2019 AIME II Problem 7
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7.
Triangle has side lengths and Lines and are drawn parallel to and respectively, such that the intersections of and with the interior of are segments of lengths and respectively. Find the perimeter of the triangle whose sides lie on lines and
Solution:
For a point let be the distance from to line divided by the length of the altitude from and define (to ) and (to ) similarly; then for points inside, since A chord parallel to at level cuts off a triangle at similar to with ratio so its length is The chord of length gives so is the line similarly puts at and puts at
Along any line parallel to the coordinate varies linearly, and on the chord at level inside the triangle, runs over an interval of length while the chord has length hence a segment parallel to with endpoints differing by has length The side of the new triangle on runs from where to where Its length is
Since the three lines are parallel to the sides of the triangle they bound is similar to here with ratio Its perimeter is
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