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Croatian Mathematical Olympiad

Croatia geometry

Problem

The incircle of the triangle is centred at , and touches the sides , and in points and , respectively. Let be a circle centred at passing through the point . Let be the second intersection of the line with . The line parallel to and passing through intersects the side at . The point is the intersection of the line with the circle such that the point is located between points and . The point is the circumcentre of the triangle . Prove that the lines and are parallel. (Stipe Vidak)

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Solution
We easily see that . Thus and .



Let be the intersection of the lines and . Since the triangles and are similar, by trigonometric calculus we get , from which it follows that , i.e. lies on the circle - so it must be . Similarly, we can show that and are collinear.

Now we know that is the diameter of the circle . Observing the triangles and , we notice they are both right-angled, and holds. Hence they are congruent, which means that segments and are parallel (since they are perpendicular to and , respectively) and have equal length (). Therefore, the quadrilateral is a parallelogram, from which it follows that .

Techniques

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