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69th Belarusian Mathematical Olympiad

Belarus geometry

Problem

The tangents to the circumcircle of the acute triangle , passing through the vertices and , meet at point . The points , and are the feet of the perpendiculars from the vertex to the lines , and respectively. Prove the inequality .

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Solution
Note that by the property of the angle between the tangent to the circle at point and the chord . The right triangles and are similar since they have equal acute angles, therefore , whence .

By analogy, the triangles and are similar and , whence . Therefore

Techniques

TangentsAngle chasingQM-AM-GM-HM / Power Mean