Found problems: 2265
Let $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ be a cube (where $ABCD$ and $A'B'C'D'$ are faces and $AA',BB',CC',DD'$ are edges). Consider the four lines $AA', BC, D'C'$ and the line joining the midpoints of $BB'$ and $DD'$. Show that there is no line which cuts all the four lines.
Let $E$ be a finite set of points such that $E$ is not contained in a plane and no three points of $E$ are collinear. Show that at least one of the following alternatives holds:
(i) $E$ contains five points that are vertices of a convex pyramid having no other points in common with $E;$
(ii) some plane contains exactly three points from $E.$
Let $B$ and $D$ be two points chosen independently and uniformly at random from the unit sphere in 3D space centered at a point $A$ (this unit sphere is the set of all points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ a distance of $1$ away from $A$). Compute the expected value of $\sin^2\angle DAB$.
Six spheres of radius $1$ are positioned so that their centers are at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side length $2$. The six spheres are internally tangent to a larger sphere whose center is the center of the hexagon. An eighth sphere is externally tangent to the six smaller spheres and internally tangent to the larger sphere. What is the radius of this eighth sphere?
$ \textbf{(A)} \ \sqrt{2} \qquad \textbf{(B)} \ \frac{3}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C)} \ \frac{5}{3} \qquad \textbf{(D)} \ \sqrt{3} \qquad \textbf{(E)} \ 2$
How many positive integers $ b$ have the property that $ \log_b729$ is a positive integer?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 0 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4$
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 $\cos(\angle EAB)$.
Given pyramid with base $n-gon$. How many maximum number of edges can be perpendicular to base?
Let $ n$ be a positive integer. Consider
\[ S \equal{} \left\{ (x,y,z) \mid x,y,z \in \{ 0, 1, \ldots, n\}, x \plus{} y \plus{} z > 0 \right \}
\]
as a set of $ (n \plus{} 1)^{3} \minus{} 1$ points in the three-dimensional space. Determine the smallest possible number of planes, the union of which contains $ S$ but does not include $ (0,0,0)$.
[i]Author: Gerhard Wöginger, Netherlands [/i]
A sphere is inscribed in a cube that has a surface area of $ 24$ square meters. A second cube is then inscribed within the sphere. What is the surface area in square meters of the inner cube?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 6 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 8 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 9 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 12$
Inside the trihedral angle $ OABC $, whose plane angles $ AOB $, $ BOC $, $ COA $ are equal, a point $ S $ is chosen equidistant from the faces of this angle. Through point $ S $ a plane is drawn that intersects the edges $ OA $, $ OB $, $ OC $ at points $ M $, $ N $, $ P $, respectively. Prove that the sum
$$
\frac{1}{OM} + \frac{1}{ON} + \frac{1}{OP}$$
has a constant value, i.e. independent of the position of the plane $ MNP $.
A cubic block with dimensions $n$ by $n$ by $n$ is made up of a collection of $1$ by $1$ by $1$ unit cubes. What is the smallest value of $n$ so that if the outer layer of unit cubes are removed from the block, more than half the original unit cubes will still remain?
A parallelepiped has surface area 216 and volume 216. Show that it is a cube.
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
$\text{(A)} \ 4\sqrt 2 \qquad \text{(B)} \ 4\sqrt 3 \qquad \text{(C)} \ 2\sqrt 6 \qquad \text{(D)} \ 1+2\sqrt 6 \qquad \text{(E)} \ 2+2\sqrt 6$
The polygon enclosed by the solid lines in the figure consists of $ 4$ congruent squares joined edge-to-edge. One more congruent square is attached to an edge at one of the nine positions indicated. How many of the nine resulting polygons can be folded to form a cube with one face missing?
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$ \textbf{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 6$
Consider a cube $C$ and two planes $\sigma, \tau$, which divide Euclidean space into several regions. Prove that the interior of at least one of these regions meets at least three faces of the cube.
For what polynomials $P(n)$ with integer coefficients can a positive integer be assigned to every lattice point in $\mathbb{R}^3$ so that for every integer $n \ge 1$, the sum of the $n^3$ integers assigned to any $n \times n \times n$ grid of lattice points is divisible by $P(n)$?
[i]Proposed by Andre Arslan[/i]
What is the largest possible radius of a circle contained in a 4-dimensional hypercube of side length 1?
The incircles of the faces $ABC$ and $ABD$ of a tetrahedron $ABCD$ are tangent to the edge $AB$ in the same point. Prove that the points of tangency of these incircles to the edges $AC,BC,AD,BD$ are concyclic.
Prove that, for every tetrahedron $ABCD$, there exists a unique point $P$ in the interior of the tetrahedron such that the tetrahedra $PABC,PABD,PACD,PBCD$ have equal volumes.
A cubical box with sides of length $7$ has vertices at $(0,0,0)$, $(7,0,0)$, $(0,7,0)$, $(7,7,0)$, $(0,0,7)$, $(7,0,7)$, $(0,7,7)$, $(7,7,7)$. The inside of the box is lined with mirrors and from the point $(0,1,2)$, a beam of light is directed to the point $(1,3,4)$. The light then reflects repeatedly off the mirrors on the inside of the box. Determine how far the beam of light travels before it first returns to its starting point at $(0,1,2)$.
Two segments slide along two skew lines. On each straight line there is a segment. Consider the tetrahedron with vertices at the endpoints of the segments. Prove that the volume of the tetrahedron does not depend on the position of the segments
The insphere of a tetrahedron ABCD with center $O$ touches its faces at points $A_1,B_1,C_1$ and $D_1$.
a) Let $P_a$ be a point such that its reflections in lines $OB,OC$ and $OD$ lie on plane $BCD$.
Points $P_b, P_c$ and $P_d$ are defined similarly. Prove that lines $A_1P_a,B_1P_b,C_1P_c$ and $D_1P_d$ concur at some point $ P$.
b) Let $I$ be the incenter of $A_1B_1C_1D_1$ and $A_2$ the common point of line $A_1I $ with plane $B_1C_1D_1$. Points $B_2, C_2, D_2$ are defined similarly. Prove that $P$ lies inside $A_2B_2C_2D_2$.
In how many ways a cube can be painted using seven different colors in such a way that no two faces are in same color?
$
\textbf{(A)}\ 154
\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 203
\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 210
\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 240
\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of the above}
$
Let $\mathsf{S}_1,\mathsf{S}_2$ be concentric spheres with radii $a,b$ respectively, where $a<b.$ Denote $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ a square cuboid ($ABCD,A'B'C'D$ are the squares and $AA'\parallel BB'\parallel CC'\parallel DD'$) such that $A,B,C,D\in\mathsf{S}_2$ and the plane $A'B'C'D'$ is tangent to $\mathsf{S}_1.$ Finally assume that \[\frac{AB}{AA'}=\frac ab.\] Compute the lengths $AB,AA'.$ How many of such cuboids exist (up to a congruence)?
Prove that for any acute triangle, there is a point in space such that every line segment from a vertex of the triangle to a point on the line joining the other two vertices subtends a right angle at this point.