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You might like to make a tessellation with copies of $\Delta ABC$ and three triangles drawn on the sides of $\Delta ABC$ and prove your conjecture from the tessellation. This uses only elementary geometry. An alternative method is to use the Cosine Rule.

Alternatively you can use vectors or complex numbers.