Found problems: 1342
The director of a marching band wishes to place the members into a formation that includes all of them and has no unfilled positions. If they are arranged in a square formation, there are 5 members left over. The director realizes that if he arranges the group in a formation with 7 more rows than columns, there are no members left over. Find the maximum number of members this band can have.
The lengths of a rectangle’s sides and of its diagonal are integers. Prove that the area of the rectangle is an integer multiple of $12$.
A rectangle can be divided by parallel lines to its sides into 200 congruent squares, and also in 288 congruent squares. Prove that the rectangle can also be divided into 392 congruent squares.
The diagram below shows a rectangle with one side divided into seven equal segments and the opposite
side divided in half. The rectangle has area 350. Find the area of the shaded region. For Diagram go to purplecomet.org/welcome/practice, the $2015$ middle school contest, and #5.
A rectangle, whose one sidelength is twice the other side, is inscribed inside a triangles with sides $3$ cm, $4$ cm and $5$ cm, such that the long sides lies entirely on the long side of the triangle. The other two remaining vertices of the rectangle lie respectively on the other two sides of the triangle. Find the lengths of the sides of this rectangle.
You have a paper pentagon, $ABCDE$, such that $AB = BC = 3$ cm, $CD = DE= 5$ cm, $EA = 4$ cm, $\angle ABC = 100^o$ ,$ \angle CDE = 80^o$. You have to divide the pentagon into four triangles, by three straight cuts, so that with the four triangles assemble a rectangle, without gaps or overlays. (The triangles can be rotated and / or turned around.)
Two circles of equal radius intersect at two distinct points $A$ and $B$. Let their radii $r$ and their midpoints respectively be $O_1$ and $O_2$. Find the greatest possible value of the area of the rectangle $O_1AO_2B$.
Holding a rectangular sheet of paper $ABCD$, Prair folds triangle $ABD$ over diagonal $BD$, so that the new location of point $A$ is $A'$. She notices that $A'C =\frac13 BD$. If the area of $ABCD$ is $27\sqrt2$, find $BD$.
Two $4\times 4$ squares intersect at right angles, bisecting their intersecting sides, as shown. The circle's diameter is the segment between the two points of intersection. What is the area of the shaded region created by removing the circle from the squares?
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$ \textbf{(A)}\ 16-4\pi\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 16-2\pi\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 28-4\pi\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 28-2\pi\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 32-2\pi $
Let $ABC$ an acute-angle triangle. Let $R$ be a rectangle with vertices in the edges of $ABC$. Let $O$ be the center of $R$.
a) Find the locus of all the points $O$.
b) Decide if there is a point that is the center of three of these rectangles.
Find all triplets $(k, m, n)$ of positive integers having the following property: Square with side length $m$ can be divided into several rectangles of size $1\times k$ and a square with side length $n$.
Akello divides a square up into finitely many white and red rectangles, each (rectangle) with sides parallel to the sides of the parent square. Within each white rectangle, she writes down the value of its width divided by its height, while within each red rectangle, she writes down the value of its height divided by its width. Finally, she calculates $x$, the sum of these numbers. If the total area of the white rectangles equals the total area of the red rectangles, what is the least possible value of $x$ she can get?
A rectangle is said to be $ inscribed$ in a triangle if all its vertices lie on the sides of the triangle. Prove that the locus of the centers (the meeting points of the diagonals) of all inscribed in an acute-angled triangle rectangles are three concurrent unclosed segments.
How many coins can be placed on a $10 \times 10$ board (each at the center of its square, at most one per square) so that no four coins form a rectangle with sides parallel to the sides of the board?
Let $ABCD$ be a quadrilateral inscribed in the circle $O$. For a point $E\in O$, its projections $K,L,M,N$ on the lines $DA,AB,BC,CD$, respectively, are considered. Prove that if $N$ is the orthocentre of the triangle $KLM$ for some point $E$, different from $A,B,C,D$, then this holds for every point $E$ of the circle.
