olymmath

BALKAN 2018

Balkan Mathematical Olympiad 2018.

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Problem 1

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A quadrilateral ABCDA B C D is inscribed in a circle kk, where AB>CDA B>C D and ABA B is not parallel to CDC D. Point MM is the intersection of the diagonals ACA C and BDB D and the perpendicular from MM to ABA B intersects the segment ABA B at the point EE. If EME M bisects the angle CEDC E D, prove that ABA B is a diameter of the circle kk.

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Problem 2

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Let qq be a positive rational number. Two ants are initially at the same point XX in the plane. In the nn-th minute (n=1,2,…)(n=1,2, \ldots) each of them chooses whether to walk due north, east, south or west and then walks the distance of qnq^{n} metres. After a whole number of minutes, they are at the same point in the plane (not necessarily XX ), but have not taken exactly the same route within that time. Determine all possible values of qq.

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Problem 3

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Alice and Bob play the following game: They start with two non-empty piles of coins. Taking turns, with Alice playing first, each player chooses a pile with an even number of coins and moves half of the coins of this pile to the other pile. The game ends if a player cannot move, in which case the other player wins. Determine all pairs (a,b)(a, b) of positive integers such that if initially the two piles have aa and bb coins respectively, then Bob has a winning strategy.

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