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Mongolian Mathematical Olympiad

Mongolia geometry

Problem

Let and be altitudes of an acute-angled triangle . The segment is the diameter of the circumcircle of . Let be the midpoint of side . The internal common tangents of the incircles of triangles and intersect at point . Prove that , , and are collinear.
Solution
Denote the incircles of , by , , respectively, with their centers denoted by . Points and are the midpoints of and , respectively. Point is the intersection of external common tangents of and . The orthocenter of triangle is denoted as . Given that is external tangent, lies on . Knowing that is the diameter of circumcenter, we have and . Therefore, and Thus, is parallelogram, implying that points , , are collinear. It is also given that Consequently, , and is passing through the midpoint of . Since , is pencil. Thus, intersection points with are harmonic. On the other hand, is harmonic. It follows that is in .

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsHomothetyPolar triangles, harmonic conjugatesAngle chasing