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59th Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad

Ukraine geometry

Problem

Points and are chosen on the circle with diameter in such a way that . Point is an arbitrary point of the segment , and points and are chosen on the segments and respectively in such a way that is a parallelogram. Let be a bisector in triangle . Line intersects in point . Prove that points , , , and are cyclic.

(Mykhaylo Plotnikov, Danylo Khilko)
Solution
First, we are going to prove that and . Indeed, , , because is a parallelogram (fig. 38). Then , meaning that . We also note that is a bisector of interior angle . Then . Using one gets .

Notice that is isosceles, and . By cosine law for triangles and : From here it follows that and . By sine law for we have . Finally we get .

Noticing yields and .

Going further, , hence is cyclic. Considering triangle and gives meaning that .

Therefore . Using and , one gets .

Considering triangles and gives , implying (together with the previous equality) .

Finally, , meaning that , i.e. that the quadrilateral is cyclic.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsTriangle trigonometryAngle chasing