Regular hexagon has side length 2. A laser beam is fired inside the hexagon from point and hits at point . The laser then reflects off and hits the midpoint of . Find .
Solution
Look at the diagram below, in which points , and have been defined. is the midpoint of is a rhombus with lying on the extension of is the intersection of lines and when extended, and is on such that . It can be shown that , so is equilateral, which yields . The diagram indicates that . One can show by angle-angle similarity that , which yields . One can also show by angle-angle similarity that , which yields the proportion . We know everything except , which we can solve for. This yields , so .
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