IMO预选题1989(shortlist).pdf

Problems Shortlisted to the 1989 IMO Jury 1. Ali Baba has a rectangular piece of carpet. He finds that if he lays if flat on the floor of either of his storerooms then each corner of the carpet touches a different wall of the room. He knows that the storerooms have widths 38 and 50 feet and the same (unknown but integral) length. What are the dimensions of the carpet? 2. Prove that for 1 the polynomial 1 1 1 1 () = + 1 + + + ! ( 1)! 1! 0! has no rational roots. 3. The polynomial () = + 1 + 2 + + has roots whose 16th powers 2 0 have sum . Find these roots. 4. The angle bisectors of the triangle meet the circumcircle again at . Show that 3 4 16[ ] 27[] where is the circumradius of and [ ] represents the area of . 5. Show that any two points and inside a regular -gon can be joined by two circular 2 arcs which lie inside the -gon and meet at an angle (1 ) . 6. The rectangle is covered disjointly (disjoint interiors) with a finite number of rect- angles such that for all and the sides of are parallel to the 1 2 sides of for all . If each has a side of integral length show that has a side of integral length. 7. For each 0 write (1 + 4 3 2 4 3 4) = + 3 2 + 3