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Team Selection Test for IMO 2023

Turkey 2023 geometry

Problem

In the interior of a trapezoid with a point is chosen such that . The second intersection point of the line with the circumcircle of is . The second intersection point of the line with the circumcircle of is . Show that .
Solution
Let the lines and intersect the line at the points and , and intersect the circle at the points and (beside ). Now one has on the circle , which implies . On the other hand , hence one gets and one analogously gets . Now , therefore , which implies .

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