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Selection Examination

Greece geometry

Problem

Let be a triangle with , inscribed in a circle of center . Let be its barycenter and the foot of the altitudes from , respectively. If the rays intersect at respectively, prove that the points are cocyclic.
Solution
Let be the midpoint of and the second intersection of with . Then and the Euler's circle are homothetic with center and ratio , so From the power of a point theorem we have Moreover belong to a circle (the Euler circle), let it be . Therefore the lines are concurrent to the radical center, let it be , of the circles . To this end, , so the points are cocyclic.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleRadical axis theoremHomothety