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Austrian Mathematical Olympiad

Austria geometry

Problem

Let be a trapezoid with parallel sides and , with and with . Furthermore, let be the mid-point of . Prove that .

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Solution
We reflect the points and in and obtain the points and , respectively. We clearly have , therefore, the quadrilateral is a rhombus. Since the diagonals in a rhombus are orthogonal, we get and we obtain as desired.

Figure 1: Problem 2

Techniques

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