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Mongolian Mathematical Olympiad

Mongolia geometry

Problem

Let be the midpoint of side of triangle . Let be a point inside triangle such that . The line intersects side at point . Let be the foot of the perpendicular drawn from to line . If lies inside triangle and then prove that . (Khulan Tumenbayar)

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Solution
Let , , and be the midpoints of segments , , and , respectively. Since is parallel to and is parallel to , we have .

Considering the parallelogram , . Moreover, since , we have , , , and lie on the same circle.

Since , we can conclude that . , , , , and all lie on the same circle, because .

Since , is parallel to . Consequently, we can deduce that .

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