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Geometry Difficulty 6.8 National olympiad Prove it Argentina

All diagonals of a convex 10-gon are drawn. They divide the angles into 80 parts. It is known that 59 of these parts are equal. Determine the maximum of different values among the 80 angles of division. How many times does each of these values occur?

Solution

The sides of each of the 80 angles pass through the endpoints of a side of the 10-gon PP. We say that such an angle and such a side are adjacent; each side is adjacent to exactly 8 angles. Call black the 59 angles that are known to be equal and α\alpha the measure of a black angle. Let aa be a side of PP. The locus of points XX such that aa subtends angle α\alpha at XX is the union of two circular arcs. Denote by yay_a the one of them which lies on the same side of aa as the polygon PP. We also name yay_a the entire circle containing yay_a. All black angles adjacent to aa have their vertices on yay_a.

For a side aa let mam_a be the number of black angles adjacent to aa. The hypothesis can be stated as ma59\sum m_a \ge 59. We show that the inequality implies that PP is cyclic. Consider two cases.

Let there be a side aa with ma7m_a \ge 7. Then yay_a contains the vertices of at least 7 black angles; these vertices are different from the endpoints of aa. Hence at least 2+7=92+7=9 vertices of PP lie on yay_a.

Suppose that there is a vertex AyaA \in y_a, and let AB=bAB = b, AC=cAC = c be the sides with common vertex AA.
Then ybyay_b \ne y_a, ycyay_c \ne y_a by AyaA \in y_a. So arcs yay_a and yby_b has (at most) two common points; one such point is BB. Because all vertices except AA are on yay_a, we see that yby_b contains at most one vertex different from AA and BB, implying mb1m_b \le 1. On the other hand it is immediate that ya=yay_a = y_a for every sb,cs \ne b, c, hence AyaA \in y_a for sb,cs \ne b, c. Thus ms7m_s \le 7 for each of the 8 sides ss different from bb and cc. In conclusion ma1+1+87=58\sum m_a \le 1+1+8 \cdot 7 = 58, contradicting the hypothesis.

Suppose now that ma6m_a \le 6 for each side aa. Then a direct computation using ma59\sum m_a \ge 59 shows that ma=6m_a = 6 holds for at least 9 sides aa: the last side satisfies ma=5m_a = 5 or ma=6m_a = 6. We show that yb=ycy_b = y_c for every two consecutive sides b=AB,c=ACb = AB, c = AC; this is enough to imply that PP is cyclic. Indeed yby_b contains at least mb1m_b - 1 vertices different from A,BA, B and CC. Likewise ycy_c contains at least mc1m_c - 1 vertices different from A,BA, B and CC. Both arcs combined contain at least mb+mc26+52=9m_b + m_c - 2 \ge 6 + 5 - 2 = 9 vertices DA,B,CD \ne A, B, C. It follows that there are two vertices D,EA,B,CD, E \ne A, B, C that are common for yby_b and ycy_c. One more such vertex is AA, so yb=ycy_b = y_c, as stated.

Now that PP is cyclic, each side BC=aBC = a there corresponds an angle αa\alpha_a such that BC=αa\vec{BC} = \alpha_a for every vertex VB,CV \ne B, C. Also αa\alpha_a occurs among the 80 angles of division exactly 8k8k times where kk is the number of sides with length aa. Because at least 59 angles are known to be equal, PP has at least 8 equal sides. The angle αa\alpha_a corresponding to them occurs 64, 72 or 80 times. It is straightforward

now that the 80 angles of division can assume at most 3 different values. If these are exactly 3 then one of them occurs 64 times, and each of the other two occurs 8 times.

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