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2021 AMC 10 Spring, 13

What is the volume of tetrahedron $ABCD$ with edge lengths $AB=2, AC=3, AD=4, BC=\sqrt{13}, BD=2\sqrt{5},$ and $CD=5$? $\textbf{(A) }3 \qquad \textbf{(B) }2\sqrt{3} \qquad \textbf{(C) }4 \qquad \textbf{(D) }3\sqrt{3} \qquad \textbf{(E) }6$

1993 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 11.6

Seven tetrahedra are placed on the table. For any three of them there exists a horizontal plane cutting them in triangles of equal areas. Show that there exists a plane cutting all seven tetrahedra in triangles of equal areas.

2000 Czech And Slovak Olympiad IIIA, 5

Monika made a paper model of a tetrahedron whose base is a right-angled triangle. When she cut the model along the legs of the base and the median of a lateral face corresponding to one of the legs, she obtained a square of side a. Compute the volume of the tetrahedron.

Kyiv City MO Seniors 2003+ geometry, 2008.11.4

In the tetrahedron $SABC $ at the height $SH$ the following point $O$ is chosen, such that: $$\angle AOS + \alpha = \angle BOS + \beta = \angle COS + \gamma = 180^o, $$ where $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ are dihedral angles at the edges $BC, AC, AB $, respectively, at this point $H$ lies inside the base $ABC$. Let ${{A} _ {1}}, \, {{B} _ {1}}, \, {{C} _ {1}} $be the points of intersection of lines and planes: ${{A} _ {1}} = AO \cap SBC $, ${{B} _ {1}} = BO \cap SAC $, ${{C} _ {1}} = CO \cap SBA$ . Prove that if the planes $ABC $ and ${{A} _ {1}} {{B} _ {1}} {{C} _ {1}} $ are parallel, then $SA = SB = SC $. (Alexey Klurman)

1989 AIME Problems, 12

Let $ABCD$ be a tetrahedron with $AB=41$, $AC=7$, $AD=18$, $BC=36$, $BD=27$, and $CD=13$, as shown in the figure. Let $d$ be the distance between the midpoints of edges $AB$ and $CD$. Find $d^{2}$. [asy] pair C=origin, D=(4,11), A=(8,-5), B=(16,0); draw(A--B--C--D--B^^D--A--C); draw(midpoint(A--B)--midpoint(C--D), dashed); label("27", B--D, NE); label("41", A--B, SE); label("7", A--C, SW); label("$d$", midpoint(A--B)--midpoint(C--D), NE); label("18", (7,8), SW); label("13", (3,9), SW); pair point=(7,0); label("$A$", A, dir(point--A)); label("$B$", B, dir(point--B)); label("$C$", C, dir(point--C)); label("$D$", D, dir(point--D));[/asy]

1982 Tournament Of Towns, (030) 4

(a) $K_1,K_2,..., K_n$ are the feet of the perpendiculars from an arbitrary point $M$ inside a given regular $n$-gon to its sides (or sides produced). Prove that the sum $\overrightarrow{MK_1} + \overrightarrow{MK_2} + ... + \overrightarrow{MK_n}$ equals $\frac{n}{2}\overrightarrow{MO}$, where $O$ is the centre of the $n$-gon. (b) Prove that the sum of the vectors whose origin is an arbitrary point $M$ inside a given regular tetrahedron and whose endpoints are the feet of the perpendiculars from $M$ to the faces of the tetrahedron equals $\frac43 \overrightarrow{MO}$, where $O$ is the centre of the tetrahedron. (VV Prasolov, Moscow)

2002 Swedish Mathematical Competition, 6

A tetrahedron has five edges of length $3$ and circumradius $2$. What is the length of the sixth edge?

1962 Vietnam National Olympiad, 4

Let be given a tetrahedron $ ABCD$ such that triangle $ BCD$ equilateral and $ AB \equal{} AC \equal{} AD$. The height is $ h$ and the angle between two planes $ ABC$ and $ BCD$ is $ \alpha$. The point $ X$ is taken on $ AB$ such that the plane $ XCD$ is perpendicular to $ AB$. Find the volume of the tetrahedron $ XBCD$.

2000 Iran MO (2nd round), 2

In a tetrahedron we know that sum of angles of all vertices is $180^\circ.$ (e.g. for vertex $A$, we have $\angle BAC + \angle CAD + \angle DAB=180^\circ.$) Prove that faces of this tetrahedron are four congruent triangles.

1984 Austrian-Polish Competition, 1

Prove that if the feet of the altitudes of a tetrahedron are the incenters of the corresponding faces, then the tetrahedron is regular.

1982 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 334

Given a point $M$ inside a right tetrahedron. Prove that at least one tetrahedron edge is seen from the $M$ in an angle, that has a cosine not greater than $-1/3$. (e.g. if $A$ and $B$ are the vertices, corresponding to that edge, $cos(\widehat{AMB}) \le -1/3$)

2022 Israel Olympic Revenge, 4

A (not necessarily regular) tetrahedron $A_1A_2A_3A_4$ is given in space. For each pair of indices $1\leq i<j\leq 4$, an ellipsoid with foci $A_i,A_j$ and string length $\ell_{ij}$, for positive numbers $\ell_{ij}$, is given (in all 6 ellipsoids were built). For each $i=1,2$, a pair of points $X_i\neq X'_i$ was chosen so that $X_i, X'_i$ both belong to all three ellipsoids with $A_i$ as one of their foci. Prove that the lines $X_1X'_1, X_2X'_2$ share a point in space if and only if \[\ell_{13}+\ell_{24}=\ell_{14}+\ell_{23}\] [i]Remark: An [u]ellipsoid[/u] with foci $P,Q$ and string length $\ell>|PQ|$ is defined here as the set of points $X$ in space for which $|XQ|+|XP|=\ell$.[/i]

1966 IMO Shortlist, 23

Three faces of a tetrahedron are right triangles, while the fourth is not an obtuse triangle. [i](a) [/i]Prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the fourth face to be a right triangle is that at some vertex exactly two angles are right. [i](b)[/i] Prove that if all the faces are right triangles, then the volume of the tetrahedron equals one -sixth the product of the three smallest edges not belonging to the same face.

