Find the angle

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Find the measure of B F C \angle BFC in degrees.


The answer is 90.

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2 solutions

Aly Ahmed
Apr 12, 2020

can have this

nice approach !

nibedan mukherjee - 1 year, 2 months ago

Let the position coordinates of A , D , C A, D, C be ( 0 , 0 ) , ( b 2 , 0 ) , ( b , 0 ) (0,0), \left (\dfrac{b}{2},0\right ), (b, 0) respectively. Then those of B B are ( b 2 , 4 a 2 b 2 2 ) \left (\dfrac{b}{2}, \dfrac{\sqrt {4a^2-b^2}}{2}\right ) , where a = B C = A B a=|\overline {BC}|=|\overline {AB}| . Solving equations for A B \overline {AB} and D E \overline {DE} we get the position coordinates of E E as ( b 3 8 a 2 , b 2 4 a 2 b 2 8 a 2 ) \left (\dfrac{b^3}{8a^2}, \dfrac{b^2\sqrt {4a^2-b^2}}{8a^2}\right) . Let D E \overline {DE} and B F \overline {BF} meet at G G . Then the position coordinates of G G are ( b 3 + 4 a 2 b 16 a 2 , b 2 4 a 2 b 2 16 a 2 ) \left (\dfrac{b^3+4a^2b}{16a^2}, \dfrac{b^2\sqrt {4a^2-b^2}}{16a^2}\right) .

So, the slope of B G \overline {BG} is m 1 = 8 a 2 b 2 b 4 a 2 b 2 m_1=\dfrac{8a^2-b^2}{b\sqrt {4a^2-b^2}} .

Slope of C E \overline {CE} is m 2 = b 4 a 2 b 2 8 a 2 b 2 m_2=\dfrac{-b\sqrt {4a^2-b^2}}{8a^2-b^2} .

So, m 1 m 2 = 1 B F C = 90 ° m_1m_2=-1\implies \angle {BFC}=\boxed {90\degree} .

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