### Austrian - Polish 1978 - 2006 (APMC) 19p / 56p

geometry problems Austrian Polish Mathematical Competition (APMC)
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# Austrian- Polish MC (APMC) geometry problems 1978-2006 EN in pdf without links

This competition was replaced in 2007 Middle European Mathematical Olympiad (also known as MEMO) where more countries participated.

A parallelogram is inscribed into a regular hexagon so that the centers of symmetry of both figures coincide. Prove that the area of the parallelogram is at most 2/3 the area of the hexagon.

On sides AB and BC of a square ABCD the respective points E and F have been chosen so that BE = BF. Let BN be the altitude in triangle BCE. Prove that ÐDNF = 90ο.

The circumcenter and incenter of a given tetrahedron coincide. Prove that all its faces are congruent.

Austrian-Polish 1979 Team  2
Let A,B,C,D be four points in space, and M and N be the midpoints of AC and BD, respectively. Show that AB2+BC2+CD2+DA2 = AC2+BD2+4MN2 .

Austrian-Polish 1980  Individual 3
Prove that for every point P inside a regular tetrahedron ABCD the sum of the angles APB,APC,APD,BPC,BPD,CPD exceeds 540ο.

Austrian-Polish 1980  Individual 5
Let B1,B2,B3 be points on sides A2A3,A3A1,A1A2 respectively of a triangle A1A2A3 (not coinciding with any vertices). Prove that the perpendicular bisectors of the three segments AiBi never concur.

Austrian-Polish 1980  Team 3
Through the endpoints A and B of a diameter AB of a given circle, the tangents l and m have been drawn. Let CA be a point on l and let q1,q2 be two rays from C. Ray qi cuts the circle in Di and Ei with Di between C and Ei, i = 1,2. Rays AD1,AD2,AE1,AE2 meet m in the respective points M1,M2,N1,N2. Prove that M1M2 = N1N2.

In a triangle ABC, r is the inradius, rA the radius of the circle touching segments AB,AC and the incircle of ABC, and rB and rC are defined analogously. Prove that rA+rB+rC r, equality holding if and only if ABC is equilateral.

Austrian-Polish 1982  Team  2
Let P be a point inside a regular tetrahedron ABCD with edge length 1. Show That d(P,AB)+d(P,AC)+d(P,AD)+d(P,BC)+d(P,BD)+d(P,CD) 3/2 2 , with equality only when P is the centroid of ABCD. Here d(P,XY) denotes the distance from point P to line XY.

Austrian-Polish 1983  Individual 6
Six straight lines are given in space. Among any three of them, two are perpendicular. Show that the given lines can be labeled l1, … , l6 in such a way that l1, l2, l3 are pairwise perpendicular, and so are l4, l5, l6.

Austrian-Polish 1983  Team 1
Let P1,P2,P3,P4 be four distinct points in the plane. Suppose I1, I2, … , I6 are closed segments in that plane with the following property: Every straight line passing through at least one of the points Pi meets the union I1 È I2 ÈÈ I6 in exactly two points. Prove or disprove that the segments Ij necessarily form a hexagon.

Austrian-Polish 1984  Individual 1
Prove that if the feet of the altitudes of a tetrahedron are the incenters of the corresponding faces, then the tetrahedron is regular.

Austrian-Polish 1984  Individual 4
A regular heptagon A1A2 A7 is inscribed in circle C. Point P is taken on the shorter arc A7A1. Prove that PA1+PA3+PA5+PA7 = PA2+PA4+PA6.

Prove that in a convex quadrilateral of area 1 the sum of the lengths of all sides and diagonals is not less than 4+8.

For a point P inside a tetrahedron ABCD, points SA,SB,SC,SD denote the centroids of the tetrahedra PBCD,PCDA,PDAB,PABC, respectively. Show that the volume of the tetrahedron SASBSCSD equals 1/ 64 the volume of ABCD.

Austrian-Polish 1986 Individual 1
A non-rectangular triangle A1A2A3 is given. Circles Γ1 and Γ2 are tangent at A3, Γ2 and Γ3 are tangent at A1, and Γ3 and Γ1 are tangent at A2. Points O1,O2,O3 are the centers of Γ1, Γ2, Γ3, respectively. Supposing that the triangles A1A2A3 and O1O2O3 are similar, determine their angles.

