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Croatia geometry

Problem

A triangle with the orthocentre and circumcentre is given. If one of the angles of the triangle is , prove that the angle bisector of that angle is perpendicular to the line .

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Solution
Without loss of generality, let and . Let be the intersection of the angle bisector of and the circumcircle of the triangle . Point lies on the perpendicular bisector of . Let be the midpoint of . Since and , triangle is equilateral. is the midpoint of , since . Since we conclude that . Also, we notice that the lines and are parallel, because they are both perpendicular to . Hence, is a parallelogram. Since , is a rhombus, therefore, its diagonals and are perpendicular to each other.

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Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTriangle trigonometryAngle chasing