1970 Canadian MO Problems/Problem 5
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Problem
A quadrilateral has one vertex on each side of a square of side-length 1. Show that the lengths 
, 
, 
and 
of the sides of the quadrilateral satisfy the inequalities 
Solution
Let the quadrilateral be 
. Suppose 
is a distance 
, 
from the two nearest vertices of the square. Define 
, 
, 
similarly. Then the sum of the squares of the sides of the quadrilateral is 
. But 
which is at least 
and at most 
. Similarly for the other pairs of terms, and hence proved.
| 1970 Canadian MO (Problems) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 4 | 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 | Followed by Problem 6 |
