Found problems: 2265
2015 JHMT, 3
Consider a triangular pyramid $ABCD$ with equilateral base $ABC$ of side length $1$. $AD = BD =CD$ and $\angle ADB = \angle BDC = \angle ADC = 90^o$ . Find the volume of $ABCD$.
1966 IMO Longlists, 60
Prove that the sum of the distances of the vertices of a regular tetrahedron from the center of its circumscribed sphere is less than the sum of the distances of these vertices from any other point in space.
2007 AMC 10, 23
A pyramid with a square base is cut by a plane that is parallel to its base and is $ 2$ units from the base. The surface area of the smaller pyramid that is cut from the top is half the surface area of the original pyramid. What is the altitude of the original pyramid?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 2\qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 2 \plus{} \sqrt{2}\qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 1 \plus{} 2\sqrt{2}\qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 4\qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 4 \plus{} 2\sqrt{2}$
1997 ITAMO, 4
Let $ABCD$ be a tetrahedron. Let $a$ be the length of $AB$ and let $S$ be the area of the projection of the tetrahedron onto a plane perpendicular to $AB$. Determine the volume of the tetrahedron in terms of $a$ and $S$.
2002 Polish MO Finals, 2
There is given a triangle $ABC$ in a space. A sphere does not intersect the plane of $ABC$. There are $4$ points $K, L, M, P$ on the sphere such that $AK, BL, CM$ are tangent to the sphere and $\frac{AK}{AP} = \frac{BL}{BP} = \frac{CM}{CP}$. Show that the sphere touches the circumsphere of $ABCP$.
2013 Princeton University Math Competition, 3
Consider all planes through the center of a $2\times2\times2$ cube that create cross sections that are regular polygons. The sum of the cross sections for each of these planes can be written in the form $a\sqrt b+c$, where $b$ is a square-free positive integer. Find $a+b+c$.
2004 Flanders Math Olympiad, 4
Each cell of a beehive is constructed from a right regular 6-angled prism, open at the bottom and closed on the top by a regular 3-sided pyramidical mantle. The edges of this pyramid are connected to three of the rising edges of the prism and its apex $T$ is on the perpendicular line through the center $O$ of the base of the prism (see figure). Let $s$ denote the side of the base, $h$ the height of the cell and $\theta$ the angle between the line $TO$ and $TV$.
(a) Prove that the surface of the cell consists of 6 congruent trapezoids and 3 congruent rhombi.
(b) the total surface area of the cell is given by the formula $6sh - \dfrac{9s^2}{2\tan\theta} + \dfrac{s^2 3\sqrt{3}}{2\sin\theta}$
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MIPT Undergraduate Contest 2019, 1.4
Suppose that in a unit sphere in Euclidean space, there are $2m$ points $x_1, x_2, ..., x_{2m}.$ Prove that it's possible to partition them into two sets of $m$ points in such a way that the centers of mass of these sets are at a distance of at most $\frac{2}{\sqrt{m}}$ from one another.
2009 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 501
Find the volume of the uion $ A\cup B\cup C$ of the three subsets $ A,\ B,\ C$ in $ xyz$ space such that:
\[ A\equal{}\{(x,\ y,\ z)\ |\ |x|\leq 1,\ y^2\plus{}z^2\leq 1\}\]
\[ B\equal{}\{(x,\ y,\ z)\ |\ |y|\leq 1,\ z^2\plus{}x^2\leq 1\}\]
\[ C\equal{}\{(x,\ y,\ z)\ |\ |z|\leq 1,\ x^2\plus{}y^2\leq 1\}\]
2010 Princeton University Math Competition, 5
A cuboctahedron is a solid with 6 square faces and 8 equilateral triangle faces, with each edge adjacent to both a square and a triangle (see picture). Suppose the ratio of the volume of an octahedron to a cuboctahedron with the same side length is $r$. Find $100r^2$.
[asy]
// dragon96, replacing
// [img]http://i.imgur.com/08FbQs.png[/img]
size(140); defaultpen(linewidth(.7));
real alpha=10, x=-0.12, y=0.025, r=1/sqrt(3);
path hex=rotate(alpha)*polygon(6);
pair A = shift(x,y)*(r*dir(330+alpha)), B = shift(x,y)*(r*dir(90+alpha)), C = shift(x,y)*(r*dir(210+alpha));
pair X = (-A.x, -A.y), Y = (-B.x, -B.y), Z = (-C.x, -C.y);
int i;
pair[] H;
for(i=0; i<6; i=i+1) {
H[i] = dir(alpha+60*i);}
fill(X--Y--Z--cycle, rgb(204,255,255));
fill(H[5]--Y--Z--H[0]--cycle^^H[2]--H[3]--X--cycle, rgb(203,153,255));
fill(H[1]--Z--X--H[2]--cycle^^H[4]--H[5]--Y--cycle, rgb(255,203,153));
fill(H[3]--X--Y--H[4]--cycle^^H[0]--H[1]--Z--cycle, rgb(153,203,255));
draw(hex^^X--Y--Z--cycle);
draw(H[1]--B--H[2]^^H[3]--C--H[4]^^H[5]--A--H[0]^^A--B--C--cycle, linewidth(0.6)+linetype("5 5"));
draw(H[0]--Z--H[1]^^H[2]--X--H[3]^^H[4]--Y--H[5]);[/asy]
2021 Science ON grade VIII, 3
$ABCD$ is a scalene tetrahedron and let $G$ be its baricentre. A plane $\alpha$ passes through $G$ such that it intersects neither the interior of $\Delta BCD$ nor its perimeter. Prove that
$$\textnormal{dist}(A,\alpha)=\textnormal{dist}(B,\alpha)+\textnormal{dist}(C,\alpha)+\textnormal{dist}(D,\alpha).$$
[i] (Adapted from folklore)[/i]
1997 Czech And Slovak Olympiad IIIA, 3
A tetrahedron $ABCD$ is divided into five polyhedra so that each face of the tetrahedron is a face of (exactly) one polyhedron, and that the intersection of any two of the polyhedra is either a common vertex, a common edge, or a common face. What is the smallest possible sum of the numbers of faces of the five polyhedra?
