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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Faculty of Arts and Science
December 2019 Examinations
MAT402H1F
Duration – 3 hours
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Six questions; 50 marks.
Students must hand in all examination materials at the end.

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 1. [8 marks] Consider a tetrahedron ABCD. Let A0 , D0 , B 0 be the
points on the sides AD, DB and BC such that AA0 = A0 D, DD0 : D0 B = 2
and BB 0 : B 0 C = 3. Let F be the intersection point of the line AC with the
plane passing through the points A0 , D0 , B 0 . Find AF : F C.

2. [8 marks] Let ABC be a triangle with acute angles. Take points

A , B 0 , C 0 outside of the triangle such that: 1) BA0 = CA0 , CB 0 = AB 0 ,
0

AC 0 = BC 0 ; 2) the triangles ABC 0 , BCA0 and CAB 0 do not intersect the

triangle ABC, 3) these triangles have angles 900 at the vertices A0 , B 0 and
C 0 . Prove that the lines AA0 , BB 0 , CC 0 pass through one point.

3. [9 marks] Let ABC be a regular triangle. Find the point O such that
OA + 2OB + 3OC is the minimal possible.
a) Guess the answer [3 marks].
b) Prove your answer [6 marks].

4. [8 marks] Consider the cube ∆ ⊂ Rn defined by inequalities −1 ≤ x1 ≤

1, . . . , −1 ≤ xn ≤ 1. Let F : Rn → R be a linear function F (x1 , . . . , xn ) =
−x1 + x2 − . . . + (−1)n xn . Find all vertices of the cube at which the index
of F is equal to 0 and is equal to n. Prove your answer.

5. [9 marks] Let S1 , S2 . S3 be three non intersecting circles whose centers

do not belong to a line. Prove that there is a unique circle S orthogonal to
S1 , S2 , S3 .

6. [8 marks] 1) Using Dehn–Zommerville relations prove Euler’s formula

for simple polyhedoron in R3 [2 marks];
2) prove Euler’s formula for any convex polyhedron in R3 [6 marks].

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