Hunting segments

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Let A B C D E F G H I J ABCDEFGHIJ be a regular polygon of 10 10 sides that has all its vertices in a circle of center O O and radius 5 5 . The diagonals A D AD and B E BE intersect at P P and the diagonals A H AH and B I BI intersect at Q Q .

What is the measure of the P Q PQ segment?


The answer is 5.

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1 solution

Steven Chase
May 30, 2019

It is easy enough to calculate the length of P Q PQ and see that it equals the radius ( 5 ) (5) . Here is a picture illustrating it:

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