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AustriaMO2011

Austria 2011 geometry

Problem

Let be a circle with mid-point . is a point on and the tangent of in . is a point on with and a line containing with . has the points and in common with (), and is the mid-point of the arc not containing . is the point symmetric to with respect to . Prove that is a trapezoid.

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Solution
Let be the common point of and the tangent of in . Since is the mid-point of the arc , is parallel to (and not to ). Since is perpendicular to and bisects , bisects . Let be the common point of and . Because of the given symmetry, we have , and triangle is therefore right-angled.



We therefore have and is therefore parallel to . is therefore a trapezoid, as claimed. qed

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