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In tetrahedron $ABCD$, $AB=1,CD=3$, the distance between $AB$ and $CD$ is $2$, the intersection angle between $AB$ and $CD$ is $\frac{\pi}{3}$, then the volume of tetrahedron $ABCD$ is $\text{(A)}\frac{\sqrt3}{2}\qquad\text{(B)}\frac{1}{2}\qquad\text{(C)}\frac{1}{3}\qquad\text{(D)}\frac{\sqrt3}{3}$
A plane $p$ passes through a vertex of a cube so that the three edges at the vertex make equal angles with $p$. Find the cosine of this angle. Find the positions of the feet of the perpendiculars from the vertices of the cube onto $p$. There are 28 lines through two vertices of the cube and 20 planes through three vertices of the cube. Find some relationship between these lines and planes and the plane $p$.
Let $C=\bigcup_{N=1}^{\infty}C_N,$ where $C_N$ denotes the set of 'cosine polynomials' of the form \[f(x)=1+\sum_{n=1}^Na_n\cos(2\pi nx)\] for which: (i) $f(x)\ge 0$ for all real $x,$ and (ii) $a_n=0$ whenever $n$ is a multiple of $3.$ Determine the maximum value of $f(0)$ as $f$ ranges through $C,$ and prove that this maximum is attained.
Consider three fixed spheres $S_1, S_2, S_3$ with pairwise disjoint interiors. Determine the locus of the centre of the sphere intersecting each $S_i$ along a great circle of $S_i$. [i]Stere Ianuș[/i]
Find the minimal $k$ such that every set of $k$ different lines in $\mathbb R^3$ contains either $3$ mutually parallel lines or $3$ mutually intersecting lines or $3$ mutually skew lines.
Consider a convex polyhedron without parallel edges and without an edge parallel to any face other than the two faces adjacent to it. Call a pair of points of the polyhedron [i]antipodal[/i] if there exist two parallel planes passing through these points and such that the polyhedron is contained between these planes. Let $A$ be the number of antipodal pairs of vertices, and let $B$ be the number of antipodal pairs of midpoint edges. Determine the difference $A-B$ in terms of the numbers of vertices, edges, and faces. [i]Proposed by Kei Irei, Japan[/i]
$(GBR 4)$ The segment $AB$ perpendicularly bisects $CD$ at $X$. Show that, subject to restrictions, there is a right circular cone whose axis passes through $X$ and on whose surface lie the points $A,B,C,D.$ What are the restrictions?
In all tetrahedron $ABCD$ holds [list=1] [*] $\displaystyle{\sum \limits_{cyc}\frac{h_a-r}{h_a+r}\geq \sum \limits_{cyc}\frac{h_a^t-r^t}{(h_a+r)^t}}$ [*] $\displaystyle{\sum \limits_{cyc}\frac{2r_a-r}{2r_a+r}\geq \sum \limits_{cyc}\frac{2r_a^t-r^t}{(2r_a+r)^t}}$ [/list] for all $t\in [0,1]$
A truncated cone has horizontal bases with radii $ 18$ and $ 2$. A sphere is tangent to the top, bottom, and lateral surface of the truncated cone. What is the radius of the sphere? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 6 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 4\sqrt5 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 9 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 10 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 6\sqrt3$
Compute the surface area of a rectangular prism with side lengths $2, 3, 4$.
Given a triangle $OAB$ with the vetices $O(0,\ 0,\ 0),\ A(1,\ 0,\ 0),\ B(1,\ 1,\ 0)$ in the $xyz$ space. Let $V$ be the cone obtained by rotating the triangle around the $x$-axis. Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the cone $V$ around the $y$-axis.
Two regular square pyramids have all edges $12$ cm in length. The pyramids have parallel bases and those bases have parallel edges, and each pyramid has its apex at the center of the other pyramid's base. What is the total number of cubic centimeters in the volume of the solid of intersection of the two pyramids?
Let $ l,d,k$ be natural numbers. We want to prove that for large numbers $ n$, for each $ k$-coloring of the $ n$-dimensional cube with side length $ l$, there is a $ d$-dimensional subspace that all of its vertices have the same color. Let $ H(l,d,k)$ be the least number such that for $ n\geq H(l,d,k)$ the previus statement holds. a) Prove that: \[ H(l,d \plus{} 1,k)\leq H(l,1,k) \plus{} H(l,d,k^l)^{H(l,1,k)} \] b) Prove that \[ H(l \plus{} 1,1,k \plus{} 1)\leq H(l,1 \plus{} H(l \plus{} 1,1,k),k \plus{} 1) \] c) Prove the statement of problem. d) Prove Van der Waerden's Theorem.
