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Belarusian Mathematical Olympiad

Belarus geometry

Problem

Point is marked on the side of triangle . The bisectors of the angles and meet at point , and the bisectors of the angles and meet at point . Let be the midpoint of the segment .

Prove that the lines and are perpendicular if and only if the inscribed circles of the triangles and are tangent.
Solution
Note that the triangle is a right-angled triangle regardless of the position of the point since So is the center of the circumcircle of the triangle , and the condition is equivalent to the tangency of this circle and the line , and, by turn, is equivalent to the equality . Let the lines and meet at point . Since , the condition is equivalent to the equality , i.e. is equivalent to the similarity ; this similarity is equivalent to the equality . Thus, is equivalent to .

Note that and are the centers of the circles and of the triangles and , respectively. Let the circles and touch the side at points and , respectively. It is easy to see that the condition is equivalent to that is equivalent to . Let the circle touch the lines and at points and , respectively. Using the equality of the tangents to the circle , we get

Techniques

Angle chasingTangentsTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circle