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SAUDI ARABIAN IMO Booklet 2023

Saudi Arabia 2023 geometry

Problem

An acute scalene triangle is inscribed in a circle . The bisector of angle meets side at point . Let be an arbitrary point on the segment , and let be the orthogonal projection of onto . Circle is centered at and passes through , and is the internal homothety center of the circles and . Prove that lies on a fixed line as moves on , and that bisects the angle .

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Solution
Let , be the midpoint of minor arc and major arc of circle , respectively, then points , , are collinear. Let be the intersection of the two tangent lines at and of and the midpoint of . First, by the angle chasing, we have so is the internal bisector of . Thus, is the center of the incircle of the triangle , denoted by . Then it is easy to see that is the internal homothety center of and ; and is the external homothety center of with .

Applying Monge D'Alembert's theorem to three circles , , , we see that , , are collinear which implies that belongs to the fixed line .

Let be the external homothety center of with , since , points , , are collinear. Note that since is the inner center of and , , , is collinear because . Then we have On the other hand, since , is the internal, external homothety centers of and , . From this it follows that . Since , by the property of harmonic bundles, is the internal bisector of angle .

Techniques

HomothetyTangentsPolar triangles, harmonic conjugatesAngle chasingConstructions and loci