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Team Selection Test for IMO 2010

Turkey 2010 geometry

Problem

, , are points on the sides , , , respectively, of a triangle such that , and . Let be the incircle of the triangle , and let be the point of intersection of the line and the tangent line through to the circumcircle of the triangle . Show that if .

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Solution
From , and we obtain . Using this and applying the law of sines to the triangle , we get . Since is tangent to the circumcircle of , we also have . Hence the triangles and are similar. It follows that the points are collinear and the points are concyclic. In particular, and .

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTriangle trigonometryTangentsCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing