BALTIC-WAY 2021 Problem 4
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Let be a circle in the plane and be a point on . Mario and Luigi drive around the circle with their go-karts. They both start at at the same time. They both drive for exactly 6 minutes at constant speed counterclockwise around the track. During these 6 minutes, Luigi makes exactly one lap around while Mario, who is three times as fast, makes three laps.
While Mario and Luigi drive their go-karts, Princess Daisy positions herself such that she is always exactly in the middle of the chord between them. When she reaches a point she has already visited, she marks it with a banana.
How many points in the plane, apart from , are marked with a banana by the end of the race?
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