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IV Soros Olympiad 1997 - 98 (Russia), 10.6

A fire that starts in the steppe spreads in all directions at a speed of $1$ km per hour. A grader with a plow arrived on the fire line at the moment when the fire engulfed a circle with a radius of $1$ km. The grader moves at a speed of $14$ km per hour and cuts a strip with a plow that cuts off the fire. Indicate the path along which the grader should move so that the total area of the burnt steppe does not exceed: a) $4 \pi $ km$^2$; b) $3 \pi $ km$^2$. (We can assume that the grader’s path consists of straight segments and circular arcs.)

1996 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 3

Four lines are given in a plane so that any three of them determine a triangle. One of these lines is parallel to a median in the triangle determined by the other three lines. Prove that each of the other three lines also has this property.

2014 Belarus Team Selection Test, 4

Thirty rays with the origin at the same point are constructed on a plane. Consider all angles between any two of these rays. Let $N$ be the number of acute angles among these angles. Find the smallest possible value of $N$. (E. Barabanov)

1959 Poland - Second Round, 5

In the plane, $ n \geq 3 $ segments are placed in such a way that every $ 3 $ of them have a common point. Prove that there is a common point for all the segments.

1992 Tournament Of Towns, (350) 2

The following spiral sequence of squares is drawn on an infinite blackboard: The $1$st square $(1 \times 1)$ has a common vertical side with the $2$nd square (also $1\times 1$) drawn on the right side of it; the 3rd square $(2 \times 2)$ is drawn on the upper side of the $1$st and 2nd ones; the $4$th square $(3 \times 3)$ is drawn on the left side of the $1$st and $3$rd ones; the $5$th square $(5 \times 5)$ is drawn on the bottom side of the $4$th, 1st and $2$nd ones; the $6$th square $(8 \times 8)$ is drawn on the right side, and so on. Each of the squares has a common side with the rectangle consisting of squares constructed earlier. Prove that the centres of all the squares except the $1$st lie on two straight lines. (A Andjans, Riga)

2019 Puerto Rico Team Selection Test, 1

A square is divided into $25$ unit squares by drawing lines parallel to the sides of the square. Some diagonals of unit squares are drawn from such that two diagonals do not share points. What is the maximum number diagonals that can be drawn with this property?

2005 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 11

The square was cut into $n^2$ rectangles with sides $a_i \times b_j, i , j= 1,..., n$. For what is the smallest $n$ in the set $\{a_1, b_1, ..., a_n, b_n\}$ all the numbers can be different?

1938 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 038

In space $4$ points are given. How many planes equidistant from these points are there? Consider separately (a) the generic case (the points given do not lie on a single plane) and (b) the degenerate cases.

1987 Dutch Mathematical Olympiad, 3

There are two kinds of creatures living in the flatland of Pentagonia: the Spires ($S$) and the Bones ($B$). They all have the shape of an isosceles triangle: the Spiers have an apical angle of $36^o$ and the bones an apical angle of $108^o$. Every year on [i]Great Day of Division[/i] (September 11 - the day this Olympiad was held) they divide into pieces: each $S$ into two smaller $S$'s and a $B$; each $B$ in an $S$ and a $B$. Over the course of the year they then grow back to adult proportions. In the distant past, the population originated from one $B$-being. Deaths do not occur. Investigate whether the ratio between the number of Spires and the number of Bones will eventually approach a limit value and if so, calculate that limit value.

1996 Tuymaada Olympiad, 3

Nine points of the plane, located at the vertices of a regular nonagon, are pairwise connected by segments, each of which is colored either red or blue. It is known that in any triangle with vertices at the vertices of the nonagon at least one side is red. Prove that there are four points, any two of which are connected by red lines.

2014 Swedish Mathematical Competition, 4

A square is cut into a finitely number of triangles in an arbitrary way. Show the sum of the diameters of the inscribed circles in these triangles is greater than the side length of the square.

1974 Kurschak Competition, 2

$S_n$ is a square side $\frac{1}{n}$. Find the smallest $k$ such that the squares $S_1, S_2,S_3, ...$ can be put into a square side $k$ without overlapping.

1984 IMO, 3

Given points $O$ and $A$ in the plane. Every point in the plane is colored with one of a finite number of colors. Given a point $X$ in the plane, the circle $C(X)$ has center $O$ and radius $OX+{\angle AOX\over OX}$, where $\angle AOX$ is measured in radians in the range $[0,2\pi)$. Prove that we can find a point $X$, not on $OA$, such that its color appears on the circumference of the circle $C(X)$.

2011 Kyiv Mathematical Festival, 5

Pete claims that he can draw $4$ segments of length $1$ and a circle of radius less than $\sqrt3 /3 $ on a piece of paper, such that all segments would lie inside the circle and there would be no line that intersects each of $4$ segments. Is Pete right?

