1220 Number Theory Problems - Third Edition

1220 Number Theory Problems (The J29 Project)
Amir Hossein Parvardi (Amir Hossein), Ben (bluecarneal)

August 13, 2012
Abstract
This problem set is my main source for writing a book. It is nothing but a set
of problems posted by active users of AoPS/MathLinks, and it will be a really
good source for preparing for mathematical olympiads.
I just like to thank all people who posted the problems: Andrew (WakeUp),
Goutham, Orlando (orl), Valentin (Valentin Vornicu), Darij (darij grinberg), Vesselin (vess), Gabriel (harazi), April, Arne, and Kunihiko (kunny).
And a special thanks goes to Ben (bluecarneal) who helped me a lot to edit
and compile this problem set.
But How To Use It? You probably ask this question when you see the
problems have been categorized by their posters, not by thir level/subject. First,
let me tell you why are the problems are categorized like that. Its simple: the
large number of problems. It would take me a very long time to categorize all
these problems and put them altogether.
The Solution. Problems posted by me, Andrew, Goutham, Orlando, Valentin,

and April are almost all problems of known competitions like USAMO, Iran
national olympiad, etc. So, they are all olympiad level problems and you can
solve them when you think youre prepared enough in most subjects of number
theory. Problems posted by Vesselin, Gabriel, and in some cases, Darij, are
really hard! Obviously, they need more skills to solve. And finally problems
posted by Arne and Kunihiko are random and you can find problems of different
levels in their parts.
Enjoy Problem Solving!
Contents
1 Problems
1.1 Amir Hossein . . . . . . . . . .
1.1.1 Amir Hossein - Part 1 .
1.1.10 Amir Hossein - Part 10
1.2 Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.2.1 Andrew - Part 1 . . . .
1.2.2 Andrew - Part 2 . . . .
1.2.3 Andrew - Part 3 . . . .
1.2.4 Andrew - Part 4 . . . .
1.2.5 Andrew - Part 5 . . . .
1.2.6 Andrew - Part 6 . . . .
1.2.7 Andrew - Part 7 . . . .
1.2.8 Andrew - Part 8 . . . .
1.2.9 Andrew - Part 9 . . . .
1.3 Goutham . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.3.1 Goutham - Part 1 . . .
1.3.2 Goutham - Part 2 . . .
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1.3.3 Goutham - Part 3

1.4 Orlando . . . . . . . . . .
1.4.1 Orlando - Part 1 .
1.4.10 Orlando - Part 10
1.5 Valentin . . . . . . . . . .
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1.6.2 Darij - Part 2 . . .
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1.8 Gabriel . . . . . . . . . .
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1.9 April . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.9.1 April - Part 1 . . .
1.9.2 April - Part 2 . . .
1.9.3 April - Part 3 . . .
1.10 Arne . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.10.1 Arne - Part 1 . . .
1.10.2 Arne - Part 2 . . .
1.11 Kunihiko . . . . . . . . .
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2.1 Amir Hossein . . . . . . . . .
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Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2.1 Andrew - Part 1 . . . .
2.2.2 Andrew - Part 2 . . . .
2.2.3 Andrew - Part 3 . . . .
2.2.4 Andrew - Part 4 . . . .
2.2.5 Andrew - Part 5 . . . .
2.2.6 Andrew - Part 6 . . . .
2.2.7 Andrew - Part 7 . . . .
2.2.8 Andrew - Part 8 . . . .
2.2.9 Andrew - Part 9 . . . .
Goutham . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.3.1 Goutham - Part 1 . . .
2.3.2 Goutham - Part 2 . . .
2.3.3 Goutham - Part 3 . . .
2.3.4 Goutham - Part 4 . . .
2.3.5 Goutham - Part 5 . . .
2.3.6 Goutham - Part 6 . . .
Orlando . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2.4.2 Orlando - Part 2 . . . .
2.4.3 Orlando - Part 3 . . . .
2.4.4 Orlando - Part 4 . . . .
2.4.5 Orlando - Part 5 . . . .
2.4.6 Orlando - Part 6 . . . .
2.4.7 Orlando - Part 7 . . . .
2.4.8 Orlando - Part 8 . . . .
2.4.9 Orlando - Part 9 . . . .
2.4.10 Orlando - Part 10 . . .
Valentin . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.5.1 Valentin - Part 1 . . . .
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2.6.1 Darij - Part 1 . . .
2.6.2 Darij - Part 2 . . .
2.7 Vesselin . . . . . . . . . .
2.7.1 Vesselin - Part 1 .
2.8 Gabriel . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1
Problems
1.1
1.1.1
Amir Hossein
Amir Hossein - Part 1
1. Show that there exist infinitely many non similar triangles such that the
side-lengths are positive integers and the areas of squares constructed on their
sides are in arithmetic progression.
2. Let n be a positive integer. Find the number of those numbers of 2n digits
in the binary system for which the sum of digits in the odd places is equal to
the sum of digits in the even places.
3. Find the necessary and sufficient condition for numbers a Z \ {1, 0, 1},
b, c Z \ {0}, and d N \ {0, 1} for which an + bn + c is divisible by d for each
natural number n.
4. Find the 73th digit from the end of the number 111
. . . 1} 2 .
| {z
2012 digits
5. Find all numbers x, y N for which the relation x + 2y +
3x
y
= 2012 holds.
6. Let p be a prime number. Given that the equation

pk + pl + pm = n2
has an integer solution, prove that p + 1 is divisible by 8.
7. Find all integer solutions of the equation the equation 2x2 y 14 = 1.
8. Do there exist integers m, n and a function f : R R satisfying simultaneously the following two conditions f (f (x)) = 2f (x) x 2 for any x R,
m n and f (m) = n?
9. Show that there are infinitely many positive integer numbers n such that
n2 + 1 has two positive divisors whose difference is n.
5
1.1.1
10. Consider the triangular numbers Tn =
n(n+1)
,n
2
N.
(a)If an is the last digit of Tn , show that the sequence (an ) is periodic
and find its basic period.
(b) If sn is the sum of the first n terms of the sequence (Tn ), prove that
for every n 3 there is at least one perfect square between sn1 and sn .
x
11. Find all integers x and prime numbers p satisfying x8 + 22
+2
= p.
12. We say that the set of step lengths D Z+ = {1, 2, . . .} is excellent if it

has the following property: If we split the set of integers into two subsets A and
Z \ A, at least other set contains element a d, a, a + d (i.e. {a d, a, a + d} A
or {a d, a, a + d} Z \ A from some integer a Z, d D.) For example the
set of one element {1} is not excellent as the set of integer can be split into
even and odd numbers, and neither of these contains three consecutive integer.
Show that the set {1, 2, 3, 4} is excellent but it has no proper subset which is
excellent.
13. Let n be a positive integer and let n be the number of 1s within binary
representation of n.
Show that for all positive integers r,
22nn |
n
X
C2n n+k k 2r .
k=n
14. The function f : N R satisfies f (1) = 1, f (2) = 2 and

f (n + 2) = f (n + 2 f (n + 1)) + f (n + 1 f (n)).
Show that 0 f (n + 1) f (n) 1. Find all n for which f (n) = 1025.
15. Let xn+1 = 4xn xn1 , x0 = 0, x1 = 1, and yn+1 = 4yn yn1 , y0 = 1,
y1 = 2. Show that for all n 0 that yn2 = 3x2n + 1.
16. Find all solutions of a2 + b2 = n! for positive integers a, b, n with a b
and n < 14.
17. Let a, b, c, d, e be integers such that 1 a < b < c < d < e. Prove that
1
1
1
15
1
+
+
+
,
[a, b] [b, c] [c, d] [d, e]
16
where [m, n] denotes the least common multiple of m and n (e.g. [4, 6] = 12).
18. N is an integer whose representation in base b is 777. Find the smallest
integer b for which N is the fourth power of an integer.
19. Let a, b, c some positive integers and x, y, z some integer numbers such that
we have
6
1.1.2
a) ax2 + by 2 + cz 2 = abc + 2xyz 1, and

b) ab + bc + ca x2 + y 2 + z 2 .
Prove that a, b, c are all sums of three squares of integer numbers.
20. Suppose the set of prime factors dividing at least one of the numbers
[a], [a2 ], [a3 ], . . . is finite. Does it follow that a is integer?
1.1.2
21. Determine all pairs (x, y) of positive integers such that

integer.
x2 y+x+y
xy 2 +y+11
is an
22. We call a positive integer n amazing if there exist positive integers a, b, c

such that the equality
n = (b, c)(a, bc) + (c, a)(b, ca) + (a, b)(c, ab)
holds. Prove that there exist 2011 consecutive positive integers which are amazing.
Note. By (m, n) we denote the greatest common divisor of positive integers m
and n.
23. Let A and B be disjoint nonempty sets with AB = {1, 2, 3, . . . , 10}. Show
that there exist elements a A and b B such that the number a3 + ab2 + b3
is divisible by 11.
24. Let k and m, with k > m, be positive integers such that the number
km(k 2 m2 ) is divisible by k 3 m3 . Prove that (k m)3 > 3km.
25. Initially, only the integer 44 is written on a board. An integer a on the
board can be replaced with four pairwise different integers a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 such
that the arithmetic mean 41 (a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 ) of the four new integers is equal to
the number a. In a step we simultaneously replace all the integers on the board
in the above way. After 30 steps we end up with n = 430 integers b1 , b2, . . . , bn
on the board. Prove that
b21 + b22 + b23 + + b2n
2011.
n
26. Determine all finite increasing arithmetic progressions in which each term
is the reciprocal of a positive integer and the sum of all the terms is 1.
27. A binary sequence is constructed as follows. If the sum of the digits of the
positive integer k is even, the k-th term of the sequence is 0. Otherwise, it is 1.
Prove that this sequence is not periodic.
28. Find all (finite) increasing arithmetic progressions, consisting only of prime
numbers, such that the number of terms is larger than the common difference.
7
1.1.3
29. Let p and q be integers greater than 1. Assume that p | q 3 1 and q | p 1.

Prove that p = q 3/2 + 1 or p = q 2 + q + 1.
30. Find all functions f : N {0} N {0} such that f (1) > 0 and
f (m2 + 3n2 ) = (f (m))2 + 3(f (n))2
m, n N {0}.
31. Prove that there exists a subset S of positive integers such that we can
represent each positive integer as difference of two elements of S in exactly one
way.
32. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers which cant be represented as sum of less than 10 odd positive integers perfect squares.
33. The rows and columns of a 2n 2n table are numbered from 0 to 2n 1. The
cells of the table have been coloured with the following property being satisfied:
for each 0 i, j 2n 1, the j-th cell in the i-th row and the (i + j)-th cell
in the j-th row have the same colour. (The indices of the cells in a row are
considered modulo 2n .) Prove that the maximal possible number of colours is
2n .
34. Let a, b be integers, and let P (x) = ax3 + bx. For any positive integer n
we say that the pair (a, b) is n-good if n|P (m) P (k) implies n|m k for all
integers m, k. We say that (a, b) is very good if (a, b) is n-good for infinitely
many positive integers n.
(a) Find a pair (a, b) which is 51-good, but not very good.
(b) Show that all 2010-good pairs are very good.
35. Find the smallest number n such that there exist polynomials f1 , f2 , . . . , fn
with rational coefficients satisfying
2
x2 + 7 = f1 (x) + f2 (x) + . . . + fn (x) .

36. Find all pairs (m, n) of nonnegative integers for which

m2 + 2 3n = m 2n+1 1 .
37. Find the least positive integer n for which there exists a set {s1 , s2 , . . . , sn }
consisting of n distinct positive integers such that

1
1
51
1
1
1
=
.
1
s1
s2
sn
2010
38. For integers x, y, and z, we have (x y)(y z)(z x) = x + y + z. Prove
that 27|x + y + z.
39. For a positive integer n, numbers 2n+1 and 3n+1 are both perfect squares.
Is it possible for 5n + 3 to be prime?
40. A positive integer K is given. Define the sequence (an ) by a1 = 1 and an is
the n-th positive integer greater than an1 which is congruent to n modulo K.
(a) Find an explicit formula for an .
(b) What is the result if K = 2?
8
1.1.3
1.1.3
41. Let a be a fixed integer. Find all integer solutions x, y, z of the system
5x + (a + 2)y + (a + 2)z = a,
(2a + 4)x + (a2 + 3)y + (2a + 2)z = 3a 1,
(2a + 4)x + (2a + 2)y + (a2 + 3)z = a + 1.
42. Let F (n) = 136n+1 + 306n+1 + 1006n+1 + 2006n+1 and let
G(n) = 2F (n) + 2n(n 2)F (1) n(n 1)F (2).
Prove by induction that for all integers n 0, G(n) is divisible by 73 .
43. Let P (x) = x3 px2 + qx r be a cubic polynomial with integer roots
a, b, c.
(a) Show that the greatest common divisor of p, q, r is equal to 1 if the
greatest common divisor of a, b, c is equal to 1.
(b) What are the roots of polynomial Q(x) = x3 98x2 + 98sx 98t with
s, t positive integers.
44. Let Qn be the product of the squares of even numbers less than or equal to
n and Kn equal to the product of cubes of odd numbers less than or equal to
n. What is the highest power of 98, that a)Qn , b) Kn or c) Qn Kn divides? If
one divides Q98 K98 by the highest power of 98, then one get a number N . By
which power-of-two number is N still divisible?
45. Prove that for each positive integer n, the sum of the numbers of digits of
4n and of 25n (in the decimal system) is odd.
46. Find all pairs of integers (m, n) such that
2

(m + 2000m + 999999) (3n3 + 9n2 + 27n) = 1.
47. Let b be a positive integer. Find all 2002-tuples (a1 , a2 , . . . , a2002 ), of natural
numbers such that
2002
X a
aj j = 2002bb .
j=1
48. Determine all integers m for which all solutions of the equation 3x3 3x2 +
m = 0 are rational.
49. Prove that, for any integer g > 2, there is a unique three-digit number abcg
in base g whose representation in some base h = g 1 is cbah .
50. For every lattice point (x, y) with x, y non-negative integers, a square of
side 20.9
x 5y with center at the point (x, y) is constructed. Compute the area of
the union of all these squares.
9
1.1.4
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51. Consider the polynomial P (n) = n3 n2 5n + 2. Determine all integers

n for which P (n)2 is a square of a prime.
52. Find all triples of prime numbers (p, q, r) such that pq + pr is a perfect
square.
53. Find all functions f : N N such that
p
f (n) = 2 b f (n 1)c + f (n 1) + 12n + 3,
n N
where bxc is the greatest integer not exceeding x, for all real numbers x.
54. Find all quadruple (m, n, p, q) Z4 such that
pm q n = (p + q)2 + 1.
55. Let p be the product of two consecutive integers greater than 2. Show that
there are no integers x1 , x2 , . . . , xp satisfying the equation
!2
p
p
X
X
4
2
xi
xi
= 1.
4 p + 1 i=1
i=1
56. Consider the equation
x2 + y 2 + z 2 + t 2 N x y z t N = 0
where N is a given positive integer.
a) Prove that for an infinite number of values of N , this equation has positive integral solutions (each such solution consists of four positive integers
x, y, z, t),
b) Let N = 4 k (8 m + 7) where k, m are no-negative integers. Prove
that the considered equation has no positive integral solutions.
57. In the sequence 00, 01, 02, 03, . . . , 99 the terms are rearranged so that each
term is obtained from the previous one by increasing or decreasing one of its
digits by 1 (for example, 29 can be followed by 19, 39, or 28, but not by 30 or
20). What is the maximal number of terms that could remain on their places?
58. Each term of a sequence of positive integers is obtained from the previous
term by adding to it its largest digit. What is the maximal number of successive
odd terms in such a sequence?
59. Determine all integers a and b such that
(19a + b)18 + (a + b)18 + (a + 19b)18
is a perfect square.
60. Let a be a non-zero real number. For each integer n, we define Sn =
an + an . Prove that if for some integer k, the sums Sk and Sk+1 are integers,
then the sums Sn are integers for all integers n.
61. Find all pairs (a, b) of rational numbers such that |a b| = |ab(a + b)|.
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1.1.4
1.1.4
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62. Find all positive integers x, y such that

y 3 3x = 100.
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16
63. Notice that in the fraction 64
we can perform a simplification as
= 14
64
obtaining a correct equality. Find all fractions whose numerators and denominators are two-digit positive integers for which such a simplification is correct.
64. Let a and b be coprime integers, greater than or equal to 1. Prove that all
integers n greater than or equal to (a 1)(b 1) can be written in the form:
n = ua + vb,
with(u, v) N N.
65. Consider the set E consisting of pairs of integers (a, b), with a 1 and
b 1, that satisfy in the decimal system the following properties:
(i) b is written with three digits, as 2 1 0 , 2 6= 0;
(ii) a is written as p . . . 1 0 for some p;
(iii) (a + b)2 is written as p . . . 1 0 2 1 0 .
Find the elements of E.
66. For k = 1, 2, . . . consider the k-tuples (a1 , a2 , . . . , ak ) of positive integers
such that
a1 + 2a2 + + kak = 1979.
Show that there are as many such k-tuples with odd k as there are with even k.
67. Show that for no integers a 1, n 1 is the sum
1+
1
1
1
+
+ +
1 + a 1 + 2a
1 + na
an integer.
68. Describe which positive integers do not belong to the set

1
E = bn + n + c|n N .
2
69. Find all non-negative integers a for which 49a3 + 42a2 + 11a + 1 is a perfect
cube.
70. For n N, let f (n) be the number of positive integers k n that do not
contain the digit 9. Does there exist a positive real number p such that f (n)
n p
for all positive integers n?
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1.1.5
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71. Let m, n, and d be positive integers. We know that the numbers m2 n + 1

and mn2 + 1 are both divisible by d. Show that the numbers m3 + 1 and n3 + 1
are also divisible by d.
72. Find all pairs (a, b) of positive rational numbers such that
q
a + b = 4 + 7.
73. Let a1 , a2 , . . . , an , . . . be any permutation of all positive integers. Prove
that there exist infinitely many positive integers i such that gcd(ai , ai+1 ) 43 i.
74. Let n > 1 be an integer, and let k be the number of distinct prime divisors
of n. Prove that there exists an integer a, 1 < a < nk + 1, such that n | a2 a.
75. Let {bn }

n1 be a sequence of positive integers. The sequence {an }n1 is
defined as follows: a1 is a fixed positive integer and
an+1 = abnn + 1,
n 1.
Find all positive integers m 3 with the following property: If the sequence {an
mod m}
n1 is eventually periodic, then there exist positive integers q, u, v with
2 q m 1, such that the sequence {bv+ut mod q}
t1 is purely periodic.
76. Simplify
n
X
k=0
(2n)!
.
(k!)2 ((n k)!)2
77. Find all functions f : Z Z such that f (a3 b2 ) = f (a)3 f (b)2 holds for
all integers a, b Z.
78. Find all increasing sequences {ai }
i=1 such that
d(x1 + x2 + + xk ) = d(ax1 + ax2 + + axk ),
holds for all k-tuples (x1 , x2 , , xk ) of positive integers, where d(n) is number
of integer divisors of a positive integer n, and k 3 is a fixed integer.
79. Let y be a prime number and let x, z be positive integers such that z is not
divisible by neither y nor 3, and the equation
x3 y 3 = z 2
holds. Find all such triples (x, y, z).
80. Does there exist a positive integer m such that the equation
1
m
1 1 1
+ + +
=
a b
c abc
a+b+c
has infinitely many solutions in positive integers?
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1.1.5
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81. Find all distinct positive integers a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . , an such that

1
2
3
n
a1 + a2 + a3 + + an
+
+
+ +
=
.
a1
a2
a3
an
2
82. Show that if 1 + 2n + 4n is a prime, then n = 3k for some positive integer
k.
83. Show that there exist no natural numbers x, y such that x3 + xy 3 + y 2 + 3
divides x2 + y 3 + 3y 1.
84. Find all positive integer triples of (a, b, c) so that 2a = b+c and 2a3 = b3 +c3 .
85. Find all integers 0 a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 9 such that
a1 a2 a3 a4 = (a1 a4 + 1)(a2 a3 + 1).
86. Find all integers a1 , a2 , . . . an satisfying 0 ai 9 for all 1 i n, and
a1 a2 a3 . . . an = (a1 a2 + 1)(a2 a3 + 1) (an1 an + 1).
87. Find all integers m, n satisfying the equation
n2 + n + 1 = m 3 .
88. Solve the equation x3 + 48 = y 4 over positive integers.
89. Find all positive integers a, b, c, d, e, f such that the numbers ab, cd, ef , and
abcdef are all perfect squares.
90. Let f : N N be an injective function such that there exists a positive
integer k for which f (n) nk . Prove that there exist infinitely many primes q
such that the equation f (x) 0 (mod q) has a solution in prime numbers.
91. Let n and k be two positive integers. Prove that there exist infinitely many
perfect squares of the form n 2k 7.
92. Let n be a positive integer and suppose that (n) = nk , where k is the
greatest perfect square such that k | n. Let a1 , a2 , . . . , an be n positive integers
such that ai = pa1 1 i pa2 2 i pann i , where pi are prime numbers and aji are nonnegative integers, 1 i n, 1 j n. We know that pi | (ai ), and if
pi | (aj ), then pj | (ai ). Prove that there exist integers k1 , k2 , . . . , km with
1 k1 k2 km n such that
(ak1 ak2 akm ) = p1 p2 pn .
93. Find all integer solutions to the equation
3a2 4b3 = 7c .
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94. Find all non-negative integer solutions of the equation

2x + 3 y = z 2 .
95. Find all pairs (p, q) of prime numbers such that
m3pq m
(mod 3pq)
m Z.
96. Find all functions f : N N such that

f (m)2k + f (n) | (m2k + n)2k
m, n, k N.
97. Numbers un,k (1 k n) are defined as follows

X
n
un/d,k/d .
u1,1 = 1, un,k =
k
d|n,d|k,d>1
(the empty sum is defined to be equal to zero). Prove that n | un,k for every
natural number n and for every k (1 k n).
98. Let (an )n0 and (bn )n0 be two sequences of natural numbers. Determine
whether there exists a pair (p, q) of natural numbers that satisfy
p<q
and
ap aq , bp bq .
99. Determine the sum of all positive integers whose digits (in base ten) form
either a strictly increasing or a strictly decreasing sequence.
3
n
cannot be written as o
the sum of two reciprocals of natural numbers (S =
6= p1 + 1q for any p, q N )
is not the union of finitely many arithmetic progressions.
100. Show that the set S of natural numbers n for which
n
n| n3
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101. Given any two real numbers and , 0 < 1, prove that there
exists a natural number m such that
(m)
< .
m

2n
n is an integer for n 0.
<
102.
(a) Prove that
1
n+1
(b) Given a positive integer

k, determine the smallest integer Ck with the
Ck
property that n+k+1
2n
n is an integer for all n k.
103. Find all prime numbers p for which the number of ordered pairs of integers
(x, y) with 0 x, y < p satisfying the condition
y 2 x3 x
is exactly p.
14
(mod p)
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104. Let m and n be positive integers. Prove that for each odd positive integer
b there are infinitely many primes p such that pn 1 (mod bm ) implies bm1 |n.
105. Let c be a positive integer, and a number sequence x1 , x2 , . . . satisfy x1 = c
and

2xn1 (n + 2)
xn = xn1 +
, n = 2, 3, . . .
n
Determine the expression of xn in terms of n and c.
106. Find all positive integers a such that the number
a+2
A = aa+1
a+3
+ (a + 1)a+2
is a perfect power of a prime.

107. Find all triples (n, a, b) of positive integers such that the numbers
an + bn1
an bn1
and
bn + an1
bn an1
are both integers.

108. Find all positive integers a and b for which
a2 + b
b2 a3
and
b2 + a
a2 b3
are both integers.

109. Prove that for every integer n 2 there exist n different positive integers
such that for any two of these integers a and b their sum a + b is divisible by
their difference a b.
110. Find the largest integer N satisfying the following two conditions:

(i) N3 consists of three equal digits;

(ii) N3 = 1 + 2 + 3 + + n for some positive integer n.
111. Determine a positive constant c such that the equation
xy 2 y 2 x + y = c
has precisely three solutions (x, y) in positive integers.
112. Find all prime numbers p and positive integers m such that 2p2 + p + 9 =
m2 .
113.
a) Prove that for any positive integer n there exist a pair of positive
integers (m, k) such that
k
k + mk + nm = 2009n .
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b) Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers n for which there
is only one such pair.
114. Let p be a prime. Find number of non-congruent numbers modulo p which
are congruent to infinitely many terms of the sequence
1, 11, 111, . . .
115. Let m, n be two positive integers such that gcd(m, n) = 1. Prove that the
equation
xm tn + y m sn = v m k n
has infinitely many solutions in N.
116. Determine all pairs (n, m) of positive integers for which there exists an
infinite sequence {xk } of 0s and 1s with the properties that if xi = 0 then
xi+m = 1 and if xi = 1 then xi+n = 0.
117. The sequence an,k , k = 1, 2, 3, . . . , 2n , n = 0, 1, 2, . . . , is defined by the
following recurrence formula:
a1 = 2,
for
an,k = 2a3n1,k ,
, an,k+2n1 =
1 3
a
2 n1,k
k = 1, 2, 3, . . . , 2n1 , n = 0, 1, 2, . . .
Prove that the numbers an,k are all different.

118. Let p be a prime number greater than 5. Let V be the collection of all
positive integers n that can be written in the form n = kp + 1 or n = kp 1 (k =
1, 2, . . .). A number n V is called indecomposable in V if it is impossible to
find k, l V such that n = kl. Prove that there exists a number N V that
can be factorized into indecomposable factors in V in more than one way.
119. Let z be an integer > 1 and let M be the set of all numbers of the form
zk = 1 + z + + z k , k = 0, 1, . . .. Determine the set T of divisors of at least
one of the numbers zk from M.
120. If p and q are distinct prime numbers, then there are integers x0 and y0
such that 1 = px0 + qy0 . Determine the maximum value of b a, where a and
b are positive integers with the following property: If a t b, and t is an
integer, then there are integers x and y with 0 x q 1 and 0 y p 1
such that t = px + qy.
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121. Let p be a prime number and n a positive integer. Prove that the product
2
2n1
p i
1 Y
((p 1)!)
N = n2
pi
p
i=1;2-i
Is a positive integer that is not divisible by p.

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122. Find all integer solutions of the equation

x2 + y 2 = (x y)3 .
123. Note that 83 73 = 169 = 132 and 13 = 22 +32 . Prove that if the difference
between two consecutive cubes is a square, then it is the square of the sum of
two consecutive squares.
n
124. Let xn = 22 +1 and let m be the least common multiple of x2 , x3 , . . . , x1971 .

Find the last digit of m.
P
125. Let us denote by s(n) = d|n d the sum of divisors of a positive integer
n (1 and n included). If n has at most 5 distinct prime divisors, prove that
77
s(n) < 16
n. Also prove that there exists a natural number n for which s(n) <
76
n
holds.
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126. Let x and y be two real numbers. Prove that the equations
bxc + byc = bx + yc,
bxc + byc = bx yc
Holds if and only if at least one of x or y be integer.

127. Does there exist a number n = a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 such that a1 a2 a3 +4 = a4 a5 a6
(all bases are 10) and n = ak for some positive integers a, k with k 3 ?
128. Find the smallest positive integer for which when we move the last right
digit of the number to the left, the remaining number be 32 times of the original
number.
129.
(a) Solve the equation m! + 2 = n2 in positive integers.
(b) Solve the equation m! + 1 = n2 in positive integers.

(c) Solve the equation m! + k = n2 in positive integers.
130. Solve the following system of equations in positive integers
3
a b3 c3 = 3abc
a2 = 2(b + c)
131. Let n be a positive integer. 1369n positive rational numbers are given
with this property: if we remove one of the numbers, then we can divide remain
numbers into 1368 sets with equal number of elements such that the product of
the numbers of the sets be equal. Prove that all of the numbers are equal.
1
132. Let {an }
n=1 be a sequence such that a1 = 2 and

2n 3
an =
an1
n 2.
2n
Pn
Prove that for every positive integer n, we have k=1 ak < 1.
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133. Let f : N N be a function satisfying

f (f (m) + f (n)) = m + n
Prove that f (x) = x
m, n N.
x N.
134. Solve the equation x2 y 2 + y 2 z 2 + z 2 x2 = z 4 in integers.

