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Sunday, October 5, 2014

A property of two triangles, geometry puzzle

[This is a geometry puzzle, solvable by elementary 8th grade geometry, i.e. no trigonometry etc]

In the figure below (not to scale, forgive the shoddy drawing skills).




ABC is a triangle such that BAC=60 and ABC=25.

DEF is an isosceles triangle, such that EDF=EFD, and DEF=10

(all angles are in degrees).

We also have that |BC|=|DE| (|XY| = length of the segment XY)

Show that 2|AC|+|DF|=|AB|

[Solution]

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