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CMO 1969 Problem 10

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Let ABCABC be the right-angled isosceles triangle whose equal sides have length 1. PP is a point on the hypotenuse, and the feet of the perpendiculars from PP to the other sides are QQ and RR . Consider the areas of the triangles APQAPQ and PBRPBR , and the area of the rectangle QCRPQCRP . Prove that regardless of how PP is chosen, the largest of these three areas is at least 2/92/9 .

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