Point
lies on an edge of
. The centroid of
is
. Let
be the area of the locus of
as
traverses the boundary of
and let
be the area of
. If
, where
are coprime positive integers, submit
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With an obvious notation the position vector of the centroid G is g g − 2 1 ( e + f ) = 3 1 ( d + e + f ) = 3 1 [ d − 2 1 ( e + f ) ] so that the homothecy H ( M , 3 1 ) (enlargement with centre M and scale factor 3 1 ), where M is the midpoint of E F , maps D to G . Thus the locus of G is the image of the triangle A B C under the homothecy H ( M , 3 1 ) , and hence is a triangle similar to A B C , but of one third the linear dimension. Thus we deduce that L = 9 1 T , and hence T L = 9 1 , making the answer 1 + 9 = 1 0 .