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South Korea geometry
Problem
Let be a triangle with . The incircle of a triangle touches the sides at the points , respectively. Let be the intersection of and the incircle , which is different from . Let be the intersection of the line and the line passing and perpendicular to , and let be intersections of the line and , respectively. Show that the point is the midpoint of .
Solution
Let be the intersection of the line passing and parallel to and the line passing and perpendicular to . Let be the intersection of and , and be the intersection of and the circle . () Since , four points lie on a line. Since we have and since we have that five points lie on a circle, say, . Four points lie on a circle, say, , because . For given three circles, three perpendicular bisectors of the line segments joining two centers of two circles meet at one point. Considering three circles , and the incircle , we have that three lines meet at one point . Thus we have . Since , we have . So Since , we have . So Since we have , which completes the proof.
Techniques
Radical axis theoremTangentsCyclic quadrilateralsTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleAngle chasing