IMC 2025 · Problem 7

Day 232nd IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Let Z>0\mathbb{Z}_{>0} be the set of positive integers. Find all nonempty subsets MZ>0M \subseteq \mathbb{Z}_{>0} satisfying both of the following properties:

(a) if xMx \in M, then 2xM2x \in M,

(b) if x,yMx, y \in M and x+yx + y is even, then x+y2M\dfrac{x+y}{2} \in M.

Official solution

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Proposed by Alexandr Bolbot, Novosibirsk State University.