Denote an acute-angle $\vartriangle ABC $ with sides $a, b, c $ respectively by ${{H}_{a}}, {{H}_{b}}, {{H}_{c}} $ the feet of altitudes ${{h}_{a}}, {{h}_{b}}, {{h}_{c}} $. Prove the inequality: $$\frac {h_ {a} ^{2}} {{{a} ^{2}} - CH_ {a} ^{2}} + \frac{h_{b} ^{2}} {{{ b}^{2}} - AH_{b} ^{2}} + \frac{h_{c}^{2}}{{{c}^{2}} - BH_{c}^{2}} \ge 3 $$ (Dmitry Petrovsky)

Consider rectangle $ABCD$.$ E$ is the mid-point of $AD$ and $F$ is the mid-point of $ED$. $CE$ cuts $AB$ in $G$ and $BF$ cuts $CD$ in $H$ point. We can write ratio of areas of $BCG$ and $BCH$ triangles as $\frac{m}{n}$. Find the value of $10m + 10n + mn$.

$O$ is the circumcenter of $ABC$, and $H$ is the orthocenter of $ABC$. If $D$ is a midpoint of $AC$ and $E$ is the intersection of $BO$ and $ABC$'s circumcircle not $B$, show that three points $H, D, E$ are collinear.

Forty-two cubes with 1 cm edges are glued together to form a solid rectangular block. If the perimeter of the base of the block is 18 cm, then the height, in cm, is $\textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \dfrac{7}{3} \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4$

On the median $AD$ of the isosceles triangle $ABC$, point $E$ is marked. Point $F$ is the projection of point $E$ on the line $BC$, point $M$ lies on the segment $EF$, points $N$ and $P$ are projections of point $M$ on the lines $AC$ and $AB$, respectively. Prove that the bisectors of the angles $PMN$ and $PEN$ are parallel.

