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The Problems of Ukrainian Authors

Ukraine geometry

Problem

Angular bisectors and are drawn in the triangle with angle . Prove that .
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Fig.30
Solution
Denote the sides of triangle by , , . By the property of angular bisectors,

, (pic.30), thus it is enough to prove: .

After simple transformations, we have: , and so it is enough to prove: .

By the cosine theorem, , which required.

Techniques

Triangle inequalitiesTriangle trigonometry