Geometry and complex numbers.

Exercise: Prove that the medians of a triangle with vertices tex2html_wrap_inline12 , tex2html_wrap_inline14 and tex2html_wrap_inline16 intersect at the point

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Solution:

Using the previous exercise we can write the medians of the triangle as

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and

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These segments intersect if and only if there are real numbers tex2html_wrap_inline26 in the interval [0,1] such that

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It's clear that tex2html_wrap_inline32 is the unique solution to this system so the point of intersection is

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