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SELECTION EXAMINATION

Greece geometry

Problem

Let be a scalene triangle with , with circumcircle . The circle intersects the side at and the circle at . The line meets for a second time the circle at point and the side at point . The line intersects the side at point . Finally, the circumcircle of the triangle intersects at . Prove that the points lie on a line parallel to the line .

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Solution
The angle is inscribed into the circle with corresponding central angle . Hence: Figure 4 --- From the cyclic quadrilateral AFDB we have: From (1) and (2) we get that , that is is the bisector of the angle . Since , we conclude that and hence is perpendicular to , that is In the circle , cords and are equal, as radii of circle and so . Hence the quadrilateral is inscribable. Therefore we have , that is: From the inscribed quadrilateral we have , that is: From the relations (3), (4) and (5) we conclude that the points are on the Simson's of the triangle corresponding to the point . From the inscribable quadrilateral we get that . Also from the inscribed quadrilateral we have and finally from the inscribed quadrilateral we have . Hence from which we get that .

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Alternative solution.

We work as above till relation (5) and we use the fact that is the perpendicular bisector of and that is the perpendicular bisector of . Since is the midpoint of and is the midpoint of , we conclude that: From the inscribed quadrilateral we have . Since the angles and are equal. Therefore we conclude that and so From relations (6) and (7) we get that are collinear and .

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Simson lineCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing