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First round – City competition

Croatia geometry

Problem

Let be a tetrahedron such that , and holds. Determine the radius of the inscribed sphere of the tetrahedron. (Mea Bombardelli)
Solution
MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS IN CROATIA IN 2015 If and are connected by bus, let us put and . Then is a good pair and the number of elements of is greater than the number of elements of , which contradicts the assumption. If and are connected by train, let us put and . Then is a good pair and the number of elements of is greater than the number of elements of , which contradicts the assumption. Since all cases lead to contradiction, we conclude that the assumption was wrong and that every city is either in the set or in the set . 3.4. Let be the intersection of the circumcircle of the triangle and the line (different from ).
Final answer
(3(√2 - 1))/2

Techniques

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