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Team selection tests for IMO 2018

Saudi Arabia 2018 geometry

Problem

Let be an acute-angled triangle inscribed in circle . Let be a point on the small arc of and be a circle passing through and . Bisector of cuts again at . The point is chosen on such that is parallel to . The line meets the perpendicular bisector of at . Prove that .

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Solution
Let be the second intersection of and and be the intersection of and . Note that is the midpoint of the minor arc of , then is the perpendicular bisector of . Since , we have .



On the other hand, which implies that two isosceles triangles and are similar. We get therefore is cyclic.

From this, . This means is cyclic, we deduce .

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