One More Property of Equilateral Triangles

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Let $O\,$ be the center of $(ABC).\,$ Then, not only $OM\perp AB\,$ and $ON\perp AC,\,$ but $OM\,$ and $ON\,$ are divided in half by the points of intersection.

One More Property of Equilateral Triangles, solution

This makes triangles $OFM\,$ and $OEN\,$ isosceles so that $FM=FO\,$ and $EN=NO.\,$ Suffice it to show that $O\in EF.$ This is achieved by angle chasing.

$\displaystyle \begin{align} \angle MDN&=60^{\circ},\\ \angle AFM&=\frac{1}{2}(\overset{\frown}{AM}+\overset{\frown}{BD}),\\ \angle AEN&=\frac{1}{2}(\overset{\frown}{AN}+\overset{\frown}{CD}),\\ \angle AFM+\angle AEN&=\frac{1}{2}(2\cdot 60^{\circ}+(\overset{\frown}{BD}+\overset{\frown}{CD})),\\ &=120^{\circ},\\ \angle OFM+\angle OEN&=2(\angle AFM+\angle AEN)=240^{\circ},\\ \angle OFD+\angle OED&=360^{\circ}-2(\angle AFM+\angle AEN)=120^{\circ}. \end{align}$

It follows that $\angle OFD+\angle OED+\angle EDF=180^{\circ},\,$ because $\angle EDF=\angle MDN,\,$ which makes $EOF\,$ a straight line.

Acknowledgment

The above problem was kindly posted by Miguel Ochoa Sanchez at the CutTheKnotMath facebook page.

 

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