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Saudi Arabia booklet 2024

Saudi Arabia 2024 geometry

Problem

Let be an acute, non isosceles triangle with circumcircle and circumradius . Denote , , as midpoints of segments , , respectively. Let be the circle passes through , and tangent to . Circle meets , at , . Denote as midpoint of segment and as the intersection of , . Prove that and is an isosceles triangle.
Solution
Let circle cuts again at and denote as center of . Since is the radical axis of , then . But since is tangent to leads to and then .

This means that , are isogonal in then , which implies that is an isosceles trapezoid. Note that , and so by Simson line property, is the projection of on . Denote as midpoint of then so is a rectangle. Thus

Now consider the spiral similarity namely of center , maps and then and Since , are centers of , so . Thus two triangles and are similar, but then . By the isosceles trapezoid, one can check that also, which implies that then is an isosceles triangle.

Techniques

Spiral similaritySimson lineTangentsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing