Geometry and complex numbers.

Exercise:
Prove that the medians of a triangle with vertices
,
and
intersect at the point
Solution:
Using the previous exercise we can write the medians of the triangle as
and
These segments intersect if and only if there are real numbers
in the interval [0,1] such that
It's clear that
is the unique
solution
to this system so the point of intersection is

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