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tetrahedron inscribed in a cube of side-length 1

Source: Romanian Nationals RMO 2005 - grade 8, problem 1

March 31, 2005
geometry3D geometrytetrahedronanalytic geometrytrigonometry

Problem Statement

We consider a cube with sides of length 1. Prove that a tetrahedron with vertices in the set of the vertices of the cube has the volume 16\dfrac 16 if and only if 3 of the vertices of the tetrahedron are vertices on the same face of the cube. Dinu Serbanescu