geometry problems from Portuguese National Mathematical Olympiad with aops links
Olimpíadas Portuguesas de Matemática (OPM)
it started in 1983 [as mini-olympiad in 1980]
collected inside aops here
1994 - 2021 , only 2004 missing
Consider in a square $[ABCD]$ a point $E$ on the side $AB$, different from $A$ and $B$. On the side $BC$ consider the point $F$ such that $\angle AED = \angle DEF$ . Prove that $EF = AE + FC$.
Consider a circle $C$ of center $O$ and its inner point $Q$, different from $O$. Where we must place a point $P$ on the circle $C$ so that the angle $\angle OPQ$ is the largest possible?
Three ants are at three corners of a rectangle. It is assumed that each ant moves only when the other two are stopped and always parallel to the line defined by them. Will be is it possible that the three ants are simultaneously at midpoints on the sides of the rectangle?
The diameter $[AC]$ of a circle is divided into four equal segments by points $P, M$ and $Q$. Consider a segment $[BD]$ that passes through $P$ and cuts the circle at $B$ and $D$, such that $PD =\frac{3}{2} AP$. Knowing that the area of the triangle $[ABP]$ has measure $1$ cm$^2$ , calculate the area of $[ABCD]$?
Considers a square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle $[ABC]$ (right at $B$). Shows that the line segment that joins vertex $B$ with the center of the square makes $45^o$ angles with legs of the triangle.
Consider the cube $ABCDEFGH$ and denote by, respectively, $M$ and $N$ the midpoints of $[AB]$ and $[CD]$. Let $P$ be a point on the line defined by $[AE]$ and $Q$ the point of intersection of the lines defined by $[PM]$ and $[BF]$. Prove that the triangle $[PQN]$ is isosceles.
A square region of side $12$ contains a water source that supplies an irrigation system constituted by several straight channels forming polygonal lines. Considers the source as a point and each channel as a line segment.
Knowing that a point is irrigated if it is not more than $1$ distance from any channel and that the system was designed so that the entire region is irrigated, proves that the total length of irrigation channels exceeds $70$.
The regular octagon of the following figure is inscribed in a circle of radius $1$ and $P$ is a arbitrary point of this circle. Calculate the value of $PA^2 + PB^2 +...+ PH^2$.
Let $F$ be the midpoint of circle arc $AB$, and let $M$ be a point on the arc such that $AM <MB$. The perpendicular dropped from point $F$ to $AM$ intersects $AM$ at point $T$. Show that $T$ bisects the broken line $AMB$, that is $AT =TM+MB$.
If two parallel chords of a circumference, $10$ mm and $14$ mm long, with distance $6$ mm from each other, how long is the chord equidistant from these two?
In the triangle $[ABC], D$ is the midpoint of $[AB]$ and $E$ is the trisection point of $[BC]$ closer to $C$. If $\angle ADC= \angle BAE$ , find the measue of $\angle BAC$ .
In the figure, the chord $[CD]$ is perpendicular to the diameter $[AB]$ and intersects it at $H$. Length of $AB$ is a two-digit natural number. Changing the order of these two digits gives length of $CD$. Knowing that distance from $H$ to the center $O$ is a positive rational number, calculate $AB$.
In the figure, $[ABC]$ and $[DEC]$ are right triangles . Knowing that $EB = 1/2, EC = 1$ and $AD = 1$, calculate $DC$.
The trapezium $[ABCD]$ has bases $[AB]$ and $[CD]$ (with $[AB]$ being the largest base). Knowing that $BC = 2 DA$ and that $\angle DAB + \angle ABC =120^o$ , determines the measure of $\angle DAB$.
On a table are a cone, resting on the base, and six equal spheres tangent to the cone. Besides that, each sphere is tangent to the two adjacent spheres. Knowing that the radius $R$ of the base of the cone is half its height and determine the radius $r$ of the spheres.
Consider five spheres with radius $10$ cm . Four of these spheres are arranged on a horizontal table so that its centers form a $20$ cm square and the fifth sphere is placed on them so that it touches the other four. What is the distance between center of this fifth sphere and the table?
Consider the three squares indicated in the figure. Show that if the lengths of the sides of the smaller square and the square greater are integers, then adding to the area of the smallest square the area of the inclined square, a perfect square is obtained.
The planet Caramelo is a cube with a $1$ km edge. This planet is going to be wrapped with foam anti-gluttons in order to prevent the presence of greedy ships less than $500$ meters from the planet. What the minimum volume of foam that must surround the planet?
Raquel painted $650$ points in a circle with a radius of $16$ cm. Shows that there is a circular crown with $2$ cm of inner radius and $3$ cm of outer radius that contain at least $10$ of these points.
