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Colored segment with numbers

Source: St Petersburg Olympiad 2015, Grade 10, P7

October 17, 2017
geometrycombinatorics

Problem Statement

There is convex nn-gon. We color all its sides and also diagonals, that goes out from one vertex. So we have 2n32n-3 colored segments. We write positive numbers on colored segments. In one move we can take quadrilateral ABCDABCD such, that ACAC and all sides are colored, then remove ACAC and color BDBD with number xz+ytw\frac{xz+yt}{w}, where x,y,z,t,wx,y,z,t,w - numbers on AB,BC,CD,DA,ACAB,BC,CD,DA,AC. After some moves we found that all colored segments are same that was at beginning. Prove, that they have same number that was at beginning.