10 - Consider a hexagon inscribed in a circle, such that . Show that the area of triangle is half the area of the hexagon.
Solution
Let be the angles , and . It is easy to see that .
We will use the following result: if are four points such that and , then the triangles and have the same area.
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Indeed, by taking the sides and as bases, we observe that these triangles have bases of the same length and their heights from coincide.
We deduce that the areas of , and are respectively equal to those of , and . By adding these areas, we obtain that half the area of the hexagon is equal to the area of .
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