2013 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 9
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Note that because and
are parallel to the sides of
, the internal triangles
and
are similar to
, and are therefore also isosceles triangles.
It follows that . Thus,
.
Since opposite sides of parallelograms are equal, the perimeter is .