135.
(a) For every positive integer n prove that

1+
1
1
1
+ 2 + + 2 < 2
22
3
n
(b) Let X = {1, 2, 3, . . . , n} (n 1) and let Ak be non-empty subsets of

X (k = 1, 2, 3, . . . , 2n 1). If ak be the product of all elements of the set
Ak , prove that
m
m X
X
1
< 2n + 1
a
j2
i
i=1 j=1
(x2 x)(x2 2x + 2) = y 2 1.
137. Prove that the equation x + x2 = y + y 2 + y 3 do not have any solutions in
positive integers.
138. Let X 6= be a finite set and let f : X X be a function such that for
every x X and a fixed prime p we have f p (x) = x. Let Y = {x X|f (x) 6= x}.
Prove that the number of the members of the set Y is divisible by p.
139. Prove that for any positive integer t,
1 + 2t + 3t + + 9t 3(1 + 6t + 8t )
is divisible by 18.
140. Let n > 3 be an odd positive integer and n =
and i are positive integers. We know that
m = n(1
Qk
i=1
i
p
i where pi are primes
1
1
1
1
)(1 )(1 ) (1
).
p1
p2
p3
pn
Prove that there exists a prime P such that P |2m 1 but P - n.
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141. Let a1 a2 a3 . . . an be the representation of a ndigits number in base

10. Prove that there exists a one-to-one function like f : {0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , 9}
{0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , 9} such that f (a1 ) 6= 0 and the number f (a1 )f (a2 )f (a3 ) . . . f (an )
is divisible by 3.
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142. Let n, r be positive integers. Find the smallest positive integer m satisfying
the following condition. For each partition of the set {1, 2, . . . , m} into r subsets
A1 , A2 , . . . , Ar , there exist two numbers a and b in some Ai , 1 i r, such that
1<
a
1
<1+ .
b
n
143. Let n 0 be an integer. Prove that
d n + n + 1 + n + 2e = d 9n + 8e
Where dxe is the smallest integer which is greater or equal to x.
144. Prove that for every positive integer n 3 there exist two sets A =
{x1 , x2 , . . . , xn } and B = {y1 , y2 , . . . , yn } for which
i) A B = .
ii) x1 + x2 + + xn = y1 + y2 + + yn .
iii) x21 + x22 + + x2n = y12 + y22 + + yn2 .
145. Let x 1 be a real number. Prove or disprove that there exists a positive
integer n such that gcd ([x], [nx]) = 1.
146. Find all pairs of positive integers a, b such that
ab = 160 + 90 gcd(a, b)
147. Find all prime numbers p, q and r such that p > q > r and the numbers
p q, p r and q r are also prime.
148. Let a, b, c be positive integers. Prove that a2 + b2 + c2 is divisible by 4, if
and only if a, b, c are even.
149. Let a, b and c be nonzero digits. Let p be a prime number which divides
the three digit numbers abc and cba. Show that p divides at least one of the
numbers a + b + c, a b + c and a c.
150. Find the smallest three-digit number such that the following holds: If the
order of digits of this number is reversed and the number obtained by this is
added to the original number, the resulting number consists of only odd digits.
151. Find all prime numbers p, q, r such that
15p + 7pq + qr = pqr.
152. Let p be a prime number. A rational number x, with 0 < x < 1, is written
in lowest terms. The rational number obtained from x by adding p to both the
numerator and the denominator differs from x by p12 . Determine all rational
numbers x with this property.
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153. Prove that the two last digits of 99 and 99

are equal.
19
99
in decimal representation
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154. Let n be an even positive integer. Show that there exists a permutation
(x1 , x2 , . . . , xn ) of the set {1, 2, . . . , n}, such that for each i {1, 2, . . . , n}, xi+1
is one of the numbers 2xi , 2xi 1, 2xi n, 2xi n 1, where xn+1 = x1 .
155. A prime number p and integers x, y, z with 0 < x < y < z < p are given.
Show that if the numbers x3 , y 3 , z 3 give the same remainder when divided by p,
then x2 + y 2 + z 2 is divisible by x + y + z.
156. Let x be a positive integer and also let it be a perfect cube. Let n be
number of the digits of x. Can we find a general form for n ?
157. Define the sequence (xn ) by x0 = 0 and for all n N,

xn1 + (3r 1)/2, if n = 3r1 (3k + 1);
xn =
xn1 (3r + 1)/2, if n = 3r1 (3k + 2).
where k N0 , r N. Prove that every integer occurs in this sequence exactly
once.
158. Show that there exists a positive integer N such that the decimal representation of 2000N starts with the digits 200120012001.
159. Find all natural numbers m such that

1! 3! 5! (2m 1)! =

m(m + 1)
!.
2
160. Find all functions f : N N such that for all positive integers m, n,
2
(i) mf (f (m)) = (f (m)) ,

(ii)If gcd(m, n) = d, then f (mn) f (d) = d f (m) f (n),
(iii) f (m) = m if and only if m = 1.
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161. Find all solutions (x, y) Z2 of the equation

x3 y 3 = 2xy + 8.
162. We are given 2n natural numbers
1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, . . . , n 1, n 1, n, n.
Find all n for which these numbers can be arranged in a row such that for each
k n, there are exactly k numbers between the two numbers k.
163. Let n be a positive integer and let x1 , x2 , . . . , xn be positive and distinct
integers such that for every positive integer k,
x1 x2 x3 xn |(x1 + k)(x2 + k) (xn + k).
Prove that
{x1 , x2 , . . . , xn } = {1, 2, . . . , n}.
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164. Let n be a positive integer, prove that

lcm(1, 2, 3, . . . , n) 2n1 .
165. Find all positive integers n > 1 such that for every integer a we have
n|a25 a.
166. Let p, q be two consecutive odd primes. Prove that p + q has at least three
prime divisors (not necessary distinct).
167. Find all positive integers x, y such that
x2 + 3 x = y 2 .
168. Find all positive integers n such that we can divide the set {1, 2, 3, . . . , n}
into three sets with the same sum of members.
169. Let a and b be integers. Is it possible to find integers p and q such that
the integers p + na and q + nb have no common prime factor no matter how the
integer n is chosen?
170. In the system of base n2 + 1 find a number N with n different digits such
that:
(i) N is a multiple of n. Let N = nN 0 .
(ii) The number N and N 0 have the same number n of different digits in
base n2 + 1, none of them being zero.
(iii) If s(C) denotes the number in base n2 + 1 obtained by applying the
permutation s to the n digits of the number C, then for each permutation
s, s(N ) = ns(N 0 ).
171. Consider the expansion
(1 + x + x2 + x3 + x4 )496 = a0 + a1 x + + a1984 x1984 .
(a) Determine the greatest common divisor of the coefficients a3 , a8 , a13 , . . . , a1983 .
(b) Prove that 10340 < a992 < 10347 .
172. For every a N denote by M (a) the number of elements of the set
{b N|a + b is a divisor of ab}.
Find maxa1983 M (a).
173. Find all positive integers k, m such that
k! + 48 = 48(k + 1)m .
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174. Solve the equation

5x 7y + 4 = 3z
in integers.
175. Let a, b, c be positive integers satisfying gcd(a, b) = gcd(b, c) = gcd(c, a) =
1. Show that 2abc ab bc ca cannot be represented as bcx + cay + abz with
nonnegative integers x, y, z.
176. Does there exist an infinite number of sets C consisting of 1983 consecutive
natural numbers such that each of the numbers is divisible by some number of
the form a1983 , with a N, a 6= 1?
177. Let b 2 be a positive integer.
(a) Show that for an integer N , written in base b, to be equal to the sum
of the squares of its digits, it is necessary either that N = 1 or that N
have only two digits.
(b) Give a complete list of all integers not exceeding 50 that, relative to
some base b, are equal to the sum of the squares of their digits.
(c) Show that for any base b the number of two-digit integers that are
equal to the sum of the squares of their digits is even.
(d) Show that for any odd base b there is an integer other than 1 that is
equal to the sum of the squares of its digits.
178. Let p be a prime number and a1 , a2 , . . . , a(p+1)/2 different natural numbers
less than or equal to p. Prove that for each natural number r less than or equal
to p, there exist two numbers (perhaps equal) ai and aj such that
p ai aj
(mod r).
179. Which of the numbers 1, 2, . . . , 1983 has the largest number of divisors?
180. Find all numbers x Z for which the number
x4 + x3 + x2 + x + 1
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181. Find the last two digits of a sum of eighth powers of 100 consecutive
integers.
182. Find all positive numbers p for which the equation x2 + px + 3p = 0 has
integral roots.
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183. Let a1 , a2 , . . . , an (n 2) be a sequence of integers. Show that there is

a subsequence ak1 , ak2 , . . . , akm , where 1 k1 < k2 < < km n, such that
a2k1 + a2k2 + + a2km is divisible by n.
184.
(a) Find the number of ways 500 can be represented as a sum of

consecutive integers.
(b) Find the number of such representations for N = 2 3 5 , , , N.

Which of these representations consist only of natural numbers ?
(c) Determine the number of such representations for an arbitrary natural
number N.
185. Find digits x, y, z such that the equality
s
xx
x} yy y = zz
z
| {z
| {z } | {z }
n times
n times
n times
holds for at least two values of n N, and in that case find all n for which this
equality is true.
186. Does there exist an integer z that can be written in two different ways as
z = x! + y!, where x, y are natural numbers with x y ?
187. Let p be a prime. Prove that the sequence
11 , 22 , 33 , . . . , nn , . . .
is periodic modulo p, i.e. the sequence obtained from remainders of this sequence
when dividing by p is periodic.
188. Let a0 , a1 , . . . , ak (k 1) be positive integers. Find all positive integers y
such that
a0 |y, (a0 + a1 )|(y + a1), . . . , (a0 + an )|(y + an ).
189. For which digits a do exist integers n 4 such that each digit of
equals a ?
n(n+1)
2
190. Show that for any n 6 0 (mod 10) there exists a multiple of n not containing the digit 0 in its decimal expansion.
191. Let ai , bi be coprime positive integers for i = 1, 2, . . . , k, and m the least
common multiple of b1 , . . . , bk . Prove that the greatest common divisor of
a1 bm1 , . . . , ak bmk equals the greatest common divisor of a1 , . . . , ak .
hP 9
i
10
2/3
192. Find the integer represented by
. Here [x] denotes the greatn=1 n
est integer less than or equal to x.
193. Prove that for any positive integers x, y, z with xy z 2 = 1 one can find
non-negative integers a, b, c, d such that x = a2 + b2 , y = c2 + d2 , z = ac + bd. Set
z = (2q)! to deduce that for any prime number p = 4q + 1, p can be represented
as the sum of squares of two integers.
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194. Let p be a prime and A = {a1 , . . . , ap1 } an arbitrary subset of the set of
natural numbers such that none of its elements is divisible by p. Let us define a
mapping f from P(A) (the set of all subsets of A) to the set P = {0, 1, . . . , p1}
in the following way:
Pk
(i) if B = {ai1 , . . . , aik } A and j=1 aij n (mod p), then f (B) = n,
(ii) f () = 0, being the empty set.
Prove that for each n P there exists B A such that f (B) = n.
195. Let S be the set of all the odd positive integers that are not multiples of
5 and that are less than 30m, m being an arbitrary positive integer. What is
the smallest integer k such that in any subset of k integers from S there must
be two different integers, one of which divides the other?

196. Let m be an positive odd integer not divisible by 3. Prove that 4m (2 + 2)m
is divisible by 112.
197. Let n 4 be an integer. a1 , a2 , . . . , an (0, 2n) are n distinct integers.
Prove that there exists a subset of the set {a1 , a2 , . . . , an } such that the sum of
its elements is divisible by 2n.
198. The sequence {un } is defined by u1 = 1, u2 = 1, un = un1 +2un2 f orn
3. Prove that for any positive integers n, p (p > 1), un+p = un+1 up + 2un up1 .
Also find the greatest common divisor of un and un+3 .
199. Let a, b, c be integers. Prove that there exist integers p1 , q1 , r1 , p2 , q2 and
r2 , satisfying a = q1 r2 q2 r1 , b = r1 p2 r2 p1 and c = p1 q2 p2 q1 .
200. Let be the positive root of the quadratic equation x2 = 1990x + 1. For
any m, n N, define the operation m n = mn + [m][n], where [x] is the
largest integer no larger than x. Prove that (p q) r = p (q r) holds for all
p, q, r N.
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201. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers n such that the
2
2
2
number 1 +2 ++n
is a perfect square. Obviously, 1 is the least integer having
n
this property. Find the next two least integers having this property.
202. Find, with proof, the least positive integer n having the following property:
in the binary representation of n1 , all the binary representations of 1, 2, . . . , 1990
(each consist of consecutive digits) are appeared after the decimal point.
203. We call an integer k 1 having property P , if there exists at least one
integer m 1 which cannot be expressed in the form m = 1 z1k + 2 z2k + +
k
2k z2k
, where zi are nonnegative integer and i = 1 or 1, i = 1, 2, . . . , 2k.
Prove that there are infinitely many integers k having the property P.
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204. Let N be the number of integral solutions of the equation

x2 y 2 = z 3 t 3
satisfying the condition 0 x, y, z, t 106 , and let M be the number of integral
solutions of the equation
x2 y 2 = z 3 t 3 + 1
satisfying the condition 0 x, y, z, t 106 . Prove that N > M.
205. Consider the sequences (an ), (bn ) defined by
a1 = 3,
b1 = 100,
an+1 = 3an ,
bn+1 = 100bn
Find the smallest integer m for which bm > a100 .

206. Let m positive integers a1 , . . . , am be given. Prove that there exist fewer
than 2m positive integers b1 , . . . , bn such that all sums of distinct bk s are distinct
and all ai (i m) occur among them.
207. Let n 2 be an integer. Find the maximal cardinality of a set M of pairs
(j, k) of integers, 1 j < k n, with the following property: If (j, k) M ,
then (k, m) 6 M for any m.
208. Determine the smallest natural number n having the following property:
For every integer p, p n, it is possible to subdivide (partition) a given square
into p squares (not necessarily equal).
209. Are there integers m and n such that
5m2 6mn + 7n2 = 1985 ?
210. Find all triples of positive integers x, y, z satisfying
1
1 1
4
+ + = .
x y z
5
211. For every integer r > 1 find the smallest integer h(r) > 1 having the
following property: For any partition of the set {1, 2, ..., h(r)} into r classes,
there exist integers a 0, 1 x y such that the numbers a + x, a + y, a + x + y
are contained in the same class of the partition.
212. Let k 2 and n1 , n2 , ..., nk 1 natural numbers having the property
n2 |2n1 1, n3 |2n2 1, , nk |2nk 1 1, and n1 |2nk 1. Show that n1 = n2 =
= nk = 1.
213. Let p be a prime. For which k can the set {1, 2, . . . , k} be partitioned into
p subsets with equal sums of elements ?
214. Prove that there are infinitely many pairs (k, N ) of positive integers such
that 1 + 2 + + k = (k + 1) + (k + 2) + + N.
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215. Set Sn =
and S3n .
216.
Pn
p=1 (p
+ p7 ). Determine the greatest common divisor of Sn
a) Call a four-digit number (xyzt)B in the number system with base

B stable if (xyzt)B = (dcba)B (abcd)B , where a b c d are the
digits of (xyzt)B in ascending order. Determine all stable numbers in the
number system with base B.
b) With assumptions as in a , determine the number of bases B 1985

such that there is a stable number with base B.
217. Find eight positive integers n1 , n2 , . . . , n8 with the following property:
For every integer k, 1985 k 1985, there are eight
P8 integers a1 , a2 , . . . , a8 ,
each belonging to the set {1, 0, 1}, such that k = i=1 ai ni .
218. Solve the equation 2a3 b3 = 4 in integers.
219. Let p be an odd prime. Find all (x, y) pairs of positive integers such that
px y p = 1.
220. Let N = 1, 2, 3, .... For real x, y, set S(x, y) = {s|s = [nx + y], n N}.
Prove that if r > 1 is a rational number, there exist real numbers u and v such
that
S(r, 0) S(u, v) = , S(r, 0) S(u, v) = N.
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221. Let A be a set of positive integers such that for any two elements x, y of
A, |x y| xy
25 . Prove that A contains at most nine elements. Give an example
of such a set of nine elements.
222. Let k be a positive integer. Define u0 = 0, u1 = 1, and un = kun1
un2 , n 2. Show that for each integer n, the number u31 + u32 + + u3n is a
multiple of u1 + u2 + + un .
223. Find the average of the quantity
(a1 a2 )2 + (a2 a3 )2 + + (an1 an )2
taken over all permutations (a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) of (1, 2, . . . , n).
224. Let a and b be integers and n a positive integer. Prove that
bn1 a(a + b)(a + 2b) (a + (n 1)b)
n!
is an integer.
225. Let dn be the last nonzero digit of the decimal representation of n!. Prove
that dn is aperiodic; that is, there do not exist T and n0 such that for all
n n0 , dn+T = dn .
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226. Let n be a positive integer having at least two different prime factors.
Show that there exists a permutation a1 , a2 , . . . , an of the integers 1, 2, . . . , n
such that
n
X
2ak
= 0.
k cos
n
k=1
227. Decide whether there exists a set M of positive integers satisfying the
following conditions:
(i) For any natural number m > 1 there are a, b M such that a + b = m.
(ii) If a, b, c, d M, a, b, c, d > 10 and a + b = c + d, then a = c or a = d.
228. Let a be a positive integer and let {an } be defined by a0 = 0 and
p
an+1 = (an + 1)a + (a + 1)an + 2 a(a + 1)an (an + 1)
(n = 1, 2, . . . ).
Show that for each positive integer n, an is a positive integer.
229. Let n be a positive integer. Let (n) be the sum of the natural divisors
d of n (including 1 and n). We say that an integer m 1 is superabundant
(k)
(P.Erdos, 1944) if k {1, 2, . . . , m 1}, (m)
m > k . Prove that there exists
an infinity of superabundant numbers.
230. In a permutation (x1 , x2 , . . . , xn ) of the set 1, 2, . . . , n we call a pair (xi , xj )
discordant if i < j and xi > xj . Let d(n, k) be the number of such permutations
with exactly k discordant pairs. Find d(n, 2) and d(n, 3).
231. Let n be a positive integer and a1 , a2 , . . . , a2n mutually distinct integers.
Find all integers x satisfying
(x a1 ) (x a2 ) (x a2n ) = (1)n (n!)2 .
232. Prove that the product of five consecutive positive integers cannot be the
square of an integer.
233. Find all positive integers n such that
n = d26 + d27 1,
where 1 = d1 < d2 < < dk = n are all positive divisors of the number n.
234. Prove:
(a) There are infinitely many triples of positive integers m, n, p such that 4mn
m n = p2 1.
(b) There are no positive integers m, n, p such that 4mn m n = p2 .
235. It is given that x = 2272, y = 103 + 102 c + 10b + a, and z = 1 satisfy
the equation ax + by + cz = 1, where a, b, c are positive integers with a < b < c.
Find y.
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236. Find, with argument, the integer solutions of the equation

3z 2 = 2x3 + 385x2 + 256x 58195.
237. Let n be a natural number. Solve in integers the equation
xn + y n = (x y)n+1 .
238. Find the integer solutions of the equation
h i h
i
2m = n(2 + 2) .
239. Solve the equation 28x = 19y + 87z , where x, y, z are integers.
240. Numbers d(n, m), with m, n integers, 0 m n, are defined by d(n, 0) =
d(n, n) = 0 for all n 0 and
md(n, m) = md(n 1, m) + (2n m)d(n 1, m 1) for all 0 < m < n.
Prove that all the d(n, m) are integers.
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241. Determine the least possible value of the natural number n such that n!
ends in exactly 1987 zeros.
242. Let x1 , x2 , , xn be n integers. Let n = p + q, where p and q are positive
integers. For i = 1, 2, , n, put
Si = xi + xi+1 + + xi+p1 and Ti = xi+p + xi+p+1 + + xi+n1
(it is assumed that xi+n = xi for all i). Next, let m(a, b) be the number of
indices i for which Si leaves the remainder a and Ti leaves the remainder b on
division by 3, where a, b {0, 1, 2}. Show that m(1, 2) and m(2, 1) leave the
same remainder when divided by 3.
243. Five distinct positive integers form an arithmetic progression. Can their
product be equal to a2008 for some positive integer a ?
244. Given three distinct positive integers such that one of them is the average
of the two others. Can the product of these three integers be the perfect 2008th
power of a positive integer?
245. Find all positive integers a and b such that (a + b2 )(b + a2 ) = 2m for some
integer m.
246. Denote by [n]! the product 1 11 111 ... 111...1
| {z }.(n factors in total). Prove
n ones
that [n + m]! is divisible by [n]! [m]!
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247. Are there positive integers a; b; c and d such that a3 + b3 + c3 + d3 = 100100

?
248. A sequence {an} of positive integers is defined by

1
an = n + n +
,
n N.
2
Determine the positive integers that occur in the sequence.
249. Let a and b be integers. Prove that
2a2 1
b2 +2
is not an integer.
250. Suppose that n > m 1 are integers such that the string of digits 143
occurs somewhere in the decimal representation of the fraction m
n . Prove that
n > 125.
251. Prove that the sequence 5, 12, 19, 26, 33, contains no term of the form
2n 1.
252. Let n be a positive integer. Prove that the number of ways to express n
as a sum of distinct positive integers (up to order) and the number of ways to
express n as a sum of odd positive integers (up to order) are the same.
253. Find the number of positive integers n satisfying (n)|n such that

h
X
n1
ni
= 1992
m
m
m=1
What is the largest number among them? As usual, (n) is the number of
positive integers less than or equal to n and relatively prime to n.
254. Let a, b, c be integers. Prove that there are integers p1 , q1 , r1 , p2 , q2 , r2 such
that
a = q1 r2 q2 r1 , b = r1 p2 r2 p1 , c = p1 q2 p2 q1 .
255. Integers a1 , a2 , ..., an satisfy |ak | = 1 and
n
X
ak ak+1 ak+2 ak+3 = 2,
k=1
where an+j = aj . Prove that n 6= 1992.

256. Suppose that n numbers x1 , x2 , ..., xn are chosen randomly from the set
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. Prove that the probability that x21 + x22 + + x2n 0 (mod 5) is
at least 51 .
257. Solve 19x + 7y = z 3 in positive integers.
258. Prove that the equation 3y 2 = x4 + x doesnt have any positive integer
solutions.
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259. An Egyptian number is a positive integer that can be expressed as a sum of

positive integers, not necessarily distinct, such that the sum of their reciprocals
1
is 1. For example, 32 = 2 + 3 + 9 + 18 is Egyptian because 12 + 13 + 19 + 18
=1
. Prove that all integers greater than 23 are Egyptian.
260. Find all triples (x, y, z) of integers such that
2
3
2
1
+ 2+ 2 = .
x2
y
z
3
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261. Let (n, m), m 6= 1, be the number of positive integers less than or equal
to n that are coprime with m. Clearly, (m, m) = (m), where (m) is Eulers
phi function. Find all integers m that satisfy the following inequality:
(m)
(n, m)
n
m
for every positive integer n.
262. Let m be a positive integer and x0 , y0 integers such that x0 , y0 are relatively
prime, y0 divides x20 + m, and x0 divides y02 + m. Prove that there exist positive
integers x and y such that x and y are relatively prime, y divides x2 + m, x
divides y 2 + m, and x + y m + 1.
263. Find four positive integers each not exceeding 70000 and each having more
than 100 divisors.
264. Let Pn = (19 + 92)(192 + 922 ) (19n + 92n ) for each positive integer n.
Determine, with proof, the least positive integer m, if it exists, for which Pm is
divisible by 3333 .
265. Let (an )nN be the sequence of integers defined recursively by a1 = a2 =
1, an+2 = 7an+1 an 2 for n 1. Prove that an is a perfect square for every
n.
266. Determine all pairs of positive integers (x, y) satisfying the equation px
y 3 = 1, where p is a given prime number.
267. Given an integer n 2, determine all n-digit numbers M0 = a1 a2 an (ai 6=
0, i = 1, 2, ..., n) divisible by the numbers M1 = a2 a3 an a1 , M2 = a3 a4 an a1 a2 ,
, Mn1 = an a1 a2 ...an1 .
268. For given positive integers r, v, n let S(r, v, n) denote the number of ntuples of non-negative integers (x1 , , xn ) satisfying the equation x1 + +
xn = r and such that xi v for i = 1, , n. Prove that

m
X
n r (v + 1)k + n 1
S(r, v, n) =
(1)k
k
n1
k=0
io
n h
r
Where m = n, v+1
.
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269. Find, with proof, all solutions of the equation

integers x, y, z.
1
x
2
y
3
z
= 1 in positive
270. The positive integers x1 , , xn , n 3, satisfy x1 < x2 < < xn < 2x1 .
Set P = x1 x2 xn . Prove that if p is a prime number, k a positive integer, and
P is divisible by pk, then pPk n!.
271. Given a positive integer k, find the least integer nk for which there exist
five sets S1 , S2 , S3 , S4 , S5 with the following properties:
|Sj | = k for j = 1, , 5,
5
[
Sj | = nk ;
j=1
|Si Si+1 | = 0 = |S5 S1 |,
for i = 1, , 4.
272. Find the last eight digits of the binary development of 271986 .
273. Solve (x2 y 2 )2 = 16y + 1 in integers.
274. Let k be a positive integer. Prove that the equation (n) = k! has solutions
for n N.
275. Let Fn be the n-th term of Fibonacci sequence. If n > 4 prove that
4|(Fn ).
276. Let a, b, c, d be primes such that
a2 b2 + c2 d2 = 1749,
a > 3b > 6c > 12d
Find a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 .
277. Find all integers x, y, z such that
x3 + y 3 + z 3 = x + y + z = 8.
k
1 2
278. Let n = p
1 p2 pk be a positive integer where pi are primes and i
are positive integers.
Define f (n) = p1 1 +p2 2 + +pk k +1. Prove that the number 8 appears
in the sequence n, f (n), f (f (n)), f (f (f (n))), if n > 6.
279.
(a) Prove that we can represent any multiple of 6 as sum of cubes

of three integers.
(b) Prove that we can represent any integer as sum of cubes of five integers.
280. Solve the equation x5 y 2 = 52 in positive integers.
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281. Let n be a positive integer and p > 3 be a prime. Find at least 3n + 3

integer solutions to the equation
xyz = pn (x + y + z).
282. Let n, k be positive integers and n > 2. Prove that the equation xn y n =
2k doesnt have any positive integer solutions.
283. Solve in Q the equation y 2 = x3 x.
284. Find all integer solutions to x3 + y 4 = z 5 .
285. Find all positive integers m, n such that
m2 + n2 |m3 + n,
286.
m2 + n2 |n3 + m.
(a) Let n, d be positive integers such that d|2n2 . Prove that n2 + d

is not a perfect square.
(b) Let p be a prime and n be a positive integer. Prove that pn2 has at
most one divisor d such that n2 + d is a perfect square.
287. Let a, b be distinct real numbers such that the numbers
a b, a2 b2 , a3 b3 , . . .
Are all integers. Prove that a, b are integers.
288. Find all positive integers such that we can represent them as
(a + b + c)2
abc
Where a, b, c are positive integers.
289. Find all (m, n) pairs of integers such that
m4 3m3 + 5m2 9m = n4 3n3 + 5n2 9n
and m 6= n.
290. Find all positive integers n such that
4
4
b 1c + b 2c + + b 4 nc = 2n.
291. Let {an }n1 be a sequence of positive integers such that if i 6= j, then
gcd(ai , aj ) = gcd(i, j)
Prove that an = n,
n 1.
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292. Solve the system of equations in integers
(4x)5 + 7y = 14
(2y)5 (3x)7 = 74
Where (n)k is the closest multiple of k to n.

