\section*{Exercise 2 - 181032}
Prove:
A triangle is equilateral if and only if at least two of its medians are also angle bisectors!
\section*{Exercise 2 - 181032}
Prove:
A triangle is equilateral if and only if at least two of its medians are also angle bisectors!
A) Let triangle be equilateral, i.e., . The midpoint of is . Then, by the SSS congruence criterion: .
Thus, , i.e., the median is also an angle bisector. The same statement can be proven similarly for the other medians.
B) In triangle , let be the midpoint of , and the median is also an angle bisector. Then,
The parallels to through and to through intersect at a point , and for this, is a parallelogram. Due to (1) and because the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other, passes through .
Thus, and are alternate interior angles and therefore congruent; hence, and due to (2), .
Therefore, triangle is isosceles with . From this and , it follows that . (3)
Similarly, one can show: If, for example, the median through is also an angle bisector, then . (4)
From (3) and (4), the equilateral nature of follows.