Accord Institute

Advanced Math and Science Program

ACCORD BASIC USAMO CLASS 2009-2010

SESSION-06, FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS

(1) Find all functions f : Q Q such that

f (x + y) = f (x) + f (y), x, y Q.

(2) Find all functions f : R R satisfying f (x + y) = f (x) + f (y) and any one
of the following conditions:
(i) f is continuous,
(ii) f is monotonic,
(iii) f (x) 0 whenever x 0,
(iv) f (x2 ) = f (x)2 .

(3) Find all functions f : R R satisfying

f (x + f (y)) = f (f (x)) + y.

(4) (ECO 1994) Find all functions f from non-negative integers to non-negative
integers satisfying
f (f (x) + f (y) + f (z)) = x + y + z.
for all non-negative integers x, y, z.

(5) (Slovenia 2008) Find all functions f : R R such that

x + f (xf (y)) = f (y) + yf (x)
for all x, y R.
(6) (Dutch TST 2008) Find all functions f : Z+ Z+ that satisfy
f (f (f (n))) + f (f (n)) + f (n) = 3n
+

for all n Z .

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(7) (Romania 2008) Let f : R R be a function such that



x+y
f (x) + f (y)
f
=
, for all x, y R.
3
2
Show that f is a constant function.

(8) (Romania 2008) Show that there exists a unique function f : N N N

which simultaneously satisfies the following three conditions for x, y N :
(1) f (x, y) = f (y, x);
(2) f (x, x) = x;
(3) (y x)f (x, y) = yf (x, y x) whenever y > x.

(9) (Shortlist-A1 2008) Find all functions f : (0, ) (0, ) such that
p2 + q 2
f (p)2 + f (q)2
= 2
2
2
f (r ) + f (s )
r + s2
for all p, q, r, s > 0 with pq = rs.

(10) (USAMO 2002) Determine all f : R R such that

f (x2 y 2 ) = xf (x) yf (y)
for all pairs of real number x and y.