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74th NMO Selection Tests for JBMO

Romania geometry

Problem

Let be a triangle with and be its circumcircle. The tangent at to the circle intersects line at , and the line through parallel to meets again the circle at . Line intersects at and the circle for the second time at . On the line , consider the point such that , and are con-cyclic. Let and be the intersection points of line with and , respectively. Prove that is a cyclic quadrilateral. JBMO Shortlist
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Solution
so ANBT is also cyclic.

Using the fact that , it follows that , so line AB is the tangent at A to the circumcircle of AST, (1).

Also, from it results that , so . By power of point F to circle , we infer that . Multiplying the last two equalities, we get .

From (1) it follows that , so S, T, D, G belong to the same circle. Hence, STDG is a cyclic quadrilateral.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsTangentsAngle chasing