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Here are the starting points and sketches for eight solutions.
- Draw segment
parallel to
with
on
. Draw
intersecting
at
.
Now find the equilateral triangles and isosceles triangles.
- Use the Law of Sines in triangle
and triangle
. Use
to connect the results.
Simplify and solve for
.
- Draw lines through
and
parallel to
and
,
respectively, intersecting at
.
Draw
with
on
and
. Show
is the
incenter of triangle
.
- Mark
on
such that
. Draw
and
. Show
.
- (Maria Gelband) Reflect
through
to point
. Show D is on
the circumcircle of triangle
.
- (Sergei Saprikin) Let the bisector of
intersect
at
point
. Show
is an excenter of
triangle
.
- (Alexey Borodin) Let
be the circumcenter of triangle
. Show
is the perpendicular bisector of
.
- (Alexander Kornienko) Reflect triangle
through
to triangle
and also relect it through
to triangle
. Show that
,
, and
are collinear.
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Zvezdelina Stankova-Frenkel
2002-05-07