2020 IMC, 3

Let $d \ge 2$ be an integer. Prove that there exists a constant $C(d)$ such that the following holds: For any convex polytope $K\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, which is symmetric about the origin, and any $\varepsilon \in (0, 1)$, there exists a convex polytope $L \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with at most $C(d) \varepsilon^{1-d}$ vertices such that \[(1-\varepsilon)K \subseteq L \subseteq K.\] Official definitions: For a real $\alpha,$ a set $T \in \mathbb{R}^d$ is a [i]convex polytope with at most $\alpha$ vertices[/i], if $T$ is a convex hull of a set $X \in \mathbb{R}^d$ of at most $\alpha$ points, i.e. $T = \{\sum\limits_{x\in X} t_x x | t_x \ge 0, \sum\limits_{x \in X} t_x = 1\}.$ Define $\alpha K = \{\alpha x | x \in K\}.$ A set $T \in \mathbb{R}^d$ is [i]symmetric about the origin[/i] if $(-1)T = T.$

1996 Estonia National Olympiad, 5

Suppose that $n$ teterahedra are given in space such that any two of them have at least two common vertices, but any three have at most one common vertex. Find the greatest possible $n$.

2010 Cuba MO, 2

Nestor ordered Juan to do the following work: draw a circle, draw one of its diameters and mark the extreme points of the diameter with the numbers 1 and 2 respectively. Place 100 points in each of the semicircles that determines the diameter layout (different from the ends of the diameter) and mark these points randomly with the numbers $1$ and $2$. To finish, paint red all small segments that have different markings on their extremes. After a certain amount of time passed, Juan finished the work and told Nestor that “he painted 47 segments red.” Prove that if Juan made no mistakes, what he said is false.

2022 Chile Junior Math Olympiad, 6

Is it possible to divide a polygon with $21$ sides into $2022$ triangles in such a way that among all the vertices there are not three collinear?

2019 Middle European Mathematical Olympiad, 2

Let $n\geq 3$ be an integer. We say that a vertex $A_i (1\leq i\leq n)$ of a convex polygon $A_1A_2 \dots A_n$ is [i]Bohemian[/i] if its reflection with respect to the midpoint of $A_{i-1}A_{i+1}$ (with $A_0=A_n$ and $A_1=A_{n+1}$) lies inside or on the boundary of the polygon $A_1A_2\dots A_n$. Determine the smallest possible number of Bohemian vertices a convex $n$-gon can have (depending on $n$). [i]Proposed by Dominik Burek, Poland [/i]

2016 Saudi Arabia BMO TST, 4

On a checkered square $10 \times 10$ the cells of the upper left $5 \times 5$ square are black and all the other cells are white. What is the maximal $n$ such that the original square can be dissected (along the borders of the cells) into $n$ polygons such that in each of them the number of black cells is three times less than the number of white cells? (The polygons need not be congruent or even equal in area.)

2001 Chile National Olympiad, 2

Prove that the only way to cover a square of side $1$ with a finite number of circles that do not overlap, it is with only one circle of radius greater than or equal to $\frac{1}{\sqrt2}$. Circles can occupy part of the outside of the square and be of different radii.

2021 China Team Selection Test, 5

Find the smallest real $\alpha$, such that for any convex polygon $P$ with area $1$, there exist a point $M$ in the plane, such that the area of convex hull of $P\cup Q$ is at most $\alpha$, where $Q$ denotes the image of $P$ under central symmetry with respect to $M$.

1980 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 285

The vertical side of a square is divided onto $n$ segments. The sum of the segments with even numbers lengths equals to the sum of the segments with odd numbers lengths. $n-1$ lines parallel to the horizontal sides are drawn from the segments ends, and, thus, $n$ strips are obtained. The diagonal is drawn from the lower left corner to the upper right one. This diagonal divides every strip onto left and right parts. Prove that the sum of the left parts of odd strips areas equals to the sum of the right parts of even strips areas.

2016 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 8

There are $n$ triangles inscribed in a circle and all $3n$ of their vertices are different. Prove that it is possible to put a boy in one of the vertices in each triangle, and a girl in the other, so that boys and girls alternate on a circle.

2022 Swedish Mathematical Competition, 6

Bengt wants to put out crosses and rings in the squares of an $n \times n$-square, so that it is exactly one ring and exactly one cross in each row and in each column, and no more than one symbol in each box. Mona wants to stop him by setting a number in advance ban on crosses and a number of bans on rings, maximum one ban in each square. She want to use as few bans as possible of each variety. To succeed in preventing Bengt, how many prohibitions she needs to use the least of the kind of prohibitions she uses the most of?