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If ABCD is a quadrilateral in which AB+CD=BC+AD,prove that the bisectors of the angles of the quadrilateral meet in a point which is equidistant from the sides of quadrilateral.

Plz provide me the proof.

Note by Shaswat Tripathi
1 year, 2 months ago

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Connect the angle bisectors of angle A and B. Call the intersection T. Draw perpendiculars down to AB, AD, DC , CB at points X,Y,Z,W. By properties of angle bisectors, we know that $$AX=AY = a, BX = BW = b.$$ Additionally, TY=TX=TW=g. Let DY, DZ, ZC, CW, be c, d, e, f respectively. Note that from the condition, $c+f=d+e.$By Pythagorean theorem, $TZ= x^2+c^2-d^2=x^2 + f^2 - e^2.$From these two equations you get that $$c = d$$ and $$e = f$$ which implies that DT and TC are angle bisectors which completes our proof. · 1 year, 2 months ago

What have you tried? Have you shown that the 4 angle bisectors meet at a unique point? That seems to be implicit in the problem.

Hint: Any point on the angle bisector is equidistant from both lines. Thus, once you've answered the uniqueness of intersection, you are done. Staff · 1 year, 2 months ago