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National Math Olympiad

Slovenia geometry

Problem

Let be the orthocentre of the acute triangle and let be a point inside the triangle . A line that passes through the point and is parallel to the line intersects the segments and at and . A line that passes through the point and is parallel to the line intersects the segments and at and . Prove that and lie on the same line if and lie on the same circle.

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Solution
Denote the angle by . The line is parallel to the altitude to the side , so is perpendicular to . Hence, is a right triangle and . We get . Since is a cyclic quadrilateral, we have .



In the quadrilateral we have , so is also a cyclic quadrilateral. We conclude that .

Let be the point where the line intersects the segment . As we have shown we have and , so . The line through the points and is perpendicular to the segment , so it must also contain the point . Thus, , and are collinear.

Techniques

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