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Putnam 2003 B5

  • Session B

Let A,BA,B, and CC be equidistant points on the circumference of a circle of unit radius centered at OO, and let PP be any point in the circle's interior. Let a,b,ca, b, c be the distance from PP to A,B,CA, B, C, respectively. Show that there is a triangle with side lengths a,b,ca, b, c, and that the area of this triangle depends only on the distance from PP to OO.

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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