A sphere is inscribed in a cube that has a surface area of $ 24$ square meters. A second cube is then inscribed within the sphere. What is the surface area in square meters of the inner cube? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 6 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 8 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 9 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 12$

Let $ABCDEF$ be a regular hexagon with side length $a$. At point $A$, the perpendicular $AS$, with length $2a\sqrt{3}$, is erected on the hexagon's plane. The points $M, N, P, Q,$ and $R$ are the projections of point $A$ on the lines $SB, SC, SD, SE,$ and $SF$, respectively. [list=a] [*]Prove that the points $M, N, P, Q, R$ lie on the same plane. [*]Find the measure of the angle between the planes $(MNP)$ and $(ABC)$.[/list]

$\vartriangle ABC$ is divided by a straight line $BD$ into two triangles. Prove that the sum of the radii of circles inscribed in triangles $ABD$ and $DBC$ is greater than the radius of the circle inscribed in $\vartriangle ABC$.

[u]Set 4 [/u] [b]4.1[/b] Triangle $T$ has side lengths $1$, $2$, and $\sqrt7$. It turns out that one can arrange three copies of triangle $T$ to form two equilateral triangles, one inside the other, as shown below. Compute the ratio of the area of the outer equilaterial triangle to the area of the inner equilateral triangle. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/0/a/4a3bcf4762b97501a9575fc6972e234ffa648b.png[/img] [b]4.2[/b] Let $T$ be the answer from the previous problem. The diagram below features two concentric circles of radius $1$ and $T$ (not necessarily to scale). Four equally spaced points are chosen on the smaller circle, and rays are drawn from these points to the larger circle such that all of the rays are tangent to the smaller circle and no two rays intersect. If the area of the shaded region can be expressed as $k\pi$ for some integer $k$, find $k$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/a/5/168d1aa812210fd9d60a3bb4a768e8272742d7.png[/img] [b]4.3[/b] Let $T$ be the answer from the previous problem. $T^2$ congruent squares are arranged in the configuration below (shown for $T = 3$), where the squares are tilted in alternating fashion such that they form congruent rhombuses between them. If all of the rhombuses have long diagonal twice the length of their short diagonal, compute the ratio of the total area of all of the rhombuses to the total area of all of the squares. (Hint: Rather than waiting for $T$, consider small cases and try to find a general formula in terms of $T$, such a formula does exist.) [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/d/56ef60c47592fa979bfedd782e5385e7d139eb.png[/img] PS. You should use hide for answers.

The incircle of triangle $ABC$, is tangent to sides $BC,CA$ and $AB$ in $D,E$ and $F$ respectively. The reflection of $F$ with respect to $B$ and the reflection of $E$ with respect to $C$ are $T$ and $S$ respectively. Prove that the incenter of triangle $AST$ is inside or on the incircle of triangle $ABC$. [i]Proposed by Mehdi E'tesami Fard[/i]

Cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ has side lengths $AB = 2, BC = 3, CD = 5, AD = 4$. Find $\sin A \sin B(\cot A/2 + \cot B/2 + \cot C/2 + \cot D/2)^2$. Your answer can be written in simplest form as $a/b$. Find $a + b$.

In a triangle, the ratio of the interior angles is $1 : 5 : 6$, and the longest side has length $12$. What is the length of the altitude (height) of the triangle that is perpendicular to the longest side?

In acute triangle $ABC$, let $\odot O$ be its circumcircle, $\odot I$ be its incircle. Tangents at $B,C$ to $\odot O$ meet at $L$, $\odot I$ touches $BC$ at $D$. $AY$ is perpendicular to $BC$ at $Y$, $AO$ meets $BC$ at $X$, and $OI$ meets $\odot O$ at $P,Q$. Prove that $P,Q,X,Y$ are concyclic if and only if $A,D,L$ are collinear.

