Found problems: 821
There are $n=1681$ children, $a_1,a_2,...,a_{n}$ seated clockwise in a circle on the floor. The teacher walks behind the children in the clockwise direction with a box of $1000$ candies. She drops a candy behind the first child $a_1$. She then skips one child and drops a candy behind the third child, $a_3$. Now she skips two children and drops a candy behind the next child, $a_6$. She continues this way, at each stage skipping one child more than at the preceding stage before dropping a candy behind the next child. How many children will never receive a candy? Justify your answer.
Circle $C_1$ has center $O$ and radius $OA$, and circle $C_2$ has diameter $OA$. $AB$ is a chord of circle $C_1$ and $BD$ may be constructed with $D$ on $OA$ such that $BD$ and $OA$ are perpendicular. Let $C$ be the point where $C_2$ and $BD$ intersect. If $AC = 1$, find $AB$.
Let $r_A,r_B,r_C$ rays from point $P$. Define circles $w_A,w_B,w_C$ with centers $X,Y,Z$ such that $w_a$ is tangent to $r_B,r_C , w_B$ is tangent to $r_A, r_C$ and $w_C$ is tangent to $r_A,r_B$. Suppose $P$ lies inside triangle $XYZ$, and let $s_A,s_B,s_C$ be the internal tangents to circles $w_B$ and $w_C$; $w_A$ and $w_C$; $w_A$ and $w_B$ that do not contain rays $r_A,r_B,r_C$ respectively. Prove that $s_A, s_B, s_C$ concur at a point $Q$, and also that $P$ and $Q$ are isotomic conjugates.
[b]PS: The rays can be lines and the problem is still true.[/b]
Let $ABCD$ be an inscribed quadrilateral in a circle $c(O,R)$ (of circle $O$ and radius $R$). With centers the vertices $A,B,C,D$, we consider the circles $C_{A},C_{B},C_{C},C_{D}$ respectively, that do not intersect to each other . Circle $C_{A}$ intersects the sides of the quadrilateral at points $A_{1} , A_{2}$ , circle $C_{B}$ intersects the sides of the quadrilateral at points $B_{1} , B_{2}$ , circle $C_{C}$ at points $C_{1} , C_{2}$ and circle $C_{D}$ at points $C_{1} , C_{2}$ . Prove that the quadrilateral defined by lines $A_{1}A_{2} , B_{1}B_{2} , C_{1}C_{2} , D_{1}D_{2}$ is cyclic.
The picture shows $10$ equal regular pentagons where each two neighbouring pentagons have a common side. The smaller circle is tangent to one side of each pentagon and the larger circle passes through the opposite vertices of these sides. Find the area of the larger circle if the area of the smaller circle is $1$.
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Determine all natural numbers $n$ so that numbers $1, 2,... , n$ can be placed on the circumference of a circle and for each natural number $s$ with $1\le s \le \frac12n(n+1)$ , there is a circular arc which has the sum of all numbers in that arc to be $s$.
Consider a circle centered at $O$ with radius $r$ and a line $\ell$ not passing through $O$. A grasshopper is jumping to and fro between the points of the circle and the line, the length of each jump being $r$. Prove that there are at most $8$ points for the grasshopper to reach.
Is it possible to cover a plane with circles in such a way that exactly $1988$ circles pass through each point?
( N . Vasiliev)
Given four points $A,$ $B,$ $C,$ $D$ on a circle such that $AB$ is a diameter and $CD$ is not a diameter. Show that the line joining the point of intersection of the tangents to the circle at the points $C$ and $D$ with the point of intersection of the lines $AC$ and $BD$ is perpendicular to the line $AB.$
Do there exist $6$ circles in the plane such that every circle passes through centers of exactly $3$ other circles?
by Morteza Saghafian
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).
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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);
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Circles $C_1$ and $C_2$ intersect at points $X$ and $Y$ . Point $A$ is a point on $C_1$ such that the tangent line with respect to $C_1$ passing through $A$ intersects $C_2$ at $B$ and $C$, with $A$ closer to $B$ than $C$, such that $2016 \cdot AB = BC$. Line $XY$ intersects line $AC$ at $D$. If circles $C_1$ and $C_2$ have radii of $20$ and $16$, respectively, find $\sqrt{1+BC/BD}$.
Let $F$ be the midpoint of circle arc $AB$, and let $M$ be a point on the arc such that $AM <MB$. The perpendicular drawn from point $F$ on $AM$ intersects $AM$ at point $T$. Show that $T$ bisects the broken line $AMB$, that is $AT =TM+MB$.