[b]p1.[/b] What is the sum of the first $12$ positive integers? [b]p2.[/b] How many positive integers less than or equal to $100$ are multiples of both $2$ and $5$? [b]p3. [/b]Alex has a bag with $4$ white marbles and $4$ black marbles. She takes $2$ marbles from the bag without replacement. What is the probability that both marbles she took are black? Express your answer as a decimal or a fraction in lowest terms. [b]p4.[/b] How many $5$-digit numbers are there where each digit is either $1$ or $2$? [b]p5.[/b] An integer $a$ with $1\le a \le 10$ is randomly selected. What is the probability that $\frac{100}{a}$ is an integer? Express your answer as decimal or a fraction in lowest terms. [b]p6.[/b] Two distinct non-tangent circles are drawn so that they intersect each other. A third circle, distinct from the previous two, is drawn. Let $P$ be the number of points of intersection between any two circles. How many possible values of $P$ are there? [b]p7.[/b] Let $x, y, z$ be nonzero real numbers such that $x + y + z = xyz$. Compute $$\frac{1 + yz}{yz}+\frac{1 + xz}{xz}+\frac{1 + xy}{xy}.$$ [b]p8.[/b] How many positive integers less than $106$ are simultaneously perfect squares, cubes, and fourth powers? [b]p9.[/b] Let $C_1$ and $C_2$ be two circles centered at point $O$ of radii $1$ and $2$, respectively. Let $A$ be a point on $C_2$. We draw the two lines tangent to $C_1$ that pass through $A$, and label their other intersections with $C_2$ as $B$ and $C$. Let x be the length of minor arc $BC$, as shown. Compute $x$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/7/5/915216d4b7eba0650d63b26715113e79daa176.png[/img] [b]p10.[/b] A circle of area $\pi$ is inscribed in an equilateral triangle. Find the area of the triangle. [b]p11.[/b] Julie runs a $2$ mile route every morning. She notices that if she jogs the route $2$ miles per hour faster than normal, then she will finish the route $5$ minutes faster. How fast (in miles per hour) does she normally jog? [b]p12.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a square of side length $10$. Let $EFGH$ be a square of side length $15$ such that $E$ is the center of $ABCD$, $EF$ intersects $BC$ at $X$, and $EH$ intersects $CD$ at $Y$ (shown below). If $BX = 7$, what is the area of quadrilateral $EXCY$ ? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/d/b/2b2d6de789310036bc42d1e8bcf3931316c922.png[/img] [b]p13.[/b] How many solutions are there to the system of equations $$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$$ $$(a + 1)^2 + (b + 1)^2 = (c + 1)^2$$ if $a, b$, and $c$ are positive integers? [b]p14.[/b] A square of side length $ s$ is inscribed in a semicircle of radius $ r$ as shown. Compute $\frac{s}{r}$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/5/f/22d7516efa240d00d6a9743a4dc204d23d190d.png[/img] [b]p15.[/b] $S$ is a collection of integers n with $1 \le n \le 50$ so that each integer in $S$ is composite and relatively prime to every other integer in $S$. What is the largest possible number of integers in $S$? [b]p16.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a regular tetrahedron and let $W, X, Y, Z$ denote the centers of faces $ABC$, $BCD$, $CDA$, and $DAB$, respectively. What is the ratio of the volumes of tetrahedrons $WXYZ$ and $WAYZ$? Express your answer as a decimal or a fraction in lowest terms. [b]p17.[/b] Consider a random permutation $\{s_1, s_2, ... , s_8\}$ of $\{1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, -1\}$. Let $S$ be the largest of the numbers $s_1$, $s_1 + s_2$, $s_1 + s_2 + s_3$, $...$ , $s_1 + s_2 + ... + s_8$. What is the probability that $S$ is exactly $3$? Express your answer as a decimal or a fraction in lowest terms. [b]p18.[/b] A positive integer is called [i]almost-kinda-semi-prime[/i] if it has a prime number of positive integer divisors. Given that there $are 168$ primes less than $1000$, how many almost-kinda-semi-prime numbers are there less than $1000$? [b]p19.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a unit square and let $X, Y, Z$ be points on sides $AB$, $BC$, $CD$, respectively, such that $AX = BY = CZ$. If the area of triangle $XYZ$ is $\frac13$ , what is the maximum value of the ratio $XB/AX$? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/5/6/cf77e40f8e9bb03dea8e7e728b21e7fb899d3e.png[/img] [b]p20.[/b] Positive integers $a \le b \le c$ have the property that each of $a + b$, $b + c$, and $c + a$ are prime. If $a + b + c$ has exactly $4$ positive divisors, find the fourth smallest possible value of the product $c(c + b)(c + b + a)$. PS. You had better use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Through a point inside a triangle, three lines are drawn from the vertices to the opposite sides forming six triangular sections. Then: $ \textbf{(A)}\ \text{the triangles are similar in opposite pairs}$ $ \textbf{(B)}\ \text{the triangles are congruent in opposite pairs}$ $ \textbf{(C)}\ \text{the triangles are equal in area in opposite pairs}$ $ \textbf{(D)}\ \text{three similar quadrilaterals are formed}$ $ \textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of the above relations are true}$

Let $\triangle ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle with $AB \not= AC$. Let $H$ be the orthocenter of triangle $ABC$, and let $M$ be the midpoint of the side $BC$. Let $D$ be a point on the side $AB$ and $E$ a point on the side $AC$ such that $AE=AD$ and the points $D$, $H$, $E$ are on the same line. Prove that the line $HM$ is perpendicular to the common chord of the circumscribed circles of triangle $\triangle ABC$ and triangle $\triangle ADE$.

