olymmath

CL-MO 2012

Chile national mathematics olympiad 2012.

Other problems

Problem 1

What is the minimum number of movements that a horse must carry out on chess, on an 8×88\times 8 board, to reach the upper right square starting at the lower left? Remember that the horse moves in the usual LL -shaped manner.

Problem 2

Let a1,a2,...,ana_1,a_2,...,a_n be all positive integers with 20122012 digits or less, none of which is a 99 . Prove that 1a1+1a2+...+1an≤80.\frac{1}{a_1}+\frac{1}{a_2}+ ... +\frac{1}{a_{n}}\le 80.

Problem 3

A person enters the social network facebook. He befriends at least one person a day for the first 3030 days. At the end of those 3030 days, it has been exactly 4545 friends. Prove that there is a sequence of consecutive days where made exactly 1414 friends.