In triangle and . Let be the midpoints of sides , , respectively. Also let be the circumcenters of triangles , and , respectively. Find the area of triangle .
Solution
Let . Let be the circumcenter of respectively. Note that is the nine-point center of , and are the midpoints of respectively, and thus is the image of homothety of with center and ratio , so this triangle has side lengths . Since perpendicularly bisects , which is parallel to and thus , we see that is the orthocenter of . Moreover, lies on and is perpendicular to . To compute the area of , it suffices to compute . Note that is parallel to , and is parallel to , so . Similarly the other two triangles have equal area as and respectively, so the desired area is simply the area of , which is .
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