The areas of rectangles $P$ and $Q$ are equal, but the diagonal of $P$ is greater. Rectangle $Q$ can be covered by two copies of $P$. Prove that $P$ can be covered by two copies of $Q$.
A square piece of paper, 4 inches on a side, is folded in half vertically. Both layers are then cut in half parallel to the fold. Three new rectangles are formed, a large one and two small ones. What is the ratio of the perimeter of one of the small rectangles to the perimeter of the large rectangle?
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$ \text{(A)}\ \frac{1}{3}\qquad\text{(B)}\ \frac{1}{2}\qquad\text{(C)}\ \frac{3}{4}\qquad\text{(D)}\ \frac{4}{5}\qquad\text{(E)}\ \frac{5}{6} $
Rectangle $ABCD$ has $AB=6$ and $BC=3$. Point $M$ is chosen on side $AB$ so that $\angle AMD = \angle CMD$. What is the degree measure of $\angle AMD$?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 15 \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ 30 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 45 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 60 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 75 $
In rectangle $ ADEH$, points $ B$ and $ C$ trisect $ \overline{AD}$, and points $ G$ and $ F$ trisect $ \overline{HE}$. In addition, $ AH \equal{} AC \equal{} 2.$ What is the area of quadrilateral $ WXYZ$ shown in the figure?
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$ \textbf{(A) } \frac 12 \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac {\sqrt {2}}2\qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac {\sqrt {3}}2 \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac {2\sqrt {2}}3 \qquad \textbf{(E) } \frac {2\sqrt {3}}3$
Given an $ n\times n$ chessboard.
a) Find the number of rectangles on the chessboard.
b) Assume there exists an $ r\times r$ square (label $ B$) with $ r<n$ which is located on the upper left corner of the board. Define "inner border" of $ A$ as the border of $ A$ which is not the border of the chessboard. How many rectangles in $ B$ that touch exactly one inner border of $ B$?
Consider a $9 \times 9$ array of white squares. Find the largest $n \in\mathbb N$ with the property: No matter how one chooses $n$ out of 81 white squares and color in black, there always remains a $1 \times 4$ array of white squares (either vertical or horizontal).
Given a rectangle $ABCD$ such that $AB = b > 2a = BC$, let $E$ be the midpoint of $AD$. On a line parallel to $AB$ through point $E$, a point $G$ is chosen such that the area of $GCE$ is
$$(GCE)= \frac12 \left(\frac{a^3}{b}+ab\right)$$
Point $H$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $E$ to $GD$ and a point $I$ is taken on the diagonal $AC$ such that the triangles $ACE$ and $AEI$ are similar. The lines $BH$ and $IE$ intersect at $K$ and the lines $CA$ and $EH$ intersect at $J$. Prove that $KJ \perp AB$.
Let $\Gamma_{1}$ be a circle. $AB$ is a diameter, $\ell$ is the tangent at $B$, and $M$ is a point on $\Gamma_{1}$ other than $A$. $\Gamma_{2}$ is a circle tangent to $\ell$, and also to $\Gamma_{1}$ at $M$.
a) Determine the point of tangency $P$ of $\ell$ and $\Gamma_{2}$ and find the locus of the center of $\Gamma_{2}$ as $M$ varies.
b) Show that there exists a circle that is always orthogonal to $\Gamma_{2}$, regardless of the position of $M$.
Given a scalene acute triangle $ABC$, let M be the midpoints of its side $BC$ and $N$ the midpoint of the arc $BAC$ of its circumcircle. Let $\omega$ be the circle with diameter $BC$ and $D$, $E$ its intersections with the bisector of angle $\angle BAC$. Points $D'$, $E'$ lie on $\omega$ such that $DED'E' $ is a rectangle. Prove that $D'$, $E'$, $M$, $N$ lie on a single circle.
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The fence consists of $25$ vertical bars. The heights of the bars are pairwise distinct positive integers from $1$ to $25$. The width of every bar is $1$.
Find the maximum $S$ for which regardless of the order of the bars one can find a rectangle of area $S$ formed by the fence.