In a village there are only $10$ houses, arranged in a circle of a radius $r$ meters. Each has is the same distance from each of the two closest houses. Every year on Sunday of Pascoa, the village priest makes the Easter visit, leaving the parish house (point $A$) and following the path described in Figure 1. This year the priest decided to take the path represented in the Figure 2. Prove that this year the priest will walk another $10r$ meters.
2004 missing
Consider the triangles $[ABC]$ and $[EDC]$, right at $A$ and $D$, respectively. Show that, if $E$ is the midpoint of $[AC]$, then $AB <BD$.
Considers a quadrilateral $[ABCD]$ that has an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle. The sides $[AD]$ and $[BC]$ are tangent to the circle inscribed at points $E$ and $F$, respectively. Prove that $AE \cdot F C = BF \cdot ED$.
In the equilateral triangle $[ABC], D$ is the midpoint of $[AC], E$ and the orthogonal projection of $D$ over $[CB]$ and $F$ is the midpoint of $[DE]$. Prove that $[FB]$ and $[AE]$ are perpendicular.
In the parallelogram $[ABCD], E$ is the midpoint of $[AD]$ and $F$ the orthogonal projection of $B$ on $[CE]$. Prove that the triangle $[ABF]$ is isosceles.
Let $[ABC]$ be a triangle and $X, Y$ and $Z$ points on the sides $[AB], [BC]$ and $[AC]$, respectively. Prove that circumcircles of triangles $AXZ, BXY$ and $CYZ$ intersect at a point.
In a village, the maximum distance between two houses is $M$ and the minimum distance is $m$. Prove that if the village has $6$ houses, then $\frac{M}{m} \ge \sqrt3$.
Let $AEBC$ be a cyclic quadrilateral. Let $D$ be a point on the ray $AE$ which is outside the circumscribed circumference of $AEBC$. Suppose that $\angle CAB=\angle BAE$. Prove that $AB=BD$ if and only if $DE=AC$.
Let $ABC$ be a right-angled triangle in $A$ such that $AB<AC$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$ and let $D$ be the intersection of $AC$ with the perpendicular line to $BC$ which passes through $M$. Let $E$ be the intersection point of the parallel line to $AC$ which passes through $M$ with the perpendicular line to $BD$ which passes through $B$. Prove that triangles $AEM$ and $MCA$ are similar if and only if $\angle ABC=60^{\circ}$.
Points $N$ and $M$ are on the sides $CD$ and $BC$ of square $ABCD$, respectively. The perimeter of triangle $MCN$ is equal to the double of the length of the square's side. Find $\angle MAN$.
Circumferences $C_1$ and $C_2$ have different radios and are externally tangent on point $T$. Consider points $A$ on $C_1$ and $B$ on $C_2$, both different from $T$, such that $\angle BTA=90^{\circ}$. What is the locus of the midpoints of line segments $AB$ constructed that way?
On a circumference, points $A$ and $B$ are on opposite arcs of diameter $CD$. Line segments $CE$ and $DF$ are perpendicular to $AB$ such that $A-E-F-B$ (i.e., $A$, $E$, $F$ and $B$ are collinear on this order). Knowing $AE=1$, find the length of $BF$.
Show that any triangle has two sides whose lengths $a$ and $b$ satisfy $\frac{\sqrt{5}-1}{2}<\frac{a}{b}<\frac{\sqrt{5}+1}{2}$.
The point $P$, inside the triangle $[ABC]$, lies on the perpendicular bisector of $[AB]$. $Q$ and $R$ points, exterior to the triangle, they are such that $ [BPA], [BQC]$ and $[CRA]$ are similar triangles. Shows that $[PQCR]$ is a parallelogram.
Let $[ABC]$ be a triangle, $D$ be the orthogonal projection of $B$ on the bisector of $\angle ACB$ and $E$ the orthogonal projection of $C$ on the bisector of $\angle ABC$ . Prove that $DE$ intersects the sides $[AB]$ and $[AC]$ at the points of tangency of the circle inscribed in the triangle $[ABC]$.
In triangle $[ABC]$, the bissector of the angle $\angle{BAC}$ intersects the side $[BC]$ at $D$. Suppose that $\overline{AD}=\overline{CD}$. Find the lengths $\overline{BC}$, $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{AB}$ that minimize the perimeter of $[ABC]$, given that all the sides of the triangles $[ABC]$ and $[ADC]$ have integer lengths.
