Tuesday, October 5, 2010

1st Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad Problems 1997

1.  Show that given any 9 points inside a square side 1 we can always find three which form a triangle with area < 1/8. 2.  Given reals x, y with (x2 + y2)/(x2 - y2) + (x2 - y2)/(x2 + y2) = k, find (x8 + y8)/(x8 - y8) + (x8 - y8)/(x8 + y8) in terms of k.