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Geometry Level 3

In a blue square a red square is drawn as shown. Find the yellow angle?

It is not a constant 30 ° 30° 60 ° 60° 45 ° 45°

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Chew-Seong Cheong
Aug 29, 2020

Let the large blue square be A B C D ABCD with side length 1 1 , the small red square be A E F G AEFG , A D G = α \angle ADG = \alpha and the yellow angle B F C = θ BFC=\theta . We note that A B E \triangle ABE and A D G \triangle ADG are congruent. Then B F = B E E F = cos α sin α BF = BE-EF = \cos \alpha - \sin \alpha . By sine rule , we have:

sin B F C B C = sin B C E B F sin θ 1 = sin ( 18 0 ( 9 0 + α ) θ ) cos α sin α sin θ ( cos α sin α ) = sin ( 9 0 α θ ) = cos ( θ + α ) sin θ cos α sin θ sin α = cos θ cos α sin θ sin α sin θ cos α = cos θ cos α tan θ = 1 θ = 4 5 \begin{aligned} \frac {\sin \angle BFC}{BC} & = \frac {\sin \angle BCE}{BF} \\ \frac {\sin \theta}1 & = \frac {\sin (180^\circ - (90^\circ + \alpha) - \theta)}{\cos \alpha - \sin \alpha} \\ \sin \theta (\cos \alpha - \sin \alpha) & = \sin (90^\circ - \alpha - \theta) = \cos (\theta + \alpha) \\ \sin \theta \cos \alpha - \sin \theta \sin \alpha & = \cos \theta \cos \alpha - \sin \theta \sin \alpha \\ \sin \theta \cos \alpha & = \cos \theta \cos \alpha \\ \tan \theta & = 1 \\ \implies \theta & = \boxed{45^\circ} \end{aligned}

I found a geometric proof! Observe that ADF=ABF, ADBF concyclic, where C should be included. Then, CFB=CAB=45

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