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Argentine National Olympiad

Argentina geometry

Problem

Point is chosen on side of the acute triangle so that . Let and be respectively the feet of the perpendiculars from and to . It is known that Find .
Solution
Express and by Pythagoras theorem for the right-angled triangles and : , . Since , it follows that . Likewise the right-angled triangles and yield , . Hence
Final answer
Angle ABC equals 60 degrees.

Techniques

Triangle trigonometryDistance chasing