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2020 Peru EGMO TST #3

As I said in an earlier post, I will also post problems that are not from the IMO but I believe that they are of the same level. Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB<AC$ and $I$ be your incenter. Let $M$ and $N$ be the midpoints of the sides $BC$ and $AC$, respectively. If the lines $AI$ and $IN$ are perpendicular, prove that the line $AI$ is tangent to the circumcircle of $\triangle IMC$.

Twitch streaming update

 From now on, I will only stream on Twitch if someone wants one-on-one detailed help on a solution they don't understand on my blog. 

Thonks released!

This was the huge surprise I was talking about in the other post! Now, we have a site like this for Physics as well, which you can find at  thinkphysics1.blogspot.com .  I have combined these two to form my organization named Thonks, and its website can be found at  thonks123123.github.io/Thonks .  I hope you like it!

2017 IMO SL #C2

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Define a chameleon to be any sequence of $3n$ letters, with exactly $n$ occurrences of each of the letters $a, b,$ and $c$. Define a swap to be the transposition of two adjacent letters in a chameleon. Prove that for any chameleon $X$ , there exists a chameleon $Y$ such that $X$ cannot be changed to $Y$ using fewer than $3n^2/2$ swaps.

2018 Silk Road #1

 In an acute-angled triangle $ABC$ on the sides $AB$, $BC$, $AC$ the points $H$, $L$, $K$ so that $CH \perp AB$, $HL \parallel AC$, $HK \parallel BC$. Let $P$ and $Q$ feet of altitudes of a triangle $HBL$, drawn from the vertices $H$ and $B$ respectively. Prove that the feet of the altitudes of the triangle $AKH$, drawn from the vertices $A$ and $H$ lie on the line $PQ$.

No stream today

 Hi,  I'm sorry but I won't be able to stream today.  I have a little pain in neck and it hurts a bit when I talk. I will stream again next week (Friday, April 15th) at 7:00 PM

Widespread all over the world

Now, we are officially spread all throughout the world! We have views from every continent (well other than Antarctica, of course).  We already had it spread in all continents other than Africa but now we have many views from Africa as well. Before, it was technically "spread" in Africa, but there were minimal views from there.  I'm really happy about this :) Thank you so much to everyone who views my blog :D I hope it continues to help you.

Choosing non-IMO problems sometimes

Hi,  I have decided that sometimes, I will pick problems that are not from the IMO shortlists but I believe that it is an IMO-level problem (in other words, I think that the problem could have appeared in the IMO as well). Because after all, there are a limited number of problems.  

1989 IMO SL #6

 A permutation $ \{x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_{2n}\}$ of the set $ \{1,2, \ldots, 2n\}$ where $ n$ is a positive integer, is said to have property $ T$ if $ |x_i - x_{i + 1}| = n$ for at least one $ i$ in $ \{1,2, \ldots, 2n - 1\}.$ Show that, for each $ n$, there are more permutations with property $ T$ than without.