Found problems: 2265
1940 Putnam, B4
Prove that the locus of the point of intersection of three mutually perpendicular planes tangent to the surface
$$ax^2 + by^2 +cz^2 =1\;\;\; (\text{where}\;\;abc \ne 0)$$
is the sphere
$$x^2 +y^2 +z^2 =\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}.$$
2012 Online Math Open Problems, 28
A fly is being chased by three spiders on the edges of a regular octahedron. The fly has a speed of $50$ meters per second, while each of the spiders has a speed of $r$ meters per second. The spiders choose their starting positions, and choose the fly's starting position, with the requirement that the fly must begin at a vertex. Each bug knows the position of each other bug at all times, and the goal of the spiders is for at least one of them to catch the fly. What is the maximum $c$ so that for any $r<c,$ the fly can always avoid being caught?
[i]Author: Anderson Wang[/i]
1977 Poland - Second Round, 6
What is the greatest number of parts into which the plane can be cut by the edges of $ n $ squares?
2007 Cuba MO, 2
A prism is called [i]binary [/i] if it can be assigned to each of its vertices a number from the set $\{-1, 1\}$, such that the product of the numbers assigned to the vertices of each face is equal to $-1$.
a) Prove that the number of vertices of the binary prisms is divisible for $8$.
b) Prove that a prism with $2000$ vertices is binary.
2011 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad, 2
Line $\ell $ intersects the plane $a$. It is known that in this plane there are $2011$ straight lines equidistant from $\ell$ and not intersecting $\ell$. Is it true that $\ell$ is perpendicular to $a$?
1969 IMO Shortlist, 32
$(GDR 4)$ Find the maximal number of regions into which a sphere can be partitioned by $n$ circles.
2002 Iran Team Selection Test, 3
A "[i]2-line[/i]" is the area between two parallel lines. Length of "2-line" is distance of two parallel lines. We have covered unit circle with some "2-lines". Prove sum of lengths of "2-lines" is at least 2.
Indonesia Regional MO OSP SMA - geometry, 2019.1
Given cube $ ABCD.EFGH $ with $ AB = 4 $ and $ P $ midpoint of the side $ EFGH $. If $ M $ is the midpoint of $ PH $, find the length of segment $ AM $.
2012 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 1
Determine all integer $n$ such that a surface of an $n \times n \times n$ grid cube can be pasted in one layer by paper $1 \times 2$ rectangles so that each rectangle has exactly five neighbors (by a line segment).
(A.Shapovalov)
2009 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 2
The corner of a unit cube is chopped off such that the cut runs through the three vertices adjacent to the vertex of the chosen corner. What is the height of the cube when the freshly-cut face is placed on a table?
1988 IMO Longlists, 32
$n$ points are given on the surface of a sphere. Show that the surface can be divided into $n$ congruent regions such that each of them contains exactly one of the given points.
1969 IMO Shortlist, 58
$(SWE 1)$ Six points $P_1, . . . , P_6$ are given in $3-$dimensional space such that no four of them lie in the same plane. Each of the line segments $P_jP_k$ is colored black or white. Prove that there exists one triangle $P_jP_kP_l$ whose edges are of the same color.
1949 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 157
a) Prove that if a planar polygon has several axes of symmetry, then all of them intersect at one point.
b) A finite solid body is symmetric about two distinct axes. Describe the position of the symmetry planes of the body.
2014 Contests, 3
Say that a positive integer is [i]sweet[/i] if it uses only the digits 0, 1, 2, 4, and 8. For instance, 2014 is sweet. There are sweet integers whose squares are sweet: some examples (not necessarily the smallest) are 1, 2, 11, 12, 20, 100, 202, and 210. There are sweet integers whose cubes are sweet: some examples (not necessarily the smallest) are 1, 2, 10, 20, 200, 202, 281, and 2424. Prove that there exists a sweet positive integer $n$ whose square and cube are both sweet, such that the sum of all the digits of $n$ is 2014.
1977 Czech and Slovak Olympiad III A, 6
A cube $ABCDA'B'C'D',AA'\parallel BB'\parallel CC'\parallel DD'$ is given. Denote $S$ the center of square $ABCD.$ Determine all points $X$ lying on some edge such that the volumes of tetrahedrons $ABDX$ and $CB'SX$ are the same.
1990 French Mathematical Olympiad, Problem 2
A game consists of pieces of the shape of a regular tetrahedron of side $1$. Each face of each piece is painted in one of $n$ colors, and by this, the faces of one piece are not necessarily painted in different colors. Determine the maximum possible number of pieces, no two of which are identical.
1991 China Team Selection Test, 3
All edges of a polyhedron are painted with red or yellow. For an angle of a facet, if the edges determining it are of different colors, then the angle is called [i]excentric[/i]. The[i] excentricity [/i]of a vertex $A$, namely $S_A$, is defined as the number of excentric angles it has. Prove that there exist two vertices $B$ and $C$ such that $S_B + S_C \leq 4$.
2013 Stanford Mathematics Tournament, 4
$ABCD$ is a regular tetrahedron with side length $1$. Find the area of the cross section of $ABCD$ cut by the plane that passes through the midpoints of $AB$, $AC$, and $CD$.
VII Soros Olympiad 2000 - 01, 8.4
Paint the maximum number of vertices of the cube red so that you cannot select three of the red vertices that form an equilateral triangle.
1980 AMC 12/AHSME, 26
Four balls of radius 1 are mutually tangent, three resting on the floor and the fourth resting on the others. A tetrahedron, each of whose edges have length $s$, is circumscribed around the balls. Then $s$ equals
$\text{(A)} \ 4\sqrt 2 \qquad \text{(B)} \ 4\sqrt 3 \qquad \text{(C)} \ 2\sqrt 6 \qquad \text{(D)} \ 1+2\sqrt 6 \qquad \text{(E)} \ 2+2\sqrt 6$
1998 French Mathematical Olympiad, Problem 1
A tetrahedron $ABCD$ satisfies the following conditions: the edges $AB,AC$ and $AD$ are pairwise orthogonal, $AB=3$ and $CD=\sqrt2$. Find the minimum possible value of
$$BC^6+BD^6-AC^6-AD^6.$$
2015 District Olympiad, 4
Consider the rectangular parallelepiped $ ABCDA'B'C'D' $ and the point $ O $ to be the intersection of $ AB' $ and $ A'B. $ On the edge $ BC, $ pick a point $ N $ such that the plane formed by the triangle $ B'AN $ has to be parallel to the line $ AC', $ and perpendicular to $ DO'. $
Prove, then, that this parallelepiped is a cube.
2006 AMC 10, 25
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}$
2003 AMC 10, 3
A solid box is $ 15$ cm by $ 10$ cm by $ 8$ cm. A new solid is formed by removing a cube $ 3$ cm on a side from each corner of this box. What percent of the original volume is removed?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 4.5 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 9 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 12 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 18 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 24$
1971 Czech and Slovak Olympiad III A, 6
Let a tetrahedron $ABCD$ and its inner point $O$ be given. For any edge $e$ of $ABCD$ consider the segment $f(e)$ containing $O$ such that $f(e)\parallel e$ and the endpoints of $f(e)$ lie on the faces of the tetrahedron. Show that \[\sum_{e\text{ edge}}\,\frac{\,f(e)\,}{e}=3.\]