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Found problems: 821

1953 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 237

Three circles are pair-wise tangent to each other. Prove that the circle passing through the three tangent points is perpendicular to each of the initial three circles.

2018 Hanoi Open Mathematics Competitions, 10

There are $100$ school students from two clubs $A$ and $B$ standing in circle. Among them $62$ students stand next to at least one student from club $A$, and $54$ students stand next to at least one student from club $B$. 1) How many students stand side-by-side with one friend from club $A$ and one friend from club $B$? 2) What is the number of students from club $A$?

1982 Tournament Of Towns, (026) 4

(a) $10$ points dividing a circle into $10$ equal arcs are connected in pairs by $5$ chords. Is it necessary that two of these chords are of equal length? (b) $20$ points dividing a circle into $20$ equal arcs are connected in pairs by $10$ chords. Prove that among these $10$ chords there are two chords of equal length. (VV Proizvolov, Moscow)

1979 IMO Shortlist, 22

Two circles in a plane intersect. $A$ is one of the points of intersection. Starting simultaneously from $A$ two points move with constant speed, each travelling along its own circle in the same sense. The two points return to $A$ simultaneously after one revolution. Prove that there is a fixed point $P$ in the plane such that the two points are always equidistant from $P.$

Durer Math Competition CD Finals - geometry, 2016.C+4

Tags: geometry , circles
The two intersections of the circles $k_i$ and $k_{i + 1}$ are $P_i$ and $Q_i$ ($1 \le i \le 5, k_6 = k_1$). On the circle $k_1$ lies an arbitrary point $A$. Then the points $B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K$ lie on the circles $k_2, k_3, k_4, k_5, k_1, k_2, k_3, k_4, k_5, k_1$ respectively, such that $AP_1B, BP_2C, CP_3D, DP_4E, EP_5F, F Q_1G, GQ_2H, HQ_3I, IQ_4J, JQ_5K$ are straight line triplets. Prove that that $K = A$. [img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g6rF1hcPE08/X9j1SEJT7-I/AAAAAAAAMzc/2rWIiWTHZ34zfWVeGujkCxRW1hSCw5oOwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/2016%2BDurer%2BC..4.png[/img] [i]Circles can have different radii, and They can be located in different ways from the figure. We assume that during editing none neither of the two points mentioned above coincide.[/i]

1962 IMO Shortlist, 6

Consider an isosceles triangle. let $R$ be the radius of its circumscribed circle and $r$ be the radius of its inscribed circle. Prove that the distance $d$ between the centers of these two circle is \[ d=\sqrt{R(R-2r)} \]

2006 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 8.3

A parallelogram $ABCD$ is given. Two circles with centers at the vertices $A$ and $C$ pass through $B$. The straight line $\ell$ that passes through $B$ and crosses the circles at second time at points $X, Y$ respectively. Prove that $DX = DY$.

2016 BMT Spring, 14

Three circles of radius $1$ are inscribed in a square of side length $s$, such that the circles do not overlap or coincide with each other. What is the minimum $s$ where such a configuration is possible?

2016 Abels Math Contest (Norwegian MO) Final, 3a

Three circles $S_A, S_B$, and $S_C$ in the plane with centers in $A, B$, and $C$, respectively, are mutually tangential on the outside. The touchpoint between $S_A$ and $S_B$ we call $C'$, the one $S_A$ between $S_C$ we call $B'$, and the one between $S_B$ and $S_C$ we call $A'$. The common tangent between $S_A$ and $S_C$ (passing through B') we call $\ell_B$, and the common tangent between $S_B$ and $S_C$ (passing through $A'$) we call $\ell_A$. The intersection point of $\ell_A$ and $\ell_B$ is called $X$. The point $Y$ is located so that $\angle XBY$ and $\angle YAX$ are both right angles. Show that the points $X, Y$, and $C'$ lie on a line if and only if $AC = BC$.

1988 Mexico National Olympiad, 6

Consider two fixed points $B,C$ on a circle $w$. Find the locus of the incenters of all triangles $ABC$ when point $A$ describes $w$.

2012 Tournament of Towns, 2

One hundred points are marked inside a circle, with no three in a line. Prove that it is possible to connect the points in pairs such that all fifty lines intersect one another inside the circle.

2006 Estonia National Olympiad, 2

Prove that the circle with radius $2$ can be completely covered with $7$ unit circles

Denmark (Mohr) - geometry, 2003.4

Tags: geometry , max , circles
Georg and his mother love pizza. They buy a pizza shaped as an equilateral triangle. Georg demands to be allowed to divide the pizza by a straight cut and then make the first choice. The mother accepts this reluctantly, but she wants to choose a point of the pizza through which the cut must pass. Determine the largest fraction of the pizza which the mother is certain to get by this procedure.

1966 IMO Shortlist, 16

We are given a circle $K$ with center $S$ and radius $1$ and a square $Q$ with center $M$ and side $2$. Let $XY$ be the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle $XY Z$. Describe the locus of points $Z$ as $X$ varies along $K$ and $Y$ varies along the boundary of $Q.$

2001 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 5

The circles $ S_1 $ and $ S_2 $ intersect at points $ A $ and $ B $. Circle $ S_3 $ externally touches $ S_1 $ and $ S_2 $ at points $ C $ and $ D $ respectively. Let $ K $ be the midpoint of the chord cut by the line $ AB $ on circles $ S_3 $. Prove that $ \angle CKA = \angle DKA $.

