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Geometry Difficulty 6.9 National Olympiad Prove it Hong Kong

Let ABCDEFABCDEF be a hexagon whose diagonals ADAD, BEBE and CFCF intersect at one point, which is the midpoint of each diagonal. Prove that the area of the given hexagon is twice the area of the triangle ACEACE.

Solution

Suppose ADAD, BEBE, CFCF meet at PP. Since PP is the midpoint of ADAD, BEBE, CFCF, all of ABDEABDE, BCEFBCEF and CDFACDFA are parallelograms. Let AA' be the point such that ACAEACA'E is a parallelogram. Since EA=AC=FDEA' = AC = FD and EAACFDEA' \parallel AC \parallel FD, FDAEFDA'E is also a parallelogram. Thus, we have DA=FEDA' = FE. Together with CD=AFCD = AF and CA=AECA' = AE, we find that DCAFAE\triangle DCA' \cong \triangle FAE. By symmetry, we also have DEABAC\triangle DEA' \cong \triangle BAC. It follows that
[ABCDEF]=[ACE]+[ABC]+[CDE]+[EFA]=[ACE]+[EDA]+[CDE]+[ADC]=[ACAE]=2[ACE]. \begin{align*} [ABCDEF] &= [ACE] + [ABC] + [CDE] + [EFA] \\ &= [ACE] + [EDA'] + [CDE] + [A'DC] \\ &= [ACA'E] = 2[ACE]. \end{align*}

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