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THE 68th ROMANIAN MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD

Romania geometry

Problem

Let be a square. We take the points , and , such that the triangles and are equilateral. Prove that , where and .

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Solution
Because and , we have . Then and . It is clear now that is a rectangle, and thus is the common midpoint of the line segments and . Then, in the equilateral triangle we have . As , we get that , obtaining that . The equality implies that is a cyclic quadrilateral, and thus . On the other hand, , which implies that is an isosceles trapezoid and thus .

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