Consider a with midpoints , , and on sides , , and respectively. The lengths of segments , , and are , , and respectively. The length of segment can be written in the form where and are coprime positive integers. Calculate .
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Let a = B C , b = C A , and c = A B . By Apollonius Theorem, we find that m c = C D = 3 = 4 2 ( a 2 + b 2 ) − c 2 . Analogously we find m a = A E = 4 = 4 2 ( b 2 + c 2 ) − a 2 and m b = B F = 1 0 = 4 2 ( a 2 + c 2 ) − b 2 . By using these three results we can get c = 3 2 2 ( m a 2 + m b 2 ) − m c 2 . By substituting lengths of the medians as given in the problem, we get c = 3 1 4 .
Note that E F is a midsegment of △ A B C hence by similar triangles, c = 2 ( E F ) which means that E F = 2 1 c = 3 7 . Therefore j = 7 , k = 3 which gives us an answer of 7 + 3 = 1 0 .