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XXIX Rioplatense Mathematical Olympiad

Argentina geometry

Problem

Let be the incenter of triangle . The incircle of is tangent to side at . Let and be points on rays and respectively such that and . Prove that .
Solution
Let's assume the incircle is tangent to at , then we have that and where the first equality is from the statement and the other are well-known identities. It follows that and are similar to each other and hence and are also similar to each other. In particular and moreover, by a similar argument, we get the analogous equality . Finally, we observe that and hence is the angle bisector and also the altitude that corresponds to vertex in triangle . Thus .

Techniques

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