Problem 1
Let , where is a positive integer. Alfredo calculates the sum of all the positive divisors of that are multiples of and obtains as a result. Bianca calculates the sum of all the positive divisors of that are multiples of and obtains as a result. Find the value of and show that it does not depend on .
Solution
Notice that . Let us rewrite as
The number is relatively prime with both and . Let , , … , be all positive divisors of the number .
The sum of positive divisors of that are multiples of is
The sum of positive divisors of that are multiples of is
From here we have that
Problem 2
In a regular pentagon, segments are drawn each connecting one end of each side with different points on the adjacent side clockwise. Into how many non-overlapping regions is the pentagon divided?
Solution
Let us pick the first vertex and draw the first segments. They will divide the pentagon into regions.
Let us pick the second vertex and draw the next segments. They will divide the pentagon into regions. The same will be true for the third and fourth vertices.
Let us pick the last vertex and draw the last segments. They will divide the pentagon into regions.
From here the number of all regions is
Problem 3
A circular game board is divided into sectors () each being empty or having one token. One move consists in selecting a sector with a token, removing the token, and “reversing the polarity” of the neighboring sectors (i.e. emptying an occupied sector and occupying an empty sector). Initially, there is only one occupied sector and you want to make all sectors empty. Find all values of , for which this is possible.
Solution
Let us first show that it is impossible to make all sectors empty for being a multiple of , . Let us color the sectors into three colors , and in the following pattern: . Let , and be the numbers of tokens on the colors , and respectively. Let us consider the following triple
One move changed the parity of the numbers , and to the opposite. However, it keeps the triple invariant modulo . It is not hard to see that in the end the triple becomes , while in the beginning it is not so. Contradiction.
Let us now show that it is always possible to make all sectors empty for not being a multiple of , . Let be either or modulo . It would be enough to show that when is modulo we can obtain a configuration with only one empty sector and when is modulo we can obtain a configuration with only two consecutive empty sectors.
Let represent an empty sector and represent an occupied sector. Let some part of the sector be given as . We can obtain three consecutive sectors with tokens in the following three steps:
It is clear that we can continue these operations until we get either or sectors left.
For the case when there are sectors left we can leave one empty sector as follows:
For the case when there are five sectors left we can leave two empty sectors as follows:
Problem 4
Let be the circumcircle of the triangle . The bisectors of the angles and intersect at the points and respectively. Let be any point on the arc that does not contain the point . Lines and intersect at . Lines and intersect at . Line intersects the circumcircle of the triangle at . Line intersects the circumcircle of the triangle at . Prove that .
Solution
Let us show that the triangles and are congruent. Indeed,
Also
Therefore, the triangles and are congruent by ASA-congruence and . Similarly, the triangles and are congruent by ASA-congruence and . From here as needed.