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49th Mathematical Olympiad in Ukraine

Ukraine geometry

Problem

In the plane let be given a circle with a chord and a point on this chord such that . The chord is normal to the chord and passing through the point . Prove that the midpoint of the segment is the orthocenter of the triangle .

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Solution
Let be a midpoint of the segment . Let us the line intersects the segment at a point . and are the congruent triangles because both of them are right and both of them have the equal legs. Then (Fig.9).

Since then triangles and have in twos equal angles. Consequently both of them have equal third angles, then , then and are the altitudes of the triangle which proves that is the orthocenter of that triangle. That completes the proof.

Fig.9

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleAngle chasingDistance chasing