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Bulgarian National Mathematical Olympiad

Bulgaria geometry

Problem

In a triangle points , and lie on the segments , and , respectively, and are such that is a parallelogram. The circle with center the midpoint of the segment and radius and the circle of diameter intersect for the second time at point . Prove that the lines , and intersect in a point.
Solution
Since and , we have . Let the point be such that is a parallelogram. By analogy we have .

The locus of the points such that and are oriented in one and the same direction and have equal areas is a straight line passing through the intersecting point of and . Therefore and , and intersect in a point.

Let be the midpoint of . The line is the image of under homothety of center and coefficient . Since the point is symmetric to with respect to we have that lies on which completes the proof.

Techniques

HomothetyConstructions and loci