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BMT 2022 Guts #25

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August 31, 2023
geometry

Problem Statement

For triangle ABC\vartriangle ABC, define its AA-excircle to be the circle that is externally tangent to line segment BCBC and extensions of AB\overleftrightarrow{AB} and AC\overleftrightarrow{AC}, and define the BB-excircle and CC-excircle likewise. Then, define the AA-veryexcircle to be the unique circle externally tangent to both the AA-excircle as well as the extensions of AB\overleftrightarrow{AB} and AC\overleftrightarrow{AC}, but that shares no points with line BC\overleftrightarrow{BC}, and define the BB-veryexcircle and CC-veryexcircle likewise. Compute the smallest integer N337N \ge 337 such that for all N1NN_1 \ge N, the area of a triangle with lengths 3N123N^2_1 , 3N12+13N^2_1 + 1, and 2022N12022N_1 is at most 122022\frac{1}{22022} times the area of the triangle formed by connecting the centers of its three veryexcircles. If your submitted estimate is a positive number EE and the true value is AA, then your score is given by max(0,25min(EA,AE)3)\max \left(0, \left\lfloor 25 \min \left( \frac{E}{A}, \frac{A}{E}\right)^3\right\rfloor \right).