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Five points are on the surface of of a sphere of radius $1$. Let $a_{\text{min}}$ denote the smallest distance (measured along a straight line in space) between any two of these points. What is the maximum value for $a_{\text{min}}$, taken over all arrangements of the five points?
The volume of a pyramid whose base is an equilateral triangle of side length 6 and whose other edges are each of length $ \sqrt{15}$ is
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 9 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 9/2 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 27/2 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{9\sqrt3}{2} \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of these}$
A $ 3\times3\times3$ cube composed of $ 27$ unit cubes rests on a horizontal plane. Determine the number of ways of selecting two distinct unit cubes from a $ 3\times3\times1$ block (the order is irrelevant) with the property that the line joining the centers of the two cubes makes a $ 45^\circ$ angle with the horizontal plane.
At the two ends $A, B$ of a diameter (of length $2r$) of a pavement horizontal circular rise two vertical columns, of equal height h, whose ends support a beam $A' B' $ of length equal to the before mentioned diameter. It forms a covered by placing numerous taut cables (which are admitted to be rectilinear), joining points of the beam $A'B'$ with points of the circumference edge of the pavement, so that the cables are perpendicular to the beam $A'B'$ . You want to find out the volume enclosed between the roof and the pavement.
[hide=original wording]En los dos extremos A, B de un di´ametro (de longitud 2r) de un pavimento circular horizontal se levantan sendas columnas verticales, de igual altura h, cuyos extremos soportan una viga A' B' de longitud igual al diametro citado. Se forma una cubierta colocando numerosos cables tensos (que se admite que quedan rectilıneos), uniendo puntos de la viga A'B' con puntos de la circunferencia borde del pavimento, de manera que los cables queden perpendiculares a la viga A'B' . Se desea averiguar el volumen encerrado entre la cubierta y el pavimento.[/hide]
Prove that the volume of a tetrahedron inscribed in a right circular cylinder of volume $1$ does not exceed $\frac{2}{3 \pi}.$
Let $MABCD$ be a pyramid with the square $ABCD$ as the base, in which $MA=MD$, $MA^2+AB^2=MB^2$ and the area of $\triangle ADM$ is equal to $1$. Determine the radius of the largest ball that is contained in the given pyramid.
How many line segments have both their endpoints located at the vertices of a given cube?
$\text{(A)}\ 12 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 15 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 24 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 28\qquad \text{(E)}\ 56$
It is known that the distances from all the vertices of a cube and the centers of its faces to a certain plane ($14$ values in total) take two different values. The smallest is $1$. What can the edge of a cube be equal to?
The $ABCDA_1B_1C_1D_1$ cube has unit length edges. Find the distance between two circumferences, one of those is inscribed into the $ABCD$ base, and another comes through points $A,C$ and $B_1$ .
In a circular tower with an internal diameter of $ 2$ m, there is a spiral staircase with a height of $ 6$ m. The height of each stair step is $ 0.15$ m. In the horizontal projection, the steps form adjacent circular sections with an angle of $ 18^\circ $. The narrower ends of the steps are mounted in a round pillar with a diameter of $ 0.64$ m, the axis of which coincides with the axis of the tower. Calculate the greatest length of a straight rod that can be moved up these stairs from the bottom to the top (do not take into account the thickness of the rod or the thickness of the boards from which the stairs are made).
Consider cubes of edge length 5 composed of 125 cubes of edge length 1 where each of the 125 cubes is either coloured black or white. A cube of edge length 5 is called "big", a cube od edge length is called "small". A posititve integer $ n$ is called "representable" if there is a big cube with exactly $ n$ small cubes where each row of five small cubes has an even number of black cubes whose centres lie on a line with distances $ 1,2,3,4$ (zero counts as even number).
(a) What is the smallest and biggest representable number?
(b) Construct 45 representable numbers.
Renata the robot packs boxes in a warehouse. Each box is a cube of side length $1$ foot. The warehouse floor is a square, $12$ feet on each side, and is divided into a $12$-by-$12$ grid of square tiles $1$ foot on a side. Each tile can either support one box or be empty. The warehouse has exactly one door, which opens onto one of the corner tiles.