Austrian-Polish 1986 Individual 6
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 .

Austrian-Polish 1987 Individual 1
Three pairwise orthogonal chords of a sphere S are drawn through a given point P inside S. Prove that the sum of the squares of their lengths does not depend on their directions.

Austrian-Polish 1988 Individual 3
Let ABCD be a convex quadrilateral with no two parallel sides. Consider the two angles made by two pairs of opposite sides. Their angle bisectors intersect the sides of ABCD in P,Q,R,S, where PQRS is a convex quadrilateral. Prove that the quadrilateral ABCD is cyclic if and only if PQRS is a rhombus.

Austrian-Polish 1988 Individual 6
Three rays h1,h2,h3 emanating from a point O are given, not all in the same plane. Show that if for any three points A1,A2,A3 on h1,h2,h3 respectively, distinct from O, the triangle A1A2A3 is acute-angled, then the rays h1,h2,h3 are pairwise orthogonal.

Austrian-Polish 1989 Individual 5
Let A be a vertex of a cube ω circumscribed about a sphere κ of radius 1. We consider lines g through A containing at least one point of κ. Let P be the intersection point of g and κ closer to A, and Q be the second intersection point of g and ω. Determine the maximum value of AP·AQ and characterize the lines g yielding the maximum.

An acute triangle ABC is given. For each point P of the interior or boundary of ABC, Pa,Pb,Pc denote the orthogonal projections of P to BC,CA,AB respectively. Consider
f (P) =(APc+BPa+CPb )/ (PPa+PPb+PPc ). Show that f (P) is constant if and only if ABC is an equilateral triangle.

Austrian-Polish 1990 Individual 1
The distinct points X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6 all lie on the same side of the line AB. The six triangles ABXi are all similar. Show that the Xi lie on a circle.

Austrian-Polish 1991 Individual 3
Given two distinct points A1,A2 in the plane, determine all possible positions of a point A3 with the following property: There exists an array of (not necessarily distinct) points P1,P2, … ,Pn for some n 3 such that the segments P1P2,P2P3, … ,PnP1 have equal lengths and their midpoints are A1,A2,A3,A1,A2,A3,… in this order.

Austrian-Polish 1991 Individual 6
Suppose that there is a point P inside a convex quadrilateral ABCD such that the triangles PAB,PBC,PCD,PDA have equal areas. Prove that one of the diagonals bisects the area of ABCD.

Austrian-Polish 1992 Individual 5
Given a circle k with center M and radius r, let AB be a fixed diameter of k and let K be a fixed point on the segment AM. Denote by t the tangent of k at A. For any chord CD through K other than AB, denote by P and Q the intersection points of BC and BD with t, respectively. Prove that AP·AQ does not depend on CD.

Austrian-Polish 1992 Team 1
Consider triangles ABC in space.
(a) What condition must the angles α,β,γ of ABC fulfill in order that there is a point P in space such that ÐAPB, ÐBPC, ÐCPA are right angles?
(b) Let d be the longest of the edges PA,PB,PC and let h be the longest altitude of ABC. Show that 1/36 h d h.

Austrian-Polish 1993 Individual 2
Consider all tetrahedra ABCD in which the sum of the areas of the faces ABD, ACD, BCD does not exceed 1. Among such tetrahedra, find those with the maximum volume.

Austrian-Polish 1993 Team 3
Point P is taken on the extension of side AB of an equilateral triangle ABC so that A is between B and P. Denote by a the side length of triangle ABC, by r1 the inradius of triangle PAC, and by r2 the exradius of triangle PBC opposite P. Find the sum r1+r2 as a function in a.

Austrian-Polish 1994 Team 3
On the plane are given four distinct points A,B,C,D on a line g in this order, at the mutual distances AB = a, BC = b, CD = c.
(a) Construct (if possible) a point P outside line g such that ÐAPB =ÐBPC =ÐCPD.
(b) Prove that such a point P exists if and only if  (a+b)(b+c) < 4ac.

