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Putnam 2017 B5

  • Session B

A line in the plane of a triangle TT is called an equalizer if it divides TT into two regions having equal area and equal perimeter. Find positive integers a>b>ca>b>c, with aa as small as possible, such that there exists a triangle with side lengths a,b,ca, b, c that has exactly two distinct equalizers.

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