p1. If $x + y + z = 2$, show that $\frac{1}{xy+z-1}+\frac{1}{yz+x-1}+\frac{1}{xz+y-1}=\frac{-1}{(x-1)(y-1)(z-1)}$. p2. Determine the simplest form of $\frac{3}{1!+2!+3!}+\frac{4}{2!+3!+4!}+\frac{5}{3!+4!+5!}+...+\frac{100}{98!+99!+100!}$ p3. It is known that $ABCD$ and $DEFG$ are two parallelograms. Point $E$ lies on $AB$ and point $C$ lie on $FG$. The area of $​​ABCD$ is $20$ units. $H$ is the point on $DG$ so that $EH$ is perpendicular to $DG$. If the length of $DG$ is $5$ units, determine the length of $EH$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/b/e/42453bf6768129ed84fbdc81ab7235e780b0e1.png[/img] p4. Each room in the following picture will be painted so that every two rooms which is directly connected to the door is given a different color. If $10$ different colors are provided and $4$ of them can not be used close together for two rooms that are directly connected with a door, determine how many different ways to color the $4$ rooms. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/4/a/e80a464a282b3fe3cdadde832b2fd38b51a41a.png[/img] 5. The floor of a hall is rectangular $ABCD$ with $AB = 30$ meters and $BC = 15$ meters. A cat is in position $A$. Seeing the cat, the mouse in the midpoint of $AB$ ran and tried to escape from cat. The mouse runs from its place to point $C$ at a speed of $3$ meters/second. The trajectory is a straight line. Watching the mice run away, at the same time from point $A$ the cat is chasing with a speed of $5$ meters/second. If the cat's path is also a straight line and the mouse caught before in $C$, determine an equation that can be used for determine the position and time the mouse was caught by the cat.

Let $A, B, C, A', B', C'$ be six pairs of different points. Prove that the Circles $BCA'$, $CAB'$ and $ABC'$ have a common point, then the Circles $B'C'A, C'A'B$ and $A'B'C$ also share a common point. Note: For three pairs of different points $X, Y$ and $Z$ we define the [i]Circle [/i] $XYZ$ as the circumcircle of the triangle $XYZ$, or - in the case when the points $X, Y$ and $Z$ lie on a straight line - this straight line.

The faces of a cube contain the number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 such that the sum of the numbers on each pair of opposite faces is 7. For each of the cube’s eight corners, we multiply the three numbers on the faces incident to that corner, and write down its value. (In the diagram, the value of the indicated corner is 1 x 2 x 3 = 6.) What is the sum of the eight values assigned to the cube’s corners?

Triangle $ ABC$ is isosceles with $ AC \equal{} BC$ and $ \angle{C} \equal{} 120^o$. Points $ D$ and $ E$ are chosen on segment $ AB$ so that $ |AD| \equal{} |DE| \equal{} |EB|$. Find the sizes of the angles of triangle $ CDE$.

We are given a right triangle $ABC$ and the median $BD$ drawn from the vertex $B$ of the right angle. Let the circle inscribed in $\vartriangle ABD$ be tangent to side $AD$ at $K$. Find the angles of $\vartriangle ABC$ if $K$ divides $AD$ in halves.

Points $ABCDEF$ are evenly spaced on a unit circle and line segments $AD$, $DF$, $FB$, $BE$, $EC$, $CA$ are drawn. The line segments intersect each other at seven points inside the circle. Denote these intersections $p_1$, $p_2$, $...$,$p_7$, where $p_7$ is the center of the circle. What is the area of the $12$-sided shape $A_{p_1}B_{p_2}C_{p_3}D_{p_4}E_{p_5}F_{p_6}$? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/9/2/645b3c31b0bb7f81d0c0b86e13b27ec5b32864.png[/img]

Consider an isosceles triangle $KL_1L_2$ with $|KL_1|=|KL_2|$ and let $KA, L_1B_1,L_2B_2$ be its angle bisectors. Prove that $\cos \angle B_1AB_2 < \frac35$

Let $O$ be a point equally distanced from the vertices of the tetrahedron $ABCD$. If the distances from $O$ to the planes $(BCD)$, $(ACD)$, $(ABD)$ and $(ABC)$ are equal, prove that the sum of the distances from a point $M \in \textrm{int}[ABCD]$, to the four planes, is constant.

