HMMT 十一月 2016 · 冲刺赛 · 第 33 题
HMMT November 2016 — Guts Round — Problem 33
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英文原题
- [ 17 ] Camille the snail lives on the surface of a regular dodecahedron. Right now he is on vertex Pof the face with vertices P , P , P , P , P . This face has a perimeter of 5. Camille wants to get to 1
1 2 3 4 5
the point on the dodecahedron farthest away from P . To do so, he must travel along the surface adistance at least L . What is L ?21
HMMT November 2016, November 12, 2016 — GUTS ROUND
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英文解析
- [ 17 ] Camille the snail lives on the surface of a regular dodecahedron. Right now he is on vertex Pof the face with vertices P , P , P , P , P . This face has a perimeter of 5. Camille wants to get to 1
1 2 3 4 5
the point on the dodecahedron farthest away from P . To do so, he must travel along the surface adistance at least L . What is L ?21
Proposed by: Saranesh Prembabu
√
17+7 5
Answer:
Consider the net of the dodecahedron. It suffices to look at three pentagons ABCDE , EDF GH , and 2
GF IJK , where AJ = L . This can be found by the law of cosines on triangle AEJ . We have AE = 1,
√
2 17+7 5
° ° 2 ° ° °
EJ = tan 72 , and ∠ AEJ = 162 . Thus L = 1 + tan 72 + 2 · tan 72 · cos 18 = 2