1985 IMO Longlists, 57

[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 $\frac{1}{\sqrt 6}.$

1989 French Mathematical Olympiad, Problem 3

Find the greatest real $k$ such that, for every tetrahedron $ABCD$ of volume $V$, the product of areas of faces $ABC,ABD$ and $ACD$ is at least $kV^2$.

1978 Czech and Slovak Olympiad III A, 4

Is there a tetrahedron $ABCD$ such that $AB+BC+CD+DA=12\text{ cm}$ with volume $\mathrm V\ge2\sqrt3\text{ cm}^3?$

1998 Romania National Olympiad, 4

Let $ABCD$ be an arbitrary tetrahedron. The bisectors of the angles $\angle BDC$, $\angle CDA$ and $\angle ADB$ intersect $BC$, $CA$ and $AB$, in the points $M$, $N$, $P$, respectively. a) Show that the planes $(ADM)$, $(BDN)$ and $(CDP)$ have a common line $d$. b) Let the points $A' \in (AD)$, $B' \in (BD)$ and $C' \in (CD)$ be such that $(AA') = (BB') = (CC')$ ; show that if $G$ and $G'$ are the centroids of $ABC$ and $A'B'C'$ then the lines $GG'$ and $d$ are either parallel or identical.

2011 Federal Competition For Advanced Students, Part 1, 4

Inside or on the faces of a tetrahedron with five edges of length $2$ and one edge of lenght $1$, there is a point $P$ having distances $a, b, c, d$ to the four faces of the tetrahedron. Determine the locus of all points $P$ such that $a+b+c+d$ is minimal and the locus of all points $P$ such that $a+b+c+d$ is maximal.

2009 Princeton University Math Competition, 8

Consider the solid with 4 triangles and 4 regular hexagons as faces, where each triangle borders 3 hexagons, and all the sides are of length 1. Compute the [i]square[/i] of the volume of the solid. Express your result in reduced fraction and concatenate the numerator with the denominator (e.g., if you think that the square is $\frac{1734}{274}$, then you would submit 1734274).

1988 Czech And Slovak Olympiad IIIA, 3

Given a tetrahedron $ABCD$ with edges $|AD|=|BC|= a$, $|AC|=|BD|=b$, $AB=c$ and $|CD| = d$. Determine the smallest value of the sum $|AX|+|BX|+|CX|+|DX|$, where $X$ is any point in space.

1979 Vietnam National Olympiad, 6

$ABCD$ is a rectangle with $BC / AB = \sqrt2$. $ABEF$ is a congruent rectangle in a different plane. Find the angle $DAF$ such that the lines $CA$ and $BF$ are perpendicular. In this configuration, find two points on the line $CA$ and two points on the line $BF$ so that the four points form a regular tetrahedron.

2008 Iran Team Selection Test, 4

Let $ P_1,P_2,P_3,P_4$ be points on the unit sphere. Prove that $ \sum_{i\neq j}\frac1{|P_i\minus{}P_j|}$ takes its minimum value if and only if these four points are vertices of a regular pyramid.

1996 Tuymaada Olympiad, 8

Given a tetrahedron $ABCD$, in which $AB=CD= 13 , AC=BD=14$ and $AD=BC=15$. Show that the centers of the inscribed sphere and sphere around it coincide, and find the radii of these spheres.

2008 Romania National Olympiad, 1

A tetrahedron has the side lengths positive integers, such that the product of any two opposite sides equals 6. Prove that the tetrahedron is a regular triangular pyramid in which the lateral sides form an angle of at least 30 degrees with the base plane.

1989 IMO Longlists, 21

Let $ ABC$ be an equilateral triangle with side length equal to $ N \in \mathbb{N}.$ Consider the set $ S$ of all points $ M$ inside the triangle $ ABC$ satisfying \[ \overrightarrow{AM} \equal{} \frac{1}{N} \cdot \left(n \cdot \overrightarrow{AB} \plus{} m \cdot \overrightarrow{AC} \right)\] with $ m, n$ integers, $ 0 \leq n \leq N,$ $ 0 \leq m \leq N$ and $ n \plus{} m \leq N.$ Every point of S is colored in one of the three colors blue, white, red such that [b](i) [/b]no point of $ S \cap [AB]$ is coloured blue [b](ii)[/b] no point of $ S \cap [AC]$ is coloured white [b](iii)[/b] no point of $ S \cap [BC]$ is coloured red Prove that there exists an equilateral triangle the following properties: [b](1)[/b] the three vertices of the triangle are points of $ S$ and coloured blue, white and red, respectively. [b](2)[/b] the length of the sides of the triangle is equal to 1. [i]Variant:[/i] Same problem but with a regular tetrahedron and four different colors used.