IMO Shortlist 2008 problem C1
Avg:
Avg:
In the plane we consider rectangles whose sides are parallel to the coordinate axes and have positive length. Such a rectangle will be called a box. Two boxes intersect if they have a common point in their interior or on their boundary. Find the largest
for which there exist
boxes
,
,
such that
and
intersect if and only if
.
Proposed by Gerhard Woeginger, Netherlands








Proposed by Gerhard Woeginger, Netherlands
Izvor: Međunarodna matematička olimpijada, shortlist 2008