The sign shown below consists of two uniform legs attached by a frictionless hinge. The coefficient of friction between the ground and the legs is $\mu$. Which of the following gives the maximum value of $\theta$ such that the sign will not collapse? $\textbf{(A) } \sin \theta = 2 \mu \\ \textbf{(B) } \sin \theta /2 = \mu / 2\\ \textbf{(C) } \tan \theta / 2 = \mu\\ \textbf{(D) } \tan \theta = 2 \mu \\ \textbf{(E) } \tan \theta / 2 = 2 \mu$

Assume that it is possible to color more than half of the surfaces of a given polyhedron so that no two colored surfaces have a common edge. (a) Describe one polyhedron with the above property. (b) Prove that one cannot inscribe a sphere touching all the surfaces of a polyhedron with the above property.

Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram in the plane. We draw two circles of radius $R$, one through the points $A$ and $B$, the other through $B$ and $C$. Let $E$ be the other intersection point of the circles. We assume that $E$ is not a vertex of the parallelogram. Show that the circle passing through $A, D$, and $E$ also has radius $R$.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with circumcircle $\Gamma$. If the internal angle bisector of $\angle A$ meets $BC$ and $\Gamma$ at $D$ and $E$ respectively. Let $O_1$ be the center of the circle through $A$ and $D$ tangent to $BC$, let the external angle bisector of $\angle A$ meet $\Gamma$ at $F$, and let $FO_1$ meet $\Gamma$ at some point $P \neq F$. Show that the circumcircle of $DEP$ is tangent to $BC$.

[b]p1.[/b] What is $20\times 20 - 19\times 19$? [b]p2.[/b] Andover has a total of $1440$ students and teachers as well as a $1 : 5$ teacher-to-student ratio (for every teacher, there are exactly $5$ students). In addition, every student is either a boarding student or a day student, and $70\%$ of the students are boarding students. How many day students does Andover have? [b]p3.[/b] The time is $2:20$. If the acute angle between the hour hand and the minute hand of the clock measures $x$ degrees, find $x$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/b/a/a18b089ae016b15580ec464c3e813d5cb57569.png[/img] [b]p4.[/b] Point $P$ is located on segment $AC$ of square $ABCD$ with side length $10$ such that $AP >CP$. If the area of quadrilateral $ABPD$ is $70$, what is the area of $\vartriangle PBD$? [b]p5.[/b] Andrew always sweetens his tea with sugar, and he likes a $1 : 7$ sugar-to-unsweetened tea ratio. One day, he makes a $100$ ml cup of unsweetened tea but realizes that he has run out of sugar. Andrew decides to borrow his sister's jug of pre-made SUPERSWEET tea, which has a $1 : 2$ sugar-to-unsweetened tea ratio. How much SUPERSWEET tea, in ml,does Andrew need to add to his unsweetened tea so that the resulting tea is his desired sweetness? [b]p6.[/b] Jeremy the architect has built a railroad track across the equator of his spherical home planet which has a radius of exactly $2020$ meters. He wants to raise the entire track $6$ meters off the ground, everywhere around the planet. In order to do this, he must buymore track, which comes from his supplier in bundles of $2$ meters. What is the minimum number of bundles he must purchase? Assume the railroad track was originally built on the ground. [b]p7.