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Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad

North Macedonia geometry

Problem

Let be an acute triangle. The lines and are perpendicular to at the points and respectively. The perpendicular lines from the midpoint of to the lines and intersect and at the points and , respectively. If is the intersection point of the lines and , prove that .
Solution
Let the circles with diameter and intersect for second time at and let them intersect the sides , at points respectively. Since we have that are collinear. Since is a diameter and is a chord perpendicular to it, we have that and similarly . Since , it follows that is cyclic. From the above we have that and this means that has equal power to the two circles, so it is on the radical axis of them, so are collinear. From the above it follows that . Finally, from the cyclic quadrilaterals and we have that

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Alternative solution.

Let be the points of intersection of with respectively. From the similarity of triangles and we get thus, Similarly, from the similarity of triangles and we get thus, Since , from (1) and (2) we have that the points are concyclic. Therefore, we get that . Also, the quadrilateral is cyclic, so . We have Thus . Now, from the cyclic quadrilaterals and , we get that and . Therefore, the triangles and are similar, so . Even more .

Techniques

Radical axis theoremCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing