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Iranian Mathematical Olympiad

Iran geometry

Problem

Two circle and intersect each other at points and . An arbitrary line passes from and intersects and respectively at points and . A line parallel to cuts at and , and cuts at and in a way that and lie between and . Let be the intersection point of and , be the intersection of and , and be the reflection of point over .

i) Prove that lies on .

ii) Prove that is the angle bisector of .

problem
Solution
i) Notice that So quadrilateral is cyclic and similarly quadrilateral is cyclic. Let be the second intersection point of these two circles. It's clear that so are collinear. Let be the second intersection point of the circumcircle of triangle with line . We have Similarly it's obtained that . So is the reflection of onto , and so . □

ii) It's easy to see that and . Thus is a parallelogram and therefore and . Hence, So the problem becomes equivalent to showing that . Thus it suffices to show that . Note that , so is enough to show that From and both sides of the last equation are found to be equal to and hence the claim.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing