An Isosceles Mystery

David Marain ([url]http://mathnotations.blogspot.com/[/url], @dmarain) shared an angle chasing puzzle in the 80-80-20 isosceles triangle. Quite a nice one. I chased a bit, then modeled in GeoGebra. Then I made a tool for making an ASA triangle which was handy for making angle chasing problems. Then I generalized the problem, and found that the 80-80-20 triangle had lots of neat situations that other triangles do not. Is there something that makes this triangle special? Tumblr post with several examples: [url]http://mathhombre.tumblr.com/post/92497963079/david-marain-dmarain-shared-an-angle-chasing[/url]

 

John Golden

 
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angle  chasing  isosceles  marain  triangle 
Target Group (Age)
11 – 19+
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English
 
 
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