Olympiad problems

2011 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 1

Tags: square , hexagon , tiling , combinatorial geometry , tiles , geometry , angle

Prove that you can't split a square into finitely many hexagons, whose inner angles are all less than $180^o$.

1987 Flanders Math Olympiad, 1

Tags: combinatorial geometry , combinatorics

A rectangle $ABCD$ is given. On the side $AB$, $n$ different points are chosen strictly between $A$ and $B$. Similarly, $m$ different points are chosen on the side $AD$. Lines are drawn from the points parallel to the sides. How many rectangles are formed in this way? (One possibility is shown in the figure.) [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/0/1/dcf48e4ce318fdcb8c7088a34fac226e26e246.png[/img]

1987 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 446

Tags: combinatorics , combinatorial geometry , unit square

An $L$ is an arrangement of $3$ adjacent unit squares formed by deleting one unit square from a $2 \times 2$ square. a) How many $L$s can be placed on an $8 \times 8$ board (with no interior points overlapping)? b) Show that if any one square is deleted from a $1987 \times 1987$ board, then the remaining squares can be covered with $L$s (with no interior points overlapping).

2021 China Team Selection Test, 6

Tags: geometry , combinatorics , combinatorial geometry

Proof that there exist constant $\lambda$, so that for any positive integer $m(\ge 2)$, and any lattice triangle $T$ in the Cartesian coordinate plane, if $T$ contains exactly one $m$-lattice point in its interior(not containing boundary), then $T$ has area $\le \lambda m^3$. PS. lattice triangles are triangles whose vertex are lattice points; $m$-lattice points are lattice points whose both coordinates are divisible by $m$.