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Saudi Arabia geometry
Problem
Let be a point outside the circle . Two points lie on such that are tangent to . Let be any point on ( is neither nor ) and the foot of perpendicular from to . The line through and the midpoint of meets again at . Prove that .

Solution
Let be the center of and the intersection point of and . Since and are perpendicular to then . Because is the midpoint of , which implies that . Consider this harmonic quartet with circle , one has is a harmonic quadrilateral. This implies that are collinear and .
Techniques
TangentsPolar triangles, harmonic conjugates