Found problems: 2265
An ant is on the bottom edge of a right circular cone with base area $\pi$ and slant length $6$. What is the shortest distance that the ant has to travel to loop around the cone and come back to its starting position?
There is a ring outside of Saturn. In order to distinguish if the ring is actually a part of Saturn or is instead part of the satellites of Saturn, we need to know the relation between the velocity $v$ of each layer in the ring and the distance $R$ of the layer to the center of Saturn. Which of the following statements is correct?
$\textbf{(A) }$ If $v \propto R$, then the layer is part of Saturn.
$\textbf{(B) }$ If $v^2 \propto R$, then the layer is part of the satellites of Saturn.
$\textbf{(C) }$ If $v \propto 1/R$, then the layer is part of Saturn.
$\textbf{(D) }$ If $v^2 \propto 1/R$, then the layer is part of Saturn.
$\textbf{(E) }$ If $v \propto R^2$, then the layer is part of the satellites of Saturn.
Prove that if the distance from a point inside a convex polyhedra with $n$ faces to the vertices of the polyhedra is at most 1, then the sum of the distances from this point to the faces of the polyhedra is smaller than $n-2$.
[i]Calin Popescu[/i]
The four faces of a right triangular pyramid are equilateral triangles whose edge measures $3$ dm. Suppose the pyramid is hollow, resting on one of its faces at a horizontal surface (see attached figure) and that there is $2$ dm$^3$ of water inside. Determine the height that the liquid reaches inside the pyramid.
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Prove this proposition: Center the sphere circumscribed around a tetrahedron which coincides with the center of a sphere inscribed in that tetrahedron if and only if the skew edges of the tetrahedron are equal.
Three points of a triangle are among 8 vertex of a cube. So the number of such acute triangles is
$\text{(A)}0\qquad\text{(B)}6\qquad\text{(C)}8\qquad\text{(D)}24$
Find the mathematical expectation of the area of the projection of a cube with edge of length $1$ onto a plane with an isotropically distributed random direction of projection.
The rectangle $ABCD$ below has dimensions $AB = 12 \sqrt{3}$ and $BC = 13 \sqrt{3}$. Diagonals $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{BD}$ intersect at $P$. If triangle $ABP$ is cut out and removed, edges $\overline{AP}$ and $\overline{BP}$ are joined, and the figure is then creased along segments $\overline{CP}$ and $\overline{DP}$, we obtain a triangular pyramid, all four of whose faces are isosceles triangles. Find the volume of this pyramid.
[asy]
pair D=origin, A=(13,0), B=(13,12), C=(0,12), P=(6.5, 6);
draw(B--C--P--D--C^^D--A);
filldraw(A--P--B--cycle, gray, black);
label("$A$", A, SE);
label("$B$", B, NE);
label("$C$", C, NW);
label("$D$", D, SW);
label("$P$", P, N);
label("$13\sqrt{3}$", A--D, S);
label("$12\sqrt{3}$", A--B, E);[/asy]
Prove that the volume of a tetrahedron inscribed in a right circular cylinder of volume $1$ does not exceed $\frac{2}{3 \pi}.$
Each edge of a cube is colored either red or black. Every face of the cube has at least one black edge. The smallest possible number of black edges is
$\textbf{(A) }2\qquad
\textbf{(B) }3\qquad
\textbf{(C) }4\qquad
\textbf{(D) }5\qquad
\textbf{(E) }6\qquad$
A square is divided into rectangles.
A "chain" is a subset $K$ of the set of these rectangles such that there exists a side of the square which is covered by projections of rectangles of $K$ and such that no point of this side is a projection of two inner points of two inner points of two different rectangles of $K$.
(a) Prove that every two rectangles in such a division are members of a certain "chain".
(b) Solve the similar problem for a cube, divided into rectangular parallelopipeds (in the definition of chain , replace "side" by"edge") .
(A.I . Golberg, V.A. Gurevich)
Three identical spheres fit into a glass with rectangular sides and bottom and top in the form of regular hexagons such that every sphere touches every side of the glass. The glass has volume $108$ cm$^3$. What is the sidelength of the bottom?
