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KöMaL problem A, 2017

Geometry Difficulty 6.0 National Olympiad Prove it Hungary

We are given 2k2k lines, e1,…,e2ke_1, \ldots, e_{2k} in a plane SS, further given a line gg which has an angle α\alpha with SS. Show that the sum of the pairwise angles between the lines e1,…,e2k,ge_1, \ldots,e_{2k}, g is at most

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