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Saudi Arabia Mathematical Competitions 2012

Saudi Arabia 2012 geometry

Problem

Consider the isosceles triangle with . A semicircle of diameter situated on the side , is tangent to the sides and at and , respectively. The line intersects the semicircle at . Prove that the line passes through the midpoint of the chord .

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Solution
Let be the center of the semicircle and let be the midpoint of segment .



In triangle we have . Using the power of the point with respect to the circle we get From (1) it follows that the quadrilateral is cyclic, hence . Since , we get that the points , , are collinear.

Techniques

TangentsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing