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Hellenic Mathematical Olympiad

Greece geometry

Problem

Let be an acute angled triangle with circumcircle . A circle with center intersects the arc of the circle , not containing , at point and the arc , not containing , at point . We suppose that the point of intersection of the lines and belongs to the . Prove that the line is perpendicular to the line .

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Solution
From the relationship of a central angle and an inscribed angle that go on the same arc of the circle , we have: Also we have the equality of inscribed angles From relations (1) and (2) it follows that , that is, is the bisector of the angle .

Figure 1

Since , (radii of the circle ), the triangle is isosceles and hence , that is . Similarly we get that . Hence is the orthocenter of the triangle , and therefore .

Techniques

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