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Geometry Difficulty 5.0 AIME Prove it Ukraine

Diagonals ACAC and BDBD of the quadrangle ABCDABCD intersect at point OO. We know that diagonal BDBD is perpendicular to the side ADAD, BAD=BCD=60\angle BAD = \angle BCD = 60^\circ, ADC=135\angle ADC = 135^\circ. Find the ratio DO:OBDO:OB.
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Fig. 1
Answer: 1:2.

Solution

Under the problem statement we can easily find the following angles (fig.1): ABD=30\angle ABD = 30^\circ, BDC=45\angle BDC = 45^\circ, DBC=75\angle DBC = 75^\circ. Let's draw rays ADEADE and ABFABF. Then EDC=45\angle EDC = 45^\circ, FBC=75\angle FBC = 75^\circ. Therefore BCBC is a bisector of DBF\angle DBF and DCDC is a bisector of BDE\angle BDE, which implies that ACAC is a bisector of BAD\angle BAD. The last statement is easily proved by the locus of the bisector. Thus BAO=30\angle BAO = 30^\circ and AOB\angle AOB is an isosceles triangle. Therefore AO=BOAO = BO and DO=12AODO = \frac{1}{2}AO as ADO\triangle ADO is right-angled triangle with an angle of 3030^\circ. From this we find that DOOB=12\frac{DO}{OB} = \frac{1}{2}.

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