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Junior Mathematical Olympiad

North Macedonia geometry

Problem

Let be a semicircle with center and diameter . Let be a point on such that . The symmetrical of intersects at the point . Let be the point of such that and let be the midpoint of . Prove that the quadrilateral is cyclic.

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Solution


Note that the triangle is isosceles right triangle. Let . From follows that . Since is cyclic, it follows Now we have, and i.e. is isosceles. Since is isosceles and it follows that is a midpoint of . Since is a midpoint of and is a midpoint of , follows that is a median line in i.e. i.e. . Hence, the quadrilateral

is trapezoid. Furthermore, , so we have . From we have Then, Finally, is an isosceles trapezoid, hence the statement in the problem follows.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasingIsogonal/isotomic conjugates, barycentric coordinates