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Austria 2019 geometry

Problem

Let be a square. The equilateral triangle is constructed on the exterior of the side . Let denote the midpoint of the line segment and let be the midpoint of the side . Prove: .

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Solution
Let be the midpoint of , see Figure 1.

Since triangles and are similar with factor , the segment is parallel to and half the length of the segment . Therefore is a parallelogram.

As and are orthogonal and and are orthogonal, we have .

Thus we obtain .

Figure 1: Problem 2

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