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TOT 479 1995 Autumn S A3 cutting a rectangle into right triangles

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July 9, 2024
geometryrectanglegeometric inequalitycombinatoricscombinatorial geometry

Problem Statement

A rectangle with sides of lengths aa and bb (a>ba > b) is cut into rightangled triangles so that any two of these triangles either have a common side, a common vertex or no common points. Moreover, any common side of two triangles is a leg of one of them and the hypotenuse of the other. Prove that a>2ba > 2b.
(A Shapovalov)