1984 IMO Longlists, 63

Inside triangle $ABC$ there are three circles $k_1, k_2, k_3$ each of which is tangent to two sides of the triangle and to its incircle $k$. The radii of $k_1, k_2, k_3$ are $1, 4$, and $9$. Determine the radius of $k.$

2010 Contests, 1

Tags: geometry , circles
Consider a triangle $ABC$ such that $\angle A = 90^o, \angle C =60^o$ and $|AC|= 6$. Three circles with centers $A, B$ and $C$ are pairwise tangent in points on the three sides of the triangle. Determine the area of the region enclosed by the three circles (the grey area in the figure). [asy] unitsize(0.2 cm); pair A, B, C; real[] r; A = (6,0); B = (6,6*sqrt(3)); C = (0,0); r[1] = 3*sqrt(3) - 3; r[2] = 3*sqrt(3) + 3; r[3] = 9 - 3*sqrt(3); fill(arc(A,r[1],180,90)--arc(B,r[2],270,240)--arc(C,r[3],60,0)--cycle, gray(0.7)); draw(A--B--C--cycle); draw(Circle(A,r[1])); draw(Circle(B,r[2])); draw(Circle(C,r[3])); dot("$A$", A, SE); dot("$B$", B, NE); dot("$C$", C, SW); [/asy]

1983 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 351

Three disks touch pairwise from outside in the points $X,Y,Z$. Then the radiuses of the disks were expanded by $2/\sqrt3$ times, and the centres were reserved. Prove that the triangle $XYZ$ is completely covered by the expanded disks.

2017 AMC 8, 22

Tags: traingles , circles
In the right triangle $ABC$, $AC=12$, $BC=5$, and angle $C$ is a right angle. A semicircle is inscribed in the triangle as shown. What is the radius of the semicircle? [asy] draw((0,0)--(12,0)--(12,5)--(0,0)); draw(arc((8.67,0),(12,0),(5.33,0))); label("$A$", (0,0), W); label("$C$", (12,0), E); label("$B$", (12,5), NE); label("$12$", (6, 0), S); label("$5$", (12, 2.5), E);[/asy] $\textbf{(A) }\frac{7}{6}\qquad\textbf{(B) }\frac{13}{5}\qquad\textbf{(C) }\frac{59}{18}\qquad\textbf{(D) }\frac{10}{3}\qquad\textbf{(E) }\frac{60}{13}$

2017 Balkan MO Shortlist, C4

For any set of points $A_1, A_2,...,A_n$ on the plane, one defines $r( A_1, A_2,...,A_n)$ as the radius of the smallest circle that contains all of these points. Prove that if $n \ge 3$, there are indices $i,j,k$ such that $r( A_1, A_2,...,A_n)=r( A_i, A_j,A_k)$

2016 Germany Team Selection Test, 1

The two circles $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$ with the midpoints $O_1$ resp. $O_2$ intersect in the two distinct points $A$ and $B$. A line through $A$ meets $\Gamma_1$ in $C \neq A$ and $\Gamma_2$ in $D \neq A$. The lines $CO_1$ and $DO_2$ intersect in $X$. Prove that the four points $O_1,O_2,B$ and $X$ are concyclic.

1984 Swedish Mathematical Competition, 1

Let $A$ and $B$ be two points inside a circle $C$. Show that there exists a circle that contains $A$ and $B$ and lies completely inside $C$.

Denmark (Mohr) - geometry, 2018.2

Tags: geometry , circles , area
The figure shows a large circle with radius $2$ m and four small circles with radii $1$ m. It is to be painted using the three shown colours. What is the cost of painting the figure? [img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oWnh8uhyTIo/XzP30gZueKI/AAAAAAAAMUY/GlC3puNU_6g6YRf6hPpbQW8IE8IqMP3ugCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/2018%2BMohr%2Bp2.png[/img]

2002 Argentina National Olympiad, 3

In a circumference $\Gamma$ a chord $PQ$ is considered such that the segment that joins the midpoint of the smallest arc $PQ$ and the midpoint of the segment $PQ$ measures $1$. Let $\Gamma_1, \Gamma_2$ and $\Gamma_3$ be three tangent circumferences to the chord $PQ$ that are in the same half plane than the center of $\Gamma$ with respect to the line $PQ$. Furthermore, $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_3$ are internally tangent to $\Gamma$ and externally tangent to$ \Gamma_2$, and the centers of $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_3$ are on different halfplanes with respect to the line determined by the centers of $\Gamma$ and $\Gamma_2$. If the sum of the radii of $\Gamma_1, \Gamma_2$ and $\Gamma_3$ is equal to the radius of $\Gamma$, calculate the radius of $\Gamma_2$.

2009 Ukraine Team Selection Test, 8

Two circles $\gamma_1, \gamma_2$ are given, with centers at points $O_1, O_2$ respectively. Select a point $K$ on circle $\gamma_2$ and construct two circles, one $\gamma_3$ that touches circle $\gamma_2$ at point $K$ and circle $\gamma_1$ at a point $A$, and the other $\gamma_4$ that touches circle $\gamma_2$ at point $K$ and circle $\gamma_1$ at a point $B$. Prove that, regardless of the choice of point K on circle $\gamma_2$, all lines $AB$ pass through a fixed point of the plane.