293. Prove that for every natural number k (k 2) there exists an irrational
number r such that for every natural number m,
[rm ] 1
(mod k).
294. Let n 2 be anpinteger. Prove that if k 2 + k + n is prime for all integers

k such that 0 k n3 , then k 2 + k + n is prime for all integers k such that
0 k n 2.
295.
(a) Let gcd(m, k) = 1. Prove that there exist integers a1 , a2 , . . . , am

and b1 , b2 , . . . , bk such that each product ai bj (i = 1, 2, , m; j = 1, 2, , k)
gives a different residue when divided by mk.
(b) Let gcd(m, k) > 1. Prove that for any integers a1 , a2 , ..., am and
b1 , b2 , ..., bk there must be two products ai bj and as bt ((i, j) 6= (s, t)) that
give the same residue when divided by mk.
296. Determine the least odd number a > 5 satisfying the following conditions:
There are positive integers m1 , m2 , n1 , n2 such that a = m21 + n21 , a2 = m22 + n22 ,
and m1 n1 = m2 n2 .
297. Prove that for every given positive integer n, there exists a prime p and
an integer m such that
(a) p 5 (mod 6)
(b)p - n
(c)n m3 (mod p)
298. Find all (m, n) pairs of integers such that
m2 1|3m + (n! 1)m .
299. Prove that the equation
1
1
1
1
+
+ +
=
n
10
n1 ! n2 !
nk !
Doesnt have any integer solutions such that 1 n1 < n2 < < nk .
300. Find all primes p, q such that
(5p 2p )(5q 2q )
pq
33
Z.
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301. Let n be a positive integer and A be an infinite set of positive integers

such that for every prime that doesnt divide n, then this prime doesnt divide
infinite members of A. Prove that for any positive integer m > 1 such that
gcd(m, n) = 1, there exists a finite subset of A and:
S1
(mod m)
and S 0
(mod n).
Where S is sum of the members of that subset.

1
1 1
+ + + is a
2 3
n
rational number, so we can write it as an irreducible fraction. Let P (n) be the
numerator of this fraction. Find-with proof- all positive integers m such that
3|P (m).
302. Let n be a positive integer. We know that A(n) = 1 +
303. m, n are odd positive integers and m2 n2 +1|n2 1. Prove that m2 n2 +1

304. Find all positive integers m, n such that
mn 1|m2 + n2 .
x2 + y 2 + z 2 = 16(xy + yz + zx 1).
306. Find all (m, n) pairs of positive integers such that
n|m2 + 1
m|n3 + 1.
307. Find all integer solutions to the equation 2x2 + 21y = z 2 such that x, y, z
be in a geometric progression.
308. Prove that for any positive integer n 3 there exist positive integers
a1 , a2 , , an such that
a1 a2 an ai
(mod a2i )
i {1, 2, , n}.
309. Find all primes p, q such that

pq q p = pq 2 19.
310. Let m, n be two positive integers and m 2. We know that for every
positive integer a such that gcd(a, n) = 1 we have n|am 1. Prove that n
4m(2m 1).
311. Find all functions f : N N such that:
i) f 2000 (m) = f (m).
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ii) f (mn) =
f (m)f (n)
f (gcd(m,n))
iii) f (m) = 1 m = 1
312. Prove that the equation x3 + y 3 + z 3 = t4 has infinitely many solutions in
positive integers such that gcd(x, y, z, t) = 1.
313. For a positive integer n, denote rad(n) as product of prime divisors of n.
And also rad(1) = 1. Define the sequence {ai }
i=1 in this way: a1 N and for
every n N, an+1 = an + rad(an ). Prove that for every N N, there exist N
consecutive terms of this sequence which are in an arithmetic progression.
n
314. Prove that 22 + 22
n1
+ 1 has at least n distinct prime divisors.
315. Does there exists a subset of positive integers with infinite members such
that for every two members a, b of this set
a2 ab + b2 |(ab)2 .
316. Find all a, b, c N such that
a2 b|a3 + b3 + c3 ,
b2 c|a3 + b3 + c3 ,
c2 a|a3 + b3 + c3 .
317. Let {ai }

i=1 be a sequence of positive integers such that a1 < a2 < a3
and all of primes are members of this sequence. Prove that for every n < m,
1
1
1
+
+ +
6 N.
an
an+1
am
318. Find all subsets of N like S such that
m, n S =
m+n
S.
gcd(m, n)
319. Let p 3 be a prime and a1 , a2 , , ap2 be a sequence of positive integers

such that for every k {1, 2, , p 2} neither ak nor akk 1 is divisible by
p. Prove that product of some of members of this sequence is equivalent to 2
modulo p.
320. Let a > 1 be a positive integer. Prove that the set {a2 +a1, a3 +a1, }
have a subset S with infinite members and for any two members of S like x, y
we have gcd(x, y) = 1. Then prove that the set of primes has infinite members.
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321. Solve the equation 4xy x y = z 2 in positive integers.
322. Let m, n, k be positive integers and 1 + m + n 3 = (2 + 3)2k+1 . Prove

that m is a perfect square.
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323. Let p be a prime such that p 3 (mod 4). Prove that we cant partition
the numbers a, a + 1, a + 2, , a + p 2,(a Z) in two sets such that product
of members of the sets be equal.
324. Let a, b be two positive integers and b2 + a 1|a2 + b 1. Prove that
b2 + a 1 has at least two prime divisors.
y 3 = x2 + 5
does not have any solutions in Z.
326. a, b Z and for every n N0 , the number 2n a + b is a perfect square.
Prove that a = 0.
5x2 + 3y 3 = p(p 4)
Where x, y are positive integers and p is a prime.
328. Find all positive integer solutions to 2z 2 y 4 = x2 .
329. Let a, b, c, d N and
b2 + 1 = ac,
c2 + 1 = bd.
Prove that a = 3b c and d = 3c b.

330. Let F (x) = (x2 17)(x2 19)(x2 323). Prove that for each positive
integer m the equation
F (x) 0 (mod m)
has solution for x N. But F (x) = 0 doesnt have any integer solutions (even
rational solution).
331. Find all integer solutions to x2 + y 2 = 5(xy 1).
332. Let p be an odd prime. Prove that
1p1 + 2p1 + + (p 1)p1 p + (p 1)!
(mod p)2 .
333. Let n 5 be a positive integer and k + 1 be the smallest prime greater

than n. Prove that n! is divisible by 1, 2, k.
334. Prove that we can choose 2n numbers from 2n+1 positive integers such
that sum of them is divisible by 2n .
335. Let p, q, n be positive integers such that gcd(p, q) = 1 and
p
1
1
< < .
n+1
q
n
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1
Prove that pq n+1
is a fraction that numerator of it, in the simplest form, is
less than p. Then prove that every fraction like pq with 0 < p < q can be written
as
p
1
1
1
=
+
+ +
,
q
n1
n2
nk
where ni are positive and distinct integers.
336. For a natural number n , let d(n) be the greatest odd divisor of n. Let
D(n) = d(1) + d(2) + + d(n)
, T (n) = 1 + 2 + + n.
Prove that there exist infinitely n such that 3D(n) = 2T (n).

337. Let p1 < p2 < p3 < < p15 be 15 primes in an arithmetic progression
with the common difference d. Prove that d is divisible by 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13.
338. Find all nonzero integers a > b > c > d such that
ab + cd = 34
ac bd = 19.
339. Find all positive integer solutions to 2x2 + 5y 2 = 11(xy 11).

340. Let m, n be two positive integers and gcd(m, n) = 1. Prove that
(5m 1) 6= 5n 1.
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341. Solve the equation p = x2 + y x for Positive integers x, y and prime p.

342. Let f (x) be a polynomial with integer coefficients, prove that there are
infinitely many primes p such that the equation f (x) 0 (mod p) has at least
one solution in integers.
343.
(a) Find all integers m, n such that

m3 4mn2 = 8n3 2m2 n.
(b) In the answers of (a), find those which satisfy m + n2 = 3.

344. Find all x, y N such that
x2 + 615 = 2y .
345. I have chosen a number {0, 1, 2, , 15}. You can ask 7 questions and
Ill answer them with YES or NO. And I can lie just one time. Find my
number.
346. Show that at least 99% of the numbers
101 + 1, 102 + 1, , 102010 + 1
are composite.
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347. Find all integers n 2, such that

nn |(n 1)n
n+1
+ (n + 1)n
n1
348. T is a subset of {1, 2, . . . , n} which has this property: for all distinct
i, j T , 2j is not divisible by i. Prove that:
|T |
4
n + log2 n + 2.
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349. Let m, n be two positive integers and m > 1. And for all a with gcd(a, n) =
1, we know that n|am 1. Prove that
n 4m(2m 1).
350. Find all n N such that
n
n
n
+ + +
Z.
1! 2!
n!
351. Find all prime numbers x, y such that
k=
xy y x = xy 2 19.
352. Find all integer solutions of
x4 + y 2 = z 4 .
353. n is a positive integer. d is the least positive integer such that for each
a that gcd(a, n) = 1 we know that ad 1 (mod n). Prove that there exist a
positive integer b such that ordn b = d.
354. Find all (a, b, c) triples of positive integers such that
1
a
1
b
1
c
= 45 .
355. Find all integer solutions of x3 y 3 = xy + 61.

356. Let a, b be two positive integers and a > b. We know that gcd(a b, ab +
1) = 1 and gcd(a + b, ab 1) = 1. Prove that (a b)2 + (ab + 1)2 is not a perfect
square.
357. There are 2010 positive integers (not necessary distinct) not greater than
21389 . Let S be the sum of these numbers. We show S in base 2. What is the
Maximum number of 1s in this show?
358. Let n be a positive integer such that m = 2 + 2 28n2 + 1 is an integer.

Prove that m is a perfect square.
359. Let z 2 = (x2 1)(y 2 1) + n such that x, y Z. Is there a solution x, y, z
if:
(a) n = 1981?
(b) n = 1984?
(c) n = 1985?
360. Find all integer solutions of x2 y 2 = 2xyz.
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361. For n 3 prove that there exist odd x, y Z such that 2n = 7x2 + y 2 .
362. Let a, b, c, d be integers such that a2 + ab + b2 = c2 + cd + d2 . Prove that
a + b + c + d is not a prime number.
363. Let x, y > 1 be two positive integers such that 2x2 1 = y 15 . Prove that
5|x.
364. Factorise 51985 1 as a product of three integers, each greater than 5100 .
365. Find all triples (a, b, c) Z3 such that:
a|b2 1, a|c2 1
b|a2 1, b|c2 1
c|a2 1, c|b2 1
366. Find the smallest positive prime that divides n2 + 5n + 23 for some integer
n.
2x2 73y 2 = 1.
Does not have any solutions in N.
368. Let n > 1 be a fixed positive integer, and call an n-tuple (a1 , a2 , . . . , an )
n
1 for i = 1, 2, . . . , n.
of integers greater than 1 good if and only if ai | a1 a2aa
i
Prove that there are finitely many good n-tuples.
369. Let p 5 be a prime. Show that
(p1)/2
k=0

p k
3 2p 1
k
(mod p2 ).
370. Prove that n n 3 is not a perfect square for any integer n.

371. Are there positive integers m, n such that there exist at least 2012 positive
integers x such that both m x2 and n x2 are perfect squares?
372. Prove that if a and b are positive integers and ab > 1, then

(a b)2 1
(a b)2 1
=
.
ab
ab 1
Here bxc denotes the greatest integer not exceeding x.
373. Do there exist positive integers b, n > 1 such that when n is expressed in
base b, there are more than n distinct permutations of its digits? For example,
when b = 4 and n = 18, 18 = 1024 , but 102 only has 6 digit arrangements.
(Leading zeros are allowed in the permutations.)
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374. Find all positive integers n such that 4n + 6n + 9n is a square.

375. Let = e2i/5 and p > 5 be a prime. Show that
1 + p
(1 + )p
+
(1 + )p
1 + p
is an integer congruent to 2 (mod p2 ).
376. Find all integer solutions to y 2 = 20x4 4x2 + 1.
377. Find the set S of primes such that p S if and only if there exists an
integer x such that x2010 + x2009 + + 1 p2010 (mod p2011 ).
378. Prove that there are infinitely many quadruples of integers (a, b, c, d) such
that
a2 + b2 + 3 = 4ab
c2 + d2 + 3 = 4cd
4c3 3c = a
379. Suppose k is some integer. Show that for any integer m, if k|m, then
k|mr , where mr is m with its digits reversed. For example, 123r = 321.
380. Suppose a, b, and c are positive integers satisfying a2 + b2 + c2 + 2(ab +
ac + bc). Show that a, b, and c are perfect squares.
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381. Prove that for any odd positive integer n, n12 n8 n4 + 1 is divisible by
29 .
382. Determine all integers n for which
s
s
r
r
25
625
25
625
+
n+
n
2
4
2
4
is an integer.
383. Lets call a positive integer interesting if it is a product of two (distinct
or equal) prime numbers. What is the greatest number of consecutive positive
integers all of which are interesting?
384. Do there exist positive integers a > b > 1 such that for each positive
integer k there exists a positive integer n for which an + b is a k-th power of a
positive integer?
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385. a1 a2 a3 and a3 a2 a1 are two three-digit decimal numbers, with a1 and

a3 different non-zero digits. Squares of these numbers are five-digit numbers
b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 and b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 respectively. Find all such three-digit numbers.
386. Find all positive integers n and k such that (n + 1)n = 2nk + 3n + 1.
387. Determine if the number n = 3n2 + 2n + 2 is irrational for all nonnegative integers n.
388. Let a1 , . . . , a10 be distinct positive integers, all at least 3 and with sum
678. Does there exist a positive integer n such that the sum of the 20 remainders
of n after division by a1 , a2 , . . . , a10 , 2a1 , 2a2 , . . . , 2a10 is 2012?
389. Does there exist natural numbers a, b, c all greater than 1010 such that
their product is divisible by each of these numbers increased by 2012?
390. Initially, ten consecutive natural numbers are written on the board. In
one turn, you may pick any two numbers from the board (call them a and b)
and replace them with the numbers a2 2011b2 and ab. After several turns,
there were no initial numbers left on the board. Could there, at this point, be
again, ten consecutive natural numbers?
391. Let a1 , . . . a11 be distinct positive integers, all at least 2 and with sum 407.
Does there exist an integer n such that the sum of the 22 remainders after the
division of n by a1 , a2 , . . . , a11 , 4a1 , 4a2 , . . . , 4a11 is 2012?
392. For a positive integer n define Sn = 1! + 2! + . . . + n!. Prove that there
exists an integer n such that Sn has a prime divisor greater than 102012 .
393. Consider the sequence (xn )n1 where x1 = 1, x2 = 2011 and xn+2 =
+1
4022xn+1 xn for all n N. Prove that x2012
2012
394. For any positive integers n and k, let L(n, k) be the least common multiple
of the k consecutive integers n, n + 1, . . . , n + k 1. Show that for any integer
b, there exist integers n and k such that L(n, k) > bL(n + 1, k).
395. A sequence a1 , a2 , . . . , an , . . . of natural numbers is defined by the rule
an+1 = an + bn (n = 1, 2, . . .)
where bn is the last digit of an . Prove that such a sequence contains infinitely
many powers of 2 if and only if a1 is not divisible by 5.
396. Given a prime number p congruent to 1 modulo 5 such that 2p + 1 is
also prime, show that there exists a matrix of 0s and 1s containing exactly 4p
(respectively, 4p+2) 1s no sub-matrix of which contains exactly 2p (respectively,
2p + 1) 1s.
397. Find all integers n 3 for which the following statement is true: Any
arithmetic progression a1 , . . . , an with n terms for which a1 + 2a2 + . . . + nan is
rational contains at least one rational term.
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398. Let k, n > 1 be integers

such that the number p = 2k 1 is prime. Prove
that, if the number n2 k2 is divisible by p, then it is divisible by p2 .
399. Find all positive integers n which have exactly n positive divisors.
n
400. Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers n such that 22
is divisible by n but 2n + 1 is not.
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+1
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401. Consider the set M = {a2 2ab + 2b2 | a, b Z}. Show that 2012
/ M.
Prove that M is a closed subset under multiplication.
402. Solve in Z the equation
3
x
2
y
1 .
2
403. How many positive integers satisfy the following three conditions:
a) All digits of the number are from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
b) The absolute value of the difference between any two consecutive digits
is 1;
c) The integer has 1994 digits?
404. Find all pairs of positive integers (a, b) such that 2a + 3b is the square of
an integer.
405. Show that for any integer a 5 there exist integers b and c, c b a,
such that a, b, c are the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle.
406. Let p > 2 be a prime number and
1+
1
1
1
m
+ 3 + ... +
=
23
3
(p 1)3
n
where m and n are relatively prime. Show that m is a multiple of p.

407. Prove that any irreducible fraction p/q, where p and q are positive integers
and q is odd, is equal to a fraction 2kn1 for some positive integers n and k.
408. An integer n 1 is called balanced if it has an even number of distinct
prime divisors. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers n such
that there are exactly two balanced numbers among n, n + 1, n + 2 and n + 3.
409. Let p = 3 be a prime number. Show that there is a non-constant arithmetic
sequence of positive integers x1 , x2 , . . . , xp such that the product of the terms
of the sequence is a cube.
410. Determine all pairs (p, q) of primes for which both p2 + q 3 and q 2 + p3 are
perfect squares.
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411. Determine all positive integers d such that whenever d divides a positive
integer n, d will also divide any integer obtained by rearranging the digits of n.
412. Let a be any integer. Define the sequence x0 , x1 , . . . by x0 = a, x1 = 3,
and for all n > 1
xn = 2xn1 4xn2 + 3.
Determine the largest integer ka for which there exists a prime p such that pka
divides x2011 1.
413. Let a < b < c be three positive integers. Prove that among any 2c
consecutive positive integers there exist three different numbers x, y, z such that
abc divides xyz.
414. Josh is older than Fred. Josh notices that if he switches the two digits of
his age (an integer), he gets Freds age. Moreover, the difference between the
squares of their ages is a square of an integer. How old are Josh and Fred?
415. The positive integers a, b, c are pairwise relatively prime, a and c are odd
and the numbers satisfy the equation a2 + b2 = c2 . Prove that b + c is the square
of an integer.
416. Let a and k be positive integers such that a2 + k divides (a 1)a(a + 1).
Prove that k a.
417. Find all triples (x, y, z) of positive integers satisfying the system of equations
(
x2 = 2(y + z)
.
x6 = y 6 + z 6 + 31(y 2 + z 2 )
418. Prove that for all positive integers n, there exists a positive integer m
which is a multiple of n and the sum of the digits of m is equal to n.
419. Find all functions f : N0 N0 for which f (0) = 0 and
f (x2 y 2 ) = f (x)f (y)
for all x, y N0 with x > y.
420. Let x be a real number with the following property: for each positive
integer q, there exists an integer p, such that

x p < 1 .

q 3q
Prove that x is an integer.
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421. Determine whether or not there exist numbers x1 , x2 , . . . , x2009 from the
set {1, 1}, such that:
x1 x2 + x2 x3 + x3 x4 + . . . + x2008 x2009 + x2009 x1 = 999.
422. A sequence a0 , a1 , a2 , . . . , an , . . . of positive integers is constructed as follows:
if the last digit of an is less than or equal to 5 then this digit is deleted and
an+1 is the number consisting of the remaining digits. (If an+1 contains
no digits the process stops.)
otherwise an+1 = 9an .
Can one choose a0 so that an infinite sequence is obtained?
423.
a) Show that it is possible to pair off the numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . , 10 so

that the sums of each of the five pairs are five different prime numbers.
b) Is it possible to pair off the numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . , 20 so that the sums of

each of the ten pairs are ten different prime numbers?
424. Prove that every positive integer n, except a finite number of them, can
be represented as a sum of 2004 positive integers: n = a1 + a2 + + a2004 ,
where 1 a1 < a2 < < a2004 , and ai | ai+1 for all 1 i 2003.
425. Let a > 1 be a positive integer. Show that the set of integers
{a2 + a 1, a3 + a2 1, . . . , an+1 + an 1, . . .}
contains an infinite subset of pairwise coprime integers.
426. Given are
two integers a > b > 1 such that a + b | ab + 1 and a b | ab 1.
Prove that a < 3b.
427. Let p 3 be a prime number. Show that there exist p positive integers
a1 , a2 , . . . , ap not exceeding 2p2 such that the p(p1)
sums ai + aj (i < j) are
2
all distinct.
428. Consider the set S of integers k which are products of four distinct primes.
Such an integer k = p1 p2 p3 p4 has 16 positive divisors 1 = d1 < d2 < . . . < d15 <
d16 = k. Find all elements of S less than 2002 such that d9 d8 = 22.
429. For each natural number a we denote (a) and (a) the number of natural
numbers dividing a and the number of natural numbers less than a that are
relatively prime to a. Find all natural numbers n for which n has exactly two
different prime divisors and n satisfies ((n)) = ( (n)).
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430. Prove whether or not there exist natural numbers n, k where 1 k n2

such that
4
2
2
n
n
n
.
=
+
k+2
k+1
k
431. A right triangle has integer side lengths, and the sum of its area and the
length of one of its legs equals 75. Find the side lengths of the triangle.
432. Prove that for any integer n > 3 there exist infinitely many non-constant
arithmetic progressions of length n 1 whose terms are positive integers whose
product is a perfect n-th power.
433. For a positive integer n, let (n) be the number of 1s in the binary
representation
of n. Show that for all positive integers r, 22n(n) divides
2r
Pn
2n
k=n n+k k .
434. A positive integer n is known as an interesting number if n satisfies
n n o
n
> 10
10k
10
for all k = 1, 2, . . . 9. Find the number of interesting numbers.
435. Let a, b, c be positive integers. Prove that it is impossible to have all of
the three numbers a2 + b + c, b2 + c + a, c2 + a + b to be perfect squares.
436. Let m 2 be an integer. Find the smallest positive integer n > m such
that for any partition with two classes of the set {m, m+1, . . . , n} at least one of
these classes contains three numbers a, b, c (not necessarily different) such that
ab = c.
437. Denote by d(n) the number of distinct positive divisors of a positive integer
n (including 1 and n). Let a > 1 and n > 0 be integers such that an + 1 is a
prime. Prove that d(an 1) n.
438. Let n and k be integers, 1 k n. Find an integer b and a set A of n
integers satisfying the following conditions:
(i) No product of k 1 distinct elements of A is divisible by b.
(ii) Every product of k distinct elements of A is divisible by b.
(iii) For all distinct a, a0 in A, a does not divide a0 .
439. A sequence of integers a1 , a2 , . . . is such that a1 = 1, a2 = 2 and for n 1,

5an+1 3an , if an an+1 is even,
an+2 =
an+1 an , if an an+1 is odd,
Prove that an 6= 0 for all n.
440. Let a > 1 be an odd positive integer. Find the least positive integer n
such that 22000 is a divisor of an 1.
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441. Let p and q be two different prime numbers. Prove that there are two
positive integers, a and b, such that the arithmetic mean of the divisors of
n = pa q b is an integer.
442. Find two positive integers a and b, when their sum and their least common
multiple is given. Find the numbers when the sum is 3972 and the least common
multiple is 985928.
443. Five points, no three collinear, are given on the plane. Let l1 , l2 , . . . , l10
be the lengths of the ten segments joining any two of the given points. Prove
2
that if l12 , . . . , l92 are rational numbers, then l10
is also a rational number.
444. For any positive integer n, let an denote the closest integer to n, and let
bn = n + an . Determine the increasing sequence (cn ) of positive integers which
do not occur in the sequence (bn ).
445. Let q be a real number with 1+2 5 < q < 2. If a positive integer n is
represented in binary system as 2k +ak1 2k1 + +2a1 +a0 , where ai {0, 1},
define
pn = q k + ak1 q k1 + + qa1 + a0 .
Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers k with the property that
there is no l N such that p2k < pl < p2k+1 .
446. Let m, n be positive integers with (m, n) = 1. Find gcd(5m + 7m , 5n + 7n ).
447. Let f (x) = x3 + 17. Prove that for every integer n 2 there exists a
natural number x for which f (x) is divisible by 3n but not by 3n+1 .
448. Let p be a prime number and A an infinite subset of the natural numbers.
Let fA (n) be the number of different solutions of x1 + x2 + . . . + xp = n, with
x1 , x2 , . . . xp A. Does there exist a number N for which fA (n) is constant for
all n < N ?
449. A pucelana sequence is an increasing sequence of 16 consecutive odd numbers whose sum is a perfect cube. How many pucelana sequences are there with
3-digit numbers only?
450. Find all four-digit numbers which are equal to the cube of the sum of their
digits.
451. Consider the points O(0, 0) and A(0, 1/2) on the coordinate plane. Prove
that there is no finite sequence of rational points P1 , P2 , . . . , Pn in the plane
such that
OP1 = P1 P2 = . . . = Pn1 Pn = Pn A = 1
452. Let m, n be positive integers of distinct parities and such that m < n <
5m. Show that there exists a partition with two element subsets of the set
{1, 2, 3, . . . , 4mn} such that the sum of numbers in each set is a perfect square.
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453. Let (an )n1 be a sequence of positive integers defined as a1 , a2 > 0 and
an+1 is the least prime divisor of an1 + an , for all n 2.
Prove that a real number x whose decimals are digits of the numbers
a1 , a2 , . . . an , . . .
written in order, is a rational number.
454. Let a, b be positive real numbers. For any positive integer n, denote by
xn the sum of digits of the number [an + b] in its decimal representation. Show
that the sequence (xn )n1 contains a constant subsequence.
455. Let P (x) and Q(x) be integer polynomials of degree p and q respectively.
Assume that P (x) divides Q(x) and all their coefficients are either 1 or 2002.
Show that p + 1 is a divisor of q + 1.
456. Find all numbers p q r such that all the numbers
pq + r, pq + r2 , qr + p, qr + p2 , rp + q, rp + q 2
are prime.
457. Prove that for any prime number p the equation 2p + 3p = an has no
solution (a, n) in integers greater than 1.
458. Let n be a positive integer and let k be an odd positive integer. Moreover,
let a, b and c be integers (not necessarily positive) satisfying the equations
an + kb = bn + kc = cn + ka
Prove that a = b = c.
459. Find all functions f : Z>0 Z>0 that satisfy the following two conditions:
f (n) is a perfect square for all n Z>0 ,
f (m + n) = f (m) + f (n) + 2mn for all m, n Z>0 .
460. If we add 1996 to 1997, we first add the unit digits 6 and 7. Obtaining
13, we write down 3 and carry 1 to the next column. Thus we make a carry.
Continuing, we see that we are to make three carries in total.
Does there exist a positive integer k such that adding 1996 k to 1997 k no
carry arises during the whole calculation?
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461. In a sequence u0 , u1 , . . . of positive integers, u0 is arbitrary, and for any

non-negative integer n,
(
1
un
for even un
un+1 = 2
a + un for odd un
where a is a fixed odd positive integer. Prove that the sequence is periodic from
a certain step.
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462. Find all triples (a, b, c) of non-negative integers satisfying a b c and

1 a3 + 9 b2 + 9 c + 7 = 1997.
463. Let P and Q be polynomials with integer coefficients. Suppose that the
integers a and a + 1997 are roots of P , and that Q(1998) = 2000. Prove that
the equation Q(P (x)) = 1 has no integer solutions.
464. The worlds in the Worlds Sphere are numbered 1, 2, 3, . . . and connected
so that for any integer n 1, Gandalf the Wizard can move in both directions
between any worlds with numbers n, 2n and 3n + 1. Starting his travel from an
arbitrary world, can Gandalf reach every other world?
465. Prove that in every sequence of 79 consecutive positive integers written in
the decimal system, there is a positive integer whose sum of digits is divisible
by 13.
466. A rectangle can be divided into n equal squares. The same rectangle can
also be divided into n + 76 equal squares. Find n.
467. Suppose that for some m, n N we have (5m 1) = 5n 1, where
denotes the Euler function. Show that (m, n) > 1.
2
468. Find all pairs (x, y) of positive integers such that y x = xy+2 .
469. Let n be a non-negative integer. Find all non-negative integers a, b, c, d
such that
a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 = 7 4n .
470. Determine a right parallelepiped with minimal area, if its volume is strictly
greater than 1000, and the lengths of it sides are integer numbers.
471. Determine all positive integers in the form a < b < c < d with the property
that each of them divides the sum of the other three.
472. Three students write on the blackboard next to each other three two-digit
squares. In the end, they observe that the 6-digit number thus obtained is also
a square. Find this number.
q
473. Find all n Z such that the number 4n2
n+5 is rational.
474. Let n be a positive integer and f (x) = am xm + . . . + a1 x + a0 , with m 2,
a polynomial with integer coefficients such that:
a) a2 , a3 . . . am are divisible by all prime factors of n,
b) a1 and n are relatively prime.
Prove that for any positive integer k, there exists a positive integer c, such that
f (c) is divisible by nk .
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475. For every rational number m > 0 we consider the function fm : R

1
R, fm (x) = m
x + m. Denote by Gm the graph of the function fm . Let p, q, r be
positive rational numbers.
a) Show that if p and q are distinct then Gp Gq is non-empty.
b) Show that if Gp Gq is a point with integer coordinates, then p and q
are integer numbers.
c) Show that if p, q, r are consecutive natural numbers, then the area of
the triangle determined by intersections of Gp , Gq and Gr is equal to 1.
476. Show that there exist no integers a and b such that a3 + a2 b + ab2 + b3 =
2001.
477. Find all pairs of integers a and b for which
7a + 14b = 5a2 + 5ab + 5b2 .
478. Find all pairs of integers (p, q) for which all roots of the trinomials x2 +
px + q and x2 + qx + p are integers.
479. Let A1 , A2 , . . . , An+1 be positive integers such that (Ai , An+1 ) = 1 for
every i = 1, 2, . . . , n. Show that the equation
A
A2
n+1
An
1
xA
1 + x2 + . . . + xn = xn+1
has an infinite set of solutions (x1 , x2 , . . . , xn+1 ) in positive integers.

