Take this first one from USAMO 2004.
1.Suppose are integers whose greatest common divisor is 1. Let be a set of integers with the following properties:
(a) For , .
(b) For (not necessarily distinct), .
(c) For any integers , if , then .
Prove that must be equal to the set of all integers.
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If you hit the above one, try this, as of now I haven't got it yet.
2. A friend of mine is organizing a board game tournament with 5 rounds. There are 12 competing players. One of the games is a 6-player game. The other 4 games are different 4-player games. My friend has enough copies of every game, so each round will be played with multiple parallel game tables.
The question is: can he assign the players to the tables in such a way that
every player plays every other player exactly 1 or 2 times during the tournament? "Playing" means: sitting at the same table during any round.
So, the assignment should look like this:
round1: XXXXXX XXXXXX (2 tables of 6 people each)
round2: XXXX XXXX XXXX (3 tables of 4 people each)
round3: XXXX XXXX XXXX
round4: XXXX XXXX XXXX
round5: XXXX XXXX XXXX
I hope someone finds a solution for my friend!!
(courtesy :Big fury monster)
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