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First Round of the 73rd Czech and Slovak Mathematical Olympiad (December 12th, 2023)

Czech Republic 2023 geometry

Problem

Consider a half-disc with diameter and centre and let be a point in the interior of the half disc. Denote the centroid of by and the second intersection of the line with the boundary of the half-disc by . Prove that . (Jiří Blažek, Josef Tkadlec)

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Solution


Since and lie on the same circle centered at , we have . Moreover, by Thales' Theorem, we see that . This means that is the midpoint of the hypotenuse of a right triangle , so by Thales' Theorem, it is the circumcentre of , hence we have . This means that both the points and lie on the perpendicular bisector of and since they are clearly distinct, we immediately get the desired conclusion.

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Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleAngle chasingConstructions and loci