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KURSCHAK 1976

Kürschák Competition 1976.

Other problems

Problem 1

ABCDABCD is a parallelogram. PP is a point outside the parallelogram such that angles ∠PAB\angle PAB and ∠PCB\angle PCB have the same value but opposite orientation. Show that ∠APB=∠DPC\angle APB = \angle DPC .

Problem 2

A lottery ticket is a choice of 55 distinct numbers from 1,2,3,...,901, 2,3,...,90 . Suppose that 555^5 distinct lottery tickets are such that any two of them have a common number. Prove that one can find four numbers such that every ticket contains at least one of the four.

Problem 3

Prove that if the quadratic x2+ax+bx^2 +ax+b is always positive (for all real xx ) then it can be written as the quotient of two polynomials whose coefficients are all positive.