The incircle of the triangle $ABC$ touches the side $AC$ at the point $D$. Another circle passes through $D$ and touches the rays $BC$ and $BA$, the latter at the point $A$. Determine the ratio $\frac{AD}{DC}$.

Let $SABCDE$ be a pyramid whose base $ABCDE$ is a regular pentagon and whose other faces are acute triangles. The altitudes from $S$ to the base sides dissect them into ten triangles, colored red and blue alternatingly. Prove that the sum of the squared areas of the red triangles is equal to the sum of the squared areas of the blue triangles.

A square measuring $15$ by $15$ is partitioned into five rows of five congruent squares as shown below. The small squares are alternately colored black and white as shown. Find the total area of the part colored black. [asy] size(150); defaultpen(linewidth(0.8)); int i,j; for(i=1;i<=5;i=i+1) { for(j=1;j<=5;j=j+1) { if (floor((i+j)/2)==((i+j)/2)) { filldraw(shift((i-1,j-1))*unitsquare,gray); } else { draw(shift((i-1,j-1))*unitsquare); } } } [/asy]

In the Cartesian plane $\mathbb{R}^2,$ each triangle contains a Mediterranean point on its sides or in its interior, even if the triangle is degenerated into a segment or a point. The Mediterranean points have the following properties: [b](i)[/b] If a triangle is symmetric with respect to a line which passes through the origin $(0,0)$, then the Mediterranean point lies on this line. [b](ii)[/b] If the triangle $DEF$ contains the triangle $ABC$ and if the triangle $ABC$ contains the Mediterranean points $M$ of $DEF,$ then $M$ is the Mediterranean point of the triangle $ABC.$ Find all possible positions for the Mediterranean point of the triangle with vertices $(-3,5),\ (12,5),\ (3,11).$

A circle cuts each side of a rhombus twice thus dividing each side into three segments. Let us go around the perimeter of the rhombus clockwise beginning at a vertex and paint these segments successively in red, white and blue. Prove that the sum of lengths of the blue segments equals that of the red ones. (V Proizvolov)

Let $G$ be the intersection of medians of $\triangle ABC$ and $I$ be the incenter of $\triangle ABC$. If $|AB|=c$, $|AC|=b$ and $GI \perp BC$, what is $|BC|$? $ \textbf{(A)}\ \dfrac{b+c}2 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \dfrac{b+c}{3} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \dfrac{\sqrt{b^2+c^2}}{2} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \dfrac{\sqrt{b^2+c^2}}{3\sqrt 2} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of the preceding} $

(V.Protasov, 8) For a given pair of circles, construct two concentric circles such that both are tangent to the given two. What is the number of solutions, depending on location of the circles?

In a triangle $ABC$, the lengths of the sides are consecutive integers and median drawn from $A$ is perpendicular to the bisector drawn from $B$. Find the lengths of the sides of triangle $ABC$.

Seven cubes, whose volumes are $1$, $8$, $27$, $64$, $125$, $216$, and $343$ cubic units, are stacked vertically to form a tower in which the volumes of the cubes decrease from bottom to top. Except for the bottom cube, the bottom face of each cube lies completely on top of the cube below it. What is the total surface area of the tower (including the bottom) in square units? $\textbf{(A) } 644 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 658 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 664 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 720 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 749$

Let $ABC$ be a triangle, $I$ and $O$ be its incenter and circumcenter respectively. $A'$ is symmetric to $O$ with respect to line $AI$. Points $B'$ and $C'$ are defined similarly. Prove that the nine-point centers of triangles $ABC$ and $A'B'C'$ coincide.

Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle with side length $1$. Points $A_1$ and $A_2$ are chosen on side $BC$, points $B_1$ and $B_2$ are chosen on side $CA$, and points $C_1$ and $C_2$ are chosen on side $AB$ such that $BA_1<BA_2$, $CB_1<CB_2$, and $AC_1<AC_2$. Suppose that the three line segments $B_1C_2$, $C_1A_2$, $A_1B_2$ are concurrent, and the perimeters of triangles $AB_2C_1$, $BC_2A_1$, and $CA_2B_1$ are all equal. Find all possible values of this common perimeter. [i]Ankan Bhattacharya[/i]

