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Bulgarian National Mathematical Olympiad

Bulgaria geometry

Problem

The quadrilateral is inscribed. The point is the orthocenter of and the points and are symmetric to the points and with respect to the lines and , respectively. The point is a center of the circumscribed circle of . The point is the orthocenter of and the points and are symmetric to the points and with respect to the lines and , respectively. The point is a center of the circumscribed circle of . Denote the line by . The lines , , and are defined analogously. Let , , , and . Prove that the points , and are concyclic.
Solution
We will need the following lemma.

Lemma. The point lies on the line , where is the center of the circumcircle of . The ratio depends on only.

Proof. Let and be the intersection points of and with the circumcircle of . Since and are symmetric with respect to , the quadrilateral is a rhombus, as . Analogously, is a rhombus with . Therefore and are similar, whence This means that belongs to the line and the ratio depends on only.

It is clear that is a parallelogram (it follows from ) and the points and are homothetic to and , respectively, with respect to . It follows from the lemma that the ratios of these two homotheties are equal (since they depend on only). Therefore , i.e. the line is parallel to .

We obtain that the sides of are parallel to the corresponding sides of . This means that is inscribed.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsHomothetyTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTriangle trigonometryAngle chasing