Found problems: 43
1987 IMO Longlists, 35
Does there exist a set $M$ in usual Euclidean space such that for every plane $\lambda$ the intersection $M \cap \lambda$ is finite and nonempty ?
[i]Proposed by Hungary.[/i]
[hide="Remark"]I'm not sure I'm posting this in a right Forum.[/hide]
1979 IMO Longlists, 46
Let $K$ denote the set $\{a, b, c, d, e\}$. $F$ is a collection of $16$ different subsets of $K$, and it is known that any three members of $F$ have at least one element in common. Show that all $16$ members of $F$ have exactly one element in common.
1969 IMO Shortlist, 42
$(MON 3)$ Let $A_k (1 \le k \le h)$ be $n-$element sets such that each two of them have a nonempty intersection. Let $A$ be the union of all the sets $A_k,$ and let $B$ be a subset of $A$ such that for each $k (1\le k \le h)$ the intersection of $A_k$ and $B$ consists of exactly two different elements $a_k$ and $b_k$. Find all subsets $X$ of the set $A$ with $r$ elements satisfying the condition that for at least one index $k,$ both elements $a_k$ and $b_k$ belong to $X$.
2023 German National Olympiad, 5
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with altitudes $AA'$ and $BB'$ and orthocenter $H$. Let $C_0$ be the midpoint of the segment $AB$. Let $g$ be the line symmetric to the line $CC_0$ with respect to the angular bisector of $\angle ACB$. Let $h$ be the line symmetric to the line $HC_0$ with respect to the angular bisector of $\angle AHB$.
Show that the lines $g$ and $h$ intersect on the line $A'B'$.
2015 Germany Team Selection Test, 3
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with $|AB| \neq |AC|$ and the midpoints of segments $[AB]$ and $[AC]$ be $D$ resp. $E$. The circumcircles of the triangles $BCD$ and $BCE$ intersect the circumcircle of triangle $ADE$ in $P$ resp. $Q$ with $P \neq D$ and $Q \neq E$.
Prove $|AP|=|AQ|$.
[i](Notation: $|\cdot|$ denotes the length of a segment and $[\cdot]$ denotes the line segment.)[/i]
2006 Irish Math Olympiad, 5
Let ${n}$ and $k$ be positive integers. There are given ${n}$ circles in the plane. Every two of them intersect at two distinct points, and all points of intersection they determine are pairwise distinct (i. e. no three circles have a common point). No three circles have a point in common. Each intersection point must be colored with one of $n$ distinct colors so that each color is used at least once and exactly $k$ distinct colors occur on each circle. Find all values of $n\geq 2$ and $k$ for which such a coloring is possible.
[i]Proposed by Horst Sewerin, Germany[/i]
1966 IMO Longlists, 39
Consider a circle with center $O$ and radius $R,$ and let $A$ and $B$ be two points in the plane of this circle.
[b]a.)[/b] Draw a chord $CD$ of the circle such that $CD$ is parallel to $AB,$ and the point of the intersection $P$ of the lines $AC$ and $BD$ lies on the circle.
[b]b.)[/b] Show that generally, one gets two possible points $P$ ($P_{1}$ and $P_{2}$) satisfying the condition of the above problem, and compute the distance between these two points, if the lengths $OA=a,$ $OB=b$ and $AB=d$ are given.
2015 Germany Team Selection Test, 3
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with $|AB| \neq |AC|$ and the midpoints of segments $[AB]$ and $[AC]$ be $D$ resp. $E$. The circumcircles of the triangles $BCD$ and $BCE$ intersect the circumcircle of triangle $ADE$ in $P$ resp. $Q$ with $P \neq D$ and $Q \neq E$.
Prove $|AP|=|AQ|$.
[i](Notation: $|\cdot|$ denotes the length of a segment and $[\cdot]$ denotes the line segment.)[/i]
1992 IMO Longlists, 15
Prove that there exist $78$ lines in the plane such that they have exactly $1992$ points of intersection.
1964 IMO Shortlist, 5
Supppose five points in a plane are situated so that no two of the straight lines joining them are parallel, perpendicular, or coincident. From each point perpendiculars are drawn to all the lines joining the other four points. Determine the maxium number of intersections that these perpendiculars can have.
2010 Contests, 3
Let $I_1, I_2, I_3$ be three open intervals of $\mathbb{R}$ such that none is contained in another. If $I_1\cap I_2 \cap I_3$ is non-empty, then show that at least one of these intervals is contained in the union of the other two.
1975 IMO Shortlist, 9
Let $f(x)$ be a continuous function defined on the closed interval $0 \leq x \leq 1$. Let $G(f)$ denote the graph of $f(x): G(f) = \{(x, y) \in \mathbb R^2 | 0 \leq$$ x \leq 1, y = f(x) \}$. Let $G_a(f)$ denote the graph of the translated function $f(x - a)$ (translated over a distance $a$), defined by $G_a(f) = \{(x, y) \in \mathbb R^2 | a \leq x \leq a + 1, y = f(x - a) \}$. Is it possible to find for every $a, \ 0 < a < 1$, a continuous function $f(x)$, defined on $0 \leq x \leq 1$, such that $f(0) = f(1) = 0$ and $G(f)$ and $G_a(f)$ are disjoint point sets ?
2025 Euler Olympiad, Round 2, 2
Points $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$ lie on a line in that order, and points $E$ and $F$ are located outside the line such that $EA=EB$, $FC=FD$ and $EF \parallel AD$. Let the circumcircles of triangles $ABF$ and $CDE$ intersect at points $P$ and $Q$, and the circumcircles of triangles $ACF$ and $BDE$ intersect at points $M$ and $N$. Prove that the lines $PQ$ and $MN$ pass through the midpoint of segment $EF$.
[i]
Proposed by Giorgi Arabidze, Georgia[/i]
2003 IMO Shortlist, 2
Let $D_1$, $D_2$, ..., $D_n$ be closed discs in the plane. (A closed disc is the region limited by a circle, taken jointly with this circle.) Suppose that every point in the plane is contained in at most $2003$ discs $D_i$. Prove that there exists a disc $D_k$ which intersects at most $7\cdot 2003 - 1 = 14020$ other discs $D_i$.
2004 Germany Team Selection Test, 1
Let $D_1$, $D_2$, ..., $D_n$ be closed discs in the plane. (A closed disc is the region limited by a circle, taken jointly with this circle.) Suppose that every point in the plane is contained in at most $2003$ discs $D_i$. Prove that there exists a disc $D_k$ which intersects at most $7\cdot 2003 - 1 = 14020$ other discs $D_i$.
2016 IMAR Test, 2
Given a positive integer $n$, does there exist a planar polygon and a point in its plane such that every line through that point meets the boundary of the polygon at exactly $2n$ points?
2000 IMO Shortlist, 5
In the plane we have $n$ rectangles with parallel sides. The sides of distinct rectangles lie on distinct lines. The boundaries of the rectangles cut the plane into connected regions. A region is [i]nice[/i] if it has at least one of the vertices of the $n$ rectangles on the boundary. Prove that the sum of the numbers of the vertices of all nice regions is less than $40n$. (There can be nonconvex regions as well as regions with more than one boundary curve.)
1975 IMO Shortlist, 13
Let $A_0,A_1, \ldots , A_n$ be points in a plane such that
(i) $A_0A_1 \leq \frac{1}{ 2} A_1A_2 \leq \cdots \leq \frac{1}{2^{n-1} } A_{n-1}A_n$ and
(ii) $0 < \measuredangle A_0A_1A_2 < \measuredangle A_1A_2A_3 < \cdots < \measuredangle A_{n-2}A_{n-1}A_n < 180^\circ,$
where all these angles have the same orientation. Prove that the segments $A_kA_{k+1},A_mA_{m+1}$ do not intersect for each $k$ and $n$ such that $0 \leq k \leq m - 2 < n- 2.$
2004 IMO Shortlist, 2
Let ${n}$ and $k$ be positive integers. There are given ${n}$ circles in the plane. Every two of them intersect at two distinct points, and all points of intersection they determine are pairwise distinct (i. e. no three circles have a common point). No three circles have a point in common. Each intersection point must be colored with one of $n$ distinct colors so that each color is used at least once and exactly $k$ distinct colors occur on each circle. Find all values of $n\geq 2$ and $k$ for which such a coloring is possible.
[i]Proposed by Horst Sewerin, Germany[/i]
2021 Iberoamerican, 5
For a finite set $C$ of integer numbers, we define $S(C)$ as the sum of the elements of $C$. Find two non-empty sets $A$ and $B$ whose intersection is empty, whose union is the set $\{1,2,\ldots, 2021\}$ and such that the product $S(A)S(B)$ is a perfect square.
1987 IMO Shortlist, 9
Does there exist a set $M$ in usual Euclidean space such that for every plane $\lambda$ the intersection $M \cap \lambda$ is finite and nonempty ?
[i]Proposed by Hungary.[/i]
[hide="Remark"]I'm not sure I'm posting this in a right Forum.[/hide]
2017 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 3
Let $M$ be the incenter of the tangential quadrilateral $A_1A_2A_3A_4$. Let line $g_1$ through $A_1$ be perpendicular to $A_1M$; define $g_2,g_3$ and $g_4$ similarly. The lines $g_1,g_2,g_3$ and $g_4$ define another quadrilateral $B_1B_2B_3B_4$ having $B_1$ be the intersection of $g_1$ and $g_2$; similarly $B_2,B_3$ and $B_4$ are intersections of $g_2$ and $g_3$, $g_3$ and $g_4$, resp. $g_4$ and $g_1$.
