Olympiad problems

2016 Tournament Of Towns, 4

A designer took a wooden cube $5 \times 5 \times 5$, divided each face into unit squares and painted each square black, white or red so that any two squares with a common side have different colours. What is the least possible number of black squares? (Squares with a common side may belong to the same face of the cube or to two different faces.) [i](8 points)[/i] [i]Mikhail Evdokimov[/i]

1995 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 11.2

Tags: 3d geometry , cube , parallelepiped , geometry

A planar section of a parallelepiped is a regular hexagon. Show that this parallelepiped is a cube.

2008 iTest Tournament of Champions, 5

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry

Two squares of side length $2$ are glued together along their boundary so that the four vertices of the first square are glued to the midpoints of the four sides of the other square, and vice versa. This gluing results in a convex polyhedron. If the square of the volume of this polyhedron is written in simplest form as $\tfrac{a+b\sqrt c}d$, what is the value of $a+b+c+d$?

2003 District Olympiad, 4

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , tetrahedron , equal angles , angle

a) Let $MNP$ be a triangle such that $\angle MNP> 60^o$. Show that the side $MP$ cannot be the smallest side of the triangle $MNP$. b) In a plane the equilateral triangle $ABC$ is considered. The point $V$ that does not belong to the plane $(ABC)$ is chosen so that $\angle VAB = \angle VBC = \angle VCA$. Show that if $VA = AB$, the tetrahedron $VABC$ is regular. Valentin Vornicu

1948 Putnam, A2

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , sphere , algebra , rational function , function

Two spheres in contact have a common tangent cone. These three surfaces divide the space into various parts, only one of which is bounded by all three surfaces, it is "ring-shaped." Being given the radii of the spheres, $r$ and $R$, find the volume of the "ring-shaped" part. (The desired expression is a rational function of $r$ and $R.$)

1954 Kurschak Competition, 2

Tags: combinatorial geometry , 3d geometry , geometry

Every planar section of a three-dimensional body $B$ is a disk. Show that B must be a ball.

1987 Tournament Of Towns, (142) 2

Tags: 3d geometry , geometry , plane , parallelogram

In $3$ dimensional space we are given a parallelogram $ABCD$ and plane $M$. The distances from vertices $A, B$ and $C$ to plane $M$ are $a, b$ and $c$ respectively. Find the distance $d$ from vertex $D$ to the plane $M$ .

1980 Brazil National Olympiad, 4

Tags: 3d geometry , sphere , geometry

Given $5$ points of a sphere radius $r$, show that two of the points are a distance $\le r \sqrt2$ apart.

2005 District Olympiad, 3

Tags: 3d geometry , tetrahedron , circumcircle , geometry

Let $O$ be a point equally distanced from the vertices of the tetrahedron $ABCD$. If the distances from $O$ to the planes $(BCD)$, $(ACD)$, $(ABD)$ and $(ABC)$ are equal, prove that the sum of the distances from a point $M \in \textrm{int}[ABCD]$, to the four planes, is constant.

1991 Arnold's Trivium, 16

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , sphere , dodecahedron , icosahedron

What fraction of a $5$-dimensional cube is the volume of the inscribed sphere? What fraction is it of a $10$-dimensional cube?

2010 Paenza, 5

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , combinatorics

In $4$-dimensional space, a set of $1 \times 2 \times 3 \times 4$ bricks is given. Decide whether it is possible to build boxes of the following sizes using these bricks: [list]i) $2 \times 5 \times 7 \times 12$ ii) $5 \times 5 \times 10 \times 12$ iii) $6 \times 6 \times 6 \times 6$.[/list]

1970 Vietnam National Olympiad, 5

Tags: 3d geometry , trigonometry , geometry

A plane $p$ passes through a vertex of a cube so that the three edges at the vertex make equal angles with $p$. Find the cosine of this angle. Find the positions of the feet of the perpendiculars from the vertices of the cube onto $p$. There are 28 lines through two vertices of the cube and 20 planes through three vertices of the cube. Find some relationship between these lines and planes and the plane $p$.

2019 BMT Spring, Tie 4

Tags: geometry , pyramid , 3d geometry , sphere

Consider a regular triangular pyramid with base $\vartriangle ABC$ and apex $D$. If we have $AB = BC =AC = 6$ and $AD = BD = CD = 4$, calculate the surface area of the circumsphere of the pyramid.

