What is Stewart's Theorem?

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What is Stewart's Theorem? I know it has something to do with triangles. I saw it being mentioned in a MathCounts practice.

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In short, it is a way to relate the cevian of a triangle to the side lengths of the triangle, as well as the lengths of the two segments which the cevian cuts.

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The formula is easy to remember as dad + man = bmb + cnc.