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sum of squares of areas of the black faces equals to white ones, polyhedron

Source: Champions Tournament (Ukraine) - Турнір чемпіонів - 2007 Seniors p5

September 7, 2020
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Problem Statement

The polyhedron PABCDQPABCDQ has the form shown in the figure. It is known that ABCDABCD is parallelogram, the planes of the triangles of the PACPAC and PBDPBD mutually perpendicular, and also mutually perpendicular are the planes of triangles QACQAC and QBCQBC. Each face of this polyhedron is painted black or white so that the faces that have a common edge are painted in different colors. Prove that the sum of the squares of the areas of the black faces is equal to the sum of the squares of the areas of the white faces. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UM5PKEGGWqc/X1V2cXAFmwI/AAAAAAAAMdw/V-Qr94tZmqkj3_q-5mkSICGF1tMu-b_VwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/2007.5%2Bchampions%2Btourn.png