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Saudi Arabian IMO Booklet

Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Given is an acute triangle with . Points and lie on segments and and satisfy . Perpendicular bisectors of segments and intersect line at points and , respectively. Segments and intersect at . Prove that .
Solution
Let and be points of rays and , respectively, such that and . As , and , triangles and are congruent. Analogously, and are congruent. From it follows that belongs to the segment . Therefore, in the light of , triangle is isosceles with . Note that From and it follows that the right-hand sides of the two equalities above are equal. Hence the left-hand sides are equal as well, i.e. .

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