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BMO Round 1 has six problems worth 10 marks each in 3½ hours. Give a complete, justified proof. No calculator or protractor. This bank includes classical proof exercises and extended problems; parameter variants practise the same idea. Model solutions support self-review, not automatic BMO marking.

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Timed rounds select 3 proofs from this bank, with 35 minutes per question. Your score is practice feedback, not a prediction of an official result.

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ORIGINAL PRACTICE · QUESTION 1 OF 108
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For which positive integers nn is n2+20nn^2+20n a square number? Prove that there are no others.

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Use paper for exploratory work and diagrams; put your final argument in the proof space above. Geometry proofs should label points clearly.

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