2002 Putnam, 2
Given any five points on a sphere, show that some four of them must lie on a closed hemisphere.
1935 Eotvos Mathematical Competition, 3
A real number is assigned to each vertex of a triangular prism so that the number on any vertex is the arithmetic mean of the numbers on the three adjacent vertices. Prove that all six numbers are equal.
1986 Vietnam National Olympiad, 2
Let $ R$, $ r$ be respectively the circumradius and inradius of a regular $ 1986$-gonal pyramid. Prove that \[ \frac{R}{r}\ge 1\plus{}\frac{1}{\cos\frac{\pi}{1986}}\] and find the total area of the surface of the pyramid when the equality occurs.
1980 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 299
Let the edges of rectangular parallelepiped be $x,y$ and $z$ ($x<y<z$). Let
$$p=4(x+y+z), s=2(xy+yz+zx) \,\,\, and \,\,\, d=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$ be its perimeter, surface area and diagonal length, respectively. Prove that $$x < \frac{1}{3}\left( \frac{p}{4}- \sqrt{d^2 - \frac{s}{2}}\right )\,\,\, and \,\,\, z > \frac{1}{3}\left( \frac{p}{4}- \sqrt{d^2 - \frac{s}{2}}\right )$$
2002 Swedish Mathematical Competition, 6
A tetrahedron has five edges of length $3$ and circumradius $2$. What is the length of the sixth edge?
2005 Argentina National Olympiad, 4
We will say that a positive integer is a [i]winner [/i] if it can be written as the sum of a perfect square plus a perfect cube. For example, $33$ is a winner because $33=5^2+2^3$ .
Gabriel chooses two positive integers, r and s, and Germán must find $2005$ positive integers $n$ such that for each $n$, the numbers $r+n$ and $s+n$ are winners.
Prove that Germán can always achieve his goal.
1989 Polish MO Finals, 3
The edges of a cube are labeled from $1$ to $12$. Show that there must exist at least eight triples $(i, j, k)$ with $1 \leq i < j < k \leq 12$ so that the edges $i, j, k$ are consecutive edges of a path. Also show that there exists labeling in which we cannot find nine such triples.
1958 Polish MO Finals, 5
Prove the theorem:
In a tetrahedron, the plane bisector of any dihedral angle divides the opposite edge into segments proportional to the areas of the tetrahedron faces that form this dihedral angle.
1989 AIME Problems, 12
Let $ABCD$ be a tetrahedron with $AB=41$, $AC=7$, $AD=18$, $BC=36$, $BD=27$, and $CD=13$, as shown in the figure. Let $d$ be the distance between the midpoints of edges $AB$ and $CD$. Find $d^{2}$.
[asy]
pair C=origin, D=(4,11), A=(8,-5), B=(16,0);
draw(A--B--C--D--B^^D--A--C);
draw(midpoint(A--B)--midpoint(C--D), dashed);
label("27", B--D, NE);
label("41", A--B, SE);
label("7", A--C, SW);
label("$d$", midpoint(A--B)--midpoint(C--D), NE);
label("18", (7,8), SW);
label("13", (3,9), SW);
pair point=(7,0);
label("$A$", A, dir(point--A));
label("$B$", B, dir(point--B));
label("$C$", C, dir(point--C));
label("$D$", D, dir(point--D));[/asy]
1966 IMO Longlists, 23
Three faces of a tetrahedron are right triangles, while the fourth is not an obtuse triangle.
[i](a) [/i]Prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the fourth face to be a right triangle is that at some vertex exactly two angles are right.
[i](b)[/i] Prove that if all the faces are right triangles, then the volume of the tetrahedron equals one -sixth the product of the three smallest edges not belonging to the same face.
1991 Tournament Of Towns, (297) 4
Five points are chosen on the sphere, no three of them lying on a great circle (a great circle is the intersection of the sphere with some plane passing through the sphere’s centre). Two great circles not containing any of the chosen points are called equivalent if one of them can be moved to the other without passing through any chosen points.
(a) How many nonequivalent great circles not containing any chosen points can be drawn on the sphere?
(b) Answer the same problem, but with $n$ chosen points.
2009 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 22
Construct a quadrilateral which is inscribed and circumscribed, given the radii of the respective circles and the angle between the diagonals of quadrilateral.
2010 District Olympiad, 3
Consider the cube $ABCDA'B'C'D'$. The bisectors of the angles $\angle A' C'A$ and $\angle A' AC'$ intersect $AA'$ and $A'C$ in the points $P$, respectively $S$. The point $M$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $A'$ on $CP$ , and $N$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $A'$ to $AS$. Point $O$ is the center of the face $ABB'A'$
a) Prove that the planes $(MNO)$ and $(AC'B)$ are parallel.
b) Calculate the distance between these planes, knowing that $AB = 1$.