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51st Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad, 4th Round

Ukraine geometry

Problem

In a parallelogram . It is known that inside this parallelogram there is a point , such that the triangle is equilateral and . Let be a midpoint of the side . Find .

problem
Solution
Drop the perpendicular to the line . Then in the triangle we know: , . Therefore, and (fig. 36).

Since , from the right triangle we find that . So, , and since , we obtain that .

Then is a median from the vertex of the right angle in the right triangle , and so . Therefore, the quadrilateral is a deltoid, its diagonals are perpendicular and intersect at the point .

Thus in the triangle we have that and . This implies that .
Final answer
45°

Techniques

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