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Unusually constructed quadrilateral and areas

Source: All-Russian MO Round 4, 2005

April 2, 2005
geometrygeometric transformationreflectionvectortrigonometryinequalitiesarea of a triangle

Problem Statement

11.6 Construct for each vertex of the quadrilateral of area SS a symmetric point wrt to the diagonal, which doesn't contain this vertex. Let SS' be an area of the obtained quadrilateral. Prove that SS<3\frac{S'}{S}<3. (L. Emel'yanov)