KöMaL Gy. 2404. (March 1987), Archimedes of Syracuse
Let $\triangle ABC$ be a triangle and let $X$ be a point in the interior of the triangle. The second intersection points of the lines $XA,XB$ and $XC$ with the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$ are $P,Q$ and $R$. Let $U$ be a point on the ray $XP$ (these are the points on the line $XP$ such that $P$ and $U$ lie on the same side of $X$). The line through $U$ parallel to $AB$ intersects $BQ$ in $V$ . The line through $U$ parallel to $AC$ intersects $CR$ in $W$. Prove that $Q, R, V$ , and $W$ lie on a circle.
The two circles ${{w} _ {1}}, \, \, {{w} _ {2}}$ touch externally at the point $Q$. The common external tangent of these circles is tangent to ${{w} _ {1}}$ at the point $B$, $BA$ is the diameter of this circle. A tangent to the circle ${{w} _ {2}} $ is drawn through the point $A$, which touches this circle at the point $C$, such that the points $B$ and $C$ lie in one half-plane relative to the line $AQ$. Prove that the circle ${{w} _ {1}}$ bisects the segment $C $.
(Igor Nagel)
Let $C$ be a unit circle and $n \ge 1$ be a fixed integer. For any set $A$ of $n$ points $P_1,..., P_n$ on $C$ define $D(A) = \underset{d}{max}\, \underset{i}{min}\delta (P_i, d)$, where $d$ goes over all diameters of $C$ and $\delta (P, \ell)$ denotes the distance from point $P$ to line $\ell$. Let $F_n$ be the family of all such sets $A$. Determine $D_n = \underset{A\in F_n}{min} D(A)$ and describe all sets $A$ with $D(A) = D_n$.
Given a circle, point $A$ on it and point $M$ inside it. We consider the chords $BC$ passing through $M$. Prove that the circles passing through the midpoints of the sides of all the triangles $ABC$ are tangent to a fixed circle.
A teacher gives each student in the class the following task in their exercise book .
"Take two concentric circles of radius $1$ and $10$ . To the smaller circle produce three tangents whose intersections $A, B$ and $C$ lie in the larger circle . Measure the area $S$ of triangle $ABC$, and areas $S_1 , S_2$ and $S_3$ , the three sector-like regions with vertices at $A, B$ and $C$ (as in the diagram). Find the value of $S_1 +S_2 +S_3 -S$."
Prove that each student would obtain the same result .
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( A . K . Tolpygo, Kiev)
Given $n>3$ points in the plane such that no three of the points are collinear. Does there exist a circle passing through (at least) $3$ of the given points and not containing any other of the $n$ points in its interior ?
Let $ C_1, C_2 $ be two circles of equal radius, disjoint, of centers $ O_1, O_2 $, such that $ C_1 $ is to the left of $ C_2 $. Let $ l $ be a line parallel to the line $ O_1O_2 $, secant to both circles. Let $ P_1 $ be a point of $ l $, to the left of $ C_1 $ and $ P_2 $ a point of $ l $, to the right of $ C_2 $ such that the tangents of $ P_1 $ to $ C_1 $ and of $ P_2 $ a $ C_2 $ form a quadrilateral. Show that there is a circle tangent to the four sides of said quadrilateral.
Let $ABCD$ be a trapezoid with $AD \parallel BC$ and $\angle BCD < \angle ABC < 90^\circ$. Let $E$ be the intersection point of the diagonals $AC$ and $BD$. The circumcircle $\omega$ of $\triangle BEC$ intersects the segment $CD$ at $X$. The lines $AX$ and $BC$ intersect at $Y$, while the lines $BX$ and $AD$ intersect at $Z$. Prove that the line $EZ$ is tangent to $\omega$ iff the line $BE$ is tangent to the circumcircle of $\triangle BXY$.
Let the circles $C_1, C_2$, and $C_3$ be orthogonal to the circle $C$ and intersect each other inside $C$ forming acute angles of measures $A, B$, and $C$. Show that $A + B +C < \pi.$
The parabola $y = x^2$ intersects a circle at exactly two points $A$ and $B$. If their tangents at $A$ coincide, must their tangents at $B$ also coincide?
Let $A,B,C,D,E$ be five different points on the circumference of a circle in that (cyclic) order. Let $F$ be the intersection of chords $BD$ and $CE$. Show that if $AB=AE=AF$ then lines $AF$ and $CD$ are perpendicular.
Two circles $\omega_1,\omega_2$ intersect each other at points $A,B$. Let $PQ$ be a common tangent line of these two circles with $P \in \omega_1$ and $Q \in \omega_2$. An arbitrary point $X$ lies on $\omega_1$. Line $AX$ intersects $ \omega_2$ for the second time at $Y$ . Point $Y'\ne Y$ lies on $\omega_2$ such that $QY = QY'$. Line $Y'B$ intersects $ \omega_1$ for the second time at $X'$. Prove that $PX = PX'$.
Proposed by Morteza Saghafian