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16th Junior Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

In a triangle , , is the midpoint of and is the foot of the perpendicular from to the line . Let be the second point where the line intersects the circumcircle of the triangle . If is the intersection point of the lines and , then show that .
Solution
Let . Since , we have . and imply that and . Therefore, we get which implies that is tangent to the circuncircle of the triangle and hence .

On the other hand, . Therefore, is perpendicular to the hypotenuse of the right triangle . Thus, and consequently we get .

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