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SAUDI ARABIAN MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS

Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Let be an acute, non-isosceles triangle. Take two points inside this triangle such that Prove that triangle is right.
Solution
First, we will show that is the orthocenter of triangle . Denote , , . Since , we have is cyclic. Similarly, is also cyclic. So we have so is also cyclic. Thus which implies that , but . It leads to , then is the orthocenter of triangle .

Continue, denote as the intersection of and then implies that is tangent to . Similarly, is tangent to then (since ). So is tangent to , thus . Similarly, then Thus is cyclic, but is cyclic, so five points are concyclic, which implies that Therefore, is a right triangle.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleCyclic quadrilateralsTangentsAngle chasing