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Problems from Ukrainian Authors

Ukraine geometry

Problem

Let be a triangle and let its incircle, centred at , touch the side at . A line through intersects the lines , and at , and , respectively. The circle intersects the circles and again at and , respectively. Prove that the points , , and are concyclic.

(Fedir Yudin and Mykhailo Shtandenko)

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Fig. 22
Solution
Let be a triangle with orthocenter , is the antipode of in (we'll call this circle as ). So, is a parallelogram. A circle, which passes through the points and , intersects at and lines and at points and respectively (). Lines and intersect for the second time at points and respectively. Prove that the points , , and are concyclic. Let line meets at point . Then it will be sufficient to prove that passes through the point (because then and the problem will be solved). Let be the second intersection point of and . Observe that (fig. 22)

So, arcs and are equal and then . Triangles and are similar, because and, similarly, .

So, points , and are collinear.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing