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20th Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

In an isosceles triangle with , let be the foot of the perpendicular of and be an interior point of the triangle such that and . Let be the intersection of the lines and , and be the intersection of the lines and . Let be a point on and be a point on the ray not belonging to such that and . Show that .

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Solution
First observe that . Let , and . Applying trigonometric form of Ceva Theorem for the point inside the triangle gives Recall that and . Thus, we can rewrite (1) as that is . Then we obtain

On the other hand applying trigonometric form of Ceva Theorem for the point inside the triangle results Since and by (2), (3) can be rewritten as Finally we get and the result follows.

Techniques

Ceva's theoremTriangle trigonometryAngle chasing