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THE 68th ROMANIAN MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD

Romania geometry

Problem

Let be the midpoint of the side of the square , let be the projection of on and let be the midpoint of the segment . The bisector of the angle meets line in . Show that the quadrilateral is a parallelogram.

Adrian Bud

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Solution
From follows , hence , so .



Then (SAS) leads to , that is , so is a median and an altitude in triangle . Therefore triangle is isosceles, with .

Denote the common point of the straight lines and . Then is the midpoint of , hence is a median in the right triangle . This leads to , hence triangle is isosceles. Since is a bisector, it is also an altitude, therefore . From follows (1).

Isosceles triangles and yield , whence . Since , the point is the orthocenter of the triangle , so .

This shows that and, using (1), we get that is a parallelogram. So the segments and are parallel and congruent, hence and are parallel and congruent, therefore is a parallelogram.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleAngle chasing