Let be a triangle with , its incenter, and the midpoint of the side . If , determine the smallest possible value of the angle .
Solution
Let . As , lies between and and .
We have , therefore angle is acute.
Let and be the projections of onto and , respectively. It follows that . Triangles and are congruent and so are triangles and , therefore and triangles and are congruent.

We have: .
It follows that (1).
Let be the projection of onto the line . It follows that , which shows that (2).
From (1) and (2) we obtain that .
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