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SAUDI ARABIAN MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS

Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Let be the excenter of triangle with respect to . The line intersects the circumcircle of triangle at . Let be a point on segment such that . The perpendicular line from to intersects at . Define and in the same way. Prove that , and are concurrent.

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Solution
Let be the foot of perpendicular from to , the midpoint of and the reflection of with respect to . The line through parallel to cuts , , at , , , respectively. Redefine as follow: Let be the incenter and the Spieker point of triangle . Assume that and is the reflection of with respect to . Then we need to prove that is also satisfy the given construction. Since is clearly the midpoint of , then is the midpoint of , so and and since , is a parallelogram. This implies that and . As a result and is perpendicular bisector of then If cuts , at , , we also get Then is midpoint of which implies that It's similar to and . So , , are concurrent at the Spieker point of .

Techniques

Concurrency and CollinearityPolar triangles, harmonic conjugatesTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleInversionAngle chasing