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three isoscelese triangles inside a triangle solution
Three Isosceles Triangles Inside a Triangle
The three shaded triangles are isosceles. What’s the missing angle?
With the points labelled as in the diagram, let be angle , angle , and angle . Then as angles at a point add up to , .
Triangle is isosceles so angle is as angles in a triangle add up to . So since angles at a point on a straight line also add up to , angle is . A similar argument shows that angle is .
Since the angles in a quadrilateral add up to , considering quadrilateral gives the equation:
and this simplifies to . Hence .
Created on August 12, 2021 19:40:15
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Andrew Stacey