480. Find all numbers N = a1 a2 . . . an for which 9 a1 a2 . . . an = an . . . a2 a1
such that at most one of the digits a1 , a2 , . . . , an is zero.
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481. Given any integer m > 1 prove that there exist infinitely many positive
integers n such that the last m digits of 5n are a sequence am , am1 , . . . , a1 =
5 (0 aj < 10) in which each digit except the last is of opposite parity to its
successor (i.e., if ai is even, then ai1 is odd, and if ai is odd, then ai1 is even).
482. Let n and z be integers greater than 1 and (n, z) = 1. Prove:
(a) At least one of the numbers zi = 1+z +z 2 + +z i , i = 0, 1, . . . , n1,
is divisible by n.
(b) If (z 1, n) = 1, then at least one of the numbers zi is divisible by n.
483. Let a be an odd digit and b an even digit. Prove that for every positive integer n there exists a positive integer, divisible by 2n , whose decimal
representation contains no digits other than a and b.
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484. Let P be a polynomial with integer coefficients. Suppose that for n =

1, 2, 3, . . . , 1998 the number P (n) is a three-digit positive integer. Prove that
the polynomial P has no integer roots.
485. A triple (a, b, c) of positive integers is called quasi-Pythagorean if there
exists a triangle with lengths of the sides a, b, c and the angle opposite to the
side c equal to 120 . Prove that if (a, b, c) is a quasi-Pythagorean triple then c
has a prime divisor bigger than 5.
486. Find all functions f of two variables, whose arguments x, y and values
f (x, y) are positive integers, satisfying the following conditions (for all positive
integers x and y):
f (x, x) = x,
f (x, y) = f (y, x),
(x + y)f (x, y) = yf (x, x + y).
487. Prove that the product of two natural numbers with their sum cannot be
the third power of a natural number.
488. Let un be the Fibonacci sequence, i.e., u0 = 0, u1 = 1, un = un1 + un2
for n > 1. Prove that there exist infinitely many prime numbers p that divide
up1 .
489. Denote by xn (p) the multiplicity of the prime p in the canonical represen1
and
tation of the number n! as a product of primes. Prove that xnn(p) < p1
limn
xn (p)
n
1
p1 .
490. Let m and n denote integers greater than 1, and let (n) be the number
n
of primes less than or equal to n. Show that if the equation (n)
= m has a
n
solution, then so does the equation (n) = m 1.
4xy
491. Let x and y be positive integers and assume that z = x+y
is an odd
integer. Prove that at least one divisor of z can be expressed in the form 4n 1
where n is a positive integer.
492. A sequence (xn )n0 is defined as follows: x0 = a, x1 = 2 and xn =

2xn1 xn2 xn1 xn2 + 1 for all n > 1. Find all integers a such that
2x3n 1 is a perfect square for all n 1.
493. Let a, b, c and d be prime numbers such that a > 3b > 6c > 12d and
a2 b2 + c2 d2 = 1749. Determine all possible values of a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 .
494. Let m be a positive integer such that m = 2 (mod 4). Show that there
exists at most one factorization m = ab where a and b are positive integers
satisfying
q
0 < a b < 5 + 4 4m + 1.
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495. Does there exist a finite sequence of integers c1 , c2 , . . . , cn such that all the
numbers a + c1 , a + c2 , . . . , a + cn are primes for more than one but not infinitely
many different integers a?
496. Find the smallest positive integer k which is representable in the form
k = 19n 5m for some positive integers m and n.
497. Determine all positive integers n with the property that the third root of
n is obtained by removing its last three decimal digits.
498. Find all positive integers n such that n is equal to 100 times the number
of positive divisors of n.
499. Determine all positive real numbers x and y satisfying the equation
x+y+
1
1
+ + 4 = 2 ( 2x + 1 + 2y + 1).
x y
500. Let n be a positive integer not divisible by 2 or 3. Prove that for all
integers k, the number (k + 1)n k n 1 is divisible by k 2 + k + 1.
1.2.7
Andrew - Part 7
501. Let a1 , a2 , . . . , an be an arithmetic progression of integers such that i|ai

for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1 and n - an . Prove that n is a prime power.
502. Let a, b, c, d, p and q be positive integers satisfying ad bc = 1 and
p
c
q > d . Prove that:
a
b
>
(a) q b + d
(b) If q = b + d, then p = a + c.
503. Let k and n be positive integers with n > 2. Show that the equation:
xn y n = 2k
has no positive integer solutions.
504. For any number n N, n 2, denote by P (n) the number of pairs (a, b)
whose elements are of positive integers such that
n
(0, 1),
a
a
(1, 2)
b
and
b
(2, 3).
n
a) Calculate P (3).
b) Find n such that P (n) = 2002.
505. Prove that any real number 0 < x < 1 can be written as a difference of
two positive and less than 1 irrational numbers.
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506. The polynomial W (x) = x2 + ax + b with integer coefficients has the

following property: for every prime number p there is an integer k such that
both W (k) and W (k + 1) are divisible by p. Show that there is an integer m
such that W (m) = W (m + 1) = 0.
507. Find all positive integers n for which nn + 1 and (2n)2n + 1 are prime
numbers.
508. A 12-digit positive integer consisting only of digits 1, 5 and 9 is divisible
by 37. Prove that the sum of its digits is not equal to 76.
509. Does there exist a sequence a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . of positive integers such that the
sum of every n consecutive elements is divisible by n2 for every positive integer
n?
n
510. For a positive integer n let an denote the last digit of n(n ) . Prove that
the sequence (an ) is periodic and determine the length of the minimal period.
511. Are there 4 distinct positive integers such that adding the product of any
two of them to 2006 yields a perfect square?
512. Let a and b be positive integers, b < a, such that a3 + b3 + ab is divisible
by ab(a b). Prove that ab is a perfect cube.
513. Let r and k be positive integers such that all prime divisors of r are
greater than 50. A positive integer, whose decimal representation (without
leading zeroes) has at least k digits, will be called nice if every sequence of k
consecutive digits of this decimal representation forms a number (possibly with
leading zeroes) which is a multiple of r.
Prove that if there exist infinitely many nice numbers, then the number 10k 1
is nice as well.
514. Let a, b, c, d be non-zero integers, such that the only quadruple of integers
(x, y, z, t) satisfying the equation
ax2 + by 2 + cz 2 + dt2 = 0
is x = y = z = t = 0. Does it follow that the numbers a, b, c, d have the same
sign?
y+1
z+1
an integer. Let
515. Let x, y, z be positive integers such that x+1
y + z + x is
d be the greatest common divisor of x, y and z. Prove that d 3 xy + yz + zx.
516. Let a and b be rational numbers such that s = a + b = a2 + b2 . Prove that

s can be written as a fraction where the denominator is relatively prime to 6.
517. An integer n > 0 is written in decimal system as am am1 . . . a1 . Find all
n such that
n = (am + 1)(am1 + 1) (a1 + 1).
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518. Show that the equation 2x2 3x = 3y 2 has infinitely many solutions in
positive integers.
519. Determine all positive integers n for which there exists a partition of the
set
{n, n + 1, n + 2, . . . , n + 8}
into two subsets such that the product of all elements of the first subset is equal
to the product of all elements of the second subset.
520. Determine all positive integers n for which 2n+1 n2 is a prime number.
1.2.8
Andrew - Part 8
521. Determine all triples (x, y, z) of integers greater than 1 with the property
that x divides yz 1, y divides zx 1 and z divides xy 1.
522. Determine all triples (x, y, z) of positive integers such that
z
13 1996
+ 2 =
.
x2
y
1997
523. Determine all positive integers n for which there exists an infinite subset A
of the set N of positive integers such that for all pairwise distinct a1 , a2 , . . . , an
A the numbers a1 + . . . + an and a1 a2 . . . an are coprime.
524. For which k do there exist k pairwise distinct primes p1 , p2 , . . . pk such
that
p21 + p22 + . . . + p2k = 2010?
525. Let p be a prime number. For each k, 1 k p 1, there exists a unique
integer denoted by k 1 such that 1 k 1 p 1 and k 1 k = 1 (mod p).
Prove that the sequence
11 ,
11 + 21 ,
11 + 21 + 31 ,
(addition modulo p) contains at most
p+1
2
...,
11 + 21 + . . . + (p 1)1
distinct elements.
526. Find all positive integers n such that the decimal representation of n2
consists of odd digits only.
527. For a positive integer k, let d(k) denote the number of divisors of k and
let s(k) denote the digit sum of k. A positive integer n is said to be amusing if
there exists a positive integer k such that d(k) = s(k) = n. What is the smallest
amusing odd integer greater than 1?
528. From a sequence of integers (a, b, c, d) each of the sequences
(c, d, a, b),
(b, a, d, c),
(a + nc, b + nd, c, d),
(a + nb, b, c + nd, d)
for arbitrary integer n can be obtained by one step. Is it possible to obtain

(3, 4, 5, 7) from (1, 2, 3, 4) through a sequence of such steps?
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529. What is the smallest positive odd integer having the same number of
positive divisors as 360?
530. Let n be a positive integer. Prove that at least 2n1 + n numbers can
be chosen from the set {1, 2, 3, . . . , 2n } such that for any two different chosen
numbers x and y, x + y is not a divisor of x y.
531. Let f be a real-valued function defined on the positive integers satisfying
the following condition:
For all n > 1 there exists a prime divisor p of n such

that f (n) = f np f (p). Given that f (2001) = 1, what is the value of f (2002)?
532. Does there exist an infinite non-constant arithmetic progression, each term
of which is of the form ab , where a and b are positive integers with b 2?
533. Show that the sequence

2002
2003
2004
,
,
,...
2002
2002
2002
considred modulo 2002, is periodic.
534. Find all pairs (a, b) of positive rational numbers such that
q
a + b = 2 + 3.
535. Prove that if m, n, r are positive integers, and:
1 + m + n 3 = (2 + 3)2r1
then m is a perfect square.
536. Let a, b be coprime positive integers. Show that the number of positive
integers n for which the equation ax + by = n has no positive integer solutions
is equal to (a1)(b1)
1.
2
537. Prove that if m and s are integers with ms = 20002001 , then the equation
mx2 sy 2 = 3 has no integer solutions.
538. Prove that for each prime number p and positive integer n, pn divides
n
p
pn1 .
p
539. Find all triples of positive integers (a, b, p) with a, b positive integers and
p a prime number such that 2a + pb = 19a .
Pn
540. The function : N N is defined by (n) = k=1 gcd(k, n).
(a) Prove that (mn) = (m)(n) for every two coprime m, n N.
(b) Prove that for each a N the equation (x) = ax has a solution.
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Andrew - Part 9
1
541. Find all positive rational numbers r 6= 1 such that r r1 is rational.

542. Suppose that the sum of all positive divisors of a natural number n, n
excluded, plus the number of these divisors is equal to n. Prove that n = 2m2
for some integer m.
543. Let a and b be positive integers. Show that if a3 + b3 is the square of an
integer, then a + b is not a product of two different prime numbers.
544. Every integer is to be coloured blue, green, red, or yellow. Can this be
done in such a way that if a, b, c, d are not all 0 and have the same colour, then
3a 2b = 2c 3d?
545. All the positive divisors of a positive integer n are stored into an increasing
array. Mary is writing a programme which decides for an arbitrarily chosen
divisor d > 1 whether it is a prime. Let n have k divisors not greater
than d.

Mary claims that it suffices to check divisibility of d by the first k2 divisors of
n: d is prime if and only if none of them but 1 divides d. Is Mary right?
546. Find all pairs of positive integers (a, b) such that a b is a prime number
and ab is a perfect square.
547. Prove that any real solution of x3 +px+q = 0, where p, q are real numbers,
satisfies the inequality 4qx p2 .
548. Suppose that a sequence (an )
n=1 of integers has the following property:
For all n large enough (i.e. n N for some N ), an equals the number of
indices i, 1 i < n, such that ai + i n. Find the maximum possible number
of integers which occur infinitely many times in the sequence.
549. Find all triples of nonnegative integers (m, n, k) satisfying 5m + 7n = k 3 .
550. Prove that there are are no positive integers x and y such that x5 +y 5 +1 =
(x + 2)5 + (y 3)5 .
551. Find all integers x and y such that x3 y 3 = 2001p, where p is prime.
552. Let xk = k(k+1)
for all integers k 1. Prove that for any integer n 10,
2
between the numbers A = x1 + x2 + . . . + xn1 and B = A + xn there is at least
one square.
553. The discriminant of the equation x2 ax + b = 0 is the square of a
rational number and a and b are integers. Prove that the roots of the equation
are integers.
554. Find all the three-digit numbers abc such that the 6003-digit number
abcabc . . . abc is divisible by 91.
555. Let Pn (n = 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) be the set of positive integers nk + nl + nm , where
k, l, m are positive integers. Find n such that:
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56
i) In the set Pn there are infinitely many squares.

ii) In the set Pn there are no squares.
556. Find the positive integers n that are not divisible by 3 if the number
2
2n 10 + 2133 is a perfect cube.
557. Find all pairs of integers (m, n) such that the numbers A = n2 + 2mn +
3m2 + 2, B = 2n2 + 3mn + m2 + 2, C = 3n2 + mn + 2m2 + 1 have a common
divisor greater than 1.
558. Find all four-digit numbers such that when decomposed into prime factors,
each number has the sum of its prime factors equal to the sum of the exponents.
559. Prove that there are no integers x, y, z such that
x4 + y 4 + z 4 2x2 y 2 2y 2 z 2 2z 2 x2 = 2000.
560. Find all the triples (x, y, z) of positive integers such that xy + yz + zx
xyz = 2.
1.3
1.3.1
Goutham
Goutham - Part 1
561. Let (n) be the number of positive divisors of a natural number n, and
(n) be their sum. Find the largest real number such that
(n)
n
(n)
for all n 1.
562. Let n > 1 be a positive integer. Find all n-tuples (a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) of positive
integers which are pairwise distinct, pairwise coprime, and such that for each i
in the range 1 i n,
(a1 + a2 + . . . + an )|(ai1 + ai2 + . . . + ain ).
563. Let S(k) denote the digit-sum of a positive integer k(in base 10). Determine the smallest positive integer n such that
S(n2 ) = S(n) 7.
564. Does the sequence
11, 111, 1111, 11111, . . .
contain any fifth power of a positive integer? Justify your answer.
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57
565. Let a, b, c be positive integers for which

ac = b2 + b + 1
Prove that the equation
ax2 (2b + 1)xy + cy 2 = 1
has an integer solution.
566. Prove that, for any positive integer n, there exists a polynomial p(x) of
degree at most n whose coe?cients are all integers such that, p(k) is divisible by
2n for every even integer k, and p(k) 1 is divisible by 2n for every odd integer
k.
567. Let (an )n1 be a sequence of integers that satis?es
an = an1 min(an2 , an3 )
for all n 4. Prove that for every positive integer k, there is an n such that an
is divisible by 3k .
568. A positive integer is called monotonic if when written in base 10, the
digits are weakly increasing. Thus 12226778 is monotonic. Note that a positive
integer cannot have first digit which is 0. Prove that for every positive integer
n, there is an n-digit monotonic number which is a perfect square.
569. Prove that every positive integer can be represented in the form
3u1 . . . 2v1 + 3u2 . . . 2v2 + . . . + 3uk . . . 2vk
with integers u1 , u2 , . . . , uk , v1 , . . . , vk such that u1 > u2 > . . . > uk 0 and
0 v1 < v2 < . . . < vk .
570. Find all positive integers k such that there exist two positive integers m
and n satisfying
m(m + k) = n(n + 1).
571. An increasing arithmetic progression consists of one hundred positive integers. Is it possible that every two of them are relatively prime?
572. For any integer n + 1, . . . , 2n (n is a natural number) consider its greatest
odd divisor. Prove that the sum of all these divisors equals n2 .
573. Let a real number > 1 be given and a sequence (nk ) of positive integers
> for k = 1, 2, . . . Prove that there exists a positive integer c
such that nnk+1
k
such that no positive integer n can be represented in more than c ways in the
form n = nk + nj or n = nr ns .
574. Let there be given two sequences of integers fi (1), fi (2), (i = 1, 2) satisfying:
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1.3.2
58
fi (nm) = fi (n)fi (m) if gcd(n, m) = 1;

for every prime P and all k = 2, 3, 4, , fi (P k ) = fi (P )fi (P k1 )
P 2 f (P k2 ). Moreover, for every prime P :
f1 (P ) = 2P,
f2 (P ) < 2P.
Prove that |f2 (n)| < f1 (n) for all n.
575. For any positive integer n, we denote by F (n) the number of ways in which
n can be expressed as the sum of three different positive integers, without regard
to order. Thus, since 10 = 7 + 2 + 1 = 6 + 3 + 1 = 5 + 4 + 1 = 5 + 3 + 2, we
have F (10) = 4. Show that F (n) is even if n 2 or 4 (mod 6), but odd if n is
divisible by 6.
576. Show that it is possible to express 1 as a sum of 6, and as a sum of 9
reciprocals of odd positive integers. Generalize the problem.
577. Are there positive integers a, b with b 2 such that 2a + 1 is divisible by
2b 1?
578. Let a0 and an be different divisors of a natural number m, and a0 , a1 , a2 , , an
be a sequence of natural numbers such that it satisfifies
ai+1 = |ai ai1 | for 0 < i < n
If gcd(a
0 , , an ) = 1, show that there is a term of the sequence that is smaller
than m .
579. Let A be an infinite set of positive integers. Find all natural numbers n
such that for each a A,
an + an1 + + a1 + 1 | an! + a(n1)! + + a1! + 1.
580. In a multiplication table, the entry in the i-th row and the j-th column
is the product ij From an m n subtable with both m and n odd, the interior
(m 2)(n 2) rectangle is removed, leaving behind a frame of width 1. The
squares of the frame are painted alternately black and white. Prove that the
sum of the numbers in the black squares is equal to the sum of the numbers in
the white squares.
1.3.2
Goutham - Part 2
581. Alex has a piece of cheese. He chooses a positive number a and cuts the
piece into several pieces one by one. Every time he choses a piece and cuts it
in the same ratio 1 : a. His goal is to divide the cheese into two piles of equal
masses. Can he do it if
(a) a is irrational?
(b) a is rational, a 6= 1?
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59
582. 2010 ships deliver bananas, lemons and pineapples from South America
to Russia. The total number of bananas on each ship equals the number of
lemons on all other ships combined, while the total number of lemons on each
ship equals the total number of pineapples on all other ships combined. Prove
that the total number of fruits is a multiple of 31.
583. Can it happen that the sum of digits of some positive integer n equals 100
while the sum of digits of number n3 equals 1003 ?
584. Alex has a piece of cheese. He chooses a positive number a 6= 1 and cuts
the piece into several pieces one by one. Every time he chooses a piece and cuts
it in the same ratio 1 : a. His goal is to divide the cheese into two piles of equal
masses. Can he do it?
585. 101 numbers are written on a blackboard: 12 , 22 , 32 , , 1012 . Alex choses
any two numbers and replaces them by their positive difference. He repeats this
operation until one number is left on the blackboard. Determine the smallest
possible value of this number.
586. Each of six fruit baskets contains pears, plums and apples. The number
of plums in each basket equals the total number of apples in all other baskets
combined while the number of apples in each basket equals the total number of
pears in all other baskets combined. Prove that the total number of fruits is a
multiple of 31.
587. Let x = a + b, where a and b are natural numbers, x is not an integer,

and x < 1976. Prove that the fractional part of x exceeds 1019.76 .
588. Let (an ), n = 0, 1, ..., be a sequence of real numbers such that a0 = 0 and
a3n+1 =
1 2
a 1, n = 0, 1,
2 n
Prove that there exists a positive number q, q < 1, such that for all n = 1, 2, . . . ,
|an+1 an | q|an an1 |,
and give one such q explicitly.
589. For a positive integer n, let 6(n) be the natural number whose decimal
representation consists of n digits 6. Let us define, for all natural numbers m,
k with 1 k m

6(m) 6(m1) 6(mk+1)
m
.
=
k
6(1) 6(2) 6(k)

m
Prove that for all m, k,
is a natural number whose decimal representation
k
consists of exactly k(m + k 1) 1 digits.
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60
590. Prove that the number 191976 + 761976 :

4
(a) is divisible by the (Fermat) prime number F4 = 22 + 1;

(b) is divisible by at least four distinct primes other than F4 .
591. Prove that there is a positive integer n such that the decimal representation
of 7n contains a block of at least m consecutive zeros, where m is any given
positive integer.
592. A sequence {un } of integers is defined by
u1 = 2, u2 = u3 = 7,
un+1 = un un1 un2 , for n 3.
Prove that for each n 1, un differs by 2 from an integral square.
593. Show that the reciprocal of any number of the form 2(m2 + m + 1), where
m is a positive integer, can be represented as a sum of consecutive terms in the
sequence (aj )
j=1
1
aj =
.
j(j + 1)(j + 2)
594. Find all pairs of natural numbers (m, n) for which 2m 3n + 1 is the square
of some integer.
595. Numbers 1, 2, , 16 are written in a 4 4 square matrix so that the sum
of the numbers in every row, every column, and every diagonal is the same and
furthermore that the numbers 1 and 16 lie in opposite corners. Prove that the
sum of any two numbers symmetric with respect to the center of the square
equals 17.
596. The decimal number 13101 is given. It is instead written as a ternary
number. What are the two last digits of this ternary number?
597. The ternary expansion x = 0.10101010 is given. Give the binary expansion of x. Alternatively, transform the binary expansion y = 0.110110110
into a ternary expansion.
598. If p is a prime number greater than 2 and a, b, c integers not divisible by
p, prove that the equation
ax2 + by 2 = pz + c
has an integer solution.
599. If n1 , n2 , , nk are natural numbers and n1 + n2 + + nk = n, show
that
max(n1 n2 nk ) = (t + 1)r tkr ,
n
where t = k and r is the remainder of n upon division by k; i.e., n = tk+r, 0
r k 1.
600. Find values of n N for which the fraction
60
3n 2
2n 3
is reducible.
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1.3.3
61
Goutham - Part 3
601. Does there exist a 2n-digit number a2n a2n1 a1 (for an arbitrary n) for
which the following equality holds:
a2n a1 = (an a1 )2 ?
602. Find all integer solutions of the equation
1 + x + x2 + x3 + x4 = y 4 .
603. Consider the set S of all the different odd positive integers that are not
multiples of 5 and that are less than 30m, m being a positive integer. What is
the smallest integer k such that in any subset of k integers from S there must
be two integers one of which divides the other? Prove your result.
604. If p is a prime greater than 3, show that at least one of the numbers
p2
3 4
, , , 2
p2 p2
p
is expressible in the form
1
x
+ y1 , where x and y are positive integers.
605. A is a 2m-digit positive integer each of whose digits is 1. B is an m-digit

positive integer each of whose digits is 4. Prove that A + B + 1 is a perfect
square.
606. Find all natural numbers n < 1978 with the following property: If m is a
natural number, 1 < m < n, and (m, n) = 1 (i.e., m and n are relatively prime),
then m is a prime number.
607. N is a natural number such that it is the product of three distinct prime
numbers. Find all such natural numbers such that the sum of all its composite
divisors is equal to 2N + 1
608. Find the set of all ordered pairs of integers (a, b) such that gcd(a, b) = 1
14b
and ab + 25a
is an integer.
609. Find all natural numbers n such that n + S(n) + S(S(n)) = 2010 where
S(n) = sum of the digits of n.
610. Prove that for every positive integer n coprime to 10 there exists a multiple
of n that does not contain the digit 1 in its decimal representation.
611.
the sixth number after the decimal point in the number ( 1978+
Determine
b 1978c)20
612. Given a natural number n, prove that
the number M (n) of points with
integer coordinates inside the circle (O(0, 0), n) satisfies
n 5 n + 1 < M (n) < n + 4 n + 1.

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62
613. Show that for any natural number n there exist two prime numbers p and
q, p 6= q, such that n divides their difference.
614. Let a, b, c be nonnegative integers such that a b c, 2b 6= a + c and
a+b+c
is an integer. Is it possible to find three nonnegative integers d, e, and f
3
such that d e f, f 6= c, and such that a2 + b2 + c2 = d2 + e2 + f 2 ?
615. Let a, b, c be natural numbers such that a + b + c = 2pq(p30 + q 30 ), p > q
being two given positive integers.
(a) Prove that k = a3 + b3 + c3 is not a prime number.
(b) Prove that if a b c is maximum, then 1984 divides k.
616. Find a sequence of natural numbers ai such that ai =
i+4
X
dr , where dr 6= ds
r=1
for r 6= s and dr divides ai .

617. Let n > 1 and xi R for i = 1, , n. Set
Sk = xk1 + xk2 + + xkn
for k 1. If S1 = S2 = = Sn+1 , show that xi {0, 1} for every i =
1, 2, , n.
618. Let (an )n1 and (bn )n1 be two sequences of natural numbers such that
an+1 = nan + 1, bn+1 = nbn 1 for every n 1. Show that these two sequences
can have only a finite number of terms in common.
619. Denote by [x] the greatest integer not exceeding x. For all real k > 1,
define two sequences:

nk
an (k) = [nk] and bn (k) =
k1
If A(k) = {an (k) : n N} and B(k) = {bn (k) : n N}, prove that A(k) and
B(k) form a partition of N if and only if k is irrational.
620. A number triangle (tn,k )(0 k n) is defined by tn,0 = tn,n = 1(n
0),
tn+1,m = (2 3)m tn,m + (2 + 3)nm+1 tn,m1 (1 m n).

