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Print31st Hellenic Mathematical Olympiad
Greece geometry
Problem
Let be a triangle and let the middle of the side . Externally of the triangle we consider parallelogram , such that and . Prove that the line passes from the middle point of the segment .

Solution
We extend till it meets at point . Then and are parallelograms and hence . Hence is the middle of . Moreover we observe that and lie on the median of the triangle . Hence is the centroid of the triangle . Therefore the line is the line of the median of the triangle passing from the vertex , and so it intersects the side in the middle.
Techniques
Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleDistance chasing