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geometry senior

Problem

Triangle has side lengths , , and . Points and are on ray with . The point is a point of intersection of the circumcircles of and satisfying and . Then can be expressed as , where , , , and are positive integers such that and are relatively prime, and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find .
Solution
Notice thatBy the Law of Cosines,Then,Let , , and . Then,However, since , , but since ,and the requested sum is .
Final answer
32