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75th Romanian Mathematical Olympiad

Romania geometry

Problem

Let be a cube. On the segments and we take the points and respectively, such that . Prove that line is perpendicular to plane .

Cătălin Barbu

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Solution
and yields . Since (diagonals of the square ), we get . Because , it follows that . (1)

Let be such that . Then is a rectangle, so . Because and , it follows that . (2)

From (L.L.) one gets , whence . Thus, . Using now relation (2) we get , so . Taking into account this last relation and (1), we conclude that .

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