I'm going to write an answer using vectors.
Let $O$ be the intersection point of $AC, BD$.
Let $$\vec{OA}=\vec{a}, \vec{OB}=\vec{b}, \vec{OC}=k\vec{a}, \vec{OD}=l\vec{b}$$
where $k,l\lt 0.$
Letting $E,F,G,H$ be the midpoints of $AB, BC, CD, DA$ respectively, we have
$$\vec{OE}=\frac{1}{2}\vec a+\frac 12\vec b,\vec{OF}=\frac 12\vec b+\frac k2\vec a, \vec{OG}=\frac k2\vec a+\frac l2\vec b, \vec{OH}=\frac 12\vec a+\frac l2\vec b.$$
Letting $I$ be the intersection point of $EG, FH$, there exist $m,n$ such that
$$\vec{EI}=m\vec{EG}, \vec{FI}=n\vec{FH}.$$
The former gives us
$$\vec{OI}-\vec{OE}=m\left(\vec{OG}-\vec{OE}\right)\iff \vec{OI}=(1-m)\vec{OE}+m\vec{OG}=\frac{1-m+mk}{2}\vec a+\frac{1-m+ml}{2}\vec b.$$
The latter gives us
$$\vec{OI}-\vec{OF}=n\left(\vec{OH}-\vec{OF}\right)\iff \vec{OI}=(1-n)\vec{OF}+n\vec{OH}=\frac{k-kn+n}{2}\vec a+\frac{1-n+nl}{2}\vec b.$$
Now since $\vec a$ and $\vec b$ are linearly independent, the following has to be satisfied :
$$\frac{1-m+mk}{2}=\frac{k-kn+n}{2}\ \text{and} \frac{1-m+ml}{2}=\frac{1-n+nl}{2}.$$
These give us $m=n=1/2$ since $(k,l)\not=(-1,-1).$
Hence, we get
$$\vec{OI}=\frac{k+1}{4}\vec a+\frac{l+1}{4}\vec b.$$
On the other hand, letting $P,Q$ be the midpoints of $AC, BD$, we have
$$\vec{OP}=\frac{k+1}{2}\vec a, \vec{OQ}=\frac{l+1}{2}\vec b.$$
Finally, we obtain
$$\vec{PI}=\frac 12\vec{PQ}.$$
Since this represents that $I$ is on the line $PQ$, we now know that we get what we want. Q.E.D.
P.S. If $(k,l)=(-1,-1)$, then $ABCD$ is a parallelogram, which is an easy case.
Let BC = 1 unit. Then, $4 = y = [\triangle CBQ] = \frac {1.QC}{2}$ yields QC = 8 units
Let DQ = s units. Then AB = s + 8 units
$5 = z = [\triangle ABP] = \frac {(s+8).AP}{2}$ yields $AP = \frac {10}{s + 8}$ units
$DP = 1 – AP = … = \frac {s – 2}{s + 8}$
Similarly, $3 = (\frac {1}{2}) {s}{\frac{ s – 2}{s + 8}}$.
The above result is a solvable quadratic with roots $s = 12$ or $–4$ (rejected)
Therefore, the rectangle occupies 20 square units and x, y, z occupy …. Giving f = ...
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