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HMMT November 2013 E5

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Let ABCA B C be an isosceles triangle with AB=ACA B=A C. Let DD and EE be the midpoints of segments ABA B and ACA C, respectively. Suppose that there exists a point FF on ray DE→\overrightarrow{D E} outside of ABCA B C such that triangle BFAB F A is similar to triangle ABCA B C. Compute ABBC\frac{A B}{B C}.

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\sqrt{2}

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