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Saudi Arabia Mathematical Competitions 2012

Saudi Arabia 2012 geometry

Problem

Let be a triangle. Point lies on side . Let , , and be the circumcenters of triangle , , and , respectively. Prove that circumcircles of triangles and meet on line .

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Solution
Let be on such that is parallel to . If is on , then and the result is clear. We claim that the circumcircles of and both pass through . One of the angles and is not acute. Without loss of generality, assume that . Then does not lie in the interior of triangle . Note that implying that is cyclic.



Similarly, we can show that is cyclic. Therefore, the circumcircles of and pass through .

Techniques

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