Prove that all tn,m are integers.
1.3.4
Goutham - Part 4

621. Prove that for any natural number n, the number

common multiple of the numbers 1, 2, , 2n 1, 2n.
62
2n
n

divides the least
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622. Decide whether it is possible to color the 1984 natural numbers 1, 2, 3, , 1984
using 15 colors so that no geometric sequence of length 3 of the same color exists.
623. The set {1, 2, , 49} is divided into three subsets. Prove that at least
one of these subsets contains three different numbers a, b, c such that a + b = c.
624. Determine the smallest positive integer m such that 529n + m 132n is
divisible by 262417 for all odd positive integers n.
625. Consider all the sums of the form
1985
X
ek k 5 = 15 25 19855
k=1
where ek = 1. What is the smallest nonnegative value attained by a sum of

this type?
626. Given a polynomial f (x) with integer coefficients whose value is divisible
by 3 for three integers k, k + 1, and k + 2. Prove that f (m) is divisible by 3 for
all integers m.
627. A boy has a set of trains and pieces of railroad track. Each piece is a
quarter of circle, and by concatenating these pieces, the boy obtained a closed
railway. The railway does not intersect itself. In passing through this railway,
the train sometimes goes in the clockwise direction, and sometimes in the opposite direction. Prove that the train passes an even number of times through
the pieces in the clockwise direction and an even number of times in the counterclockwise direction. Also, prove that the number of pieces is divisible by
4.
628. Which natural numbers can be expressed as the difference of squares of
two integers?
629. Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers that cannot be expressed as the sum of squares of three positive integers.
630. Let a0 , a1 , a2 , be determined with a0 = 0, an+1 = 2an + 2n . Prove that
if n is power of 2, then so is an .
631. Let p and q be two prime numbers greater than 3. Prove that if their
difference is 2n , then for any two integers m and n, the number S = p2m+1 +
q 2m+1 is divisible by 3.
632. Let a and b be arbitrary integers. Prove that if k is an integer not divisible
by 3, then (a + b)2k + a2k + b2k is divisible by a2 + ab + b2
633. Prove that there exist infinitely many natural numbers a with the following
property: The number z = n4 + a is not prime for any natural number n.
634. Let us define u0 = 0, u1 = 1 and for n 0, un+2 = aun+1 + bun , a and b
being positive integers. Express un as a polynomial in a and b. Prove the result.
Given that b is prime, prove that b divides a(ub 1).
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635. Let a, b, x, y be positive integers such that a and b have no common divisor
greater than 1. Prove that the largest number not expressible in the form ax+by
is ab a b. If N (k) is the largest number not expressible in the form ax + by
in only k ways, find N (k).
636. The polynomial P (x) = a0 xk + a1 xk1 + + ak , where a0 , , ak are
integers, is said to be divisible by an integer m if P (x) is a multiple of m for
every integral value of x. Show that if P (x) is divisible by m, then a0 k! is a
multiple of m. Also prove that if a, k, m are positive integers such that ak! is a
multiple of m, then a polynomial P (x) with leading term axk can be found that
is divisible by m.
b
637. Consider the integer d = a c1 , where a, b, and c are positive integers and
c a. Prove that the set G of integers that are between 1 and d and relatively
prime to d (the number of such integers is denoted by (d)) can be partitioned
into n subsets, each of which consists of b elements. What can be said about
the rational number (d)
b ?
638. Let (n) be the number of pairs (x, y) of integers such that x + y = n, 0
y x, and let (n) be the number of triples (x, y, z) such thatx + y + z = n
and 0 z y x. Find a simple relation between (n) and the integer part of
the number n+2
2 and the relation among (n), (n 3) and (n). Then evaluate
(n) as a function of the residue of n modulo 6. What can be said about (n)
(n+3)2
? Find the number of triples (x, y, z)
and 1 + n(n+6)
12 ? And what about
6
with the property x + y + z n, 0 z y x as a function of the residue of
n modulo 6. What
can be said about the relation between this number and the
2
number (n+6)(2n72+9n+12) ?
639. Let n be an integer that is not divisible by any square greater than 1.
Denote by xm the last digit of the number xm in the number system with base
n. For which integers x is it possible for xm to be 0? Prove that the sequence
xm is periodic with period t independent of x. For which x do we have xt = 1.
Prove that if m and x are relatively prime, then 0m , 1m , ..., (n1)m are different
numbers. Find the minimal period t in terms of n. If n does not meet the given
condition, prove that it is possible to have xm = 0 6= x1 and that the sequence
is periodic starting only from some number k > 1.
640. Let a and b be two nonnegative integers. Denote by H(a, b) the set of numbers n of the form n = pa + qb, where p and q are positive integers. Determine
H(a) = H(a, a). Prove that if a 6= b, it is enough to know all the sets H(a, b)
for coprime numbers a, b in order to know all the sets H(a, b). Prove that in the
case of coprime numbers a and b, H(a, b) contains all numbers greater than or
equal to = (a 1)(b 1) and also 2 numbers smaller than .
1.3.5
Goutham - Part 5
641. Let d and p be two real numbers. Find the first term of an arithmetic
progression a1 , a2 , a3 , with difference d such that a1 a2 a3 a4 = p. Find the
number of solutions in terms of d and p.
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642. Let p be a prime odd number. Is it possible to find p 1 natural numbers

n + 1, n + 2, ..., n + p 1 such that the sum of the squares of these numbers is
divisible by the sum of these numbers?
p
643. Prove that the equation x3 + y 3 + z 3 = 1969 has no integral solutions.
644. We have 65 = a2!1 + a3!2 + a4!3 + a5!4 + a6!5 where ai R, 0 ai < ii = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Then, find all possible values of a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 + a5 .
645. Prove that for all integers n greater than or equal to 3, we can find unique
odd integers x, y such that 2n = x2 + 7y 2 .
646. Let a, b, x be positive integers such that xa+b = ab b. Prove that a = x
and b = xx .
647. Solve in non-negative integers: (xy 7)2 = x2 + y 2
648. n is a positive integer greater than 10 whose digits are from the set
{1, 3, 7, 9} Prove that n has a prime factor greater than 10.
649. Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers m for which there
2
exists consecutive odd positive integers pm < qm such that p2m + pm qm + qm
2
2
and pm + m pm qm + qm are both perfect squares. If m1 , m2 are two positive
integers satisfying this condition, then we have pm1 6= pm2 .
650. Find all positive integers n and m 2 such that the product of the first
n positive integers and the product of the first m even positive integers are the
same.
651. If p is a prime that leaves remainder 1 when divided by 4, prove that there
exists an integer x such that p divides x2 p1
4 .
652. Find all natural n such that the natural number 3n n is exactly divisible
by 17.
653. Find all positive integer solutions for a + b + c = xyz; x + y + z = abc.
654. Prove that n + 1 divides
2n
Cn for all integers n.
655. For a given positive real b, show that there exists no biggest real a, such
that a2 < b.
656. Let pn be the nth prime, n N. K is a finite set of distinct integers none
of which has a prime factor greater than pn for some n. Prove that the sum of
n
Y
pn
.
reciprocals of the elements of K is smaller than
p
1
i=1 n
+ 24n
6n = 1.
k
(n1)!
is even.
658. Prove that for a positive integer n, n(n+1)
657. Find all integers n such that
7n12
2n
65
+
j
2n14
3n
1.3.6
66
659. n is a positive integer. s(n) is the sum of digits of n. t(n) is sum of all
the numbers obtained by removing several digits(at least one) from the right
hand end of decimal representation of n. For example, if n = 123465, t(n) =
1 + 12 + 123 + 1234 + 12346. Prove that n = s(n) + 9t(n).
660. For all positive integers n, prove that there exists an integer m such that
n divides 2m + m.
1.3.6
Goutham - Part 6
661. Prove that every positive integer has a multiple whose decimal expansion
starts with 2008.
Can we generalize to start with any natural number?
662. Prove that for a given set of six consecutive positive integers, there exists
a prime that divides one and only one of these six integers.
663. Find all positive integers x, y satisfying xy = y 50 .
664. For positive reals x, y, if x3 + y 3 + (x + y)3 + 30xy = 2000, Prove that
x + y = 10.
665. Find all positive integers x, y satisfying xy = y xy .
666. Prove that primitive root surely exists for all natural numbers of the form
p or 2p where p is an odd prime and is a natural number. (We do not
consider the trivial case 2.)
667.
1) Given a positive integer n and integers x1 , x2 , , xk , k N such

that x1 x2 xk modn, prove that (x1 , n) = (x2 , n) = = (xk , n).
2) Prove for a1 , a2 , an Z: (a1 , a2 , , an )|[a1 , a2 , an ].

3) Find all positive integers n such that (n, (n)) = 1.
668. Find an infinite family of solutions for a!b!c!d!+2a!d! = 2a!c!d!+a!b!d!+e!.
669. Find an infinite family of solutions for x!y!z! = y!z! + w! for x, y, z, w > 2.
670. For a positive integer k, call an integer a pure k th power if it can be
represented as mk for some integer m. Show that for every positive integer n,
there exists n distinct positive integers such that their sum is a pure 2009th
power and their product is a pure 2010th power.
671. Two 2007 digit numbers are given. It is possible to erase 2007 digits
from each of them so as to get the same 2000 digit numbers. Prove that we
can insert 7 digits for each number anywhere in the two numbers so as to make
them equal.
672. For x, y to be natural numbers, if x2 + xy + y 2 is divisible by 10, prove
that it is divisible by 100.
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673. Prove or disprove: There exists no positive integer solutions for x2 + y 2 =

kz 2 where k is a constant which cannot be written as sum of two positive perfect
squares.
674. Let Fn denote the nth Fibonnaci number. Prove that if p > 5 is a prime,
then,
p
mod p
Fp
5

where p5 is the legendre symbol.
675. Find an unbounded sequence {ai }
i=1 of integers where for all natural i,
there exists integers a and b such that 2ai |(a + b) and ab = 4ai (ai + 1)
2
676. Let the sum of digits of 999...9991 , where 9 occurs 222 times be A. Prove
that A = 2008.
677. Let n be a given positive integer. Prove that there exist infinitely many
integer triples (x, y, z) such that
nx2 + y 3 = z 4 , gcd(x, y) = gcd(y, z) = gcd(z, x) = 1.
678. Find the minimum natural number n with the following property: between any collection of n distinct natural numbers in the set {1, 2, . . . , 999} it
is possible to choose four different a, b, c, d such that: a + 2b + 3c = d.
679. Show that 5n 4n + 15 is divisible by 16 for all integers n 1.
680. Prove, without using mathematical induction, that 52n+2 24n 25 is
divisible by 576.
1.4
1.4.1
Orlando
Orlando - Part 1
681. Determine all (x, y) N2 which satisfy x2y + (x + 1)2y = (x + 2)2y .

682. Determine the number of all numbers which are represented as x2 + y 2
with x, y {1, 2, 3, . . . , 1000} and which are divisible by 121.
683. Let N be a natural number and x1 , . . . , xn further natural numbers less
than N and such that the least common multiple of any two of these n numbers
is greater than N . Prove
Pn that the sum of the reciprocals of these n numbers is
always less than 2: i=1 x1i < 2.
684. Determine all (m, n) Z+ Z+ which satisfy 3m 7n = 2.
685. Initially, on a board there a positive integer. If board contains the number
x
x, then we may additionally write the numbers 2x + 1 and x+2
. At some point
2008 is written on the board. Prove, that this number was there from the
beginning.
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686. Let p > 7 be a prime which leaves residue 1 when divided by 6. Let
m = 2p 1, then prove 2m1 1 can be divided by 127m without residue.
687. For which n 2, n N are there positive integers A1 , A2 , .Q
. . , An which
n
are not the same pairwise and have the property that the product i=1 (Ai + k)
is a power for each natural number k.
688. Let (an )nN defined by a1 = 1, and an+1 = a4n a3n + 2a2n + 1 for n 1.
Show that there is an infinite number of primes p such that none of the an is
divisible by p.
689. Prove: For each positive integer is the number of divisors whose decimal
representations ends with a 1 or 9 not less than the number of divisors whose
decimal representations ends with 3 or 7.
690. For each n N we have two numbers pn , qn with the following property:
For exactly n distinct integer numbers x the number
x2 + pn x + qn
is the square of a natural number. (Note the definition of natural numbers
includes the zero here.)
691. Let k N. A polynomial is called k-valid if all its coefficients are integers
between 0 and k inclusively. (Here we dont consider 0 to be a natural number.)
a.) For n N let an be the number of 5-valid polynomials p which satisfy
p(3) = n. Prove that each natural number occurs in the sequence (an )n at least
once but only finitely often.
b.) For n N let an be the number of 4-valid polynomials p which satisfy
p(3) = n. Prove that each natural number occurs infinitely often in the sequence
(an )n .
692. Find all quadruple (m, n, p, q) Z4 such that
pm q n = (p + q)2 + 1.
693. Prove there is an integer k for which k 3 36k 2 + 51k 97 is a multiple of
32008.
694. Let n be a positive integer, and Sn , be the set of all positive integer divisors
of n (including 1 and itself). Prove that at most half of the elements in Sn have
their last digits equal to 3.
695. Let n, m be positive integers of different parity, and n > m. Find all
2n
integers x such that xx2m1
1
696. Let n be a given positive integer. Find the smallest positive integer un
such that for any positive integer d, in any un consecutive odd positive integers,
the number of them that can be divided by d is not smaller than the number of
odd integers among 1, 3, 5, . . . , 2n 1 that can be divided by d.
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697. Find all prime numbers p, q < 2005 such that q|p2 + 8 and p|q 2 + 8.
698. Prove that the sequence (an )n0, , an = [n 2], contains an infinite number
of perfect squares.
699. Let m be a positive odd integer, m > 2. Find the smallest positive integer
n such that 21989 divides mn 1.
700. Let a, b Z which are not perfect squares. Prove that if
x2 ay 2 bz 2 + abw2 = 0
has a nontrivial solution in integers, then so does
x2 ay 2 bz 2 = 0.
1.4.2
Orlando - Part 2
701. Let A be a set of positive integers such that no positive integer greater
than 1 divides all the elements of A. Prove that any sufficiently large positive
integer can be written as a sum of elements of A. (Elements may occur several
times in the sum.)
702. Let a, b, c, d, m, n Z+ such that
a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 = 1989,
a + b + c + d = m2 ,
and the largest of a, b, c, d is n2 . Determine, with proof, the values of m and n.
P
703. Define sequence (an ) by d|n ad = 2n . Show that n|an .
704. Let n be a positive integer. Show that
n

2+1 = m+ m1
for some positive integer m.
705. Let a, b, c, d be positive integers such that ab = cd and a + b = c d. Prove
that there exists a right-angled triangle the measure of whose sides (in some
unit) are integers and whose area measure is ab square units.
706. Let a1 , . . . , an be distinct positive integers that do not contain a 9 in their
decimal representations. Prove that the following inequality holds
n
X
1
30.
a
i=1 i
707. Let m be a positive integer and define f (m) to be the number of factors
of 2 in m! (that is, the greatest positive integer k such that 2k |m!). Prove that
there are infinitely many positive integers m such that m f (m) = 1989.
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708. Prove: If the sum of all positive divisors of n Z+ is a power of two, then
the number/amount of the divisors is a power of two.
709. Determine that all k Z such that n the numbers 4n + 1 and kn + 1
have no common divisor.
ca
bc
, c+a
710. Let the positive integers a, b, c chosen such that the quotients b+c
ab
and a+b
are integers. Prove that a, b, c have a common divisor greater than 1.
711. Prove that for no integer n is n7 + 7 a perfect square.
712. For positive integers n, fn = b2n 2008c + b2n 2009c. Prove there are
infinitely many odd numbers and infinitely many even numbers in the sequence
f1 , f2 , . . ..
713. What is the total number of natural numbes divisible by 9 the number of
digits of which does not exceed 2008 and at least two of the digits are 9s?
714. Let m = 20072008 , how many natural numbers n are there such that n < m
and n(2n+1)(5n+2) is divisible by m (which means that m | n(2n+1)(5n+2))?
715. There are only a finite number of solutions p, q, x, y N, each greater than
1, of the equation
xp y q = k
with k = 1. Also try to solve the equation for general k. which is element of the
non-zero integers.
716. Prove that on the coordinate plane it is impossible to draw a closed broken
line such that
(i) the coordinates of each vertex are rational;
(ii) the length each of its edges is 1;
(iii) the line has an odd number of vertices.
717. Find all natural numbers n for which every natural number whose decimal
representation has n 1 digits 1 and one digit 7 is prime.
718. Let n be a composite natural number and p a proper divisor of n. Find
the binary representation of the smallest natural number N such that
(1 + 2p + 2np )N 1
2n
is an integer.
719. Prove that every integer k greater than 1 has a multiple that is less than
k 4 and can be written in the decimal system with at most four different digits.
720. An eccentric mathematician has a ladder with n rungs that he always
ascends and descends in the following way: When he ascends, each step he
takes covers a rungs of the ladder, and when he descends, each step he takes
covers b rungs of the ladder, where a and b are fixed positive integers. By a
sequence of ascending and descending steps he can climb from ground level to
the top rung of the ladder and come back down to ground level again. Find,
with proof, the minimum value of n, expressed in terms of a and b.
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Orlando - Part 3
721. For a given positive integer k denote the square of the sum of its digits by
f1 (k) and let fn+1 (k) = f1 (fn (k)). Determine the value of f1991 (21990 ).
722. Let f (0) = f (1) = 0 and
2
f (n + 2) = 4n+2 f (n + 1) 16n+1 f (n) + n 2n ,
n = 0, 1, 2, . . .
Show that the numbers f (1989), f (1990), f (1991) are divisible by 13.
723. Find the highest degree k of 1991 for which 1991k divides the number
1992
19901991
1990
+ 19921991
724. Find all positive integer solutions x, y, z of the equation 3x + 4y = 5z .

725. Let an be the last nonzero digit in the decimal representation of the number
n!. Does the sequence a1 , a2 , . . . , an , . . . become periodic after a finite number
of terms?
726. Let a, b, c be integers and p an odd prime number. Prove that if f (x) =
ax2 + bx + c is a perfect square for 2p 1 consecutive integer values of x, then
p divides b2 4ac.
727. Let f (x) = x8 + 4x6 + 2x4 + 28x2 + 1. Let p > 3 be a prime and suppose
there exists an integer z such that p divides f (z). Prove that there exist integers
z1 , z2 , . . . , z8 such that if
g(x) = (x z1 )(x z2 ) . . . (x z8 ),
then all coefficients of f (x) g(x) are divisible by p.
728. Does there exist a set M with the following properties?
(i) The set M consists of 1992 natural numbers.
(ii) Every element in M and the sum of any number of elements have the form
mk (m, k N, k 2).
729. Prove that for any positive integer m there exist an infinite number of
pairs of integers (x, y) such that
(i) x and y are relatively prime;
(ii) y divides x2 + m;
(iii) x divides y 2 + m.
(iv) x + y m + 1 (optional condition)
730. M is a subset of {1, 2, 3, . . . , 15} such that the product of any three distinct
elements of M is not a square. Determine the maximum number of elements in
M.
731. Let pbe anodd prime. Determine positive integers x and y for which
x y and 2p x y is non-negative and as small as possible.

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732. Let Z denote the set of all integers. Prove that for any integers A and
B, one can find an integer C for which M1 = {x2 + Ax + B : x Z} and
M2 = 2x2 + 2x + C : x Z do not intersect.
733. (a) Let n be a positive integer. Prove that there exist distinct positive
integers x, y, z such that
xn1 + y n = z n+1 .
(b) Let a, b, c be positive integers such that a and b are relatively prime and
c is relatively prime either to a or to b. Prove that there exist infinitely many
triples (x, y, z) of distinct positive integers x, y, z such that
xa + y b = z c .
734. Show that the set of positive integers that cannot be represented as a sum
of distinct perfect squares is finite.
735. Prove that there exist infinitely many positive integers n such that p = nr,
where p and r are respectively the semiperimeter and the inradius of a triangle
with integer side lengths.
736. Show that there exists a bijective function f : N0 N0 such that for all
m, n N0 :
f (3mn + m + n) = 4f (m)f (n) + f (m) + f (n).
737. Find all positive integers a and b for which

2 2 2
b
a + b2
a
+
=
+ ab.
b
a
ab
738. A finite sequence of integers a0 , a1 , . . . , an is called quadratic if for each i
in the set {1, 2 . . . , n} we have the equality |ai ai1 | = i2 .
a.) Prove that any two integers b and c, there exists a natural number n and a
quadratic sequence with a0 = b and an = c.
b.) Find the smallest natural number n for which there exists a quadratic
sequence with a0 = 0 and an = 1996.
739. Four integers are marked on a circle. On each step we simultaneously
replace each number by the difference between this number and next number
on the circle, moving in a clockwise direction; that is, the numbers a, b, c, d are
replaced by a b, b c, c d, d a. Is it possible after 1996 such to have numbers
a, b, c, d such the numbers |bc ad|, |ac bd|, |ab cd| are primes?
740. 250 numbers are chosen among positive integers not exceeding 501. Prove
that for every integer t there are four chosen numbers a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 , such that
a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 t is divisible by 23.
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Orlando - Part 4
741. Is it possible to arrange on a circle all composite positive integers not

exceeding 106 , so that no two neighbouring numbers are coprime?
742. For which numbers n is there a positive integer k with the following property: The sum of digits for k is n and the number k 2 has sum of digits n2 .
743. Let k be a positive integer. Prove that the number (4 k 2 1)2 has a
positive divisor of the form 8kn 1 if and only if k is even.
744. Find all surjective functions f : N 7 N such that for every m, n N and
every prime p, the number f (m + n) is divisible by p if and only if f (m) + f (n)
is divisible by p.
745. For every integer k 2, prove that 23k divides the number
k+1 k
2
2
k1
2k
2
but 23k+1 does not.
746. Let X be a set of 10,000 integers, none of them is divisible by 47. Prove
that there exists a 2007-element subset Y of X such that a b + c d + e is not
divisible by 47 for any a, b, c, d, e Y.
747. Let b, n > 1 be integers. Suppose that for each k > 1 there exists an
integer ak such that b ank is divisible by k. Prove that b = An for some integer
A.
748. A mathematical frog jumps along the number line. The frog starts at 1,
and jumps according to the following rule: if the frog is at integer n, then it can
jump either to n + 1 or to n + 2mn +1 where 2mn is the largest power of 2 that
is a factor of n. Show that if k 2 is a positive integer and i is a nonnegative
integer, then the minimum number of jumps needed to reach 2i k is greater than
the minimum number of jumps needed to reach 2i .
749. Let p be a prime number and let s be an integer with 0 < s < p. Prove
that there exist integers m and n with 0 < m < n < p and

sn
s
sm
<
<
p
p
p
if and only if s is not a divisor of p 1.
Note: For x a real number, let bxc denote the greatest integer less than or
equal to x, and let {x} = x bxc denote the fractional part of x.
750. Let n be a positive integer. Find the largest nonnegative real number f (n)
(depending on n) with the following property: whenever a1 , a2 , ..., an are real
numbers
such that a1 + a2 + + an is an integer, there exists some i such that

ai 1 f (n).
2
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74
751. Let a, b, n be positive integers, b > 1 and bn 1|a. Show that the representation of the number a in the base b contains at least n digits different from
zero.
752. Let S be the set of all pairs (m, n) of relatively prime positive integers
m, n with n even and m < n. For s = (m, n) S write n = 2k no where k, n0
are positive integers with n0 odd and define
f (s) = (n0 , m + n n0 ).
Prove that f is a function from S to S and that for each s = (m, n) S, there
such that
exists a positive integer t m+n+1
4
f t (s) = s,
where
f t (s) = (f f f )(s).
|
{z
}
t times
If m + n is a prime number which does not divide 2k 1 for k = 1, 2, . . . , m +

2, prove
that the smallest value t which satisfies the above conditions is

nm+n+1
where
[x] denotes the greatest integer x.
4
753. A natural number n is said to have the property P, if, for all a, n2 divides
an 1 whenever n divides an 1.
a.) Show that every prime number n has property P.
b.) Show that there are infinitely many composite numbers n that possess
property P.
754. Prove that for each positive integer n there exist n consecutive positive
integers none of which is an integral power of a prime number.
755. Let a1 , . . . , an be an infinite sequence of strictly positive integers, so that
ak < ak+1 for any k. Prove that there exists an infinity of terms am , which can
be written like am = x ap + y aq with x, y strictly positive integers and p 6= q.
756. Determine the greatest number, who is the product of some positive integers, and the sum of these numbers is 1976.
757. Let n be a given number greater than 2. We consider the set Vn of all
the integers of the form 1 + kn with k = 1, 2, . . . A number m from Vn is called
indecomposable in Vn if there are not two numbers p and q from Vn so that
m = pq. Prove that there exist a number r Vn that can be expressed as the
product of elements indecomposable in Vn in more than one way. (Expressions
which differ only in order of the elements of Vn will be considered the same.)
758. Let a, b be two natural numbers. When we divide a2 + b2 by a + b, we
the the remainder r and the quotient q. Determine all pairs (a, b) for which
q 2 + r = 1977.
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759. Let m and n be positive integers such that 1 m < n. In their decimal
representations, the last three digits of 1978m are equal, respectively, so the last
three digits of 1978n . Find m and n such that m + n has its least value.
760. If p and q are natural numbers so that
p
1 1 1
1
1
= 1 + + ...
+
,
q
2 3 4
1318 1319
prove that p is divisible with 1979.
1.4.5
Orlando - Part 5
761. Prove that we can find an infinite set of positive integers of the from 2n 3
(where n is a positive integer) every pair of which are relatively prime.
762. Determine the maximum value of m2 + n2 , where m and n are integers in
the range 1, 2, . . . , 1981 satisfying (n2 mn m2 )2 = 1.
763. a.) For which n > 2 is there a set of n consecutive positive integers such
that the largest number in the set is a divisor of the least common multiple of
the remaining n 1 numbers?
b.) For which n > 2 is there exactly one set having this property?
764. Prove that if n is a positive integer such that the equation
x3 3xy 2 + y 3 = n
has a solution in integers x, y, then it has at least three such solutions. Show
that the equation has no solutions in integers for n = 2891.
765. Let a, b and c be positive integers, no two of which have a common divisor
greater than 1. Show that 2abc ab bc ca is the largest integer which cannot
be expressed in the form xbc + yca + zab, where x, y, z are non-negative integers.
766. Find one pair of positive integers a, b such that ab(a + b) is not divisible
by 7, but (a + b)7 a7 b7 is divisible by 77 .
767. Let n and k be relatively prime positive integers with k < n. Each number
in the set M = {1, 2, 3, . . . , n 1} is colored either blue or white. For each i in
M , both i and n i have the same color. For each i 6= k in M both i and |i k|
have the same color. Prove that all numbers in M must have the same color.
768. Let d be any positive integer not equal to 2, 5 or 13. Show that one can
find distinct a, b in the set {2, 5, 13, d} such that ab 1 is not a perfect square.
769. Let n 2 be anpinteger. Prove that if k 2 + k + n is prime for all integers
k such that 0 k n3 , then k 2 + k + n is prime for all integers k such that
0 k n 2.
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76
770. Determine all integers n > 1 such that

2n + 1
n2
is an integer.
771. Let n > 6 be an integer and a1 , a2 , , ak be all the natural numbers
less than n and relatively prime to n. If
a2 a1 = a3 a2 = = ak ak1 > 0,
prove that n must be either a prime number or a power of 2.
772. For each positive integer n, S(n) is defined to be the greatest integer
such that, for every positive integer k S(n), n2 can be written as the sum of
k positive squares.
a.) Prove that S(n) n2 14 for each n 4.
b.) Find an integer n such that S(n) = n2 14.
c.) Prove that there are infintely many integers n such that S(n) = n2 14.
773. Let p, q, n be three positive integers with p + q < n. Let (x0 , x1 , , xn )
be an (n + 1)-tuple of integers satisfying the following conditions :
(a) x0 = xn = 0, and
(a) For each i with 1 i n, either xi xi1 = p or xi xi1 = q.
Show that there exist indices i < j with (i, j) 6= (0, n), such that xi = xj .
774. The positive integers a and b are such that the numbers 15a + 16b and
16a 15b are both squares of positive integers. What is the least possible value
that can be taken on by the smaller of these two squares?
775. Let n + 1, n 1 positive integers be formed by taking the product of
n given prime numbers (a prime number can appear several times or also not
appear at all in a product formed in this way.) Prove that among these n + 1
one can find some numbers whose product is a perfect square.
776. Let a, b, c be integers different from zero. It is known that the equation
a x2 + b y 2 + c z 2 = 0 has a solution (x, y, z) in integer numbers different from
the solutions x = y = z = 0. Prove that the equation
a x2 + b y 2 + c z 2 = 1
has a solution in rational numbers.
777. A positive integer is called a double number if its decimal representation
consists of a block of digits, not commencing with 0, followed immediately by an
identical block. So, for instance, 360360 is a double number, but 36036 is not.
Show that there are infinitely many double numbers which are perfect squares.
778. For each positive integer k and n, let Sk (n) be the base k digit sum of n.
Prove that there are at most two primes p less than 20,000 for which S31 (p) are
composite numbers with at least two distinct prime divisors.
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77
779. Find all positive integers x such that the product of all digits of x is given
by x2 10 x 22.
780. Let p be the product of two consecutive integers greater than 2. Show
that there are no integers x1 , x2 , . . . , xp satisfying the equation
p
X
i=1
1.4.6
x2i
4p+1
p
X
!2
xi
=1
i=1
Orlando - Part 6
781. Given integers a1 , . . . , a10 , prove that there exist a non-zero

sequence
P10
{x1 , . . . , x10 } such that all xi belong to {1, 0, 1} and the number i=1 xi ai
is divisible by 1001.
782. Let g(n) be defined as follows:
g(1) = 0, g(2) = 1
and
g(n + 2) = g(n) + g(n + 1) + 1, n 1.
Prove that if n > 5 is a prime, then n divides g(n) (g(n) + 1).
783. Let P (x) be a polynomial with integer coefficients. We denote deg(P ) its
degree which is 1. Let n(P ) be the number of all the integers k for which we
have (P (k))2 = 1. Prove that n(P ) deg(P ) 2.
784. Prove that for any n natural, the number

n
X
2n + 1
k=0
2k + 1
23k
cannot be divided by 5.
785. Let ai , bi , i = 1, 2, . . . , k be positive integers. For any i, ai and bi we have
that gcd(i, ai , bi ) = 1. Let m be the smallest common multiple of b1 , b2 , . . . , bk .
Prove the equality between the greatest common divisor of (ai m/bi ), i = 1, 2, . . . , k
and the greatest common divisor of ai, i = 1, 2, . . . , k.
786. Express the number 1988 as the sum of some positive integers in such a
way that the product of these positive integers is maximal.
787. Let a and b be two positive integers such that a b + 1 divides a2 + b2 .
2
+b2
Show that aab+1
3
2
788. Let abe the greatest
positive root of the equation x 3 x + 1 = 0. Show
1788
1988
are both divisible by 17. Here [x] denotes the integer
that a
and a
part of x.
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78
789. Does there exist an integer such that its cube is equal to 3n2 + 3n + 7,
where n is an integer.
790. In what case does the system of equations
x + y + mz = a
x + my + z = b
mx + y + z = c
have a solution? Find conditions under which the unique solution of the above
system is an arithmetic progression.
791. Let p1 , p2 , . . . , p25 are primes which dont exceed 2004. Find the largest
integer T such that every positive integer T can be expressed as sums of
distinct divisors of (p1 p2 . . . p25 )2004 .
792. Let u be a fixed positive integer. Prove that the equation n! = u u
has a finite number of solutions (n, , ).
793. Find all integer solutions to 2x4 + 1 = y 2 .
794. For all primes p 3, define F (p) =
P p1
2
120
and f (p) =
k=1 k
1
2
F (p)
p
o
,
where {x} = x [x], find the value of f (p).

