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Found problems: 2265

1973 IMO Longlists, 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 the side lengths $x, y$ and $z$.

1967 Polish MO Finals, 6

Given a sphere and a plane that has no common points with the sphere. Find the geometric locus of the centers of the circles of tangency with the sphere of those cones circumcribed on the sphere whose vertices lie on the given plane.

1988 Nordic, 3

Two concentric spheres have radii $r$ and $R,r < R$. We try to select points $A, B$ and $C$ on the surface of the larger sphere such that all sides of the triangle $ABC$ would be tangent to the surface of the smaller sphere. Show that the points can be selected if and only if $R \le 2r$.

2014 AMC 8, 19

A cube with $3$-inch edges is to be constructed from $27$ smaller cubes with $1$-inch edges. Twenty-one of the cubes are colored red and $6$ are colored white. If the $3$-inch cube is constructed to have the smallest possible white surface area showing, what fraction of the surface area is white? $\textbf{(A) }\frac{5}{54}\qquad\textbf{(B) }\frac{1}{9}\qquad\textbf{(C) }\frac{5}{27}\qquad\textbf{(D) }\frac{2}{9}\qquad \textbf{(E) }\frac{1}{3}$

2000 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 1

How many different ways are there to paint the sides of a tetrahedron with exactly $4$ colors? Each side gets its own color, and two colorings are the same if one can be rotated to get the other.

1990 IMO Longlists, 27

A plane cuts a right circular cone of volume $ V$ into two parts. The plane is tangent to the circumference of the base of the cone and passes through the midpoint of the altitude. Find the volume of the smaller part. [i]Original formulation:[/i] A plane cuts a right circular cone into two parts. The plane is tangent to the circumference of the base of the cone and passes through the midpoint of the altitude. Find the ratio of the volume of the smaller part to the volume of the whole cone.

1998 Poland - Second Round, 6

Prove that the edges $AB$ and $CD$ of a tetrahedron $ABCD$ are perpendicular if and only if there exists a parallelogram $CDPQ$ such that $PA = PB = PD$ and $QA = QB = QC$.

1998 AMC 8, 21

A $4*4*4$ cubical box contains 64 identical small cubes that exactly fill the box. How many of these small cubes touch a side or the bottom of the box? $ \text{(A)}\ 48\qquad\text{(B)}\ 52\qquad\text{(C)}\ 60\qquad\text{(D)}\ 64\qquad\text{(E)}\ 80 $

2017 Polish Junior Math Olympiad First Round, 6.

The base of the pyramid $ABCD$ is an equilateral triangle $ABC$ with side length $1$. Additionally, \[\angle ADB=\angle BDC=\angle CDA=90^\circ\,.\] Calculate the volume of pyramid $ABCD$.

1964 IMO, 5

Supppose five points in a plane are situated so that no two of the straight lines joining them are parallel, perpendicular, or coincident. From each point perpendiculars are drawn to all the lines joining the other four points. Determine the maxium number of intersections that these perpendiculars can have.

2008 AMC 12/AHSME, 18

A pyramid has a square base $ ABCD$ and vertex $ E$. The area of square $ ABCD$ is $ 196$, and the areas of $ \triangle{ABE}$ and $ \triangle{CDE}$ are $ 105$ and $ 91$, respectively. What is the volume of the pyramid? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 392 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 196\sqrt{6} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 392\sqrt2 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 392\sqrt3 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 784$

2009 All-Russian Olympiad, 3

Let $ ABCD$ be a triangular pyramid such that no face of the pyramid is a right triangle and the orthocenters of triangles $ ABC$, $ ABD$, and $ ACD$ are collinear. Prove that the center of the sphere circumscribed to the pyramid lies on the plane passing through the midpoints of $ AB$, $ AC$ and $ AD$.

2011 Purple Comet Problems, 15

A pyramid has a base which is an equilateral triangle with side length $300$ centimeters. The vertex of the pyramid is $100$ centimeters above the center of the triangular base. A mouse starts at a corner of the base of the pyramid and walks up the edge of the pyramid toward the vertex at the top. When the mouse has walked a distance of $134$ centimeters, how many centimeters above the base of the pyramid is the mouse?

2011 India IMO Training Camp, 1

Find all positive integer $n$ satisfying the conditions $a)n^2=(a+1)^3-a^3$ $b)2n+119$ is a perfect square.

2006 Polish MO Finals, 2

Tetrahedron $ABCD$ in which $AB=CD$ is given. Sphere inscribed in it is tangent to faces $ABC$ and $ABD$ respectively in $K$ and $L$. Prove that if points $K$ and $L$ are centroids of faces $ABC$ and $ABD$ then tetrahedron $ABCD$ is regular.

2005 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 11.6

The sphere inscribed in the tetrahedron $ABCD$ touches its faces at points $A',B',C',D'$. The segments $AA'$ and $BB'$ intersect, and the point of their intersection lies on the inscribed sphere. Prove that the segments $CC'$ and $DD'$ also intersect on the inscribed sphere.

