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Saudi Arabia booklet 2024

Saudi Arabia 2024 geometry

Problem

Let be a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle () and some point lies inside . Consider the lines pass through the midpoints of segments respectively and perpendicular to lines . Line cuts at , line cuts at , line cuts at and line cuts at . Suppose that the quadrilateral is convex and points lie inside it. Prove that circumscribes a circle.

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Solution
Let be the radius of the circle () and let be the midpoints of respectively. Then, according to the property of the midline in triangle , we have and . Thus, we immediately have and . Similarly for the other sides.



Therefore, the point is equidistant from the sides of the quadrilateral and is also inside the quadrilateral (since lie inside it), so is the incenter of the quadrilateral .

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