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In this paper, we present some problems in plane geometry, which can be solved by using analytic geometry and quadratic equations. Some of these problems have been taught to the high school students who participated the preliminary HKIMO committee selection contest.
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The author would like to thank the Referee, Professor Alexander Soifer and Mr. Yip Choyui for helping to improve and modify the final version of the article.
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Shum, K.P. (2017). Techniques for Solving Problems of Plane Geometry. In: Soifer, A. (eds) Competitions for Young Mathematicians. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56585-9_3
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