Found problems: 698
Fencing Ferdinand wants to fence three rectangular areas. there are fences in three types, with $4$ amount of fences of each type. You will notice that there is always at least as much area it manages to enclose a total of three by enclosing three square areas (i.e., each area fencing elements of the same size to enclose it) as if it were three different, rectangular would encircle an area (i.e., use two different elements for each of the three areas). Why is this is so? When does it not matter how he fences the rectangles, in terms of the sum of the areas?
A unit square has a circle of radius $r$ with center at it's midpoint. The four quarter circles are centered on the vertices of the square and are tangent to the central circle (see figure). Find the maximum and minimum possible value of the area of the striped figure in the figure and the corresponding values of $r$ such these, the maximum and minimum are achieved.
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(a) A regular $4k$-gon is cut into parallelograms. Prove that among these there are at least $k$ rectangles.
(b) Find the total area of the rectangles in (a) if the lengths of the sides of the $4k$-gon equal $a$.
(VV Proizvolov, Moscow)
Given a (not necessarily regular) tetrahedron, all of its sides are equal in area. Prove that the following points then coincide:
a) the center of the inscribed sphere, i.e. all four side surfaces internally touching sphere,
b) the center of the surrounding sphere, i.e. the sphere passing through the four vertixes.
Prove that any rigid flat triangle $T$ of area less than $4$ can be inserted through a triangular hole $Q$ with area $3$.
Find whether among all quadrilaterals, whose interiors lie inside a semi-circle of radius $r$, there exist one (or more) with maximum area. If so, determine their shape and area.
The two sides $BC$ and $CD$ of an inscribed quadrangle $ABCD$ are of equal length. Prove that the area of this quadrangle is equal to $S =\frac12 \cdot AC^2 \cdot \sin \angle A$
Let $ABCD$ be a rhombus of sides $AB = BC = CD= DA = 13$. On the side $AB$ construct the rhombus $BAFE$ outside $ABCD$ and such that the side $AF$ is parallel to the diagonal $BD$ of $ABCD$. If the area of $BAFE$ is equal to $65$, calculate the area of $ABCD$.
Prove that a triangle inscribed in a parallelogram has at most half the area of the parallelogram.
An infinite rectangular stripe of width $3$ cm is folded along a line. What is the minimum possible area of the region of overlapping?
Three cevians divided the triangle into six triangles, the areas of which are marked in the figure.
1) Prove that $S_1 \cdot S_2 \cdot S_3 =Q_1 \cdot Q_2 \cdot Q_3$.
2) Determine whether it is true that if $S_1 = S_2 = S_3$, then $Q_1 = Q_2 = Q_3$.
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Given two acute triangles $\vartriangle ABC, \vartriangle DEF$. If $AB \ge DE, BC \ge EF$ and $CA \ge FD$, show that the area of $\vartriangle ABC$ is not less than the area of $\vartriangle DEF$
In an acute-angled triangle $ABC$ the altitudes $AU,BV,CW$ intersect at $H$.
Points $X,Y,Z$, different from $H$, are taken on segments $AU,BV$, and $CW$, respectively.
(a) Prove that if $X,Y,Z$ and $H$ lie on a circle, then the sum of the areas of triangles $ABZ, AYC, XBC$ equals the area of $ABC$.
(b) Prove the converse of (a).
Rosa and Sara play with a triangle $ABC$, right at $B$. Rosa begins by marking two interior points of the hypotenuse $AC$, then Sara marks an interior point of the hypotenuse $AC$ different from those of Rosa. Then, from these three points the perpendiculars to the sides $AB$ and $BC$ are drawn, forming the following figure.
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Sara wins if the area of the shaded surface is equal to the area of the unshaded surface, in other case wins Rosa. Determine who of the two has a winning strategy.
Let $A'$, $B'$ and $C'$ be points on the sides $BC$, $CA$ and $AB$, respectively, of an equilateral triangle $ABC$. If $AC' = 2C'B$, $BA' = 2A'C$ and $CB' = 2B'A$, prove that the lines $AA'$, $BB'$ and $CC'$ enclose a triangle whose area is $1/7$ that of $ABC$.
Ten coins of $1$ cm radius are placed around a circle as indicated in the figure.
Each coin is tangent to the circle and its two neighboring coins.
Prove that the sum of the areas of the ten coins is twice the area of the circle.
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On the sides of the right triangle, outside are constructed regular nonagons, which are constructed on one of the catheti and on the hypotenuse, with areas equal to $1602$ $cm^2$ and $2019$ $cm^2$, respectively. What is the area of the nonagon that is constructed on the other cathetus of this triangle?
(Vladislav Kirilyuk)
Given a rectangle $ABCD$. Points $E$ and $F$ lie on sides $BC$ and $CD$ respectively so that the area of triangles $ABE$, $ECF$, $FDA$ is equal to $1$. Determine the area of triangle $AEF$.
Prove that all quadrilaterals $ABCD$ where $\angle B = \angle D = 90^o$, $|AB| = |BC|$ and $|AD| + |DC| = 1$, have the same area.
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Let $ABC$ be a triangle, and $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$, Let $N$ be the point on the segment $AM$ with $AN = 3NM$, and $P$ be the intersection point of the lines $BN$ and $AC$. What is the area in cm$^2$ of the triangle $ANP$ if the area of the triangle $ABC$ is $40$ cm$^2$?
In a garden there is an $L$-shaped fence, see figure. You also have at your disposal two finished straight fence sections that are $13$ m and $14$ m long respectively. From point $A$ you want to delimit a part of the garden with an area of at least $200$ m$^2$ . Is it possible to do this?
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Compute the area of an octagon inscribed in a circle, whose four sides have length $1$ and the other four sides have length $2$.
Consider the pyramid $ VABCD, $ where $ V $ is the top and $ ABCD $ is a rectangular base. If $ \angle BVD = \angle AVC, $ then prove that the triangles $ VAC $ and $ VBD $ share the same perimeter and area.
Prove that a line that divides a triangle into two polygons of equal area and equal perimeter passes through the center of the circle inscribed in the triangle. Prove an analogous property for a polygon that has an inscribed circle.
What is the maximum area of an isosceles trapezoid that has legs of length $1$ and one base twice as long as the other?
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\textbf{(A) }\frac 54 \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac 87 \qquad \textbf{(C)} \frac{5\sqrt2}4 \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac 32 \qquad \textbf{(E) } \frac{3\sqrt3}4 $