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Thai Mathematical Olympiad

Thailand geometry

Problem

PA and PB be the tangents to circle from an external point . Let and be the midpoints of and , respectively. Extend to meet at , where is between and . meets at and extend to intersect at . Show that is a rhombus.

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Solution
Observe that . Thus, is the circumcenter of and hence . It can also be seen that . From the power of the point , . So, and hence . Thus, . Since are cyclic, the power of the point tells us that . Thus, are also cyclic and hence . Since , . Thus, . So, are cyclic and hence . We can now see that Thus, . Therefore, is a rhombus. ■

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