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Four balls of radius 1 are mutually tangent

Source: IMO LongList 1988, India 2, Problem 37 of ILL

November 3, 2005
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Problem Statement

i.) Four balls of radius 1 are mutually tangent, three resting on the floor and the fourth resting on the others. A tedrahedron, each of whose edges has length s, s, is circumscribed around the balls. Find the value of s. s. ii.) Suppose that ABCD ABCD and EFGH EFGH are opposite faces of a retangular solid, with \angle DHC \equal{} 45^{\circ} and \angle FHB \equal{} 60^{\circ}. Find the cosine of BHD. \angle BHD.