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SAUDI ARABIAN IMO Booklet 2023

Saudi Arabia 2023 geometry

Problem

Let be an acute triangle with is the midpoint of and , . On ray , take the point such that . Prove that and the orthocenters and circumcenters of two triangles , form the four vertices of an isosceles trapezoid.

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Solution
On , take the point such that . Then, . According to the sine theorem then

so , which implies that so Also, so triangle is isosceles, with so equilateral. Therefore .



Let be the centers of the circumcircles of triangles and respectively their orthocenters. We have a familiar result: triangle has circumradius and orthocenter then . Applying to this problem, notice that two triangles and have the same radius of circumcircle , so Therefore, four points are on the same circle with center . Next, denote as the internal bisector of , then are symmetric through . And so we have . Similarly so . From this it follows that is an isosceles trapezoid.

Techniques

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