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14th Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

Let and be two points on the side of a convex quadrilateral satisfying . Let be the second point of intersection of the circumcircles of the triangles and , and let be the second point intersection of the circumcircles of the triangles and . Show that the points , , , lie on a circle.

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Solution
Let and . Considering the powers of the point with respect to the circles and we obtain Since , we conclude that is the midpoint of the line segment . Similarly, and is the midpoint of the line segment . Therefore, . Now the equalities above give which implies that and lie on a circle.

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Radical axis theoremCyclic quadrilateralsDistance chasing