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Solution
Triangle is isosceles so ==. Using the symmetry of pentagon , notice that is congruent to , so triangles and are congruent to our original triangle . Therefore, = . Now, we still need to find the length of and . Also, we know that = since pentagon is regular. Let's call the length of and . Now we can solve for . Triangles and are similar. So,
From this, we get .
Now, we just have to find the length of which we'll call . We already know that = = . Triangles and are similar so we have,
Solving for we get
Adding up , , and gives us which is
Solution by arebei2