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Through each vertex of a tetrahedron with a given volume $ V $, a plane is drawn parallel to the opposite face of the tetrahedron. Calculate the volume of the tetrahedron formed by these planes.
Prove that the smallest dihedral angle between faces of an arbitrary tetrahedron is not greater than the dihedral angle between faces of a regular tetrahedron. (S. Shosman, O. Ogievetsky)
Inside or on the faces of a tetrahedron with five edges of length $2$ and one edge of lenght $1$, there is a point $P$ having distances $a, b, c, d$ to the four faces of the tetrahedron. Determine the locus of all points $P$ such that $a+b+c+d$ is minimal and the locus of all points $P$ such that $a+b+c+d$ is maximal.
Given is a triangle $ABC$ with side lengths $a, b,c$. Three spheres touch each other in pairs and also touch the plane of the triangle at points $A,B$ and $C$, respectively. Determine the radii of these spheres.
Given is a trihedral angle $ OABC $ with a vertex $ O $ and a point $ P $ in its interior. Let $ V $ be the volume of a parallelepiped with two vertices at points $ O $ and $ P $, whose three edges are contained in the rays $ \overrightarrow{OA} $, $ \overrightarrow{OB} $, $ \overrightarrow{OC} $. Calculate the minimum volume of a tetrahedron whose three faces are contained in the faces of the trihedral angle $OABC$ and the fourth face contains the point $P$.
Given a cube of unit side. Let $A$ and $B$ be two opposite vertex. Determine the radius of the sphere, with center inside the cube, tangent to the three faces of the cube with common point $A$ and tangent to the three sides with common point $B$.
Suppose four solid iron balls are placed in a cylinder with the radius of 1 cm, such that every two of the four balls are tangent to each other, and the two balls in the lower layer are tangent to the cylinder base. Now put water into the cylinder. Find, in $\text{cm}^2$, the volume of water needed to submerge all the balls.
The bottom surface of triangular pyramid $S-ABC$ is a regular triangle. Projection of $A$ on plane $SBC$ is $H$, which is the orthocenter of $\triangle SBC$. If $H-AB-C=30^{\circ},SA=2\sqrt3$, then the volume of $S-ABC$ is________.
Let $ABCDE$ be a right quadrangular pyramid with vertex $E$ and height $EO$. Point $S$ divides this height in the ratio $ES: SO=m$. In which ratio does the plane $(ABC)$ divide the lateral area of the pyramid.
A right circular cone has base radius 1 cm and slant height 3 cm is given. $P$ is a point on the circumference of the base and the shortest path from $P$ around the cone and back to $P$ is drawn (see diagram). What is the minimum distance from the vertex $V$ to this path? [asy] import graph; unitsize(1 cm); filldraw(shift(-0.15,0.37)*rotate(17)*yscale(0.3)*xscale(1.41)*(Circle((0,0),1)),gray(0.9),nullpen); draw(yscale(0.3)*(arc((0,0),1.5,0,180)),dashed); draw(yscale(0.3)*(arc((0,0),1.5,180,360))); draw((1.5,0)--(0,4)--(-1.5,0)); draw((0,0)--(1.5,0),Arrows); draw(((1.5,0) + (0.3,0.1))--((0,4) + (0.3,0.1)),Arrows); draw(shift(-0.15,0.37)*rotate(17)*yscale(0.3)*xscale(1.41)*(arc((0,0),1,0,180)),dashed); draw(shift(-0.15,0.37)*rotate(17)*yscale(0.3)*xscale(1.41)*(arc((0,0),1,180,360))); label("$V$", (0,4), N); label("1 cm", (0.75,-0.5), N); label("$P$", (-1.5,0), SW); label("3 cm", (1.7,2)); [/asy]
There is a wooden $3 \times 3 \times 3$ cube and 18 rectangular $3 \times 1$ paper strips. Each strip has two dotted lines dividing it into three unit squares. The full surface of the cube is covered with the given strips, flat or bent. Each flat strip is on one face of the cube. Each bent strip (bent at one of its dotted lines) is on two adjacent faces of the cube. What is the greatest possible number of bent strips? Justify your answer.
Let S be a sphere cirucmscribed on a regular tetrahedron with an edge length greater than 1. The sphere $ S $ is represented as the sum of four sets. Prove that one of these sets includes points $ P $, $ Q $ such that the length of the segment $ PQ $ exceeds 1.
A moth starts at vertex $A$ of a certain cube and is trying to get to vertex $B$, which is opposite $A$, in five or fewer “steps,” where a step consists in traveling along an edge from one vertex to another. The moth will stop as soon as it reaches $B$. How many ways can the moth achieve its objective?
$PABCDE$ is a pyramid with $ABCDE$ a convex pentagon. A plane meets the edges $PA, PB, PC, PD, PE$ in points $A', B', C', D', E'$ distinct from $A, B, C, D, E$ and $P$. For each of the quadrilaterals $ABB'A', BCC'B, CDD'C', DEE'D', EAA'E'$ take the intersection of the diagonals. Show that the five intersections are coplanar.
A regular tetrahedron of unit edge is given. Find the volume of the maximal cube contained in the tetrahedron, whose one vertex lies in the feet of an altitude of the tetrahedron.
Each face of a cube is of the same size as each square of a chessboard. The cube is coloured black and white, placed on one of the squares of the chessboard and rolled so that each square of the chessboard is visited exactly once. Can this be done in such a way that the colour of the visited square and the colour of the bottom face of the cube are always the same? (A Shapovalov)
In the space $n \geq 3$ points are given. Every pair of points determines some distance. Suppose all distances are different. Connect every point with the nearest point. Prove that it is impossible to obtain (closed) polygonal line in such a way.
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]
A sphere is inscribed in the tetrahedron whose vertices are $A=(6,0,0), B=(0,4,0), C=(0,0,2),$ and $D=(0,0,0).$ The radius of the sphere is $m/n,$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$
We are given six points in space with distinct distances, no three of them collinear. Consider all triangles with vertices among these points. Show that among these triangles there is one such that its longest side is the shortest side in one of the other triangles.
Tetrahedron $ABCD$ has sides of lengths, in increasing order, $7, 13, 18, 27, 36, 41$. If $AB=41$, then what is the length of $CD$?
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.
Prove that for every tetrahedron there exist two planes such that the projection areas on those planes ratio is not less than $\sqrt 2$.
We are given a tetrahedron with two edges of length $a$ and the remaining four edges of length $b$ where $a$ and $b$ are positive real numbers. What is the range of possible values for the ratio $v=a/b$?
A polyhedron has $12$ faces and is such that: [b][i](i)[/i][/b] all faces are isosceles triangles, [b][i](ii)[/i][/b] all edges have length either $x$ or $y$, [b][i](iii)[/i][/b] at each vertex either $3$ or $6$ edges meet, and [b][i](iv)[/i][/b] all dihedral angles are equal. Find the ratio $x/y.$