[/b] Mr. DoBa writes the numbers $1, 2, 3,..., 20$ on the board. Will then walks up to the board, chooses two of the numbers, and erases them from the board. Mr. DoBa remarks that the average of the remaining $18$ numbers is exactly $11$. What is the maximum possible value of the larger of the two numbers that Will erased? [b]p8.[/b] Nathan is thinking of a number. His number happens to be the smallest positive integer such that if Nathan doubles his number, the result is a perfect square, and if Nathan triples his number, the result is a perfect cube. What is Nathan's number? [b]p9.[/b] Let $S$ be the set of positive integers whose digits are in strictly increasing order when read from left to right. For example, $1$, $24$, and $369$ are all elements of $S$, while $20$ and $667$ are not. If the elements of $S$ are written in increasing order, what is the $100$th number written? [b]p10.[/b] Find the largest prime factor of the expression $2^{20} + 2^{16} + 2^{12} + 2^{8} + 2^{4} + 1$. [b]p11.[/b] Christina writes down all the numbers from $1$ to $2020$, inclusive, on a whiteboard. What is the sum of all the digits that she wrote down? [b]p12.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ has side lengths $AB = AC = 10$ and $BC = 16$. Let $M$ and $N$ be the midpoints of segments $BC$ and $CA$, respectively. There exists a point $P \ne A$ on segment $AM$ such that $2PN = PC$. What is the area of $\vartriangle PBC$? [b]p13.[/b] Consider the polynomial $$P(x) = x^4 + 3x^3 + 5x^2 + 7x + 9.$$ Let its four roots be $a, b, c, d$. Evaluate the expression $$(a + b + c)(a + b + d)(a + c + d)(b + c + d).$$ [b]p14.[/b] Consider the system of equations $$|y - 1| = 4 -|x - 1|$$ $$|y| =\sqrt{|k - x|}.$$ Find the largest $k$ for which this system has a solution for real values $x$ and $y$. [b]p16.[/b] Let $T_n = 1 + 2 + ... + n$ denote the $n$th triangular number. Find the number of positive integers $n$ less than $100$ such that $n$ and $T_n$ have the same number of positive integer factors. [b]p17.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a square, and let $P$ be a point inside it such that $PA = 4$, $PB = 2$, and $PC = 2\sqrt2$. What is the area of $ABCD$? [b]p18.[/b] The Fibonacci sequence $\{F_n\}$ is defined as $F_0 = 0$, $F_1 = 1$, and $F_{n+2}= F_{n+1} + F_n$ for all integers $n \ge 0$. Let $$ S =\dfrac{1}{F_6 + \frac{1}{F_6}}+\dfrac{1}{F_8 + \frac{1}{F_8}}+\dfrac{1}{F_{10} +\frac{1}{F_{10}}}+\dfrac{1}{F_{12} + \frac{1}{F_{12}}}+ ... $$ Compute $420S$. [b]p19.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a square with side length $5$. Point $P$ is located inside the square such that the distances from $P$ to $AB$ and $AD$ are $1$ and $2$ respectively. A point $T$ is selected uniformly at random inside $ABCD$. Let $p$ be the probability that quadrilaterals $APCT$ and $BPDT$ are both not self-intersecting and have areas that add to no more than $10$. If $p$ can be expressed in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$, find $m + n$. Note: A quadrilateral is self-intersecting if any two of its edges cross. PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

