ka May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.
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[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
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Taking antipode on isosceles triangle's circumcenter
Nuran20101
N6 minutes ago
by Sadigly
Source: Azerbaijan Al-Khwarizmi IJMO TST 2025
In isosceles triangle, the condition is satisfied. Point is taken on the circumcircle of such that .A line parallel to which passes from intersects and respectively at and .Show that circumcircle of passes from circumcenter of .
Define a "hook" to be a figure made up of six unit squares as shown below in the picture, or any of the figures obtained by applying rotations and reflections to this figure.
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Determine all rectangles that can be covered without gaps and without overlaps with hooks such that
- the rectangle is covered without gaps and without overlaps
- no part of a hook covers area outside the rectangle.
Point is the foot of the altitude from of triangle . On the lines and points and are marked such that the circumcircles of triangles and are tangent, call this circles and respectively. Tangent lines to circles and at and intersect at .
Prove that . Vadzim Kamianetski
Tangents involving a centroid with an isosceles triangle result
pithon_with_an_i2
N36 minutes ago
by Funcshun840
Source: Revenge JOM 2025 Problem 5, Revenge JOMSL 2025 G5, Own
A triangle has centroid . A line parallel to passing through intersects the circumcircle of at a point . Let lines and intersect at . Suppose a point is chosen on such that the tangent of the circumcircle of at , the tangent of the circumcircle of at and concur. Prove that .
Remark 1
Either choice of works
Remark 2
As of now, we only have solutions using coordinate bash, so any solutions with synthetic geometry is highly appreciated! Thanks! :-D
Let be an acute triangle with , and let be the center of its circumcircle. Let be the reflection of with respect to . The line through parallel to intersects at , and the tangent at to the circle intersects the line through parallel to at point . Let be a point on the ray , starting at , such that .
Show that the orthocenter of triangle lies on the circle with diameter .
Let be a triangle with side‐lengths , incenter , and circumradius . Denote by the area of , and let be the areas of triangles ,, and , respectively. Prove that
A lake is in the shape of a regular hexagon of side length . Initially there is a single lotus leaf somewhere in the lake, sufficiently far from the shore. Each day, from every existing leaf a new leaf may grow at distance (measured between centers), provided it does not overlap any other leaf. If the lake is large enough that edge effects never interfere, what is the least number of days required to have leaves in the lake?
On the sides of the triangle lie the following points: and on , on , and on . Let and let the line meet at . Prove that the points ,, and are collinear.
Source: Macedonian Mathematical Olympiad 2025 Problem 5
Let be a natural number, and let be the square of side length subdivided into unit squares. Determine for which values of it is possible to dissect into connected regions of equal area using only the diagonals of those unit squares, subject to the condition that from each unit square at most one of its diagonals is used (some unit squares may have neither diagonal).
is an acute angle triangle such that and . Let's denote by the center of the circumscribed circle of the triangle and the intersection of altitudes of this triangle. Line intersects in point and in point . Find the value of the ration .
is an acute angle triangle such that and . Let's denote by the center of the circumscribed circle of the triangle and the intersection of altitudes of this triangle. Line intersects in point and in point . Find the value of the ration .
Is not hard to prove with angle relations that is equlilateral. Now the nine point centre lies on the bisector of . Because if are the middle points of and the nine point centre, the quadrilateral is concyclic ,So are symmetric points about the bisector of , So
To answer Obel1x's first question: (since is an altitude) (since is inscribed in the circle with center ) (since is isoceles since )
This is true in any triangle
For the second question:
Lemma: Let be the perpendicular from to . In any triangle,
Proof: Extend to meet the circumcircle at , then draw . since it's inscribed in a semicircle, so , and since . Now we have , and . Thus, , so is a parallelogram, so .
Now for the question. Let be the perpendicular from to . Then so is a right triangle, so . Thus, since and , so .
Denote the second intersection of the line ( is incenter) with the circumcircle of . Since obtain that the points , , belong to the circle and the quadrilateral is a rhombus, a.s.o.
Kinda classic Claim 1: Proof: Notice that and so is cyclic and so by simple angle chasing we get that Claim 2: Proof: and Claim 3: Proof:
From the claims we get that
Thus the result