Two centroids

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Let M M be the maximun distance between the centroids of two triangles that share the same circumcircle of radius R R and the side B C \overline{BC} .

Evaluate R M \frac{R}{M} .


The answer is 1.5.

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1 solution

Let M M be the midpoint of B C \overline{BC} and O O be the circuncenter. Let P P be the point in O M \overline{OM} that satisfy O P = 2 P M \overline{OP}=2\overline{PM} . Then, it is easy to prove that the locus of the centroids of the triangles that share B C \overline{BC} and the circumcircle is a circunference with radius 1 3 R \frac{1}{3}R and center P P . So M = 2 3 R M=\frac{2}{3}R .

P.S.: let G G be the centroid, then it is clear that the triangles A M O AMO and M P G MPG are proporcional in ratio 1 3 \frac{1}{3}

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