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22nd Korean Mathematical Olympiad Final Round

South Korea geometry

Problem

Let be a triangle with . Let be the circle tangent to the line at the point and passing through the point . The lines and meet the circle at the points and , respectively. Let be the intersection of and the line passing through and parallel to . The line and the circle meet at the point . Let be the intersection of the bisector of the line segment and the line , and be the intersection of and . Show that and are parallel.
Solution
Let be the intersection of the line and the line passing through and parallel to the line . Since , we have that the four points , , and are on one circle, say . Since , we have that the line is tangent to the circle at .

Now consider the homothety which sends to . The center of the homothety is the point and maps points and to and , respectively. And also maps the point to the point . So three points , and are collinear and thus we have . This completes the proof.

Techniques

TangentsRadical axis theoremHomothetyAngle chasing