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A cube of edge $3$ cm is cut into $N$ smaller cubes, not all the same size. If the edge of each of the smaller cubes is a whole number of centimeters, then $N=$
$\text{(A)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 8 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 12 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 16 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 20$
The numbers from $ 1$ to $ 8$ are placed at the vertices of a cube in such a manner that the sum of the four numbers on each face is the same. What is this common sum?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 14 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 16 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 18 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 20 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 24$
Each face of a cube has been divided into four equal quarters and each quarter is painted with one of three available colours. Quarters with common sides are painted with different colours . Prove that each of the available colours was used in painting $8$ quarters.
(I.Bogdanov) A section of a regular tetragonal pyramid is a regular pentagon. Find the ratio of its side to the side of the base of the pyramid.
In the unit cube, given 75 points, no three of which are collinear. Prove that there exits a triangle whose vertices are among the given points and whose area is not greater than 7/72.
Square pyramid $ABCDE$ has base $ABCD,$ which measures $3$ cm on a side, and altitude $\overline{AE}$ perpendicular to the base$,$ which measures $6$ cm. Point $P$ lies on $\overline{BE},$ one third of the way from $B$ to $E;$ point $Q$ lies on $\overline{DE},$ one third of the way from $D$ to $E;$ and point $R$ lies on $\overline{CE},$ two thirds of the way from $C$ to $E.$ What is the area, in square centimeters, of $\triangle PQR?$
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{3\sqrt2}{2} \qquad\textbf{(B) } \frac{3\sqrt3}{2} \qquad\textbf{(C) } 2\sqrt2 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 2\sqrt3 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 3\sqrt2$
Let $A,B,C$ be three distinct points in space, $(A)$ the sphere with center $A$ and radius $r$. Let $E$ be the set of numbers $R>0$ for which there is a sphere $(H)$ with center $H$ and radius $R$ such that $B$ and $C$ are outside the sphere, and the points of the sphere $(A)$ are strictly inside it.
(a) Suppose that $B$ and $C$ are on a line with $A$ and strictly outside $(A)$. Show that $E$ is nonempty and bounded, and determine its supremum in terms of the given data.
(b) Find a necessary and sufficient condition for $E$ to be nonempty and bounded
(c) Given $r$, compute the smallest possible supremum of $E$, if it exists.
There are $8436$ steel balls, each with radius $1$ centimeter, stacked in a tetrahedral pile, with one ball on top, $3$ balls in the second layer, $6$ in the third layer, $10$ in the fourth, and so on. Determine the height of the pile in centimeters.
Two equilateral triangles $ABC$ and $DEF$, each with side length $1$, are drawn in $2$ parallel planes such that when one plane is projected onto the other, the vertices of the triangles form a regular hexagon $AF BDCE$. Line segments $AE$, $AF$, $BF$, $BD$, $CD,$ and $CE$ are drawn, and suppose that each of these segments also has length $1$. Compute the volume of the resulting solid that is formed.
For what values of $n$ is it possible to paint the edges of a prism whose base is an $n$-gon so that there are edges of all three colours at each vertex and all the faces (including the upper and lower bases) have edges of all three colours?
(AV Shapovelov)
Given three tetrahedrons $A_iB_i C_i D_i$ ($i=1,2,3$), planes $\alpha _i,\beta _i,\gamma _i$ ($i=1,2,3$) are drawn through $B_i ,C_i ,D_i$ respectively, and they are perpendicular to edges $A_i B_i, A_i C_i, A_i D_i$ ($i=1,2,3$) respectively. Suppose that all nine planes $\alpha _i,\beta _i,\gamma _i$ ($i=1,2,3$) meet at a point $E$, and points $A_1,A_2,A_3$ lie on line $l$. Determine the intersection (shape and position) of the circumscribed spheres of the three tetrahedrons.
An ant, which is on an edge of a cube of side $8$, must travel on the surface and return to the starting point. It's path must contain interior points of the six faces of the cube and should visit only once each face of the cube. Find the length of the path that the ant can carry out and justify why it is the shortest path.
Five edges of a tetrahedron are tangent to a sphere. Prove that there are another five edges from this tetrahedron that are also tangent to a $($not necessarily the same$)$ sphere.