The sides and one of the diagonals of a rhombus measure cm. Inside the rhombus there are points. Do there exist two of the points which are not more than cm apart? Justify your answer.
Solution
The answer is yes. The shorter diagonal divides the rhombus into two equilateral triangles with the sides of length cm. Each of the two triangles can be further divided into equilateral triangles with the sides of length cm. We have thus divided the rhombus into equilateral triangles with the sides measuring cm. Since there are points inside the rhombus, at least one of these equilateral triangles must contain at least two points. Let us prove that two points contained in the same triangle are at most cm apart. Denote the points by and and denote the vertices of the equilateral triangle containing them by , and . Consider the triangle . The inner angle at measures or less, so one of the remaining two angles must measure at least . From here we conclude that is not the longest side in the triangle . The other two sides measure at most cm since the points and lie inside a circle centered at with radius cm. Thus, the distance between and is at most cm.