Renata fits on a tile and can roll between tiles that share a side. To access a box, Renata must be able to roll along a path of empty tiles starting at the door and ending at a tile sharing a side with that box.
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[*]Show how Renata can pack $91$ boxes into the warehouse and still be able to access any box.
[*]Show that Renata [b]cannot[/b] pack $95$ boxes into the warehouse and still be able to access any box.[/list]
The number of cubic feet in the volume of a cube is the same as the number of square inches in its surface area. The length of the edge expressed as a number of feet is
$\textbf{(A) }6\qquad\textbf{(B) }864\qquad\textbf{(C) }1728\qquad\textbf{(D) }6\times 1728\qquad \textbf{(E) }2304$
Prove that for an arbitrary pair of vectors $f$ and $g$ in the space the inequality
\[af^2 + bfg +cg^2 \geq 0\]
holds if and only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
\[a \geq 0, \quad c \geq 0, \quad 4ac \geq b^2.\]
If $k$ is an integer, let $\mathrm{c}(k)$ denote the largest cube that is less than or equal to $k$. Find all positive integers $p$ for which the following sequence is bounded:
$a_0 = p$ and $a_{n+1} = 3a_n-2\mathrm{c}(a_n)$ for $n \geqslant 0$.
Given a right circular cone and a point $A$. Find the set of vertices of cones equal to the given one, with axes parallel to that of the given one, and with $A$ inside them. We shall assume that the cone is infinite in one side.
Find the distance of the centre of gravity of a uniform $100$-dimensional solid hemisphere of radius $1$ from the centre of the sphere with $10\%$ relative error.
G. H. Hardy once went to visit Srinivasa Ramanujan in the hospital, and he started the conversation with: “I came here in taxi-cab number $1729$. That number seems dull to me, which I hope isn’t a bad omen.” “Nonsense,” said Ramanujan. “The number isn’t dull at all. It’s quite interesting. It’s the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.” Ramujan had immediately seen that $1729=12^3+1^3=10^3+9^3$. What is the smallest positive integer representable as the sum of the cubes of [i]three[/i] positive integers in two different ways?
Consider all planes through the center of a $2\times2\times2$ cube that create cross sections that are regular polygons. The sum of the cross sections for each of these planes can be written in the form $a\sqrt b+c$, where $b$ is a square-free positive integer. Find $a+b+c$.
Is it possible to cover the surface of a regular octahedron by several regular hexagons without gaps and overlaps? (A regular octahedron has $6$ vertices, each face is an equilateral triangle, each vertex belongs to $4$ faces.)
(a) Let there be given a rectangular parallelepiped. Show that some four of its vertices determine a tetrahedron whose all faces are right triangles.
(b) Conversely, prove that every tetrahedron whose all faces are right triangles can be obtained by selecting four vertices of a rectangular parallelepiped.
(c) Now investigate such tetrahedra which also have at least two isosceles faces. Given the length $a$ of the shortest edge, compute the lengths of the other edges.
Each vertex of a cube is assigned an 1 or a -1, and each face is assigned the product of the numbers assigned to its vertices. Determine the possible values the sum of these 14 numbers can attain.
The midpoints of all heights of a certain tetrahedron lie on its inscribed sphere. Is this tetrahedron necessarily regular then?
Consider a tetrahedron $SABC$. The incircle of the triangle $ABC$ has the center $I$ and touches its sides $BC$, $CA$, $AB$ at the points $E$, $F$, $D$, respectively. Let $A^{\prime}$, $B^{\prime}$, $C^{\prime}$ be the points on the segments $SA$, $SB$, $SC$ such that $AA^{\prime}=AD$, $BB^{\prime}=BE$, $CC^{\prime}=CF$, and let $S^{\prime}$ be the point diametrically opposite to the point $S$ on the circumsphere of the tetrahedron $SABC$. Assume that the line $SI$ is an altitude of the tetrahedron $SABC$. Show that $S^{\prime}A^{\prime}=S^{\prime}B^{\prime}=S^{\prime}C^{\prime}$.
In regular triangular pyramid $P-ABC$, $PO$ is its height, $M$ is the midpoint of $PO$. Draw the plane that passes $AM$ and parallel to $BC$. Now the triangular pyramid is divided into two parts. Find the ratio of their volume.