Austrian-Polish 1995 Individual 2
Let X = {A1,A2,A3,A4} be a set of four distinct points in the plane. Show that there exists a subset Y of X with the property that there is no (closed) disk K such that KX =Y.

In an equilateral triangle ABC, A1,B1,C1 are the midpoints of the sides BC,CA,AB, respectively. Three parallel lines p,q and r pass through A1,B1 and C1 and intersect  the lines B1C1,C1A1 and A1B1 at points A2,B2,C2, respectively. Prove that the lines AA2,BB2,CC2 have a common point D which lies on the circumcircle of the triangle ABC.

Austrian-Polish 1996 Individual 2
A convex hexagon ABCDEF satisfies the following conditions:
(i) opposite sides are parallel, i.e. AB // DE, BC // EF, CD  //FA,
(ii) the distances between opposite sides are equal,
(iii) ÐFAB = ÐCDE = 90ο.
Prove that the angle between the diagonals BE and CF is equal to 45ο.

Austrian-Polish 1996 Individual 5
A sphere S divides every edge of a convex polyhedron P into three equal parts. Show that there exists a sphere tangent to all the edges of P.

Lines l1 and l2 intersect at point P. Circles S1 and S2 are tangent to l1 at P, and circles T1 and T2 are tangent to l2 at P. Circle S1 meets T1 at points A,P and T2 at B,P, while circle S2 meets T2 at C,P and T1 at D,P. Show that the points A,B,C and D are concyclic if and only if the lines l1 and l2 are perpendicular.

Austrian-Polish 1997 Individual 4
In a trapezoid ABCD with AB // CD, the diagonals AC and BD intersect at point E. Let F and G be the orthocenters of the triangles EBC and EAD. Prove that the midpoint of GF lies on the perpendicular from E to AB.

Austrian-Polish 1997 Team 3
Given a parallelepiped P, let VP be its volume, SP the area of its surface and LP the sum of the lengths of its edges. For a real number t 0, let Pt be the solid consisting of all points X whose distance from some point of P is at most t. Prove that the volume of the solid Pis given by the formula V(Pt) =VP + SP t + π/4  LP  t2 + 4π/3 t3.

Austrian-Polish 1998 Individual 6
Different points A,B,C,D,E,F lie on circle k in this order. The tangents to k in the points A and D and the lines BF and CE have a common point P. Prove that the lines AD,BC and EF also have a common point or are parallel.

Austrian-Polish 1998 Team 3
Given a triangle ABC, points K,L,M are the midpoints of the sides BC,CA,AB, and points X,Y,Z are the midpoints of the arcs BC,CA,AB of the circumcircle not containing A,B,C respectively. If R denotes the circumradius and r the inradius of the triangle, show that r+KX+LY+MZ=2R.

Austrian-Polish 1999 Individual 4
Three lines k, l, m are drawn through a point P inside a triangle ABC such that k meets AB at A1 and AC at A2 A1 and PA1 = PA2, l meets BC at B1 and BA at B2 B1 and PB1 = PB2, m meets CA at C1 and CB at C2C1 and PC1=PC2. Prove that the lines k,l,m are uniquely determined by these conditions. Find point P for which the triangles AA1A2, BB1B2, CC1C2 have the same area and show that this point is unique.

Austrian-Polish 1999 Team 2
Let P,Q,R be points on the same side of a line g in the plane. Let M and N be the feet of the perpendiculars from P and Q to g respectively. Point S lies between the lines PM and QN and satisfies and satisfies PM = PS and QN = QS. The perpendicular bisectors of SM and SN meet in a point R. If the line RS intersects the circumcircle of triangle PQR again at T, prove that S is the midpoint of RT.

Austrian-Polish 2000 Individual 2
In a unit cube, CG is the edge perpendicular to the face ABCD. Let O1 be the incircle of square ABCD and O2 be the circumcircle of triangle BDG. Determine min{XY|XäO1,YäO2}

Austrian-Polish 2000 Team 1
Triangle A0B0C0 is given in the plane. Consider all triangles ABC such that:
(i) The lines AB,BC,CA pass through C0,A0,B0, respectvely,
(ii) The triangles ABC and A0B0C0 are similar.
Find the possible positions of the circumcenter of triangle ABC.

