#3, November 2002

Consider a point P inside a regular polygon with n sides. Let d₁, d₂, ... , d_n be the distances from P to the lines which define the sides of the polygon. Show that S = d₁+d₂+ ... +d_n is independent of the choice of P.

Columbia University prize exam question from 2002

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