In a convex hexagon $ABCDEF, AB$ is parallel to $DE, BC$ is parallel to $EF$ and $CD$ is parallel to $FA$. Prove that the triangles $ACE$ and $BDF$ have the same area.

Assume that the earth is a perfect sphere. A plane flies between $30^o N$ $45^o W$ and $30^o N$ $45^o E$ along the shortest possible route. Let $\theta$ be the northernmost latitude that the plane flies over. Compute $\sin \theta$.

Three lines are drawn parallel to the sides of the triangles in the opposite to the vertex, not belonging to the side, part of the plane. The distance from each side to the corresponding line equals the length of the side. Prove that six intersection points of those lines with the continuations of the sides are situated on one circumference.

Hi guys, I was just reading over old posts that I made last year ( :P ) and saw how much the level of Getting Started became harder. To encourage more people from posting, I decided to start a Problem of the Day. This is how I'll conduct this: 1. In each post (not including this one since it has rules, etc) everyday, I'll post the problem. I may post another thread after it to give hints though. 2. Level of problem.. This is VERY important. All problems in this thread will be all AHSME or problems similar to this level. No AIME. Some AHSME problems, however, that involve tough insight or skills will not be posted. The chosen problems will be usually ones that everyone can solve after working. Calculators are allowed when you solve problems but it is NOT necessary. 3. Response.. All you have to do is simply solve the problem and post the solution. There is no credit given or taken away if you get the problem wrong. This isn't like other threads where the number of problems you get right or not matters. As for posting, post your solutions here in this thread. Do NOT PM me. Also, here are some more restrictions when posting solutions: A. No single answer post. It doesn't matter if you put hide and say "Answer is ###..." If you don't put explanation, it simply means you cheated off from some other people. I've seen several posts that went like "I know the answer" and simply post the letter. What is the purpose of even posting then? Huh? B. Do NOT go back to the previous problem(s). This causes too much confusion. C. You're FREE to give hints and post different idea, way or answer in some cases in problems. If you see someone did wrong or you don't understand what they did, post here. That's what this thread is for. 4. Main purpose.. This is for anyone who visits this forum to enjoy math. I rememeber when I first came into this forum, I was poor at math compared to other people. But I kindly got help from many people such as JBL, joml88, tokenadult, and many other people that would take too much time to type. Perhaps without them, I wouldn't be even a moderator in this forum now. This site clearly made me to enjoy math more and more and I'd like to do the same thing. That's about the rule.. Have fun problem solving! Next post will contain the Day 1 Problem. You can post the solutions until I post one. :D

Consider an acute triangle $ABC$ of area $S$. Let $CD \perp AB$ ($D \in AB$), $DM \perp AC$ ($M \in AC$) and $DN \perp BC$ ($N \in BC$). Denote by $H_1$ and $H_2$ the orthocentres of the triangles $MNC$, respectively $MND$. Find the area of the quadrilateral $AH_1BH_2$ in terms of $S$.

How many planes of symmetry can a triangular pyramid have?

It is given triangle $ABC$ and parallelogram $ASCR$ with diagonal $AC$. Let line constructed through point $B$ parallel with $CS$ intersects line $AS$ and $CR$ in $M$ and $P$, respectively. Let line constructed through point $B$ parallel with $AS$ intersects line $AR$ and $CS$ in $N$ and $Q$, respectively. Prove that lines $RS$, $MN$ and $PQ$ are concurrent

A point $P$ moves inside a unit square in a straight line at unit speed. When it meets a corner it escapes. When it meets an edge its line of motion is reflected so that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. Let $N( t)$ be the number of starting directions from a fixed interior point $P_0$ for which $P$ escapes within $t$ units of time. Find the least constant $a$ for which constants $b$ and $c$ exist such that $$N(t) \leq at^2 +bt+c$$ for all $t>0$ and all initial points $P_0 .$

A polygon has twice as many diagonals as it has sides. How many sides does it have?