[b]i.)[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 12$ and $AC = 16.$ Suppose $M$ is the midpoint of side $BC$ and points $E$ and $F$ are chosen on sides $AC$ and $AB$, respectively, and suppose that lines $EF$ and $AM$ intersect at $G.$ If $AE = 2 \cdot AF$ then find the ratio \[ \frac{EG}{GF} \] [b]ii.)[/b] Let $E$ be a point external to a circle and suppose that two chords $EAB$ and $EDC$ meet at angle of $40^{\circ}.$ If $AB = BC = CD$ find the size of angle $ACD.$

Given is an acute triangle $ABC$. $M$ is an arbitrary point at the side $AB$ and $N$ is midpoint of $AC$. The foots of the perpendiculars from $A$ to $MC$ and $MN$ are points $P$ and $Q$. Prove that center of the circumcircle of triangle $PQN$ lies on the fixed line for all points $M$ from the side $AB$.

For any set $S$ of five points in the plane, no three of which are collinear, let $M(S)$ and $m(S)$ denote the greatest and smallest areas, respectively, of triangles determined by three points from $S$. What is the minimum possible value of $M(S)/m(S)$ ?

A right-angled triangle $ABC$ is given. Its catheus $AB$ is the base of a regular triangle $ADB$ lying in the exterior of $ABC$, and its hypotenuse $AC$ is the base of a regular triangle $AEC$ lying in the interior of $ABC$. Lines $DE$ and $AB$ meet at point $M$. The whole configuration except points $A$ and $B$ was erased. Restore the point $M$.

Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral. It is known that $S_{ABD} = 7$, $S_{BCD}= 5$ and $S_{ABC}= 3$. Inside the quadrilateral mark the point $X$ so that $ABCX$ is a parallelogram. Find $S_{ADX}$ and $S_{BDX}$.

[b]rolling cube[/b] $a$,$b$ and $c$ are natural numbers. we have a $(2a+1)\times (2b+1)\times (2c+1)$ cube. this cube is on an infinite plane with unit squares. you call roll the cube to every side you want. faces of the cube are divided to unit squares and the square in the middle of each face is coloured (it means that if this square goes on a square of the plane, then that square will be coloured.) prove that if any two of lengths of sides of the cube are relatively prime, then we can colour every square in plane. time allowed for this question was 1 hour.

Let $ABC$ be an acute, non-isosceles triangle with circumcenter $O$, incenter $I$ and $(I)$ tangent to $BC$, $CA$, $AB$ at $D, E, F$ respectively. Suppose that $EF$ cuts $(O)$ at $P, Q$. Prove that $(PQD)$ bisects segment $BC$.

The sum of the areas of all triangles whose vertices are also vertices of a $1\times 1 \times 1$ cube is $m+\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{p}$, where $m$, $n$, and $p$ are integers. Find $m+n+p$.

Let $A$, $B$ and $C$ be equidistant points on the circumference of a circle of unit radius centered at $O$, and let $P$ be any point in the circle's interior. Let $a$, $b$, $c$ be the distances from $P$ to $A$, $B$, $C$ respectively. Show that there is a triangle with side lengths $a$, $b$, $c$, and that the area of this triangle depends only on the distance from $P$ to $O$.

Consider a semicircle with center $M$ and diameter $AB$. Let $P$ be a point in the semicircle, different from $A$ and $B$, and let $Q$ be the midpoint of the arc $AP$. The line parallel to $QP$ through $M$ intersects $PB$ at the point $S$. Prove that the triangle $PMS$ is isosceles.

The following diagram shows four adjacent $2\times 2$ squares labeled $1, 2, 3$, and $4$. A line passing through the lower left vertex of square $1$ divides the combined areas of squares $1, 3$, and $4$ in half so that the shaded region has area $6$. The difference between the areas of the shaded region within square $4$ and the shaded region within square $1$ is $\frac{p}{q}$ , where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $p + q$. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/7/4/b9554ccd782af15c680824a1fbef278a4f736b.png[/img]

A tangent $l$ to the circle inscribed in a rhombus meets its sides $AB$ and $BC$ at points $E$ and $F$ respectively. Prove that the product $AE\cdot CF$ is independent of the choice of $l$.

A parallelepiped has surface area 216 and volume 216. Show that it is a cube.

Triangle $ABC$ has sidelengths $AB = 14, BC = 15,$ and $CA = 13$. We draw a circle with diameter $AB$ such that it passes $BC$ again at $D$ and passes $CA$ again at $E$. If the circumradius of $\triangle CDE$ can be expressed as $\tfrac{m}{n}$ where $m, n$ are coprime positive integers, determine $100m+n$. [i]Proposed by Lewis Chen[/i]