BDMO national higher secondery -prb 07

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Md Ashraful Kader
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BDMO national higher secondery -prb 07

Unread post by Md Ashraful Kader » Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:05 pm

In triangle ABC, the points A',B',C' are on sides BC,AC,AB respectively.Also,AA',BB',CC' intersect at the point O (they are concurrent at O).Also, (AO/OA'+BO/OB'+CO/OC')=92.Find the value of (AO/OA' . BO/OB' .CO/OC').

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Re: BDMO national higher secondery -prb 07

Unread post by asif e elahi » Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:48 am

Assume triangles $COB,COA,AOB$ have area $p,q,r$ respectively. Then express every ratio in terms of $p,q,r$.

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Re: BDMO national higher secondery -prb 07

Unread post by SANZEED » Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:04 pm

You can solve this using Mass point geometry as well. Ideas about mass point geometry required for this problem can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_point_geometry
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