2022 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 19
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Problem
In medians
and
intersect at
and
is equilateral. Then
can be written as
, where
and
are relatively prime positive integers and
is a positive integer not divisible by the square of any prime. What is
Diagram
Solution 1 (Law of Cosines)
Let . Since
is the midpoint of
, we must have
.
Since the centroid splits the median in a ratio,
and
.
Applying Law of Cosines on and
yields
and
. Finally, applying Law of Cosines on
yields
. The requested sum is
.
Solution 2 (Law of Cosines: One Fewer Step)
Let . Since
(as
is the centroid),
. Also,
and
. By the law of cosines (applied on
),
.
Applying the law of cosines again on gives
, so the answer is
.
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