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XVI Silk Road Math Competition

geometry

Problem

Let be a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle . Its diagonals and intersect at the point . Let and be points on the segments and respectively. The line intersects at the points and . Circumcircles of triangles and intersect the line at the points , respectively. Prove that .
Solution
It is enough to show that points and are symmetrical with respect to the middle of the chord . In order to ignore cases of mutual arrangement of points, lines and circles, we use oriented angles. Let be the center of circle . Denote the intersection point of lines and as , and let . Then lines , and form an isosceles triangle, since . Then, the exterior angle at vertex in this triangle equals . Since points and lie on one side of the line and , then points , , and lie on one circle. Since triangle is isosceles, we have: or . Then, we have that passes through the center of circle and is perpendicular to the chord , as well as splits segment in half. Hence, pairs of points and are symmetrical with respect to the middle of the chord . Proved.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing