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SELECTION TESTS OF THE BELARUSIAN TEAM TO THE IMO

Belarus geometry

Problem

Inside an isosceles triangle (), a point is chosen so that . On the segment , a point is chosen so that . Prove that if , then .

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Solution
Let us rotate around the point so that , , and reflect symmetrically with respect to (). Since , then the triangle is equilateral. Let us prove that . Denote and . Then



Here we used the fact that the points and lie in the same half-plane relative to the line , since .

Note that , so Therefore, , i.e. . Hence , i.e. . Recalling that , we obtain the statement of the problem.

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