Skip to main content
OlympiadHQ

Browse · MathNet

Print

SAUDI ARABIAN MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS

Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Let be a convex hexagon with , and . Prove that all angles of this hexagon are equal.

problem
Solution
Let , , intersect and bound triangle . Because the sum of angles in a hexagon is , we have .



Therefore, we easily see triangle is equilateral. To build the equilateral triangle with lying inside the hexagon, we see and are parallelograms so , thus is an equilateral triangle. Hence, But . These imply .

Similarly, . Similarly, .

Now from the condition we deduce that all angles of this hexagon are equal to .

Techniques

Angle chasingConstructions and loci