Consider a triangle and let be the midpoint of the side . Suppose and . Find the measure of .
Solution
The angle measure is .
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Let be the circumcenter of the triangle . From follows . Let be the projections of points onto the line . Since , then and consequently . On the other hand, joins the midpoints of two sides of the triangle , which implies .
The relation implies tangent to , hence . It follows that , and furthermore .
Therefore and .
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