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Hong Kong Preliminary Selection Contest

Hong Kong geometry

Problem

Let be a square of side length . is a point on such that is a square of side length with , outside . The circumcircle of meets again at . Find .
Solution
Note that is the perpendicular bisector of , while is the perpendicular bisector of . Thus the intersection of and , which we denote by , is the circumcentre of .

As , is isosceles. Since , we have . It follows that .
Final answer
667

Techniques

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