1982 USAMO, 5

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , sphere , conic

$A,B$, and $C$ are three interior points of a sphere $S$ such that $AB$ and $AC$ are perpendicular to the diameter of $S$ through $A$, and so that two spheres can be constructed through $A$, $B$, and $C$ which are both tangent to $S$. Prove that the sum of their radii is equal to the radius of $S$.

Kyiv City MO 1984-93 - geometry, 1991.10.5

Tags: geometry , pyramid , 3d geometry , angle

Diagonal sections of a regular 8-gon pyramid, which are drawn through the smallest and largest diagonals of the base, are equal. At what angle is the plane passing through the vertex, the pyramids and the smallest diagonal of the base inclined to the base? [hide=original wording]Діагональні перерізи правильної 8-кутної піраміди, які Проведені через найменшу і найбільшу діагоналі основи, рівновеликі. Під яким кутом до основи нахилена площина, що проходить через вершину, піраміди і найменшу діагональ основи?[/hide]

2012-2013 SDML (Middle School), 12

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry

For what digit $A$ is the numeral $1AA$ a perfect square in base-$5$ and a perfect cube in base-$6$? $\text{(A) }0\qquad\text{(B) }1\qquad\text{(C) }2\qquad\text{(D) }3\qquad\text{(E) }4$

1994 Vietnam National Olympiad, 2

Tags: 3d geometry , sphere , tetrahedron , vector , analytic geometry , geometry

$S$ is a sphere center $O. G$ and $G'$ are two perpendicular great circles on $S$. Take $A, B, C$ on $G$ and $D$ on $G'$ such that the altitudes of the tetrahedron $ABCD$ intersect at a point. Find the locus of the intersection.

1985 IMO Shortlist, 10

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , tetrahedron

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 $M'$.

1947 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 140

Tags: geometry , tetrahedron , 3d geometry

Prove that if the four faces of a tetrahedron are of the same area they are equal.

2011 Flanders Math Olympiad, 2

Tags: ratio , geometry , 3d geometry , sphere , cone

The area of the ground plane of a truncated cone $K$ is four times as large as the surface of the top surface. A sphere $B$ is circumscribed in $K$, that is to say that $B$ touches both the top surface and the base and the sides. Calculate ratio volume $B :$ Volume $K$.

2012 Online Math Open Problems, 23

Tags: function , geometry , 3d geometry

For reals $x\ge3$, let $f(x)$ denote the function \[f(x) = \frac {-x + x\sqrt{4x-3} } { 2} .\]Let $a_1, a_2, \ldots$, be the sequence satisfying $a_1 > 3$, $a_{2013} = 2013$, and for $n=1,2,\ldots,2012$, $a_{n+1} = f(a_n)$. Determine the value of \[a_1 + \sum_{i=1}^{2012} \frac{a_{i+1}^3} {a_i^2 + a_ia_{i+1} + a_{i+1}^2} .\] [i]Ray Li.[/i]

1957 Poland - Second Round, 3

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry

Given a cube with edge $ AB = a $ cm. Point $ M $ of segment $ AB $ is distant from the diagonal of the cube, which is oblique to $ AB $, by $ k $ cm. Find the distance of point $ M $ from the midpoint $ S $ of segment $ AB $.

2016 Romania National Olympiad, 2

Tags: 3d geometry , geometry , cube , perpendicular , ratio

In a cube $ABCDA'B'C'D' $two points are considered, $M \in (CD')$ and $N \in (DA')$. Show that the $MN$ is common perpendicular to the lines $CD'$ and $DA'$ if and only if $$\frac{D'M}{D'C}=\frac{DN}{DA'} =\frac{1}{3}.$$

1988 IMO Longlists, 8

Tags: 3d geometry , tetrahedron , parallelogram , geometry

In a given tedrahedron $ ABCD$ let $ K$ and $ L$ be the centres of edges $ AB$ and $ CD$ respectively. Prove that every plane that contains the line $ KL$ divides the tedrahedron into two parts of equal volume.

IV Soros Olympiad 1997 - 98 (Russia), 11.6

Tags: geometry , 3d geometry , geometric inequality

On the planet Brick, which has the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with edges of $1$ km,$ 2$ km and $4$ km, the Little Prince built a house in the center of the largest face. What is the distance from the house to the most remote point on the planet? (The distance between two points on the surface of a planet is defined as the length of the shortest path along the surface connecting these points.)