Let $[ABC]$ be a triangle. Points $D$, $E$, $F$ and $G$ are such $E$ and $F$ are on the lines $AC$ and $BC$, respectively, and $[ACFG]$ and $[BCED]$ are rhombus. Lines $AC$ and $BG$ meet at $H$; lines $BC$ and $AD$ meet at $I$; lines $AI$ and $BH$ meet at $J$. Prove that $[JICH]$ and $[ABJ]$ have equal area. 
Consider a parallelogram $[ABCD]$ such that $\angle DAB$ is an acute angle. Let $G$ be a point in line $AB$ different from $B$ such that $\overline{BC}=\overline{GC}$, and let $H$ be a point in line $BC$ different from $B$ such that $\overline{AB}=\overline{AH}$. Prove that triangle $[GDH]$ is isosceles.
In each side of a regular polygon with $n$ sides, we choose a point different from the vertices and we obtain a new polygon of $n$ sides. For which values of $n$ can we obtain a polygon such that the internal angles are all equal but the polygon isn't regular?
Let $[ABCD]$ be a square, $M$ a point on the segment $[AD]$, and $N$ a point on the segment $[DC]$ such that $B\hat{M}A = N\hat{M}D = 60^{\circ}$. Calculate $M\hat{B}N$.
Let $[ABCD]$ be a convex quadrilateral with area $2014$, and let $P$ be a point on $[AB]$ and $Q$ a point on $[AD]$ such that triangles $[ABQ]$ and $[ADP]$ have area $1$. Let $R$ be the intersection of $[AC]$ and $[PQ]$. Determine $\frac{\overline{RC}}{\overline{RA}}$.
Let $[ABC]$ be a triangle and $D$ a point between $A$ and $B$. If the triangles $[ABC], [ACD]$ and $[BCD]$ are all isosceles, what are the possible values of $\angle ABC$?
Let $[ABCD]$ be a parallelogram and $P$ a point between $C$ and $D$. The line parallel to $AD$ that passes through $P$ intersects the diagonal $AC$ in $Q$. Knowing that the area of $[PBQ]$ is $2$ and the area of $[ABP]$ is $6$, determine the area of $[PBC]$.
Let $[ABC]$ be an equilateral triangle on the side $1$. Determine the length of the smallest segment $[DE]$, where $D$
and $E$ are on the sides of the triangle, which divides $[ABC]$ into two figures with equal area.
Let $[ABCD]$ be a parallelogram with $AB <BC$ and let $E, F$ be points on the circle that passes through $A, B$ and $C$ such that $DE$ and $DF$ are tangents to this circle. Knowing that $\angle ADE = \angle CDF$ , determine $\angle ABC$.
In triangle $[ABC]$, the bisector in $C$ and the altitude passing through $B$ intersect at point $D$. Point $E$ is the symmetric of point $D$ wrt $BC$ and lies on the circle circumscribed to the triangle $[ABC]$. Prove that the triangle is $[ABC]$ isosceles.
Let $[ABCD]$ be a convex quadrilateral with $AB = 2, BC = 3, CD = 7$ and $\angle B = 90^o$, for which there is a inscribed circle. Determine the radius of this circle.
In the figure, $[ABCD]$ is a square of side $1$. The points $E, F, G$ and $H$ are such that $[AFB], [BGC], [CHD]$ and $[DEA]$ are right-angled triangles. Knowing that the circles inscribed in each of these triangles and the circle inscribed in the square $[EFGH]$ has all the same radius, what is the measure of the radius of the circles?
Let $[ABC]$ be any triangle and let $D, E$ and $F$ be the symmetrics of the circumcenter wrt the three sides. Shows that the triangles $[ABC]$ and $[DEF]$ are congruent.
In a square of side $10$ cm , the vertices are joined to the midpoints on the opposite sides, as shown in the figure. How much does the area of the colored region measure?
Let $[ABC]$ be a acute-angled triangle and its circumscribed circle $\Gamma$. Let $D$ be the point on the line $AB$ such that $A$ is the midpoint of the segment $[DB]$ and $P$ is the point of intersection of $CD$ with $\Gamma$. Points $W$ and $L$ lie on the smaller arcs $BC$ and $B$, respectively, and are such that the arcs $BW,LA,AP$ are equal. The $LC$ and $AW$ lines intersect at $Q$. Shows that $LQ = BQ$.
In a triangle $[ABC]$, $\angle C = 2\angle A$. A point $D$ is marked on the side $[AC]$ such that $\angle ABD = \angle DBC$. Knowing that $AB = 10$ and $CD = 3$, what is the length of the side $[BC]$?
Let $ABC$ be a triangle such that $AB = AC$. Let $D$ be a point in $[BC]$ and $E$ a point in $[AD]$ such that $\angle BE D = \angle BAC = 2 \angle DEC$. Shows that $DB = 2CD$.
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