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Estonian Mathematical Olympiad

Estonia geometry

Problem

Teacher drew a pentagon on the blackboard. The following conditions hold for the pentagon.

a) Two of the pentagon's interior angles are equal.

b) There exist three interior angles such that the first one equals the sum of the other two.

c) There exist four interior angles such that one of them equals the sum of the other three.

d) There exists an interior angle that equals the sum of the other four.

Find the interior angles of the pentagon.
Solution
Let the sizes of the angles of the pentagon be denoted in decreasing order as . The sum of all the interior angles is , in other words .

The angle that equals the sum of the other four is greater than the other four. Therefore .

The angle which equals the sum of some other three cannot be equal to , because then . As it must be greater than the other three angles, .

Analogously, the angle that is the sum of some other two angles can be equal to neither nor , therefore .

Finally, the pentagon cannot have more angles of size , or , therefore .
Final answer
270°, 135°, 67.5°, 33.75°, 33.75°

Techniques

Angle chasing