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Belorusija 2012

Belarus 2012 geometry

Problem

Let be the incircle of a none-isosceles triangle , be its center. Let , , be the tangency points of with the sides , , , respectively. Let , , and be the other (different from , ) intersection points of , and , respectively. Prove that , , are collinear.
Solution
We first show that the quadrilateral is cyclic. Indeed, and . So, is an altitude in the right-angled triangle , whence . Further, by the power of a point theorem, . So, hence is cyclic. Therefore, , . Since we have . Hence, From (1) it follows that the symmetrical image of the line with respect to the line is . Hence is the image of and is the image of . Therefore the line is the image of with respect to the line , thus the statement follows.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsCyclic quadrilateralsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing