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Mongolian National Mathematical Olympiad

Mongolia geometry

Problem

Let be the circumcircle of a scalene triangle . The tangents to at and meet in , and the line intersects in . Let be a diameter of . The exterior angle bisector of and the lines and intersect in and , respectively. Prove that are cyclic.

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Solution
Since is a tangent to we have and so . Similarly, . Thus since . We also have that because of and . Hence . Thus it follows from (*) that . Hence since which follows from . Therefore , implying that are cyclic.

Techniques

TangentsCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing