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Team Selection Test for IMO 2011

Turkey 2011 geometry

Problem

Let be a point different from the vertices on the side of a triangle . Let and be the incenters of the triangles , and , respectively. Let be the second intersection point of the circumcircles of the triangles and , and be the second intersection point of the circumcircles of the triangles and . Prove that if , then

problem
Solution
Let be the point of intersection of the bisectors of the angles and . Since and , we have . Therefore are concyclic. We also have , and hence are concyclic too. We conclude that . Similarly, is the point of intersection of the bisectors of and .



Since and , the triangles and are similar. Hence . Similarly, . As these give .

By Menelaus Theorem for the line and the triangle , and for the line and the triangle we have respectively. From these we obtain

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleCyclic quadrilateralsMenelaus' theoremAngle chasing