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geometry senior
Problem
In , and . Let and be points on the line such that , , and . Point is the midpoint of the segment , and point is on ray such that . Then , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Solution
Let us just drop the perpendicular from to and label the point of intersection . We will use this point later in the problem. As we can see, is the midpoint of and is the midpoint of is a triangle, so . is triangle. and are parallel lines so is triangle also. Then if we use those informations we get and and or Now we know that , we can find for which is simpler to find. We can use point to split it up as , We can chase those lengths and we would get , so , so , so We can also use Law of Sines: Then using right triangle , we have So . And we know that . Finally if we calculate . . So our final answer is . .
Final answer
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