1990 IMO Shortlist, 10

A plane cuts a right circular cone of volume $ V$ into two parts. The plane is tangent to the circumference of the base of the cone and passes through the midpoint of the altitude. Find the volume of the smaller part. [i]Original formulation:[/i] A plane cuts a right circular cone into two parts. The plane is tangent to the circumference of the base of the cone and passes through the midpoint of the altitude. Find the ratio of the volume of the smaller part to the volume of the whole cone.

1979 Poland - Second Round, 4

Let $ S_k $ be the symmetry of the plane with respect to the line $ k $. Prove that equality holds for every lines $ a, b, c $ contained in one plane $$ S_aS_bS_cS_aS_bS_cS_bS_cS_aS_bS_cS_a = S_bS_cS_aS_bS_cS_aS_aS_bS_cS_aS_bS_c$$

1987 AMC 8, 7

The large cube shown is made up of $27$ identical sized smaller cubes. For each face of the large cube, the opposite face is shaded the same way. The total number of smaller cubes that must have at least one face shaded is [asy] unitsize(36); draw((0,0)--(3,0)--(3,3)--(0,3)--cycle); draw((3,0)--(5.2,1.4)--(5.2,4.4)--(3,3)); draw((0,3)--(2.2,4.4)--(5.2,4.4)); fill((0,0)--(0,1)--(1,1)--(1,0)--cycle,black); fill((0,2)--(0,3)--(1,3)--(1,2)--cycle,black); fill((1,1)--(1,2)--(2,2)--(2,1)--cycle,black); fill((2,0)--(3,0)--(3,1)--(2,1)--cycle,black); fill((2,2)--(3,2)--(3,3)--(2,3)--cycle,black); draw((1,3)--(3.2,4.4)); draw((2,3)--(4.2,4.4)); draw((.733333333,3.4666666666)--(3.73333333333,3.466666666666)); draw((1.466666666,3.9333333333)--(4.466666666,3.9333333333)); fill((1.73333333,3.46666666666)--(2.7333333333,3.46666666666)--(3.46666666666,3.93333333333)--(2.46666666666,3.93333333333)--cycle,black); fill((3,1)--(3.733333333333,1.466666666666)--(3.73333333333,2.46666666666)--(3,2)--cycle,black); fill((3.73333333333,.466666666666)--(4.466666666666,.93333333333)--(4.46666666666,1.93333333333)--(3.733333333333,1.46666666666)--cycle,black); fill((3.73333333333,2.466666666666)--(4.466666666666,2.93333333333)--(4.46666666666,3.93333333333)--(3.733333333333,3.46666666666)--cycle,black); fill((4.466666666666,1.9333333333333)--(5.2,2.4)--(5.2,3.4)--(4.4666666666666,2.9333333333333)--cycle,black); [/asy] $\text{(A)}\ 10 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 16 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 20 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 22 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 24$

2009 National Olympiad First Round, 35

For every $ n \ge 2$, $ a_n \equal{} \sqrt [3]{n^3 \plus{} n^2 \minus{} n \minus{} 1}/n$. What is the least value of positive integer $ k$ satisfying $ a_2a_3\cdots a_k > 3$ ? $\textbf{(A)}\ 100 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 102 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 104 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 106 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None}$

1969 IMO Shortlist, 12

$(CZS 1)$ Given a unit cube, find the locus of the centroids of all tetrahedra whose vertices lie on the sides of the cube.

2013 Tournament of Towns, 5

A spacecraft landed on an asteroid. It is known that the asteroid is either a ball or a cube. The rover started its route at the landing site and finished it at the point symmetric to the landing site with respect to the center of the asteroid. On its way, the rover transmitted its spatial coordinates to the spacecraft on the landing site so that the trajectory of the rover movement was known. Can it happen that this information is not suffcient to determine whether the asteroid is a ball or a cube?

2006 Romania National Olympiad, 3

Let $ABCDA_1B_1C_1D_1$ be a cube and $P$ a variable point on the side $[AB]$. The perpendicular plane on $AB$ which passes through $P$ intersects the line $AC'$ in $Q$. Let $M$ and $N$ be the midpoints of the segments $A'P$ and $BQ$ respectively. a) Prove that the lines $MN$ and $BC'$ are perpendicular if and only if $P$ is the midpoint of $AB$. b) Find the minimal value of the angle between the lines $MN$ and $BC'$.

1993 AMC 12/AHSME, 29

Which of the following sets could NOT be the lengths of the external diagonals of a right rectangular prism [a "box"]? (An [i]external diagonal[/i] is a diagonal of one of the rectangular faces of the box.) $ \textbf{(A)}\ \{4, 5, 6\} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \{4, 5, 7\} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \{4, 6, 7\} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \{5, 6, 7\} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \{5, 7, 8\} $

1968 Poland - Second Round, 5

The tetrahedrons $ ABCD $ and $ A_1B_1C_1D_1 $ are situated so that the midpoints of the segments $ AA_1 $, $ BB_1 $, $ CC_1 $, $ DD_1 $ are the centroids of the triangles $BCD$, $ ACD $, $ A B D $ and $ ABC $, respectively. What is the ratio of the volumes of these tetrahedrons?