Found problems: 2265
1987 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 4
Place the integers $1,2 , \ldots, n^{3}$ in the cells of a $n\times n \times n$ cube such that every number appears once. For any possible enumeration, write down the maximal difference between any two adjacent cells (adjacent means having a common vertex). What is the minimal number noted down?
2006 AIME Problems, 11
A collection of 8 cubes consists of one cube with edge-length $k$ for each integer $k,\thinspace 1 \le k \le 8.$ A tower is to be built using all 8 cubes according to the rules:
$\bullet$ Any cube may be the bottom cube in the tower.
$\bullet$ The cube immediately on top of a cube with edge-length $k$ must have edge-length at most $k+2.$
Let $T$ be the number of different towers than can be constructed. What is the remainder when $T$ is divided by 1000?
2005 Tournament of Towns, 5
Prove that if a regular icosahedron and a regular dodecahedron have a common circumsphere, then they have a common insphere.
[i](7 points)[/i]
2007 ITest, 38
Find the largest positive integer that is equal to the cube of the sum of its digits.
1991 IberoAmerican, 1
Each vertex of a cube is assigned an 1 or a -1, and each face is assigned the product of the numbers assigned to its vertices. Determine the possible values the sum of these 14 numbers can attain.
2012 District Olympiad, 4
Consider a tetrahedron $ABCD$ in which $AD \perp BC$ and $AC \perp BD$. We denote by $E$ and $F$ the projections of point $B$ on the lines $AD$ and $AC$, respectively. If $M$ and $N$ are the midpoints of the segments $[AB]$ and $[CD]$, respectively, show that $MN \perp EF$
2008 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 7
([b]5[/b]) Find $ p$ so that $ \lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}x^p\left(\sqrt[3]{x\plus{}1}\plus{}\sqrt[3]{x\minus{}1}\minus{}2\sqrt[3]{x}\right)$ is some non-zero real number.
1968 IMO Shortlist, 20
Given $n \ (n \geq 3)$ points in space such that every three of them form a triangle with one angle greater than or equal to $120^\circ$, prove that these points can be denoted by $A_1,A_2, \ldots,A_n$ in such a way that for each $i, j, k, 1 \leq i < j < k \leq n$, angle $A_iA_jA_k$ is greater than or equal to $120^\circ . $
1973 IMO Shortlist, 7
Given a tetrahedron $ABCD$, let $x = AB \cdot CD$, $y = AC \cdot BD$, and $z = AD \cdot BC$. Prove that there exists a triangle with edges $x, y, z.$
1976 Poland - Second Round, 3
We consider a spherical bowl without any great circle. The distance between points $A$ and $B$ on such a bowl is defined as the length of the arc of the great circle of the sphere with ends at points $A$ and $B$, which is contained in the bowl. Prove that there is no isometry mapping this bowl to a subset of the plane.
Attention. A spherical bowl is each of the two parts into which the surface of the sphere is divided by a plane intersecting the sphere.
2005 Romania National Olympiad, 3
Let the $ABCA'B'C'$ be a regular prism. The points $M$ and $N$ are the midpoints of the sides $BB'$, respectively $BC$, and the angle between the lines $AB'$ and $BC'$ is of $60^\circ$. Let $O$ and $P$ be the intersection of the lines $A'C$ and $AC'$, with respectively $B'C$ and $C'N$.
a) Prove that $AC' \perp (OPM)$;
b) Find the measure of the angle between the line $AP$ and the plane $(OPM)$.
[i]Mircea Fianu[/i]
2009 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 8
Can the regular octahedron be inscribed into regular dodecahedron in such way that all vertices of octahedron be the vertices of dodecahedron?
(B.Frenkin)
1992 AIME Problems, 7
Faces $ABC$ and $BCD$ of tetrahedron $ABCD$ meet at an angle of $30^\circ$. The area of face $ABC$ is $120$, the area of face $BCD$ is $80$, and $BC=10$. Find the volume of the tetrahedron.
2005 Abels Math Contest (Norwegian MO), 2a
In an aquarium there are nine small fish. The aquarium is cube shaped with a side length of two meters and is completely filled with water. Show that it is always possible to find two small fish with a distance of less than $\sqrt3$ meters.
