Found problems: 473
Let $M$ be the set of all tetrahedra whose inscribed and circumscribed spheres are concentric. If the radii of these spheres are denoted by $r$ and $R$ respectively, find the possible values of $R/r$ over all tetrahedra from $M$ .
Given a tetrahedron $ ABCD $ whose edges $ AB, BC, CD, DA $ are tangent to a certain sphere. Prove that the points of tangency lie in the same plane.
What is the largest possible distance between two points, one on the sphere of radius 19 with center $(-2, -10, 5)$ and the other on the sphere of radius 87 with center $(12, 8, -16)$?
The point $M$ moves such that the sum of squares of the lengths from $M$ to faces of a cube, is fixed. Find the locus of $M.$
Denote by $ \mathcal{C}$ the family of all configurations $ C$ of $ N > 1$ distinct
points on the sphere $ S^2,$ and by $ \mathcal{H}$ the family of all closed hemispheres $ H$
of $ S^2.$ Compute:
$ \displaystyle\max_{H\in\mathcal{H}}\displaystyle\min_{C\in\mathcal{C}}|H\cap C|$, $ \displaystyle\min_{H\in\mathcal{H}}\displaystyle\max_{C\in\mathcal{C}}|H\cap C|$
$ \displaystyle\max_{C\in\mathcal{C}}\displaystyle\min_{H\in\mathcal{H}}|H\cap C|$ and $ \displaystyle\min_{C\in\mathcal{C}}\displaystyle\max_{H\in\mathcal{H}}|H\cap C|.$
The six faces of a hexahedron are quadrilaterals. Prove that if seven its vertices lie on a sphere, then the eighth vertex also lies on the sphere.
Given a cube in which you can put two massive spheres of radius 1.
What's the smallest possible value of the side - length of the cube?
Prove that your answer is the best possible.
Logan is constructing a scaled model of his town. The city's water tower stands $ 40$ meters high, and the top portion is a sphere that holds $ 100,000$ liters of water. Logan's miniature water tower holds $ 0.1$ liters. How tall, in meters, should Logan make his tower?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 0.04\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{0.4}{\pi}\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 0.4\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \frac{4}{\pi}\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4$
A plane intersects a sphere of radius $10$ such that the distance from the center of the sphere to the plane is $9$. The plane moves toward the center of the bubble at such a rate that the increase in the area of the intersection of the plane and sphere is constant, and it stops once it reaches the center of the circle. Determine the distance from the center of the sphere to the plane after two-thirds of the time has passed.
Find the eigenvalues and their multiplicities of the Laplace operator $\Delta = \text{div grad}$ on a sphere of radius $R$ in Euclidean space of dimension $n$.
A sphere is inscribed in a truncated right circular cone as shown. The volume of the truncated cone is twice that of the sphere. What is the ratio of the radius of the bottom base of the truncated cone to the radius of the top base of the truncated cone?
[asy]
real r=(3+sqrt(5))/2;
real s=sqrt(r);
real Brad=r;
real brad=1;
real Fht = 2*s;
import graph3;
import solids;
currentprojection=orthographic(1,0,.2);
currentlight=(10,10,5);
revolution sph=sphere((0,0,Fht/2),Fht/2);
//draw(surface(sph),green+white+opacity(0.5));
//triple f(pair t) {return (t.x*cos(t.y),t.x*sin(t.y),t.x^(1/n)*sin(t.y/n));}
triple f(pair t) {
triple v0 = Brad*(cos(t.x),sin(t.x),0);
triple v1 = brad*(cos(t.x),sin(t.x),0)+(0,0,Fht);
return (v0 + t.y*(v1-v0));
}
triple g(pair t) {
return (t.y*cos(t.x),t.y*sin(t.x),0);
}
surface sback=surface(f,(3pi/4,0),(7pi/4,1),80,2);
surface sfront=surface(f,(7pi/4,0),(11pi/4,1),80,2);
surface base = surface(g,(0,0),(2pi,Brad),80,2);
draw(sback,rgb(0,1,0));
draw(sfront,rgb(.3,1,.3));
draw(base,rgb(.4,1,.4));
draw(surface(sph),rgb(.3,1,.3));
[/asy]
$ \textbf {(A) } \dfrac {3}{2} \qquad \textbf {(B) } \dfrac {1+\sqrt{5}}{2} \qquad \textbf {(C) } \sqrt{3} \qquad \textbf {(D) } 2 \qquad \textbf {(E) } \dfrac {3+\sqrt{5}}{2} $
Let $s_1$ be the sum of the first $n$ terms of the arithmetic sequence $8,12,\cdots$ and let $s_2$ be the sum of the first $n$ terms of the arithmetic sequence $17,19\cdots$. Assume $n\ne 0$. Then $s_1=s_2$ for:
$\text{(A)} \ \text{no value of n} \qquad \text{(B)} \ \text{one value of n} \qquad \text{(C)} \ \text{two values of n}$
$\text{(D)} \ \text{four values of n} \qquad \text{(E)} \ \text{more than four values of n}$
[i]a)[/i] The solid $S$ is defined as the intersection of the six spheres with the six edges of a regular tetrahedron $T$, with edge length $1$, as diameters. Prove that $S$ contains two points at a distance $\frac{1}{\sqrt 6}.$
[i]b)[/i] Using the same assumptions in [i]a)[/i], prove that no pair of points in $S$ has a distance larger than $\frac{1}{\sqrt 6}.$
We consider a fixed point $P$ in the interior of a fixed sphere$.$ We construct three segments $PA, PB,PC$, perpendicular two by two$,$ with the vertexes $A, B, C$ on the sphere$.$ We consider the vertex $Q$ which is opposite to $P$ in the parallelepiped (with right angles) with $PA, PB, PC$ as edges$.$ Find the locus of the point $Q$ when $A, B, C$ take all the positions compatible with our problem.
