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HongKong 2022-23 IMO Selection Tests

Hong Kong 2022 geometry

Problem

In , . The internal bisector of meets at , while the external bisector of meets produced at . If and the lengths of and are integers, how many possible lengths of are there?

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Solution
Let the lengths of and be and respectively. By the angle bisector theorem, we have , i.e.



Hence we must choose positive integers for which is a positive integer dividing (note that every such will result in a positive integer value of and the existence of such a figure satisfying all the conditions). As , its only positive factors that are less than are the 12 positive factors of as well as and . Hence there are altogether 16 such values of , and they correspond to 16 possible values of .
Final answer
16

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