Consider a cube with a fly standing at each of its vertices. When a whistle blows, each fly moves to a vertex in the same face as the previous one but diagonally opposite to it. After the whistle blows, in how many ways can the flies change position so that there is no vertex with 2 or more flies?
The polyhedron $PABCDQ$ has the form shown in the figure. It is known that $ABCD$ is parallelogram, the planes of the triangles of the $PAC$ and $PBD$ mutually perpendicular, and also mutually perpendicular are the planes of triangles $QAC$ and $QBC$. Each face of this polyhedron is painted black or white so that the faces that have a common edge are painted in different colors. Prove that the sum of the squares of the areas of the black faces is equal to the sum of the squares of the areas of the white faces. [img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UM5PKEGGWqc/X1V2cXAFmwI/AAAAAAAAMdw/V-Qr94tZmqkj3_q-5mkSICGF1tMu-b_VwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/2007.5%2Bchampions%2Btourn.png[/img]
A given truncated pyramid has triangular bases. The areas of the bases are $B_1$ and $B_2$ and the area of the surface is $S$. Prove that if there exists a plane parallel to the bases whose intersection divides the pyramid to two truncated pyramids in which may be inscribed by spheres then $$S=(\sqrt{B_1}+\sqrt{B_2})(\sqrt[4]{B_1}+\sqrt[4]{B_2})^2$$ [i]G. Gantchev[/i]
We are given an infinite cylinder in space (i.e. the locus of points of a given distance $R>0$ from a given straight line). Can six straight lines containing the edges of a tetrahedron all have exactly one common point with this cylinder? [i]Proposed by A. Kuznetsov[/i]
Let $A_1A_2...A_n$ be a regular polygon ($n > 4$), $T$ be the common point of $A_1A_2$ and $A_{n-1}A_n$ and $M$ be a point in the interior of the triangle $A_1A_nT$. Show that the equality $$\sum_{i=1}^{n-1} \frac{\sin^2 \left(\angle A_iMA_{i+1}\right)}{d(M,A_iA_{i+1}}=\frac{\sin^2 \left(\angle A_1MA_n\right)}{d(M,A_1A_n} $$ holds if and only if $M$ belongs to the circumcircle of the polygon.
The height $SO$ of a regular quadrangular pyramid $SABCD$ forms an angle $60^o$ with a side edge , the volume of this pyramid is equal to $18$ cm$^3$ . The vertex of the second regular quadrangular pyramid is at point $S$, the center of the base is at point $C$, and one of the vertices of the base lies on the line $SO$. Find the volume of the common part of these pyramids. (The common part of the pyramids is the set of all such points in space that lie inside or on the surface of both pyramids).
Let $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ be a cube with side $AB = a$. Consider points $E \in (AB)$ and $F \in (BC)$ such that $AE + CF = EF$. a) Determine the measure the angle formed by the planes $(D'DE)$ and $(D'DF)$. b) Calculate the distance from $D'$ to the line $EF$.
Consider the string of length $ 6$ composed of three characters $ a$, $ b$, $ c$. For each string, if two $ a$s are next to each other, or two $ b$s are next to each other, then replace $ aa$ by $ b$, and replace $ bb$ by $ a$. Also, if $ a$ and $ b$ are next to each other, or two $ c$s are next to each other, remove all two of them (i.e. delete $ ab$, $ ba$, $ cc$). Determine the number of strings that can be reduced to $ c$, the string of length 1, by the reducing processes mentioned above.
Given a triangle $OAB$ with the vetices $O(0,\ 0,\ 0),\ A(1,\ 0,\ 0),\ B(1,\ 1,\ 0)$ in the $xyz$ space. Let $V$ be the cone obtained by rotating the triangle around the $x$-axis. Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the cone $V$ around the $y$-axis.
Consider the maximum value of circular cone inscribed to a sphere, the ratio of it to the volume of the sphere is________.
Let $ P$ be a point inside a regular tetrahedron $ T$ of unit volume. The four planes passing through $ P$ and parallel to the faces of $ T$ partition $ T$ into 14 pieces. Let $ f(P)$ be the joint volume of those pieces that are neither a tetrahedron nor a parallelepiped (i.e., pieces adjacent to an edge but not to a vertex). Find the exact bounds for $ f(P)$ as $ P$ varies over $ T.$
Prove that in each polyhedron there exist two faces with the same number of edges.