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Found problems: 473

2013 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, 7

Given five fixed points in the space. It is known that these points are centers of five spheres, four of which are pairwise externally tangent, and all these point are internally tangent to the fifth one. It turns out that it is impossible to determine which of the marked points is the center of the largest sphere. Find the ratio of the greatest and the smallest radii of the spheres.

1976 IMO Longlists, 17

Show that there exists a convex polyhedron with all its vertices on the surface of a sphere and with all its faces congruent isosceles triangles whose ratio of sides are $\sqrt{3} :\sqrt{3} :2$.

1990 Brazil National Olympiad, 3

Each face of a tetrahedron is a triangle with sides $a, b,$c and the tetrahedon has circumradius 1. Find $a^2 + b^2 + c^2$.

1991 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 553

The chords $AB$ and $CD$ of a sphere intersect at $X. A, C$ and $X$ are equidistant from a point $Y$ on the sphere. Show that $BD$ and $XY$ are perpendicular.

2004 Iran MO (3rd Round), 26

Finitely many points are given on the surface of a sphere, such that every four of them lie on the surface of open hemisphere. Prove that all points lie on the surface of an open hemisphere.

2012 China Second Round Olympiad, 5

Suppose two regular pyramids with the same base $ABC$: $P-ABC$ and $Q-ABC$ are circumscribed by the same sphere. If the angle formed by one of the lateral face and the base of pyramid $P-ABC$ is $\frac{\pi}{4}$, find the tangent value of the angle formed by one of the lateral face and the base of the pyramid $Q-ABC$.

2014 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 9

Compute the side length of the largest cube contained in the region \[ \{(x, y, z) : x^2+y^2+z^2 \le 25 \text{ and } x, y \ge 0 \} \] of three-dimensional space.

1988 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 486

Prove that for any tetrahedron the radius of the inscribed sphere $r <\frac{ ab}{ 2(a + b)}$, where $a$ and $b$ are the lengths of any pair of opposite edges.

2003 Austrian-Polish Competition, 6

$ABCD$ is a tetrahedron such that we can find a sphere $k(A,B,C)$ through $A, B, C$ which meets the plane $BCD$ in the circle diameter $BC$, meets the plane $ACD$ in the circle diameter $AC$, and meets the plane $ABD$ in the circle diameter $AB$. Show that there exist spheres $k(A,B,D)$, $k(B,C,D)$ and $k(C,A,D)$ with analogous properties.

1980 Austrian-Polish Competition, 3

Prove that the sum of the six angles subtended at an interior point of a tetrahedron by its six edges is greater than 540°.

2008 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 3

Through a point in the interior of a sphere we put three pairwise perpendicular planes. Those planes dissect the surface of the sphere in eight curvilinear triangles. Alternately the triangles are coloured black and wide to make the sphere surface look like a checkerboard. Prove that exactly half of the sphere's surface is coloured black.

2006 VTRMC, Problem 7

Three spheres each of unit radius have centers $P,Q,R$ with the property that the center of each sphere lies on the surface of the other two spheres. Let $C$ denote the cylinder with cross-section $PQR$ (the triangular lamina with vertices $P,Q,R$) and axis perpendicular to $PQR$. Let $M$ denote the space which is common to the three spheres and the cylinder $C$, and suppose the mass density of $M$ at a given point is the distance of the point from $PQR$. Determine the mass of $M$.

2003 National High School Mathematics League, 11

Eight spheres with radius of $1$ are put into a circular column. There are two floors, and each sphere is tangent to adjacent four spheres, one of the bottom surfaces, and the flank. Then the height of the circular column is________.

2006 Iran MO (3rd Round), 1

A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron that is convex and all of its faces are regular polygons. We call a regular polhedron a "[i]Choombam[/i]" iff none of its faces are triangles. a) prove that each choombam can be inscribed in a sphere. b) Prove that faces of each choombam are polygons of at most 3 kinds. (i.e. there is a set $\{m,n,q\}$ that each face of a choombam is $n$-gon or $m$-gon or $q$-gon.) c) Prove that there is only one choombam that its faces are pentagon and hexagon. (Soccer ball) [img]http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/5367/2001362702285797426_rs.jpg[/img] d) For $n>3$, a prism that its faces are 2 regular $n$-gons and $n$ squares, is a choombam. Prove that except these choombams there are finitely many choombams.

2002 Iran Team Selection Test, 3

A "[i]2-line[/i]" is the area between two parallel lines. Length of "2-line" is distance of two parallel lines. We have covered unit circle with some "2-lines". Prove sum of lengths of "2-lines" is at least 2.

1967 Polish MO Finals, 6

Given a sphere and a plane that has no common points with the sphere. Find the geometric locus of the centers of the circles of tangency with the sphere of those cones circumcribed on the sphere whose vertices lie on the given plane.

2004 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 4

A cube is decomposed in a finite number of rectangular parallelepipeds such that the volume of the cube's circum sphere volume equals the sum of the volumes of all parallelepipeds' circum spheres. Prove that all these parallelepipeds are cubes.

1959 Poland - Second Round, 6

From a point $ M $ on the surface of a sphere, three mutually perpendicular chords $ MA $, $ MB $, $ MC $ are drawn. Prove that the segment joining the point $ M $ with the center of the sphere intersects the plane of the triangle $ ABC $ at the center of gravity of this triangle.

MIPT Undergraduate Contest 2019, 1.4

Suppose that in a unit sphere in Euclidean space, there are $2m$ points $x_1, x_2, ..., x_{2m}.$ Prove that it's possible to partition them into two sets of $m$ points in such a way that the centers of mass of these sets are at a distance of at most $\frac{2}{\sqrt{m}}$ from one another.

1985 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 2

The insphere of any tetrahedron has radius $r$. The four tangential planes parallel to the side faces of the tetrahedron cut from the tetrahedron four smaller tetrahedrons whose in-sphere radii are $r_1, r_2, r_3$ and $r_4$. Prove that $$r_1 + r_2 + r_3 + r_4 = 2r$$

2013 Federal Competition For Advanced Students, Part 2, 6

Consider a regular octahedron $ABCDEF$ with lower vertex $E$, upper vertex $F$, middle cross-section $ABCD$, midpoint $M$ and circumscribed sphere $k$. Further, let $X$ be an arbitrary point inside the face $ABF$. Let the line $EX$ intersect $k$ in $E$ and $Z$, and the plane $ABCD$ in $Y$. Show that $\sphericalangle{EMZ}=\sphericalangle{EYF}$.

1966 IMO Shortlist, 60

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.

2016 Sharygin Geometry Olympiad, P24

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.

2003 Mediterranean Mathematics Olympiad, 4

Consider a system of infinitely many spheres made of metal, with centers at points $(a, b, c) \in \mathbb Z^3$. We say that the system is stable if the temperature of each sphere equals the average temperature of the six closest spheres. Assuming that all spheres in a stable system have temperatures between $0^\circ C$ and $1^\circ C$, prove that all the spheres have the same temperature.

1980 IMO, 3

Prove that the sum of the six angles subtended at an interior point of a tetrahedron by its six edges is greater than 540°.