Supppose five points in a plane are situated so that no two of the straight lines joining them are parallel, perpendicular, or coincident. From each point perpendiculars are drawn to all the lines joining the other four points. Determine the maxium number of intersections that these perpendiculars can have.
Problem
Source: IMO 1964, Day 2, Problem 5
Tags: geometry, combinatorial geometry, 3D geometry, counting, Intersection, IMO, IMO 1964
15.02.2009 05:54
29.07.2019 12:07
Could you help me with finding the example which fits the value of 315, please, or maybe how to build the example?
28.03.2020 05:24
comb2019 wrote: Could you help me with finding the example which fits the value of 315, please, or maybe how to build the example? To build an example take very ugly irrational numbers for which the slopes can't be equal or a rational multiple of the others. This will ensure that none of them are parallel or perpendicular. One such example can be (1,1),(e,\pi),(e^2,\pi^2),(e^3,\pi^3),(e^4,\pi^4). This should work. Perhaps, Other powers of e,\pi will also work. The fact is that you have to take care of the given conditions.