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Three pairwise orthogonal chords of a sphere $S$ are drawn through a given point $P$ inside $S$. Prove that the sum of the squares of their lengths does not depend on their directions.
Let $ f$ be a continuous function on the unit interval $ [0,1]$. Show that \[ \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \int_0^1... \int_0^1f(\frac{x_1+...+x_n}{n})dx_1...dx_n=f(\frac12)\] and \[ \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \int_0^1... \int_0^1f (\sqrt[n]{x_1...x_n})dx_1...dx_n=f(\frac1e).\]
The positive integers $ x$ and $ y$ are the two smallest positive integers for which the product of $ 360$ and $ x$ is a square and the product of $ 360$ and $ y$ is a cube. What is the sum of $ x$ and $ y$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 80 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 85 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 115 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 165 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 610$
A 3-dimensional cross is made up of 7 cubes, one central cube and 6 cubes that share a face with it. The cross is inscribed in a circle with radius 1. What's its volume?
Let $ n$ be a natural number. A cube of edge $ n$ may be divided in 1996 cubes whose edges length are also natural numbers. Find the minimum possible value for $ n$.
The points of space are painted in two colors. Prove that there is a tetrahedron such that all its vertices and its centroid are of the same color.
We call a tetrahedron a "trirectangular " if it has a vertex (we call this is called a "right-angled" vertex) in which the planes of the three sides of the tetrahedron intersect at right angles. Prove the "three-dimensional Pythagorean theorem": The square of the area of the opposite face of the "right-angled" vertex of the ""trirectangular " tetrahedron is equal to the sum of the squares of the areas of three other sides of the tetrahedron .
A cube lies on the plane. After being rolled a few times (over its edges), it is brought back to its initial location with the same face up. Could the top face have been rotated by 90 degrees? [i](5 points)[/i]
A large sphere is on a horizontal field on a sunny day. At a certain time the shadow of the sphere reaches out a distance of $10$ m from the point where the sphere touches the ground. At the same instant a meter stick (held vertically with one end on the ground) casts a shadow of length $2$ m. What is the radius of the sphere in meters? (Assume the sun's rays are parallel and the meter stick is a line segment.) $ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{5}{2}\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 9 - 4\sqrt{5}\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 8\sqrt{10} - 23\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 6 - \sqrt{15}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 10\sqrt{5} - 20 $
Prove that if a plane section of a tetrahedron is a parallelogram, then half of its perimeter is contained between the length of the smallest and the length of the largest edge of the tetrahedron.
Prove that a tetrahedron with just one edge length greater than $1$ has volume at most $ \frac{1}{8}.$
Let $M$ be the set of all tetrahedra whose inscribed and circumscribed spheres are concentric. If the radii of these spheres are denoted by $r$ and $R$ respectively, find the possible values of $R/r$ over all tetrahedra from $M$ .
Given is a tetrahedron $ABCD$ in which $AB=CD$ and the sum of measures of the angles $BAD$ and $BCD$ equals $180$ degrees. Prove that the measure of the angle $BAD$ is larger than the measure of the angle $ADC$.
A pyramid with a square base, and all its edges of length $2$, is joined to a regular tetrahedron, whose edges are also of length $2$, by gluing together two of the triangular faces. Find the sum of the lengths of the edges of the resulting solid.
Let be given a tetrahedron whose circumcenter is $O$. Draw diameters $AA_{1},BB_{1},CC_{1},DD_{1}$ of the circumsphere of $ABCD$. Let $A_{0},B_{0},C_{0},D_{0}$ be the centroids of triangle $BCD,CDA,DAB,ABC$. Prove that $A_{0}A_{1},B_{0}B_{1},C_{0}C_{1},D_{0}D_{1}$ are concurrent at a point, say, $F$. Prove that the line through $F$ and a midpoint of a side of $ABCD$ is perpendicular to the opposite side.
The area of a triangle is determined by the lengths of its sides. Is the volume of a tetrahedron determined by the areas of its faces?
Given a tetrahedron $ ABCD $ whose edges $ AB, BC, CD, DA $ are tangent to a certain sphere. Prove that the points of tangency lie in the same plane.
a) Let $MNP$ be a triangle such that $\angle MNP> 60^o$. Show that the side $MP$ cannot be the smallest side of the triangle $MNP$. b) In a plane the equilateral triangle $ABC$ is considered. The point $V$ that does not belong to the plane $(ABC)$ is chosen so that $\angle VAB = \angle VBC = \angle VCA$. Show that if $VA = AB$, the tetrahedron $VABC$ is regular. Valentin Vornicu
The unfolding of the lateral surface of a cone is a sector of angle $120^o$. The angles at the base of a pyramid constitute an arithmetic progression with a difference of $15^o$. The pyramid is inscribed in the cone. Consider a lateral face of the pyramid with the smallest area. Find the angle $\alpha$ between the plane of this face and the base.
A projectile in flight is observed simultaneously from four radio stations which are situated at the corners of a square of side $b$. The distances of the projectile from the four stations, taken in order around the square, are found to be $R_1 , R_2 , R_3 $ and $R_4$. Show that $$R_{1}^{2}+ R_{3}^{2}= R_{2}^{2}+ R_{4}^{2}.$$ Show also that the height $h$ of the projectile above the ground is given by $$h^{2}=- \frac{1}{2} b^2 +\frac{1}{4}(R_{1}^{2}+R_{2}^{2}+R_{3}^{2}+R_{4}^{2}) -\frac{1}{8 b^{2}}(R_{1}^{4}+R_{2}^{4}+R_{3}^{4}+R_{4}^{4}- 2 R_{1}^{2}R_{3}^{2} -2 R_{2}^{2} R_{4}^{2}).$$
What is the largest possible distance between two points, one on the sphere of radius 19 with center $(-2, -10, 5)$ and the other on the sphere of radius 87 with center $(12, 8, -16)$?
Suppose we climb a mountain that is a cone with radius $100$ and height $4$. We start at the bottom of the mountain (on the perimeter of the base of the cone), and our destination is the opposite side of the mountain, halfway up (height $z = 2$). Our climbing speed starts at $v_0=2$ but gets slower at a rate inversely proportional to the distance to the mountain top (so at height $z$ the speed $v$ is $(h-z)v_0/h$). Find the minimum time needed to get to the destination.
Consider the regular pyramid $VABCD$ with the vertex in $V$ which measures the angle formed by two opposite lateral edges is $45^o$. The points $M,N,P$ are respectively, the projections of the point $A$ on the line $VC$, the symmetric of the point $M$ with respect to the plane $(VBD)$ and the symmetric of the point $N$ with respect to $O$. ($O$ is the center of the base of the pyramid.) a) Show that the polyhedron $MDNBP$ is a regular pyramid. b) Determine the measure of the angle between the line $ND$ and the plane $(ABC) $
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 $M.$
Let there be given a pyramid $SABCD$ whose base $ABCD$ is a parallelogram. Let $N$ be the midpoint of $BC$. A plane $\lambda$ intersects the lines $SC,SA,AB$ at points $P,Q,R$ respectively such that $\overline{CP}/\overline{CS}=\overline{SQ}/\overline{SA}=\overline{AR}/\overline{AB}$. A point $M$ on the line $SD$ is such that the line $MN$ is parallel to $\lambda$. Show that the locus of points $M$, when $\lambda$ takes all possible positions, is a segment of the length $\frac{\sqrt5}2SD$.