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Turkey geometry
Problem
In a triangle with incenter , the incircle of touches the side at the point and let be the midpoint of the line segment . The line passing through and perpendicular to intersects the lines and at the points and , respectively. The line passing through and perpendicular to intersects the lines and at the points and , respectively. Show that .
Solution
Let the incircle of touch the sides and at the points and , respectively. Let , and . Let the line passing through and parallel to intersect at and the line passing through and parallel to intersect at . Then with similarity ratio and with similarity ratio .
Let and be the incircles of the triangles and with centers and , respectively. Let touch the lines and at the points and , respectively, and touch the lines and at the points and , respectively. By the similarity we have , , and . As , we see that is on the radical axis of and .
and . Therefore is on the radical axis of and as well and hence is the radical axis of these circles. Thus we have .
Note that the intersection of the lines and is . That is easy to see that is a parallelogram. Therefore is the intersection point of the line segments and , hence and are collinear. As , we have . The similarity of and gives , that is . Similarly we get and we are done.
Let and be the incircles of the triangles and with centers and , respectively. Let touch the lines and at the points and , respectively, and touch the lines and at the points and , respectively. By the similarity we have , , and . As , we see that is on the radical axis of and .
and . Therefore is on the radical axis of and as well and hence is the radical axis of these circles. Thus we have .
Note that the intersection of the lines and is . That is easy to see that is a parallelogram. Therefore is the intersection point of the line segments and , hence and are collinear. As , we have . The similarity of and gives , that is . Similarly we get and we are done.
Techniques
Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleRadical axis theoremTangentsAngle chasing