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XXIX Rioplatense Mathematical Olympiad

Argentina geometry

Problem

Let be a parallelogram whose diagonals meet at . Let be an interior point of triangle such that . Prove that and .

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Solution
Let be the symmetric of relative to . Since the diagonals cut in half, and are parallelograms. Hence, and . As , then the quadrilaterals and are cyclic. Thus, () and (cyclic ), hence . Similarly, .

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