Inside a right cylinder with a radius of the base $R$ are placed $k$ ($k\ge 3$) of equal balls, each of which touches the side surface and the lower base of the cylinder and, in addition, exactly two other balls. After that, another equal ball is placed inside the cylinder so that it touches the upper base of the cylinder and all other balls. Find the volume $V (R, k)$ of the cylinder.

Prove that the sum of the distances of the vertices of a regular tetrahedron from the center of its circumscribed sphere is less than the sum of the distances of these vertices from any other point in space.

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? $\text{(A) }40\pi\qquad\text{(B) }32\pi\sqrt{2}\qquad\text{(C) }48\pi\qquad\text{(D) }32\pi\sqrt{3}\qquad\text{(E) }56\pi$

Find the sphere of maximal radius that can be placed inside every tetrahedron that has all altitudes of length greater than or equal to $1.$

The rectangle $ABCD$ below has dimensions $AB = 12 \sqrt{3}$ and $BC = 13 \sqrt{3}$. Diagonals $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{BD}$ intersect at $P$. If triangle $ABP$ is cut out and removed, edges $\overline{AP}$ and $\overline{BP}$ are joined, and the figure is then creased along segments $\overline{CP}$ and $\overline{DP}$, we obtain a triangular pyramid, all four of whose faces are isosceles triangles. Find the volume of this pyramid. [asy] pair D=origin, A=(13,0), B=(13,12), C=(0,12), P=(6.5, 6); draw(B--C--P--D--C^^D--A); filldraw(A--P--B--cycle, gray, black); label("$A$", A, SE); label("$B$", B, NE); label("$C$", C, NW); label("$D$", D, SW); label("$P$", P, N); label("$13\sqrt{3}$", A--D, S); label("$12\sqrt{3}$", A--B, E);[/asy]

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$

Find the volume of the uion $ A\cup B\cup C$ of the three subsets $ A,\ B,\ C$ in $ xyz$ space such that: \[ A\equal{}\{(x,\ y,\ z)\ |\ |x|\leq 1,\ y^2\plus{}z^2\leq 1\}\] \[ B\equal{}\{(x,\ y,\ z)\ |\ |y|\leq 1,\ z^2\plus{}x^2\leq 1\}\] \[ C\equal{}\{(x,\ y,\ z)\ |\ |z|\leq 1,\ x^2\plus{}y^2\leq 1\}\]

In tetrahedron $ABCD$, let $V$ be the volume of the tetrahedron and $R$ the radius of the sphere that it tangent to all four faces of the tetrahedron. Let $P$ be the surface area of the tetrahedron. Prove that $$r=\frac{3V}{P}.$$ [i]Proposed by CaptainFlint.[/i]

Let $ V$ be a bounded, closed, convex set in $ \mathbb{R}^n$, and denote by $ r$ the radius of its circumscribed sphere (that is, the radius of the smallest sphere that contains $ V$). Show that $ r$ is the only real number with the following property: for any finite number of points in $ V$, there exists a point in $ V$ such that the arithmetic mean of its distances from the other points is equal to $ r$. [i]Gy. Szekeres[/i]

A square is contained in a cube when all of its points are in the faces or in the interior of the cube. Determine the biggest $\ell > 0$ such that there exists a square of side $\ell$ contained in a cube with edge $1$.

Two satellites are orbiting the earth in the equatorial plane at an altitude $h$ above the surface. The distance between the satellites is always $d$, the diameter of the earth. For which $h$ is there always a point on the equator at which the two satellites subtend an angle of $90^\circ$?

Suppose that the closed subset $K$ of the sphere $$S^2=\{ (x,y,z)\in \mathbb{R}^3\colon x^2+y^2+z^2=1 \}$$ is symmetric with respect to the origin and separates any two antipodal points in $S^2 \backslash K$. Prove that for any positive $\varepsilon$ there exists a homogeneous polynomial $P$ of odd degree such that the Hausdorff distance between $$Z(P)=\{ (x,y,z)\in S^2 \colon P(x,y,z)=0\}$$ and $K$ is less than $\varepsilon$.