Prove that the diagonals of quadrilateral $B_1B_2B_3B_4$ intersect in point $M$.
[asy]
import graph; size(15cm); real lsf=0.5; pen dps=linewidth(0.7)+fontsize(10); defaultpen(dps); pen ds=black; real xmin=-9.773972777861085,xmax=12.231603726660566,ymin=-3.9255487671791487,ymax=7.37238601960895;
pair M=(2.,2.), A_4=(-1.6391623316400197,1.2875505916864178), A_1=(3.068893183992864,-0.5728665455336459), A_2=(4.30385937824148,2.2922812065339455), A_3=(2.221541124684679,4.978916319940133), B_4=(-0.9482172571022687,-2.24176848577888), B_1=(4.5873184669543345,0.057960746374459436), B_2=(3.9796042717514277,4.848169684238838), B_3=(-2.4295496490492385,5.324816563638236);
draw(circle(M,2.),linewidth(0.8)); draw(A_4--A_1,linewidth(0.8)); draw(A_1--A_2,linewidth(0.8)); draw(A_2--A_3,linewidth(0.8)); draw(A_3--A_4,linewidth(0.8)); draw(M--A_3,linewidth(0.8)+dotted); draw(M--A_2,linewidth(0.8)+dotted); draw(M--A_1,linewidth(0.8)+dotted); draw(M--A_4,linewidth(0.8)+dotted); draw((xmin,-0.07436970390935019*xmin+5.144131675605378)--(xmax,-0.07436970390935019*xmax+5.144131675605378),linewidth(0.8)); draw((xmin,-7.882338401302275*xmin+36.2167572574517)--(xmax,-7.882338401302275*xmax+36.2167572574517),linewidth(0.8)); draw((xmin,0.4154483588930812*xmin-1.847833182441644)--(xmax,0.4154483588930812*xmax-1.847833182441644),linewidth(0.8)); draw((xmin,-5.107958950031516*xmin-7.085223310768749)--(xmax,-5.107958950031516*xmax-7.085223310768749),linewidth(0.8));
dot(M,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$M$",(2.0593440948136896,2.0872038897020024),NE*lsf); dot(A_4,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$A_4$",(-2.6355449660387147,1.085078446888477),NE*lsf); dot(A_1,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$A_1$",(3.1575637581709772,-1.2486383377457595),NE*lsf); dot(A_2,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$A_2$",(4.502882845783654,2.30684782237346),NE*lsf); dot(A_3,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$A_3$",(2.169166061149418,5.203402184478307),NE*lsf); label("$g_3$",(-9.691606303109287,5.354407388189934),NE*lsf); label("$g_2$",(3.0889250292111465,6.727181967386543),NE*lsf); label("$g_1$",(-4.763345563793459,-3.4725331560442676),NE*lsf); label("$g_4$",(-2.663000457622647,6.878187171098171),NE*lsf); dot(B_4,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$B_4$",(-1.5647807942653595,-3.0332452907013523),NE*lsf); dot(B_1,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$B_1$",(4.955898456918535,-0.6583452686912173),NE*lsf); dot(B_2,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$B_2$",(4.104778217816637,5.0661247265586455),NE*lsf); dot(B_3,linewidth(3.pt)+ds); label("$B_3$",(-3.4454819677647146,5.656417795613188),NE*lsf);
clip((xmin,ymin)--(xmin,ymax)--(xmax,ymax)--(xmax,ymin)--cycle);
[/asy]
2018 IFYM, Sozopol, 6
There are $a$ straight lines in a plane, no two of which are parallel to each other and no three intersect in one point.
a) Prove that there exist a straight line for which each of the two Half-Planes defined by it contains at least
$\lfloor \frac{(a-1)(a-2)}{10} \rfloor$
intersection points.
b) Find all $a$ for which the evaluation in a) is the best possible.
1979 IMO Shortlist, 16
Let $K$ denote the set $\{a, b, c, d, e\}$. $F$ is a collection of $16$ different subsets of $K$, and it is known that any three members of $F$ have at least one element in common. Show that all $16$ members of $F$ have exactly one element in common.
1966 IMO Shortlist, 39
Consider a circle with center $O$ and radius $R,$ and let $A$ and $B$ be two points in the plane of this circle.
[b]a.)[/b] Draw a chord $CD$ of the circle such that $CD$ is parallel to $AB,$ and the point of the intersection $P$ of the lines $AC$ and $BD$ lies on the circle.
[b]b.)[/b] Show that generally, one gets two possible points $P$ ($P_{1}$ and $P_{2}$) satisfying the condition of the above problem, and compute the distance between these two points, if the lengths $OA=a,$ $OB=b$ and $AB=d$ are given.