Let be an isosceles triangle, (). Let and be two points on the side such that , and . Prove that we can construct a triangle such that , and . Find .
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Let be the circle of center and radius . Let be a point on the circle , lying on the minor arc , such that . Since , it is easy to see that .

We deduce that the triangles and are congruent by SAS postulate, and thus . Similarly, , and thus, the triangle has its sides of lengths , and respectively, and we can choose , and .
Moreover,
Solution 2
Let be the midpoint of . Obviously and . We make now the following notations , , , and . It is clear that .
On the other hand, . But , and thus we get:
Denoting and , using the relation (1), we get:
Now, from the above relation, we get:
Finally, we obtain:
Now, on the two sides of an angle of the vertex and measure , we choose the points and such that and . From the cosine rule we have:
and thus the existence of the triangle is proved. Moreover, we have .