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Ice cream cone II

Two regular pentagons sharing a vertex with extended sides and diagonals. Proof that the three red points are collinear.

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Solution

Solution by Stéphane Bernard.

Parallel segments in their respective triangle have the same ratio so the triangles must align at the touching points.

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