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Prove that the medians of a triangle are concurrent and find the position vector of the point of concurrency (that is, the centroid of the triangle)

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Let A,B and C be vertices of a triangle.
Let D,E and F be the midpoints of the sides BC,AC and AB respectively. Let OA=a ,OB=b,OC=c,OD=d,OE=e and OF=f
​ be position vectors of points A,B,C,D,E and F respectively.
Therefore, by Midpoint formula,
`d=(b+c)/2,=(a+c)/2 ​` and `f​=(a+b)/2`
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