Prove that if a,b,c,d are lengths of the successive sides of a quadrilateral (not necessarily convex) and S its area, then S 1/2(ac+bd). When does equality hold?

A prism with the regular octagonal base and all edges of the length 1 is given. Let M1,M2, ... , M10 be the centers of the faces of the prism. For a point P inside the prism denote by Pi the second intersection point of line PMi with the surface of the prism. Assume that the interior of each face contains exactly one of the points Pi. Prove that $\sum\limits_{i=1}^{10}{\frac{{{M}_{i}}P}{{{M}_{i}}{{P}_{i}}}}=5$ .

Prove that in any convex polygon P1P2 … P2n with an even number of vertices there exists a diagonal PiPj  which is not parallel to any of its sides.

Let S be the centroid of a tetrahedron ABCD. A line through S intersects the surface of the tetrahedron at points K and L. Prove that 1 /3 KS / LS 3.

The diagonals of a convex quadrilateral ABCD meet at E. Let U and H be the circumcenter and orthocenter of triangle ABE, respectively. Similarly, let V and K be the circumcenter and orthocenter of triangle CDE, respectively. Prove that E lies on line UK if and only if it lies on line VH.

Austrian-Polish 2003 Individual 3
ABC is a triangle. Take a = BC etc as usual. Take points T1, T2 on the side AB so that AT1 = T1T2 = T2B. Similarly, take points T3, T4 on the side BC so that BT3 = T3T4 = T4C, and points T5, T6 on the side CA so that CT5 = T5T6 = T6A. Show that if a' = BT5, b' = CT1, c' = AT3, then there is a triangle A'B'C' with sides a', b', c' (a' = B'C' etc). In the same way we take points Ti' on the sides of A'B'C' and put a" = B'T6', b" = C'T2', c" = A'T4'. Show that there is a triangle A"B"C" with sides a", b", c" and that it is similar to ABC. Find a"/a.

Austrian-Polish 2003 Individual 5
A triangle with sides a, b, c has area F. The distances of its centroid from the vertices are x, y, z. Show that if (x + y + z)2 ≤ (a2 + b2 + c2)/2 + 2F√3, then the triangle is equilateral.

Austrian-Polish 2003 Individual 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.

In a triangle ABC let D be the intersection of the angle bisector of , angle at C, with the side AB. And let F be the area of the triangle ABC. Prove the following inequality:
$\text{2F}\left( \frac{\text{1}}{\text{AD}}\text{-}\frac{\text{1}}{\text{BD}} \right)\le \text{AB}$  .

Given is a convex quadrilateral ABCD with AB = CD. Draw the triangles ABE and CDF outside ABCD so that ÐABE = ÐDCF and ÐBAE =ÐFDC. Prove that the midpoints of AD, BC and EF are collinear.

ABCD is a tetrahedron. Let K be the center of the incircle of CBD. Let M be the center of the incircle of ABD. Let L be the gravycenter of DAC. Let N be the gravycenter of BAC.
Suppose AK, BL, CM, DN have one common point. Is ABCD necessarily regular?

Let D be an interior point of the triangle ABC. CD and AB intersect at Dc, BD and AC intersect at Db, AD and BC intersect at Da. Prove that there exists a triangle KLM with orthocenter H and the feet of altitudes Hk LM, Hl KM, Hm KL, so that  (ADcD) = (KHmH), (BDcD) = (LHmH), (BDaD) = (LHkH), (CDaD) = (MHkH), (CDbD) = (MHlH) , (ADbD) = (KHlH) where (PQR) denotes the area of the triangle PQR.

Let ABCDS be a (not necessarily straight) pyramid with a rectangular base ABCD and acute triangular faces ABS,BCS,CDS,DAS. We consider all cuboids which are inscribed inside the pyramid with its base being in the plane ABCD and its upper vertexes are in the triangular faces (one in each). Find the locus of the midpoints of these cuboids.