1984 IMO Longlists, 10
Assume that the bisecting plane of the dihedral angle at edge $AB$ of the tetrahedron $ABCD$ meets the edge $CD$ at point $E$. Denote by $S_1, S_2, S_3$, respectively the areas of the triangles $ABC, ABE$, and $ABD$. Prove that no tetrahedron exists for which $S_1, S_2, S_3$ (in this order) form an arithmetic or geometric progression.
1936 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 031
Given three planes and a ball in space. In space, find the number of different ways of placing another ball so that it would be tangent the three given planes and the given ball. It is assumed that the balls can only touch externally.
2012 AIME Problems, 5
In the accompanying figure, the outer square has side length 40. A second square S' of side length 15 is constructed inside S with the same center as S and with sides parallel to those of S. From each midpoint of a side of S, segments are drawn to the two closest vertices of S'. The result is a four-pointed starlike figure inscribed in S. The star figure is cut out and then folded to form a pyramid with base S'. Find the volume of this pyramid.
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1971 IMO, 1
All faces of the tetrahedron $ABCD$ are acute-angled. Take a point $X$ in the interior of the segment $AB$, and similarly $Y$ in $BC, Z$ in $CD$ and $T$ in $AD$.
[b]a.)[/b] If $\angle DAB+\angle BCD\ne\angle CDA+\angle ABC$, then prove none of the closed paths $XYZTX$ has minimal length;
[b]b.)[/b] If $\angle DAB+\angle BCD=\angle CDA+\angle ABC$, then there are infinitely many shortest paths $XYZTX$, each with length $2AC\sin k$, where $2k=\angle BAC+\angle CAD+\angle DAB$.
2022 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 10.8
Let $ABCA'B'C'$ be a centrosymmetric octahedron (vertices $A$ and $A'$, $B$ and $B'$, $C$ and $C'$ are opposite) such that the sums of four planar angles equal $240^o$ for each vertex. The Torricelli points $T_1$ and $T_2$ of triangles $ABC$ and $A'BC$ are marked. Prove that the distances from $T_1$ and $T_2$ to $BC$ are equal.
Oliforum Contest IV 2013, 6
Let $P$ be a polyhedron whose faces are colored black and white so that there are more black faces and no two black faces are adjacent. Show that $P$ is not circumscribed about a sphere.
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 $OABC$.
1988 ITAMO, 6
The edge lengths of the base of a tetrahedron are $a,b,c$, and the lateral edge lengths are $x,y,z$. If $d$ is the distance from the top vertex to the centroid of the base, prove that $x+y+z \le a+b+c+3d$.
2012 CHMMC Spring, 2
A convex octahedron in Cartesian space contains the origin in its interior. Two of its vertices are on the $x$-axis, two are on the $y$-axis, and two are on the $z$-axis. One triangular face $F$ has side lengths $\sqrt{17}$, $\sqrt{37}$, $\sqrt{52}$. A second triangular face $F_0$ has side lengths $\sqrt{13}$, $\sqrt{29}$, $\sqrt{34}$. What is the minimum possible volume of the octahedron?
Kyiv City MO 1984-93 - geometry, 1992.11.5
The base of the pyramid is a triangle $ABC$, in which $\angle ACB= 30^o$, and the length of the median from the vertex $B$ is twice less than the side $AC$ and is equal to $\alpha$ . All side edges of the pyramid are inclined to the plane of the base at an angle $a$. Determine the cross-sectional area of the pyramid with a plane passing through the vertex $B$ parallel to the edge $AD$ and inclined to the plane of the base at an angle of $\beta$,
2004 IMC, 4
Suppose $n\geq 4$ and let $S$ be a finite set of points in the space ($\mathbb{R}^3$), no four of which lie in a plane. Assume that the points in $S$ can be colored with red and blue such that any sphere which intersects $S$ in at least 4 points has the property that exactly half of the points in the intersection of $S$ and the sphere are blue. Prove that all the points of $S$ lie on a sphere.