Found problems: 2265
1990 Baltic Way, 15
Prove that none of the numbers $2^{2^n}+ 1$, $n = 0, 1, 2, \dots$ is a perfect cube.
Denmark (Mohr) - geometry, 2022.1
The figure shows a glass prism which is partially filled with liquid. The surface of the prism consists of two isosceles right triangles, two squares with side length $10$ cm and a rectangle. The prism can lie in three different ways. If the prism lies as shown in figure $1$, the height of the liquid is $5$ cm.
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a) What is the height of the liquid when it lies as shown in figure $2$?
b) What is the height of the liquid when it lies as shown in figure$ 3$?
1963 German National Olympiad, 6
Consider a pyramid $ABCD$ whose base $ABC$ is a triangle. Through a point $M$ of the edge $DA$, the lines $MN$ and $MP$ on the plane of the surfaces $DAB$ and $DAC$ are drawn respectively, such that $N$ is on $DB$ and $P$ is on $DC$ and $ABNM$ , $ACPM$ are cyclic quadrilaterals.
a) Prove that $BCPN$ is also a cyclic quadrilateral.
b) Prove that the points $A,B,C,M,N, P$ lie on a sphere.
2017 District Olympiad, 2
Let $ ABCDA’B’C’D’ $ a cube. $ M,P $ are the midpoints of $ AB, $ respectively, $ DD’. $
[b]a)[/b] Show that $ MP, A’C $ are perpendicular, but not coplanar.
[b]b)[/b] Calculate the distance between the lines above.
2010 AMC 12/AHSME, 9
A solid cube has side length $ 3$ inches. A $ 2$-inch by $ 2$-inch square hole is cut into the center of each face. The edges of each cut are parallel to the edges of the cube, and each hole goes all the way through the cube. What is the volume, in cubic inches, of the remaining solid?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 7\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 8\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 10\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 12\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 15$
1991 Tournament Of Towns, (294) 4
(a) Is it possible to place five wooden cubes in space so that each of them has a part of its face touching each of the others?
(b) Answer the same question, but with $6$ cubes.
1973 IMO Longlists, 2
Let $OX, OY$ and $OZ$ be three rays in the space, and $G$ a point "[i]between these rays[/i]" (i. e. in the interior of the part of the space bordered by the angles $Y OZ, ZOX$ and $XOY$). Consider a plane passing through $G$ and meeting the rays $OX, OY$ and $OZ$ in the points $A, B, C$, respectively. There are infinitely many such planes; construct the one which minimizes the volume of the tetrahedron $OABC$.
2003 Singapore MO Open, 4
The pentagon $ABCDE$ which is inscribed in a circle with $AB < DE$ is the base of a pyramid with apex $S$. If the longest side from $S$ is $SA$, prove that $BS > CS$.
1957 AMC 12/AHSME, 6
An open box is constructed by starting with a rectangular sheet of metal $ 10$ in. by $ 14$ in. and cutting a square of side $ x$ inches from each corner. The resulting projections are folded up and the seams welded. The volume of the resulting box is:
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 140x \minus{} 48x^2 \plus{} 4x^3 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 140x \plus{} 48x^2 \plus{} 4x^3\qquad \\\textbf{(C)}\ 140x \plus{} 24x^2 \plus{} x^3\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 140x \minus{} 24x^2 \plus{} x^3\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of these}$
2020 BMT Fall, 5
A Yule log is shaped like a right cylinder with height $10$ and diameter $5$. Freya cuts it parallel to its bases into $9$ right cylindrical slices. After Freya cut it, the combined surface area of the slices of the Yule log increased by $a\pi$. Compute $a$.
1998 Federal Competition For Advanced Students, Part 2, 2
Let $Q_n$ be the product of the squares of even numbers less than or equal to $n$ and $K_n$ equal to the product of cubes of odd numbers less than or equal to $n$. What is the highest power of $98$, that [b]a)[/b]$Q_n$, [b]b)[/b] $K_n$ or [b]c)[/b] $Q_nK_n$ divides? If one divides $Q_{98}K_{98}$ by the highest power of $98$, then one get a number $N$. By which power-of-two number is $N$ still divisible?
2007 Romania National Olympiad, 3
a) In a triangle $ MNP$, the lenghts of the sides are less than $ 2$. Prove that the lenght of the altitude corresponding to the side $ MN$ is less than $ \sqrt {4 \minus{} \frac {MN^2}{4}}$.
b) In a tetrahedron $ ABCD$, at least $ 5$ edges have their lenghts less than $ 2$.Prove that the volume of the tetrahedron is less than $ 1$.
1946 Putnam, A3
A projectile in flight is observed simultaneously from four radio stations which are situated at the corners of a square of side $b$. The distances of the projectile from the four stations, taken in order around the square, are found to be $R_1 , R_2 , R_3 $ and $R_4$. Show that
$$R_{1}^{2}+ R_{3}^{2}= R_{2}^{2}+ R_{4}^{2}.$$
Show also that the height $h$ of the projectile above the ground is given by
$$h^{2}=- \frac{1}{2} b^2 +\frac{1}{4}(R_{1}^{2}+R_{2}^{2}+R_{3}^{2}+R_{4}^{2}) -\frac{1}{8 b^{2}}(R_{1}^{4}+R_{2}^{4}+R_{3}^{4}+R_{4}^{4}- 2 R_{1}^{2}R_{3}^{2} -2 R_{2}^{2} R_{4}^{2}).$$
1985 IMO Shortlist, 10
Prove that for every point $M$ on the surface of a regular tetrahedron there exists a point $M'$ such that there are at least three different curves on the surface joining $M$ to $M'$ with the smallest possible length among all curves on the surface joining $M$ to $M'$.
