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Selection Examination A

Greece geometry

Problem

Let be an acute angle scalene triangle with , inscribed in the circle . The circle intersects the side at point and the circle at point . The line intersects the circle also at point . The line intersects at point and at point . Finally, the line intersects at point . Prove that the polygons and are cyclic.

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Solution
In the circle , the chords and are equal and hence Figure 1 because in the circle the above angles go to the equal arches and . is the line of the centers of the circles and , and so it is perpendicular bisector of the common chord , i.e. . We will prove that , whence point will be the orthocenter of the triangle .

Moreover in the triangle we have: . (1)

The triangle is isosceles (, as radii of the circle ), whence: . (2)

From the cyclic quadrilateral we have: (3)

From relations (1), (2) and (3) (taking in mind equalities ) we find: (4).

From the equalities and , we conclude that and are equal. Hence is the perpendicular bisector of . Since , we conclude that is the orthocenter of the triangle . Therefore we have and in combination with we have that , whence the quadrilateral is cyclic.

Since , the quadrilateral is cyclic and since , the quadrilateral is cyclic. Therefore the polygon is cyclic.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsRadical axis theoremAngle chasingTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circle