The quadrangle $ABCD$ is inscribed in a circle, the center $O$ of which lies inside it. The tangents to the circle at points $A$ and $C$ and a straight line, symmetric to $BD$ wrt point $O$, intersect at one point. Prove that the products of the distances from $O$ to opposite sides of the quadrilateral are equal. (A. Zaslavsky)

A regular pentagon of side length $1$ is given. Determine the smallest $r$ for which the pentagon can be covered by five discs of radius $r$ and justify your answer.

Assume that a triangle $ABC$ satisfies the following property: For any point from the triangle, the sum of distances from $D$ to the lines $AB,BC$ and $CA$ is less than $1$. Prove that the area of the triangle is less than or equal to $\frac{1}{\sqrt3}$

Which configurations of five (not necessarily distinct) points $p_1 ,\ldots, p_5$ on the circle $x^2 +y^2 =1$ maximize the sum of the ten distances $$\sum_{i<j} d(p_i, p_j)?$$

In a village there are only $10$ houses, arranged in a circle of a radius $r$ meters. Each has is the same distance from each of the two closest houses. Every year on Sunday of Pascoa, the village priest makes the Easter visit, leaving the parish house (point $A$) and following the path described in Figure 1. This year the priest decided to take the path represented in the Figure 2. Prove that this year the priest will walk another $10r$ meters. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/9/a6315f4a63f28741ca6fbc75c19a421eb1da06.png[/img]

The following method of approximate measurement is known for distances. Suppose, for example, that the observer is on the river bank at point $C$ in order to measure its width. To do this, he fixes point $A$ on the opposite bank so that the angle between the shoreline and the line $CA$ is close to the line. Then the observer pulls forward the right hand with the raised thumb, closes left eye and aligns the raised finger with point $A$. Next, opens the left eye, closes right and estimates the distance between the point on the opposite bank to which the finger points, and point $A$. Multiply this distance by $10$ and get the approximate value of the distance to point $A$, ie the width of the river. Justify this method of measuring distance. [hide=original wording]Відомий наступний спосіб наближеного вимірювання відстані. Нехай, наприклад, спостерігач знаходиться на березі річки у точці C і має на меті виміряти її ширину. Для цього він фіксує точку A на протилежному березі так, щоб кут між лінією берега і прямою CA був близьким до прямого. Потім спостерігач витягує вперед праву руку з піднятим вгору великим пальцем, заплющує ліве око і суміщає піднятий палець з точкою A. Далі, відкриває ліве око, заплющує праве і оцінює відстань між точкою на протилежному березі, на яку вказує палець, і точкою A. Цю відстань множить на 10 і отримує наближене значення відстані до точки A, тобто ширини річки. Обґрунтуйте цей спосіб вимірювання відстані.[/hide]

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Define a chameleon to be any sequence of $3n$ letters, with exactly $n$ occurrences of each of the letters $a, b,$ and $c$. Define a swap to be the transposition of two adjacent letters in a chameleon. Prove that for any chameleon $X$ , there exists a chameleon $Y$ such that $X$ cannot be changed to $Y$ using fewer than $3n^2/2$ swaps.

Let $P$ be a point inside the square $ABCD$ and $PA = 1$, $PB = \sqrt2$ and $PC =\sqrt3$. a) Determine the length of segment $[PD]$. b) Determine the angle $\angle APB$.

Consider the line (E): $5x-10y+3=0$ . Prove that: a) Line $(E)$ doesn't pass through points with integer coordinates. b) There is no point $A(a_1,a_2)$ with $ a_1,a_2 \in \mathbb{Z}$ with distance from $(E)$ less then $\frac{\sqrt3}{20}$.

Consider a line $ \ell $ in the plane and let $ B_1, B_2, B_3 $ be different points in $ \ell$. Let $ A $ be a point that is not in $ \ell$. Show that there is $ P, Q $ in $ {B_1, B_2, B_3} $ with $ P \ne Q $ so that the distance from $ A $ to $ \ell$ is greater than the distance from $ P $ to the line that passes through $ A $ and $ Q $.

