Found problems: 649
An ant sits at vertex $A$ of unit square $ABCD$. He needs to get to point $C$, where the entrance to the anthill is located. Points $A$ and $C$ are separated by a vertical wall in the form of an isosceles right triangle with hypotenuse $BD$. Find the length of the shortest path that an ant must overcome in order to get into the anthill.
Given a triangle $ \,ABC,\,$ let $ \,I\,$ be the center of its inscribed circle. The internal bisectors of the angles $ \,A,B,C\,$ meet the opposite sides in $ \,A^{\prime },B^{\prime },C^{\prime }\,$ respectively. Prove that
\[ \frac {1}{4} < \frac {AI\cdot BI\cdot CI}{AA^{\prime }\cdot BB^{\prime }\cdot CC^{\prime }} \leq \frac {8}{27}.
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Three spheres are tangent to one plane, to a straight line perpendicular to this plane, and in pairs to each other. The radius of the largest sphere is $1$. Within what limits can the radius of the smallest sphere vary?
Let $ABC$ be a triangle whose side lengths are opposite the angle $A,B,C$ are $a,b,c$ respectively. Prove that $$\frac{ab\sin{2C}+bc\sin{ 2A}+ca\sin{2B}}{ab+bc+ca}\leq\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$$.
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Find all pairs of real numbers $k, l$ such that inequality $ka^2 + lb^2> c^2$ applies to the lengths of sides $a, b, c$ of any triangle.
Given a pyramid with square base $ ABCD $ and vertex $ S $. Find the shortest path whose starting and ending point is the point $ S $ and which passes through all the vertices of the base.
Let $A$ and $B$ be two points on the same line $\ell$. If the points $P$ and $Q$ are two points $X$ on $\ell$ that mazimize and minimize the ratio $\frac{AX}{BX}$ respectively, prove that $A,B,P$ and $Q$ are concyclic.
In the triangle $ABC$ with sides $BC> AC> AB$ the angles between altiude and median drawn from one vertex are considered. Find out at which vertex this angle is the largest of the three.
(Rozhkova Maria)
In the tetrahedron $ABCD$, the point $E$ is the projection of the point $D$ on the plane $(ABC)$. Prove that the following statements are equivalent:
a) $C = E$ or $CE \parallel AB$
b) For each point M belonging to the segment $CD$, the following equation is satisfied
$$S^2_{\vartriangle ABM}= \frac{CM^2}{CD^2}\cdot S^2_{\vartriangle ABD}+\left(1- \frac{CM^2}{CD^2} \right)S^2_{\vartriangle ABC}$$
where $S_{\vartriangle XYZ}$ means the area of triangle $XYZ$.
Prove that for any triangle the bisector lies between the median and the height drawn from the same vertex.
An acute triangle $ ABC$ has three heights $ AD, BE$ and $ CF$ respectively. Prove that the perimeter of triangle $ DEF$ is not over half of the perimeter of triangle $ ABC.$
Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle with circumcenter $O$ and let $M$ be a point on $AB$. The circumcircle of $AMO$ intersects $AC$ a second time on $K$ and the circumcircle of $BOM$ intersects $BC$ a second time on $N$.
Prove that $\left[MNK\right] \geq \frac{\left[ABC\right]}{4}$ and determine the equality case.
Find the smallest positive number $\lambda$, such that for any $12$ points on the plane $P_1,P_2,\ldots,P_{12}$(can overlap), if the distance between any two of them does not exceed $1$, then $\sum_{1\le i<j\le 12} |P_iP_j|^2\le \lambda$.
Let $ n$ and $ k$ be positive integers and let $ S$ be a set of $ n$ points in the plane such that
[b]i.)[/b] no three points of $ S$ are collinear, and
[b]ii.)[/b] for every point $ P$ of $ S$ there are at least $ k$ points of $ S$ equidistant from $ P.$
Prove that:
\[ k < \frac {1}{2} \plus{} \sqrt {2 \cdot n}
\]
In acute triangles $ABC$, $AD, BE ,CF$ are altitudes, with $D, E, F$ on the sides $BC, CA, AB$, respectively. Prove that $$DE + DF \le BC$$
Inside the convex polygon $A_1A_2...A_n$ , there is a point $M$ such that $\sum_{k=1}^n \overrightarrow {A_kM} = \overrightarrow{0}$. Prove that $nP\ge 4d$, where $P$ is the perimeter of the polygon, and $d=\sum_{k=1}^n |\overrightarrow {A_kM}|$ . Investigate the question of the achievement of equality in this inequality.
A line passes through the center $O$ of an equilateral triangle $ABC$ and intersects the side $BC$. At what angle wrt $BC$ should this line be drawn this line so that its segment inside the triangle has the smallest possible length?
Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers such that $abc(a+b+c)=3.$ Prove that we have
\[(a+b)(b+c)(c+a)\geq 8.\]
Also determine the case of equality.
In a triangle, each median forms an angle with the side it is drawn to, which is less than $\alpha$. Prove that one of the angles of the triangle is greater than $180^\circ-\frac{3}{2}\alpha$.
[i]Proposed by Sergey Berlov[/i]
A tape with width $ d < AB $ and edges perpendicular to $ AB $ moves in the plane of the acute-angled triangle $ ABC $. At what position of the tape will it cover the largest part of the triangle?
The points $C_1, A_1, B_1$ belong to $[AB], [BC], [CA]$ sides, respectively, of the triangle $ABC$ .
$$\frac{|AC_1|}{|C_1B| }=\frac{ |BA_1|}{|A_1C| }= \frac{|CB_1|}{|B_1A| }= \frac{1}{3}$$
Prove that the perimeter $P$ of the triangle $ABC$ and the perimeter $p$ of the triangle $A_1B_1C_1$ , satisfy inequality $$\frac{P}{2} < p < \frac{3P}{4}$$
Show that for any vectors $a, b$ in Euclidean space,
\[|a \times b|^3 \leq \frac{3 \sqrt 3}{8} |a|^2 |b|^2 |a-b|^2\]
Remark. Here $\times$ denotes the vector product.
Let $ a,\, b,\, c$ be side lengths of a triangle and $ a+b+c = 3$. Find the minimum of
\[ a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+\frac{4abc}{3}\]
In the tetrahedron $ABCD,\angle BDC=90^o$ and the foot of the perpendicular from $D$ to $ABC$ is the intersection of the altitudes of $ABC$. Prove that: \[ (AB+BC+CA)^2\le6(AD^2+BD^2+CD^2). \] When do we have equality?
1.Let $ABC$ be a triangle, $D$ the foot of the altitude from $A$ and $M$ the midpoint of the
side $BC$. Let $S$ be a point on the closed segment $DM$ and let $P, Q$ the projections of $S$ on the
lines $AB$ and $AC$ respectively. Prove that the length of the segment $PQ$ does not exceed one
quarter the perimeter of the triangle $ABC$.