An ice cream cone consists of a sphere of vanilla ice cream and a right circular cone that has the same diameter as the sphere. If the ice cream melts, it will exactly fill the cone. Assume that the melted ice cream occupies $ 75\%$ of the volume of the frozen ice cream. What is the ratio of the cone’s height to its radius? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 2: 1 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 3: 1 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4: 1 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 16: 3 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 6: 1$

Prove this proposition: Center the sphere circumscribed around a tetrahedron which coincides with the center of a sphere inscribed in that tetrahedron if and only if the skew edges of the tetrahedron are equal.

The parallelepiped contains a sphere of radius $r$ and is contained within a sphere of radius $R$. Prove that $ \frac{R}{r} \geq \sqrt{3} $.

Consider the maximum value of circular cone inscribed to a sphere, the ratio of it to the volume of the sphere is________.

Let $ABCDEF GH$ be a unit cube such that $ABCD$ is one face of the cube and $\overline{AE}$, $\overline{BF}$, $\overline{CG}$, and $\overline{DH}$ are all edges of the cube. Points $I, J, K$, and $L$ are the respective midpoints of $\overline{AF}$, $\overline{BG}$, $\overline{CH}$, and $\overline{DE}$. The inscribed circle of $IJKL$ is the largest cross-section of some sphere. Compute the volume of this sphere.

One triangular face $F$ of a tetrahedron $\mathcal{T}$ has side lengths $\sqrt{5}$, $\sqrt{65}$, and $2\sqrt{17}$. The other three faces of $\mathcal{T}$ are right triangles whose hypotenuses coincide with the sides of $F$. There exists a sphere inside $\mathcal{T}$ tangent to all four of its faces. Compute the radius of this sphere.

This year's gift idea from BabyMath consists of a series of nine colored plastic containers of decreasing size, alternating in shape like a cube and a sphere. All containers can open and close with a convenient hinge, and each container can hold just about anything next in line. The largest and smallest container are both cubes. Determine the relationship between the edge lengths of these cubes.

Determine the volume of the body obtained by cutting the ball of radius $R$ by the trihedron with vertex in the center of that ball, it its dihedral angles are $\alpha, \beta, \gamma.$

Faces of a convex polyhedron are six squares and 8 equilateral triangles and each edge is a common side for one triangle and one square. All dihedral angles obtained from the triangle and square with a common edge, are equal. Prove that it is possible to circumscribe a sphere around the polyhedron, and compute the ratio of the squares of volumes of that polyhedron and of the ball whose boundary is the circumscribed sphere.

We call the set $A\in \mathbb R^n$ CN if and only if for every continuous $f:A\to A$ there exists some $x\in A$ such that $f(x)=x$. a) Example: We know that $A = \{ x\in\mathbb R^n | |x|\leq 1 \}$ is CN. b) The circle is not CN. Which one of these sets are CN? 1) $A=\{x\in\mathbb R^3| |x|=1\}$ 2) The cross $\{(x,y)\in\mathbb R^2|xy=0,\ |x|+|y|\leq1\}$ 3) Graph of the function $f:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ defined by \[f(x)=\sin\frac 1x\ \mbox{if}\ x\neq0,\ f(0)=0\]

If all edges of a non-planar quadrilateral tangent the faces of a sphere, prove that all of the points of tangency belong to a plane.

Show that there do not exist more than $27$ half-lines (or rays) emanating from the origin in the $3$-dimensional space, such that the angle between each pair of rays is $\geq \frac{\pi}{4}$.

Two congruent right circular cones each with base radius $3$ and height $8$ have axes of symmetry that intersect at right angles at a point in the interior of the cones a distance $3$ from the base of each cone. A sphere with radius $r$ lies inside both cones. The maximum possible value for $r^2$ is $\frac mn$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$.