795. For any prime p, prove that there exists integer x0 such that p|(x20 x0 +3)
there exists integer y0 such that p|(y02 y0 + 25).
796. Let f be a function f : N {0} 7 N, and satisfies the following conditions:
(1) f (0) = 0, f (1) = 1,
(2) f (n + 2) = 23 f (n + 1) + f (n), n = 0, 1, . . . .
Prove that for any m N, there exist a d N such that m|f (f (n)) d|n.
797. Prove that for every integer power of 2, there exists a multiple of it with
all digits (in decimal expression) not zero.
798. Let v0 = 0, v1 = 1 and vn+1 = 8 vn vn1 , n = 1, 2, .... Prove that in the
sequence {vn } there arent terms of the form 3 5 with , N.
799. Let f (x) = 3x + 2. Prove that there exists m N such that f 100 (m) is
divisible by 1988.
800. Let n be a positive integer. Prove that the number 2n + 1 has no prime
divisor of the form 8 k 1, where k is a positive integer.
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1.4.7
1.4.7
79
Orlando - Part 7
801. Prove that there exists an integer n, n 2002, and n distinct positive
integers a1 , a2 , . . . , an such that the number N = a21 a22 a2n 4(a21 +a22 + +a2n )
802.
Let m be a given positive integer which has a prime divisor greater than
2m + 1. Find the minimal positive integer n such that there exists a finite set
S of distinct positive integers satisfying the following two conditions:
I. m x n for all x S;
II. the product of all elements in S is the square of an integer.
803. Let d be a positive divisor of 5+19981998 . Prove that d = 2x2 +2xy+3y 2 ,
where x, y are integers if and only if d is congruent to 3 or 7 (mod 20).
804. Find all integer polynomials P (x), the highest coefficent is 1 such that:
there exist infinitely irrational numbers a such that p(a) is a positive integer.
805. For each positive integer n, let f (n) be the maximal natural number such
Pb n1 c n i
that: 2f (n) divides i=02
2i+1 3 . Find all n such that f (n) = 1996.
806. Consider the equation
x2 + y 2 + z 2 + t 2 N x y z t N = 0
where N is a given positive integer.
a) Prove that for an infinite number of values of N , this equation has positive
integral solutions (each such solution consists of four positive integers x, y, z, t),
b) Let N = 4 k (8 m + 7) where k, m are no-negative integers. Prove that
the considered equation has no positive integral solutions.
807. Find all pair of positive integers (x, y) satisfying the equation
x2 + y 2 5 x y + 5 = 0.
808. Let two natural number n > 1 and m be given. Find the least positive integer k which has the following property: Among k arbitrary integers
a1 , a2 , . . . , ak satisfying the condition ai aj ( 1 i < j k) is not divided by
n, there exist two numbers ap , as (p 6= s) such that m + ap as is divided by n.
809. For every natural number n we define f (n) by the following rule: f (1) = 1
and for n > 1 then f (n) = 1 + a1 p1 + . . . + ak pk , where n = pa1 1 pakk is the
canonical prime factorisation of n (p1 , . . . , pk are distinct primes and a1 , . . . , ak
are positive integers). For every positive integer s, let fs (n) = f (f (. . . f (n)) . . .),
where on the right hand side there are exactly s symbols f . Show that for every
given natural number a, there is a natural number s0 such that for all s > s0 ,
the sum fs (a) + fs1 (a) does not depend on s.
810. Given an integer n > 1, denote by Pn the product of all positive integers x
less than n and such that n divides x2 1. For each n > 1, find the remainder
of Pn on division by n.
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80
811. Let p be an odd prime and n a positive integer. In the coordinate plane,
eight distinct points with integer coordinates lie on a circle with diameter of
length pn . Prove that there exists a triangle with vertices at three of the given
points such that the squares of its side lengths are integers divisible by pn+1 .
812. For positive integer a 2, denote Na as the number of positive integer
k with the following property: the sum of squares of digits of k in base a
representation equals k. Prove that:
a.) Na is odd;
b.) For every positive integer M , there exist a positive integer a 2 such that
Na M .
813. Find all prime numbers p which satisfy the following condition: For any
prime q < p, if p = kq + r, 0 r < q, there does not exist an integer q > 1 such
that a2 | r.
814. For any h = 2r (r is a non-negative integer), find all k N which satisfy
the following condition: There exists an odd natural number m > 1 and n N,
such that k | mh 1, m | n
mh 1
k
+ 1.
815. Find the smallest prime number p that cannot be represented in the form
|3a 2b |, where a and b are non-negative integers.
816. Find all sets comprising of 4 natural numbers such that the product of
any 3 numbers in the set leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by the remaining
number.
817. Find all positive integer n such that the equation x3 +y 3 +z 3 = nx2 y 2 z 2
has positive integer solutions.
818. Let p hP, p i> 3. Calcute:
h 2i
P p1
2k2
2
a)S = k=1
2 kp if p 1 mod 4
p
h 2i
P p1
k
2
b) T = k=1
if p 1 mod 8
p
819. Lesha put numbers from 1 to 222 into cells of 22 22 board. Can Oleg
always choose two cells, adjacent by the side or by vertex, the sum of numbers
in which is divisible by 4?
820. Ten mutually distinct non-zero reals are given such that for any two, either
their sum or their product is rational. Prove that squares of all these numbers
are rational.
1.4.8
Orlando - Part 8
821. Find the least positive integer, which may not be represented as
where a, b, c, d are positive integers.
2a 2b
,
2c 2d
822. Positive integers x > 1 and y satisfy an equation 2x2 1 = y 15 . Prove

that 5 divides x.
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81
823. Integers x > 2, y > 1, z > 0 satisfy an equation xy + 1 = z 2 . Let p be a

number of different prime divisors of x, q be a number of different prime divisors
of y. Prove that p q + 2.
824. Let m be a positive integer and define f (m) = the number of factors of 2
in m! (that is, the greatest positive integer k such that 2k |m!). Prove that there
are infinite positive integers m such that m f (m) = 1989.
825. Determine all n N for which n10 + n5 + 1 is prime.
826. Find all nonnegative integer solutions (x, y, z, w) of the equation
2x 3y 5z 7w = 1.
827. Prove that
n1
Y
k=1

n1
k
(2 ) 2
=
n
n
with n Z+ and denoting the Euler gamma function.

828. Find five integers, the sum of the squares of every four of which is a square.
829. Find three positive integers whose sum, sum of squares, and sum of perfect
fourth powers are rational cubes.
830. Find three positive whole numbers whose sum, sum of squares, and sum
of cubes are rational cubes.
831. Find three positive whole numbers whose sum, sum of squares, and sum
of perfect fourth powers are all rational squares.
832. Find four positive cube numbers, the sum of any three of which is a cube.
833. Find four square numbers such that the sum of every two of them is a
square.
834. Find three square numbers whose sum is a square, such that the sum of
every two is also a square.
835. Find four positive whole numbers, the sum of every two of which is a
perfect fourth power.
836. Find four perfect fourth power numbers whose is a perfect fourth power.
837. Find three perfect fourth power numbers whose sum is a perfect fourth
power.
838. Let A1 A2 . . . An be a regular polygon. Find all points P in the polygons
plane with the property: the squares of distances from P to the polygons
vertices are consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence.
839. Prove that 2147 1 is divisible by 343.
840. Let a be a non-zero real number. For each integer n, we define Sn =
an + an . Prove that if for some integer k, the sums Sk and Sk+1 are integers,
then the sums Sn are integers for all integer n.
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1.4.9
1.4.9
82
Orlando - Part 9
841. Prove the following statement: If r1 and r2 are real numbers whose quotient is irrational, then any real number x can be approximated arbitrarily well
by the numbers of the form zk1 ,k2 = k1 r1 + k2 r2 integers, i.e. for every number
x and every positive real number p two integers k1 and k2 can be found so that
|x (k1 r1 + k2 r2 )| < p holds.
p
842. Suppose tan = , where p and q are integers and q 6= 0. Prove that
q
the number tan for which tan 2 = tan 3 is rational only when p2 + q 2 is the
square of an integer.
p
843. Which fractions , where p, q are positive integers < 100, is closest to 2?
q
Find all digits after the point in decimal representation
of that fraction which
coincide with digits in decimal representation of 2 (without using any table).

844. Let n be a positive integer. Find the maximal number of non-congruent
triangles whose sides lengths are integers n.
845. Let k, m, n be natural numbers such that m + k + 1 is a prime greater
than n + 1. Let cs = s(s + 1). Prove that
(cm+1 ck )(cm+2 ck ) . . . (cm+n ck )
is divisible by the product c1 c2 . . . cn .
846. Prove that for any integer a there exist infinitely many positive integers
n
n such that a2 + 2n is not a prime.
847. Prove that for every real number M there exists an infinite arithmetic
progression such that:
each term is a positive integer and the common difference is not divisible
by 10
the sum of the digits of each term (in decimal representation) exceeds M .
848. Denote by S the set of all primes such the decimal representation of p1 has
the fundamental period divisible by 3. For every p S such that p1 has the
fundamental period 3r one may write
1
= 0, a1 a2 . . . a3r a1 a2 . . . a3r . . . ,
p
where r = r(p); for every p S and every integer k 1 define f (k, p) by
f (k, p) = ak + ak+r(p) + ak+2.r(p)
a) Prove that S is infinite.
b) Find the highest value of f (k, p) for k 1 and p S.
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83
849. Let n, k be positive integers such that n is not divisible by 3 and k n.

Prove that there exists a positive integer m which is divisible by n and the sum
of its digits in decimal representation is k.
850. Prove that there exists two strictly increasing sequences (an ) and (bn )
such that an (an + 1) divides b2n + 1 for every natural n.
851. Prove that every positive rational number can be represented in the form
a3 + b3
where a,b,c,d are positive integers.
c3 + d3
852. Find all the pairs of positive integers (x, p) such that p is a prime, x 2p
and xp1 is a divisor of (p 1)x + 1.
853. Let a0 , a1 , a2 , . . . be an increasing sequence of nonnegative integers such
that every nonnegative integer can be expressed uniquely in the form ai + 2aj +
4ak , where i, j and k are not necessarily distinct. Determine a1998 .
854. Prove that for each positive integer n, there exists a positive integer with
the following properties: It has exactly n digits. None of the digits is 0. It is
divisible by the sum of its digits.
855. For any positive integer n, let (n) denote the number of its positive
divisors (including 1 and itself). Determine all positive integers m for which
2
)
there exists a positive integer n such that (n
(n) = m.
856. Determine all positive integers n for which there exists an integer m such
that 2n 1 is a divisor of m2 + 9.
857. A sequence of integers a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . is defined as follows: a1 = 1 and for
n 1, an+1 is the smallest integer greater than an such that ai + aj 6= 3ak for
any i, j and k in {1, 2, 3, . . . , n + 1}, not necessarily distinct. Determine a1998 .
858. Determine the smallest integer n 4 for which one can choose four different numbers a, b, c and d from any n distinct integers such that a + b c d
is divisible by 20.
859. Determine all pairs (a, b) of real numbers such that abbnc = bbanc for
all positive integers n. (Note that bxc denotes the greatest integer less than or
equal to x.)
860. Determine all pairs (x, y) of positive integers such that x2 y + x + y is
divisible by xy 2 + y + 7.
1.4.10
Orlando - Part 10
861. Let p be a prime number and let A be a set of positive integers that
satisfies the following conditions:
(1) The set of prime divisors of the elements in A consists of p 1 elements;
(2) for any nonempty subset of A, the product of its elements is not a perfect
p-th power.
What is the largest possible number of elements in A?
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84
862. Let m be a fixed integer greater than 1. The sequence x0 , x1 , x2 , . . . is

defined as follows:
Pm
xi = 2i if 0 i m 1 and xi = j=1 xij , if i m.
863. Is it possible to find 100 positive integers not exceeding 25,000, such that
all pairwise sums of them are different?
864. Let a > b > c > d be positive integers and suppose that
ac + bd = (b + d + a c)(b + d a + c).
Prove that ab + cd is not prime.
865. Let p 5 be a prime number. Prove that there exists an integer a with
1 a p 2 such that neither ap1 1 nor (a + 1)p1 1 is divisible by p2 .
866. Let a1 = 1111 , a2 = 1212 , a3 = 1313 , and an = |an1 an2 | + |an2
an3 |, n 4. Determine a1414 .
867. Consider the system x+y = z +u, 2xy = zu. Find the greatest value of the
real constant m such that m x/y for any positive integer solution (x, y, z, u)
of the system, with x y.
868. Prove that there is no positive integer n such that, for k = 1, 2, . . . , 9, the
leftmost digit (in decimal notation) of (n + k)! equals k.
869. Find all pairs of positive integers m, n 3 for which there exist infinitely
many positive integers a such that
am + a 1
an + a2 1
is itself an integer.
870. Let m, n 2 be positive integers, and let a1 , a2 , . . . , an be integers, none
of which is a multiple of mn1 . Show that there exist integers e1 , e2 , . . . , en , not
all zero, with | ei | < m for all i, such that e1 a1 + e2 a2 + . . . + en an is a multiple
of mn .
871. Is there a positive integer m such that the equation
1 1 1
1
m
+ + +
=
a b
c abc
a+b+c
has infinitely many solutions in positive integers a, b, c?
872. Let p1 , p2 , . . . , pn be distinct primes greater than 3. Show that 2p1 p2 pn +1
has at least 4n divisors.
873. Let n 2 be a positive integer, with divisors 1 = d1 < d2 < . . . < dk = n.
Prove that d1 d2 + d2 d3 + . . . + dk1 dk is always less than n2 , and determine
when it is a divisor of n2 .
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85
874. What is the smallest positive integer t such that there exist integers
x1 , x2 , . . . , xt with
x31 + x32 + . . . + x3t = 20022002 ?
875. Find all pairs of positive integers (x; y) satisfying the equation 2x = 3y +5.
876. A given natural number N is being decomposed in a sum of some consecutive integers.
a.) Find all such decompositions for N = 500.
b.) How many such decompositions does the number N = 2 3 5 (where ,
and are natural numbers) have? Which of these decompositions contain
natural summands only?
c.) Determine the number of such decompositions (= decompositions in a sum
of consecutive integers; these integers are not necessarily natural) for an arbitrary natural N.
877. Determine the digits x, y and z if it is known that the equation
s
xx
. . . x} yy . . . y = zz
...z
| {z
| {z } | {z }
2n digits
n digits
n digits
holds, at least, for two different values of the natural number n. Find all values
for n for which this equation remains true.
878. How many real solutions does the equation
x = 1964 sin x 189
have ?
879. Does there exist a natural number z which can be represented in the form
z = x! + y!, where x and y are natural numbers satisfying the inequality x y,
in (at least) two different ways ?
880. Let a, b, c, d > 1 natural numbers which satisfy ab
a = d and b = c.
1.5
1.5.1
cd
= dc
ba
. Prove that
Valentin
Valentin - Part 1

x3 + 2y 3 4x 5y + z 2 = 2012,
in the set of integers.
882. We consider the proposition p(n): n2 + 1 divides n!, for positive integers
n. Prove that there are infinite values of n for which p(n) is true, and infinite
values of n for which p(n) is false.
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86
883. Prove that if n 4, n Z and

of 2.
2n
n
is a power of 2, then n is also a power
884. The world-renowned Marxist theorist Joric is obsessed with both mathematics and social egalitarianism. Therefore, for any decimal representation of a
positive integer n, he tries to partition its digits into two groups, such that the
difference between the sums of the digits in each group be as small as possible.
Joric calls this difference the defect of the number n. Determine the average
value of the defect (over all positive integers), that is, if we denote by (n) the
defect of n, compute
Pn
k=1 (k)
.
lim
n
n
885. i) Find all infinite arithmetic progressions formed with positive integers
such that there exists a number N N, such that for any prime p, p > N , the
p-th term of the progression is also prime.
ii) Find all polynomials f (X) Z[X], such that there exist N N, such that
for any prime p, p > N , |f (p)| is also prime.
886. Consider the set E = {1, 2, . . . , 2n}. Prove that an element c E can
belong to a subset A E, having n elements, and such that any two distinct
elements in A do not divide one each other, if and only if
k+1
2
,
c>n
3
where k is the exponent of 2 in the factoring of c.
887. Prove that the function f : N Z defined by f (n) = n2007 n!, is
injective.
888. Let ai , i = 1, 2, . . . , n, n 3, be positive integers, having the greatest
common divisor 1, such that
aj divide
n
X
ai
i=1
for all j = 1, 2, . . . , n. Prove that

n
Y
ai divides
n
X
i=1
ai
n2
i=1
889. Let n be a positive integer of the form 4k + 1, k N and A = {a2 + nb2 |

a, b Z}. Prove that there exist integers x, y such that xn + y n A and
x+y
/ A.
890. Find all non-negative integers m, n, p, q such that
pm q n = (p + q)2 + 1.
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87
891. For all integers n 1 we define xn+1 = x21 + x22 + + x2n , where x1 is a
positive integer. Find the least x1 such that 2006 divides x2006 .
892. Find all triplets of positive rational numbers (m, n, p) such that the num1
1
1
bers m + np
, n + pm
, p + mn
are integers.
893. For each integer n 3, find the smallest natural number f (n) having the
following property:
? For every subset A {1, 2, . . . , n} with f (n) elements, there exist elements
x, y, z A that are pairwise coprime.
4n
4n
894. For all positive integers m, n define f (m, n) = m3 +6 m3 +4 m5 +m3 .

Find all numbers n with the property that f (m, n) is divisible by 1992 for every
m.
895. Let p be a prime and m 2 be an integer. Prove that the equation

m
x+y
xp + y p
=
2
2
has a positive integer solution (x, y) 6= (1, 1) if and only if m = p.
896. Let a and b be natural numbers with a > b and having the same parity.
Prove that the solutions of the equation
x2 (a2 a + 1)(x b2 1) (b2 + 1)2 = 0
are natural numbers, none of which is a perfect square.
897. Let p > 5 be a prime. Consider the set X = {p n2 | n N}. Prove that
there exist two distinct elements x, y X such that x 6= 1 and x | y.
j 2 k
k
898. Consider the finite sequence 1998
, for k = 1, 2, . . . , 1997. How many
distinct terms are there in this sequence?
899. Prove that the following equation has no solution in integer numbers:
x2 + 4 = y 5 .
900. Let p be an odd prime congruent to 2 modulo 3. Prove that at most p 1
members of the set {m2 n3 1 | 0 < m, n < p} are divisible by p.
1.5.2
Valentin - Part 2
901. Let a, b, n be positive integers such that 2n 1 = ab. Let k N such that
ab + a b 1 0 (mod 2k ) and ab + a b 1 6= 0 (mod 2k+1 ). Prove that k
is even.
902. Show that for any n we can find a set X of n distinct integers greater than
1, such that the average of the elements of any subset of X is a square, cube or
higher power.
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88
903. For which pairs of positive integers (m, n) there exists a set A such that
for all positive integers x, y, if |x y| = m, then at least one of the numbers x, y
belongs to the set A, and if |x y| = n, then at least one of the numbers x, y
does not belong to the set A?
904. Find all positive integers n and p if p is prime and
n8 p5 = n2 + p2 .
are pair905. For positive integers a1 , a2 , . . . , a2006 such that aa21 , aa23 , . . . , aa2005
2006
wise distinct, find the minimum possible amount of distinct positive integers in
the set{a1 , a2 , ..., a2006 }.
906. Solve in positive integers the equation
n = (n) + 420,
where (n) is the number of positive integers less than n having no common
prime factors with n.
907. Find all positive integer solutions to 2x 5 = 11y .
908. For any positive integer k, let fk be the number of elements in the set
{k + 1, k + 2, . . . , 2k} whose base 2 representation contains exactly three 1s.
(a) Prove that for any positive integer m, there exists at least one positive
integer k such that f (k) = m.
(b) Determine all positive integers m for which there exists [i]exactly one[/i] k
with f (k) = m.
909. Show that there exists a set A of positive integers with the following
property: for any infinite set S of primes, there exist two positive integers m
in A and n not in A, each of which is a product of k distinct elements of S for
some k 2.
910. Find all positive integers n 1 such that n2 + 3n is the square of an
integer.
911. Find all positive integers which have exactly 16 positive divisors 1 = d1 <
d2 < . . . < d16 = n such that the divisor dk , where k = d5 , equals (d2 + d4 )d6 .
912. Find all 3-digit positive integers abc such that
abc = abc(a + b + c),
where abc is the decimal representation of the number.
913. Does there exist a positive integer n such that n has exactly 2000 prime
divisors and n divides 2n + 1?
Qn
914. Prove that for all positive integers n 1 the number k=1 k 2kn1 is also
an integer number.
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915. Find all primes p, q such that 3pq 0 (mod 3pq) for all integers .
916. Find the greatest positive integer n for which there exist n nonnegative
integers x1 , x2 , . . . , xn , not all zero, such that for any 1 , 2 , . . . , n from the set
{1, 0, 1}, not all zero, 1 x1 + 2 x2 + + n xn is not divisible by n3 .
917. Let A be the set A = {1, 2, . . . , n}. Determine the maximum number of
elements of a subset B A such that for all elements x, y from B, x + y cannot
be divisible by x y.
918. Find all positive integers A which can be represented in the form:

1
1
1
n
p
A= m
n
p
m
where m n p 1 are integer numbers.
919. For every positive integer n we denote by d(n) the sum of its digits in
the decimal representation. Prove that for each positive integer k there exists a
positive integer m such that the equation x + d(x) = m has exactly k solutions
in the set of positive integers.
920. Prove that for any integer n, n 3, there exist n positive integers
a1 , a2 , . . . , an in arithmetic progression, and n positive integers, and n positive
integers in geometric progression b1 , b2 , . . . , bn such that
b1 < a1 < b2 < a2 < < bn < an .
Give an example of two such progressions having at least five terms.
1.5.3
Valentin - Part 3
921. Prove that for any positive integer n, the number

2n + 1
2n + 1
2n + 1
2n
2n2
Sn =
2 +
2
3 + +
3n
0
2
2n
is the sum of two consecutive perfect squares.
922. a) Prove that there exists a sequence of digits {cn }n1 such that or each
n 1 no matter how we interlace kn digits, 1 kn 9, between cn and cn+1 ,
the infinite sequence thus obtained does not represent the fractional part of a
rational number.
b) Prove that for 1 kn 10 there is no such sequence {cn }n1 .
923. Let n 0 be an integer and let p 7 (mod 8) be a prime number. Prove
that

p1 2n
X
k
1
p1
=
.
p
2
2
k=1
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924. For m a positive integer, let s(m) be the sum of the digits of m. For n 2,
let f (n) be the
k for which there exists a set S of n positive integers
P minimal
x
= k for any nonempty subset X S. Prove that there
such that s
xX
are constants 0 < C1 < C2 with
C1 log10 n f (n) C2 log10 n.
925. Determine all composite positive integers n for which it is possible to
arrange all divisors of n that are greater than 1 in a circle so that no two
adjacent divisors are relatively prime.
926. Find the largest positive integer n > 10 such that the residue of n when
n
divided by each perfect square between 2 and
is an odd number.
2
927. Let m, n be co-prime integers, such that m is even and n is odd. Prove
that the following expression does not depend on the values of m and n:
n1
X
mk
1
+
(1)[ n ]
2n
k=1
mk
n

.
928. Let n 1 be an integer and let X be a set of n2 + 1 positive integers such

that in any subset of X with n + 1 elements there exist two elements x 6= y such
that x | y. Prove that there exists a subset {x1 , x2 , . . . , xn+1 } X such that
xi | xi+1 for all i = 1, 2, . . . , n.
929. Solve the equation 3x = 2x y + 1 in positive integers.
930. Prove that for all positive integers n there exists a single positive integer
divisible with 5n which in decimal base is written using n digits from the set
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}.
931. Im looking for an elementary proof (no group/fields knowledge involved
- because I know how to prove using polynomials over finite fields) for the
following theorem: if p 1 (mod 8) is a prime number then
2
p1
2
(mod p).
932. Let {an }n0 be a sequence of positive integers, given by a0 = 2 and for
all positive integers n,
an = 2a2n1 1.
Prove that if p is an odd prime such that p | an then p2 1 (mod 2n+3 ).
933. Let 1 = d1 < d2 < .... < dk = n be all different divisors of positive integer
n written in ascending order. Determine all n such that:
d4 = 4d3 5d2 ,
d5 = 2d2 d3 d4 1,
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n is minimum.
n written in ascending order. Determine all n such that
d21 + d22 + d23 + d24 = n.
n written in ascending order. Determine all n such that
dd4 1 = (d1 + d2 + d4 )d8 ; k = 12.
d26 + d27 1 = n.
d27 + d210 =
n
d22
2
.
938. Let N be the set of positive integers. Let n N and let d(n) be the number
of divisors of n. Let (n) be the Euler-totient function (the number of co-prime
positive integers with n, smaller than n).
Find all non-negative integers c such that there exists n N such that
d(n) + (n) = n + c,
and for such c find all values of n satisfying the above relationship.
939. Find all integers n, such that the following number is a perfect square
N = n4 + 6n3 + 11n2 + 3n + 31.
940. Let S be the set of positive integers in which the greatest and smallest
elements are relatively prime. For natural n, let Sn denote the set of natural
numbers which can be represented as sum of at most n elements (not necessarily
different) from S. Let a be greatest element from S. Prove that there are
positive integer k and integers b such that |Sn | = a n + b for all n > k.
1.5.4
Valentin - Part 4
941. Let A be a set of positive integers such that

a) if a A, the all the positive divisors of a are also in A;
b) if a, b A, with 1 < a < b, then 1 + ab A.
Prove that if A has at least 3 elements, then A is the set of all positive integers.
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942. Let p be a prime number and f Z[X] given by

f (x) = ap1 xp2 + ap2 xp3 + + a2 x + a1 ,

where ai = pi is the Legendre symbol of i with respect to p(i.e. ai = 1 if
p1
i 2 1 (mod p) and ai = 1 otherwise, for all i = 1, 2, . . . , p 1).

a) Prove that f (x) is divisible with (x 1), but not with (x 1)2 iff p 3
(mod 4);
b) Prove that if p 5 (mod 8) then f (x) is divisible with (x 1)2 but not with
(x 1)3 .
943. Let m 2 be an integer. A positive integer n has the property that for
any positive integer a which is co-prime with n, we have am 1 0 (mod n).
Prove that n 4m(2m 1).
944. A finite set of positive integers is called [i]isolated [/i]if the sum of the
numbers in any given proper subset is co-prime with the sum of the elements of
the set.
a) Prove that the set A = {4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49} is isolated;
b) Determine the composite numbers n for which there exist the positive integers
a, b such that the set
A = {(a + b)2 , (a + 2b)2 , . . . , (a + nb)2 }
is isolated.
945. Let p be a prime number and let 0 a1 < a2 < < am < p and
0 b1 < b2 < < bn < p be arbitrary integers. Let k be the number of
distinct residues modulo p that ai + bj give when i runs from 1 to m, and j from
1 to n. Prove that
a) if m + n > p then k = p;
b) if m + n p then k m + n 1.
946. Let a, b, c, d be positive integers such that the number of pairs (x, y)
(0, 1)2 such that both ax + by and cx + dy are integers is equal with 2004. If
gcd(a, c) = 6 find gcd(b, d).
947. For any positive integer n the sum 1 +
1
1
+ + is written in the form
2
n
P (n)
, where P (n) and Q(n) are relatively prime.
Q(n)
a) Prove that P (67) is not divisible by 3;
b) Find all possible n, for which P (n) is divisible by 3.
948. Solve in prime numbers the equation xy y x = xy 2 19.

