HMMO 2020 #0kdq

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Scale 0.5: Easiest math competition problems, often solvable even for early middle school students without experience. 1: Problems strictly for beginners, often at a moderate middle school level. 1.5: Problems for stronger beginner students, on the level of the middling problems in most middle school contests. 2: For motivated beginners, harder questions from the previous categories. 2.5: More advanced beginner problems, hardest questions from previous categories. 3: Early intermediate problems that require more creative thinking. 3.5: Tougher early intermediate problems that consistently stretch into higher-level creative thinking or conceptual knowledge. 4: Intermediate-level problems. 4.5: Upper intermediate problems approaching the upper bound for non-invitational sprint math competitions. 5: More difficult AIME problems or simple proof-based Olympiad-style problems. 6: High-level AIME-styled questions or introductory Olympiad-level questions. 7: Tougher Olympiad-level questions, may require more technical knowledge. 8: High-level Olympiad-level questions. 9: Expert Olympiad-level questions. 9.5: The hardest problems appearing on Olympiads which the strongest students could reasonably solve. 10: Historically notorious problems, generally unsuitable for even very hard competitions because they are exceedingly tedious, long, and difficult.

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Problem

Problem:

In quadrilateral $A B C D$ , there exists a point $E$ on segment $A D$ such that $\frac{A E}{E D}=\frac{1}{9}$ and $\angle B E C$ is a right angle. Additionally, the area of triangle $C E D$ is 27 times more than the area of triangle $A E B$ . If $\angle E B C=\angle E A B$ , $\angle E C B=\angle E D C$ , and $B C=6$ , compute the value of $A D^{2}$ .

Proposed by: Akash Das

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