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Bulgarian Spring Tournament

Bulgaria geometry

Problem

Given the triangle and - midpoint of . Given the angles and . Prove that . (Konstantin Delchev)
Solution
Let be the height from point in . Note that it lies on the continuation of , because this triangle is obtuse. The triangle is right-angled with angle . Therefore, . Consequently, we directly find , , , . So is isosceles. Then and is isosceles and right-angled, therefore and therefore . We will calculate the area of in two different ways.

because i.e. the height to is equal to . But also is the middle of . So and we get what we are looking for.

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