949. Find all positive integers n for which there exist distinct positive integers
a1 , a2 , . . . , an such that
2
n
a1 + a2 + + an
1
+
+ +
=
.
a1
a2
an
n
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950. Let a, b be two positive integers, such that ab 6= 1. Find all the integer
values that f (a, b) can take, where
f (a, b) =
a2 + ab + b2
.
ab 1
951. For which positive integer k there exist positive integers x, y, z such that
(x + y + z)2 = kxyz ?
952. Find all integer numbers x and y such that:
(y 3 + xy 1)(x2 + x y) = (x3 xy + 1)(y 2 + x y).
953. Find all the functions from N to itself such that
f (m)d + f (n)|(md + n)e
holds for all m, n N, where d, e is given positive constant integers.
954. If the positive integers x and y are such that 3x + 4y and 4x + 3y are both
perfect squares, prove that both x and y are both divisible with 7.
955. Define the sequence of integers han i as;
a0 = 1,
a1 = 1,
and
an = 6an1 + 5an2
n 2.
Prove that a2012 2010 is divisible by 2011.

956. Let p be prime number. Given an integer a such that gcd(a, p!) = 1, prove
that a(p1)! 1 is divisible by p!.
957. Given F (x) Z[x]. For all positive integer n , F (n) is divisible by one
of a1 , a2 , . . . , ak Z . Prove that there exists ai {a1 , . . . , ak } so that for any
positive integer n F (n) is divisible by ai .
958. Let be given 131 distinct natural numbers, each having prime divisors not
exceeding 42. Prove that one can choose four of them whose product is a perfect
square.
959. How many pairs of integers (x, y) are there such that 3x = y 2 2007?
960. Find a set of four consecutive positive integers such that the smallest is a
multiple of 5, the second is a multiple of 7, the third is a multiple of 9, and the
largest is a multiple of 11.
1.6
1.6.1
Darij
Darij - Part 1
961. Let a be a positive integer. A permutation of the set {1, 2, ..., n} will be
called a v-permutation if for every divisor d of n and for arbitrary i and j from
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1.6.1
94
the set {1, 2, ..., n} satisfying d | i j, we have d | (i) (j).

For every n, we denote by v (n) the number of all v-permutations of the set
{1, 2, ..., n}.
Find the prime factorization of v (n), given that of n.
962. Let a, b, c be three integers. Prove that there exist six integers x, y, z, x0 ,
y 0 , z 0 such that
a = yz 0 zy 0 ; b = zx0 xz 0 ; c = xy 0 yx0 .
963. If a1 , a2 , ..., an are n nonnegative integers, then show that
(na1 )! (na2 )! ... (nan )!
n1
(a1 !)
n1
(a2 !)
n1
... (an !)
(a1 + a2 + ... + an )!
is an integer.
964. Let n be a positive integer which has more than k different prime factors.
Prove that there exists a convex n-gon in the plane such that
1. all angles of the n-gon are equal;
2. the lengths of the sides of the n-gon are the numbers 1k , 2k , ..., nk in some
order.
965. If x and y are
two distinct positive integers, and k is a positive integer,
then k | xk + y k .
966. Show that there exist four integers a, b, c, d whose absolute values are all
1
> 1000000 and which satisfy a1 + 1b + 1c + d1 = abcd
.
967. Let a1 , a2 , ..., a10 be positive integers such that a1 < a2 < ... < a10 . For
every k, denote by bk the greatest divisor of ak such that bk < ak . Assume that
b1 > b2 > ... > b10 . Show that a10 > 500.
3
968. If an integer a > 1 is given such that (a 1) + a3 + (a + 1) is the cube

of an integer, then show that 4 | a.
969. The sum and the product of two purely periodic decimal fractions a and b
are purely periodic decimal fractions of period length T . Show that the lengths
of the periods of the fractions a and b are not greater than T .
Note. A purely periodic decimal fraction is a periodic decimal fraction without
a non-periodic starting part.
970. Let a, b, c and n be positive integers such that an is divisible by b,
such that bn is divisible by c, and such that cn is divisible by a. Prove that
n2 +n+1
(a + b + c)
is divisible by abc.
971. For any positive integer n, let w (n) denote the number of different prime
divisors of the number n. (For instance, w (12) = 2.) Show that there exist
infinitely many positive integers n such that w (n) < w (n + 1) < w (n + 2).
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972. Prove that the equation 4x3 3x + 1 = 2y 2 has at least 31 solutions in

positive integers x and y with x 2005.
973. Prove that there are no three nonzero integers a, b, c satisfying
b+c c+a a+b
+
+
= 0.
a
b
c
974. Given six consecutive positive integers, prove that there exists a prime
such that one and only one of these six integers is divisible by this prime.
975. Let a, b, c be three integers such that a3 + b3 + c3 = (b + c) (c + a) (a + b).
Prove that at least one of the integers a, b, c is 0.
976. Let b and c be any two positive integers. Define an integer sequence an ,
for n 1, by a1 = 1, a2 = 1, a3 = b and an+3 = ban+2 an+1 + can .
Find all positive integers r for which there exists a positive integer n such
that the number an is divisible by r.
977. (a) Does there exist a positive integer n such that the decimal representation of n! ends with the string 2004, followed by a number of digits from the
set {0; 4} ?
(b) Does there exist a positive integer n such that the decimal representation
of n! starts with the string 2004 ?
978. Find the smallest positive integer n with the following property:
For any integer m with 0 < m < 2004, there exists an integer k such that
m
k
m+1
< <
.
2004
n
2005
979. A positive integer is called nice if the sum of its digits in the number
system with base 3 is divisible by 3.
Calculate the sum of the first 2005 nice positive integers.
980. Find all positive integers x, y, z and t such that 2x 3y + 5z = 7t .
1.6.2
Darij - Part 2
981. Let Q(n) denote

the sum of the digits of a positive integer n. Prove that
Q Q Q 20052005
= 7.
982. Let s be a positive real.
Consider a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. A lattice point is
defined as a point whose coordinates in this system are both integers. At each
lattice point of our coordinate system, there is a lamp.
Initially, only the lamp in the origin of the Cartesian coordinate system is turned
on; all other lamps are turned off. Each minute, we additionally turn on every
lamp L for which there exists another lamp M such that
the lamp M is already turned on, and
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the distance between the lamps L and M equals s.

Prove that each lamp will be turned on after some time ...
... if s = 13.
... if s = 2005.
... if s is an integer of the form s = p1 p2 ...pk if p1 , p2 , ..., pk are different
primes which are all 1 mod 4.
... if s is an integer whose prime factors are all 1 mod 4.
983. Let
p be a prime such that p 1 (mod 4). Evaluate with reasons,
n 2o
P p1
k
2
k=1
p .
984. Let a, b, c, d and n be positive integers such that 7 4n = a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 .
Prove that the numbers a, b, c, d are all 2n1 .
985. Let dn = [1, . . . , n] be the least common multiple of 1, . . . , n. Prove by a
(literary) one-line elementary argument that dn > 2n for n 9.
986. Find all sets X consisting of at least two positive integers such that for
every two elements m, n X, where n > m, there exists an element k X such
that n = mk 2 .
987. A positive integer is written on each of the six faces of a cube. For each
vertex of the cube we compute the product of the numbers on the three adjacent
faces. The sum of these products is 1001. What is the sum of the six numbers
on the faces?
988. Let f (x) be a non-constant polynomial with integer coefficients, and let
u be an arbitrary positive integer. Prove that there is an integer n such that
f (n) has at least u distinct prime factors and f (n) 6= 0.
989. Let m and n be two positive integers. Let a1 , a2 , . . ., am be m different
numbers from the set {1, 2, . . . , n} such that for any two indices i and j with
1 i j m and ai + aj n, there exists an index k such that ai + aj = ak .
Show that
a1 + a2 + ... + am
n+1
.
m
2
990.
Find four integers a, b, c, d such that the numbers a2 +b2 , a2 +b2 +c2
and a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 are perfect squares.
Does there exist an infinite sequence whose members are perfect squares,
and which has the property that for any natural n, the sum of the first n
members of the sequence is a perfect square?
991. Find all infinite sequences q1 , q2 , q3 , ... of natural numbers such that for
any n 3, we have
+qn1
qn = qn3
.
qn2
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992. The number 21 + 22 + 23 +...+ 2n is represented as a non-reducible fraction

pn
qn (non-reducible means that the numbers pn and qn are coprime).
a) Prove that pn is an even number.
b) Prove that if n > 3, then pn is divisible by 8.
c) Prove that for every natural k, one can find a natural number n such that
the numbers pn , pn+1 , pn+2 , ... are all divisible by 2k .
993. A sequence
cn is constructed after the following rule: We set c1 = 2 and

cn+1 = 3c2n for every n 1. [Hereby, [x] denotes the integer part of the
number x.] Prove that
a) This sequence cn contains infinitely many even numbers and infintely many
odd numbers.
c
b) The sequence en = (1) n is non-periodical.
c) [Calculus
required.] There exists a real number G such that

n fundamentals
cn = 23 G + 1 for every natural n.
994. Do there exist a) 6; b) 1000 different natural numbers, such that if a and
b are any two of them, then the sum a + b is divisible by the difference a b ?
995. Let a1 < a2 < a3 < < an < be an infinite sequence of natural
numbers such that every natural number either belongs to this sequence or can
be written as the sum of two elements of this sequence (these two elements can
also be equal).
Prove that for every natural n, we have an n2 .
996. Let the sequence (a, a + d, a + 2d, . . . , a + nd, . . .) be an infinite arithmetic
progression, where d 6= 0. Prove that this sequence contains an infinite subsequence which is a geometric progression if and only if the ratio ad is rational.
997. Prove that in every arithmetic sequence a, a + d, a + 2d, . . . , a + nd, . . .,
where a and d are natural numbers, we can find infinitely many numbers whose
canonic representations consist of the same prime factors.
[An example of two numbers whose canonic representations consist of the
same prime factors: 8232 = 23 3 73 and 2016 = 25 32 7.]
998. Prove that there exist infinitely many
p different positive
ppairs (x; y) of
rational numbers, such that the numbers x2 + y 3 and x3 + y 2 are both
rational.
999. Let k be a positive integer. A natural number m is called k-typical if each
divisor of m leaves the remainder 1 when being divided by k.
Prove:
a) If the number of all divisors of a positive integer n (including the divisors 1
and n) is k-typical, then n is the k-th power of an integer.
b) If k > 2, then the converse of the assertion a) is not true.
1000. Given a set S of 11 natural numbers. Prove that this set S has a nonempty subset T such that if you take all the numbers from T and throw all of
their digits in a bin, then each digit occurs in this bin an even number of times.
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Vesselin - Part 1
1001. Prove that there exists an infinite sequence of pairwise co-prime positive
> 1, none of which divides a number of the form 2m + 2n + 1, where m, n N.
1002. Prove that between any pair of consecutive perfect squares it is possible to
choose some integers whose product is twice a square. In other words,
for every
Q
n N there exists a subset S {n2 + 1, n2 + 2, . . . (n + 1)2 } with xS x = 2m2
for some m N.
1003. Show that the primes p which divide some number of the form 2n + 1
have natural density 17/24 in the set of primes.
1004. Let f (x) be any nonconstant integer polynomial. Show that there is a
constant C > 0 such that, for any N > 1, the number of n with 1 n N and
|f (n)| prime is less than CN/ log N .
1005.
Let f (x) be any nonconstant integer polynomial, and L an arbitrary positive integer. Show that there are infinitely many primes p 1
mod L such that f (x) has a zero modulo p.
Find all cases of f when, in fact, there exists an L such that f (x) has a
zero modulo every prime p 1 mod L.
Find all arithmetic progressions am + b, (a, b) = 1, with this property:
there is an irreducible nonlinear polynomial f that has a zero modulo
every prime of the form am + b.
1006. Let A be the set of primes p such that p | 2n 3 for some n; and let P
denote the set of all primes. Show that the sets A and P \ A are both infinite.
1007. For any C > 0, show that there exists some n > 0 such that n2 + 1 has
a prime factor bigger than Cn.
1008. Prove that there exist infinitely many
n for which 2n 1 and 3n 1 have
a common divisor bigger than exp(exp( log n)).

1009. There have been two threads proving separately the existence of infinitely
many n with n, n + 1, n + 2 all squarefree (Proof: the density of squarefree
numbers is 6/ 2 > 1/2), and infinitely many n with n2 + 1 squarefree (Proof:
2
for arbitrarily large N , the
of numbers
P proportion
P in n in2 [1, N ] with n + 1 not
2
squarefree is less than 2 pN dN/p e/N 2 pN 1/p < 1, where the sums
are over the primes 1 mod 4). Unify both results as follows: there are infinitely
many n for which n, n + 1, n + 2 and n2 + 1 are simultaneously squarefree.
1010. Let p 3 (mod 4) be a prime. Show that the set {1, 2, . . . , p1
2 } contains
more quadratic residues than quadratic nonresidues.
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1011. Construct an infinite arithmetic progression of positive integers that does

not contain any number of the form 2n + p with n N0 and p prime.
1012. Let p be an odd prime, and denote by r(p) the least quadratic residue
modulo p in {1, 2, . . . , p 1}. Prove that r(p) < p + 21 .

1013. Let r > 1 be an integer, and let p := 4r 2r + 1. If p is prime, show that
p 1 (mod 6r).
1014. For every M > 0, prove that there exist integers a > b > M such that
the set of prime divisors of a2 + 1 coincides with that of b2 + 1.
1015. Do there exist infinitely many pairs (a, b), a 6= b of distinct positive
integers such that the numbers in each of the pairs {a, b} and {a + 1, b + 1} have
the same set of prime divisors?
1016. Let a, b N be positive integers. Prove that there exists a positive
integer n for which
n
n
n - a2 + b3 .
1017. Let a1 , . . . , an N, none of which is a perfect square. Prove or disprove
that the number a1 + + an is always irrational.

1018. Does there exist an integer polynomial f Z[x, y] in two variables which
is a bijection : Z2 Z?
1019. Find all primes p 3 with the following property: for any prime q < p,
the number
jpk
p
q
q
is squarefree (i.e. is not divisible by the square of a prime).
1020. Let n be a positive integer. Determine all positive integers m N for
which there exists an integer polynomial
f (x) = an xn + an1 xn1 + + a1 x + a0 Z[x]
such that an 6= 0, gcd (a0 , a1 , . . . , an , m) = 1, and f (k) is divisible by m for all
integers k N.
1.8
1.8.1
Gabriel
Gabriel - Part 1
1021. This is really a strange theorem: let f be a polynomial with integer coefficients having at least one real root. Then there are infinitely many
prime numbers of the form 4k + 3 dividing at least one term of the sequence
f (1), f (2), f (3), ....
99
1.8.1
100
1022. Let p be a prime k a positive

integer and r an integer. Prove that for

infinitely many n we have 2n
=
r
(mod
()pk ).
n
1023. Prove as elementarily as possible the existence of a transcendent number
1
x such that |x pq | > 10q
2 for all integers p, q.
1024. Express in a (very) closed form the sum of the m-th powers of the primitive roots mod p.
1025. This is very challenging, but also very beautiful: for any sufficiently large
prime p, there exists g < p a primitive root mod p which is relatively prime to
p 1.
1026. Find all polynomials with integer coefficients such that P (n)P (n + 1) is
of the form P (k) for some integer and this for all n.
1027. Prove that the equation 3a4 + 4b4 = 19c4 has no nontrivial rational
solutions.
1028. Let N be a positive integer. Prove that all sufficiently large integers can
be written as the sum of a family of pairwise distinct integers greater than N
and whose sum of inverses is 1.
1029. Show the existence of an absolute positive constant c such that for all
positive irational x there are infinitely many rational numbers pq with gcd(p, q) =
1, q = 1 (mod 4) and |x pq | < qc2 .
1030. Find the positive integers a with the following property: any positive
integer has at least as many divisors of the form ak + 1 as of the form ak 1.
1031. Find all couples (a, b) of positive integers with the following property:
there are infinitely many n such that n2 |an + bn .
n2
1032. Let x0 = 0, x1 = 1 and a, b integers greater than 1. Suppose that xnx+x
n1
is equal to a if n is even and with b otherwise. Then xn+m xn+m1 ...xn+1 is a
multiple of xm xm1 for all m, n.
1033. Solve the equation 7x = 3y + 4 in positive integers.

1034. Let a, b, c some positive integers and x, y, z some integer numbers such
that we have
a) ax2 + by 2 + cz 2 = abc + 2xyz 1;
b) ab + bc + ca x2 + y 2 + z 2 .
Prove that a, b, c are all sums of three squares of integer numbers.
1035. For infinitely many n we have (n (n)) > (n).
1036. Let a a base. Prove that any number n > 0 has a multiple which uses
all digits in base a.
100
1.8.2
101
1037. Here is a very very nice problem: the largest prime factor of 22 + 1 is
greater than 2n+2 (n + 1). Probably this will give an insight for my problem:
if a > 1 then for infinitely many n the largest prime factor of an 1 is greater
than n loga n.
1038. We choose random a unitary polynomial of degree n and coefficients in
the set 1, 2, ..., n!. Prove that the probability for this polynomial to be special is
between 0.71 and 0.75, where a polynomial g is called special if for every k > 1
in the sequence f (1), f (2), f (3), ... there are infinitely many numbers relatively
prime with k.
1039. For a given k natural number find all couples (a, b) of positive integers
such that an + bn |(kn)! for all sufficiently large n.
1040. Find all triples of integers a, b, c such that a 2n + b|cn + 1 for all natural
number n.
1.8.2
Gabriel - Part 2
1041. Consider xn the coefficient of xn in (x2 + x + 1)n . Prove that for prime
p we have: p2 divides xp 1.
1042. Find all polynomials f, g with integer coefficients such that any odd prime
can be represented either in the form f (n) (with positive integer n) or in the
form g(n) with positive integer n.
1043. For any M > 0 and any positive integer a show that there exist infinitely
many positive integers b such that |am bn | > M for any positive integers m, n.
Q
1 ,...,an )
1044. Prove that for any integers a1 , ..., an the number lcm(a
a1 a2 ...an i<j (ai aj )
is an integer divisible by 1!2! (n 2)!. Moreover, there exists n-uplets for
which the two numbers are equal.
1045. Find x, y, z such that xy 2 = z 3 + 1 and x does not have prime factors of
the form 6k + 1.
1046. Prove that for infinitely many n there is a real polynomial f of degree n
such that p(0), p(1), . . . , p(n + 1) are different perfect powers of 2.
1047. Show that there exists a constant C > 0 such that for all n the sum of
digits of 2n is greater than C ln n.
1048. Prove that there exists infinitely many n such that n, n + 1 and n + 2
are squarefree.
1049. Find all polynomials with integer coefficients f such that for all n > 2005
the number f (n) is a divisor of nn1 1.
1050. Show that if n + 1 is a multiple of 24, then the sum of the divisors of n
is also divisible by 24.
101
1.9.1
102
1051. Is there a trinomial (like f (n) = an2 + bn + c) with integer coefficients

f such that for all natural numbers n, all prime factors of f (n) are of the form
4k + 3?
1052. Let p be a prime number of the form 4k + 1, where k is an integer. Show
that
k j
X
p k

ip = p2 1 /12.
i=1
1053. Let a, b > 1 be integers such that for all n > 0 we have an 1|bn 1.
Then prove that b is a natural power of a.
1054. Find all primes p and q such that p2 + 1|2003q + 1 and q 2 + 1|2003p + 1.
1055. Are there arbitrarily long sequences of positive integers no two of which
have the same number of divisors?
1056. Let a1 , . . . , a2004 be integers with the property that for all n 1 the
number (a1 )n + (a2 )n + + (a2004 )n is the square of an integer. Prove that at
least 21 numbers are 0.
1057. Find the smallest number which is the sum of 2002 numbers (not necessarily different) with the same sum of digits and also the sum of 2003 numbers
with the same sum of digits.
1058. Prove that an infinite number of natural numbers cannot be written as
a3 + b5 + c7 + d9 + e11 , with a, b, c, d, e positive integers.
1059. Is there an infinite sequence of prime numbers p1 , p2 , . . ., pn , pn+1 , . . .
such that |pn+1 2pn | = 1 for each n N?
1060. Find all polynomials f with integer coefficients such that for any natural
number n we have f (n)|2n 1.
1.9
1.9.1
April
April - Part 1
1061. Let a and b be distinct integers greater than 1. Prove that there exists
a positive integer n such that (an 1)(bn 1) is not a perfect square.
1062. Let k be a positive integer. Show that if there exists a consequence
a0 , a1 , . . . of integers satisfying the condition
an =
an1 + nk
for all n 1,
n
then k 2 is divisible by 3.
102
1.9.1
103
1063. Let P (x) be a non-constant polynomial with integer coefficients. Prove

that there is no function T from the set of integers into the set of integers such
that the number of integers x with T n (x) = x is equal to P (n) for every n 1,
where T n denotes the n-fold application of T .
1064. Find all positive integers n such that there exists a sequence of positive
integers a1 , a2 ,. . ., an satisfying:
ak+1 =
a2k + 1
1
ak1 + 1
for every k with 2 k n 1.

1065. Let f be a non-constant function from the set of positive integers into
the set of positive integer, such that a b divides f (a) f (b) for all distinct
positive integers a, b. Prove that there exist infinitely many primes p such that
p divides f (c) for some positive integer c.
1066. A positive integer N is called balanced, if N = 1 or if N can be written as
a product of an even number of not necessarily distinct primes. Given positive
integers a and b, consider the polynomial P defined by P (x) = (x + a)(x + b).
(a) Prove that there exist distinct positive integers a and b such that all the
number P (1), P (2),. . ., P (50) are balanced.
(b) Prove that if P (n) is balanced for all positive integers n, then a = b.
1067. (a) Do there exist 2009 distinct positive integers such that their sum is
divisible by each of the given numbers?
(b) Do there exist 2009 distinct positive integers such that their sum is divisible
by the sum of any two of the given numbers?
1068. For a given prime p > 2 and positive integer k let
Sk = 1k + 2k + . . . + (p 1)k
Find those values of k for which p | Sk .
1069. For every n N let d(n) denote the number of (positive) divisors of n.
Find all functions f : N N with the following properties:
d (f (x)) = x for all x N.
f (xy) divides (x 1)y xy1 f (x) for all x, y N.[/list]
1070. Let n be a positive integer. Show that the numbers
n
n
n

n

2 1
2 1
2 1
2 1
,
,
, ...,
0
1
2
2n1 1
are congruent modulo 2n to 1, 3, 5, . . ., 2n 1 in some order.
103
1.9.2
104
1071. Let a0 , a1 , a2 , . . . be a sequence of positive integers such that the greatest

common divisor of any two consecutive terms is greater than the preceding term;
in symbols, gcd(ai , ai+1 ) > ai1 . Prove that an 2n for all n 0.
1072. Let a1 , a2 , . . ., an be distinct positive integers, n 3. Prove that there
exist distinct indices i and j such that ai +aj does not divide any of the numbers
3a1 , 3a2 , . . ., 3an .
1073. Let n be a positive integer and let p be a prime number. Prove that if
a, b, c are integers (not necessarily positive) satisfying the equations
an + pb = bn + pc = cn + pa
then a = b = c.
1074. Given strictly increasing sequence a1 < a2 < . . . of positive integers
such that each its term ak is divisible either by 1005 or 1006, but neither term is
divisible by 97. Find the least possible value of maximal difference of consecutive
terms ai+1 ai .
1075. Given are positive integers n > 1 and a so that a > n2 , and among the
integers a + 1, a + 2, . . . , a + n one can find a multiple of each of the numbers
n2 + 1, n2 + 2, . . . , n2 + n. Prove that a > n4 n3 .
n
1076. Let x, y be two integers with 2 x, y 100. Prove that x2 + y 2 is not

a prime for some positive integer n.
1077. Prove that there exist infinitely many pairs (a, b) of natural numbers not
equal to 1 such that bb + a is divisible by aa + b.
1078. Find all pairs (x, y) of integers such that x3 y 3 = 2xy + 8.
1079. Let a, b and m be positive integers. Prove that there exists a positive
integer n such that (an 1)b is divisible by m if and only if gcd(ab, m) =
gcd(b, m).
1080.
positive integers are missing in the sequence {an }, with an =
Which
n + [ n] + [ 3 n] for all n 1? ([x] denotes the largest integer less than or equal
to x, i.e. g with g x < g + 1.)
1.9.2
April - Part 2
1081. (a) Does there exist a polynomial P (x) with coefficients in integers, such
that P (d) = 2008
d holds for all positive divisors of 2008?
(b) For which positive integers n does a polynomial P (x) with coefficients in
integers exists, such that P (d) = nd holds for all positive divisors of n?
1082. Are there integers x, y, not both divisible by 5, such that x2 + 19y 2 =
198 101989 ?
104
1.9.2
105
1083. The Fibonacci sequence is defined by F1 = F2 = 1 and Fn+1 = Fn +Fn1

for n > 1. Let f (x) = 1985x2 + 1956x + 1960. Prove that there exist infinitely
many natural numbers n for which f (Fn ) is divisible by 1989. Does there exist
n for which f (Fn ) + 2 is divisible by 1989?
1084. Let n be a positive integer, let A be a subset of {1, 2, , n}, satisfying
for any two numbers x,
y A, the least common multiple of x, y not more than
n. Show that |A| 1.9 n + 5.
1085. A national number x is called good if it satisfies: x = pq > 1 with p, q
being positive integers, gcd(p, q) = 1 and there exists constant numbers , N
such that for any integer n N ,
|{xn } |
1
2(p + q)
Find all the good numbers.

