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A point \(P\) is somewhere inside the triangle \(\triangle ABC\). Show that \(AP + BP < AC + BC\).

The distance between London and Warsaw equals \(1450\) km, between Warsaw and Kyiv is \(680\) km. The distance from London to New Delhi, is \(6700\) km and the distance from Kyiv to New Delhi is \(4570\) km. What is the distance from London to Kyiv?

Show that if all sides of a triangle have integer lengths and one of them is equal to \(1\), then the other two have lengths equal to each other.

A billiard ball lies on a table in the shape of an acute angle. How should you hit the ball so that it returns to its starting location after hitting each of the two banks once? Is it always possible to do so?
(When the ball hits the bank, it bounces. The way it bounces is determined by the shortest path rule – if it begins at some point \(D\) and ends at some point \(D'\) after bouncing, the path it takes is the shortest possible path that includes the bounce.)

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Natural numbers from 1 to 200 are divided into 50 sets. Prove that in one of the sets there are three numbers that are the lengths of the sides of a triangle.

In a square with side length 1 there is a broken line, which does not self-intersect, whose length is no less than 200. Prove that there is a straight line parallel to one of the sides of the square that intersects the broken line at a point no less than 101 units along the line.