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Belarus2022

Belarus 2022 geometry

Problem

Point is marked on the half-circle with the diameter and the center . The points and are the midpoints of lesser arcs and respectively. It is known that lies on the line passing through the orthocenters of the triangles and . Find all possible values of the angle .
Solution
Let and be the intersection points of the altitudes of the triangles and . Note that the point is the circumcenter of both triangles and . Therefore the coinciding lines and are the Euler lines of these triangles and they contain the intersection points and of the medians of the triangles and respectively. Let and be the midpoints of the segments and respectively. Then , and . Denote by the radius of the semicircle given in the condition. Let be the point on the extension of the ray beyond the point , such that . Since , the triangles and are similar with the coefficient . Hence Let be the point on the extension of the ray beyond the point , such that . Similarly, we obtain the equalities The equalities (1) and (2) implies that the triangles and are similar, therefore Draw the altitude of the triangle . According to the formula for the length of the altitude drawn to the hypotenuse, . Hence in the right-angled triangle , the angle is equal to . If the point lies on the segment then , and if it lies on the segment then .
Final answer
30° or 150°

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTriangle trigonometryAngle chasing