Golden Ratio in Pentagon: Once More
Problem
Let $ABCDE\;$ be a regular pentagon and $F\;$ an arbitrary point on the small arc $AB.$
Then
$\displaystyle\frac{EF+CF}{DF}=\frac{DF}{AF+BF}=\varphi,$
the Golden Ratio.
Proof
Elsewhere we proved that either ratio remains constant, regardless of the position of $F\;$ on the arc $EC!\;$ Thus the calculations can be reduced to a particular case where, e.g., $F=C.\;$ Then
$\displaystyle\frac{EF+CF}{DF}=\frac{CE}{CD}=2\cdot\sin 54^{\circ}=\varphi,$
see a derivation.
We could have taken $F=A.\;$ We would have
$\displaystyle\begin{align} \frac{EF+CF}{DF}&=\frac{AE+AC}{AD}\\ &=\frac{1+2\sin 54^{\circ}}{2\cdot\sin 54^{\circ}}\\ &=\frac{1+\varphi}{\varphi}\\ &=\varphi, \end{align}$
as expected.
Acknowledgment
The problem Dao Thanh Oai, with a comment to the latter by Tim Robinson who observed that
$\displaystyle\varphi = \frac{FB + FD}{FC} = \frac{FA + FD}{FE} = \frac{FC - FA}{FB}=\frac{FE - FB}{FA}.$
which led to a simple but general statement.
Golden Ratio
- Golden Ratio in Geometry
 - Golden Ratio in Regular Pentagon
 - Golden Ratio in an Irregular Pentagon
 - Golden Ratio in a Irregular Pentagon II
 - Inflection Points of Fourth Degree Polynomials
 - Wythoff's Nim
 - Inscribing a regular pentagon in a circle - and proving it
 - Cosine of 36 degrees
 - Continued Fractions
 - Golden Window
 - Golden Ratio and the Egyptian Triangle
 - Golden Ratio by Compass Only
 - Golden Ratio with a Rusty Compass
 - From Equilateral Triangle and Square to Golden Ratio
 - Golden Ratio and Midpoints
 - Golden Section in Two Equilateral Triangles
 - Golden Section in Two Equilateral Triangles, II
 - Golden Ratio is Irrational
 - Triangles with Sides in Geometric Progression
 - Golden Ratio in Hexagon
 - Golden Ratio in Equilateral Triangles
 - Golden Ratio in Square
 - Golden Ratio via van Obel's Theorem
 - Golden Ratio in Circle - in Droves
 - From 3 to Golden Ratio in Semicircle
 - Another Golden Ratio in Semicircle
 - Golden Ratio in Two Squares
 - Golden Ratio in Two Equilateral Triangles
 - Golden Ratio As a Mathematical Morsel
 - Golden Ratio in Inscribed Equilateral Triangles
 - Golden Ratio in a Rhombus
 - Golden Ratio in Five Steps
 - Between a Cross and a Square
 - Four Golden Circles
 - Golden Ratio in Mixtilinear Circles
 - Golden Ratio With Two Equal Circles And a Line
 - Golden Ratio in a Chain of Polygons, So to Speak
 - Golden Ratio With Two Unequal Circles And a Line
 - Golden Ratio In a 3x3 Square
 - Golden Ratio In a 3x3 Square II
 - Golden Ratio In Three Tangent Circles
 - Golden Ratio In Right Isosceles Triangle
 - Golden Ratio Poster
 - Golden Ratio Next to the Poster
 - Golden Ratio In Rectangles
 - Golden Ratio In a 2x2 Square: Without And Within
 - Golden Ratio With Two Unequal Circles And a Line II
 - Golden Ratio in Equilateral and Right Isosceles Triangles
 - Golden Ratio in a Butterfly Astride an Equilateral Triangle
 - The Golden Pentacross
 - 5-Step Construction of the Golden Ratio, One of Many
 - Golden Ratio in 5-gon and 6-gon
 - Golden Ratio in an Isosceles Trapezoid with a 60 degrees Angle
 - Golden Ratio in Pentagon And Two Squares
 - Golden Ratio in Pentagon And Three Triangles
 - Golden Ratio in a Mutually Beneficial Relationship
 - Star, Six Pentagons and Golden Ratio
 - Rotating Square in Search of the Golden Ratio
 - Cultivating Regular Pentagons
 - Golden Ratio in an Isosceles Trapezoid with a 60 degrees Angle II
 - More of Gloden Ratio in Equilateral Triangles
 - Golden Ratio in Three Regular Pentagons
 - Golden Ratio in Three Regular Pentagons II
 - Golden Ratio in Wu Xing
 - Golden Ratio In Three Circles And Common Secant
 - Flat Probabilities on a Sphere
 - Golden Ratio in Square And Circles
 - Golden Ratio in Square
 - Golden Ratio in Two Squares, Or, Perhaps in Three
 - Golden Ratio in Isosceles Triangle
 - Golden Ratio in Circles
 - Golden Ratio in Isosceles Triangle II
 - Golden Ratio in Yin-Yang
 
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