2014 All-Russian Olympiad, 2
The sphere $ \omega $ passes through the vertex $S$ of the pyramid $SABC$ and intersects with the edges $SA,SB,SC$ at $A_1,B_1,C_1$ other than $S$. The sphere $ \Omega $ is the circumsphere of the pyramid $SABC$ and intersects with $ \omega $ circumferential, lies on a plane which parallel to the plane $(ABC)$.
Points $A_2,B_2,C_2$ are symmetry points of the points $A_1,B_1,C_1$ respect to midpoints of the edges $SA,SB,SC$ respectively. Prove that the points $A$, $B$, $C$, $A_2$, $B_2$, and $C_2$ lie on a sphere.
1973 IMO Shortlist, 1
Let a tetrahedron $ABCD$ be inscribed in a sphere $S$. Find the locus of points $P$ inside the sphere $S$ for which the equality
\[\frac{AP}{PA_1}+\frac{BP}{PB_1}+\frac{CP}{PC_1}+\frac{DP}{PD_1}=4\]
holds, where $A_1,B_1, C_1$, and $D_1$ are the intersection points of $S$ with the lines $AP,BP,CP$, and $DP$, respectively.
LMT Speed Rounds, 22
Consider all pairs of points $(a,b,c)$ and $(d,e, f )$ in the $3$-D coordinate system with $ad +be +c f = -2023$. What is the least positive integer that can be the distance between such a pair of points?
[i]Proposed by William Hua[/i]
2006 May Olympiad, 4
With $150$ white cubes of $1 \times 1 \times 1$ a prism of $6 \times 5 \times 5$ is assembled, its six faces are painted blue and then the prism is disassembled. Lucrecia must build a new prism, without holes, exclusively using cubes that have at least one blue face and so that the faces of Lucrecia's prism are all completely blue.
Give the dimensions of the prism with the largest volume that Lucrecia can assemble.
1967 Miklós Schweitzer, 7
Let $ U$ be an $ n \times n$ orthogonal matrix. Prove that for any $ n \times n$ matrix $ A$, the matrices \[ A_m=\frac{1}{m+1} \sum_{j=0}^m U^{-j}AU^j\] converge entrywise as $ m \rightarrow \infty.$
[i]L. Kovacs[/i]
1988 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 481
A polygonal line connects two opposite vertices of a cube with side $2$. Each segment of the line has length $3$ and each vertex lies on the faces (or edges) of the cube. What is the smallest number of segments the line can have?
2004 National Olympiad First Round, 24
What is the sum of cubes of real roots of the equation $x^3-2x^2-x+1=0$?
$
\textbf{(A)}\ -6
\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 2
\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 8
\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 11
\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of above}
$
2018 BAMO, 4
(a) Find two quadruples of positive integers $(a,b, c,n)$, each with a different value of $n$ greater than $3$, such that
$$\frac{a}{b} +\frac{b}{c} +\frac{c}{a} = n$$
(b) Show that if $a,b, c$ are nonzero integers such that $\frac{a}{b} +\frac{b}{c} +\frac{c}{a}$ is an integer, then $abc$ is a perfect cube. (A perfect cube is a number of the form $n^3$, where $n$ is an integer.)
1985 Traian Lălescu, 1.4
Two planes, $ \alpha $ and $ \beta, $ form a dihedral angle of $ 30^{\circ} , $ and their intersection is the line $ d. $ A point $ A $ situated at the exterior of this angle projects itself in $ P\not\in d $ on $ \alpha , $ and in $ Q\not\in d $ on $ \beta $ such that $ AQ<AP. $ Name $ B $ the projection of $ A $ upon $ d. $
[b]a)[/b] Are $ A,B,P,Q, $ coplanar?
[b]b)[/b] Knowing that a perpendicular to $ \beta $ make with $ AB $ an angle of $ 60^{\circ} , $ and $ AB=4, $ find the area of $ BPQ. $
2012 Today's Calculation Of Integral, 778
In the $xyz$ space with the origin $O$, Let $K_1$ be the surface and inner part of the sphere centered on the point $(1,\ 0,\ 0)$ with radius 2 and let $K_2$ be the surface and inner part of the sphere centered on the point $(-1,\ 0,\ 0)$ with radius 2. For three points $P,\ Q,\ R$ in the space, consider points $X,\ Y$ defined by
\[\overrightarrow{OX}=\overrightarrow{OP}+\overrightarrow{OQ},\ \overrightarrow{OY}=\frac 13(\overrightarrow{OP}+\overrightarrow{OQ}+\overrightarrow{OR}).\]
(1) When $P,\ Q$ move every cranny in $K_1,\ K_2$ respectively, find the volume of the solid generated by the whole points of the point $X$.
(2) Find the volume of the solid generated by the whole points of the point $R$ for which for any $P$ belonging to $K_1$ and any $Q$ belonging to $K_2$, $Y$ belongs to $K_1$.
(3) Find the volume of the solid generated by the whole points of the point $R$ for which for any $P$ belonging to $K_1$ and any $Q$ belonging to $K_2$, $Y$ belongs to $K_1\cup K_2$.
2021 Alibaba Global Math Competition, 5
Suppose that $A$ is a finite subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ such that
(a) every three distinct points in $A$ contain two points that are exactly at unit distance apart, and
(b) the Euclidean norm of every point $v$ in $A$ satisfies
\[\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2\vert A\vert}} \le \|v\| \le \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2\vert A\vert}}.\]
Prove that the cardinality of $A$ is at most $2d+4$.