Found problems: 180
2021 Auckland Mathematical Olympiad, 2
Given five points inside an equilateral triangle of side length $2$, show that there are two points whose distance from each other is at most $ 1$.
2017 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, P22
Let $P$ be an arbitrary point on the diagonal $AC$ of cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$, and $PK, PL, PM, PN, PO$ be the perpendiculars from $P$ to $AB, BC, CD, DA, BD$ respectively. Prove that the distance from $P$ to $KN$ is equal to the distance from $O$ to $ML$.
1991 Czech And Slovak Olympiad IIIA, 4
Prove that in all triangles $ABC$ with $\angle A = 2\angle B$ the distance from $C$ to $A$ and to the perpendicular bisector of $AB$ are in the same ratio.
2007 Postal Coaching, 5
There are $N$ points in the plane such that the [b]total number[/b] of pairwise distances of these $N$ points is at most $n$. Prove that $N \le (n + 1)^2$.
2018 May Olympiad, 4
In a parallelogram $ABCD$, let $M$ be the point on the $BC$ side such that $MC = 2BM$ and let $N$ be the point of side $CD$ such that $NC = 2DN$. If the distance from point $B$ to the line $AM$ is $3$, calculate the distance from point $N$ to the line $AM$.
1995 May Olympiad, 4
Consider a pyramid whose base is an equilateral triangle $BCD$ and whose other faces are triangles isosceles, right at the common vertex $A$. An ant leaves the vertex $B$ arrives at a point $P$ of the $CD$ edge, from there goes to a point $Q$ of the edge $AC$ and returns to point $B$. If the path you made is minimal, how much is the angle $PQA$ ?
2020 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 3
Let $AB$ be the diameter of a circle $k$ and let $E$ be a point in the interior of $k$. The line $AE$ intersects $k$ a second time in $C \ne A$ and the line $BE$ intersects $k$ a second time in $D \ne B$.
Show that the value of $AC \cdot AE+BD\cdot BE$ is independent of the choice of $E$.
1997 Poland - Second Round, 6
Let eight points be given in a unit cube. Prove that two of these points are on a distance not greater than $1$.
1974 IMO Longlists, 45
The sum of the squares of five real numbers $a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4, a_5$ equals $1$. Prove that the least of the numbers $(a_i - a_j)^2$, where $i, j = 1, 2, 3, 4,5$ and $i \neq j$, does not exceed $\frac{1}{10}.$
2016 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad, 3
A circle with center $O$ passes through the ends of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and intersects its legs at points $M$ and $K$. Prove that the distance from point $O$ to line $MK$ is half the hypotenuse.
1976 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 220
There are $50$ exact watches lying on a table. Prove that there exist a certain moment, when the sum of the distances from the centre of the table to the ends of the minute hands is more than the sum of the distances from the centre of the table to the centres of the watches.
2019 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad, 1
In the triangle $ABC, I$ is the center of the inscribed circle, point $M$ lies on the side of $BC$, with $\angle BIM = 90^o$. Prove that the distance from point $M$ to line $AB$ is equal to the diameter of the circle inscribed in triangle $ABC$
1998 Bosnia and Herzegovina Team Selection Test, 1
Let $P_1$, $P_2$, $P_3$, $P_4$ and $P_5$ be five different points which are inside $D$ or on the border of figure $D$. Let $M=min\left\{P_iP_j \mid i \neq j\right\}$ be minimal distance between different points $P_i$. For which configuration of points $P_i$, value $M$ is at maximum, if :
$a)$ $D$ is unit square
$b)$ $D$ is equilateral triangle with side equal $1$
$c)$ $D$ is unit circle, circle with radius $1$
2000 Kazakhstan National Olympiad, 8
Given a triangle $ ABC $ and a point $ M $ inside it. Prove that $$
\min \{MA, MB, MC\} + MA + MB + MC <AB + BC + AC. $$
1956 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 324
a) What is the least number of points that can be chosen on a circle of length $1956$, so that for each of these points there is exactly one chosen point at distance $1$, and exactly one chosen point at distance $2$ (distances are measured along the circle)?
b) On a circle of length $15$ there are selected $n$ points such that for each of them there is exactly one selected point at distance $1$ from it, and exactly one is selected point at distance $2$ from it. (All distances are measured along the circle.) Prove that $n$ is divisible by $10$.
May Olympiad L1 - geometry, 2020.3
A clueless ant makes the following route: starting at point $ A $ goes $ 1$ cm north, then $ 2$ cm east, then $ 3$ cm south, then $ 4$ cm west, immediately $ 5$ cm north, continues $ 6$ cm east, and so on, finally $ 41$ cm north and ends in point $ B $. Calculate the distance between $ A $ and $ B $ (in a straight line).
1974 IMO Shortlist, 4
The sum of the squares of five real numbers $a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4, a_5$ equals $1$. Prove that the least of the numbers $(a_i - a_j)^2$, where $i, j = 1, 2, 3, 4,5$ and $i \neq j$, does not exceed $\frac{1}{10}.$
Durer Math Competition CD Finals - geometry, 2008.D1
Given a square grid where the distance between two adjacent grid points is $1$. Can the distance between two grid points be $\sqrt5, \sqrt6, \sqrt7$ or $\sqrt{2007}$ ?
Russian TST 2018, P1
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.
1967 Putnam, A5
Show that in a convex region in the plane whose boundary contains at most a finite number of straight line segments and whose area is greater than $\frac{\pi}{4}$ there is at least one pair of points a unit distance apart.
2009 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 3
The cirumradius and the inradius of triangle $ABC$ are equal to $R$ and $r, O, I$ are the centers of respective circles. External bisector of angle $C$ intersect $AB$ in point $P$. Point $Q$ is the projection of $P$ to line $OI$. Find distance $OQ.$
(A.Zaslavsky, A.Akopjan)
1999 Spain Mathematical Olympiad, 5
The distances from the centroid $G$ of a triangle $ABC$ to its sides $a,b,c$ are denoted $g_a,g_b,g_c$ respectively. Let $r$ be the inradius of the triangle. Prove that:
a) $g_a,g_b,g_c \ge \frac{2}{3}r$
b) $g_a+g_b+g_c \ge 3r$
2019 Novosibirsk Oral Olympiad in Geometry, 1
Lyuba, Tanya, Lena and Ira ran across a flat field. At some point it turned out that among the pairwise distances between them there are distances of $1, 2, 3, 4$ and $5$ meters, and there are no other distances. Give an example of how this could be.
2013 Abels Math Contest (Norwegian MO) Final, 2
In a triangle $T$, all the angles are less than $90^o$, and the longest side has length $s$. Show that for every point $p$ in $T$ we can pick a corner $h$ in $T$ such that the distance from $p$ to $h$ is less than or equal to $s/\sqrt3$.
1978 Vietnam National Olympiad, 6
Given a rectangular parallelepiped $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ with the bases $ABCD, A'B'C'D'$, the edges $AA',BB', CC',DD'$ and $AB = a,AD = b,AA' = c$. Show that there exists a triangle with the sides equal to the distances from $A,A',D$ to the diagonal $BD'$ of the parallelepiped. Denote those distances by $m_1,m_2,m_3$. Find the relationship between $a, b, c,m_1,m_2,m_3$.