In acute angled triangle $ABC$, $BC=a$,$CA=b$,$AB=c$, and $a>b>c$. $I,O,H$ are the incentre, circumcentre and orthocentre of $\triangle{ABC}$ respectively. Point $D \in BC$, $E \in CA$ and $AE=BD$, $CD+CE=AB$. Let the intersectionf of $BE$ and $AD$ be $K$. Prove that $KH \parallel IO$ and $KH = 2IO$.

When a right triangle is rotated about one leg, the volume of the cone produced is $800 \pi$ $\text{cm}^3$. When the triangle is rotated about the other leg, the volume of the cone produced is $1920 \pi$ $\text{cm}^3$. What is the length (in cm) of the hypotenuse of the triangle?

Let $ABCD$ be a tetrahedron satisfying i)$\widehat{ACD}+\widehat{BCD}=180^{0}$, and ii)$\widehat{BAC}+\widehat{CAD}+\widehat{DAB}=\widehat{ABC}+\widehat{CBD}+\widehat{DBA}=180^{0}$. Find value of $[ABC]+[BCD]+[CDA]+[DAB]$ if we know $AC+CB=k$ and $\widehat{ACB}=\alpha$.

[u]Round 6[/u] [b]p16.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 3$, $BC = 4$, and $CA = 5$. There exist two possible points $X$ on $CA$ such that if $Y$ and $Z$ are the feet of the perpendiculars from $X$ to $AB$ and $BC,$ respectively, then the area of triangle $XY Z$ is $1$. If the distance between those two possible points can be expressed as $\frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c}$ for positive integers $a$, $b$, and $c$ with $b$ squarefree and $gcd(a, c) = 1$, then find $a +b+ c$. [b]p17.[/b] Let $f(n)$ be the number of orderings of $1,2, ... ,n$ such that each number is as most twice the number preceding it. Find the number of integers $k$ between $1$ and $50$, inclusive, such that $f (k)$ is a perfect square. [b]p18.[/b] Suppose that $f$ is a function on the positive integers such that $f(p) = p$ for any prime p, and that $f (xy) = f(x) + f(y)$ for any positive integers $x$ and $y$. Define $g(n) = \sum_{k|n} f (k)$; that is, $g(n)$ is the sum of all $f(k)$ such that $k$ is a factor of $n$. For example, $g(6) = f(1) + 1(2) + f(3) + f(6)$. Find the sum of all composite $n$ between $50$ and $100$, inclusive, such that $g(n) = n$. [u]Round 7[/u] [b]p19.[/b] AJ is standing in the center of an equilateral triangle with vertices labelled $A$, $B$, and $C$. They begin by moving to one of the vertices and recording its label; afterwards, each minute, they move to a different vertex and record its label. Suppose that they record $21$ labels in total, including the initial one. Find the number of distinct possible ordered triples $(a, b, c)$, where a is the number of $A$'s they recorded, b is the number of $B$'s they recorded, and c is the number of $C$'s they recorded. [b]p20.[/b] Let $S = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (1- \{(2 + \sqrt3)^n\})$, where $\{x\} = x - \lfloor x\rfloor$ , the fractional part of $x$. If $S =\frac{\sqrt{a} -b}{c}$ for positive integers $a, b, c$ with $a $ squarefree, find $a + b + c$. [b]p21.[/b] Misaka likes coloring. For each square of a $1\times 8$ grid, she flips a fair coin and colors in the square if it lands on heads. Afterwards, Misaka places as many $1 \times 2$ dominos on the grid as possible such that both parts of each domino lie on uncolored squares and no dominos overlap. Given that the expected number of dominos that she places can be written as $\frac{a}{b}$, for positive integers $a$ and $b$ with $gcd(a, b) = 1$, find $a + b$. PS. You should use hide for answers. Rounds 1-3 have been posted [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h3131401p28368159]here [/url] and 4-5 [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h3131422p28368457]here[/url]. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].

Unit square $ZINC$ is constructed in the interior of hexagon $CARBON$. What is the area of triangle $BIO$?

Prove that the four segments connecting the vertices of the tetrahedron with the centers of gravity of the opposite faces have a common point.

Let $ f$ be a continuous function on the unit interval $ [0,1]$. Show that \[ \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \int_0^1... \int_0^1f(\frac{x_1+...+x_n}{n})dx_1...dx_n=f(\frac12)\] and \[ \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \int_0^1... \int_0^1f (\sqrt[n]{x_1...x_n})dx_1...dx_n=f(\frac1e).\]

In triangle $ABC$, points $P$, $Q$, and $R$ are marked on the sides $AB$, $BC$, and $AC$ respectively. The lengths of the sides of triangle $PQR$ are known to be 7, 8, and 9 centimeters. Find the radii of the circles inscribed in triangles $APR$, $BPQ$, and $CQR$ given that all three circles are tangent to the incircle of triangle $PQR$. [i]Proposed by Giorgi Arabidze, Georgia[/i]

Find all integers $n \ge 3$ with the following property: it is possible to assign pairwise different positive integers to the vertices of an $n$-gonal prism in such a way that vertices with labels $a$ and $b$ are connected by an edge if and only if $a | b$ or $b | a$. Poland

Let $ABCDE$ be a regular pentagon, and $F$ some point on the arc $AB$ of the circumcircle of $ABCDE$. Show that \[ \frac{FD}{FE + FC} = \frac{FB + FA}{FD} = \frac{-1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}, \] and that $FD + FB + FA = FE + FC$.

Let $ a,\ b$ be real numbers satisfying $ \int_0^1 (ax\plus{}b)^2dx\equal{}1$. Determine the values of $ a,\ b$ for which $ \int_0^1 3x(ax\plus{}b)\ dx$ is maximized.

Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle. The interior angle bisectors of $\angle ABC$ and $\angle ACB$ meet the opposite sides in $L$ and $M$ respectively. Prove that there is a point $K$ in the interior of the side $BC$ such that the triangle $KLM$ is equilateral if and only if $\angle BAC = 60^\circ$.