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62nd Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad, Third Round, Second Tour

Ukraine geometry

Problem

On the sides and of the square we marked points and correspondingly so that . Segments and intersect at point . Prove that lines and are perpendicular.
Solution
By construction . Then , and has a right angle , so (fig. 14).

Similarly . Then lines and , which intersect at point , contain two altitudes of the , and therefore the line has to contain the third altitude, so , as desired.

Techniques

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