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19th Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

Let be a point on the side of the triangle different from the vertices and be the midpoint of . The line perpendicular to at intersects the side at point satisfying . Let be the second point where the circumcircle of the triangle intersects the side . Prove that the tangent line of the circumcircle of the triangle at is also tangent to the circumcircle of the triangle .

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Solution
We will show that is a common tangent of the circumcircles of and . Note that it is enough to show that and .

Let be the point of intersection of and the line passing through parallel to .

Then and . On the other hand, it is given that . Therefore, and hence is a parallelogram and is a rectangle.

Since is a cyclic quadrilateral and , we have . Then are cyclic. Consequently, are on the circle of diameter . Then and . Since and are cyclic quadrilaterals .

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TangentsCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing