves Lemma 2.
I claim that??for all odd?.
Otherwise, let??be the least counterexample.
Since?, either
, contradicted by Lemma 1 since??is odd and?.
, also contradicted by Lemma 1 by similar logic.
?and?, which implies that??by Lemma 2. This proves the claim.
By injectivity,??is not odd. I will prove that??can be any even number,?. Let?, and??for all other?. If??is equal to neither??nor?, then?. This satisfies the given property.
If??is equal to??or?, then??since??is even and?. This satisfies the given property.
Note that there are??ways to choose?, because there are??ways to choose which number??is,??ways to choose which number to append to make?,??ways to choose which number to append to make?... After that, note that??contains the??in??and 1 other element chosen from the 2 elements in??not in??so there are 2 ways for?. By the same logic there are 2 ways for??as?well so??total ways for all?, so doing the same thing??more times yields a final answer of?.
-Stormersyle
Solution 2
There are??ways to choose?. Since, there are??ways to choose?, and after that, to generate?, you take?and add 2 new elements, getting you??ways to generate?. And you can keep going down the line, and you get that there are?ways to pick??Then we can fill out the rest of the gird. First, let’s prove a lemma.
Lemma
Claim: If we know what??is and what??is, then there are 2 choices for both??and?.
Proof: Note??and?, so?. Let??be a set that contains all the elements in??that are not in?.?. We know??contains total??elements. And??contains total??elements. That means??contains only 2 elements since?. Let’s call these 2 elements?.?.??contains 1 elements more than?and 1 elements less than?. That 1 elements has to select from?. It’s easy to see??or?, so there are 2 choice for?. Same thing applies to?.
Filling in the rest of the grid
We used our proved lemma, and we can fill in??then we can fill in the next diagonal, until all??are filled, where?. But, we haven’t finished everything! Fortunately, filling out the rest of the diagonals in a similar fashion is pretty simple. And, it’s easy to see that we have made??decisions, each with 2 choices, when filling out the rest of the grid, so there are??ways to finish off.
Finishing off
To finish off, we have??ways to fill in the gird, which gets us?
Problem 5
Solution
We claim that all odd??work if??is a positive power of 2.
Proof: We first prove that??works. By weighted averages we have that??can be written, so the solution set does indeed work. We will now prove these are the only solutions.
Assume that?, so then??for some odd prime?. Then?, so?. We see that the arithmetic mean is??and the harmonic mean is?, so if 1 can be written then??and??which is obviously impossible, and we are done.