IMC 2009 · Problem 1

Day 216th IMC · Budapest, Hungary

Statement

Let \ell be a line and PP a point in R3\mathbb{R}^3. Let SS be the set of points XX such that the distance from XX to \ell is greater than or equal to two times the distance between XX and PP. If the distance from PP to \ell is d>0d > 0, find the volume of SS.

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