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16th Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

Let be the midpoints of the sides , respectively, of an acute triangle with orthocenter and circumcenter . The rays cut the circumcircle at the points , respectively. Show that and are collinear where is the orthocenter of .

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Solution
Since is the orthocenter, . As is the midpoint of , this is possible only if is a parallelogram. Then , and is a diameter of the circumcircle of . Therefore, the reflection across takes to , and takes to . In particular, is the midpoint of .

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleRotationAngle chasingConcurrency and Collinearity