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geometry senior

Problem

Triangle has The incircle of the triangle evenly trisects the median If the area of the triangle is where and are integers and is not divisible by the square of a prime, find
Solution
Let , and be the points of tangency of the incircle with , and , respectively. Without loss of generality, let , so that is between and . Let the length of the median be . Then by two applications of the Power of a Point Theorem, , so . Now, and are two tangents to a circle from the same point, so by the Two Tangent Theorem and thus . Then so and thus . Now, by Stewart's Theorem in triangle with cevian , we have Our earlier result from Power of a Point was that , so we combine these two results to solve for and we get Thus or . We discard the value as extraneous (it gives us a line) and are left with , so our triangle has area and so the answer is .
Final answer
38