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69th Belarusian Mathematical Olympiad

Belarus geometry

Problem

The rhombus is given. Let be one of the points of intersection of the circles and , where is the circle centered at and passing through , and is the circle centered at and passing through . The line intersects at point . Find the value of the angle .

problem
Solution
Answer: 60°. We will count the angle as the sum of angles and . Note that since they share the arc in . And in the isosceles triangle . The angle equals to the half of the arc , which equals to the angle in the circle , whence . The diagonal of the rhombus bisects the angle , hence . Thus



Since the triangle is equilateral, , and therefore .
Final answer
60°

Techniques

Angle chasing