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CMO 1984

Canadian Mathematical Olympiad 1984.

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Problem 2

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Alice and Bob are in a hardware store. The store sells coloured sleeves that fit over keys to distinguish them. The following conversation takes place: Alice: Are you going to cover your keys? Bob: I would like to, but there are only 77 colours and I have 88 keys. Alice: Yes, but you could always distinguish a key by noticing that the red key next to the green key was different from the red key next to the blue key. Bob: You must be careful what you mean by "next to" or "three keys over from" since you can turn the key ring over and the keys are arranged in a circle. Alice: Even so, you don't need 88 colours.Problem: What is the smallest number of colours needed to distinguish nn keys if all the keys are to be covered.

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Problem 3

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An integer is digitally divisible if both of the following conditions are fulfilled: (a)(a) None of its digits is zero; (b)(b) It is divisible by the sum of its digits e.g. 322322 is digitally divisible. Show that there are infinitely many digitally divisible integers.

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Problem 4

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An acute triangle has unit area. Show that there is a point inside the triangle whose distance from each of the vertices is at least 2274\frac{2}{\sqrt[4]{27}} .

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Problem 5

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Given any 77 real numbers, prove that there are two of them x,yx,y such that 0≤x−y1+xy≤130\le\frac{x-y}{1+xy}\le\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} .

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