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Geometry Test 2006 Rice Math Tournament February 25, 2006

The document is a 10 question geometry test from a 2006 math tournament. It includes questions about ratios of volumes of shapes formed from a cube, areas of quadrilaterals and loci, the number of ricochets of a ball on a pool table before falling in a pocket, lengths and areas of triangles, and the heights of poles constructed from intersecting lines. The final question asks for the area of a triangle formed by the intersections of lines through points divided proportionally on the sides of a larger triangle of given area.

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Geometry Test 2006 Rice Math Tournament February 25, 2006

The document is a 10 question geometry test from a 2006 math tournament. It includes questions about ratios of volumes of shapes formed from a cube, areas of quadrilaterals and loci, the number of ricochets of a ball on a pool table before falling in a pocket, lengths and areas of triangles, and the heights of poles constructed from intersecting lines. The final question asks for the area of a triangle formed by the intersections of lines through points divided proportionally on the sides of a larger triangle of given area.

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Geometry Test

2006 Rice Math Tournament


February 25, 2006
1. Given a cube, determine the ratio of the volume of the octahedron formed by connecting the centers
of each face of the cube to the volume of the cube.
2. Given square ABCD of side length 1, with E on CD and F in the interior of the square so that
EF ⊥ DC and AF ∼= BF ∼= EF , find the area of the quadrilateral ADEF .

3. Circle γ is centered at (0, 3) with radius 1. Circle δ is externally tangent to circle γ and tangent to the
x-axis. Find an equation, solved for y if possible, for the locus of possible centers (x, y) of circle δ.
4. The distance AB is l. Find the area of the locus of points X such that 15o ≤ 6 AXB ≤ 30o and X is
on the same side of line AB as a given point C.
5. Let S denote a set of points (x, y, z). We define the shadow of S to be the set of points (x, y) for which
there exists a real number z such that (x, y, z) is in S. For example, the shadow of a sphere with radius
r centered on the z axis is a circle in the xy plane centered at√the origin with radius r. Suppose a cube
has a shadow consisting of a regular hexagon witih area 147 3. What is the side length of the cube?
6. As shown below, A circle of radius R is placed tangent to two perpendicular rays. Another circle is
placed tangent to the same two rays and the first circle. Another circle is placed tangent to one ray
and tangent to both circles. What is the radius of the smallest circle, with respect to R? (The problem
was slightly rephrased and the illustration added to remove an unintended extra, simpler solution)

7. A certain 2’ by 1’ pool table has pockets, denoted [A, . . . , F ] as shown. A pool player strikes a ball
at point x, 14 of the way up side AC, aiming for a point 1.6’ up the opposite side of the table. He
makes his mark, and the ball ricochets around the edges of the table until it finally lands in one of the
pockets. How many times does it ricochet before it falls into a pocket, and which pocket? Write your
answer in the form {C, 2006}.

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8. In triangle 4P QR, the altitudes from P, Q and R measure 5, 4 and 4, respectively. Find QR .

9. Poles A, B, and P1 , P2 , P3 ,. . . are vertical line segments with bases on the x-axis. The tops of poles A
and B are (0,1) and (200,5), respectively. A string S connects (0,1) and (200,0) and intersects another
string connecting (0,0) and (200,5) at point T. Pole P1 is constructed with T as its top point. For each
integer i > 1, pole Pi is constructed so that its top point is the intersection of S and the line segment
connecting the base of Pi−1 (on the x-axis) and the top of pole B. Find the height of pole P100 .
BQ
10. In triangle 4ABC, points P, Q and R lie on sides AB, BC and AC, respectively, so that PAP
B = QC =
CR 1
RA = 3 . If the area of 4ABC is 1, determine the area of the triangle formed by the points of
intersection of lines AQ, BR and CP .

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