$ABC$ is an isosceles triangle with $AB = AC$. Let $P$ be any point of a circle tangent to the sides $AB$ in $B$ and to AC in C. Denote $a$, $b$ and $c$ to the distances from $P$ to the sides $BC, AC$ and $AB$ respectively. Prove that: $a^2=bc$

Prove that every interior point of a parallelepiped with edges $a,b,c$ is on the distance at most $\frac12 \sqrt{a^2 +b^2 +c^2}$ from some vertex of the parallelepiped.

Let $g$ be a straight line and $n$ a given positive integer. Prove that there are always n different points on g to choose as well as a point not lying on g in such a way that the distance between each two of these $n + 1$ points is an integer.

Points $A_1,A_2,...,A_n$ are selected from the equilateral triangle with a side that is equal to $1$. Denote by $d_k$ the least distance from $A_k$ to all other selected points. Prove that $d_1^2+...+d_n^2 \le 3,5$.

The distance between any two of six given points in the plane is at least $1$. Prove that the distance between some two points is at least $\sqrt{\frac{5+\sqrt5}{2}}$

Do there exist points $A, B, C, D$ in space, such that $AB = CD = 8, AC = BD = 10$, and $AD = BC = 13$?

The planes $p$ and $p'$ are parallel. A polygon $P$ on $p$ has $m$ sides and a polygon $P'$ on $p'$ has $n$ sides. Find the largest and smallest distances between a vertex of $P$ and a vertex of $P'$.

An ant is moving on the cooridnate plane, starting form point $(0,-1)$ along a straight line until it reaches the $x$- axis at point $(x,0)$ where $x$ is a real number. After it turns $90^o$ to the left and moves again along a straight line until it reaches the $y$-axis . Then it again turns left and moves along a straight line until it reaches the $x$-axis, where it once more turns left by $90^o$ and moves along a straight line until it finally reached the $y$-axis. Can both the length of the ant's journey and distance between it's initial and final point be: (a) rational numbers ? (b) integers? Justify your answers PS. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c949609_2019_nigerian_senior_mo_round_4]here[/url]

There are four houses, located on the vertices of a square. You want to draw a road network, so that you can go from any house to any other. Prove that the network formed by the diagonals is not the shortest. Find a shorter network.

Let $n$ be a natural number greater than 2. $l$ is a line on a plane. There are $n$ distinct points $P_1$, $P_2$, …, $P_n$ on $l$. Let the product of distances between $P_i$ and the other $n-1$ points be $d_i$ ($i = 1, 2,$ …, $n$). There exists a point $Q$, which does not lie on $l$, on the plane. Let the distance from $Q$ to $P_i$ be $C_i$ ($i = 1, 2,$ …, $n$). Find $S_n = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} (-1)^{n-i} \frac{c_i^2}{d_i}$.

Given two points inside a convex dodecagon (twelve sides) situated $10$ cm far from each other. Prove that the difference between the sum of distances, from the point to all the vertices, is less than $1$ m for those points.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle, such that its incenter $I$ and circumcenter $U$ are distinct. For all points $X$ in the interior of the triangle let $d(X)$ be the sum of distances from $X$ to the three (possibly extended) sides of the triangle. Prove: If two distinct points $P,Q$ in the interior of the triangle $ABC$ satisfy $d(P)=d(Q)$, then $PQ$ is perpendicular to $UI$.

The quadrilateral $ABCD$ is inscribed in a circle of radius $1$, so that $AB$ is a diameter of the circumference and $CD = 1$. A variable point $X$ moves along the semicircle determined by $AB$ that does not contain $C$ or $D$. Determine the position of $X$ for which the sum of the distances from $X$ to lines $BC, CD$ and $DA$ is maximum.

Let $ ABCD $ be a rectangle of area $ S $, and $ P $ be a point inside it. We denote by $ a, b, c, d $ the distances from $ P $ to the vertices $ A, B, C, D $ respectively. Prove that $ a ^ 2 + b ^ 2 + c ^ 2 + d ^ 2\ge 2S $. When there is equality?

In an aquarium there are nine small fish. The aquarium is cube shaped with a side length of two meters and is completely filled with water. Show that it is always possible to find two small fish with a distance of less than $\sqrt3$ meters.