1086. A positive integer m is called good if there is a positive integer n such that
m is the quotient of n by the number of positive integer divisors of n (including
1 and n itself). Prove that 1, 2, . . . , 17 are good numbers and that 18 is not a
good number.
1087. Let p and q be two coprime positive integers, and n be a non-negative
integer. Determine the number of integers that can be written in the form
ip + jq, where i and j are non-negative integers with i + j n.
1088. nAssume
that and are two roots of the equation: x2 x 1 = 0. Let
n
an = , n = 1, 2, .
(1) Prove that for any positive integer n, we have an+2 = an+1 + an .
(2) Find all positive integers a and b, a < b, satisfying b | an 2nan for any
positive integer n.
1089. Show that the equation y 37 = x3 +11 (mod p) is solvable for every prime
p, where p 100.
1090. Find all finite sets of positive integers with at least two elements such
b2
that for any two numbers a, b (a > b) belonging to the set, the number ab
belongs to the set, too.
1091. How many pairs (m, n) of positive integers with m < n fulfill the equation
3
1
1
2008 = m + n ?
1092. Consider a set A of positive integers such that the least element of A
equals 1001 and the product of all elements of A is a perfect square. What is
the least possible value of the greatest element of A?
1093. For a positive integer n, let S(n) denote the sum of its digits. Find the
S(n)
largest possible value of the expression S(16n)
.
105
1.9.3
106
1094. Consider a subset A of 84 elements of the set {1, 2, . . . , 169} such that
no two elements in the set add up to 169. Show that A contains a perfect square.
1998
1095. Is there an integer N such that

1997 1996
= N N 1?
1096. Let the sum of the first n primes be denoted by Sn . Prove that for any
positive integer n, there exists a perfect square between Sn and Sn+1 .
1097. Let m and n be two distinct positive integers. Prove that there exists a
real number x such that 13 {xn} 23 and 13 {xm} 23 . Here, for any real
number y, {y} denotes the fractional part of y. For example {3.1415} = 0.1415.
1098. If natural numbers x, y, p, n, k with n > 1 odd and p an odd prime
satisfy xn + y n = pk , prove that n is a power of p.
1099. Let S(n) be the sum of decimal digits of a natural number n. Find the
least value of S(m) if m is an integral multiple of 2003.
1100. Consider the polynomial P (x) = x3 + 153x2 111x + 38.
(a) Prove that there are at least nine integers a in the interval [1, 32000 ] for
which P (a) is divisible by 32000 .
(b) Find the number of integers a in [1, 32000 ] with the property from (a).
1.9.3
April - Part 3
1101. Let T be a finite set of positive integers, satisfying the following conditions:
For any two elements of T , their greatest common divisor and their least
common multiple are also elements of T .
For any element x of T , there exists an element x0 of T such that x and
x0 are relatively prime, and their least common multiple is the largest
number in T .
For each such set T , denote by s(T ) its number of elements. It is known
that s(T ) < 1990; find the largest value s(T ) may take.
1102. The function f : N Z is defined by f (0) = 2, f (1) = 503 and f (n+2) =
503f (n + 1) 1996f (n) for all n N. Let s1 , s2 , . . ., sk be arbitrary integers
not smaller than k, and let p(si ) be an arbitrary prime divisor of f (2si ), (i =
Pk
1, 2, . . . , k). Prove that, for any positive integer t (t k), we have 2t i=1 p(si )
if and only if 2t |k.
1103. Find the greatest real number for which there exists a sequence of
infinitive integers (an ), (n = 1, 2, 3, . . .) satisfying the following conditions:
1) an > 1997n for every n N ;
2) For every n 2, Un a
n , where Un = gcd{ai + ak |i + k = n}.
106
1.9.3
107
1104. For any nonnegative integer n, let f (n) be the greatest integer such that
2f (n) |n + 1. A pair (n, p) of nonnegative integers is called nice if 2f (n) > p. Find
all triples (n, p, q) of nonnegative integers such that the pairs (n, p), (p, q) and
(n + p + q, n) are all nice.
1105. Find all integers a, b, n greater than 1 which satisfy
n
a3 + b3 = 4(ab)1995 .
1106. For which natural numbers n do there exist rational numbers a and b
which are not integers such that both a + b and an + bn are integers?
1107. Determine all functions f defined on the natural numbers that take values
among the natural numbers for which
(f (n))p n (mod f (p))
for all n N and all prime numbers p.
1108. Find all triples of positive integers (a, b, c) such that
(i) a, b, c are prime numbers, and a < b < c.
(ii) a + 1, b + 1, c + 1 are three consecutive terms of a geometric progression.
1109. The inradius of triangle ABC is 1 and the side lengths of ABC are all
integers. Prove that triangle ABC is right-angled.
1110. Let n be a positive integer and [ n] = a. Find the largest integer n such
that the following two conditions are satisfied:
(1) n is not a perfect square;
(2) a3 divides n2 .
1111. Find all integer solutions of equation: x4 + 5y 4 = z 4 .
1112. Determine all positive integers x, y such that y | x2 + 1 and x2 | y 3 + 1.
1113. Find all pairs (a, b) of positive integers such that 2a 1 and 2b + 1 are
coprime and a + b divides 4ab + 1.
1114. For an integer n, denote A = n2 + 24 and B = n2 9. Find all

values of n for which A B is an integer.
1115. If n is is an integer such that 4n + 3 is divisible by 11, find the from of
n and the remainder of n4 upon division by 11.
1116. Let given two primes p, q satisfying: p 1 divisible by q and q 3 1
divisible by p. Prove that: p + q is a square number.
1117. Find all positive integers N for which, there exist positive pairwise coprime integers a, b, c such that S(ab) = S(ac) = S(bc) = N . Where S(k) denotes
sum of digits in decimal representation of k.
107
1.10.1
108
1118. Show that, for any fixed integer n 1, the sequence

2
22
2, 22 , 22 , 22 , . . . (mod n)
is eventually constant.
c
1119. Find all positive integers a, b, c such that ab = bc .

1120. Find all positive integers n, k such that (n 1)! = nk 1.
1.10
Arne
1.10.1
Arne - Part 1
1121. Does there exist a multiple of 103, say n, such that 22n+1 2 (mod n)?

1122. Let a be a positive integer. Set n = 22a+1 1 and let = exp 2i
n .
Let S be the smallest subset of C such that
-if s S, then s2 S, and
-for all k {1, 2, , 2a }, k S.
Show that S and S (the set of conjugates of elements of S) are disjoint.
1123. Let p be an odd prime. Let Ap and Bp be the sets of quadratic residues
and non-residues respectively (modulo p). Let be a primitive p-th rootof unity

P
P
and define a = kAp k and b = kBp k . Show that 1 4ab = p 1
p .
1124. Let p(X) Zp [X] be an odd polynomial, where p is prime and p 3
(mod 4).
How many solutions (X, Y ) does the equation Y 2 = p(X) have in Z2p ?

Pp2
1125. Let p be an odd prime. Calculate k=1 k(k+1)
.
p
1126. Show that there is a unique sequence u0 , u1 , u2 , of positive integers
such that

n
X
n+r
u2n =
unr
r
r=0
for all nonnegative integers n.
1127. For each positive integer n 2, let (n) be the product of the distinct
prime divisors of n. Let a1 2 be an integer and define an+1 = an + (an ).
Show that the sequence (an ) contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
1128. For any positive integer n, define an to be the product of the digits of n.
(a) Prove that n a(n) for all positive integers n.
(b) Find all n for which n2 17n + 56 = a(n).
1129. Find all positive integers m and n such that 1 + 5 2m = n2 .
108
1.10.2
109
1130. Let n be a positive integer. Prove that some Fibonacci number is divisible
by n2 + 1.
1131. Let p be prime, let n be a positive integer, show that

p1
p+1
p
p
p1
p+1
gcd
,
,
= gcd
,
,
.
n1
n
n+1
n1
n
n+1
1132. Let x and y be integers such that
x2 +y 2 +6
xy
x2 +y 2 +6
xy
is an integer. Show that
is a perfect cube.
1133. Let s < 1 be a positive real number. Show that there exist only finitely
many positive integers n such that (n) < ns .
P
1
Hence, or otherwise, study the convergence of the series n=1 (n)
a.
1134. Let p be a prime number.
Find the number of irreducible polynomials over Zp , of the form X 2 +aX +b.
1135. Let n be a positive integer, let p be prime and let q be a divisor of
(n + 1)p np . Show that p divides q 1.
1136. Let x R. Prove that x is irrational if and only if there exist sequences
{pn } and {qn } of positive integers such that
lim (qn x pn ) = 0
n+
and such that

x 6=
pn
, n N.
qn
1137. Prove that the sum of the squares of two consecutive positive integers
cannot be equal to a sum of the fourth powers of two consecutive positive
integers.
1138. The first four digits of a certain positive integer n are 1137. Prove that
the digits of n can be shuffled in such a way that the new number is divisible
by 7.
1139. Find all rational numbers a, b, c and d such that
8a2 3b2 + 5c2 + 16d2 10ab + 42cd + 18a + 22b 2c 54d = 42,
15a2 3b2 + 21c2 5d2 + 4ab + 32cd 28a + 14b 54c 52d = 22.
1140. Find all natural numbers with the property that, when the first digit is
moved to the end, the resulting number is 27 times the original one.
109
1.10.2
1.10.2
110
Arne - Part 2
1141. Define the sequence {un }n1 by

u1 = 1, un = (n 1)un1 + 1.
Find all positive integers n such that n divides un .
1142. For a certain real number x, the differences between x1919 , x1960 and
x2001 are all integers. Prove that x is an integer.
1143. A number xn of the form 10101...1 has n ones. Find all n such that xn
is prime.
1144. Let S be the set of all rational numbers whose denominators are powers
of 3. Let a, b and c be given non-zero real numbers. Determine all real-valued
functions f that are defined for x S, satisfy
f (x) = af (3x) + bf (3x 1) + cf (3x 2) if 0 x 1,
and are zero elsewhere.
1145. The sequence L1 , L2 , L3 , . . . is defined by
L1 = 1, L2 = 3, Ln = Ln1 + Ln2 for n > 2.
Prove that Lp 1 is divisible by p if p is prime.
1146. Prove that

n
n
n
gcd
,
,...,
1
2
n1
is a prime if n is a power of a prime, and 1 otherwise.

1147. Let fn be the nth Fibonacci number (f0 = 0, f1 = f2 = 1, f3 = 2, etc).
Find all positive integers n such that
2
nfn fn+1 = (fn+2 1) .

1148. A calculator can perform two different operations:
a) transform a given number x into 2x 1,
b) multiply a given number by 2.
Is it possible to transform 2005 into the fifth power of an integer using this
calculator?
1149. Consider the sequence 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, ... obtained by concatenating alternating blocks {1}, {2, 4}, {5, 7, 9}, {10, 12, 14, 16}, etc of odd and
even numbers. Each block contains one more element than the previous one and
the first element in each block is one more than the last element of the previous
block. Show that the nth term of the sequence equals

1 + 8n 7
2n
.
2
110
1.11.1
111
1150. Suppose that some positive integer can be written as the sum of 4 odd
distinct squares. Prove that it can be written as the sum of 4 even distinct
perfect squares!
1151. Given a natural number, one may repeatedly
a) multiply it by any other natural number, and
b) delete zeros in its decimal representations.
Prove that, starting with any natural number, one can perform a sequence of
these operations that transforms this number into a one-digit number.
1152. The lengths of the altitudes of a triangle are positive integers, and the
inradius is a prime number.
Find the lengths of the sides of the triangle.
1153. Show that if the difference of two consecutive cubes is a square, then it
is the square of the sum of two successive squares.
1154. The sequence 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, . . . is the increasing sequence of all positive integers which are powers of 3 or can be written as the sum of distinct
powers of 3. Determine the 2005th term of the sequence.
1155. Find all possible integer values of the expression
x
y2 z2
y
z 2 x2
z
x2 y 2
where x, y and z are integers.

1156. Prove that there exist infinitely many integer solutions to the equation
(a b)(b c)(c a) = a2 + b2 + c2 .
1157. Suppose coprime positive integers a, b, c satisfy a2 ab + b2 = c2 . Prove
that if d is a divisor of c, then d 1 (mod 6).
1158. Solve in positive integers
2x = 5y + 3.
1159. Solve 2x = 3y + 5 in positive integers?
1160. Find all primes p, q such that pq divides 2p + 2q .
1.11
Kunihiko
1.11.1
Kunihiko - Part 1
1161. Let p 5 be a prime. Is cos 2

p Q?
1162. Find all possible positive integers n such that n! + 1 is a perfect square.
111
1.11.1
112
1163. Find all possible positive integers n such that 3n + 4n divides 5n .

1164. Let m 2, n be positive integers.
Find all possible pairs (m, n) such that (n + 1)! is divisible by mn .
1165. Let n be positive integer. Denote by N (n), S(n) be the number and sum
of n! respectively. Is there n finitely or are there n infinitely such that S(n) is
divisible by N (n)?
1166. Let p be prime. Consider a triplet of (m, n, p) of positive integers such
that n + pp = m2 Find the smallest n satisfying the condition.
1167. Answer the following questions:
(1) Let k 0 be integer. Denote by ak the number of the pairs of non-negative
integers (x, y) such that x3 + y2 k. Express ak in terms of k.
(2) Let n 0 be integer. Denote by bn the number of the triplets of nonnegative integers (x, y, z) such that x3 + y2 + z n. Express bn in terms of
n.
1168. Let n 2 be integer. Call a number x as n-powered number such that
x = pn for a positive integer p. Answer the following questions:
(1) Prove that the product of two consecutive positive integers is not n-powered
number.
(2) Prove that the product of n consecutive positive integers is not n-powered
number.
1169. Let p be prime. Find all possible integers n such that for all integers x,
if xn 1 is divisible by p, then xn 1 is divisible by p2 as well.
1170. Let p, q be distinct primes. Prove that p2n + q 2n is not a multiple of
p + q for each positive integer n.
1171. Find the possible maximum integral value by which, for any integers
a, b, c, (a + b + c)5 a5 b5 c5 is divided.
1172. Let S be a set such that S = {a3 + b3 + c3 3abc|a, b, c Z}.
(1) Find the remainder when the element in S is divided by 9.
(2) Prove that S is closed under multiplication.
789
1173. Find the remainder when 123456
is divided by 11.
1174. Let ak N+ (1 k n). Find the maximum value of n such that

Pn
n(n+1) Qn
, k=1 ak = n! implies {a1 , a2 , , an } = {1, 2, , an }.
k=1 ak =
2
1175. How many pairs of integers (a, b) are there for a2 b2 = 4a5 + b3 ?
1176. Find all positive integers n such that n divides 2n1 + 1.
1177. Find all prime numbers such that (p2 1)! is divisible by p4 , but is not
divisible by p5 .
112
1.11.2
113
1178. Let A, B, C be the sets of positive integers respectively. Suppose that

for any elements a A, b B, a + b C. Prove the following contexts.
(1) If all elements of C are odd, then A B = .
(2) If all elements of C are even and A B = , then for any elements of
m, n A B, m + n is even.
1179. Find all of quintuple of positive integers (a, n, p, q, r) such that an 1 =
(ap 1)(aq 1)(ar 1).
1180. Prove that 217 1 is prime.
1.11.2
Kunihiko - Part 2
1181. For two odd numbers a, b, let m = 11a + b, n = 3a + b. Prove the

following contexts (1), (2).
(1) If d = gcd(a, b), then we have gcd(m, n) = 2d, 4d, 8d.
(2) Both of m and n cant be perfect number.
1182. For any two positive integers m, n (m 2), suppose that nm is expressed
by the sum of n consecutive odd numbers. Express the minimum term in terms
of n and m.
1183. Suppose that n 2 be integer and a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 satisfy the following
condition:
n and ai (i = 1, 2, 3, 4) are relatively prime.
(ka1 )n + (ka2 )n + (ka3 )n + (ka4 )n = 2n for k = 1, 2, , n 1.
Note that (a)n expresses the divisor when a is divided by n.
Prove that (a1 )n , (a2 )n , (a3 )n , (a4 )n can be divided into two pair with sum
n.
1184. Let a, b are relatively
prime and
a is odd. Define, for positive integer n,
an , bn such that (a + b 2)n = an + bn 2. Prove that an is odd and an , bn are

relatively prime for every n.
1185. Let k 2 be integer, n1 , n2 , n3 be positive
and a1 , a2 , a3 be
Pni integers
integers from 1, 2, , k 1. Let bi = ai j=0
k j (i = 1, 2, 3). Find all
possible pairs of integers (n1 , n2 , n3 ) such that b1 b2 = b3 .
1186. Let N be postive integer. Some integers are written in a black board
and those satisfy the following conditions.
1. Any numbers written are integers which are from 1 to N .
2. More than one integer which is from 1 to N is written.
3. The sum of numbers written is even.
If we mark X to some numbers written and mark Y to all remaining numbers,
then prove that we can set the sum of numbers marked X are equal to that of
numbers marked Y .
113
1.11.2
114
1187. Find all positive integers n such that 8n + n is divisible by 2n + n.

1188. (1) Prove that injective continuous mapping f : R R is strictly
monotone increasing or strictly monotone decreasing.
(2) Let S 1 = {z C||z| = 1}. For a continuous mapping g : S 1 S 1 let
denote n as ord(g) when there exists some integer n 2 such that g n = id and
g l 6= id (l {1, , n 1}) where id expresses identy mapping and call the
point x on S 1 with g(x) = x fixed point of g.
(a) If ord(g) = 2, prove that g has no fixed point or exactly has 2 fixed point.
(b) If ord(g) > 3, prove that g has no fixed point.
Pn
1189. For n 2, let an be an increasing integer sequence such that k=1 a1k =
1. Prove that an has more than one even numbers.
1190. Consider a sequence c1 , c2 , c3 , such that cn+1 = 8cn 7 (n =
1, 2, 3, ). Find two positive integers of c1 such that only one prime appeares
in the sequence of c1 , c2 , c3 , .
1191. (1) Let f (x) be a polynomial with real coefficients. Prove that the necessary and sufficient condition such that f (x) is integer for any integers x is that
f (0) is integer and f (k) f (k 1) is integer for any integers k.
(2) Find the necessary and sufficient condition such that ax2 + bx + c is integer
for any integers x in terms of a, b, c.
1192. Let p 3 be a prime number. Put p points on a circle and write 1 on a
point, from the point making proceed one point in clockwise, write 2. Moreover
from this point making proceed two points, write 3. Repeating this procedure,
from the point written in p 1 finally making proceed p 1 points, write p Note
that we may find the point written in more than two numbers and the point
written no number. How many points are there written in some number?
ns 1
10n 1
9
z }| {
= 111 111 by n . For example
1193. For a positive integer n, denote

1 = 1, 2 = 11, 3 = 111.
(1) Let m be a non negative integer. Prove that 3m is divisible by 3m and
indivisible by 3m+1 .
(2) Prove that n is divisible by 27 is the necessary and sufficient condition for
which n is divisible by 27.
1194. Let x, y be coprime positive integers such that xy 6= 1. If n is positive
even, then prove that xn + y n is not divisible by x + y.
1195. Suppose that n is expressed in the decimal representation : n = am am1 . . . a1 ,where
am 6= 0.
Find all values of n such that n = (am + 1)(am1 + 1) (a1 + 1).
1196. Let p be any primes and m be any positive integers. If you select some
positive integers nicely, then prove that there exists the part of the series of m
consecutive zeros in the decimal representation of pn .
114
1.11.3
115
1197. Find all pairs (a, b) of positive integers with a 2, b 2 such that
a
aa = bb .
1198. For postive integers m, n, Let f (m, n) such that f (m, n) = 21 {(m + n
1)2 + (m n + 1)}.
(1) Find one pair of (m, n) such that f (m, n) = 100.
(2) Let a, b, c, d be integers such that a2 +b = c2 +d. If a < b 5 a, c < d 5 c
holds, then show that we have a = c, b = d .
(3) Show that there is one pair of (m, n) such that f (m, n) = k for any positive
integers k.
1199. Can it be existed postive integers n such that there are integers b and
non zeroPintegers ai (i = 1, 2, n) for rational numbers r which satisfies
n
r = b + i=1 a1i ?
1200. Let a, b, p, q be positive integers such that
(1) Show that pq
is divisible by b.
(2) Show that a + 2b is positive integer.
1.11.3
p2 +q 2
a
pq
b
and gcd(a, b) = 1.
Kunihiko - Part 3
1201. Define a sequence {an } N such that a1 = 2, an+1 = 2a2n an + 2 (n =

1, 2, ). Find the great common divisor of an+2 and an .
1202. Let f (x) = x3 + x + 1. Prove that there exists an integer such that
3n (n N) divides only one among f (1), f (2), , f (3n ).
1203. Let p be prime numbers with three digit such that p = 100a + 10b + c
for integers a, b, c. Can the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 has integral
solution?
1204. Let p > 3 be prime and a, b, c are positive integers. If all of a + b +
c, a2 + b2 + c2 , a3 + b3 + c3 are the multiple of p, prove that all of a, b, c are
the multiple of p.
1205. For real positive numbers x, the set A(x) is defined by
A(x) = {[nx] | n N},
where [r] denotes the greatest integer not exceeding real numbers r.Find all
irrational numbers > 1 satisfying the following condition. Condition: If
positive real number satisfies A() A(), then

is integer.
1206. Find the pair of integers (a, b) such that a, b are distinct primes for which
the following equation will become integers.
7(a b) 24ab(a2005 b2005 ) + (ab + 576)(a2006 b2006 ) 24(a2007 b2007 )
.
576 24(a + b) + ab
115
1.11.3
116
1207. Find the pairs of integers (m, n) (m 3, n 4) for which

holds for arbiterary positive real numbers x, y.
1
x+y
1
1
mx + ny
1208. Find the pair of integer (a, b) such that 0 a, 0 b 5, for which the
following system of equation with respect to x, y has integral solution.
ax + 3by = 1
bx + ay = 0
1209. Let n be positive integers and
let
be real
numbers
such that 0 < < 1.
Denote by N (n) the number among 1, 2, 3, , n whose decimal part
is less than or equal to .
Prove that limn N n(n) = .
1210. For natural numbers m, n such that GCD(m, n) = 1, find GCD(5m +
7m , 5n + 7n ). Note that GCD(m, n) denotes the Greatest Common devisor of
m and n.
1211. Let n be positive integers.For real numbers x, y, z, consider the equation
xn + y n + z n = xyz ()
(1) For n = 1, find the pair of positive integers (x, y, z) satifying () and x
y z.
(2) For n = 3, prove that there dont exist the pair of positive real numbers
satisfying ().
1212. Determine all integers k for which there exist infinitely the pairs of integers (a, b, c) satisfying the following equation
(a2 k)(b2 k) = c2 k.
1213. Consider the pair of (x, y, z) satisfying the following condition
(A) : x, y, z are positive integers such that x2 + y 2 + z 2 = xyz and x y z.
(1) Find all the pairs (x, y, z) satisfying the condition (A) and y 3.
(2) If the pair of (a, b, c) satisfy the condition (A), then prove that there exist
z such that the pair of (b, c, z) satisfy the condition (A).
(3) Prove that there are infinitely many pairs of (x, y, z) satisfying the condition
(A).
1214. Find all the distinct triplet of positive integers such that the sum of the
three numbers are minimized among the pairs in which the sum of any two
numbers is square number.Note that the rearranged pairs such as 1, 2, 3 and
3, 2, 1 are regarded as the same pair.
1215. Let m, n be non zero integers and a, b be odd numbers.For the point
X(2m a, 2n b) which lie in the first quadrant, denote the rule which make corre0
0
spond to the integer mn by (R). If the two points X(2m a, 2n b), X 0 (2m a0 , 2n b0 )
which lie in the first quadrant lie in a line passing through the origin, then prove
that the integer m n equal to m0 n0 by coresponding by the rule (R) respectively.
116
1.11.3
117
1216. Let f (x) be the polynominal with the coefficient of integer. Prove that if
f (n) is prime number for all positive integers n, then f (x) is constant number.
1217. Let m, n be positive integers. Find (m, n) such that 2m 3n = 1.
1218. Let n 2 be an integer and r be a positive integer such that r is not
the multiple of n, and let g be the greatest common measure of n and r. Prove
that
n1
X ri
1
= (n g),
n
2
i=1
where {x} is the fractional part, that is to say, which means the value by subtracting x from the maximum integer value which is equal or less than x.
1219. Prove the following number is an integer.
s
2006n 2005n 1
(n = 2, 3, )
n2
2006
+ 2 2006n3 + + (n 2) 2006 + (n 1)
1220. Let k, l, m, n be non negative integers. Find (k, l, m, n) such that the
following equality holds for all x except 0
(x + 1)k
(x + 1)m
1
=
.
xl
xn
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Solutions
2.1
2.1.1
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2.1.3
2.1.2
119
2.1.3
119
2.1.4
120
2.1.4
120
2.1.6
121
2.1.5
121
2.1.7
2.1.6
122
2.1.7
122
2.1.8
123
2.1.8
123
2.1.10
124
2.1.9
124
2.1.11
2.1.10
125
2.1.11
125
2.1.12
126
2.1.12
126
2.1.14
127
2.1.13
127
2.1.15
2.1.14
128
2.1.15
128
2.1.16
129
2.1.16
129
2.1.18
130
2.1.17
130
2.1.19
2.1.18
131
2.1.19
131
2.2.1
132
2.2
2.2.1
Andrew
Andrew - Part 1
132
2.2.3
133
2.2.2
Andrew - Part 2
133
2.2.4
2.2.3
134
Andrew - Part 3
2.2.4
Andrew - Part 4
134
2.2.5
135
2.2.5
Andrew - Part 5
135
2.2.7
136
2.2.6
Andrew - Part 6
136
2.2.8
2.2.7
137
Andrew - Part 7
2.2.8
Andrew - Part 8
137
2.2.9
138
2.2.9
Andrew - Part 9
138
2.3.2
139
2.3
2.3.1
Goutham
Goutham - Part 1
139
2.3.3
2.3.2
140
Goutham - Part 2
2.3.3
Goutham - Part 3
140
2.3.4
141
2.3.4
Goutham - Part 4
141
2.3.6
142
2.3.5
Goutham - Part 5
142
2.4.1
2.3.6
143
Goutham - Part 6
2.4
2.4.1
Orlando
Orlando - Part 1
143
2.4.2
144
2.4.2
Orlando - Part 2
144
2.4.4
145
2.4.3
Orlando - Part 3
145
2.4.5
2.4.4
146
Orlando - Part 4
2.4.5
Orlando - Part 5
146
2.4.6
147
2.4.6
Orlando - Part 6
147
2.4.8
148
2.4.7
Orlando - Part 7
148
2.4.9
2.4.8
149
Orlando - Part 8
2.4.9
Orlando - Part 9
149
2.4.10
150
2.4.10
Orlando - Part 10
150
2.5.2
151
2.5
2.5.1
Valentin
Valentin - Part 1
151
2.5.3
2.5.2
152
Valentin - Part 2
2.5.3
Valentin - Part 3
152
2.5.4
153
2.5.4
Valentin - Part 4
153
2.6.2
154
2.6
2.6.1
Darij
Darij - Part 1
154
2.7.1
2.6.2
155
Darij - Part 2
2.7
2.7.1
Vesselin
Vesselin - Part 1
155
2.8.1
156
2.8
2.8.1
Gabriel
Gabriel - Part 1
156
2.9.1
157
2.8.2
Gabriel - Part 2
157
2.9.2
2.9
2.9.1
158
April
April - Part 1
2.9.2
April - Part 2
158
2.9.3
159
2.9.3
April - Part 3
159
2.10.2
160
2.10
Arne
2.10.1
Arne - Part 1
160
2.11.1
2.10.2
161
Arne - Part 2
2.11
Kunihiko
2.11.1
Kunihiko - Part 1
161
2.11.2
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2.11.2
Kunihiko - Part 2
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2.11.3
163
2.11.3
Kunihiko - Part 3
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1220 Number Theory Problems (The J29 Project)

Amir Hossein Parvardi (Amir Hossein), Ben (bluecarneal)

The Solution. Problems posted by me, Andrew, Goutham, Orlando, Valentin,

1.3.3 Goutham - Part 3

2.1.5 Amir Hossein - Part 5 .

2.5.3 Valentin - Part 3 .

5. Find all numbers x, y N for which the relation x + 2y +

6. Let p be a prime number. Given that the equation

10. Consider the triangular numbers Tn =

11. Find all integers x and prime numbers p satisfying x8 + 22

12. We say that the set of step lengths D Z+ = {1, 2, . . .} is excellent if it

14. The function f : N R satisfies f (1) = 1, f (2) = 2 and

a) ax2 + by 2 + cz 2 = abc + 2xyz 1, and

Amir Hossein - Part 2

21. Determine all pairs (x, y) of positive integers such that

22. We call a positive integer n amazing if there exist positive integers a, b, c

29. Let p and q be integers greater than 1. Assume that p | q 3 1 and q | p 1.

x2 + 7 = f1 (x) + f2 (x) + . . . + fn (x) .

Amir Hossein - Part 3

51. Consider the polynomial P (n) = n3 n2 5n + 2. Determine all integers

Amir Hossein - Part 4

62. Find all positive integers x, y such that

71. Let m, n, and d be positive integers. We know that the numbers m2 n + 1

75. Let {bn }

Amir Hossein - Part 5

81. Find all distinct positive integers a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . , an such that

94. Find all non-negative integer solutions of the equation

96. Find all functions f : N N such that

97. Numbers un,k (1 k n) are defined as follows

Amir Hossein - Part 6

(a) Prove that

(b) Given a positive integer

is a perfect power of a prime.

are both integers.

are both integers.

Prove that the numbers an,k are all different.

Amir Hossein - Part 7

Is a positive integer that is not divisible by p.

122. Find all integer solutions of the equation

124. Let xn = 22 +1 and let m be the least common multiple of x2 , x3 , . . . , x1971 .

Holds if and only if at least one of x or y be integer.

(a) Solve the equation m! + 2 = n2 in positive integers.

(b) Solve the equation m! + 1 = n2 in positive integers.

133. Let f : N N be a function satisfying

134. Solve the equation x2 y 2 + y 2 z 2 + z 2 x2 = z 4 in integers.

(a) For every positive integer n prove that

(b) Let X = {1, 2, 3, . . . , n} (n 1) and let Ak be non-empty subsets of

Prove that there exists a prime P such that P |2m 1 but P - n.

Amir Hossein - Part 8

141. Let a1 a2 a3 . . . an be the representation of a ndigits number in base

143. Let n 0 be an integer. Prove that

153. Prove that the two last digits of 99 and 99

(i) mf (f (m)) = (f (m)) ,

Amir Hossein - Part 9

161. Find all solutions (x, y) Z2 of the equation

164. Let n be a positive integer, prove that

174. Solve the equation

Amir Hossein - Part 10

183. Let a1 , a2 , . . . , an (n 2) be a sequence of integers. Show that there is