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14th Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

Let , and be the feet of the altitudes belonging to the vertices , and , respectively, of an acute triangle , and let , and be the incenters of the triangles , and , respectively. Let , and be the points of tangency of the incircle of the triangle to the sides , and , respectively. Show that the hexagon is equilateral.
Solution
Let be the inradius and the incenter of the triangle . The triangle is similar to the triangle with scale factor . Let and be the points of tangency of the incircle of the triangle with the line segments and , respectively. As by similarity, we conclude that the line segment is perpendicular to the line segment , and therefore, passes through the point . In other words, the line is perpendicular to the line . Similarly, the line is perpendicular to the line . On the other hand, the lines and are perpendicular to the lines and , respectively. It follows that quadrilateral is a parallelogram.

Since , this parallelogram is equilateral. This implies that , and finishes the proof.

Techniques

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