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1991 National High School Mathematics League, 13

In regular triangular pyramid $P-ABC$, $PO$ is its height, $M$ is the midpoint of $PO$. Draw the plane that passes $AM$ and parallel to $BC$. Now the triangular pyramid is divided into two parts. Find the ratio of their volume.

1935 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 012

The unfolding of the lateral surface of a cone is a sector of angle $120^o$. The angles at the base of a pyramid constitute an arithmetic progression with a difference of $15^o$. The pyramid is inscribed in the cone. Consider a lateral face of the pyramid with the smallest area. Find the angle $\alpha$ between the plane of this face and the base.

2005 Denmark MO - Mohr Contest, 1

This figure is cut out from a sheet of paper. Folding the sides upwards along the dashed lines, one gets a (non-equilateral) pyramid with a square base. Calculate the area of the base. [img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lPpfHqfMMRY/XzcBIiF-n2I/AAAAAAAAMW8/nPs_mLe5C8srcxNz45Wg-_SqHlRAsAmigCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/2005%2BMohr%2Bp1.png[/img]

2010 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad, 5

All edges of a regular right pyramid are equal to $1$, and all vertices lie on the side surface of a (infinite) right circular cylinder of radius $R$. Find all possible values of $R$.

2012 District Olympiad, 2

The pyramid $VABCD$ has base the rectangle ABCD, and the side edges are congruent. Prove that the plane $(VCD)$ forms congruent angles with the planes $(VAC)$ and $(BAC)$ if and only if $\angle VAC = \angle BAC $.

2009 AMC 10, 24

Three distinct vertices of a cube are chosen at random. What is the probability that the plane determined by these three vertices contains points inside the cube? $ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{1}{4} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{3}{8} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \frac{4}{7} \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \frac{5}{7} \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \frac{3}{4}$

2024 AMC 12/AHSME, 23

A right pyramid has regular octagon $ABCDEFGH$ with side length $1$ as its base and apex $V.$ Segments $\overline{AV}$ and $\overline{DV}$ are perpendicular. What is the square of the height of the pyramid? $ \textbf{(A) }1 \qquad \textbf{(B) }\frac{1+\sqrt2}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C) }\sqrt2 \qquad \textbf{(D) }\frac32 \qquad \textbf{(E) }\frac{2+\sqrt2}{3} \qquad $

2010 Romania National Olympiad, 3

Let $VABCD$ be a regular pyramid, having the square base $ABCD$. Suppose that on the line $AC$ lies a point $M$ such that $VM=MB$ and $(VMB)\perp (VAB)$. Prove that $4AM=3AC$. [i]Mircea Fianu[/i]

1992 IMO Longlists, 76

Given any triangle $ABC$ and any positive integer $n$, we say that $n$ is a [i]decomposable[/i] number for triangle $ABC$ if there exists a decomposition of the triangle $ABC$ into $n$ subtriangles with each subtriangle similar to $\triangle ABC$. Determine the positive integers that are decomposable numbers for every triangle.

2002 Poland - Second Round, 2

Triangle $ABC$ with $\angle BAC=90^{\circ}$ is the base of the pyramid $ABCD$. Moreover, $AD=BD$ and $AB=CD$. Prove that $\angle ACD\ge 30^{\circ}$.

2006 Moldova MO 11-12, 4

Let $ABCDE$ be a right quadrangular pyramid with vertex $E$ and height $EO$. Point $S$ divides this height in the ratio $ES: SO=m$. In which ratio does the plane $(ABC)$ divide the lateral area of the pyramid.

2001 Federal Math Competition of S&M, Problem 4

Parallelogram $ABCD$ is the base of a pyramid $SABCD$. Planes determined by triangles $ASC$ and $BSD$ are mutually perpendicular. Find the area of the side $ASD$, if areas of sides $ASB,BSC$ and $CSD$ are equal to $x,y$ and $z$, respectively.

1951 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 195

We have two concentric circles. A polygon is circumscribed around the smaller circle and is contained entirely inside the greater circle. Perpendiculars from the common center of the circles to the sides of the polygon are extended till they intersect the greater circle. Each of the points obtained is connected with the endpoints of the corresponding side of the polygon . When is the resulting star-shaped polygon the unfolding of a pyramid?

1948 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 146

Consider two triangular pyramids $ABCD$ and $A'BCD$, with a common base $BCD$, and such that $A'$ is inside $ABCD$. Prove that the sum of planar angles at vertex $A'$ of pyramid $A'BCD$ is greater than the sum of planar angles at vertex $A$ of pyramid $ABCD$.

