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50th Mathematical Olympiad in Ukraine, Fourth Round (March 24, 2010)

Ukraine 2010 geometry

Problem

Points and are chosen on the sides and of triangle in such a way, that . Let be the point of intersection of and , – the feet of perpendicular from point to the line , and is such point inside segment , that . Prove, that incircle of touches at point .

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Solution
Let be incenter of . Then, and are bisectors of and respectively. and are isosceles triangles, thus, and , moreover, these angles are acute (Fig.17).



Fig.17

This implies that belongs to the segment . and , thus and , hence is parallelogram. So . (by the condition of the problem), therefore, triangles and are equal (they have two equal corresponding sides and angle between them). This implies that or is a touching point, what we wanted to prove.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsAngle chasingDistance chasingConstructions and loci