Thursday, December 17, 2009

Problem 404. External Equilateral triangles, Congruent and Concurrent Lines

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 Problem 404. External Equilateral triangles, Congruent and Concurrent Lines.
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Complete Problem 404
Level: High School, SAT Prep, College geometry

3 comments:

  1. half of solution

    Tr AA'B and tr CC'B have

    1) BA' = BC
    2) AB = BC'
    3) an C'BC = an A'BA ( 60 + an B )

    => AA' = CC'

    Tr BB'C and AA'C at the same way give

    => BB' = AA'

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  2. tri ABA'=~tri C'BC (proved)
    => ang BAA'=ang BC'C.
    let AA' and CC' meet at P.
    ang BAP = ang BC'P.
    =>BC'AP is cyclic (angles in the same segment).
    =>ang BPA = 120 deg.(opp. angles of a cyclic quad. are supplementary)
    similarly ang BPC = 120 deg.(Don't consider B,P,B').
    =>ang APC = 120 deg.(angles around a point).
    =>APCB' is cyclic(since angAPC + angAB'C = 180 deg)
    =>ang APB' = ang ACB' = 60 deg.
    ang APB' = 60 deg , and
    ang APB = 120 deg.
    => B,P,B' are collinear.(since the angle between them is 180 deg).
    => AA', BB', CC' are concurrent.

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  3. Let AA’ and CC’ meet at X
    Join BX, B’X

    Tr.s BCC’ ≡ BAA’ (SAS) so AA’ = CC’. Similarly each of these are = to BB’.

    Also < BAA’ = < BCC’, so AXBC’ is concyclic

    Therefore < AXC’ = BXC’ = BXA’ = 60 .….(1) (being respectively equal to the
    three 60 degree angles of Equilateral Tr. ABC’)

    Now AXC’ = 60 = AB’C, hence AB’CX is concyclic and so < AXB’ = < ACB’ = 60
    ….(2)
    But AXB = < AXC’ + BXC’ = 60 + 60 =120….(3) {from (1)}

    From (2) and (3) < B’XB = 120 + 60 = 180, so BXB’ are collinear points and
    so lines AA’, BB’ and CC’ are concurrent.

    Sumith Peiris
    Moratuwa
    Sri Lanka

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