2007 Bulgarian Autumn Math Competition, Problem 12.2

All edges of the triangular pyramid $ABCD$ are equal in length. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $DB$, $N$ is the point on $\overline{AB}$, such that $2NA=NB$ and $N\not\in AB$ and $P$ is a point on the altitude through point $D$ in $\triangle BCD$. Find $\angle MPD$ if the intersection of the pyramid with the plane $(NMP)$ is a trapezoid.

2006 Tournament of Towns, 4

Is it possible to split a prism into disjoint set of pyramids so that each pyramid has its base on one base of the prism, while its vertex on another base of the prism ? (6)

1952 Miklós Schweitzer, 1

Find all convex polyhedra which have no diagonals (that is, for which every segment connecting two vertices lies on the boundary of the polyhedron).

1990 AMC 12/AHSME, 21

Consider a pyramid $P-ABCD$ whose base $ABCD$ is a square and whose vertex $P$ is equidistant from $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$. If $AB=1$ and $\angle APD=2\theta$ then the volume of the pyramid is $\text{(A)} \ \frac{\sin \theta}{6} \qquad \text{(B)} \ \frac{\cot \theta}{6} \qquad \text{(C)} \ \frac1{6\sin \theta} \qquad \text{(D)} \ \frac{1-\sin 2\theta}{6} \qquad \text{(E)} \ \frac{\sqrt{\cos 2\theta}}{6\sin \theta}$

2014-2015 SDML (Middle School), 8

Two regular square pyramids have all edges $12$ cm in length. The pyramids have parallel bases and those bases have parallel edges, and each pyramid has its apex at the center of the other pyramid's base. What is the total number of cubic centimeters in the volume of the solid of intersection of the two pyramids?

2012 Online Math Open Problems, 16

Let $A_1B_1C_1D_1A_2B_2C_2D_2$ be a unit cube, with $A_1B_1C_1D_1$ and $A_2B_2C_2D_2$ opposite square faces, and let $M$ be the center of face $A_2 B_2 C_2 D_2$. Rectangular pyramid $MA_1B_1C_1D_1$ is cut out of the cube. If the surface area of the remaining solid can be expressed in the form $a + \sqrt{b}$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers and $b$ is not divisible by the square of any prime, find $a+b$. [i]Author: Alex Zhu[/i]

1980 Bulgaria National Olympiad, Problem 6

Show that if all lateral edges of a pentagonal pyramid are of equal length and all the angles between neighboring lateral faces are equal, then the pyramid is regular.

IV Soros Olympiad 1997 - 98 (Russia), 11.9

Cut pyramid $ABCD$ into $8$ equal and similar pyramids, if: a) $AB = BC = CD$, $\angle ABC =\angle BCD = 90^o$, dihedral angle at edge $BC$ is right b) all plane angles at vertex $B$ are right and $AB = BC = BD\sqrt2$. Note. Whether there are other types of triangular pyramids that can be cut into any number similar to the original pyramids (their number is not necessarily $8$ and the pyramids are not necessarily equal to each other) is currently unknown

1954 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, 284

How many planes of symmetry can a triangular pyramid have?

1993 Bulgaria National Olympiad, 3

it is given a polyhedral constructed from two regular pyramids with bases heptagons (a polygon with $7$ vertices) with common base $A_1A_2A_3A_4A_5A_6A_7$ and vertices respectively the points $B$ and $C$. The edges $BA_i , CA_i$ $(i = 1,...,7$), diagonals of the common base are painted in blue or red. Prove that there exists three vertices of the polyhedral given which forms a triangle with all sizes in the same color.

2019 Puerto Rico Team Selection Test, 6

Starting from a pyramid $T_0$ whose edges are all of length $2019$, we construct the Figure $T_1$ when considering the triangles formed by the midpoints of the edges of each face of $T_0$, building in each of these new pyramid triangles with faces identical to base. Then the bases of these new pyramids are removed. Figure $T_2$ is constructed by applying the same process from $T_1$ on each triangular face resulting from $T_1$, and so on for $T_3, T_4, ...$ Let $D_0= \max \{d(x,y)\}$, where $x$ and $y$ are vertices of $T_0$ and $d(x,y)$ is the distance between $x$ and $y$. Then we define $D_{n + 1} = \max \{d (x, y) |d (x, y) \notin \{D_0, D_1,...,D_n\}$, where $x, y$ are vertices of $T_{n+1}$. Find the value of $D_n$ for all $n$.