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Problem
Let be an acute, scalene triangle with the circumcircle () and angles , are acute. Let be a point on arc that does not contain and is not perpendicular to . The line meets the perpendicular bisector of at and the circumcircle of triangle meets at ().
a) Prove that .
b) Let be the incenter of triangle and be the foot of the internal angle bisector of . Let , and intersect () at , and respectively. Let , be the intersections of and , and . The circle passing through and touches at meets at (). Similarly, the circle passing through and touches at meets at (). Prove that the circumcircle of triangle touches .


a) Prove that .
b) Let be the incenter of triangle and be the foot of the internal angle bisector of . Let , and intersect () at , and respectively. Let , be the intersections of and , and . The circle passing through and touches at meets at (). Similarly, the circle passing through and touches at meets at (). Prove that the circumcircle of triangle touches .
Solution
a) Since is a cyclic quadrilateral, , hence which means or is a perpendicular bisector of . On the other hand, is a perpendicular bisector of
hence is a regular trapezoid thus . This means as desired.
b) Clearly, is the bisector of , hence or . By angle chasing, we have which implies , , and are concyclic. Similarly, , , and are concyclic. By Reim's theorem, we obtain that and hence , and are collinear and .
On the other hand, so , , and are concyclic. Moreover, since , we obtain and , , and are concyclic, it implies . Therefore, which means . Similarly, hence by Thales's theorem, . By angle chasing, one can get then the circumcircle of triangle touches at .
Techniques
Angle chasingTangentsTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circle