LibreTimes

September 14, 2026 · Problem sheet · LibreTimes

IMO 1990

International mathematics competition for pre-university students, held annually since 1959. Six problems over two days.
Contents

Day 1

Problem 1. Chords and of a circle intersect at a point inside the circle. Let be an interior point of the segment . The tangent line at to the circle through , , and intersects the lines and at and , respectively. If find in terms of .

Problem 2. Let and consider a set of distinct points on a circle. Suppose that exactly of these points are to be colored black. Such a coloring is "good" if there is at least one pair of black points such that the interior of one of the arcs between them contains exactly points from . Find the smallest value of so that every such coloring of points of is good.

Problem 3. Determine all integers such that is an integer.

Day 2

Problem 4. Let be the set of positive rational numbers. Construct a function such that for all , in .

Problem 5. Given an initial integer , two players, and , choose integers , , , ... alternately according to the following rules:

Knowing , chooses any integer such that

Knowing , chooses any integer such that is a prime raised to a positive integer power.

Player wins the game by choosing the number 1990; player wins by choosing the number 1. For which does:

(a) have a winning strategy?

(b) have a winning strategy?

(c) Neither player have a winning strategy?

Problem 6. Prove that there exists a convex 1990-gon with the following two properties:

(a) All angles are equal.

(b) The lengths of the 1990 sides are the numbers , , , ..., in some order.

0

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts.