a) Two perpendicular rays are drawn through a fixed point $P$ inside a given circle, intersecting the circle at points $A$ and $B$. Find the geometric locus of the projections of $P$ on the lines $AB$. b) Three pairwise perpendicular rays passing through the fixed point $P$ inside a given sphere intersect the sphere at points $A, B, C$. Find the geometrical locus of the projections $P$ on the $ABC$ plane

Consider a tetrahedron$ A_1A_2A_3A_4$. A point $N$ is said to be a Servais point if its projections on the six edges of the tetrahedron lie in a plane $\alpha(N)$ (called Servais plane). Prove that if all the six points $Nij$ symmetric to a point $M$ with respect to the midpoints $Bij$ of the edges $A_iA_j$ are Servais points, then $M$ is contained in all Servais planes $\alpha(Nij )$

Prove that for any tetrahedron the radius of the inscribed sphere $r <\frac{ ab}{ 2(a + b)}$, where $a$ and $b$ are the lengths of any pair of opposite edges.

If the sum of the lengths of the six edges of a trirectangular tetrahedron $ PABC$ (i.e., $ \angle APB \equal{} \angle BPC \equal{} \angle CPA \equal{} 90^\circ$) is $ S$, determine its maximum volume.

Prove that the sum of the plane angles at each of the vertices of a given tetrahedron is $ 180^{\circ} $ if and only if all its faces are congruent.

A figure is constructed from unit cubes. Each cube shares at least one face with another cube. What is the minimum number of cubes needed to build a figure with the front and side views shown? [asy] defaultpen(linewidth(0.8)); path p=unitsquare; draw(p^^shift(0,1)*p^^shift(1,0)*p); draw(shift(4,0)*p^^shift(5,0)*p^^shift(5,1)*p); label("FRONT", (1,0), S); label("SIDE", (5,0), S);[/asy] $ \textbf{(A)}\ 3\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 4\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 5\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 6\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 7$

A cube of edge length $s>0$ has the property that its surface area is equal to the sum of its volume and five times its edge length. Compute all possible values of $s$.

Five points $A, B, C, D$, and $E$ in three-dimensional Euclidean space have the property that $AB = BC = CD = DE = EA = 1$ and $\angle ABC = \angle BCD =\angle CDE = \angle DEA = 90^o$ . Find all possible $\cos(\angle EAB)$.

How many positive integer cubes divide $ 3!\cdot 5!\cdot 7!$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 2\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 3\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 5\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 6$

Find all functions $f: \mathbb{Z} \mapsto \mathbb{Z}$ satisfying the condition: $f(x^3 +y^3 +z^3 )=f(x)^3+f(y)^3+f(z)^3.$

Consider two non-parallel half-planes $\pi,\pi'$ with the common boundary line $p.$ Four different points $A,B,C,D$ are given in the half-plane $\pi.$ Similarly, four points $A',B',C',D'\in\pi'$ are given such that $AA'\parallel BB'\parallel CC'\parallel DD'$. Moreover, none of these points lie on $p$ and the points $A,B,C,D'$ form a tetrahedron. Show that the points $A',B',C',D$ also form a tetrahedron with the same volume as $ABCD'.$

Let $P$ be a point inside a tetrahedron $ABCD$ and let $S_A,S_B,S_C,S_D$ be the centroids (i.e. centers of gravity) of the tetrahedra $PBCD,PCDA,PDAB,PABC$. Show that the volume of the tetrahedron $S_AS_BS_CS_D$ equals $1/64$ the volume of $ABCD$.

