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n

cockroaches are sitting on the plane at the vertices of the regular

n

-gon. They simultaneously begin to move at a speed of

v

on the sides of the polygon in the direction of the clockwise adjacent cockroach, then they continue moving in the initial direction with the initial speed. Vasya a entomologist moves on a straight line in the plane at a speed of

u

. After some time, it turned out that Vasya has crushed three cockroaches. Prove that

v = u

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