SOLUTION: ABCD is a parallelogram in which AB||CD and AD||BC. A and D bisects BC at E and meet DC extended at E. Prove that area of triangle BCF=area of triangle DEF

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Question 936401: ABCD is a parallelogram in which AB||CD and AD||BC. A and D bisects BC at E and meet DC extended at E.
Prove that area of triangle BCF=area of triangle DEF
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is a typo of some letters
This statement:

AD||BC 
tells us that AD is on the other side of the parallelogram
and is parallel to BC, so neither A nor D can be on side BC,
so this statement

A and D bisects BC
cannot possibly be true.

Edwin