[b]a)[/b] prove that for every compressed set $K$ in the space $\mathbb R^3$, the function $f:\mathbb R^3 \longrightarrow \mathbb R$ that $f(p)=inf\{|p-k|,k\in K\}$ is continuous.
[b]b)[/b] prove that we cannot cover the sphere $S^2\subseteq \mathbb R^3$ with it's three closed sets, such that none of them contain two antipodal points.
Six spheres of radius $1$ are positioned so that their centers are at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side length $2$. The six spheres are internally tangent to a larger sphere whose center is the center of the hexagon. An eighth sphere is externally tangent to the six smaller spheres and internally tangent to the larger sphere. What is the radius of this eighth sphere?
$ \textbf{(A)} \ \sqrt{2} \qquad \textbf{(B)} \ \frac{3}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C)} \ \frac{5}{3} \qquad \textbf{(D)} \ \sqrt{3} \qquad \textbf{(E)} \ 2$
A sphere is inscribed into a prism $ABCA'B'C'$ and touches its lateral faces $BCC'B', CAA'C', ABB'A' $ at points $A_o, B_o, C_o$ respectively. It is known that $\angle A_oBB' = \angle B_oCC' =\angle C_oAA'$.
a) Find all possible values of these angles.
b) Prove that segments $AA_o, BB_o, CC_o$ concur.
c) Prove that the projections of the incenter to $A'B', B'C', C'A'$ are the vertices of a regular triangle.
A regular pentagon $A_1A_2A_3A_4A_5$ with side length $s$ is given. At each point $A_i$, a sphere $K_i$ of radius $\frac{s}{2}$ is constructed. There are two spheres $K_1$ and $K_2$ each of radius $\frac{s}{2}$ touching all the five spheres $K_i.$ Decide whether $K_1$ and $K_2$ intersect each other, touch each other, or have no common points.
We consider a spherical bowl without any great circle. The distance between points $A$ and $B$ on such a bowl is defined as the length of the arc of the great circle of the sphere with ends at points $A$ and $B$, which is contained in the bowl. Prove that there is no isometry mapping this bowl to a subset of the plane.
Attention. A spherical bowl is each of the two parts into which the surface of the sphere is divided by a plane intersecting the sphere.
A right rectangular prism is inscribed within a sphere. The total area of all the faces [of] the prism is $88$, and the total length of all its edges is $48$. What is the surface area of the sphere?
$\text{(A) }40\pi\qquad\text{(B) }32\pi\sqrt{2}\qquad\text{(C) }48\pi\qquad\text{(D) }32\pi\sqrt{3}\qquad\text{(E) }56\pi$
Given a sphere $K$, determine the set of all points $A$ that are vertices of some parallelograms $ABCD$ that satisfy $AC \le BD$ and whose entire diagonal $BD$ is contained in $K$.
A sphere can be inscribed into a pyramid, the base of which is a parallelogram. Prove that the sums of the areas of its opposite side faces are equal.
(M. Volchkevich)
A wine glass with a cross section as shown has the property of an orange in shape as a sphere with a radius of $3$ cm just can be placed in the glass without protruding above glass. Determine the height $h$ of the glass.
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Nine congruent spheres are packed inside a unit cube in such a way that one of them has its center at the center of the cube and each of the others is tangent to the center sphere and to three faces of the cube. What is the radius of each sphere?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 1-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{2\sqrt{3}-3}{2} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{6} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{1}{4} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{\sqrt{3}(2-\sqrt{2})}{4} $
In a cube-shaped box with an edge equal to $5$, there are two balls. The radius of one of the balls is $2$. Find the radius of the other ball if one of the balls touches the base and two side faces of the cube, and the other ball touches the first ball, base and two other side faces of the cube.