2009 AIME I Problems/Problem 5
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Problem
Triangle has and . Points and are located on and respectively so that , and is the angle bisector of angle . Let be the point of intersection of and , and let be the point on line for which is the midpoint of . If , find .
Solution 1
Since is the midpoint of and , quadrilateral is a parallelogram, which implies and is similar to
Thus,
Now let's apply the angle bisector theorem.
Solution 2
Using the diagram above, we can solve this problem by using mass points. By angle bisector theorem: So, we can weight as and as and as . Since is the midpoint of and , the weight of is equal to the weight of , which equals . Also, since the weight of is and is , we can weight as .
By the definition of mass points, By vertical angles, angle angle . Also, it is given that and .
By the SAS congruence, = . So, = = . Since ,
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