18-th Austrian Mathematical Olympiad 1987

Final Round
First Day - June 2
1. The sides a, b and the bisector of the included angle of a triangle are given. De-
termine necessary and sufcient conditions for such triangles to be constructible
and show how to reconstruct the triangle.
2. Find the number of all sequences (x
1
, . . . , x
n
) of letters a, b, c that satisfy x
1
=
x
n
= a and x
i
= x
i+1
for 1 i n 1.
3. Let x
1
, . . . , x
n
be positive real numbers. Prove that
n

k=1
x
k
+

k=1
x
2
k

n +

n
n
2

k=1
1
x
k

k=1
x
2
k

.
Second Day - June 3
4. Find all triples (x, y, z) of natural numbers satisfying 2xz = y
2
and x +z = 1987.
5. Let P be a point in the interior of a convex n-gon A
1
A
2
. . . A
n
(n 3). Show
that among the angles
i j
= A
i
PA
j
, 1 i n, there are at least n 1 angles
satisfying 90

i j
180

.
6. Determine all polynomials P
n
(x) = x
n
+a
1
x
n1
+ +a
n1
x +a
n
with integer
coefcients whose n zeros are precisely the numbers a
1
, . . . , a
n
(counted with
their respective multiplicities).
1
The IMO Compendium Group,
D. Djuki c, V. Jankovi c, I. Mati c, N. Petrovi c
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