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XVII OBM

Brazil geometry

Problem

is a quadrilateral with a circumcircle center and an inscribed circle center . The diagonals intersect at . Show that if two of , , coincide, then it must be a square.
Solution
If then , where is the circumradius of and is the midpoint of both and . This means that is an inscribed parallelogram. The sum of its opposite angles, which are congruent, is , so all angles of are right, that is, is a rectangle. But there is an inscribed circle of radius in , so all sides are equal to and so is a square.

If then the diagonals and are bisectors of the angles of , which means that every side subtends the same arc of the circumcircle as its neighbouring sides. This means that the four vertices , , , divide the circle in four equal parts, so is a square.

If then the quadrilateral can be partitioned in eight congruent right triangles with hypotenuse equal to and one of the legs equal to ; the angle between and in those right triangles has always vertex on , so all central angles , , and are equal and again , , and divide the circumcircle in four equal arcs, leading again to being a square.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsInscribed/circumscribed quadrilateralsTangentsAngle chasing