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Geometry Difficulty 5.1 AIME, harder Prove it Saudi Arabia

Let ABCDEFABCDEF be a convex hexagon with AB=CD=EFAB = CD = EF, BC=DE=FABC = DE = FA and A+B=C+D=E+F\angle A + \angle B = \angle C + \angle D = \angle E + \angle F. Prove that all angles of this hexagon are equal.

Solution

Let BCBC, DEDE, AFAF intersect and bound triangle MNPMNP. Because the sum of angles in a hexagon is 720720^\circ, we have A+B=C+D=E+F=240\angle A + \angle B = \angle C + \angle D = \angle E + \angle F = 240^\circ.

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Therefore, we easily see triangle MNPMNP is equilateral. To build the equilateral triangle DEODEO with OO lying inside the hexagon, we see EOAFEOAF and DOBCDOBC are parallelograms so AB=EF=OA=CD=OBAB = EF = OA = CD = OB, thus OABOAB is an equilateral triangle. Hence,
AFE+BCD=AOE+BOD=3606060=240. \angle AFE + \angle BCD = \angle AOE + \angle BOD = 360^\circ - 60^\circ - 60^\circ = 240^\circ.
But EDC+BCD=240\angle EDC + \angle BCD = 240^\circ. These imply AFE=EDC\angle AFE = \angle EDC.

Similarly, EDC=CBA\angle EDC = \angle CBA. Similarly, BAF=FED=EDC\angle BAF = \angle FED = \angle EDC.

Now from the condition A+B=C+D=E+F\angle A + \angle B = \angle C + \angle D = \angle E + \angle F we deduce that all angles of this hexagon are equal to 120120^\circ.

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