The point $M$ moves such that the sum of squares of the lengths from $M$ to faces of a cube, is fixed. Find the locus of $M.$

We call the set $A\in \mathbb R^n$ CN if and only if for every continuous $f:A\to A$ there exists some $x\in A$ such that $f(x)=x$. a) Example: We know that $A = \{ x\in\mathbb R^n | |x|\leq 1 \}$ is CN. b) The circle is not CN. Which one of these sets are CN? 1) $A=\{x\in\mathbb R^3| |x|=1\}$ 2) The cross $\{(x,y)\in\mathbb R^2|xy=0,\ |x|+|y|\leq1\}$ 3) Graph of the function $f:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ defined by \[f(x)=\sin\frac 1x\ \mbox{if}\ x\neq0,\ f(0)=0\]

The maximum number of solid regular tetrahedrons can be placed against each other so that one of their edges coincides with a given line segment in space? [hide=original wording]Hoeveel massieve regelmatige viervlakken kan men maximaal tegen mekaar plaatsen zodat ´e´en van hun ribben samenvalt met een gegeven lijnstuk in de ruimte?[/hide]

Prove that any rigid flat triangle $T$ of area less than $4$ can be inserted through a triangular hole $Q$ with area $3$.

In tetrahedron $ABCD$, the volume of tetrahedron $ABCD$ is $\frac{1}{6}$, and $\angle ACB=45^{\circ},AD+BC+\frac{AC}{\sqrt2}=3$, then $CD=$________.

All vertices of a convex polyhedron with 100 edges are cut off by some planes. The planes do not intersect either inside or on the surface of the polyhedron. For this new polyhedron find a) the number of vertices; [i](1 point)[/i] b) the number of edges. [i](2 points)[/i]

Tessa has a unit cube, on which each vertex is labeled by a distinct integer between 1 and 8 inclusive. She also has a deck of 8 cards, 4 of which are black and 4 of which are white. At each step she draws a card from the deck, and[list][*]if the card is black, she simultaneously replaces the number on each vertex by the sum of the three numbers on vertices that are distance 1 away from the vertex;[*]if the card is white, she simultaneously replaces the number on each vertex by the sum of the three numbers on vertices that are distance $\sqrt2$ away from the vertex.[/list]When Tessa finishes drawing all cards of the deck, what is the maximum possible value of a number that is on the cube?

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.

We have an empty equilateral triangle with length of a side $l$. We put the triangle, horizontally, over a sphere of radius $r$. Clearly, if the triangle is small enough, the triangle is held by the sphere. Which is the distance between any vertex of the triangle and the centre of the sphere (as a function of $l$ and $r$)?

Consider two solid spherical balls, one centered at $(0, 0, \frac{21}{2} )$ with radius $6$, and the other centered at $(0, 0, 1)$ with radius $\frac 92$ . How many points $(x, y, z)$ with only integer coordinates (lattice points) are there in the intersection of the balls? $\text{(A)}\ 7 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 9 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 11 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 13 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 15$

Three rays are going out from point $O$ in space, forming pairwise angles $\alpha, \beta$ and $\gamma$ with $0^o<\alpha \le \beta \le \gamma <180^o$. Prove that $\sin \frac{\alpha}{2}+ \sin \frac{\beta}{2} > \sin \frac{\gamma}{2}$.

$PQ$ is a chord of parabola $y^2=2px(p>0)$ and $PQ$ pass its focus $F$. Line $l$ is its directrix. Projection of $PQ$ on $l$ is $MN$. The area of curved surface that $PQ$ rotate around $l$ is $S_1$, the area of spherical surface of the ball with diameter of $MN$ is $S_2$, then $\text{(A)}S_1>S_2\qquad\text{(B)}S_1<S_2\qquad\text{(C)}S_1\geq S_2\qquad\text{(D)}$ Not sure

A bug starts at one vertex of a cube and moves along the edges of the cube according to the following rule. At each vertex the bug will choose to travel along one of the three edges emanating from that vertex. Each edge has equal probability of being chosen, and all choices are independent. What is the probability that after seven moves the bug will have visited every vertex exactly once? $ \textbf{(A) } \frac {1}{2187} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac {1}{729} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac {2}{243} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac {1}{81} \qquad \textbf{(E) } \frac {5}{243}$