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Belarus2022

Belarus 2022 geometry

Problem

A point is marked inside the square , and the points , , and are marked on its sides , , and respectively. The lines , , and intersect the sides , , and at the points , , and respectively. It turned out that Prove that .
Solution
Since the sides and of a square are parallel, the cross-lying angles are equal: and . Therefore the triangles and are similar and have equal ratios . Denote , then . Similarly, for we obtain . Hence the equality given in the problem is equivalent to , which can be transformed as Clearly, the equality holds if and only if which means that (in particular is the center of the square ). Now the required equality is obvious.

Techniques

Angle chasingQM-AM-GM-HM / Power Mean