Let P be a point inside an equilateral $△ABC, PA=5, PB=12, PC=13$. What is the ratio in which P divides the 3 sections of the triangle?

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We can find the edge length of the triangle, see this thread.

My approach for the triplets are to find a $90° + 60°$ i.e. see $△XPB$ ,
$∠XPB = 90$ & $∠APX = 60°$.
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Followed by using the cosine formula in $△APB$ , i.e. $AB = \sqrt{AP^2 + PB^2 - 2AP⋅PB⋅cos(∠APB)}$

But then I got stuck...

Also I would like to generalize this for any Pythagorean Triplet.