The vertices of an equilateral triangle are connected to an interior point. What is the angle α?
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Solution
The angle α is 45°.
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Some elementary angle chasing gives the above. Now we can apply the Law of sines in the bottom triangle: sin(α)sin(3α)=sin(210-4α). This can be rewritten using trigonometric rules as (cos(2α)-cos(4α))/2=sin(4α)√3/2-cos(4α)/2, which simplifies to cos(2α)=sin(4α)√3=cos(2α)sin(2α)2√3.
So, either cos(2α)=0 or sin(2α)=√3/6. The latter solution does not give an interior meeting point. The former amounts to α=45°.
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Any 52.5》alpha 》33.5